The Book of Negroes
A Audiobook, Historical, Fiction book. I don't govern my life according to danger Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name
Based on a true story, The Book of Negroes tells the story of Aminata, a young girl abducted from her village in Mali aged 11 in 1755, and who, after a deathly journey on a slave ship where she witnesses the brutal repression of a slave revolt, is sold to a plantation owner in South Carolina, who rapes her. She is brought to New York, where she escapes her owner, and finds herself helping the British by recording all the freed slaves on the British side in the Revolutionary War in The Book of Negroes (a real historical document that can be found today at...
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- Pages: 496 pages
- ISBN: 9780385616263 / 385616260
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I remember wondering, within a year or two of taking my first my first steps, why only men sat to drink tea and converse, and why women were always busy. I reasoned that men were weak and needed rest. Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name We, the survivors of the crossing, clung to the beast that had stolen us away. Not a soul among us had wanted to baord that ship, but once out on open waters, we held on for dear life. The ship became an extension of our own rotting bodies. Those who were cut from the heaving animal sank quick to their deaths, and we who remained attached wilted more slow as poison festered in our bellies and bowels. We stayed with the beast until new lands met our feet, and we stumbled down the long plants just before the poison became fatal. Perhaps here in this new... I had learned that there were times when fighting was impossible, when the best thing to do was to wait and to learn. Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name
(International title: Someone Knows My Name)It's 1802 and Aminata Diallo, now an old woman, sits down to write her life story at the request of the Abolitionists in London. Abducted from her village in West Africa at the age of eleven and marched in a coffle (a string of slaves) for three months before reaching the coast, Aminata survives... Someone Knows My Name is a very well written fictional account about the early days of slavery in America. It tells the story of Aminata, a child born in Africa, who is captured and taken from her homeland and brought to America as a slave. Yearning to get back to her homeland, Aminatas strong determination, strength of mind and intelligence... Abducted by slave traders as a young child, Aminata is a survivor. She is taken so far from home that her ultimate vow is to get back. This is her powerful story that will make you laugh, tear and jump for joy all at the same time. Powerful. Moving. Memorable. The Book of Negroes will stay with you long after you have read it.I couldn't...
