Twelve years a slave
Describes the life of Solomon Northup, a free Black man from Saratoga, N.Y., who was kidnapped in 1841 and forced into slavery in Louisiana for twelve years. Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent …
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- Full title :Twelve years a slave / Solomon Northup ; introduction by Ira Berlin ; general editor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; foreword by Steve McQueen.
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Describes the life of Solomon Northup, a free Black man from Saratoga, N.Y., who was kidnapped in 1841 and forced into slavery in Louisiana for twelve years.
Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, Northup published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave.--Page [4] of cover.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2008
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Penguin Books
- Place of Publication:New York, New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2008
Notes
Originally published: 1853.
"Now a major motion picture"--Cover.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxxviii, 240 pages : : illustrations ; : 20 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0143125419, 9780143125419, 9781843914716, 1843914719, 9780486411439, 0486411435, 9780143106708, 0143106708, 9780141393827, 0141393823
- oclc:ocn869772675
- LC Classification:E444
- Dewey Decimal:306.362092
Table of Contents
General editor essay / Henry Louis Gates Jr -- Introduction / Ira Berlin -- Suggestions for further reading -- Twelve Years A Slave: -- Editor's Preface -- Chapter 1: -- Introductory -- Ancestry -- Northup family -- Birth and parentage -- Mintus Northup -- Marriage with Anne Hampton -- Good Resolutions -- Champlain canal -- Rafting excursion to Canada -- Farming -- Violin -- Cooking -- Removal to Saratoga -- Parker and Perry -- Slaves and slavery -- Children -- Beginning of sorrow -- Chapter 2: -- Two strangers -- Circus company -- Departure from Saratoga -- Ventriloquism and legerdemain -- Journey to New York -- Free papers -- Brown and Hamilton -- Haste to reach the circus -- Arrival in Washington -- Funeral of Harrison -- Sudden sickness -- Torment of thirst -- Receding light -- Insensibility -- Chains and darkness -- Chapter 3: -- Painful meditations -- James H Burch -- Williams slave pen in Washington -- Lackey, Radburn -- Assert my freedom -- Anger of the trader -- Paddle and cat-o-ninetails -- Whipping -- New acquaintances -- Ray, Williams, and Randall -- Arrival of little Emily and her mother in the pen -- Maternal sorrows -- Story of Eliza -- Chapter 4: -- Eliza's sorrows…
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