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12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Category: Fiction
When Solomon Northup, born a free black man in Saratoga, New York, was offered a short-term job with a circus in Washington, D.C., in 1841, he jumped at the opportunity. But when he arrived, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana. Finally, with the help of a Canadian abolitionist, he was re ...Show more
12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Category: Fiction
A film tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany the major new film starring Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor.Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. I ...Show more
12 Years a Slave (Word Cloud Classics) by Solomon Northup
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
The basis for the Academy Award(R)-winning movie "A moving, vital testament to one of slavery's 'many thousand gone' who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation." -- Saturday ReviewBorn a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, DC, in 1841. He spent th ...Show more
A Novel Journal: 12 Years a Slave (Compact) by Solomon Northup
Category: Stationery | Series: Novel Journals
Free your thoughts in this writing journal If you're looking for a new book in which to record your thoughts, lists, and more, you're in luck Canterbury Classics, known for publishing fine works of literature, has released their next set of writing journals for your story recording pleasure Tiny pri ...Show more
Twelve Years A Slave by Solomon Northup
Category: Non-Fiction
Solomon Northup was an entrepreneur and dedicated family man, father to three young children, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Alonzo. What little free time he had after long days of manual and farm labor, he spent reading books and playing the violin. Though his father was born into slavery, Solomon was born a ...Show more
Twelve Years a Slave by Philip S. (INT) Solomon; Foner Northup
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Category: Classics
Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. After regaining his freedom in 1853, Northup publish ...Show more
Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story by Solomon Northup
Category: Biography | Series: Collins Classics
The shocking first-hand account of one man's remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture. 'Why had I not died in my young years - before God had given me children to love and live for? What unhappiness and suffering and sorrow it would have prevented. I sighed for liberty; but the ...Show more
Twelve Years a Slave: Including; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Solomon Northup
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
‘I was sitting upon a low bench, made of rough boards, and without coat or hat. I was handcuffed. Around my ankles also were a pair of heavy fetters. One end of a chain was fastened to a large ring in the floor, the other to fetters on my ankles . . . Then did the idea begin to break upon my mind, at fi ...Show more
Twelve Years a Slave (New Edition) by Solomon Northup; Sandra M. Grayson (Foreword by); Ber Anena (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Foundations of Black Science Fiction Ser.
With a new introduction, Northup's memoir reveals the living truth of slavery, poverty and racism in a world set apart from elite metropolitan lifestyles. The 1853 memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York ...Show more
Twelve Years a Slave: (Penguin Orange Collection) by Solomon Northup
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Orange Collection
Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Peng ...Show more