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 - Softcover

Northup, Solomon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1461192331 ISBN 13: 9781461192336

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 1853

Synopsis

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.

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From the Back Cover:

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.'

About the Author:

Solomon Northup (c. 1808-c. 1863) -was a free-born African American landowner from New York state who was kidnapped and solid into slavery in 1841, without a word to his wife or children. After twelve horrifying years in the Red River region of Louisiana, he finally regained his freedom, returning to his family in New York and publishing his memoir in 1853. Northup's book was a bestseller, and he became an outspoken abolitionist before disappearing from historical record around the year 1857.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 1853
• ISBN 10: 1461192331
• ISBN 13: 9781461192336
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262
• Editor: Wilson David