
2021
Paperback
201-300 Pages
True Accounts Books
SOLOMON NORTHUP
9789355200587
Biographies
Rupa Publications India
English
India
Name : 12 Years A Slave: A True Story
Author : SOLOMON NORTHUP
Book Format : Paperback
Genre : Biographies
ISBN : 9789355200587
Language : English
Pages : 201-300 Pages
Publish Year : 2021
Publisher : Rupa Publications India
Sub Genre : True Accounts Books
An extraordinary story of resilience and hope A free man, who is a hard-working farmer, ends up in bondage serving under various masters. His struggle for survival and freedom consumes 12 years of his life. His only ‘folly’? He was a man of colour. 12 Years a Slave is one of the best slave narratives ever penned down, it was adapted into a movie by the same name in 2013 and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture (Drama). The book was first published in 1853, three years after the Fugitive Slave Act. Solomon Northup’s narrative acted as an important cultural symbol of slave life on southern plantations in America before the Civil War.
Country of Origin : India
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