Clement Virgo and Hill collaborated on writing the six-part miniseries, with Virgo also directing. She escaped to British lines in New York City, where she was freed and ultimately evacuated to Nova Scotia. She had been taken captive as a girl in West Africa and sold into slavery, held first in South Carolina. The novel explores the life of a fictional woman included in this resettlement. The British transported some 3,000 Black Loyalists to Nova Scotia for resettlement, documenting their names in what was called the Book of Negroes. The book was inspired by the British freeing and evacuation of former slaves, known as Black Loyalists, who had left rebel masters during the American Revolutionary War. The Book of Negroes is a 2015 television miniseries based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Canadian writer Lawrence Hill. Canadian TV series or program The Book of Negroes
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