Twelve Years a Slave - Hardcover
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Twelve Years a Slave
"A moving, vital testament." -Saturday Review
"An incredible document, amazingly told and structured. Tough, but riveting.-Rachel Kushner
"The best firsthand account of slavery." -James McPherson
Twelve Years a Slave (1853) is considered to be be one of the most riviting and important documents recounting slavery in the United States. It is the heart-rending memoir of a free black man who is...
Solomon Northup (1807-1867) was an American author, farmer, and musician from upstate New York. He was born a free black man, and supported his family working as a laborer after selling his family farm. His reputation as a talented fiddler was well known, and he was recruited to join a circus as a musician; the job, however was a setup. Northup was drugged and kidnapped, sold...
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