Recent African Canadian writing has fleshed out Black Canadian History. In the poetry of Wayde Compton, for instance, West Coast Black Canadians can learn about their ancestry. Quebeckers and Nova Scotians must face the fact that slavery was once conspicuously present on their lands in plays like Lorena Gale’s Angelique and George Eliott Clarke’s Beatrice Chancy. But it is perhaps Lawrence Hill’s fiction that best showcases a recurrent struggle to record Black history in Canada. In each new work, Hill manages to go beyond the former by enhancing its chronological and geographical scope. His first novel, Some Great Thing (1992), focused on the experiences of Black Manitobans in the twentieth century; his second, Any Known Blood (1997), reconstructed the Black genealogy of its protagonist on both sides of the 49^th Parallel, while his most recent effort, The Book of Negroes (2007), is a neo-slave narrative charting both sides of the Black Atlantic. Set in the second half of the 18^th century, Hill’s third novel undertakes the narration of slavery through the life and many voyages of African-born Aminata Diallo. In her first-person account, slavery is seen both at its peak and already displaying signs of its decline thanks to the abolitionist movement. As she slowly but surely comes to grasp the sheer magnitude of the slave system and how it impinges on the lives of millions of people on several continents, Aminata also becomes aware that, like other Africans, she can only remain free as long as she keeps moving.