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Twelve Years a Slave
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Northup, Solomon
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HarperCollins Canada 2013
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First published in 1853, Twelve Years a Slave is the narrative of Solomon Northup's experience as a freeman sold into slavery, having spent twelve years in bondage before finally escaping. Northup's memoir reveals unimaginable details, detailing the slave markets and horrors of life on a plantation from the perspective of a man who lived more than thirty years as a free person before being forcibly enslaved.

Written in the year after Northup was freed and published in the wake of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Northup's story was quickly taken up by abolitionist groups and news organizations as part of the fight against slavery.

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Format:
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Street Date:
09/11/2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781443431651
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Lexile code:
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Lexile measure:
790

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Solomon Northup. (2013). Twelve Years a Slave. HarperCollins Canada.

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Solomon Northup. 2013. Twelve Years a Slave. HarperCollins Canada.

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Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave. HarperCollins Canada, 2013.

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Solomon Northup. Twelve Years a Slave. HarperCollins Canada, 2013.

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Written in the year after Northup was freed and published in the wake of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Northup's story was quickly taken up by abolitionist groups and news organizations as part of the fight against slavery.

HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.

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Written in the year after Northup was freed and published in the wake of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Northup's story was quickly taken up by abolitionist groups and news organizations as part of the fight against slavery.

HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.

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