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The Book of Negroes. (miniseries) 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 ...
- Book of Negroes
Date. 1783. The Book of Negroes is a document created by...
- The Book of Negroes (novel)
978-0-00-225507-3. OCLC. 70507153. The Book of Negroes is a...
- Book of Negroes
Date. 1783. The Book of Negroes is a document created by Brigadier General Samuel Birch, under the direction of Sir Guy Carleton, that records names and descriptions of 3,000 Black Loyalists, enslaved Africans who escaped to the British lines during the American Revolution and were evacuated to points in Nova Scotia as free people of colour.
978-0-00-225507-3. OCLC. 70507153. The Book of Negroes is a 2007 novel from Canadian writer Lawrence Hill. In the United States, Australia and New Zealand, the novel was published under the title Someone Knows My Name.
- Lawrence Hill
- 2007
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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- 2015-02-16
- Drama, History, War
- 44
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 ...
Feb 16, 2015 · The Book of Negroes was a ledger of over 3,000 names of African-Americans who were fleeing America. It marks the first time in history that thousands of black people were formally recorded by a ...
Mon, Feb 16, 2015. 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 ...
