Twelve years a slave
by Gates, Henry Louis, Northup, Solomon, Northup, Solomon, McQueen, Steve
fromPenguin classics
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Type: Book
"A harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American historyBorn a free man in New York, Solomon Northup was abducted in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, …