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moiramorgan 's review for:
Twelve Years a Slave
by Solomon Northup
I really enjoyed 12 Years a Slave, although it seems wrong to get enjoyment from such a horrific experience. What I liked about it was that it was narrated by Solomon Northup and this allowed the reader to form a picture of what an educated, resourceful and upstanding person he was who had wrongly and brutally been kidnapped and taken into slavery. At the same time, through his writing the reader is able to see the slave masters for what they are. The writer differentiates between good and bad masters which I found it incredible to believe that any master could be described as being good but this further highlights the impossible situation that slaves found themselves in and brings it home to the reader how unjust and wrong it was for slavery to exist.
What I didn’t like was that from the beginning we know that he would be released after 12 years therefore the ending was not unexpected. It took me longer than usual to read this book which was probably due to the harrowing details but at the same time I was hooked and wanted to know how he managed to be freed from slavery.
What I didn’t like was that from the beginning we know that he would be released after 12 years therefore the ending was not unexpected. It took me longer than usual to read this book which was probably due to the harrowing details but at the same time I was hooked and wanted to know how he managed to be freed from slavery.