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12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave

by Solomon Northup
Paperback
Publication Date: 18/12/2018

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Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup is a memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, DC, as well as describing at length cotton cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.
ISBN:
9781629100210
9781629100210
Category:
Autobiography: general
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
18-12-2018
Publisher:
Thompson Carlton
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
154
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x9mm
Weight:
0.24kg
Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup was born a free man in Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1808. He lived as such until 1841 when, attracted by a job offer, he travelled to Washington, DC, where he was drugged and sold into slavery by his supposed employers.

Northup was enslaved for twelve years before he regained his freedom and returned to New York. There, he became an advocate for abolitionism and in the 1860s began helping fugitive slaves via the Underground Railroad.

Northup is believed to have died between 1863 and 1875, but both the date and circumstances of his death are unknown.

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