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    Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist who was born in Toronto to an African social scientist father and Canadian social activist mother. He wrote the novel "The Book of Negroes", which tells the story of an 11-year old girl named Aminata who is captured in Africa and sold into slavery in South Carolina. After the Revolutionary War, Aminata's name is recorded in the historical "Book of Negroes", allowing her to gain freedom and resettle in Nova Scotia. The novel was inspired by the actual historical Book of Negroes and documents the experiences of freed slaves who left the United States to live in Nova Scotia. Reviews of Hill's novel praised the vivid characters and fascinating details, with the character of Aminata

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    Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist who was born in Toronto to an African social scientist father and Canadian social activist mother. He wrote the novel "The Book of Negroes", which tells the story of an 11-year old girl named Aminata who is captured in Africa and sold into slavery in South Carolina. After the Revolutionary War, Aminata's name is recorded in the historical "Book of Negroes", allowing her to gain freedom and resettle in Nova Scotia. The novel was inspired by the actual historical Book of Negroes and documents the experiences of freed slaves who left the United States to live in Nova Scotia. Reviews of Hill's novel praised the vivid characters and fascinating details, with the character of Aminata

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    Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist who was born in Toronto to an African social scientist father and Canadian social activist mother. He wrote the novel "The Book of Negroes", which tells the story of an 11-year old girl named Aminata who is captured in Africa and sold into slavery in South Carolina. After the Revolutionary War, Aminata's name is recorded in the historical "Book of Negroes", allowing her to gain freedom and resettle in Nova Scotia. The novel was inspired by the actual historical Book of Negroes and documents the experiences of freed slaves who left the United States to live in Nova Scotia. Reviews of Hill's novel praised the vivid characters and fascinating details, with the character of Aminata

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    “The Book of Negroes”

    Written by the Canadian Lawrence Hill, born to the proud parents Daniel G. Hill, a social
    scientist from Africa and Donna Hill, a Canadian social activist, Hill focuses on historic events
    and happenings. Lawrence Hill who grew up in Don Mills, Toronto was accompanied by his
    brother Dan Hill, a singer and songwriter. Unlike his parents who lived in Washington DC in the
    year 1953, Hill presently resides in Hamilton, Ontario with his wife and five children. Mr.
    Lawrence Hill who is an avid novelist had copped several awards for his work. Such awards are
    the Giller Prize, Roger Writers’ trust Fiction Prize (2007), Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (2008),
    Evergreen Award (2008) and Canada Reads (2009).

    “The Book of Negroes” as known in Canada and The United Kingdom, was published under the
    title “Someone Knows My Name” in The United States, Australia, and New Zealand. This novel
    which is inspired by a actual historic book called “Book of Negroes” contains the archive of
    freed loyalist slaves who requested to leave the United States in an effort to reside in Nova
    Scotia. Within Hill’s novel, the lead character Aminata, an eleven year old lass from the village
    of West Africa is scuffled to a boat and sent to South Carolina, where she was entitled to work
    as a slave. After being a representative in the Revolutionary War, Aminata had her name
    registered in the “Book of Negroes”, hereby earning freedom and being able to resettle in Nova
    Scotia. On her return, she was dumbfounded as she passed several ships which were filled with
    Africans who were being shipped to the United States to serve as slave upon their destination.

    This work was sited from various websites but mostly http://www.lawrencehill.com/the book
    of negroes.html and http://www.amazon.ca/Book-Negroes-Lawrence-Hill/dp/1554681561 .
    Even though the novel was published with two different titles in different countries, several
    reviews were made by individual establishments and persons from throughout the countries.
    The Toronto Star posted “Aminata is a heroin figure, a little larger than life, residing within and
    outside of history. You can never forget this character. She embeds herself in your heart.”
    Reviews from U.S.A’s New York’s Time also reviewed “Wonderfully fictional slave
    narrative….populated by vivid characters and rendered in fascinating details.” From Australia,
    The Sunday Mail posted “Lawrence Hill has expertly mastered Aminata’s unique and compelling
    voice…. Hill draws such a fascinating and wonderfully realized character that accompanying her
    on her life journey is not only a pleasure but a privilege.”

    http://www.lawrencehill.com/the_book_of_negroes.html

    http://www.amazon.ca/Book-Negroes-Lawrence-Hill/dp/1554681561

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