The Book of Negroes

Author: Lawrence Hill
Publication date: 2007
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About the Work

The novel, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2008, tells a story about slavery in the 18th century.

Challenges in Canada

In 2011, Canadian author Hill received an email from a Roy Groenberg in the Netherlands who said that he and others planned to publicly burn Hill’s novel because they objected to the use of the N-word in the title.

On June 22, 2011, Groenberg and his colleagues burned photocopies of the Dutch edition’s cover in Amsterdam.

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