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Twelve Years a Slave: Including; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Solomon Northup, Frederick Douglass
4.23 AVERAGE
1.46k reviews for:
Twelve Years a Slave: Including; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Solomon Northup, Frederick Douglass
4.23 AVERAGE
dark
informative
medium-paced
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
fast-paced
Could have been more organized on the story-telling. Very important to read!
informative
sad
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
sad
tense
fast-paced
challenging
sad
medium-paced
This is a book you will not finish in one sitting.
Cruelty and inhumanity are not enough to describ the horrors illustrated in the book.
Hard to read but a must read.
Cruelty and inhumanity are not enough to describ the horrors illustrated in the book.
Hard to read but a must read.
The way that Solomon's story remained unknown in popular knowledge until Steve McQueen's movie adaptation is a sort of metaphor to the modesty of his personality. Never claiming a more horrific experience than any other black slave in the 1840s, he honestly depicts his history of freedom, his abduction and enslavement in Red River under Master Epps. While the story is written in flowery prose, I found it beautiful to read and not at all dry or dense. Northup's eloquence of language creates a wonderful book of American history that I really enjoyed. His sympathetic words on Eliza and Patsey and their untold fates speak to the reader in his showing that although he (Solomon) was saved, many bright hearts were dimmed in the slave trade of the United States. He did an honourable thing in releasing his autobiography.
dark
informative
slow-paced
I can usually handle a lot more trauma in a book than on film. Not in this case. It was just too sad and overwhelming for me.
The experiences described in this book are gripping, but not particularly well written. Therefore, I find it impossible to rate it as a book.