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12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Category: Fiction
When Solomon Northup, born a free black man in Saratoga, New York, was offered a short-term job with a circus in Washington, D.C., in 1841, he jumped at the opportunity. But when he arrived, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana. Finally, with the help of a Canadian abolitionist, he was re ...Show more
12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Category: Biography
A film tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany the major new film starring Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor.Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. I ...Show more
12 Years a Slave: A True Story of Betrayal, Kidnap and Slavery by Solomon Northup
Category: Biography
Tricked by two men offering him a job as a musician in New York State in 1841, Solomon Northup was drugged and kidnapped. His life in jeopardy, he was forced to assume a new name and fake past. Taken to Louisiana on a disease-ridden plague ship, he was initially sold to a cotton planter. In the twelve y ...Show more
12 Years a Slave: (Movie Tie-In) by Solomon Northup
Category: Classic Fiction
Now a major motion picture starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, and Alfre Woodard, this tie-in edition features a foreword from acclaimed director Steve McQueen Perhaps the best written of all the slave n ...Show more
12 Years a Slave (Word Cloud Classics) by Solomon Northup
Category: Biography | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
The basis for the Academy Award(R)-winning movie "A moving, vital testament to one of slavery's 'many thousand gone' who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation." -- Saturday ReviewBorn a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, DC, in 1841. He spent th ...Show more
A Novel Journal: 12 Years a Slave (Compact) by Solomon Northup
Category: Classic Hardcover | Series: Novel Journals
Free your thoughts in this writing journal If you're looking for a new book in which to record your thoughts, lists, and more, you're in luck Canterbury Classics, known for publishing fine works of literature, has released their next set of writing journals for your story recording pleasure Tiny pri ...Show more
Twelve Years A Slave by Solomon Northup
Category: Biography
Solomon Northup was an entrepreneur and dedicated family man, father to three young children, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Alonzo. What little free time he had after long days of manual and farm labor, he spent reading books and playing the violin. Though his father was born into slavery, Solomon was born a ...Show more
Twelve Years a Slave by Philip S. (INT) Solomon; Foner Northup
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Category: Classics
Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. After regaining his freedom in 1853, Northup publish ...Show more
Twelve Years a Slave by Gemma Barder; Arianna Bellucci (Illustrator); Solomon Northup
Category: Children's
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup; Eric Ashley Hairston (Introduction by)
Category: Romance | Series: Signature Editions Ser.
The slave narrative is a literary sub-genre that emerged from the written accounts of enslaved Africans in Great Britain and its colonies, including the later United States, Canada, and Caribbean nations. 'Twelve Years a Slave' by Solomon Northup is perhaps the most famous example of the genre and was t ...Show more
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Category: Classics
Twelve Years a Slave (1853) is a memoir and narrative of a slave by Solomon Northup, narrated and edited by David Wilson. Northup, a free-born black man in New York City, details his kidnapping in Washington, D.C. and subsequent sale into slavery. After being held in slavery for 12 years in Louisiana by ...Show more