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Pennsylvania

A Memoir of Kidnap, Slavery and Liberation

The basis for the Academy Award®-winning movie! Kidnapped into slavery in 1841, Northup spent 12 years in captivity. This autobiographical memoir represents an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. 7 illustrations. Index.

12 Years a Slave

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Oklahoma

Solomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave. Until the spring of 1841 he lived a simple, uneventful life with his wife and three children in Upstate New York. Then, suddenly, he fell victim to a series of bizarre events that make this one of the most amazing autobiographies ever written. Northup accepted an offer from two strangers in Saratoga, New York, to catch up with their traveling circus and play in its band. But when the chase ended, Northup had been drugged, beaten, and sold to a slave trader in Washington, D.C. Subsequently, he was shipped to New Orleans, where he was purchased by a planter in the Red River region of Louisiana. For the next twelve years Northup lived as a chattel slave under several masters. He might well have died a slave, except for another set of bizarre circumstances which enabled him to get word to his family and finally regain his freedom. These elements alone -- the kidnapping, enslavement, and rescue -- are sufficient for a sensational story. But Northup provides more. He was a shrewd observer of people and events. His memory was remarkable. He described cultivation of cotton and sugar in the Deep South. He detailed the daily routine and general life of the Negro slave. Indeed, he vividly portrayed the world of slavery -- from the underside. Originally published in 1853, Northup's autobiography is regarded as one of the best accounts of American Negro slavery ever written by a slave. It is reprinted in full here for the first time, as the initial volume in The Library of Southern Civilization. Northup's account has been carefully checked by the editors and has been found to be remarkably accurate. To his own narrative of a long and tragic adventure, Professors Eakin and Logsdon have added significant new details about Northup and the plantation country where he spent most of his time as a slave. Heretofore unknown information about the capture and trial of Northup's kidnappers has been included, adding still another fascinating episode to an already astounding story.

Twelve Years a Slave

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New York

"First published in the United States of America by Derby and Miller, 1853"--T.p. verso.

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New Jersey

The official movie tie-in edition to the winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong’o, and directed by Steve McQueen New York Times bestseller “I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It felt as important as Anne Frank’s Diary, only published nearly a hundred years before. . . . The book blew [my] mind: the epic range, the details, the adventure, the horror, and the humanity. . . . I hope my film can play a part in drawing attention to this important book of courage. Solomon’s bravery and life deserve nothing less.” —Steve McQueen, director of 12 Years a Slave, from the Foreword 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.

12 Years a Slave (Movie Tie-In)

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California

A True Story of Betrayal, Kidnap and Slavery

The astonishing memoir of a free man who was sold into slavery in Louisiana where he was kept for 12 years--a powerful, riveting condemnation of slavery, and a story soon to be introduced to a new audience through a major film

Tricked by two men offering him a job as a musician in New York state in 1841, Solomon Northup was instead drugged and kidnapped. Threatened with death, Northup was forced to assume a new name and fake past. Taken to Louisiana on a disease-ridden plague ship, he was initially sold to a cotton planter. In the 12 years that followed he was sold to many different owners who treated him with varying levels of savagery, including forced labor, scant food, and numerous beatings. Eventually Northup succeeded in contacting Samuel Bass, a white carpenter whom he knew to be sympathetic to the cause of black people. Bass contacted Northup's family and together they gained the necessary paperwork to travel to Louisiana to retrieve him. Northup pressed charges against his captors but in a triumph of irony the case was heard in Washington--meaning that as a black man he could not testify against the accused (in the end they were able to countersue him.) A true-life testament to tremendous courage and tenacity in the face of unfathomable injustice, Northup's account is also of extreme interest due to the meticulous recordings of slave life. Unique in its firsthand nature, the book became a runaway bestseller.

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Arizona

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Kansas

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Minnesota

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Michigan

Twelve Years a Slave (Library of Southern Civilization)

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Alabama

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Maryland

Vermont

A true story of a free man that was kidnapped from his wife and children and sold into slavery. #nonfiction #africanamericans #slavery #americanodyssey #slavenarratives #horrific #imprisonment

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Originally published: Auburn, N.Y.: Derby and Miller, 1853.

Texas

Twelve Years a Slave, a chronicle of the amazing ordeal of a free African-American kidnapped in the north, and impressed into slavery in Louisiana, is one of the most compelling and detailed slave narratives in existence. The text and story were virtually unchallenged by Southern apologists or partisans of the era. Northup resists the urge to laud himself as an exemplary character or focus solely his own experience, giving contemporary readers a remarkable account of the lives of the slave community as a whole. As an educated man, torn from freedom and plunged into slavery, he brings into horrible and tantalizingly exact clarity the life and labor of slaves in the antebellum American South, the complex economic choices and ironic moral concessions of slaveholding, and the calamitous effect of slavery on the foundations of civilization. 

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Massachusetts

Narrative of Solomon Northup

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.

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Indiana

Georgia

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Ohio

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Virginia

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Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave

Solomon Northup; Joseph Logsdon (Editor); Sue Eakin (Editor); Karolyn Smardz Frost (Foreword by)

Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave

Steve McQueen (Foreword by); Solomon Northup; Henry Louis Gates (Editor, Afterword by); Ira Berlin (Introduction by)

12 Years a Slave (Movie Tie-In)

Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave

Solomon Northup; Eric Ashley Hairston (Introduction by)

Twelve Years a Slave

Steve McQueen (Foreword by); Solomon Northup; Henry Louis Gates (Editor, Afterword by); Ira Berlin (Introduction by)

12 Years a Slave (Movie Tie-In)

Solomon Northup

Twelve Years a Slave (Library of Southern Civilization)

Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave

Steve McQueen (Foreword by); Solomon Northup; Henry Louis Gates (Editor, Afterword by); Ira Berlin (Introduction by)

12 Years a Slave

Steve McQueen (Foreword by); Solomon Northup; Henry Louis Gates (Editor, Afterword by); Ira Berlin (Introduction by)

12 Years a Slave (Movie Tie-In)

Solomon Northup

Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup; Eric Ashley Hairston (Introduction by)

Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave

Steve McQueen (Foreword by); Solomon Northup; Henry Louis Gates (Editor, Afterword by); Ira Berlin (Introduction by)

12 Years a Slave (Movie Tie-In)

Steve McQueen (Foreword by); Solomon Northup; Henry Louis Gates (Editor, Afterword by); Ira Berlin (Introduction by)

12 Years a Slave (Movie Tie-In)

Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave (Movie Tie-In)

Steve McQueen (Foreword by); Solomon Northup; Henry Louis Gates (Editor, Afterword by); Ira Berlin (Introduction by)

12 Years a Slave (Movie Tie-In)

Solomon Northup; Eric Ashley Hairston (Introduction by)

Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave