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Review: 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

Posted February 13, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup on January 1st 1970 Genres: Biography, Historical, Non-Fiction Format: E-Book Source: Own Copy Buy on Amazon Goodreads A film tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany the major new film starring Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor. 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. I decided to read 12 Years a Slave before I saw the film, and I managed to read the whole book in one sitting on a train ride home. How can a book like this have disappeared from bookshelves? I am thankful to the film for bringing this story back from obscurity. Twelve Years a Slave conveys […]