12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

238 pages first pub 1853 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography historical reflective slow-paced

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Twelve Years a Slave (1853) is a memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details his being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he ...

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