12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave
ISBN-10
1535112387
ISBN-13
9781535112383
Series
12 Years a Slave
Pages
346
Language
English
Published
2016-07-05
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Author
Solomon Northup

Description

Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped in Washington, D.C., sold into slavery, and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, as well as describing at length cotton and sugar cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.

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