In The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill, although Aminata suffered greatly throughout her journey from Africa to America due to being deprived of food, water and clothing, her willingness to help the medicine man translate instructions to the Fulbe captives certainly alleviated her living conditions. From the very beginning of the journey, all the captives, including Aminata were bound and “locked inside a pen, spending the whole night standing on sandy soil that stank of urine and feces” (Hill 75). As depicted, these captives were confined in their little compartment, surrounded by filth and inhumanely treated. However, as soon as Aminata began to help the medicine man, she is given a “calabash of water and a coconut shell held with boiled