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Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, A Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, From a Common Plantation Near the Red River, in Louisiana
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A ex-slave memoir by an African American man who had been a free landowner in New York but during an 1841 trip to the nation's capitol was drugged, kidnapped and sold into slavery. He lived for twelve years in bondage in the Red River region of Louisiana. Upon publication Frederick Douglass hailed his story as a work whose "truth is far greater than fiction... It chills the blood." Also the basis of an award-winning 2013 film.
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- Librería
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 140944182
- Título
- Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, A Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, From a Common Plantation Near the Red River, in Louisiana
- Autor
- Northup, Solomon
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Editorial
- Derby and Miller; Derby, Orton and Mulligan; Henry W. Derby
- Lugar de publicación
- Auburn, Buffalo, Cincinnati
- Fecha de publicación
- 1853
- Palabras clave
- slavery, ex-slave, African-American, Louisiana, enslaved people, memoir, memoirs, biography
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