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Twelve Years a Slave

Paperback • 2012 • English

Twelve Years a Slave

By Solomon Northup

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

Now the major motion picture that won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong’o, and directed by Steve McQueen Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, 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 ...Show more

Biography and non-fiction prose

Classic fiction: general and literary

Slavery and abolition of slavery

Book details

ISBN

9780143106708

Publisher

Penguin

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Twelve Years a Slave

Format

Paperback

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