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Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup a Citizen of New-york, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841 and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation Near the Red Ri
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date November 18, 2013
Pages 119
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781493788323
ISBN-10 1493788329
Dimensions 0.75 by 8.50 by 10.75 in.
Weight 0.80 lbs.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock
Original list price $5.00
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A slavery narrative written by a a free man from Saratoga Springs, New York, who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841. After having been kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana by various masters, Northup was able to write to friends and family in New York, who in turn secured his release with the aid of the state. Northup's account provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, and describes at length cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in Louisiana.

This amazing true story brings to life the reality of what it is to fear slave-traders and the life of slavery.

The original work was published eight years before the Civil War, soon after Harriet Beecher Stowe's best-selling novel about slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).
  • Twelve Years a Slave
  • Solomon Northrup
  • Autobiography - slavery narrative
  • Pre Civil War (1853)
  • Subjects: Racism, Race Relations, Civil War, Slavery, Slave Trade, Black History, Discrimination, African-American History
  • Adapted to film (2013)
  • Related books: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, The Souls of Black Folk, The New Jim Crow


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    About: A slavery narrative written by a a free man from Saratoga Springs, New York, who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841.

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