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001 2012474563
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008 140602s2014 nyua 000 0aeng
010 $a 2012474563
020 $a9780486789620 (paperback)
020 $a0486789624 (paperback)
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050 00 $aE444$b.N87 2014d
082 00 $a306.3/62092$aB$223
100 1 $aNorthup, Solomon,$d1808-1863?
245 10 $aTwelve years a slave /$cSolomon Northup ; introduction by Philip S. Foner.
264 1 $aMineola, New York :$bDover Publications, Inc.,$c2014.
264 4 $c©1970
300 $aix, 336 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aDover thrift editions
500 $a"This Dover edition, first published in 2014, is the third Dover unabridged republication of the work first published in 1853 by Derby and Miller, Auburn, New York. The Introduction written by Philip S. Foner for the 1970 Dover edition is included in this edition, as are 7 illustrations from the 1854 edition"--Title page verso.
520 $a"Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve harrowing years of his life as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. After regaining his freedom in 1853, Northup decided to publish this gripping autobiographical account of his captivity. As an educated man, Northup was able to present an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. Indeed, this book is probably the fullest, most realistic picture of the 'peculiar institution' during the three decades before the Civil War. Moreover, Northup tells his story both from the viewpoint of an outsider, who had experienced thirty years of freedom and dignity in the United States before his capture, and as a slave, reduced to total bondage and submission. Very few personal accounts of American slavery were written by slaves with a similar history. Published in 1853, Northup's book found a ready audience and almost immediately became a bestseller. Aside from its vivid depiction of the detention, transportation, and sale of slaves, Twelve years a slave is admired for its classic accounts of cotton and sugar production, its uncannily precise recall of people, times, and places, and the compelling details that recreate the daily routine of slaves in the Gulf South" -- Back cover.
600 10 $aNorthup, Solomon,$d1808-1863?
650 0 $aSlaves$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aSlaves' writings, American.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$vBiography.
650 0 $aPlantation life$zLouisiana$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aSlavery$zLouisiana$xHistory$y19th century.
775 08 $iReproduction of:$aNorthup, Solomon, 1808-1863?$tTwelve years a slave$dNew York, Dover Publications [1970],$hx, 336 p. illus. 21 cm.$nCall number of original: E444$b.N87 1970$w(DLC) 72105666