The Book of Negroes
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The Book of Negroes
Novel by Lawrence HillBook Trailer by the Lit Maven
Note: All words in quotation marks are directly quoted from The Book of Negroes By Lawrence Hill .
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“Let me begin with a caveat to any and all who find these pages.”
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“Do not trust large bodies of water, and do not cross them.”
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“If you, Dear Reader, have an African hue and find yourself led toward water with vanishing shores…”
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“…seize your freedom by any means necessary.”
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“There, right underneath, lies a bottomless graveyard of children, mothers and men.”
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“Every time I have sailed the seas, I have had the sense of gliding over the unburied.”
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“And cultivate distrust of the colour pink.”
“Pink is taken as the colour of innocence, the colour of childhood…”
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“…but as it spills across the water in the light of the dying sun, do not fall into its pretty path.”
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“I shudder to imagine all the Africans rocking in the deep.”
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“Some people call the sunset a creation of extraordinary beauty, and proof of God's existence.”
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“But what benevolent force would bewitch the human
spirit...”
“…by choosing pink to light the path of a slave vessel?”