Twelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York kidnapped in Washington City in 1841 and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana
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Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?
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[Charleston, S.C.] : [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform], [2014].
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9781493584260, 149358426X, 9780692022733, 0692022732
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African Americans -- Biography.
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography
Enslaved persons' writings, American
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Northup, Solomon, -- 1808-1863?
Plantation life -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century.

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Published
[Charleston, S.C.] : [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform], [2014].
Format
Large Print
Physical Desc
199 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
9781493584260, 149358426X, 9780692022733, 0692022732
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1200

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Originally published in 1853.
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Twelve Years a Slave, a chronicle of the amazing ordeal of a free African-American kidnapped from Washington, D.C., and impressed into slavery in Louisiana, is one of the most compelling and detailed slave narratives in existence. Although a best-selling book in its time, Solomon Northup's narrative has existed in the shadow of more academically prominent and popularly celebrated narratives like The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845). Nonetheless, Northup's account of his kidnapping and enslavement is a masterpiece of historical detail, and the narrative has been noted for its easily researched and widely corroborated elements. The text and story were virtually unchallenged by Southern apologists or partisans of the era. Northup resists the urge to laud himself as an exemplary character or focus solely his own experience, giving contemporary readers a remarkable account of the lives of the slave community as a whole. As an educated man, torn from freedom and plunged into slavery, he brings into horrible and tantalizingly exact clarity the life and labor of slaves in the antebellum American South, the complex economic choices and ironic moral concessions of slaveholding, and the calamitous effect of slavery on the foundations of civilization.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Northup, S. (2014). Twelve years a slave: narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York kidnapped in Washington City in 1841 and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana (Large print edition.). [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform].

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?. 2014. Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841 and Rescued in 1853, From a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River in Louisiana. [Charleston, S.C.]: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform].

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?. Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841 and Rescued in 1853, From a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River in Louisiana [Charleston, S.C.]: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform], 2014.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Northup, S. (2014). Twelve years a slave: narrative of solomon northup, a citizen of new-york kidnapped in washington city in 1841 and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the red river in louisiana. Large print edn. [Charleston, S.C.]: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform].

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Northup, Solomon. Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841 and Rescued in 1853, From a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River in Louisiana Large print edition., [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform], 2014.

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