Twelve Years a Slave - Softcover

Northup, Solomon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1492137049 ISBN 13: 9781492137047

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

The most credible and telling contemporaneous portrait of American slavery. In 1841, Solomon Northup was betrayed, kidnapped, and sold as a slave in the pre-Civil War South. This is the true, shocking story of the twelve years Northup spent in slavery. A testimony to the strength of one man’s spirit and his remarkable will to survive.

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Review:

I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It felt as important as Anne Frank's diary, only published nearly a hundred years before

(Steve McQueen)

A moving, vital testament to one of slavery's "many thousands gone" who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation (Saturday Review)

From the Back Cover:

This story of the abduction of a free Negro adult from the North and his enslavement in the South--provides a sensational element which cannot be matched in any of the dozens of narratives written by former slaves. 'Think of it: For thirty years a man, wit all man's hopes, fears and aspirations--with a wife and children to call him by the endearing names of husband and father--with a home, humble it may be, but still a home...then for twelve years a thing, a chattel personal, classed with mules and horses....Oh! it is horrible. It chills the blood to think that such are.'

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1492137049
• ISBN 13: 9781492137047
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156