The Book of Negroes

The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill  (published in America as Someone Knows My Name)
I purposely waited until I was in the Great White North to purchase and read this book under its original name (even though it meant giving up my staff discount!).  It was chosen by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as this summers Canada Reads book and I loved every minute of it.  Aminata is a lively young Muslim girl kidnapped from her African village, marched for 3 months across the savannah and sold into slavery.  The novel is written as a memoir of her life as a slave and is surprisingly uplifting because she has such a strong spirit and passion for freedom. It documents her journey  from Africa, across the Atlantic to America, Canada, back to Africa and ultimately in England where she becomes a spokesman for the Abolitionist movement headed by William Wilberforce.  The Book of Negroes of the Canadian title refers to a registry of blacks who as a reward for serving the British during the Revolutionary War were given free passage and the promise of land in Nova Scotia.  I wonder why the title was changed?