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12 Years a Slave is the memoir of Solomon Northup, a black man that was born free in New York state. Kidnapped by two circus promoters in Washington in 1841 and sold into slavery he was finally rescued in 1853 from a cotton plantation on the Red River in Louisiana. This timeless story provides the details of the slave markets in Washington, D. C. and New Orleans along with the working conditions of cotton and sugar cultivations on the major plantations in Louisiana.
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This story of the abduction of a free Negro adult from the North and his enslavement in the South--provides a sensational element which cannot be matched in any of the dozens of narratives written by former slaves. 'Think of it: For thirty years a man, wit all man's hopes, fears and aspirations--with a wife and children to call him by the endearing names of husband and father--with a home, humble it may be, but still a home...then for twelve years a thing, a chattel personal, classed with mules and horses....Oh! it is horrible. It chills the blood to think that such are.'
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Solomon Northup (1808 - 1863) was a free-born African American from New York, the son of a freed slave and a free woman of color. A farmer and violinist, Northup owned land in Hebron, New York. In 1841 he was kidnapped by slave traders, having been enticed to Washington, D.C. (where slavery was legal) with a job offer as a violinist with traveling entertainers. Shortly after he and his employers arrived in DC, they sold him as a slave, apparently having drugged him into unconsciousness to effect the kidnapping. He was shipped to New Orleans where he was sold to a planter in Louisiana. He was held in the Red River region of Louisiana by several different owners for 12 years, mostly in Avoyelles Parish.
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- PublisherLoki's Publishing
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0692022732
- ISBN 13 9780692022733
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages216
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