TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE. Introduction By Eric Ashely Hairston

Northrup, Solomon

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Published by NY. 2013. Barnes & Noble Signature Editions, 2013

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blue & white hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first printing (#1 in # line) of this edition. deckled foredge. b&w frontis. illustration. xx+219p. endnotes. (other works) based on the book. suggested reading. american history. autobiography. memoirs. biography. african american history. slavery. american civil war. ~ One of the most compelling and detailed slave narratives in existence, Twelve Years a Slave is the chronicle of the amazing ordeal of Solomon Northup, a free African American kidnapped in the North and impressed into slavery in Louisiana. "There must have been some misapprehension~some unfortunate mistake," writes Northup. "It could not be that a free citizen of New York, who had wronged no man, nor violated any law, should be dealt with thus inhumanly." As an educated man, torn from freedom and plunged into slavery, he brings into exact clarity the life and labor of slaves in the antebellum American South, the complex economic choices and ironic moral concessions of slave holding, and the calamitous effect of slavery on the foundations of civilization. Throughout his horrific imprisonment, Solomon Northup resists the urge to laud himself as an exemplary character or focus solely on his own experience, giving contemporary readers a remarkable and complex account of the lives of the slave community as a whole. A bestseller when it was first published, Twelve Years A Slave remains today a stunning American odyssey. SOLOMON NORTHUP (1808~ca.1863) was the son of a slave but lived as a free man and educated tradesman in upstate New York. He was kidnapped away from his wife and children in 1841 and sold into slavery. In 1853, he was freed and published his memoir of captivity just months later.…

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Title
TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE. Introduction By Eric Ashely Hairston
Author
Northrup, Solomon
Publisher
NY. 2013. Barnes & Noble Signature Editions
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2013
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1435152182
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9781435152182
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