La Tonya Jordan’s Reviews > The Book of Negroes > Status Update

So far.... A very good read. Aminata is from the village Bayo. She is a free Muslim. She is close to her mother and father. Her mother delivers babies in her village and the surrounding communities. Her father is a jeweler. Her father is teaching her to read and write. Her life is good until the strange men from another village attacked her village killed her parents and took her to be sold. She is eleven.