Solomon Northup

Twelve Years a Slave (Penguin Classics)

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ISBN 13:: 9780143106708
author:: Solomon Northup
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Penguin Classics
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2012
Pages:: 288
Dimensions:: 13.2 x 2.1 x 19.1 cm
Genre:: Biography, Historical, 1701-1900,
Condition:: New
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Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. Born a free man in New York, Solomon Northup recounts how he was lured to Washington, D.C., with promises of fast money, then drugged and beaten before being sold into slavery. He spent twelve years on a Louisiana cotton plantation, an experience that became the basis for this exceptionally vivid account of slave life. Published after his rescue, the book offers a unique insight into American slavery from someone who was both free and enslaved. Penguin Classics presents this important work, which has become a significant portrait of American slavery through the eyes of an educated individual.

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