- Fiction, African American loyalists, Black loyalists, Slaves
Aminata Diallo is kidnapped from Africa as a child and sold as a slave in South Carolina. Fleeing to Canada after the Revolutionary War, she escapes to attempt a new life in freedom.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and bleak.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Lawrence Hill
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 491
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Harper Collins, HarperCollins
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781443408981
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“I seem to have trouble dying.”
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