In its first miniseries, “The Book of Negroes,” BET, in partnership with the Canadian public broadcaster CBC, takes a footnote from the Revolutionary War and turns it into engrossing drama.

Hill wrote the award-winning 2007 novel The Book of Negroes based on the Black ... ranks from all 13 American colonies. One was Boston King, who was born into slavery in South Carolina and ...

Shirronda Almeida, director of the Mel King Institute, first read “Chain of Change” in the 1990s. “ I inherited my mom’s copy of the book,” she says. “I grew up in Boston and the ...

Meet Boston King. He was one of hundreds of formerly ... King is listed in the British "Book of Negroes" that detailed his transit from the Colonies to Canada with the British.

NEW YORK — "The Book of Negroes" tells the story of an 11-year ... It chronicles some 3,000 blacks who during the war had served the King of England against the colonists, and were thus allowed ...

When King was a child, black students in the South were forced by law to attend racially segregated schools. King called this the “walling off of Negroes ... tutoring at a Boston public school ...

We struggle for a long time to let the word “nigger” disappear from the Dutch language and now you set up your “Book of Negroes ... with the Boston Red Sox. The New Yorker Radio Hour ...