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Twelve Years a Slave: Including; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Solomon Northup, Frederick Douglass

4.23 AVERAGE

absolute_bookery's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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Heartbreaking but amazing.

bcat0124's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

lunarfire's review against another edition

5.0

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I don't think my review could do this book justice.

andresreading's review

4.0

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This edition of Twelve Years a Slave, detailing the story of Solomon Northup, comes with a following account of Frederick Douglass. I found the two stories to complement eachother. The former, and principal, tells us about a free man who, having dark skin, was kidnapped into the South with the purpose of making him a slave, which he was for all of twelve years. The latter, tells us about a young man who was born a slave, and managed to escape to freedom. The details that both men describe, show an honest account of the evil actions that were commited against the dark-skinned human beings in the USA. I believe it was a highly commendable thing for them to have written their accounts. Lest it be forgotten.

siren_oleander3's review against another edition

3.0

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

captain_valour's review against another edition

1.0

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I guess I just wasn’t ready for this type of book. I couldn’t get into it at all.....

taylormoseychuck's review against another edition

4.0

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eggcellent_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

vic_the_postie's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

alerimusblack's review against another edition

5.0

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Extremely powerful, I couldn't read a lot in a one sitting because of the frustration and the pity I was feeling.