Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave
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Book Description
Kidnapped into slavery in 1841, Northup spent 12 years in captivity. This autobiographical memoir represents an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. "A moving, vital testament to one of slavery’s ‘many thousand gone’ who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation . . ."—Saturday Review. 7 illus. Index.
Twelve Years a Slave,Solomon Northup,Dover Publications,0486411435,19th century,African Americans,Biography,Biography / Autobiography,Biography/Autobiography,Historical - U.S.,History,Louisiana,Northup, Solomon,,People of Color,Plantation life,Slavery,Slaves,United States,b. 1808,Biography: general,Northup, Solomon,Slavery & emancipation,Social Science / African-American Studies,USA
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