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Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details his being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. He was in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before he was able to secretly get information to friends and family in New York, who in turn secured his release with the aid of the state. Northup's account provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, and describes at length cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in Louisiana.

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Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details his being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South.

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Published in 1853, Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, is a memoir from a slave's perspective set in the pre-Civil War South. Twelve Years a Slave is a first-hand account of Solomon Northup, a black man, carpenter and violinist, born free in New York state and living the American Dream. Then, Solomon is duped into travelling to Washington, D.C. where he is kidnapped and sold into slavery against his will, stripped away from his wife and two children. The memoir details Northup's twelve years of bondage in Louisiana on a cotton plantation while searching for his freedom. It shows the horrible circumstances surrounding slave markets in the Deep South, the brutish living conditions of slaves, and early agricultural practices in the United States. In the end, Northup's story shows the resiliency of the human spirit and acts as a cautionary tale, warning future generations about the horrors of slavery.

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Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having at the end of that time been kidnapped and sold into Slavery, where I remained, until happily rescued in the month of January, 1853, after a bondage of twelve years- it has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public. Since my return to liberty, I have not failed to perceive the increasing interest throughout the Northern States, in regard to the subject of Slavery. Works of fiction, professing to portray its features in their more pleasing as well as more repugnant aspects, have been circulated to an extent unprecedented, and, as I understand, have created a fruitful topic of comment and discussion. I can speak of Slavery only so far as it came under my own observation- only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person. My object is, to give a candid and truthful statement of facts: to repeat the story of my life, without exaggeration, leaving it for others to determine, whether even the pages of fiction present a picture of more cruel wrong or a severer bondage. As far back as I have been able to ascertain, my ancestors on the paternal side were slaves in Rhode Island. They belonged to a family by the name of Northup, one of whom, removing to the State of New-York, settled at Hoosic, in Rensselaer county. He brought with him Mintus Northup, my father. On the death of this gentleman, which must have occurred some fifty years ago, my father became free, having been emancipated by a direction in his will.

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12 years a slave is the powerful memoir of Solomon Northup, born free, who was kidnapped and sold into that most abhorrent of American institutions, human slavery. This perceptive witness offers chilling insight into the human capacity for evil and delusion. The timeless power of this narrative is reflected in its adaptation into a PBS series and later an Oscar-winning feature film.

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Originally published in 1853, Twelve Years a Slave is a haunting portrayal of stolen freedom and brutal life on the sugar and cotton plantations of the Deep South. Landowner, carpenter, and skilled violinist Solomon Northup is living comfortably with his wife and children in Saratoga, New York, when two circus promoters offer him work as a traveling musician. They then drug and kidnap him, and Northup is sold into slavery and transported to Louisiana, spending twelve grueling years in captivity, at the whim of several ruthless slave owners. With its gripping and horrendous accounts of slave life in the Deep South, Solomon Northup’s seminal memoir is now available as an elegantly designed clothbound edition with an elastic closure and a new introduction.

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Independently published, Taschenbuch, Publiziert: 2020-08-02T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book.