- Slavery, Plantation life, History, Biography
Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.
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- Author
- Solomon Northup
- First published
- 1855
- Pages
- 234
- Publisher
- Firestone Books, דיונון, General Books LLC
- Editions
- 1029
- Language
- Portuguese, English, German, French
- ISBN
- 9781539032854
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“Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having at the end of that time been kidnapped and sold into Slavery, where I remained, until happily rescued in the month of January, 1853, after a bondage of twelve years-it has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.”
free-born African American kidnapped by slave-traders
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