American Legends: The Life of Solomon Northup

Name: American Legends: The Life of Solomon Northup
Brand: Charles River Editors
SKU: 41325749665962
Price: 6.99 USD
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By: Charles River Editors

ISBN: 9781495923586

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*Includes excerpts from Twelve Years a Slave about Northup's life and experiences.
*Includes a bibliography for further reading.
*Includes a table of contents.

“Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having at the end of that time been kidnapped and sold into Slavery, where I remained, until happily rescued in the month of January, 1853, after a bondage of twelve years—it has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.” – Solomon Northup

A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors’ American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of America’s most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.

In 2013, the release of the critically acclaimed Twelve Years a Slave once again shined the spotlight on slave narratives, and while his had toiled in relative obscurity since the late 19th century, the movie’s depiction of Solomon Northup’s slave narrative pushed him front and center yet again. Northup’s life was quite unique because he was born a free African-American in the state of New York, and he spent the first 33 years of his life living as a free man there. However, in 1841, he was tricked into traveling to Washington, DC with the promise of employment as a violinist, only to be subsequently sold into slavery and forced to work as a slave on a plantation in Louisiana.

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