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Click to enlargeTwelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup
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Format: Book
ISBN: 0486411435
Page Count: 352
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
Kidnapped into slavery in 1841, Northup spent 12 years in captivity. This autobiographical memoir represents an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. "A moving, vital testament to one of slavery's 'many thousand gone' who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation." — Saturday Review. 7 illustrations. Index.

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