Twelve Years a Slave
Now the major motion picture that won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong'o, and directed by Steve McQueen Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, Northup published this exceptionall…
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Weitere Autoren: Gates, Henry Louis (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-101-61467-9
- EAN: 9781101614679
- Produktnummer: 17674906
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'477 KB
- Abbildungen: 8 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT
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Solomon Northup (1808-c. 1863) was a free man kidnapped into slavery in 1851. The details of his life after the publication of his acclaimed memoir are unknown.Ira Berlin is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. His many books include The Making of African America and Many Thousands Gone, winner of the Bancroft Prize and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W. E. B Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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