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author: Hill, Lawrence

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Language: עברית | English
Genre: Novel
Publisher: 2007.
Publishing year: 512
Length: 14:05 Hours

Book summary:

Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa, Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. Years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War and registering her name in the historic "Book of Negroes", a record of freed Loyalist slaves who resettled in Nova Scotia, only to find that the haven they sought was steeped in an oppression all its own.


 
 
 
 
 

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