by Solomon Northup · Penguin Clásicos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788491052456
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The harrowing memoirs of Solomon Northup, a free African-American born in New York, recount his kidnapping and sale into slavery in 1841. For twelve years, Northup endured the brutality of slavery on Louisiana plantations until his liberation in 1853. This testimony, introduced by Marta Puxan-Oliva, is a chronicle of evil and friendship, highlighting human resilience in the face of adversity. Steve McQueen describes it as 'a book as important as The Diary of Anne Frank, but published almost a hundred years earlier'.
Solomon Northup was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born American of mixed race from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and a free woman of color. Northup was a professional violinist, farmer, and landowner in Washington County, New York. In 1841, he was offered a traveling musician's job and went to Washington, D.C. ; there, he was drugged and kidnapped into slavery. He was shipped to New Orleans on April 24, 1841 by James H. Birch aboard the Brig Orleans from Richmond, VA. Northup was purchased by a planter and held as a slave for nearly twelve years in the Red River region of Louisiana; mostly in Avoyelles Parish. He remained enslaved until he met Samuel Bass, a Canadian working on his plantation who helped get word to New York, where state law provided aid to free New York citizens who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery. His family and friends enlisted the aid of the governor of New York, Washington Hunt, and Northup regained his freedom on January 3, 1853.
