Michaelah’s Comments (group member since Jun 13, 2011)

Michaelah’s comments from the Eleven Reader's Club group.

"Let me begin with a caveat to any and all who find these pages. Do not trust large bodies of water, and do not cross them. If you, dear reader, have an African hue and find yourself led toward water with vanishing shores, seize your freedom b any means necessary."
The Book of Negroes is an amazing book that take you into an extraordinarily vivid walk through the life of Aminata, the main character and narrator of the novel. You walk along side her as she tells you about her life as a child, her abduction from her home, journey through slavery and her life after through the heart wrenching passages of this book. Be engulfed by the life-like descriptions like "The medicine man grabbed my arm and took me down steep steps into a dark, sinking hold. I choked at the stench of human waste. I imagined the biggest lion of my land - as big as the lion mountain on shore, but living and breathing and hungry... Everywhere I turned, men were lying naked, chained to each other and to their sleeping boards, groaning and crying. Waste and blood streamed along the floorboards covering my toes." Watch as Aminata's experiences become your own, as she walks through the corridors of a slave ship as people call out there names, praying someone remembers them because their life is no longer promised.
I believe that it is important for Canadians and others whether visiting or immigrating to Canada should read this book because it personifies Canadian culture. This book gives light to forgot faces that help to mould not only the history of this country but many other countries in the world. Canada is one of the must multicultural place in the world and it embraces every single ethnicity and cultural with open arms including the ones reflected in the very book. It is wonderful to not only grasp the knowledge of one's own cultural but one of another's. ~ Michaelah Snagg