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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
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emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment
This is an absolutely incredible, powerful, heart-wrenching book! It was so fascinating to read about this topic from the unique perspective of a man who was actually kidnapped and forced into twelve years of slavery. As much as I abhorred slavery before, this true account of what it's like to actually BE a slave opened my eyes even more to the injustices so many had to endure. The book is fast paced, extremely informative and certainly kept me engaged, throughout! I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone!
Reading about the horrors of slavery and the incredible suffering will always be difficult and this wasn't different. Despite that, I couldn't stop reading because Solomon Northup provides so many unique insights that you can't read elsewhere. What struck me most was Northup not only details his personal suffering and the suffering of his fellow slaves, but he also sees this situation from a bird's eye view, and comments on the system and how it was perpetuated. Reading slave narratives is vitally important to get a fuller picture of slavery and how brutally dehumanizing it was.
There really are no words I can write in a review to do this memoir justice.
This book was very well-written and insightful to the struggle of being black in America when slavery was still allowed. It was heart-breaking to read his story and to see the hardships he and so many others suffered throughout this book due to the cruelty of white people in the South. I cannot believe treatment this inhumane was ever allowed.
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"Let not those who have never been placed in like circumstances, judge me harshly. Until they have been chained and beaten—until they find themselves in the situation I was, borne away from home and family towards a land of bondage—let them refrain from saying what they would not do for liberty."
Solomon is a great violin player, living his beautiful life with 3 beautiful daughters and his lovely wife. Set in 1841, New York City, Solomon Northup had been tricked and sold as a slave. He was given a new name of Platt, and born in Georgia.
12 years hell of being a slave and far apart from his family, Solomon had successfully mailed two letters of his whereabouts. The first one did not helped, but the second one leads to Master Ford whom does not know the fact that Solomon is a free man.
This is one of the darkest, disturbing and depressing memoir I have ever read. I got to be honest, at times, I had to skim through the pages to avoid being triggered by the violence, his and the fellow slaves, sorrows.
All this oppressions, injustice, needs to stop. With whats been happening now, after the killing of many innocent Black people over the years, especially when the villains are white cops, we need to police the police! #blacklivesmatter
Solomon is a great violin player, living his beautiful life with 3 beautiful daughters and his lovely wife. Set in 1841, New York City, Solomon Northup had been tricked and sold as a slave. He was given a new name of Platt, and born in Georgia.
12 years hell of being a slave and far apart from his family, Solomon had successfully mailed two letters of his whereabouts. The first one did not helped, but the second one leads to Master Ford whom does not know the fact that Solomon is a free man.
This is one of the darkest, disturbing and depressing memoir I have ever read. I got to be honest, at times, I had to skim through the pages to avoid being triggered by the violence, his and the fellow slaves, sorrows.
All this oppressions, injustice, needs to stop. With whats been happening now, after the killing of many innocent Black people over the years, especially when the villains are white cops, we need to police the police! #blacklivesmatter