Social Exclusiveness in Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes

Abstract

Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes is a slave narrative historical fiction. It exhibits the world that is more complex in which race and gender historically harms the life of the Blacks. The novel spreads its wing to three continents and six decades to bring to life a dark and shameful portion in the history through the story of one brave and resourceful woman, Aminata Diallo. This paper brings out the struggles which the black woman faces in the society that results to her loss of freedom and self-confidence. It also investigates the psychological changes of the doubly marginalized black women when they live amidst the white people as slaves.