Twelve Years a Slave cover art

Twelve Years a Slave

Preview

Get 30 days of Standard free

£5.99/mo after trial. Cancel monthly.
Try for £0.00
More purchase options

Twelve Years a Slave

By: Solomon Northup
Narrated by: Carl Mason
Try for £0.00

£5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for £13.59

Buy Now for £13.59

Summary

Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped in Washington, D.C., sold into slavery, and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, as well as describing at length cotton and sugar cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.

©2022 Bookstream GmbH (P)2022 Bookstream Audiobooks
Cultural & Regional Historical Military New York Civil War War
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_c
No reviews yet