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KAREN’S BOOK REVIEW

Someone Knows My Name

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Reviewed November 13, 2009 · General & Literary Fiction

Aminata Diallo is born in Bayo, Africa. It is the late 1700's when she is stolen from her village, taken away from her family and everything she knows by slave traders. She is 11 years old, afraid and alone. Aminata survives a horrendous ocean crossing to the colonies. She is auctioned as a slave to an indigo plantation. The first friend she makes is…

Happy reading,
Karen