Twelve years a slave
Edition: Large print edition
Publisher: Starling and Black Publications
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9781491038529
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Slavery; Plantation life; Slaves; Large type books; Slaves' writings, American; African Americans; Biography; History
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.].