Twelve years a slave
By: by Solomon Northup
Contributors: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [North Charleston, South Carolina]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781499118124
Subjects: Slaves; Biography; Slaves' writings, American; African Americans; Plantation life; History; Slavery
Other titles: 12 years a slave
Description: Twelve years a slave by Solomon Northup is a memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, DC, as well as describing at length cotton cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.
Notes: [Originally published as Twelve years a slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841 and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana].

This publication lacks the dedication note, contents page and editor's preface of the original edition, but includes appendix "A" a section of the 1840 statues or general laws of the State of New York on acts of kidnapping, and appendix "B" "Memorial of Anne."

Originally published: Auburn, N.Y. : Derby and Miller, 1853. Edited by David Wilson.