"Let me begin with a caveat to any and all who find these pages. Do not trust large bodies of water, and do not cross them. If you, dear reader, have an African hue and find yourself led toward water with vanishing shores, seize your freedom by any means necessary."
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Saturday, May 28, 2011
1. What the book is all about.
This book is about the struggle through life for a woman named Meena Diallo. This woman is now in England and pens the story of her life from her childhood as Aminata Diallo. We - the readers- are whisked through the life of this human being as she is whisked into the life of a slave. As The Globe and Mail says it; "The Book of Negroes is a masterpiece, daring and impressive in its geographic, historical and human reach, convincing in its narrative art and detail necessary for imagining the real beyond the traces left by history."
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