Twelve Years a Slave
In 1841, free-born African American Solomon Northup was offered a job in his hometown of Saratoga Springs, New York. He followed his employers to the job site at Washington, D.C., where he was beaten, drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery, eventually ending up on a plantation in Louisiana owned by Edwin Epps. While there, in 1852, Northup befriended Canadian carpenter Samuel Bass, who was at the time doing work for Epps. Secretly, Bass was able to contact Northup's family, who informed New York governor Washington Hunt of his kidnapping. The state was able to use a law passed in 1840 that allowed the recovery of free black men who were so…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61640-908-1
- EAN: 9781616409081
- Produktnummer: 36096825
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 348 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.0 cm 491 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 491
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