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| | Lawrence Hill discusses The Book of Negroes - CBC Arts | Books |
 | | This story of the migration from Africa to the Americas and back was an irresistible one for Lawrence Hill, who borrowed the title for his new novel, The Book of Negroes. |
 | | Hill’s many books include the 2001 novel Any Known Blood, which follows an African-American family from slavery to the present day, as well as the 2002 part-memoir, part-polemic Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada. |
 | | A skilled midwife and able to read and write – thanks to covert tutoring by a fellow slave – Aminata survives kidnapping by slave traders at the age of 11, the horrors of the Middle Passage and, later, an exodus to Nova Scotia, then Sierra Leone and finally England. |
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