microform, 336 pages
English language
Published Nov. 25, 1853 by Derby and Miller.
Twelve years a slave
narrative of Solomon Northrup, citizen of New York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841 and rescued in 1853 from a cotton plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana. Library of American civilization -- LAC 14193.
Solomon Northup: Twelve years a slave (1853, Derby and Miller)
- OCLC Number:
- 11797519
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.
Subjects
- Plantation life -- Louisiana
- Slavery -- Louisiana