Twelve years a slave

The Resource Twelve years a slave

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Twelve years a slave

Statement of responsibility

Solomon Northup ; introduction by Ira Berlin ; general editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; foreword by Steve McQueen

Title variation

12 years a slave

Language

eng

Summary

Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. 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. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, Northup published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave.--Page [4] of cover

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

TEFOD

Dewey number

306.362

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E444

LC item number

.N87 2013beb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

Series statement

Penguin classics

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