Twelve years a slave :
the thrilling story of a free colored man, kidnapped in Washington in 1841, sold into slavery, and after a tweleve years' bondage reclaimed by state authority from a cotton plantation in Louisiana /
by S. Northup.

Description

Main Author

Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?

Related Names

Williams, Kenny J. (Kenny Jackson), 1927-2003, former owner.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.

Language(s)

English

Published

Philadelphia, Penn. : John E. Potter and Co., 185?

Subjects

Northup, Solomon, > Northup, Solomon, / 1808-1863?
Slavery > Slavery / Louisiana > Slavery / Louisiana / History > Slavery / Louisiana / History / 19th century.
Plantation life > Plantation life / Louisiana > Plantation life / Louisiana / History > Plantation life / Louisiana / History / 19th century.
African Americans > African Americans / Biography.
Slaves > Slaves / United States > Slaves / United States / Biography.
African American author.

Note

Dedicated "To Harriet Beecher Stowe: whose name, throughout the world, is identified with the Great Reform: this narrative, affording another key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, is respectfully dedicated."

Physical Description

xiv, 336 pages ; 29 cm.

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