Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill

I finished this book today. It is one of the best books I've ever read. It tells the story of Aminata Diallo, a young African girl who is captured and enslaved at the age of 11 in 1757. She is taken to South Carolina to work on an indigo plantation. She travels from South Carolina to New York, then to Nova Scotia, Sierra Leone, and England, where she helps the abolitionists in their quest to end the slave trade (not slavery, just the trade, which is a sore point with Aminata). She loses everything and everyone she ever loved, and it is a truly remarkable story. I rate it 5 out of 5.