Books with author Solomon Northup

Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped in Washington, D.C., sold into slavery, and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, as well as describing at length cotton and sugar cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.

Now a Major Motion PictureTwelve Years a Slave is the true account of a free man captured and sold into slavery. Drugged and kidnapped in Washington in 1841, Solomon endures more than a decade in slavery. Solomon Northup published this harrowing account in 1853 and still today it remains an insightful look into America's past. This E-book edition includes illustrations.

Unabridged value reproduction of Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, including the six original images, offered here for chump change. He was born free, kidnapped into slavery, and made his way back to freedom. This is his voice.Northup describes with stark detail his process into slavery through Washington D.C., “The voices of patriotic representatives boasting of freedom and equality, and the rattling of the poor slave’s chains, almost commingled. A slave pen within the very shadow of the Capitol!”Twelve Years a Slave is his inspirational life that was made into the 2014 Best Picture, and now this book is offered in an unabridged, affordably printed volume. CONTENTSCHAPTER I. 4 CHAPTER II. 7 CHAPTER III. 10 CHAPTER IV. 15 CHAPTER V. 18 CHAPTER VI. 22 CHAPTER VII. 26 CHAPTER VIII. 31 CHAPTER IX. 35 CHAPTER X. 39 CHAPTER XI. 43 CHAPTER XII. 48 CHAPTER XIII. 53 CHAPTER XIV. 57 CHAPTER XV. 62 CHAPTER XVI. 67 CHAPTER XVII. 71 CHAPTER XVIII. 75 CHAPTER XIX. 79 CHAPTER XX. 84 CHAPTER XXI. 87 CHAPTER XXII. 95 APPENDIX END NOTES. 99

Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped in Washington, D.C., sold into slavery, and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, as well as describing at length cotton and sugar cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.

When the editor commenced the preparation of the following narrative, he did not suppose it would reach the size of this volume. In order, however, to present all the facts which have been communicated to him, it has seemed necessary to extend it to its present length.Many of the statements contained in the following pages are corroborated by abundant evidence—others rest entirely upon Solomon's assertion. That he has adhered strictly to the truth, the editor, at least, who has had an opportunity of detecting any contradiction or discrepancy in his statements, is well satisfied. He has invariably repeated the same story without deviating in the slightest particular, and has also carefully perused the manuscript, dictating an alteration wherever the most trivial inaccuracy has appeared.

This is Solomon Northup's classic tale of his life as a freeman; his capture and sale into slavery; and his terrifying and awful twelve years on plantations, held in bondage and kept from his wife, family, and freedom. An important and seminal work describing the details of slavery and plantation life, Twelve Years a Slave is a classic of American literature, and a must read for anyone studying pre-Civil War history, the history of the South, African American studies, or the horrors of slavery.

2010 reprint of 1855 edition. Twelve Years a Slave was written by Solomon Northup; a man who was born free but was bound into slavery later in life. The book, originally published in 1853, tells the story of how two men approached him under the guise of circus promoters who were interested in his violin skills. They offered him a generous but fair amount of money to work for their circus, and then offered to put him up in a hotel in Washington D.C. Upon arriving there he was drugged, bound, and moved to a slave pen in the city, after which he was sold. Northup's account describes the daily life of slaves in the American South during the period just before the civil war. He provides detailed accounts of their diet, the relationship between the master and slave, the means that slave catchers used to recapture them and the ugly realities that slaves suffered. Northup's slave narrative is comparable to that of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs or William Wells Brown, and there are many similarities. Northup's also provides an extremely detailed description of Washington in 1841.

Twelve Years a Slave (1853) is a memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details his being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. After having been kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana by various masters, Northup was able to write to friends and family in New York, who in turn secured his release with the aid of the state. Northup's account provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, and describes at length cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in Louisiana. The work was published eight years before the Civil War by Derby & Miller of Auburn, New York,soon after Harriet Beecher Stowe's best-selling novel about slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), to which it lent factual support. Northup's book, dedicated to Stowe, sold 30,000 copies, making it a bestseller in its own right. After being published in several editions in the 19th century and later cited by specialist scholarly works on slavery in the United States, the memoir fell into public obscurity for nearly 100 years. It was re-discovered on separate occasions by two Louisiana historians, Sue Eakin (Louisiana State University at Alexandria) and Joseph Logsdon (University of New Orleans).In the early 1960s, they researched and retraced Solomon Northup’s journey and co-edited a historically annotated version that was published by Louisiana State University Press (1968).