Twelve Years a Slave

By Solomon Northup

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

The 1853 memoir of Solomon Northup, a free Black man from New York who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana, where he was held for twelve years.

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• Ryan Holiday
• Shane Parrish: “A true story about a freeman who was lured out of the safety of his state under false pretences, kidnapped, sold as a slave, and shipped south. “Let not those who have never been placed in like circumstances, judge me harshly.”