12 Years a Slave

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• Solomon Northup

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• 224 Seiten
• 8 Lesestunden

• Belletristik
• Biografien & Memoiren
• Geschichte
• Klassiker
• Sachliteratur

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A testimony of personal strength and a telling portrait of American slavery in the pre-Civil War South. When Solomon Northup, born a free black man in Saratoga, New York, was offered a short-term job with a circus in Washington, D.C., in 1841, he jumped at the opportunity. But when he arrived, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana. Finally, with the help of a Canadian abolitionist, he was rescued and reunited with his family in New York. In this memoir published in 1853, Northup tells the incredible story of his twelve years as a slave.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014