Twelve years a slave, Solomon Northup
Type
Label
Twelve years a slave, Solomon Northup
Language
eng
resource.biographical
autobiography
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Twelve years a slave
Oclc number
861334012
Responsibility statement
Solomon Northup
Summary
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
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12 years a slave