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Twelve Years a Slave - Narrative of Solomon Northup (Paperback) Loot Price: R308
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Twelve Years a Slave - Narrative of Solomon Northup (Paperback): C. Stephen Badgley

Twelve Years a Slave - Narrative of Solomon Northup (Paperback)

C. Stephen Badgley; Solomon Northup

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The year was 1841. That "Peculiar Institution" of slavery was running full bore in the south. Solomon Northup, age 33, a well-educated black man who was born into freedom, resided with his wife and three children in his native state of New York. Solomon was kidnapped and sold into slavery in our nation's capital...Washington, D.C. The perpetrators of this crime, in order to sell Solomon, insisted he was an escaped slave from Georgia. Whenever Solomon protested and declared himself a free man, he was terribly beaten...once near to death. Solomon was sold and transported to Louisiana where he spent twelve long years of suffering, degradation, whippings and hard labor as a slave. For fear of his life, he had to give up the idea of convincing his masters and others that he was actually a free man and a citizen of New York and he resigned himself to the accept the life of a slave. But, through his years of captivity, he never once stopped believing that one day... he would be freed and again become united with his family in New York. The enslavement of the black race was an everyday fact of life from the earliest settlement of this country up to the end of the Civil War, which brought a close to this shameful period of our history. In the 1840's there were many... very many white people who opposed this concept of forced labor and the maltreatment of fellow human beings. The voices of these abolitionists were becoming louder and louder not only in the north where slavery was practically non-existent, but even in the heart of the south also. One of these, Samuel Bass, a Canadian by birth, put his own life in jeopardy to free Solomon. This book gives, in chilling detail, an account of a way of life that hopefully will never, ever, occur again in this great country... the "Land of the Free " This book is part of the Historical Collection of Badgley Publishing Company and has been re-created from the original. The original contents have been edited and corrections have been made to original printing, spelling and grammatical errors when not in conflict with the author's intent to portray a particular event or interaction. Annotations have been made and additional contents have been added by Badgley Publishing Company in order to clarify certain historical events or interactions and to enhance the author's content. Additional illustrations and photos have been added by Badgley Publishing Company.

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Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2010
First published: September 2010
Editors: C. Stephen Badgley
Authors: Solomon Northup
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 978-1-4538-4765-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Biography > General
LSN: 1-4538-4765-0
Barcode: 9781453847657

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