by Solomon Northup · OUP Oxford · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194024112
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«Twelve Years a Slave» is the autobiographical account of Solomon Northup, adapted by Clare West, published by OUP Oxford in paperback (72 pages, in English).
In 1841, Solomon Northup, a free Black man, leaves home to work for a few days in New York, but ends up kidnapped and sold as a slave. For twelve years he lives on cotton and sugar plantations in the southern United States, far from his family, suffers abuse and humiliation, and never stops thinking about escaping.
Level 2 of the Oxford Bookworms Library collection, True Stories series. Text adapted by Clare West; 9,252 words.
Aimed at secondary school and adult learners of English, it is a graded reader at level B1.
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.
