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maigahannatu 's review for:
Twelve Years a Slave
by Solomon Northup
Wow, this was a riveting story. It was so well-written and is a true story. The author, recounting his very own story, tells how he was tricked into traveling with some men who then kidnapped him and sold him to a slave trader who sold him into slavery. He worked as a slave, first for a kind master and then for the most wicked wretch of a master there could be, for 12 years. Miraculously he is able to get in touch with an influential person in his home town back in New York and is eventually returned to his home to live again as a free man. I think this book is so powerful because it is an insider's story. It's written by a person who actually experienced the horrible abuses of the system of slavery.