Twelve Years a Slave
by Solomon Northup, Solomon Northup, Jo M Bramenson, [author not identified], Bona Dicta Traduccions, Scherezade Surià, Kevin Theis, and Solomon Northup
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Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.
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Twelve years a slave
2014, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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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
2013, [CreateSpace]
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1492389544 9781492389545
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"Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having at the end of that time been kidnapped and sold into Slavery, where I remained, until happily rescued in the month of January, 1853, after a bondage of twelve years-it has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public."
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