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Someone Knows My Name

by Lawrence Hill

Hurston/Wright Legacy · 2008 · Shortlist
W. W. NortonLiterary FictionHistorical FictionISBN 9780393333091

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction)2008Shortlist

About This Book

Aminata Diallo, kidnapped from West Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, fights for her freedom across decades and continents—from the American Revolution to the founding of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Published in Canada as The Book of Negroes. Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction.

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