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Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup (1853) Summary
Book 224: Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup (1853)
Book at a glance: Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave , published in 1853, is a harrowing autobiographical account of his abduction and forced enslavement in the American South. Born a free man in New York, Northup was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841, enduring twelve years of brutal servitude before regaining his freedom. The book serves as a personal narrative of survival and as a powerful condemnation of slavery's cruelty.
Genre: Autobiography, Biography, Biography Memoir, Classics, Historical, History, Memoir, Nonfiction…
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