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Twelve Years a Slave (Film Tie-In)

by Unknown Author

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304 pages2013Penguin Books, LimitedISBN 9780141395333
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About this book

Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.

Publication Details

Publisher
Penguin Books, Limited
Published
2013
Pages
304
ISBN
9780141395333
Language
en

About Unknown Author

free-born African American kidnapped by slave-traders

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