| Twelve Years a Slave (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) Contributor(s): Northup, Solomon Ashley (Author), Hairston, Eric Ashley (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0760783349 ISBN-13: 9780760783344 Publisher: Barnes & Noble OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Social Science | Slavery - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2009368181 |
| Lexile Measure: 1200 |
| Series: Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading |
| Physical Information: 5.53" H x 0.67" W x 8.25" (10.40 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Black History - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Twelve Years a Slave, a chronicle of the amazing ordeal of a free African-American kidnapped in the north, and impressed into slavery in Louisiana, is one of the most compelling and detailed slave narratives in existence. The text and story were virtually unchallenged by Southern apologists or partisans of the era. Northup resists the urge to laud himself as an exemplary character or focus solely his own experience, giving contemporary readers a remarkable account of the lives of the slave community as a whole. As an educated man, torn from freedom and plunged into slavery, he brings into horrible and tantalizingly exact clarity the life and labor of slaves in the antebellum American South, the complex economic choices and ironic moral concessions of slaveholding, and the calamitous effect of slavery on the foundations of civilization. |