Solomon Northup

Twelve Years a Slave, published in 1853, was an immediate bombshell in the national debate over slavery leading up to the Civil War....

Twelve Years a Slave is an account of actual events that took place in the life of Solomon Northup, during the pre-Civil War era of the 1840s....

Twelve Years a Slave tells the amazing story of a free Black man who in 1841 is taken away from his family and sold into slavery in the deep south of the United States....

La straordinaria storia vera di Solomon Northup. Solomon Northup, un uomo nato libero, fu rapito a Washington nel 1841, e fatto schiavo per dodici...