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Twelve years a slave
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- Book Synopsis
- The memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup, a black man born free in New York, who was tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery. He was in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before smuggling information to friends and family in New York who secured his release with the aid of the state.
- About The Author
- Solomon Northup was an American abolitionist, a free-born African American from New York. A farmer and a professional violinist, Northup had been a landowner in Washington County, New York. In 1841, he was offered a traveling musician's job and went to Washington, D.C. (where slavery was legal) but he was drugged, kidnapped, and sold as a slave.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781804175798
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Flame Tree 451, (13 June 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 224
- Weight
- 160 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 130 x 21 mm
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