The Book of Negroes

Lawrence Hill

first published 2007 HarperCollins, 2011 680 pages

Aminata Diallo is kidnapped from Africa as a child and sold as a slave in South Carolina. Fleeing to Canada after the Revolutionary War, she escapes to attempt a new life in freedom.

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The Book of Negroes paperback · 2015 · W. W. Norton & Company · 486 pages · 9780393351392
The book of Negroes edition · 2011 · HarperCollins · 680 pages · 9781443408981
Book of Negroes edition · 2009 · Harper Collins · 9781554686957
The Book of Negroes paperback · 2007 · HarperCollins Publishers Ltd · 495 pages · 9781554681563
The book of negroes hardcover · 2007 · HarperCollins · 486 pages · 9780002255073

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