Twelve Years a Slave (With Illustrations)
By Solomon Northup
- Release Date: 2013-07-16
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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The Premier Edition of "Twelve Years a Slave"
Enjoy this new release of "Twelve Years a Slave." You won't find a better price or higher-quality version of this classic text. This edition includes:
-The full text of "Twelve Years a Slave"
-The original high-quality illustrations
-The full text of "The Kidnapping Case", an extended New York Times article from 1853 about Solomon Northup's story
-Clean formatting, with the ability to adjust fonts and text size
-An active table of contents for easily moving around in the book
"Twelve Years a Slave" tells the remarkable true story of Solomon Northup, a free man born in New York State who was deceived, drugged, and kidnapped in 1941, taken into slavery for a period of twelve years in Louisiana before the Civil War. The book became a bestseller and played an important part in helping educate Americans about the plight of slavery.
