12 Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup is a memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, DC, as well as describing at...
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Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup is a memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, DC, as well as describing at length cotton cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781492368281 (1492368288)
ASIN: 1492368288
Publish date: 2013-09-21
Publisher: Heritage Press
Pages no: 152
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Book Club,
African American,
Biography Memoir,
Historical
It’s hard to review these kinds of books, because what do you base it on? The writing? The story? If the book captured your interest?This book is the story of Solomon Northup, an Afro-American who was born a ‘free man’ in the 1800’s, but was kidnapped and ended up being a slave for 12 years, see tit...
"I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person." Twelve Years A Slave is one of those autobiographical works that make you question how such a strange and harsh reality can exist. The events within the book ar...
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