12 Years a Slave

Autori

• Solomon Northup

Parametri

• 224 pagine
• 8 ore di lettura

• Biografie
• Classici
• Famiglia
• Saggistica
• Storia

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A testimony of personal strength and a telling portrait of American slavery in the pre-Civil War South. When Solomon Northup, born a free black man in Saratoga, New York, was offered a short-term job with a circus in Washington, D.C., in 1841, he jumped at the opportunity. But when he arrived, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana. Finally, with the help of a Canadian abolitionist, he was rescued and reunited with his family in New York. In this memoir published in 1853, Northup tells the incredible story of his twelve years as a slave.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2014