Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

219 pages first pub 1853 (editions)

nonfiction classics history memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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When Solomon Northup, born a free black man in Saratoga, New York, was offered a short-term job with a circus in Washington, D.C., in 1841, he jumped at the opportunity. But when he arrived, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana. Fin...

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