Someone Knows My Name: A Novel

Someone Knows My Name: A NovelWinner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. "Wonderfully written populated by vivid characters and rendered in fascinating detail." Nancy Kline, New York Times Book Review Kidnapped from Africa as a child, Aminata Diallo is enslaved in South Carolina but escapes during the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan she becomes a scribe for the British, recording the names of blacks who have served the King and earned their freedom in Nova Scotia. But

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