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12 Years a Slave A True Story

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Solomon Northup was born a free citizen in upstate New York, where he lived a stable life as a skilled violinist, working man, and family man with his wife and children. In 1841, he was lured away to Washington, D.C., under the false pretense of a lucrative job playing music with a traveling circus.

Instead of finding work, he was drugged, chained, and stripped of his papers and identity. Renamed "Plat," he was shipped to the deep South—primarily working the brutal cotton and sugar cane plantations of Louisiana. For twelve agonizing years, Northup endured unimaginable cruelty, physical abuse, and psychological degradation under various masters, most notably the sadistic and volatile slaveholder Edwin Epps. Throughout his ordeal, he clung desperately to the hope of freedom and the memory of his family, eventually managing to smuggle word of his plight to sympathetic abolitionists in New York, which led to his legal rescue and reunion with his family in 1853.

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4.823.0491.B.U

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London : Collin Classics., 2014

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English

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4.823.0491.B.U

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English Fiction

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