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Feb 21, 2014 · 12 Years a Slave. Paperback – February 21, 2014. This unforgettable memoir was the basis for the Academy Award-winning film 12 Years a Slave. This is the true story of Solomon Northup, who was born and raised as a freeman in New York. He lived the American dream, with a house and a loving family - a wife and two kids.
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A short summary of Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Twelve Years a Slave. ... Chapters 11 & 12 Chapters 13 & 14 ... Summary Twelve Years a Slave Full Book Summary. Previous . Solomon Northup is a thirty-three-year-old Black man living in Saratoga, New York, in 1841. He is happily ...
The book blew [my] mind: the epic range, the details, the adventure, the horror, and the humanity. . . . I hope my film can play a part in drawing attention to this important book of courage. Solomon’s bravery and life deserve nothing less.” —Steve McQueen, director of 12 Years a Slave, from the Foreword
4.22. 117,786 ratings8,087 reviews. 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 ...
Twelve Years a Slave. Solomon Northup. LSU Press, Apr 1, 1968 - Social Science - 312 pages. Solomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave. Until the spring of 1841 he lived a simple, uneventful life with his wife and three children in Upstate New York. Then, suddenly, he fell victim to a series of bizarre events that ...
Aug 12, 2014 · About 12 Years a Slave. One of the best and most enduring of the slave narratives, it is a frank, incisive depiction of slavery in the American south. Solomon was an African American born free in New York during the 19th century, but was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the south. Twelve Years a Slave paints a vivid picture of the horrid ...
Oct 22, 2013 · 12 Years a Slave is a riveting true account of a free man captured and sold into slavery in the pre–Civil War South. Solomon Northup’s narrative explores one of the darkest times in American history and captures in vivid detail the unimaginable realities of slavery. In 1841, the educated musician Solomon Northup, a free man living in New ...
