Book Club Meeting: The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill

Join Mocha Girls Read as we travel north of the border for our Canadian Authors Monthly Book Selection! This month, we're diving into the unforgettable novel The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill.

📚 Book: The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
📅 Date: Saturday, September 5
🕜 Time: 1:30 PM
📍 Location: Lore Bookstore

• About the Book

Based on a true story, "The Book of Negroes" tells the story of Aminata, a young girl abducted from her village in Mali aged 11 in 1755, and who, after a deadly journey on a slave ship where she witnesses the brutal repression of a slave revolt, is sold to a plantation owner in South Carolina, who rapes her. She is brought to New York, where she escapes her owner and finds herself helping the British by recording all the freed slaves on the British side in the Revolutionary War in The Book of Negroes (a real historical document that can be found today at the National Archives at Kew). Aminata is sent to Nova Scotia to start a new life, but finds more hostility, oppression, and tragedy. Separated from her one true love, and suffering the unimaginable loss of both her children who are taken away from her, she eventually joins a group of freed slaves on a harrowing odyssey back to Africa, and ends up in London as a living icon for Wilberforce and the other Abolitionists. "The Book of Negroes" is a page-turning narrative that manages to use Aminata's heart-rending personal story to bring to life a harrowing chapter in our history.

Come for an afternoon of great discussions. Whether you read the book or not, please join us.

FYI, metered parking is across the street.
See ya there