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| Original Title: | Twelve Years a Slave ISBN13 9780989794800 |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Solomon Northup |
| Setting: | Louisiana(United States) |
Solomon Northup
ebook | Pages: 363 pages Rating: 4.19 | 88505 Users | 6221 Reviews
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| Title | : | Twelve Years a Slave |
| Author | : | Solomon Northup |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Enhanced Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 363 pages |
| Published | : | August 8th 2013 by Eakin Films & Publishing (first published February 5th 1853) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. History. Biography. Classics. Autobiography. Memoir |
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Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped in Washington, D.C., sold into slavery, and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, as well as describing at length cotton and sugar cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.Rating Out Of Books Twelve Years a Slave
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Slavery is an abomination. The United States was from its independence from England a nation that relied heavily on slavery. It was not a land of equality and it did not offer freedom for all. This book is an autobiography written by Solomon Northup, a free Black kidnapped and taken into slavery for twelve years. He was from Upper-state New York. He played the fiddle. Given a proposition to earn extra money doing just this, he agreed to travel to Washington D.C. It was here he was kidnapped and12 Years a Slave is probably the most unique slave book that I've read so far because I can't say that I have ever read about a free person being kidnapped and sold into slavery. The concept was new to me and I imagine it was probably very common considering that is full profit for a slave trader (not having to buy a slave and then sale for profit). I can't say that I absolutely loved his book. I also can't say that I believe most of what was written to be a fact. What I believe is that he was
My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!This book is told from the view point of a man who was a slave, not some historians interpretation of the events or a novelists aggrandisement. It is a frank narrative of the events that surrounded one mans persecution into a woeful existence and allows the reader to form their own opinion of the life of a slave. This is a unique enlightenment into the American slave system, of the 19th century, conveying the hypocrisy
Rating: 3.0/5.0The subject of this book is very hard to read especially because it is a non-fiction. Slavery just shows the ugly face of humanity and the ugly face of United States in the 19800s. The narration and the writing of this book are really good and easy to grasp especially since this is considered a classic. I cant say this is the best book I have read on this subject but definitely it is a decent one.In the book, we follow Solomon's life who is a free man but then he is kidnapped and
Racism sucks, inn't? Its kind of fucking shit-Daniel Kaluuya 2018 Liiiisteen the movie is better. Its obviously an interesting read but some times its extremely slow and boring. There are things that just dont have to be constantly explained in detail. I had not then learned the measure of "man's inhumanity to man," nor to what limitless extent of wickedness he will go for the love of gain Slave owners treated slaves like animalssome of them treated them worse than animals. How fucked up do
I appreciated this excellent book (some of its scenes still haunt me), but compared to other non-fiction slave narratives such as Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, there was a bit more distance of perspective here. The facts are still searing; the antidotes still filled me with horror. But sometimes the narrator feels a step removed. I read much of the account before I realized why I felt that way .. and then I got to Northup's description of the Christmas celebrations among the slaves. He
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