His education is evident. This is no ignorant man denied an education and made to struggle along communicating with English as an untaught second language.
TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE: Narrative Of Solomon Northup, A Citizen Of New-York,Kidnapped In Washington City In 1841, And Rescued In 1853 The absolutely true story of a free man, kidnapped from his home and sold into slavery - kept captive for ...
This Large Print Edition is cleanly formatted for easy reading. 16 point, spacing 1.25. (1853) Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free black man enslaved for twelve years.
While there, in 1852, Northup befriended Canadian carpenter Samuel Bass, who was at the time doing work for Epps. Secretly, Bass was able to contact Northup's family, who informed New York governor Washington Hunt of his kidnapping.
Story of Solomon Northup, a free slave who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841.
"Twelve Years a Slave" is the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup, an educated, free black man from upstate New York.
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Additionally, the accuracy of and factual detail in 12 Years a Slave have kept this book prominent as a reliable historical reference on slavery for more than 150 years since it first debuted. 12 Years a Slave serves as a timeless ...
"Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told ...
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.
With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Twelve Years a Slave is both modern and readable.
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.
Twelve Years a Slave is the autobiographical account of Solomon Northup, an African American who was born free in New York in the early 1800s. In 1841, Solomon Northup was captured and forced into slavery for a period of twelve years.
Northup's account provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, and describes at length cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in Louisiana.The work was published eight ...
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 ...
Der freie Afroamerikaner Solomon Northup lebt 1841 mit Frau und Kindern im Bundesstaat New York.
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, ...
Twelve Years a Slave (1853) is a memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup, as told to and edited by David Wilson.
Kidnapped into slavery in 1841, Solomon Northup spent 12 years in captivity. This autobiographical memoir represents an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society.
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.