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Twelve Years a Slave
Contributor(s): Northup, Solomon (Author), Berlin, Ira (Introduction by), Gates, Henry Louis (Editor)
ISBN: 0143106708     ISBN-13: 9780143106708
Publisher: Penguin Group
OUR PRICE:   $16.20  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2012
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists
- Social Science | Slavery
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2012012550
Lexile Measure: 1200
Series: Penguin Classics
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 7.6" (0.50 lbs) 304 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Chronological Period - 1800-1850
- Topical - Black History
- Cultural Region - Deep South
- Cultural Region - Mid-South
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation - Louisiana
 
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Now the major motion picture that won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong'o, and directed by Steve McQueen
Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.

After his rescue, Northup published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.