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The book of negroes : [a novel] Cover Image Book Book

The book of negroes : [a novel]

Hill, Lawrence 1957- (Author).

Summary: Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle - a string of slaves - Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. But years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War and registering her name in the historic "Book of Negroes". This book, an actual document, provides a short but immensely revealing record of freed Loyalist slaves who requested permission to leave the US for resettlement in Nova Scotia, only to find that the haven they sought was steeped in an oppression all of its own.

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  • ISBN: 0393065782 (Norton)
  • ISBN: 1554681561 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9781554681563 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0002255073 :
  • ISBN: 9780393065787 (Norton)
  • ISBN: 1554681561 (sc)
  • ISBN: 9780002255073
  • ISBN: 9781554681563 (sc)
  • Physical Description: print
    486 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins, c2007.

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General Note:
Subtitle from jacket.
Awards Note:
Canada Read 2009 winner

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Freedmen -- Fiction
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction
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Genre: Historical fiction.
Canadian fiction.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at South Central Regional Library.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Miami Library F Hil (Text) 35864000452399 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Morden Library F Hil (Text) 35864002447876 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Winkler Library F Hil (Text) 35864001164324 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
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