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Series
Publisher
Hesperus Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The astonishing memoir of a free man who was sold into slavery in Louisiana where he was kept for 12 years-a powerful, riveting condemnation of slavery, and a story soon to be introduced to a new audience through a major film Tricked by two men offering him a job as a musician in New York state in 1841, Solomon Northup was instead drugged and kidnapped. Threatened with death, Northup was forced to assume a new name and fake past. Taken to Louisiana...
Author
Publisher
BARNES & NOBLE
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In a stunning reversal of stereotype, he is often a man among beasts." --Eric Ashley Hairston, from the Introduction Twelve Years a Slave, a chronicle of the amazing ordeal of Solomon Northup, a free African American kidnapped in the North and impressed into slavery in Louisiana, is one of the most compelling and detailed slave narratives in existence. "There must have been some misapprehension--some unfortunate mistake," writes Northup. "It could...
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