Twelve Years a Slave: Unabridged Edition
- ISBN-10
- 1508873623
- ISBN-13
- 9781508873624
- Series
- Twelve Years a Slave
- Pages
- 98
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-03-15
- Author
- Solomon Northup
Description
Support Struggle for Public Domain: like and share http://facebook.com/BookLiberationFrontThe writing style is superb, lyrical and robust. The way that Northrup uses one word to eliminate entire phrases we now use in language. For example Northrup owned land sufficient to obtain suffrage in NY State in the 1840s. Beautiful!He talked of his collusion with the other slaves so as a driver when he "whipped them" he never touched them but they made sure to writhe and scream. He wanted to live to see his family and never was turned to the evil side.The book parallels today's society. To quote Plato "The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." If we do nothing, evil will prevail.
