12 Years a Slave is a memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson.
The memoir details Northup, a free man born in New York State, being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South where he is kept in bondage for 12 years before his friends and family secures his release.
The work was published eight years before the Civil War shortly after Harriet Beecher Stowe's best-selling novel about slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was published.
The Collection
•12 Years A Slave by Solomon Northup
•My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
•Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
•The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
•Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among The Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe
•Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Audiobook
•12 Years A Slave by Solomon Northup
The memoir details Northup, a free man born in New York State, being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South where he is kept in bondage for 12 years before his friends and family secures his release.
The work was published eight years before the Civil War shortly after Harriet Beecher Stowe's best-selling novel about slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was published.
The Collection
•12 Years A Slave by Solomon Northup
•My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
•Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
•The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
•Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among The Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe
•Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Audiobook
•12 Years A Slave by Solomon Northup
