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Twelve Years a Slave (Paperback)
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Twelve Years a Slave (Paperback)
Series: Mint Editions
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Loot Price R217
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"A moving, vital testament." -Saturday Review "An incredible
document, amazingly told and structured. Tough, but
riveting.-Rachel Kushner "The best firsthand account of slavery."
-James McPherson Twelve Years a Slave (1853) is considered to be be
one of the most riviting and important documents recounting slavery
in the United States. It is the heart-rending memoir of a free
black man who is taken hostage and sold into slavery in a Louisiana
plantation, his twelve years of bondage, and his remarkable escape
to freedom. Since its publication, this classic has become a
historical reference for its salient of depiction of life as a
slave in the pre-Civil War deep south of the United States. More
recently the book's popularity has soared due to the 2014 Academy
Award winning motion picture. Northup's memoir begins during his
early life as a free black man in Upstate New York. He was a father
of three children, a farmer, lumberjack, and a skillful musician.
When two white men approached Northup about a well-paid job playing
his violin in a circus, he accepted. They traveled to New York
City, then Washington D.C, where after a day of celebrating his
good fortunes with the two men he was drugged, and chained in a
slave pen. Imprisoned by the ruthless slave-trader James Burch, he
was brutally beaten and eventually sent by boat to New Orleans,
Louisiana. Eventually Northup was sold to a merciful plantation
owner, and valued for his hard work, and gentle spirit. Due to his
master's eventual financial hardships, Northup was sold again and
again in a succession of brutal masters. With his tenacious sense
of hope and goodwill he perseveres through twelve years of cruelty
until his remarkable rescue from slavery and back to his freedom in
New York. With its great message of hope, Twelve Years a Slave is
one of America's great literary declarations of the power of the
human spirit. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of Twelve Years a Slave is both
modern and readable.
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