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Twelve Years a Slave
EAN : 9791041807451
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EAN : 9791041807451
Paru le : 4 juil. 2023
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- EAN13 : 9791041807451
- Réf. éditeur : 300059
- Date Parution : 4 juil. 2023
- Disponibilite : Disponible
- Barème de remise : NS
- Nombre de pages : 294
- Format : H:210 mm L:148 mm E:16 mm
- Poids : 383gr
- Résumé : "Twelve Years a Slave" is the harrowing autobiographical account of Solomon Northup, a free African American man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the pre-Civil War United States. Born in New York, Northup was a skilled violinist and a family man, living a peaceful life with his wife and children. In 1841, he was lured to Washington, D.C., under the pretense of a job offer by two men, Brown and Hamilton, who drugged and sold him into slavery. Northup was transported to New Orleans and sold to a series of plantation owners, enduring the brutal realities of slave life for twelve years. Throughout his captivity, he witnessed and experienced the inhumanity of slavery, including severe beatings and the emotional torment of being separated from his family. Despite the oppressive conditions, Northup maintained hope for freedom. His chance came when he met a Canadian carpenter named Bass, who was sympathetic to his plight and helped him send letters to his family and friends in the North. These letters eventually reached Henry B. Northup, a relative of Solomon's father's former master, who initiated legal proceedings that led to Solomon's release in 1853. Northup's narrative not only provides a detailed account of his personal suffering but also serves as a powerful indictment of the institution of slavery, highlighting the moral and ethical contradictions of a nation that proclaimed liberty while condoning human bondage.
- Biographie : Solomon Northup (born July 10, c. 1807-1808; died c. 1864) was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and a free woman of color. A farmer and a professional violinist, Northup had been a landowner in Washington County, New York. In 1841, he was offered a traveling musician's job and went to Washington, D.C. (where slavery was legal); there he was drugged, kidnapped, and sold as a slave. He was shipped to New Orleans, purchased by a planter, and held as a slave for 12 years in the Red River region of Louisiana, mostly in Avoyelles Parish. He remained a slave until he met Samuel Bass, a Canadian working on his plantation who helped get word to New York, where state law provided aid to free New York citizens who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery. His family and friends enlisted the aid of the Governor of New York, Washington Hunt, and Northup regained his freedom on January 3, 1853.
