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Are We Not Sisters & Brothers? - Three Narratives of Slavery, Escape and Freedom-Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft, The History of Mary Prince by Mary Prince & Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup (Hardcover)
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Are We Not Sisters & Brothers? - Three Narratives of Slavery, Escape and Freedom-Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft, The History of Mary Prince by Mary Prince & Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup (Hardcover)
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Three accounts of the lives of famous slaves
This unique Leonaur book brings together three remarkable accounts
of slavery and escapes to freedom by African women and men in the
United States and West Indies during the 19th century. The first
account, written by William and Ellen Craft, recounts the
incredible and epic escape by a husband and wife who, recognising
that Mrs. Craft was so pale skinned that she could pass for a
person of European origin, devised the innovative plan of posing as
a young male planter master and his slave. The second story, that
of Bermudan born Mary Prince, is notable because hers was the first
personal account written by a female negro slave ever to be
published in Britain. The third and final account by Solomon
Northup, has now become famous again because his experiences have
been turned into a highly regarded motion picture. Northup was born
a free man, happily married with children and working and owning
property in Saratoga Springs, New York. During a visit to
Washington he was drugged, kidnapped and sold into slavery on a
Southern plantation which he endured, despite repeated escape
attempts, for twelve years before regaining the liberty that had
been taken from him.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
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