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Twelve Years a Slave (1853)
by Solomon Northup

Twelve Years a Slave

Medium: memoir

Publication date: 1853

Publisher: Derby and Miller Derby, Orton and Mulligan Henry W. Derby
Written by: Solomon Northup


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[free black man captured and sold into slavery]
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Adaptations of this memoir:
12 Years a Slave (2013)

This memoir is also known as: Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana.

This book was told by Solomon Northup to David Wilson.