Twelve Years A Slave - by Solomon Northup (Hardcover)

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About the Book Twelve Years A Slave is a non-fiction memoir written by Solomon Northrop, a Black free-born carpenter, kidnapped and forced into slavery in the Deep South. Book Synopsis Adapted into the Academy-Award winning film of the same name, Twelve Years A Slave is a non-fiction memoir written by free-man and slave Solomon Northrop. Born free in New York, Solomon grows to be a skilled carpenter and violinist, becoming married and fathering three children. After being tricked into traveling to Washington, D.C., Solomon is kidnapped and sold into slavery. There, he suffers abuses and humiliations as his identity and self-worth is systematically stripped from him. The memoir chronicles hi…