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TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE - SOLOMON NORTHUP KARTONIE...

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 McQueen Perhaps
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. For more than seventy years 
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