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Original Title:	Twelve Years a Slave ISBN13 9780989794800
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Solomon Northup
Setting:	Louisiana(United States)

Twelve Years a Slave ebook | Pages: 363 pages

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Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped in Washington, D.C., sold into slavery, and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, as well as describing at length cotton and sugar cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.

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Title	:	Twelve Years a Slave
Author	:	Solomon Northup
Book Format	:	ebook
Book Edition	:	Enhanced Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 363 pages
Published	:	August 8th 2013 by Eakin Films & Publishing (first published February 5th 1853)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Biography. Classics. Autobiography. Memoir

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There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be reckoning yet ... it may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a coming as sure as the Lord is just.-Solomon Northup, 1855I am a middle-age American white guy obsessed with my country's shameful chapter, our "peculiar institution" - slavery. No matter how many books I read, movies I see or any other means of approaching the subject there exists a gulf of understanding that can never be

I know it's a genuine slave narrative, but it is just one-note. It concentrates on episode after episode of intense and repeated physical abuse. I don't doubt its veracity but there are far more nuanced - and readable - narratives out there. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is about life as a slave when not being physically abused. For most slave owners slaves were extremely expensive farm animals and only the richest who could afford 'herds' of them would be able to maltreat them on a

What difference is there in the color of the soul? Solomon Northup, born a free man during slavery times in America, is tricked and subsequently sold into slavery. He goes from respectable carpenter, clever violinist, father of two to "Platt" (a slave from Georgia) in only a few days. At first he tries to resist but soon learns that any sign of rebellion would result in his death. This book chronicles his twelve years as Platt - through the working conditions, the harsh overseers, the

"There may be humane masters, as there certainly are inhuman ones--there may be slaves well-clothed, well-fed, and happy, as there surely are those half-clad, half-starved and miserable; nevertheless, the institution that tolerates such wrong and inhumanity as I have witnesses is a cruel, unjust, and barbarous one, Men may write fictions portraying lowly life as it is, or as it is not--may expatiate with owlish gravity upon the bliss of ignorance--discourse flippantly from arm chairs of the

I wanted to read this prior to seeing the movie, narrated through Solomon Northup a black man living in New York who is kidnapped and thrust into slavery.Being told as a memoir makes this tough subject matter seem even more horrifying real, especially the experiences that some of the black women had to endure.Its important that books like these get adapted into movies, as I feel it raises its profile.Its so important that everyone should read it.

A powerful and apparently true firsthand account from a free black man sold into slavery and his first to be free again.Twelve Years a Slave is gut-wrenching stuff written by an immensely readable writer. Northup's journey is incredible...almost too incredible to believe. One has to continually remind oneself that he was not born into slavery, nor was he taken from overseas. His education is evident. This is no ignorant man denied an education and made to struggle along communicating with

Now had I approached within the shadow of the cloud, into the thick darkness whereof I was soon to disappear, thenceforward to be hidden from the eyes of all my kindred, and shut out from the sweet light of liberty for many a weary year.Im embarrassed to say I had no idea that this was a true story. I find it odd that Id never heard of this particular slave narrative, given how powerful and informative it is. I decided to read it after all the media frenzy surrounding the movie (which I havent