12 Years a Slave

  • 12 Years a Slave
    By Solomon Northup

    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.

  • 12 Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and...
    By Solomon Northup

    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.

  • 12 Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup
    By Solomon Northup

    He has invariably repeated the same story without deviating in the slightest particular, and has also carefully perused the manuscript, dictating an alteration wherever the most trivial inaccuracy has appealed.

  • 12 Years a Slave: The Narrative of Solomon Northup
    By Solomon Northup

    This unforgettable memoir was the basis for the Academy Award-winning film 12 Years a Slave. This is the true story of Solomon Northup, born a freeman in New York.

  • 12 Years a Slave: A Narrative by Solomon Northup
    By Solomon Northup

    Northup was kept in bondage for 12 years, until being able to write to friends and family in New York, who finally secured his release.This special edition contains extraordinary and unique illustrations by Jo M. Bramenson and is enhanced ...

  • 12 Years a Slave: A True Story
    By Solomon Northup

    The shocking first-hand account of one man's remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture.

  • 12 Years a Slave: Solomon Northup's Memoir on Period of Enslavement, Abuse, Racial Segregation and Flawed Nature of Slavery.
    By Solomon Northup

    - After returning he documented his experience with the help of editor David Wilson, thereby, giving birth to 12 Years a Slave. - 12 Years a Slave is the story of an individual whose freedom was stripped away from him.

  • 12 Years a Slave: Includes Interviews of Former Slaves and Illustrations
    By Solomon Northup

    Solomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground slave pen. Northup was transported by ship to New Orleans where he was sold into slavery.

  • 12 Years a Slave: A Memoir of Kidnap, Slavery and Liberation
    By Solomon Northup

    Now a Major Motion Picture,12 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.

  • 12 Years a Slave
    By Solomon Northup

    Solomon Northup. S TATE OF N EW -Y ORK : Washington county, ss: Timothy Eddy, ofFort Edward, in said county, being duly sworn, says he is now over—years old, and has been a residentofsaidtown more than—years last past, and that he was ...

  • 12 Years a Slave
    By Solomon Northup, Sam Sloan

    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.

  • 12 Years a Slave: A True Story of Betrayal, Kidnap and Slavery
    By Solomon Northup

    Describes the life of Solomon Northup, a free Black man from Saratoga, N.Y., who was kidnapped in 1841 and forced into slavery in Louisiana for twelve years.

  • 12 Years a Slave: 1000 Copy Limited Edition (Illustrated Hardcover with Jacket) Now a Major Movie (Engage Books)
    By Solomon Northup

    The story of Solomon Northup is a bizarre and incredible one. Born a free black in New York State in 1808, he was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841, and spent most of the next 12 years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation.

  • 12 Years a Slave
    By Solomon Northup

    He spent the next 12 years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation, and during this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. This is his detailed description of slave life and plantation society.

  • 12 Years a Slave: A Memoir of Kidnap, Slavery and Liberation
    By Solomon Northup

    Features additional interesting and rare images relating to Northup, such as the actual "manifest of slaves" from the ship that brought him in chains to New Orleans.

  • 12 Years a Slave
    By Northup

    This unforgettable memoir was the basis for the Academy Award nominated film 12 Years a Slave. This is the true story of Solomon Northup, who was born and raised as a freeman in New York.

  • 12 Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup
    By 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 When the editor commenced the preparation of the following narrative, he did not suppose it would ...

  • 12 Years a Slave: Includes Interviews of Former Slaves and Illustrations
    By Solomon Northup

    Describes the life of Solomon Northup, a free Black man from Saratoga, N.Y., who was kidnapped in 1841 and forced into slavery in Louisiana for twelve years.

  • 12 Years a Slave
    By Northup S.

    An hour before day light the horn is blown. Then the slaves arouse, prepare their breakfast, fill a gourd with water, in another deposit their dinner of cold bacon and corn cake, and hurry to the field again. It is an offence invariably ...

  • 12 Years a Slave
    By Solomon Northup

    An hour before day light the horn is blown. Then the slaves arouse, prepare their breakfast, fill a gourd with water, in another deposit their dinner of cold bacon and corn cake, and hurry to the field again. It is an offence invariably ...