Twelve Years a Slave (New edition)

Solomon Northup, a free black man from New York, was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. His account provides detailed information on the slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, as well as the cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in Louisiana.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 13 June 2023
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing

Solomon Northup, a black man born free in New York, recounts his harrowing tale of being deceitfully lured to Washington, D.C., where he was abducted and sold into slavery in the Deep South. He endured a 12-year captivity in Louisiana before bravely smuggling information to his friends and family in New York, who, with the help of the state, secured his release. Northup's account provides vivid insights into the slave markets in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans, as well as the cultivation of cotton and sugar on prominent plantations in Louisiana.

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Weight: 160g
Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781804175798