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Twelve Years a Slave

Name: Twelve Years a Slave
Author: Solomon Northup

by Solomon Northup

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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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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Richard J. Shiffer and the Distributed Proofreading volunteers at http://www.pgdp.net for Project Gutenberg. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)

Release date

2014-05-11

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

African Americans -- Biography Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography Enslaved persons' writings, American Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?Plantation life -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century Slavery -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century E300

About the author

Solomon Northup

b. 1808

Best known for the powerful memoir Twelve Years a Slave, this free-born New Yorker told one of the clearest first-person accounts of kidnapping and enslavement in 19th-century America. His story is gripping not only for what he survived, but for the calm, vivid way he chose to tell it.

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