The book is currently out of stock
Parameters
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
More about the book
'Twelve Years a Slave' recounts the harrowing and inspiring journey of Solomon Northup a free Bostonian kidnapped and sold into slavery. Current scholarship considers this work historically accurate and it provides a unique insight into the treatment of slaves and institution of American slavery in the nineteenth century. First published in 1853, this memoir still speaks pertinently in the twenty first century inspiring a recent Academy Award winning motion picture. This edition, contains the original text in a readable font and the original images crisply reproduced. (Also available in hardcover: 978-1-78139-424-3.)
Language
Book purchase
Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northup
- Language
- Released
- 2014
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Paperback)
Payment methods
We’re missing your review here.
- Title
- Twelve Years a Slave
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Solomon Northup
- Publisher
- Benediction Classics
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN13
- 9781781394236
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Family, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Friendship, USA, New York, Violence, America, Loss, Race, Racism, Kidnappings, Slavery, Injustice, Louisiana
- Original title
- Twelve years a slave
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
- Description
- 'Twelve Years a Slave' recounts the harrowing and inspiring journey of Solomon Northup a free Bostonian kidnapped and sold into slavery. Current scholarship considers this work historically accurate and it provides a unique insight into the treatment of slaves and institution of American slavery in the nineteenth century. First published in 1853, this memoir still speaks pertinently in the twenty first century inspiring a recent Academy Award winning motion picture. This edition, contains the original text in a readable font and the original images crisply reproduced. (Also available in hardcover: 978-1-78139-424-3.)