- Publisher: Race Point
- Year: 2018
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 189x143mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.3kg
- ISBN: 9781631065064
- Product code: 515034
Twelve Years a Slave
Knickerbocker Classics
Solomon Northup New Paperback
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Solomon Northup’s memoir recalls how he was kidnapped in Washington DC in 1841 and sold into slavery, describing the brutalities and injustices he endured before he finally escaped in 1853. His story formed the basis of Steve McQueen’s 2013 film.
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Originally published in 1853, Twelve Years a Slave is a haunting portrayal of stolen freedom and brutal life on the sugar and cotton plantations of the Deep South.
Landowner, carpenter, and skilled violinist Solomon Northup is living comfortably with his wife and children in Saratoga, New York, when two circus promoters offer him work as a traveling musician. They then drug and kidnap him, and Northup is sold into slavery and transported to Louisiana, spending twelve grueling years in captivity, at the whim of several ruthless slave owners.
With its gripping and horrendous accounts of slave life in the Deep South, Solomon Northup's seminal memoir is now available as an elegantly designed clothbound edition with an elastic closure and a new introduction.
The Knickerbocker Classics bring together the works of classic authors from around the world in stunning gift editions to be collected and enjoyed. Complete and unabridged, these elegantly designed cloth-bound hardcovers feature a slipcase and ribbon marker, as well as a comprehensive introduction providing the reader with enlightening information on the author's life and works.
Landowner, carpenter, and skilled violinist Solomon Northup is living comfortably with his wife and children in Saratoga, New York, when two circus promoters offer him work as a traveling musician. They then drug and kidnap him, and Northup is sold into slavery and transported to Louisiana, spending twelve grueling years in captivity, at the whim of several ruthless slave owners.
With its gripping and horrendous accounts of slave life in the Deep South, Solomon Northup's seminal memoir is now available as an elegantly designed clothbound edition with an elastic closure and a new introduction.
The Knickerbocker Classics bring together the works of classic authors from around the world in stunning gift editions to be collected and enjoyed. Complete and unabridged, these elegantly designed cloth-bound hardcovers feature a slipcase and ribbon marker, as well as a comprehensive introduction providing the reader with enlightening information on the author's life and works.
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Solomon Northup’s memoir recalls how he was kidnapped in Washington DC in 1841 and sold into slavery, describing the brutalities and injustices he endured before he finally escaped in 1853. His story formed the basis of Steve McQueen’s 2013 film.
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189x143mm
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