Author: Solomon Northup

This edition also includes: The illustrations printed in the original book; Contemporary sources (1853—62), among them newspaper accounts of Northu...

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story. David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on ...

DISCOVER A TALE OF UNIMAGINABLE ADVERSITY Twelve Years a Slave tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free-born man of colour who was kidnapped and ...

The 1853 memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York, ...