Publisher's Synopsis

Solomon Northup was an African-American who was kidnapped and sold as into slavery. Northup was born a free man in New York and after twelve years as a slave he was able to get word to to New York and was freed. Northup would go on to write Twelve Years a Slave, a famous memoir on his experiences. The book was published a year after Uncle Tom's Cabin and helped support some of the facts presented. Twelve Years a Slave was recently turned into a movie which won the Oscar for best motion picture of the year in 2013.

Book information

ISBN: 9781541379107
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 236
Weight: 558g
Height: 280mm
Width: 216mm
Spine width: 13mm