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Twelve Years a Slave

Twelve Years a Slave( )
Author: Northup, Solomon
Editor: Hartmetz, Richard
ISBN:978-1-5084-2615-8
Publication Date:Feb 2015
Publisher:CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $11.00
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The New York Times Bestselling Book, which was the basis for the Oscar and Golden Globe Winning Dramatic Movie. This is the original 1853 true memoir that told the true tale of the horrors of a life of servitude. Solomon Northup was born and raised in New York, living happily, with a wife and two children, until he is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. Subjected to terrible and brutal abuses on sugar and cotton plantations in Louisiana, he manages to get word to his...
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Northup, Solomon (Author)
Solomon Northup was a free-born African American from Saratoga Springs, New York. He is noted for having been kidnapped in 1841 when enticed with a job offer. When he accompanied his supposed employers to Washington, DC, they drugged him and sold him into slavery. From Washington, DC, he was transported to New Orleans where he was sold to a plantation owner from Rapides Parish, Louisiana. After 12 years in bondage, he regained his freedom in January 1853.

Solomon Northup's memoir was reprinted several times later in the 19th century. An annotated version was published in 1968; the memoir was adapted and produced as a 2013 film by the same name by Steve McQueen, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as Northup. Since 1999, Saratoga Springs, New York, has celebrated an annual Solomon Northup Day on the third Saturday in July.

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