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'Twelve Years a Slave' recounts the harrowing and inspiring journey of Solomon Northup a free Bostonian kidnapped and sold into slavery. Current scholarship considers this work historically accurate and it provides a unique insight into the treatment of slaves and institution of American slavery in the nineteenth century. First published in 1853, this memoir still speaks pertinently in the twenty first century inspiring a recent Academy Award winning motion picture. This edition, contains the original text in a readable font and the original images crisply reproduced. (Also available in hardcover: 978-1-78139-424-3.)
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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.'
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Solomon Northup (1808 - 1863) was a free-born African American from New York, the son of a freed slave and a free woman of color. A farmer and violinist, Northup owned land in Hebron, New York. In 1841 he was kidnapped by slave traders, having been enticed to Washington, D.C. (where slavery was legal) with a job offer as a violinist with traveling entertainers. Shortly after he and his employers arrived in DC, they sold him as a slave, apparently having drugged him into unconsciousness to effect the kidnapping. He was shipped to New Orleans where he was sold to a planter in Louisiana. He was held in the Red River region of Louisiana by several different owners for 12 years, mostly in Avoyelles Parish.
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