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.