The Book of Negroes

Release Date: January 7, 2015

Genre : Drama

No. of episodes : 6 episode(s)

Latest Episode : Season 1 Episode 6 (11-Feb-2015)

The Book of Negroes is a mini-series that follows Aminata Diallo’s (Aunjanue Ellis) journey from her childhood home in West Africa to a South Carolina indigo plantation to Canvas Town, an early Black settlement in lower Manhattan. Aminata draws upon her intelligence and strength of character to help find a way home and reunite with her long-lost daughter. The series is based on the best selling novel of Lawrence Hill with the same title.

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