The Book of Negroes Lawrence Hill

It is helpful to know where and what Birchtown is, prior to getting into details about the race riot of 1784. Birchtown is a municipality in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, about 3 miles west of Shelburne. Look up Birchtown in any search engine,...

WoMan: The Inescapable Patriarchy

Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes and Rupi Kaur’s poetry and prose collection, Milk and Honey, may cover vastly different topics, but both works have one thing in common – a female narrator. While The Book of...