Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave The basis for the Academy Award(R)-winning movieA moving, vital testament to one of slavery's 'many thousand gone' who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation. He…
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Twelve Years a Slave
The basis for the Academy Award(R)-winning movieA moving, vital testament to one of slavery's 'many thousand gone' who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation. He spent the next 12 harrowing years of his life as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. -- Saturday Review Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, DC, in 1841.
After regaining his freedom in 1853, Northup decided to publish this gripping autobiographical account of his captivity.As an educated man, Northup was able to present an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. Indeed, this book is probably the fullest, most realistic picture of the peculiar institution during the three decades before the Civil War.
Moreover, Northup