My first attempt at writing on this Blog. The book is The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill, a Canadian author of American parentage. I enjoyed the book. For me it was hard to put down and I was sorry when I had finished. The story follows a young African girl, Aminata Diallo, from 1745 to London in 1802. She is taken from her home into slavery, transported to North Carolina, sold to a Jewish man from New York, lived through the American Revolution, went to Nova Scotia, back to Africa and then to London England. While in the United States she marries and has two children.
"This is the magnificently told journey of a free African girl turned into a woman and a slave. It is authoritative and brilliant. You feel you are turning pages of history, the pages of truth." Austin Clarke, author of the Polished Hoe.