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. Lawrence Hill. Includes Bibliographical References.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Literary
Publisher : Harpercollins
Author : Hill, Lawrence
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2007-01-18
Number Of Pages : 504
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0002255073
ISBN-13 : 9780002255073
Item weight : 1.59 lb
Dimensions : 1.73 in x 6.22 in x 9.84 in
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