Kidnapped from Africa as a child, 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 their freedom in Nova Scotia.
But the hardship and prejudice of the new colony 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.
Published in Canada as The Book of Negroes and the basis for the
award-winning BET miniseries of the same name.