PRABE Week 6

This week I began a new book that was suggested by a friend. It is Someone Knows My Name  by Lawrence Hill. I'm prepared for a brutally honest read into the life of a girl kidnapped from Africa as a child and enslaved in the colonies. The story begins with Aminata Diallo, also called Meena Dee, as an old woman in London 1802. Right now, Aminata begins to talk about her past and how her life used to be. Now that she's old she just wants her parents or her own children to care for her, but she has neither. She is now in the care of abolitionists who brought her to England so she could "help change the course of history". They feed and clothe her and she signs petitions, does public speaking and continues to tell her story to anyone that asks or is willing to listen in the hopes of ending the slave trade.