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CAPSTONE CLASSICS TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE - SOLO...

Solomon Northup was born free as the son of an emancipated slave  who lived and worked in New
York. In 1841  two con men offered him lucrative work playing fiddle in a circus  so he
travelled with them to Washington  D.C.  where he was drugged  kidnapped  and sold as a slave
into the Red River region of Louisiana. For the next twelve years he survived as the human
property of several different slave masters  where most of his suffering was at the hands of
plantation owner Edwin Epps. Twelve Years a Slave is Northup's harrowing memoir and is
recognized as the most reliable  accurate eyewitness account of the daily lives of slaves. Not
only as a significant historical reference  but also as an authentic and unforgettable account
of a man starved of his freedom  it is an important part of the slave narrative genre. The
ongoing popularity of the Oscar-winning film has brought new audiences to Northup's classic 
and this collectable Capstone Classics edition features an insightful introduction from series
editor Tom Butler Bowdon.

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