This past month I have been hooked on my ISP book “The Book of Negroes”. When I first saw it, I was shocked by he length of the book but surprisingly it wasn’t hard for me to get into it and before I knew it, I buried myself into the book. It was a intriguing!
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill shadows the life of a girl named Aminata Diallo from the time she was a little girl living in Africa to when she was old and crippled. Aminata was captured by slave traders and shipped off to South Carolina. That was just the beginning of her journey. She dealt with physical and emotional torture with no rights to protect her. I was shocked while reading about the harassment she tolerated and imagined what it felt like to have no control of ones life. We have grown up in a society that allows us to live freely and we have learned to take that for granted. Aminata didn’t have the basic rights of a person. She wasn’t expected to be educated (but thanks to her father she was), she was always someone’s property, she was harassed and sexually abused and she didn’t even have the right to keep her own child! From the time she was 11 “rains” old to when she decided to tell her story, she had dealt with an unbearable amount of grief. You will see slavery, harassment, torture, and death that Aminata faced and saw as she told her life story.
My next few blog posts will be strictly based on The Book of Negroes. I’ll discuss themes, different view points, heroes/villains, political discrimination and much more. I wanted to familiarize you guys with the content of this book and what it’s based on before diving in. If your interest in reading The Book of Negroes (which I strongly recommend) I’ll leave a PDF link to it below!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23316548-the-book-of-negroes
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