by Solomon Northup · Piper Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783492306140
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«Twelve Years a Slave: Die wahre Geschichte» is the autobiography of Solomon Northup, published by Piper Verlag GmbH in paperback (288 pages, in German).
Solomon Northup was a free man kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana. After twelve years of forced labor and abuse on plantations in the southern United States, he regained his freedom and returned to his family. His 1853 memoirs are a historical testimony and the basis of the Oscar-winning movie.
German translation by Johannes Sabinski and Alexander Weber, with a foreword by Steve McQueen. The original testimony was published in 1853.
For readers interested in the history of slavery in the United States, in historical memoirs and in stories adapted for the movies.
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.
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