Twelve Years A Slave

by Solomon Northup

In this compelling memoir, Solomon Northup recounts the true story of his life as a freeman born and raised in New York. He had a family and a house, but everything changed in an instant when he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. Northup provides a graphic account of life as a slave, offering detailed observations of the antebellum American South.

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