Kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, freeman Solomon Northup spent twelve years in bondage before being freed.
This edition includes the full book as well as a comprehensive companion with historical notes, character overview, themes overview, and chapter summaries.
This illustrated edition of "Twelve Years a Slave" includes:Illustrations of objects and places mentioned in the novel.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series.
The original story for the 2013 Academy Award–winning film Twelve Years a Slave is the autobiographical account of Solomon Northup—an African American man born free in New York State who is tricked, kidnapped, taken to Washington, DC, ...
This Edition of Twelve Years A Slave is the Original 1853 Edition and Is Annotated.
and at Glens Falls; that this deponent then know Mintus Northup, a black or colored man; he was then a free man, as this deponent believes and always understood; that the wife of said Mintus Northup, andmother of Solomon, wasafree woman ...
Twelve Years a Slave and Other Slave Narratives
This Norton Critical Edition of Solomon Northup’s harrowing autobiography is based on the 1853 first edition.
With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Twelve Years a Slave is both modern and readable.