Solomon Northup: Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave
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- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 11/2012
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, B-format paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780143106708
- Bestellnummer: 1719717
- Umfang: 304 Seiten
- Sonstiges: illustrations
- Gewicht: 245 g
- Maße: 195 x 130 mm
- Stärke: 22 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 1.11.2012
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Now the major motion picture that won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong'o, and directed by Steve McQueenPerhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D. C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.
After his rescue, Northup published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave.
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