by Solomon Northup · William Collins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007580422
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«Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story» is the autobiographical account of Solomon Northup, published by William Collins in paperback (304 pages, in English).
In 1841, Solomon Northup, a free man from New York State, is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Northup narrates in the first person the twelve years he spends working on cotton plantations in the southern United States, the uprooting from his family, and the struggle to preserve dignity in the face of the brutality of the slave system.
This edition belongs to the Collins Classics collection. The work was originally published in 1853.
Suitable for readers of history, memoirs, and testimonies about slavery in the United States.
Solomon Northup was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born American of mixed race from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and a free woman of color. Northup was a professional violinist, farmer, and landowner in Washington County, New York. In 1841, he was offered a traveling musician's job and went to Washington, D.C. ; there, he was drugged and kidnapped into slavery. He was shipped to New Orleans on April 24, 1841 by James H. Birch aboard the Brig Orleans from Richmond, VA. Northup was purchased by a planter and held as a slave for nearly twelve years in the Red River region of Louisiana; mostly in Avoyelles Parish. He remained enslaved until he met Samuel Bass, a Canadian working on his plantation who helped get word to New York, where state law provided aid to free New York citizens who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery. His family and friends enlisted the aid of the governor of New York, Washington Hunt, and Northup regained his freedom on January 3, 1853.
