12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

224 pages first pub 1853 (editions)

nonfiction classics history memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A testimony of personal strength and a telling portrait of American slavery in the pre-Civil War South.When Solomon Northup, born a free black man in Saratoga, New York, was offered a short-term job with a circus in Washington, D.C., in 1841, he j...

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