Someone Knows My Name

Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom--and...
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Author: Lawrence Hill
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Someone Knows My Name by Hill, Lawrence

Someone Knows My Name

BD$43.53

Someone Knows My Name

BD$43.53
Author: Lawrence Hill
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom--and of the knowledge she needs to get home. Sold to an indigo trader who recognizes her intelligence, Aminata is torn from her husband and child and thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan, Aminata helps pen the Book of Negroes, a list of blacks rewarded for service to the king with safe passage to Nova Scotia. There Aminata finds a life of hardship and stinging prejudice. When the British abolitionists come looking for adventurers to create a new colony in Sierra Leone, Aminata assists in moving 1,200 Nova Scotians to Africa and aiding the abolitionist cause by revealing the realities of slavery to the British public. This captivating story of one woman's remarkable experience spans six decades and three continents and brings to life a crucial chapter in world history.

Author: Lawrence Hill
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/17/2007
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.91lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.52w x 1.54d
ISBN: 9780393065787


Award: Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2007 pg. 54
Publishers Weekly 09/03/2007 pg. 39
Library Journal 10/01/2007 pg. 61
Essence 11/01/2007 pg. 103
Entertainment Weekly 11/09/2007 pg. 111
Booklist 10/15/2007 pg. 33
New York Times Book Review 01/20/2008 pg. 23
School Library Journal 03/01/2008 pg. 233
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2008 pg. 45
Essence 03/01/2015 pg. 56

About the Author
Hill, Lawrence: - Lawrence Hill is the author of several novels including Someone Knows My Name, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was nominated in the United States for the Huston Wright Legacy Award. In 2015 Hill was appointed to the Order of Canada "for his contributions as an author and activist who tells the stories of Canada's black community and of women and girls in Africa." A graduate of the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, he lives in Ontario, Canada.

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