The Book Of The Negroes

The Book Of The Negroes. Critic's Corner A lot to see in 'The Book of Negroes' A universal story of loss, courage and triumph, "The Book of Negroes" recounts the extraordinary journey of Aminata Diallo, an indomitable African woman who survives in a world in which everything seems to be against her The document called the "Book of Negroes" is a British naval ledger that lists the names of Black Loyalists who fled to Canada during the American Revolutionary War (1775-83)

The Book of Negroes, novel by Lawrence Hill, published in 2007 (under the title Someone Knows My Name in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand).Hill's third novel, it is a work of historical fiction inspired by the document called the "Book of Negroes," a list of Black Loyalists who fled New York for Canada during the American Revolutionary War. The Book of Negroes is a document created by Brigadier General Samuel Birch, under the direction of Sir Guy Carleton, that records names and descriptions of 3,000 Black Loyalists, enslaved Africans who escaped to the British lines during the American Revolution and were evacuated to points in Nova Scotia as free people of colour.

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The Book of Negroes is a 2015 Canadian historical drama television miniseries directed by Clement Virgo, adapted by Virgo and Lawrence Hill from the latter's 2007 novel of the same name.It stars Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Lyriq Bent, Cuba Gooding Jr., Louis Gossett Jr., Ben Chaplin, Allan Hawco, Greg Bryk, and Jane Alexander.It originally aired in six installments on CBC in Canada on January 7. The Book of Negroes is a masterpiece of historical literature, capturing the contradictions of the human condition in graceful, honest prose, and gifting us with a new, entirely sympathetic protagonist It couldn't possibly fail to touch you, and teach you

Portraits Meet the characters from The Book of Negroes. Kidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a revolution in New York, isolation in Nova Scotia, and the treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, in an attempt to secure her freedom in the eighteenth century. It was the winning selection for CBC Radio's Canada Reads 2009, in which journalist Avi Lewis championed the novel

Emmy Watch The Book of Negroes Below the Line. The Book of Negroes won the 2007 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize The document called the "Book of Negroes" is a British naval ledger that lists the names of Black Loyalists who fled to Canada during the American Revolutionary War (1775-83)