Twelve Years a Slave
By Solomon Northup
- Release Date: 2012-11-17
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Description
Quality ebook edition of this compelling and influential memoirs, an inside account of life as a slave in rural Louisiana, written by a Northern free man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. and sold into brutal slavery. This edition of Twelve Years a Slave features additional interesting and rare images relating to Solomon Northup, such as the actual "manifest of slaves" from the ship that brought him in chains to New Orleans.
Now seen as a feature motion picture filmed in New Orleans, rural Louisiana and environs, this historic, gripping, and well-written account is presented by Quaint Press (New Orleans) using active and complete Table of Contents, linked notes, proper ebook formatting, and all the original illustrations from the 1854 edition (plus the added images). A book of this importance and interest deserves a complete and professional digital presentation. The film features Brad Pitt, Paul Giamatti, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Paul Dano, and Michael Fassbender.
