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

Title page; DEDICATION; EDITOR'S PREFACE; CHAPTER I. Introductory-Ancestry-The Northup Family-Birth and Parentage-Mintus Northup-Marriage with Anne Hampton-Good Resolutions-Champlain Canal-Rafting Excursion to Canada-Farming-The Violin-Cooking-Removal to Saratoga-Parker and Perry-Slaves-and SlaveThe Beginning of Sorrow.; CHAPTER II. The two Strangers-The Circus Company-Departure from Saratoga-Ventriloquism and Legerdemain-Journey to New York-Free Papers-Brown and Hamilton-The haste to reach the Circus-Arrival in Washington-Funeral of Harrison-The Sudden Sickness-The TormeChains and Darkness.

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solomon Northup Was Born A Free Man In New York In 1808. In 1841 He Was Tricked, Captured, And Sold Into Slavery In Washington, D.c. Originally Published In 1854, His Account Of 12 Years Spent As A Slave On A Series Of Southern Plantations Became One Of The Most Famous Of The Antebellum Slave Narratives. Republished In 1970 With An Introduction By Philip Foner, The Book Has Again Been Replicated By Dover With All The Original Documentation And Illustrations. Northup's Story Was Taken Down By David Wilson In The Year Following His Rescue From A Louisiana Plantation. Since Northup Was A Literate Northerner And Understood The Values Of Freedom, His Testimony Was Highly Prized By Abolitionists. Not Only Did His Book Sell 25,000 Copies In The Year It Was Published, It Was Used To Support Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Since It Gave A Description Of Plantation Life Very Much Like One That Stowe Had Described. Twelve Years A Slave Is Highly Readable And Well Paced. It Provides A Firsthand Account Of Slave Auctions, Good Masters, Bad Masters, Slave Beatings, Escape Attempts, Black Community Life Within The Plantation System And The Legal System That Permitted Northup's Eventual Rescue. Highly Recommended. Kliatt Codes: Jsa—recommended For Junior And Senior High School Students, Advanced Students, And Adults. 1970, Dover, 336p, Illus, 22cm, 99-089488, $8.95. Ages 13 To Adult. Reviewer: Patricia A. Moore; Academic Resource Ctr., Emmanuel College, Boston, Ma (retired), March 2001 (vol. 35 No. 2)

"Twelve Years A Slave" is the story of Solomon Northup, an African American who was born free in New York in the early 1800s. In 1841, Solomon Northup was captured and forced into slavery for a period of 12 years. "Twelve Years A Slave" is a captivating narrative of the life of freedom and slavery experienced by one African American man prior to the American Civil War. The book is detailed in its account of life on a cotton and sugar plantation and the daily routine of slave life during the first part of the 19th century. Classics "Twelve Years a Slave" is the story of Solomon Northup, an African American who was born free in New York in the early 1800s. In 1841, Soloman Northup was captured and forced into slavery for a period of 12 years. "Twelve Years a Slave" is a captivating narrative of the life of freedom and slavery experienced by one African American man prior to the American Civil War. The book is detailed in its account of life on a cotton and sugar plantation, and the daily routine of slave life during the first part of the 19th century. 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. Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.