Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave: 1841-1853 re-written version for young readers
Sue Eakin
224 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 1565543440
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Language: English
Publish: October 31, 1998
The best firsthand account of the slavery experience, this autobiographical story, originally published in 1853, has been rewritten to make it accessible to younger readers. Northup, a family man and hack driver in upstate New York, was kidnapped, whisked away from his home, and sold into slavery.