Twelve Years a Slave
Now a major motion picture, this is Northup's true story of being kidnapped and sold into slavery.
Now a major motion picture, this is Northup's true story of being kidnapped and sold into slavery.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780486411439 (0486411435)
ASIN: 9780486411439
Publish date: 06-04-2000
Publisher: Dover Publications
Edition language: English
Interesting and valuable as a primary source of slave society and plantation life in the deep south before the Civil War and certainly a counterbalance to Frederick Douglass's own narrative. Northup's odyssey is the opposite of Douglass's - a horrifying descent into servitude that inverts the slave-...