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Twelve Years A Slave
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Author : Solomon Northup
language : en
Publisher: Applewood Books
Release Date : 2008-10
Twelve Years A Slave written by Solomon Northup and has been published by Applewood Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Solomon Northup was born a free black man in upstate New York in 1808. By 1841, he had become a husband, a father, a raftsman, and a talented fiddle-player. That year, while his family was away, he agreed to accompany two men to Washington DC, on what he thought would be a brief trip performing for a circus. Instead, these new employers turned out to be con men, and Northup was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery. Northup was transported to New Orleans and remained a slave for the next twelve years, working for a number of masters in Louisiana--some brutal, some kind. Although Northup never stopped longing for home and thinking about how he could escape, it seemed impossible to trust anyone with the facts of his life. He remained a slave for a dozen years, until he finally met a Canadian abolitionist who was able to get a letter to his family and eventually gained his freedom. After his release, Northup told his story to David Wilson, an upstate New York-based white lawyer and legislator. Northup's memoir, edited by Wilson, was published in 1853 as Twelve Years A Slave. Northup's story and his firsthand observations of plantation life and the cruel reality of slavery make this book an important document of the American south and American history.
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Author : Solomon Northup
language : en
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Release Date : 2024-01-04
Twelve Years A Slave written by Solomon Northup and has been published by Lindhardt og Ringhof this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Filmatized in 2013 and the official recipient of three Oscars, Solomon Northup's powerful slave narrative 'Twelve Years a Slave' depicts Nortup's life as he is sold into slavery after having spent 32 years of his life living as a free man in New York. Working as a travelling musician, Northup goes to Washington D.C, where he is kidnapped, sent to New Orleans, and sold to a planter to suffer the relentless and brutal life of a slave. After a dozen years, Northup escapes to return to his family and pulls no punches, as he describes his fate and that of so many other black people at the time. It is a harrowing but vitally important book, even today. For further reading on this subject, try 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Solomon Northup (c.1807-c.1875) was an American abolitionist and writer, best remembered for his powerful race memoir 'Twelve Years a Slave'. At the age of 32, when he was a married farmer, father-of-three, violinist and free-born man, he was kidnapped in Washington D.C and shipped to New Orleans, sold to a planter and enslaved for a dozen years. When he gained his freedom, he wrote his famous memoir and spent some years lecturing across the US,on behalf of the abolitionist movement. 'Twelve Years a Slave' was published a year after 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by Harriet Beecher Stowe and built on the anti-slavery momentum it had developed. Northup's final years are something of a mystery, though it is thought that he struggled to cope with family life after being freed.
12 Years A Slave
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Author : Solomon Northup
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2020-06-18
12 Years A Slave written by Solomon Northup and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
12 Years a Slave is the memoir of Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and sold into slavery. Northup worked on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before his release. Director Steve McQueen, who adapted this memoir into his critically acclaimed film of the same name, compared Northrup's memoir at par with Anne Frank's diary in terms of national hero status and in giving the first-hand account of brutality of slavery.
12 Years A Slave
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Author : Solomon Northup
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-12-28
12 Years A Slave written by Solomon Northup and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-28 with African Americans categories.
ENHANCED EDITION: A Historical Study Guide Used by Harvard and other Universities. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup is a memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, DC, as well as describing at length cotton cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.
Twelve Years A Slave Full Book And Comprehensive Reading Companion
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Author : Solomon Northup
language : en
Publisher: BookCaps Study Guides
Release Date : 2013-10-05
Twelve Years A Slave Full Book And Comprehensive Reading Companion written by Solomon Northup and has been published by BookCaps Study Guides this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-05 with Fiction categories.
Solomon Northup was born a free black man. He was kidnapped, tortured, and sold into slavery. For 12 years, he was kept in bondage as a slave in Louisiana--Twelve Years a Slave is his moving and raw account of survival and life as a slave. This edition includes the full book as well as a comprehensive companion with historical notes, character overview, themes overview, and chapter summaries.
12 Year S A Slave As Written By Solomon Northup
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Author : Solomon Northup
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2013-11-22
12 Year S A Slave As Written By Solomon Northup written by Solomon Northup and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This unique edition of Solomon Northup's now classic memoir, 12 YEARS A SLAVE, is given here for the reader in its original, unabridged form. Now a major motion picture.
12 Years A Slave
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Author : Solomon Northrop
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014
12 Years A Slave written by Solomon Northrop and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
USA 1841. Solomon Northup er en fri, sort mand, som tilbydes et job i slavestaten Washington. Han bliver narret og tvunget til at tilbringe de næste 12 år af sit liv i slaveri.
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language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
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Award-winning historical slave-narrative drama directed by Steve McQueen and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor. The film follows the experience of Solomon Northup (Ejiofor), an African-American living with a wife and two children in Saratoga, New York, who is kidnapped and sold into slavery by men claiming to offer him work as a circus musician. Transported by ship to New Orleans, it isn't long before he is given a new name and sold to William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch), a relatively empathetic slave owner. But confrontations with the cruel and violent overseer John Tibeats (Paul Dano) leads to Solomon being passed on by Ford to the extremely abusive and alcoholic planter Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender), who rules his slaves with a whip in one hand and a Bible in the other. Believing the only hope of regaining his freedom is to remain passive for the time being, Solomon ceases fighting against the illegitimacy of his situation until salvation is offered to him by a kindly labourer named Bas.
12 Years A Slave Movie Tie In
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Author : Solomon Northup
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-09-04
12 Years A Slave Movie Tie In written by Solomon Northup and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The official movie tie-in edition to the winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong’o, and directed by Steve McQueen New York Times bestseller “I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It felt as important as Anne Frank’s Diary, only published nearly a hundred years before. . . . The book blew [my] mind: the epic range, the details, the adventure, the horror, and the humanity. . . . I hope my film can play a part in drawing attention to this important book of courage. Solomon’s bravery and life deserve nothing less.” —Steve McQueen, director of 12 Years a Slave, from the Foreword 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. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, Northup published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave.
12 Years A Slave
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Author : Solomon Northup
language : en
Publisher: Hesperus Press
Release Date : 2014-04-01
12 Years A Slave written by Solomon Northup and has been published by Hesperus Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-01 with Social Science categories.
The astonishing memoir of a free man who was sold into slavery in Louisiana where he was kept for 12 years—a powerful, riveting condemnation of slavery, and a story soon to be introduced to a new audience through a major film Tricked by two men offering him a job as a musician in New York state in 1841, Solomon Northup was instead drugged and kidnapped. Threatened with death, Northup 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 12 years that followed he was sold to many different owners who treated him with varying levels of savagery, including forced labor, scant food, and numerous beatings. Eventually Northup succeeded in contacting Samuel Bass, a white carpenter whom he knew to be sympathetic to the cause of black people. Bass contacted Northup's family and together they gained the necessary paperwork to travel to Louisiana to retrieve him. Northup pressed charges against his captors but in a triumph of irony the case was heard in Washington—meaning that as a black man he could not testify against the accused (in the end they were able to countersue him.) A true-life testament to tremendous courage and tenacity in the face of unfathomable injustice, Northup's account is also of extreme interest due to the meticulous recordings of slave life. Unique in its firsthand nature, the book became a runaway bestseller.