Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a by Solomon Northup

By Solomon Northup

After residing as a loose guy for the 1st thirty-three years of his existence, Solomon Northup used to be drugged, abducted, and offered into slavery, abandoning a spouse and 3 youngsters in ny. bought to a Louisiana plantation proprietor who was once additionally a Baptist preacher, Northup proceeded to serve a number of masters, a few who have been brutally merciless and others whose humanity he praised. After years of bondage, he met an outspoken abolitionist from Canada who notified Northup's family members of his whereabouts, and he used to be as a consequence rescued via an legitimate agent of the kingdom of latest York. Twelve Years a Slave is his account of this strange sequence of occasions. Northup describes existence on cotton and sugar cane plantations in meticulous element. One slave narrative pupil calls his narrative "one of the main designated and life like graphics of slave life." He additionally leavens his account with wry humor and cultural remark, making many components of the narrative learn extra like go back and forth writing than abolitionist literature. Twelve Years a Slave offers the striking tale of a loose guy thrown right into a adversarial and overseas international, who survived by way of his braveness and cunning.

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