A slavery narrative written by a a free man from Saratoga Springs, New York, who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841. After having been kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana by various masters, Northup was able to write to friends and family in New York, who in turn secured his release with the aid of the state. Northup's account provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, and describes at length cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in Louisiana.

This amazing true story brings to life the reality of what it is to fear slave-traders and the life of slavery.

The original work was published eight years before the Civil War, soon after Harriet Beecher Stowe's best-selling novel about slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). This Large Print edition is printed on high quality paper in large format with illustrations.

Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northrup

Autobiography - slavery narrative

Pre Civil War (1853)

Subjects: Racism, Race Relations, Civil War, Slavery, Slave Trade, Black History, Discrimination, African-American History

Adapted to film (2013)

Related books: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, The Souls of Black Folk, The New Jim Crow