The Book of Negroes
2015 · CBC · 60 min · 1 season
S01E06 · Episode 6
Thu, 12 Feb, 12:00 pm
Upon their arrival in Africa, Aminata leaves the Loyalists behind to find her way back to her home village of Bayo.
About
Abducted from her village in West Africa, eleven-year-old Aminata Diallo is forced into a slave coffle and must endure a horrific ocean crossing. She is brought to a South Carolina plantation where she makes herself useful by using midwifery skills learned at her mother's side, all the while keeping the attentions of her jealous slave master, Robinson Appleby, at bay. Soon after Aminata reencounters Chekura, a fellow slave from West Africa, they are married in a clandestine ceremony. When their first baby is brutally abducted and sold by Appleby she vows to return one day to her homeland.
Episodes
- E01
Episode 1
Thu, 8 Jan· 60 minStolen from Africa, eleven-year old Aminata Diallo is enslaved and forced to endure a treacherous journey to America.
- E02
Episode 2
Thu, 15 Jan· 60 minAminata, forced to deflect the affections of the two men who own her, adjusts to plantation life in the Carolinas.
- E03
Episode 3
Thu, 22 Jan· 60 minWhen Revolution breaks out in New York, Aminata seizes her chance and escapes to freedom in the haven of Canvas Town.
- E04
Episode 4
Thu, 29 Jan· 60 minAfter British defeat, Aminata registers Black Loyalists in The Book Of Negroes for an escape to freedom in Nova Scotia.
- E05
Episode 5
Thu, 5 Feb· 60 minAs racial tensions boil in barren and destitute Shelburne, Aminata organizes a final journey back to Africa.
- E06
Episode 6
Thu, 12 Feb· 60 minUpon their arrival in Africa, Aminata leaves the Loyalists behind to find her way back to her home village of Bayo.
Cast
Aunjanue Ellis
Aminata Diallo
Ben Chaplin
John Clarkson
Lyriq Bent
Chekura Tiano
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Sam Fraunces
Allan Hawco
Solomon Lindo
Jane Alexander
Maria Witherspoon
Louis Gossett, Jr.
Papa Moses