Lawrence Hill
I have to recommend "The Book of Negroes" by Lawrence Hill (I think it was published as "Someone Knows My Name" in the US). Aminata Diallo is a Muslim girl who is captured as a slave and shipped to the US. She journeys up to Canada and returns to Africa. Although her story is at times a little too much to believe, the fiction and storytelling sweep you away. I couldn't put the book down.
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