Solomon Northup was born a free black man. He was kidnapped, tortured, and sold into slavery. For 12 years, he was kept in bondage as a slave in Louisiana--Twelve Years a Slave is his moving and raw account of survival and life as a slave. This edition includes the full book as well as a comprehensive companion with historical notes, character overview, themes overview, and chapter summaries.
For 12 years, he was kept in bondage as a slave in Louisiana--Twelve Years a Slave is his moving and raw account of survival and life as a slave.This edition includes the full book as well as a comprehensive companion with historical notes, ...
This illustrated edition of "Twelve Years a Slave" includes:Illustrations of objects and places mentioned in the novel.
With an Introductory Chapter by Frederick Douglass Solomon Northup, Frederick Douglass. you." "When did you last see him, and where is he?" Northup inquired. "I last saw him Christmas, a week ago to-day. He is the slave of Edwin Epps, ...
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In 1841, Solomon Northup was a free black man, married with three children and living in upstate New York, when he was tricked into going to Washington DC. There, he was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery, eventually ending up on a ...
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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 ...
With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Twelve Years a Slave is both modern and readable.
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The work was published eight years before the Civil War by Derby & Miller of Auburn, New York, soon after Harriet Beecher Stowe's best-selling novel about slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), to which it lent factual support.