by Solomon Northup · Independently Published · tapa blanda · ISBN 9798723014459
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«Doce Años de Esclavitud» is the memoir by Solomon Northup, published by Independently Published in paperback (164 pages, in Spanish).
Solomon Northup, born free in New York, recounts how supposed employers drugged him and sold him into slavery in the southern United States. Over twelve years in Louisiana, he describes the slave markets of New Orleans, the cotton and sugar plantations, and the abuses.
The account, originally published in 1853, was edited by David Wilson and belongs to the slave narrative genre.
A work of interest for readers of history, memoirs, and testimonial narrative about slavery in the United States.
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.
