Twelve Years a Slave
by Solomon Northup
“A harrowing true story of a life stolen and a spirit that refused to be broken.”
Solomon Northup was a free man living a peaceful life until a single act of treachery plunged him into the brutal reality of the antebellum South. This gripping first-hand account chronicles his twelve-year struggle for survival and his desperate quest to reclaim the liberty that was violently stripped away.
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