Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?

12 years a slave : A true story / Solomon Northup. - xii, 255 pages : 20 cm

Originally published: Auburn, N.Y. : Derby and Miller, 1853.

Solomon Northup's 12 Years a Slave recounts the author's life story as a free black man from the North who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the pre-Civil War South. The son of an emancipated slave, Northup was born free. He lived, worked, and married in upstate New York, where his family resided.

1200
Lexile

9781626862364 9788175994478 1626862362


Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?


Enslaved persons--United States--Biography.
Enslaved persons' writings, American.
African Americans--Biography.
Plantation life--History--Louisiana--19th century.
Slavery--History--Louisiana--19th century.

E444 / .N87 2014

306.3/62092 B