Someone Knows My Name (Hardcover)

from Romonko

This is a totally wonderful book that covers the life of an African woman from childhood to old age. The book is set in the late 1700's, and we visit darkest Africa to South Carolina, to New York, to Nova Scotia, to Sierra Leone and finally end up in London England. Aminata is a young girl of 11 ...

from brenzi

This book paints a bleak picture of broken promises, lost identities, and man's inhumanity to man while at the same time considering the meaning of "home," love and loyalty. It is also a prime example of what I love about historical fiction, namely, no matter how much you think you know about a h...

from Donna828

Hill puts a name and face on the slave trade that occurred in Africa in the 1700's. This is a fictional account that is so well-researched that it could very well have happened this way. Aminata Diallo (known as Meena) suffered the horror of seeing both of her parents killed as she was stolen int...

from stornelli

Aminata survives kidnapping by slave traders at the age of 11, the horrors of the slave trade and, later, an exodus to Nova Scotia, back to Sierra Leone and finally England. She.becomes a skilled midwife delivering babies of fellow slaves and learns to read and write. While in England later in li...

from jayne_charles

For a big book, I was amazed how quickly I whizzed through this. Compulsively readable, it follows one woman from her early childhood in Africa, her capture by slavers, transportation to America, and long struggle to get back to her homeland. As someone who likes to learn things by reading fictio...