Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-09-10
FOURTEEN THOUSAND NOW READY
TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE!


some incidents which he describes form striking
parallel to that history. II Mrs. Stowe, in her
i" Key" p. ia. Etts - rnH tt ,4 ts.A /
fnE NARRATIVE OF SOLOMON NORTnRUP
A citizen of New York, kidnapped in Washington
City in 1881, and rescued in 1858, from u Cotton
Plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana.
List of Illustrations.
Portrait of Solomon in his Plantation suit. 8
Scene in Slave Pen in Washington.
Separation of Eliza and her Last Child.
Chaplin rescues Solomon from Hanging.
The Staking-out and Flogging of the girl Pat
sey. t,rt t.ralI 8, e.i.t ....,i .4r+.... TX
Scene in the Cotton Field.
Arrival Home, and first Meeting with his Wife
ind children. ..-.. .t}-.F -
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READ WHAT THE REVIEWERS SAY.
The narrative will be read with interest by every
one who can sympathizc with human being strug-
ling for freedom.-Buf Cour.
The volume cannot fail to gain wide circulation
1t will be read extensively both at the North and
South. No one contemplate the scenes which
are here naturally set forth, without new con-
vction of the hideousness of the institution from
which the subject of the narrative has happily es-
caped.-N. Y. Trib.
What tale it tells; what nexpressiblc reproofs
against Slavery what occasion for shamc and tears
on the part of all. We think the story as affecting
as any tale of sorrow could be. We believe its
ter powerfully to the sound intelligent anti-suvery
sentiment of the country.-N. Y. Evangelist.
Next to Cncic Toms Cabin. the extgaoutliuarp
Narrative of Solomon Northup il the most remark.
able book that was ever issued from tht American
Press. Indeed it Is even more extratlordillary
work than that because it is only simple unvarr-
nished tale of the experience of an American free
man of the blessings" of slavery, while Mrs
Stoves Uncle Tom is only an ingenious and pow
erfully wrought novel, intended to illustrate what
Solomon and experienced, Southern Slavery in.
its various phascs.-Detroit Trib. '.t -
We hope it will be universally read. If VIC do
not sadly err, it will prove Of vast service in the
cause of Freedom. If there arc those who can
pcrusc it unmoved, we pity them. Tint it will
create as great sensation, and tG regarded equally
as interesting as Uncle Tomss CABIN" is not a
question for argument In our opinion it will lead
that wonderful wcrk i'll the popular opinion and in
the aggregate of saes.--Butf. Express. ''
This is one OF the most exciting narratives, full
of thrilling incidents artlessy told, with all the
marks of truth. Such a tale is more powerful than
any fiction which can be conceived and elaborated
There are no depicted scenes in Uuclc Tom" more
tragic, horrible, and pathetic, than tho incidents
compassed in the twelve years of this mans life in
slavery.-Cin. Jour. -.-.t. -
lie who with an unbiased mind sits down to the
perusal of this book; will arise perfectly satisfied
| that American Slavery is he'll of torinents vet
untold, and feel like devoting tho energies of Ills
life to its cxtirpation from the face of Gods beau
tiful earth.-Evening Chron.
l The book is one of most absorbing interest,"
| Pittsburgh Despatch.
1t is one of the most effective books against sla-
evry that was ever wrtten "Archy Moore" and
" Uncle Tom are discredted by many as roman
ces !" but how the apologiss for the institution can
dispose Of Northup, we curious to see.-Syra
Jouanal.
1t well told and bears internal evidence of being
a clear statement of fdcts There is no attempt at
display, but the events are graphically portrayed,
that the interest in the perusal is deep and unabat-
ed to the last Some of the scenes have fearful
and exciting power in their deliueaton. The sun
shine of kind treatment sheds a. few broad beams
:, athwart the dark canvass of twelve years of bon
dagc; but in the main, the darker cruelty and
wickedness of oppression is still revolving by
the contrast-Cayuga Chief
than fiction Think of it! For thirty years man,
with all mans hopes, and fears, and aspirations
with wife and children to call him by the endear-
i ing name of husband and father--with q home,
humble it may be, but still home, beneath the
shelter of whose roof none had right to modest or
make him afraid-then for twelve years thing, a
chattel personal classed with mules and horses and
treated with less consideration than they torn from
his home and family, and the free labor by which
he earned his bread, and driven to Quilted toll
in cotton field, under burning Southern sum- by
the lash of an inhuman master Oh! il is horrible
II chills the blood to think that such are-Frederc
Douglass Paper
; 1t comes before with highly respectable youch-
t ers, and is plain and simple Statement of what
happened to the author while in bondage to south
/ ern masters. While we concede to the south all
the privileges in respect to slavery which are guar
anteed to them by the constitution we are free to
7 speak of its evils; and when particular instances
Of nhurian treatment Of slaves come to our notice
, we sha' | remark upon them as we please. 1t is a
we'll to- story, full of interest and may be said tc