Twelve years a slave :authoritative text : contexts, 2013 film adaptation : criticism, reviews, interview

"Twelve Years a Slave follows the life of Solomon Northup, a free blackman who was kidnapped and sold into slavery before the Civil War. Northup's memoir, published in 1853, riveted contemporary audiences but fell out of print for several generations at the start of the twentieth century....

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Main Author: Northup, Solomon
Other Authors: Gates, Henry Louis, Burke, Kevin M.
Format: Printed Book
Published: New York W.W Norton & Co. 2017
Series:A Norton critical edition
Subjects:
Slaves
Slaves' writings, American.
African Americans
Plantation life
Slavery
Slaves' writings, American
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