Twelve Years a Slave
Häftad bok. Penguin. 2013. 229 sidor.
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Språk: Engelska. Softcover 197X130mm.
Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. After regaining his freedom in 1853, Northup published this gripping account of his captivity. As an educated man, Northup was able to present an exceptionally detailed description of slave life and plantation society. Indeed, this book is probably the fullest, most realistic picture of the 'peculiar institution' during the three decades before the Civil War. Northup tells his story both from the viewpoint of an outsider, who had experienced thirty years of freedom and dignity in the United States before his capture, and as a slave, reduced to total bondage and submission. Very few personal accounts of American slavery were written by slaves with a similar history.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780141393827
- Titel
- Twelve Years a Slave (Film Tie-In)
- Författare
- Northup, Solomon
- Förlag
- Penguin
- Utgivningsår
- 2013
- Omfång
- 256 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 129 x 197 mm Ryggbredd 15 mm
- Vikt
- 190 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisia
