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...
12 Years A Slave: A True Story is a powerful memoir that exposes the harrowing reality of slavery in America. Solomon Northup's firsthand account of his twelve years of bondage is a haunting and courageous narrative that sheds light on the brutality and dehumanization endured...
The basis for the Academy Award(R)-winning movie
"A moving, vital testament to one of slavery's 'many thousand gone' who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation." -- Saturday ReviewBorn a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped...
Solomon Northup was born free as the son of an emancipated slave, who lived and worked in New York. In 1841, two con men offered him lucrative work playing fiddle in a circus, so he travelled with them to Washington, D.C., where he was drugged, kidnapped, and sold as a slave...
Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. After regaining his freedom...
New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Golden Globe Winner for Best Drama In this enhanced/authenticated edition by Dr. Sue Eakin of the riveting true slave narrative that reads like a novel, you are transported to 1840's New York, Washington, D.C., and Louisiana to experience...
This version of 12 Years a Slave, exclusive to Firestone Books, has an additional chapter detailing Solomon Northup's life after his twelve years in captivity, and reveals the shocking final twist to his extraordinary life story. Now a major motion picture, this remarkable memoir...
The Norton Critical Edition also includes:
- The illustrations printed in the original book.
- Contemporary sources (1853--62), among them newspaper accounts of Northup's kidnapping and ordeal and commentary by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Thomas W...
The basis for the Academy Award(R)-winning movie
"A moving, vital testament to one of slavery's 'many thousand gone' who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation." -- Saturday Review Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped...
Un libro tan importante como el Diario de Ana Frank, pero publicado casi cien a os antes.
Steve McQueen Solo puedo hablar de la esclavitud en la medida en que la he observado yo mismo, en que la he conocido y experimentado en mi propia persona...
Solomon Northup's classic tale of his life as a freeman; his capture and sale into slavery; and his terrifying and awful twelve years on plantations, held in bondage and kept from his wife, family, and freedom is an important and seminal work describing the details of slavery...