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The Book of Negroes (Black Swan) (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Book of NegroesAbducted from her West African village at the age of eleven and sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom. After escaping the plantation, torn from her husband and child, she passes through Manhattan in the chaos of the Revolutionary War, is shipped to Nova Scotia, and then joins a group of freed slaves.
Full description- Publisher: Black Swan
- Published: 01 April 2010
- Format: Paperback 512 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780552775489 ISBN 10: 0552775487
- Sales rank: 8,453
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Giving the Voiceless Voices
The Book of Negroes is bursting with the stories of thousands of lost women, children, and men. It is not the story of one woman only, though it is told by a former slave close to the end of her life. Torn from her village and her murdered parents as a child, Aminata's taken to America by boat and sold to the owner of a plantation. Her emotional wounds are made all the worse when a few years later, her child is stolen from her in the night and sold. Later, even after she has escaped slavery, her second child and her husband are lost to her. However, she perseveres and prevails, giving new meaning to the word survival.
Throughout, the reader drowns in the darkness of the tale and is disgusted by the way humans treat other humans. We ask ourselves how anyone can enslave another person, beat them, work them to the bone, rape them, and sell them at will. This book gives the voiceless voices and gives the guilty conscience. I can't imagine a reader who has walked away, after reading the last page of The Book of Negroes, untouched. by Teresa Johnson
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