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Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped in Washington, Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped in Washington, D.C., sold into slavery, and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, as well as describing at length cotton and sugar cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana. …more
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The Written Review What difference is there in the color of the soul? Solomon Northup, born a free man during slavery times in America, is tricked and subsequently sold into slavery.
He goes from respectable carpenter, clever violinist, father of two to “Platt” (a slave from Georgia) in only a few days.
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The Written Review What difference is there in the color of the soul? Solomon Northup, born a free man during slavery times in America, is tricked and subsequently sold into slavery.
He goes from respectable carpenter, clever violinist, father of two to “Platt” (a slave from Georgia) in only a few days.
At first he tries to resist but soon learns that any sign of rebellion would result in his death.
This book chronicles his twelve years as Platt – through the working conditions, the harsh overseers, the inhumane cruelty – this book provides an unflinching account of what it was like to be a slave in America.
Upon release, he wrote and published his account as propaganda against slavery. There may be humane masters, as there certainly are inhuman ones – there may be slaves well-clothed, well-fed, and happy, as there surely are those half-clad, half-starved and miserable; nevertheless, the institution that tolerates such wrong and inhumanity as I have witnessed, is a cruel, unjust, and barbarous one. Now, while this was used as propaganda, it was not a work of fiction.
Everything that could be verified through documents has been thus this is a true account.
And because of that, it is absolutely heartbreaking. I don’t want to survive, I want to live. You can learn about slavery in history class but reading bland facts does not compare to first hand accounts. This sheds a complete new light on this shameful part of history.
I regret not reading this book earlier.
Audiobook Comments
–I listened to the Blackstone Audioversion, read by Louis Gossett Jr. He read it rather well. There’s another version that gives Solomon a posh (almost English) accent. That threw me off too much, so I went with this one.
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