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Twelve Years a Slave
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DISCOVER A TALE OF UNIMAGINABLE ADVERSITY
Twelve Years a Slave tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free-born man of colour who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South in 1841. His true tale of captivity, torture and abuse brings to life the unimaginable evils of slavery in a time when it was yet to be outlawed. Equal parts slave, travel, and spiritual narrative, Twelve Years a Slave reveals Northup to be a person of astonishing strength and wisdom.
An insightful introduction by David Fiske reveals the world into which Northup was born, the kidnapping phenomenon to which he fell victim, and the legacy of slavery today.
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ISBN: 9780857089069
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 29 July 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Capstone Publishing Ltd
Contributors:
- Series edited by Tom Butler-Bowdon
- Introduction by David Fiske
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 48.0mm
Width: 137.0mm
Height: 201.0mm
Weight: 612g
Pages: 512
About the Author
Solomon Northup was an American abolitionist and the author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and a free woman of colour. In 1841, two con men offered him lucrative work playing fiddle in a circus, so he travelled with them to Washington, D.C. He was drugged, kidnapped, and subsequently sold as a slave into the Red River region of Louisiana.
David Fiske is a freelance writer and independent researcher, and the co-author of Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave. He was previously senior librarian at the New York State Library.
Tom Butler-Bowdon is Series Editor of the Capstone Classics series, and has provided Introductions for Platoโs Republic, Adam Smithโs Wealth of Nations, Machiavelliโs The Prince, Florence Scovel Shinnโs The Game of Life and How to Play It, and Kahlil Gibranโs The Prophet. A graduate of the London School of Economics, he is also the author of 50 Economics Classics (2017) and 50 Politics Classics (2015).
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