The Canadian author Lawrence Hill wrote the novel The Book of Negroes (2007, published in the United States as Someone Knows My Name).
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Notable people recorded in the Book of Negroes include Boston King, Henry Washington, Moses Wilkinson and Cato Perkins.
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Proving that she served the British in the American Revolutionary War her name is entered in the historic "Book of Negroes" an actual historical document that is an archive of freed African American slaves who requested permission to leave the United States in order to resettle in Nova Scotia.
"I used The Book of Negroes as the title for my novel, in Canada, because it derives from a historical document of the same name kept by British naval officers at the tail end of the American Revolutionary War.