Based on a true story, "The Book of Negroes" Tells the story of aminata, a young girl abducted from her village in mali aged 11 in 1755, and who, after a deathly journey on a slave ship where she witnesses the brutal rep...Based on a true story, "The Book of Negroes" Tells the story of aminata, a young girl abducted from her village in mali aged 11 in 1755, and who, after a deathly journey on a slave ship where she witnesses the brutal repression of a slave revolt, is sold to a plantation owner in south carolina, who rapes her.