Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northup
Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northup
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Twelve Years a Slave

Author: Solomon Northup

Narrator: Sean Crisden

Unabridged: 7 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/26/2012

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Twelve Years a Slave is the autobiographical account 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 twelve years. Northup's account 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. The book describes the daily life of slaves in Bayou Beof, their diet, the relationship between master and slave, the means that slave catchers used to recapture them, and the ugly realities that slaves suffered.

Comparable to the accounts of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, and William Wells Brown, 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.


About Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup (b. 1808) was an African American carpenter who was born free in Minerva, Essex County, New York, but was bound into slavery later in life for a period of twelve years. He is the author of the autobiographical account Twelve Years a Slave, which chronicles his experiences as both a slave and a free man. After regaining his freedom, Solomon became active in abolitionism, lecturing widely on his experiences as a slave throughout the Northeast in order to end the practice of slavery.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Miranda

Old books get a bad rap...but do they deserve it? Check out my latest BooktTube Video - all about the fabulous (and not so fabulous) Olde Boies. The Written ReviewWhat difference is there in the color of the soul?Solomon Northup, born a free man during slavery times i......more

Goodreads review by Brian

There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be reckoning yet ... it may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a coming as sure as the Lord is just. -Solomon Northup, 1855 I am a middle-age American white guy obsessed with my country's shameful......more

This book discusses the story of Solomon Northup, born in New York and leading a peaceful life there. He was kidnapped in Washington city, sold into slavery, and had to work as an enslaved person for 12 long years in Louisiana. The author delineates the slave trade in Washington D.C., and New O......more