Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

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Always visible content "Twelve Years a Slave" by Solomon Northup is a memoir published in 1853. Northup, a free black man and musician from New York, recounts how he was deceived, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in the Deep South. His narrative details twelve years of bondage on Louisiana plantations, documenting the brutal realities of slavery—from slave markets to plantation life—before finally securing his freedom. Published shortly after "Uncle Tom's Cabin," this firsthand account became Hidden checkbox to control the toggle Clickable label to show more The extra text that is initially hidden Clickable label to show less a bestseller with 30,000 copies sold. (This is an automatically generated summary.)