Twelve years a slave / Solomon Northup.

New York : Graymalkin Media, ©2014.

248 pages ; 17 cm

Originally published in the United States of America by Derby and Miller, 1853.

Memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, DC, as well as describing at length cotton cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.

12 years a slave

English

August 29, 2017