Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
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"Twelve Years a Slave" by Solomon Northup is a memoir published in 1853. Northup, a free black man and musician from New York, recounts how he was deceived, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in the Deep South. His narrative details twelve years of bondage on Louisiana plantations, documenting the brutal realities of slavery—from slave markets to plantation life—before finally securing his freedom. Published shortly after "Uncle Tom's Cabin," this firsthand account became
a bestseller with 30,000 copies sold. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863? |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 10034503 |
| Title |
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 |
| Alternate Title |
12 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 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Years_a_Slave |
| Credits |
Produced by Richard J. Shiffer and the Distributed Proofreading volunteers at www.pgdp.net for Project Gutenberg. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 67.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861) |
| Subject | African Americans -- Biography |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography |
| Subject | Enslaved persons' writings, American |
| Subject | Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863? |
| Subject | Plantation life -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century |
| Subject | Slavery -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 45631 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-45631-7 |
| Release Date | May 11, 2014 |
| Last Update | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 6891 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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