The Book of Negroes

Aminata Diallo is kidnapped from Africa as a child and sold as a slave in South Carolina. Fleeing to Canada after the Revolutionary War, she escapes to attempt a new life in freedom.

Set in

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  Nova Scotia · Canada

  Black Loyalist settlement
  ★ primary
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  Birchtown · Canada

  Black Loyalist settlement, Nova Scotia
  ★ primary
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  Sierra Leone · Sierra Leone

  Black Loyalist settlement
  ★ primary
• New York City · United States

  Revolutionary War exodus port
• Freetown · Sierra Leone

  back-to-Africa colony
• South Carolina · United States

  Aminata enslaved plantation years
• London · United Kingdom

  Aminata 1802 frame narrative
• West Africa · Guinea

  Aminata abducted from home village