The Book of Negroes (miniseries)

*The Book of Negroes*
The Book of Negroes
Genre	Drama
Based on	The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
Screenplay by	Clement Virgo; Lawrence Hill
Directed by	Clement Virgo
Starring	Aunjanue Ellis; Kyle M. Hamilton; Lyriq Bent; Cuba Gooding Jr.; Louis Gossett Jr.; Ben Chaplin; Allan Hawco; Greg Bryk; Jane Alexander
Music by	Phillip Miller
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of episodes	6
Production
Producers	Damon D'Oliveira; Clement Virgo
Cinematography	Giulio Biccari
Editors	Susan Shipton; Kye Meechan
Original release
Network	CBC; BET
Release	January 7 –; February 11, 2015
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The Book of Negroes is a 2015 television miniseries based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Canadian writer Lawrence Hill. 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 British transported some 3,000 Black Loyalists to Nova Scotia for resettlement, documenting their names in what was called the Book of Negroes.

The novel explores the life of a fictional woman included in this resettlement. She had been taken captive as a girl in West Africa and sold into slavery, held first in South Carolina. She escaped to British lines in New York City, where she was freed and ultimately evacuated to Nova Scotia. Clement Virgo and Hill collaborated on writing the six-part miniseries, with Virgo also directing.

The miniseries premiered on CBC in Canada on January 7, 2015, and on BET in the United States on February 16, 2015.