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Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

Start date: June 1, 2018

Finish date: June 30, 2018

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Dec 10, 2013 Chrissie rated it liked it

Shelves: bio, race, audible-us, history, 2015-read

Slavery is an abomination. The United States was from its independence from England a nation that relied heavily on slavery. It was not a land of equality and it did not offer freedom for all.

This book is an autobiography written by Solomon Northup, a free Black kidnapped and taken into slavery for twelve years. He was from Upper-state New York. He played the fiddle. Given a proposition to earn extra money doing just this, he agreed to travel to Washington D.C. It was here he was kidnapped and ...more

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Feb 21, 2014 Laura rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, read-2014, audio-books, america, civil-war

From BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week:
Memoir of a free man, kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South in 1841.

The memoir which inspired Steve McQueen's Oscar nominated film of the same title.

Free download available at Project Gutenberg.
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Feb 28, 2021 Brenda H rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle-freebies, 1800s-published

3 stars.

oh my goodness! This took me forever to finish. The story was interesting but, oh boy, did the author go into detail in some areas. The way the author discussed his time as a slave was toned down regarding the level of brutality and deprivation that the slaves endured - perhaps due to the period in which the book was written - and therefore, I didn't connect as strongly to the character as I might have. ...more

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