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The Book of Negroes: With Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Lyriq Bent, Ben Chaplin, Allan Hawco. Kidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a revolution in New York, isolation in Nova Scotia, and the treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, in an attempt to secure her freedom in the eighteenth century.
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February 11, 2015. (2015-02-11) The Book of Negroes is a 2015 Canadian historical drama television miniseries directed by Clement Virgo, adapted by Virgo and Lawrence Hill from the latter’s 2007 novel of the same name. It stars Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Lyriq Bent, Cuba Gooding Jr., Louis Gossett Jr., Ben Chaplin, Allan Hawco, Greg Bryk, and ...
Soon after Aminata reencounters Chekura, a fellow slave from West Africa, they are married in a clandestine ceremony. When their first baby is brutally abducted and sold by Appleby she vows to ...
Upcoming Movies and TV shows; Rotten Tomatoes Podcast; ... The Book of Negroes TV-14 2015 1 Season History Drama CTA List. 100% Avg. Tomatometer 8 Reviews Avg. Popcornmeter.
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Readers follow Aminata Diallo’s first-person “slave narrative” from her abduction as a child to her death as an elderly woman. The story begins in 1745 in West Africa. Aminata is captured in her hometown, Bayo, at age 11. She is marched to the coast in a coffle — a shackled string — of slaves. She and thousands of other African slaves are boarded o...
The title, The Book of Negroes, references one of many migratory experiences in the novel. It is this theme of migration — both voluntary and involuntary — that dominates the book and unifies its plot. As Aminata says repeatedly, Black peopleare a “travelling people.” The novel traces her journey from inland Africa to South Carolina, New York, Nova...
Lawrence Hill wrote the novel in the tradition of slave narratives, using the language and tropes of the genre. For instance, the narrator tells her story after achieving literacy and freedom. Her story helps forward the abolitionist cause. As a work of historical fiction, The Book of Negroesincorporates actual events and figures into its fictional...
The title of the book refers to the British military ledger, the “Book of Negroes.” It documents the identities of some 3,000 Black Loyalists who were granted passage to Nova Scotiafrom New York in 1783. In the novel, Aminata’s name is entered into the book. In most English-speaking countries, the novel carries the original Canadian title. The Amer...
The Book of Negroes has been translated into Spanish, Hungarian, Turkish, French, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Dutch and Norwegian. It continues to be published in other languages and markets internationally. In 2011, a French version was published by Éditions de la Pleine Lune under the title Aminata. It sold more than 12,000 copies, a considerable suc...
The Book of Negroes won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in 2007 and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2008. It was the first book to win both CBC Radio’s Canada Reads competition (in 2009) and Radio Canada’s Combat des livres (in 2013). It also won The Commonwealth Prize for Best Book. As part of the prize, Hill was granted a private audie...
Lawrence Hill worked with filmmaker Clement Virgo to adapt The Book of Negroes into a six-part TV miniseries. The ambitious $10 million production was shot in Canada and South Africa with an international cast of 120 and a crew of more than 400 people. It stars Shailyn Pierre-Dixon and Aunjanue Ellis as the child and adult Amanita, respectively. Ot...
Jan 7, 2015 · The Book of Negroes. Season 1 Premiere: Jan 7, 2015. Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews. 77. User Score Mixed or Average Based on 15 User Ratings. 6.0. My Score. Hover and click to give a rating. Add My Review.
Aminata, now grown beautiful, healthy, and literate, is the flower of Robinson Appleby's Indigo plantation. After several seasons of deflecting Appleby's advances, Aminata marries Chekura and has his child. Appleby, infuriated, sells her and her child to separate owners. Her new owners, a Jewish Indigo Trader and his wife, Solomon and Rosa ...
