Twelve Years a Slave Contributor(s): Northup, Solomon (Author), Logsdon, Joseph (Editor), Eakin, Sue (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0807101508 ISBN-13: 9780807101506 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1968 Annotation: 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.' |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists - Social Science | Slavery |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 68013454 |
Lexile Measure: 1200 |
Series: Library of Southern Civilization |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.56" W x 8.48" (0.82 lbs) 312 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - South - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Solomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave. Until the spring of 1841 he lived a simple, uneventful life with his wife and three children in Upstate New York. Then, suddenly, he fell victim to a series of bizarre events that make this one of the most amazing autobiographies ever written. |