A review by bigdreamsandwildthings
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill

4.0

This book was such a journey. I felt like I lived with Amanita through her years, and some of it was so hard to get through, but I'm so glad we read books like this. I'm so glad people put in the time and effort and research to detail what life was like not so long ago. Are we really any better off today than we were in the 18th century? Are our beliefs really that much more "evolved" than when we put people in chains and treated them like filth? It's so thought provoking, and such an important time to bring to light even/especially in fiction. The only negative to all of it was that it felt like it was written by a man; some of the descriptions of women and Amanita herself were so ridiculous. However, next to everything else this book did well, it was fairly minor.