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PaperbackTwelve years a slave / Solomon Northup / introduction by Ira Berlin / general editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Author:Northup, Solomon
Author:Gates, Henry Louis
Year:2012
Interest category:Biography
Media class:Paperback
Classification:920NOR
Publisher:Penguin Classics, 2012
Volume:Northup
ISBN:01431067089780143106708
Control number0143106708
Description:
Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next 12 years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation, and during this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. This is his detailed description of slave life and plantation society.