![]() However, the level of language acquisition by Diallo is open to discussion. Hill’s engagement with other historical documents is quite useful for the accurate portrayal of Black identity in Canadian and world history. Readers might assume that the novel acquires its main title from these sections however, the title of the book is derived from an actual 1873 British Document. ![]() The story is divided into quarters, which are respectively entitled Book One, Book Two, Book Three, and Book Four. In this regard, Diallo’s active resistance to ascribed identities suggest that Black peoples, especially Black women, were more than just passive bodies that were to be dominated and exploited.ĭiallo’s first-person, non-linear narrative begins and ends in London, England, 1802. Hill’s construction of Diallo’s story is useful for analyzing debates around scholarly discourses of human trafficking and colonialism. This exploration begins at the onset of the Abolition period in Europe and details her account in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. ![]() ![]() Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes (2007) is a fictional exploration into the life of Aminata Diallo as a young Black girl to her life as an elderly woman. ![]()
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