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Twelve Years a Slave

by Unknown Author

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304 pages2019BlurbISBN 9780368664113
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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
Blurb
Published
2019
Pages
304
ISBN
9780368664113
Language
en

About Unknown Author

free-born African American kidnapped by slave-traders

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