TY  - BOOK
AU  - Northup,Solomon
TI  - Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana
AV  - E300 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - African Americans -- Biography
KW  - Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography
KW  - Enslaved persons' writings, American
KW  - Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?
KW  - Plantation life -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Slavery -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century
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N2  - "Twelve Years a Slave" by Solomon Northup is a memoir published in 1853. Northup, a free black man and musician from New York, recounts how he was deceived, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in the Deep South. His narrative details twelve years of bondage on Louisiana plantations, documenting the brutal realities of slavery—from slave markets to plantation life—before finally securing his freedom. Published shortly after "Uncle Tom's Cabin," this firsthand account became a bestseller with 30,000 copies sold. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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ER  -