Bibliograph

Twelve years a slave, Solomon Northup

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Label

Twelve years a slave, Solomon Northup

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Twelve years a slave

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Solomon Northup

Series statement

The Library of southern civilization

Summary

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, he published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life--perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives. 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

Table Of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; EDITOR''S PREFACE; CHAPTER I.; CHAPTER II.; CHAPTER III.; CHAPTER IV.; CHAPTER V.; CHAPTER VI.; CHAPTER VII.; CHAPTER VIII.; CHAPTER IX.; CHAPTER X.; CHAPTER XI.; CHAPTER XII.; CHAPTER XIII.; CHAPTER XIV.; CHAPTER XV.; CHAPTER XVI.; CHAPTER XVII.; CHAPTER XVIII.; CHAPTER XIX.; CHAPTER XX.; CHAPTER XXI.; CHAPTER XXII.; APPENDIX; Copyright

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