Twelve Years A Slave (Full Book and Comprehensive Reading Companion)

Solomon Northup

Oct 2013 · BookCaps Study Guides

About this ebook

Solomon Northup was born a free black man. He was kidnapped, tortured, and sold into slavery. For 12 years, he was kept in bondage as a slave in Louisiana--Twelve Years a Slave is his moving and raw account of survival and life as a slave.

This edition includes the full book as well as a comprehensive companion with historical notes, character overview, themes overview, and chapter summaries. 

Ratings and reviews

A man who reviewed this book had a 1 year comment - yesteryear. I feel like I live in a different country. In a time when we are still fighting for our civil rights yesteryear. It is my hope all will give this intensely hard to read book a read. Its a heart breaking book I couldn't put down . It will live with me for the rest of my privileged life.

I am not a reader per say, but I have to tell you that I thoroughly enjoyed this book. So descript of everything that had happened to "PLATT". I want to see the movie now. It will not be as good as the book but I can see some of the things that happened to him. I hear that there is a time line in Washington D C about this man's life.

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About the author

Solomon Northup was a free-born African American from Saratoga Springs, New York. He is noted for having been kidnapped in 1841 when enticed with a job offer. When he accompanied his supposed employers to Washington, DC, they drugged him and sold him into slavery. From Washington, DC, he was transported to New Orleans where he was sold to a plantation owner from Rapides Parish, Louisiana. After 12 years in bondage, he regained his freedom in January 1853. Solomon Northup's memoir was reprinted several times later in the 19th century. An annotated version was published in 1968; the memoir was adapted and produced as a 2013 film by the same name by Steve McQueen, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as Northup. Since 1999, Saratoga Springs, New York, has celebrated an annual Solomon Northup Day on the third Saturday in July.