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12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
A film tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany the major new film starring Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor.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. I ...Show more
Twelve Years A Slave by Solomon Northup
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: General Adult
Solomon Northup was an entrepreneur and dedicated family man, father to three young children, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Alonzo. What little free time he had after long days of manual and farm labor, he spent reading books and playing the violin. Though his father was born into slavery, Solomon was born a ...Show more
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
$9.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. After regaining his freedom in 1853, Northup publish ...Show more
Twelve Years a Slave: Including; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Solomon Northup
$16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
‘I was sitting upon a low bench, made of rough boards, and without coat or hat. I was handcuffed. Around my ankles also were a pair of heavy fetters. One end of a chain was fastened to a large ring in the floor, the other to fetters on my ankles . . . Then did the idea begin to break upon my mind, at fi ...Show more
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