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Slaves --- Slaves' writings, American. --- African Americans --- Plantation life --- Slavery --- History --- Northup, Solomon, --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Country life --- American slaves' writings --- American literature --- Northrup, Solomon, --- Northup, S. --- Platt, --- Enslaved persons --- American enslaved persons' writings --- Slaves' writings, American --- Enslaved persons' writings, American.

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When Solomon Northup, born a free black man in Saratoga, New York, was offered a short-term job with a circus in Washington, D.C., in 1841, he jumped at the opportunity. But when he arrived, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana. Finally, with the help of a Canadian abolitionist, he was rescued and reunited with his family in New York. In this memoir published in 1853, Northup tells the incredible story of his twelve years as a slave.

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The basis for the Academy Award®-winning movie! ""A moving, vital testament to one of slavery's 'many thousand gone' who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation."" - Saturday Review Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, DC, in 1841. He spent the next 12 harrowing years of his life as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. After regaining his freedom in 1853, Northup decided to publish this gripping autobiographical account of his captivity. As an educated man

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