Twelve years a slave
by Solomon Northup, Solomon Northup, Jo M Bramenson, [author not identified], Bona Dicta Traduccions, Scherezade Surià, Kevin Theis, and Solomon Northup
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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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Twelve years a slave
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Twelve years a slave: narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana
2013, [CreateSpace]
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1492389544 9781492389545
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[Originally published as Twelve years a slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841 and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana].
This publication lacks the dedication note, contents page and editor's preface of the original edition, but includes appendix "A" a section of the 1840 statues or general laws of the State of New York on acts of kidnapping, and appendix "B" "Memorial of Anne."
Originally published: Auburn, N.Y. : Derby and Miller, 1853. Edited by David Wilson.
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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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