Bibliograph

Twelve years a slave, narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, Solomon Northup

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Twelve years a slave, narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, Solomon Northup

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Twelve years a slave

Responsibility statement

Solomon Northup

Sub title

narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana

Summary

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup is a memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, DC, as well as describing at length cotton cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

12 years a slave

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