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lindseypaige45 's review for:
Twelve Years a Slave
by Solomon Northup
When I picked up this book, I didn’t really realize how old it was—published in 1853! I guess it’s gotten a bit more attention recently since the movie came out. So the book is Solomon Northup’s true account of being a free Black man in the North and then getting kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South, where he stayed as a slave for twelve years.
I think this book is powerful because we are able to read what slavery was like by someone who actually lived through it. He actually wrote his memoir the same year he was freed, so it was all very fresh in his mind when he wrote it. I gave the book four stars instead of five because, while the book is well-written, Northup tells his story in a very straightforward, factual manner, and it was hard for me to connect and feel the emotion of what was happening.
I think this book is powerful because we are able to read what slavery was like by someone who actually lived through it. He actually wrote his memoir the same year he was freed, so it was all very fresh in his mind when he wrote it. I gave the book four stars instead of five because, while the book is well-written, Northup tells his story in a very straightforward, factual manner, and it was hard for me to connect and feel the emotion of what was happening.