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The Book of Negroes ---by Lawrence Hill ( AKA: Someone Knows My Name )
by Hill, Lawrence ( 1st Canadian Edition )
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ ( see Description )/Very Good+ (see description)
- ISBN 10
- 0002255073
- ISBN 13
- 9780002255073
- Seller
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto, Ontario: Toronto, ON: HarperCollins / Harper Collins, 2007, 1st Edition, First Printing , 2007. -----------( 1st printing of the First Edition ) ---hardcover, a Very Good/Very Good+ example with a bit of concave inward bowing to the spine of the book, a bit of very light edge rubbing, a bit of, browning to the paper as usually seen (in fact I haven't seen a copy without paper browning in 7 or 8 years), in a visually Near Fine dustjacket with light rubbing to the edges but there is a small stain at the lower spine tip on the verso of the jacket so overall a VG+ dustjacket, --- looks new especially with the jacket in a hi-quality mylar protector ----- in the US, Australia and New Zealand this was released with a different title, news reports indicate that Hill's book was to be burned by a Dutch Surinamese group ( Federation for Honour and Reparation of Slavery in Surinam ) who object to the use of the term Negroes, ----"Kidnapped as a child from Africa, Aminata Diallo is enslaved in South Carolina but escapes during the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan, she becomes a scribe for the British, recording the names of blacks who have served the King and earned freedom in Nova Scotia. But the hardship and prejudice there prompt her to follow her heart back to Africa, then on to London, where she bears witness to the injustices of slavery and its toll on her life and a whole people. It is a story that no listener, and no reader, will ever forget. The Book of Negroes introduces one of the strongest female characters in recent fiction, a woman who cuts a swath through a world hostile to her colour and her sex." ----Readers will travel with Aminata Diallo from a West African village to an indigo plantation in South Carolina, through the tough streets of New York City and the harsh climate of Nova Scotia to the coast of Sierra Leone, and finally to an abolitionist's home in London., any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE /// ---sizes are approximate ---(generally within 1/8 inch)---. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ ( see Description )/Very Good+ (see description). Illus. by Photo Cover. 6.25w x 9.25h Inches. NOT Price Clipped.
Reviews
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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- Bookseller
- Leonard Shoup
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 170513
- Title
- The Book of Negroes ---by Lawrence Hill ( AKA: Someone Knows My Name )
- Author
- Hill, Lawrence ( 1st Canadian Edition )
- Illustrator
- Photo Cover
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ ( see Description )
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+ (see description)
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0002255073
- ISBN 13
- 9780002255073
- Publisher
- Toronto, ON: HarperCollins / Harper Collins, 2007, 1st Edition, First Printing
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Ontario
- Date Published
- 2007
- Size
- 6.25w x 9.25h Inches
- Keywords
- The Book of Negroes ---by Lawrence Hill ( AKA: Someone Knows My Name )
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadian Literature Fiction;
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