Aminata, now grown beautiful, healthy, and literate, is the flower of Robinson Appleby's Indigo plantation. After several seasons of deflecting Appleby's advances, Aminata marries Chekura and has his child. Appleby, infuriated, sells her and her child to separate owners. Her new owners, a Jewish Indigo Trader and his wife, Solomon and Rosa Lindo, are more trusting: they treat her as a servant rather than a slave. But after Rosa's passing and the revelation that Solomon brokered the sale of her child, Aminata's trust is broken. Lindo, desperate for a distraction to ease his grief, sets sail to New York with Aminata, who plots her escape to freedom.

Book of Negroes Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Season 1, Episode 1
• s01e02 - Season 1, Episode 2
• s01e03 - Season 1, Episode 3
• s01e04 - Season 1, Episode 4
• s01e05 - Season 1, Episode 5
• s01e06 - Season 1, Episode 6

Book of Negroes Show Summary

Follow Aminata's journey from her childhood home in West Africa to a South Carolina indigo plantation to Canvas Town, an early Black settlement in lower Manhattan. Aminata draws upon her intelligence and strength of character to help find a way home and reunite with her long-lost daughter.