Description: Further DetailsTitle: Twelve Years a SlaveCondition: NewEAN: 9781513204932ISBN: 9781513204932Publisher: Mint EditionsFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/09/2021Description: "A moving, vital testament." -Saturday Review ”An incredible document, amazingly told and structured. Tough, but riveting.-Rachel Kushner “The best firsthand account of slavery.” -James McPherson Twelve Years a Slave (1853) is considered to be be one of the most riviting and important documents recounting slavery in the United States. It is the heart-rending memoir of a free black man who is taken hostage and sold into slavery in a Louisiana plantation, his twelve years of bondage, and his remarkable escape to freedom. Since its publication, this classic has become a historical reference for its salient of depiction of life as a slave in the pre-Civil War deep south of the United States. More recently the book’s popularity has soared due to the 2014 Academy Award winning motion picture. Northup’s memoir begins during his early life as a free black man in Upstate New York. He was a father of three children, a farmer, lumberjack, and a skillful musician. When two white men approached Northup about a well-paid job playing his violin in a circus, he accepted. They traveled to New York City, then Washington D.C, where after a day of celebrating his good fortunes with the two men he was drugged, and chained in a slave pen. Imprisoned by the ruthless slave-trader James Burch, he was brutally beaten and eventually sent by boat to New Orleans, Louisiana. Eventually Northup was sold to a merciful plantation owner, and valued for his hard work, and gentle spirit. Due to his master’s eventual financial hardships, Northup was sold again and again in a succession of brutal masters. With his tenacious sense of hope and goodwill he perseveres through twelve years of cruelty until his remarkable rescue from slavery and back to his freedom in New York. With its great message of hope, Twelve Years a Slave is one of America’s great literary declarations of the power of the human spirit. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Twelve Years a Slave is both modern and readable. Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 203mmItem Length: 127mmAuthor: Solomon NorthrupContributor: Mint Editions (Contributions by)Genre: BiographyBook Series: Mint EditionsTopic: HistoryRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Twelve Years a Slave
Title: Twelve Years a Slave
EAN: 9781513204932
ISBN: 9781513204932
Release Date: 09/09/2021
Release Year: 2021
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 203mm
Contributor: Mint Editions (Contributions by)
Series: Mint Editions
Book Title: Twelve Years a Slave
Number of Pages: 150 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: West Margin Press
Topic: Personal Memoirs, Historical
Publication Year: 2021
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Author: Solomon Northrup
Item Length: 8 in
Book Series: Mint Editions--Black Narratives Ser.
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Hardcover
