Twelve Years A Slave (An African American Heritage Book)
Here is the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York. He was kidnaped by unscrupulous slave hunters and sold into slavery where he, endured unimaginable degradation and abuse until his rescue twelve years later. A powerful and riveting condemnation of American...
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Here is the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York. He was kidnaped by unscrupulous slave hunters and sold into slavery where he, endured unimaginable degradation and abuse until his rescue twelve years later. A powerful and riveting condemnation of American slavery.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781604592160 (1604592168)
ASIN: 9781604592160
Publish date: 17-01-2008
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Book Club,
African American,
Biography Memoir,
Historical
After watching the movie, I thought that I would give this a try and it would be interesting to see how much of the book was used in the movie (and from what I can recall, the movie was pretty accurate to what was written in the book). Maybe it wwas the visual nature of the movie, but I honestly f...