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"Twelve Years a Slave, "a chronicle of the amazing ordeal of a free African-American kidnapped in the north, and impressed into slavery in Louisiana, is one of the most compelling and detailed slave narratives in existence. The text and story were virtually unchallenged by Southern apologists or partisans of the era. Northup resists the urge to laud himself as an exemplary character or focus solely his own experience, giving contemporary readers a remarkable account of the lives of the slave community as a whole. As an educated man, torn from freedom and plunged into slavery, he brings into horrible and tantalizingly exact clarity the life and labor of slaves in the antebellum American South, the complex economic choices and ironic moral concessions of slaveholding, and the calamitous effect of slavery on the foundations of civilization.

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• Full title: Twelve Years a Slave (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Re
• Author: Solomon Northup
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780760783344
• ISBN: 0760783349
• ID: 02328401
• Publisher: STERLING
• Weight: 419 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 150 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. December 2013

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