Twelve Years a Slave by Northup, Solomon

Twelve Years a Slave (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781974172719)

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Format: Paperback
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Twelve Years a Slave by Northup, Solomon

Twelve Years a Slave

$9.00
Twelve Years a Slave by Northup, Solomon

Twelve Years a Slave

$9.00
Format: Paperback
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Originally published in 1853, Twelve Years a Slave is a haunting portrayal of stolen freedom and brutal life on the sugar and cotton plantations of the Deep South.

Landowner, carpenter, and skilled violinist Solomon Northup is living comfortably with his wife and children in Saratoga, New York, when two circus promoters offer him work as a traveling musician. They then drug and kidnap him, and Northup is sold into slavery and transported to Louisiana, spending twelve grueling years in captivity, at the whim of several ruthless slave owners.

With its gripping and horrendous accounts of slave life in the Deep South, Solomon Northup's seminal memoir is now available as an elegantly designed clothbound edition with an elastic closure and a new introduction.

Author: Solomon Northup
ISBN-10: 1974172716
ISBN-13: 9781974172719
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/03/2017
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.42d
By Solomon Northup
By Solomon Northup
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Solomon Northup (c. 1808-c. 1863) -was a free-born African American landowner from New York state who was kidnapped and solid into slavery in 1841, without a word to his wife or children. After twelve horrifying years in the Red River region of Louisiana, he finally regained his freedom, returning to his family in New York and publishing his memoir in 1853. Northup's book was a bestseller, and he became an outspoken abolitionist before disappearing from historical record around the year 1857.

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