by Solomon Northup · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781499118124
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«Twelve Years a Slave» is the memoir by Solomon Northup, in paperback (236 pages, in English).
Solomon Northup, a Black man born free in New York State, was kidnapped in Washington D.C. in 1841 and sold as a slave. In this work he recounts his twelve years of captivity on cotton and sugar plantations in Louisiana, until his rescue in 1853, and describes the slave markets of the era.
The work was originally published in 1853; this edition dates from 2014 and its subtitle begins «Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York…».
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.
