When Solomon Northup, born a free black man in Saratoga, New York, was offered a short-term job with a circus in Washington, D.C., in 1841, he jumped at the opportunity. But when he arrived, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana. Finally, with the help of a Canadian abolitionist, he wa[...]

I den gribende erindringsbog Tolv år som slave fra 1853 fortæller Solomon Northup historien om, hvordan han levede som fri, afroamerikansk mand i New York, men på en rejse til sydstaten Washington DC blev forgiftet, taget til fange og solgt som slave. De næste 12 år oplevede han på egen krop v[...]

Twelve Years a Slave (1853) sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative[...]