Twelve Years a Slave

Name: Twelve Years a Slave
Author: Solomon Northup
ISBN: 9781787365476

Author: Solomon Northup
Series: African Library
Language: English
Length: 226 pages
ISBN: 9781787365476
Published: 18 January 2023
Imprint: Sovereign

african american
african
black culture
black heritage
discrimination
racism
salvery
equality
inequality
race

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Description

Solomon Northup's narrative, Twelve Years a Slave, offers a powerful account of the experience of enslavement in the United States during the nineteenth century. Through Northup's firsthand perspective, readers are exposed to the brutal realities of life in captivity and its implications for African American freedom. The text is thus significant in that it provides an invaluable source of information on a previously under-examined period in American history.

Author

Solomon Northup (c. 1808 – after 1857) was a free-born New Yorker — violinist, farmer, and landowner — who was kidnapped into slavery in 1841 and held for twelve years in Louisiana. His memoir Twelve Years a Slave remains one of the most powerful firsthand accounts of American bondage: precise, unsentimental, and devastating. Northup's narrative helped fuel abolitionist argument and, much later, a new generation of readers and filmmakers.

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