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

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

Solomon Northup, Frederick Douglass

4.23 AVERAGE

1.45k reviews for:

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

Solomon Northup, Frederick Douglass

4.23 AVERAGE

smithhailey05's review against another edition

4.0

challenging reflective slow-paced

shesjamesevans's review against another edition

3.0

Interesting and hard book. It’s bizarre to think this poor man wrote this in 1850 or so, and it only reminds you how awful the human being can be. Horrendous. You get bitter when you see American society, that has been built in the blood of all these men and women, and yet they continue to underplay any racial issue going on.

It’s not as crude as the movie -which I could only bear to watch 20 minutes- and from time to time is interesting as he describes the life back then, not as slavery but as working in the fields and those moments I found a bit boring -how mills works, etc- but I can’t complain obviously this was something that the writer found interesting and who am I to deny him to tell us anything.

Human race sucks.

feriha's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

carrieish's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

sarful's review against another edition

4.0

A product of the time, at times, it was so melodramatic! Often times the details and over explanation was laborious to wade through. But, the book as a whole was utterly unforgettable. The casual use to the word "boy" to describe Northup, that in his legal documents he's names by his first, where any white man would be Mr, the n-word used so often, to the fact that he was beaten into silence when he tried to say he was free. What a narrative. And poor Patsy.