The Book Of Negroes
by Hill, Lawrence
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On Oct 6, 2011, melodymagickitchencom said
Aminita will be a character burned onto your heart forever. The main character of "The Book of Negroes" (printed in the US as "Someone Knows My Name") is a strong,heroic woman. Her history will touch you and leave you changed.The book is based on a little-known document, the book of negroes, which recorded names and descriptions of 3,000 African-American slaves who escaped to the British lines during the American Revolution and were evacuated by the British by ship to points in Nova Scotia as freedmen.The story itself revolves around Aminita, from her childhood in a African village to her status as revered but misunderstood symbol of abolition. The book is unstoppable reading, simply hard to put down. You travel step-by-step with Aminita, and the journey is harrowing, joyful and ultimately so worthwhile. Here is an excerpt, a small sample of Mr. Hill's evocative writing."Let me begin with a caveat to any and all who find these pages. Do not trust large bodies of water, and do not cross them. If you, Dear Reader, have an African hue and find yourself led toward water with vanishing shores, seize your freedom by any means necessary. And cultivate distrust of the colour pink. Pink is taken as the colour of innocence, the colour of childhood, but as it spills across the water in the light of the dying sun, do not fall into its pretty path. There, right underneath, lies a bottomless graveyard of children, mothers and men. I shudder to imagine all the Africans rocking in the deep. Every time I have sailed the seas, I have had the sense of gliding over the unburied. Some people call the sunset a creation of extraordinary beauty, and proof of God's existence. But what benevolent force would bewitch the human spirit by choosing pink to light the path of a slave vessel?"
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The Book of Negroes -(SIGNED)-
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Toronto: HarperCollins / Harper Collins, 2007. ----The scan you see is the book you get. Tight square and clean, french flaps, no names, 486 pages, SIGNED with inscription by author. Also published under "Someone Knows My Name" in the US. "Kidnapped as a child from Africa, Aminata Diallo is enslaved in South Carolina but escapes during the chaos of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Book Of Negroes: Illustrated Edition
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Toronto: HarperCollins / Harper Collins, 2012. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover (roughly) 9" by 8" (inches), flat uncreased spine, xv, 510 pages filled with colour illustrations & some in b & w, featuring more than 100 images, including early maps, documents, paintings & artifacts, Very Good Plus condition with a front lower right… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Book of Negroes
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Toronto: HarperCollins, 2007. Book. Near Fine (Book Condition). Quality Paperback. First Paperback. An excellent copy. Quality paperback. Signed by author, dated and warmly inscribed to Canadian novelist Heather O'Neill. Text clean, binding strong. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Item Price
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, 2007. First printing. Signed by author on title page. Lightly bumped on ends of spine, backstrip pulled away slightly at head of spine, else near fine. DJ lightly rubbed on ends of spine and top of flap folds, lightly creased at head of spine, else very good plus. Protected… Read more about this item Item Price
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HarperCollins, 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. About the book: Softcover. First Printing. Inscribed by author on title page. Previous owner's bookplate on first blank page. Book is in very good condition with mild wear. Additional photos available upon request. We're not satisfied unless you are.
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Toronto:: Harper Collins,, (2009). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing of the illustrated edition. A beautiful full-color illustrated edition of this award-winning novel by this Canadian author, originally published in 2007. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize and nominated in the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Harpercollins Canada, 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. About the book: Hardcover with jacket. First edition, first printing. Signed (Larry Hill) by author on title page. Not inscribed. Both book and jacket are in very good condition. Additional photos available upon request. We're not satisfied unless you are.
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HarperCollins Canada, 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x1x9. Signed by Author(s). The Book Is Very Good Condition. The Inside Is Clean With No Highlights Or Remarks. Not Price Clipped. Signed "For Bethany All The Best Lawrence Hill" At The Title Page. 1St Edition Illustrated. In A Very Good Dust Jacket.- We can ship… Read more about this item Item Price
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Toronto: Harpercollins Publishers Ltd., 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. xv, 509. Thick 4to. Lovely, pictorial boards, gilt lettering to the spine, map endpapers. Rich with many colour maps, photographs, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new and housed in fine dustjacket.
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