Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story (Collins Classics)
- Publisher: Harper Collins
- ISBN: 9780007580422
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A True Story
By Solomon Northup
The shocking first-hand
account of one man’s remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion
picture.
‘Why had I not died in my
young years – before God had given me children to love and live for? What
unhappiness and suffering and sorrow it would have prevented. I sighed for
liberty; but the bondsman's chain was round me, and could not be shaken off.’
1841: Solomon
Northup is a successful violinist when he is kidnapped and sold into slavery.
Taken from his family in New York State – with no hope of ever seeing them
again – and forced to work on the cotton plantations in the Deep South, he
spends the next twelve years in captivity until his eventual escape in 1853.
First published
in 1853, this extraordinary true story
proved to be a powerful voice in the debate over slavery in the years leading
up to the Civil War.
It is a true-life
testament of one man’s courage and conviction in the face of unfathomable
injustice and brutality: its influence on the course of American history cannot
be overstated.
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