Still standing, a black but powerful woman; Aminita Diallo. Aminita’s life is a hardship journey. As a black wretched woman, she had been dragged through dreadful conditions. Subsequently to her pain and provisional suffering, she is free and standing with empowerment. In the novel, The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill depicts perseverance as a mechanism to survival. Perseverance is portrayed in Aminita’s home away from home, the slave trade, and her children May and Mamadu. Without her use of intelligence toward perseverance, Aminita would have fallen with no return to standing. In her early years, Aminita is kidnapped at the young age of eleven by African traders who sell her to white slave traders. She forcefully boards a ship, migrating