TY - BOOK AU - Northup,Solomon TI - 12 years a slave: A true story SN - 9781626862364 AV - E444 .N87 2014 U1 - 306.3/62092B 23 PY - 2022/// CY - New Delhi PB - Prakash Books KW - Northup, Solomon, KW - Enslaved persons KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Enslaved persons' writings, American KW - African Americans KW - Plantation life KW - Louisiana KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Slavery N1 - Originally published: Auburn, N.Y. : Derby and Miller, 1853; 1200 ; Lexile N2 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1502/2013049942-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1502/2013049942-d.html ER -