Doce años de esclavitud
By: Solomon Northup ; traducción: Adrià Edo
Contributors: Edo, Adrià, translator; Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?
Publisher: Ediciones Barataria
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified
Language: spa
Translated from: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9788492979585
Subjects: Slaves; Biography; African Americans; Plantation life; History; Slavery; Slaves' writings, American; Esclavos; Biografía; Afronorteamericanos; Esclavitud; Historia
Other titles: 12 años de esclavitud
Work titles: Twelve years a slave
Description: Se relata cómo Solomon Northup, nacido un hombre libre en Nueva York, fue atraído a Washington, DC, en 1841 con la promesa de dinero rápido, entonces drogado y golpeado y vendido como esclavo. Pasó los siguientes doce años de su vida en cautiverio en una plantación de algodón Louisiana.
Notes: Spanish translation of: Twelve years a slave.

Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, Northup published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave.