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          Someone Knows My Name.!

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          Any black person who has served on the British side in the War will have his or her name listed in The Book of Negroes, an actual historical document from this.

          “I knew that it would be called the United States. But I refused to speak that name. There was nothing united about a nation that said all men were created equal, but that kept my people in chains.”

          Aminata

          Aminata harbors no love for the country in which she lives, neither Britain nor the United States.

          When she was made witness to the birth of the new nation, she was disgusted.

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        3. The plot involves the intersecting lives of Samuel Adler, a Jewish man forced to leave Vienna in ; Leticia Cordero, a Salvadoran woman who migrated to the.
        4. The novel is about young Asher's struggle to reconcile his really impressive talents with the religious beliefs of the community he grew up in.

          5. She didn't want these people to succeed because she knew they didn't deserve it. Their success was made upon the trodden corpses of their slaves.

          “That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.”

          Aminata

          In this quotation, Aminata talks about how it feels to be a slave.

          She was robbed of her childhood, stolen like an object and carried away. When she walks down t