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Twelve Years a Slave

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'Twelve Years a Slave' recounts the harrowing and inspiring journey of Solomon Northup a free Bostonian kidnapped and sold into slavery. Current scholarship considers this work historically accurate and it provides a unique insight into the treatment of slaves and institution of American slavery in the nineteenth century. First published in 1853, this memoir still speaks pertinently in the twenty first century inspiring a recent Academy Award winning motion picture. This edition, contains the original text in a readable font and the original images crisply reproduced. (Also available in hardcover: 978-1-78139-424-3.)

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Benediction Classics
1781394237 / 9781781394236
Paperback / softback
18/08/2014
256 pages, Illustrations
152 x 229 mm, 381 grams