num_pages: 144
description: "Twelve Years A Slave" is the story of Solomon Northup, an African American who was born free in New York in the early 1800s. In 1841, Solomon Northup was captured and forced into slavery for a period of 12 years. "Twelve Years A Slave" is a captivating narrative of the life of freedom and slavery experienced by one African American man prior to the American Civil War. The book is detailed in its account of life on a cotton and sugar plantation and the daily routine of slave life during the first part of the 19th century.
language: English
title: Twelve Years a Slave
titlecomplete: Twelve Years a Slave
characters: Solomon Northup
genres: Classics, Autobiography, Historical, History, African American, Biography Memoir, Biography, Audiobook, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 114663
places: Louisiana
publisher: Digireads.Com