Twelve Years a Slave

Name: Twelve Years a Slave
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ISBN: 9781429093378

ISBN-10: 1429093374

ISBN-13: 9781429093378

Edition: N/A

Authors: Solomon Northup

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Solomon Northup was born a free black man in upstate New York in 1808. By 1841, he had become a husband, a father, a raftsman, and a talented fiddle-player. That year, while his family was away, he agreed to accompany two men to Washington DC, on what he thought would be a brief trip performing for a circus. Instead, these new employers turned out to be con men, and Northup was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery. Northup was transported to New Orleans and remained a slave for the next twelve years, working for a number of masters in Louisiana—some brutal, some kind. Although Northup never stopped longing for home and thinking about how he could escape, it seemed impossible to trust…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Publisher: Applewood Books
Publication date: 5/16/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English