Twelve Years a Slave Contributor(s): Editions, Atlantic (Editor), Northup, Solomon (Author) |
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ISBN: 1530891167 ISBN-13: 9781530891160 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $10.93 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - Social Science | Slavery |
Lexile Measure: 1200 |
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 6" W x 9" (0.59 lbs) 194 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: EXCEPTIONAL UNABRIDGED EDITION Twelve Years a Slave, first published in 1853, is a memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup (1808-1863?). Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details his being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. Northup's captivating and terrifying narrative provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, and describes at length cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in Louisiana. This outstanding work was published eight years before the Civil War, soon after Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852), to which it lent factual support. |