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Twelve Years a Slave

Twelve Years a Slave

Van: Solomon Northup
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Twelve Years a Slave is the powerful memoir of a freeborn African American from New York who is brutally kidnapped and sold into slavery. Enduring twelve harrowing years on a Louisiana plantation, he ultimately fights for his freedom and strives to reunite with his family. (Summary by RobBoard)Copyright Biographies 2.0 Kunst Sozialwissenschaften Welt Wissenschaft
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