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Twelve Years a Slave Paperback - 2012
by Solomon Northup; Introduction by Ira Berlin; Henry Louis Gates (Editor)
Summary
Now a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, Paul Dano, Alfre Woodard, and Quvenzhané Wallis, and directed by Steve McQueen
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.
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- Title Twelve Years a Slave
- Author Solomon Northup; Introduction by Ira Berlin; Henry Louis Gates (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group
- Date 2012-07-31
- Features Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143106708 / 0143106708
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.9 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1200
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Cultural Region: Deep South
- Cultural Region: Mid-South
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Geographic Orientation: Louisiana
- Topical: Black History
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Slaves - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012012550
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
“For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup’s tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.” —Ira Berlin, from the Introduction
“When I read [Twelve Years a Slave] for the first time, it was like the first time I read Anne Frank’s diary. And I wondered to myself, ‘Why isn’t this book on everyone’s bookshelf.’ . . . For me, it’s a classic. It should be in every school.” —Steve McQueen, director of the film adaptation of Twelve Years a Slave, in Entertainment Weekly
“Frightening, gripping and inspiring . . . Northup’s story seems almost biblical, structured as it is as a descent and resurrection narrative of a protagonist who, like Christ, was 33 at the time of his abduction. . . . Northup reminds us of the fragile nature of freedom in any human society and the harsh reality that whatever legal boundaries existed between so-called free states and slave states in 1841, no black man, woman or child was permanently safe.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Root
“A moving, vital testament to one of slavery’s ‘many thousands gone’ who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation. It is also a chilling insight into the ‘peculiar institution.’” —Saturday Review
“When I read [Twelve Years a Slave] for the first time, it was like the first time I read Anne Frank’s diary. And I wondered to myself, ‘Why isn’t this book on everyone’s bookshelf.’ . . . For me, it’s a classic. It should be in every school.” —Steve McQueen, director of the film adaptation of Twelve Years a Slave, in Entertainment Weekly
“Frightening, gripping and inspiring . . . Northup’s story seems almost biblical, structured as it is as a descent and resurrection narrative of a protagonist who, like Christ, was 33 at the time of his abduction. . . . Northup reminds us of the fragile nature of freedom in any human society and the harsh reality that whatever legal boundaries existed between so-called free states and slave states in 1841, no black man, woman or child was permanently safe.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Root
“A moving, vital testament to one of slavery’s ‘many thousands gone’ who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation. It is also a chilling insight into the ‘peculiar institution.’” —Saturday Review
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