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Twelve years a slave

Solomon Northup

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About this work

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.

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Edition identifiers ISBN-10 7301238126 · ISBN-13 9787301238127

Subjects

  • Slavery
  • Plantation life
  • History
  • Biography
  • African Americans
  • Slaves
  • Slaves' writings, American
  • Personal narratives
  • Kidnapping victims
  • Slaves, united states
  • Louisiana, history
  • African americans, biography
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Edition2014 · Beijing da xue chu ban she
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Extent
273 pages
Language
Chinese
ISBN-10
7301238126
EAN-13
9787301238127
Edition2014 · Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
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Extent
263 pages
Language
Chinese
ISBN-10
9573273616
EAN-13
9789573273615
Edition2014 · Xin xing chu ban she