Ergebnis für "Twelve Years a Slave" in Literatur & Belletristik

Solomon Northup lebte über dreißig Jahre als freier Bürger, bis er von Sklavenhändlern verschleppt und an einen Plantagenbesitzer in Louisiana verkauft wurde. Dort erlitt er zwölf Jahre grausamster Gefangenschaft, ehe er seine Freiheit zurückgewann und zu seiner Familie heimkehren konnte. Northups Memoiren von 1853 sind ein wertvolles historisches Dokument über ein dunkles Kapitel amerikanischer Geschichte und das berührende Zeugnis eines mutigen und unnachgiebigen Mannes.

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12 Years a Slave is the harrowing account of a Black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told the truth, Solomon Northup was sold from plantation to plantation in Louisiana, toiling under cruel masters for twelve years before meeting Samuel Bass, a Canadian who finally put him in touch with his family, and helped start the process to regain his freedom.

Twelve Years a Slave is the autobiographical account of Solomon Northup, an African American who was born free in New York in the early 1800s. In 1841, Solomon Northup was captured and forced into slavery for a period of twelve years. Northup's account is detailed in its account of life on a cotton and sugar plantation and the daily routine of slave life during the first part of the 19th century.

As the Emperor travels the galaxy at the head of his Great Crusade, few events are as important as rediscovering his scattered sons, the Primarchs, and bestowing them as the masters of their Legions. United, a Legion becomes a reflection of its Primarch, both in his strengths and his flaws. For the Twelfth Legion, once the War Hounds and now the World Eaters, the line between strength and flaw is almost impossible to separate.

Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details himself being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. He was in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before he was able to secretly get information to friends and family in New York, who in turn secured his release with the aid of the state. Northup's account provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans, and describes ...

Published in 1861, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiographical account of the author's experiences as a slave in 19th-century North Carolina, from her relatively happy childhood to the brutality she experienced as a teenager and young woman to her eventual escape to the North.

Im Kerker auf der Sklaveninsel erfahren die Frauen, welche Zukunft man für sie geplant hat. Die Frauen reagieren sehr unterschiedlich. Die Ausbilder haben damit Erfahrung, doch bei einer lassen sie sich von ihrem Verhalten täuschen. Nach dem ersten Ausbildungstag, stehen sie im Mittelpunkt einer Party, auf der sie an ihre ersten Herrschaften als Sklavinnen verlost werden.

But if her torturers at the court of King James knew of her love for Tom Wintour, one of the executed members of the gunpowder plot, it would mean certain death. Pregnant with Tom's child, hiding under the reluctant protection of her spiteful and ambitious brother, Frances lives in fear - until she is offered the chance to make a respectable - if loveless - marriage and return to court. She will not be expected to sleep with her husband. The only price she must pay for safety is to give up the cause for which her lover died.

The history of our world tends to move along a shallow spiral - when completing a turn, you end up mighty close to where you started. The history of Second World, in contrast, seems to have simplified its path to a ring from which there is no apparent way out. An unforeseen invasion lays waste to whole provinces, prompting the game's most powerful clans to ally with the emperor's guard to stop the monstrous hordes in their tracks. A war erupts that nobody saw coming, shattering the tedium of peaceful life.

Inside this harrowing collection, you’ll uncover three thought-provoking and classic novels about slavery, civil rights, and the plight of African Americans before the abolition of slavery. With timeless narratives and poignant, dramatic prose, these books have stood the test of time to provide unique and moving accounts of life as a slave.

Stephan has lived the lifestyle of a Dominant for five years. After several rebellious teenage years, it gave him the stability and control he had been seeking after his parent's death. As president of a not-for-profit foundation, he knows what his future holds and what he wants out of life. All that changes when a simple lunch with his college friend and mentor, Daren, leads him to buying a slave. Thrust into a situation he never thought he'd be in, Stephan can't walk away. He is compelled to help this girl.

Zander, the alien warrior prince intent on recovering his planet, needs a mate. While he would never choose a human of his own accord, his physician's gene-matching program selected Lamira's DNA as the best possible match with his own. Now he must teach the beautiful slave to yield to his will, accept his discipline and learn to serve him as her one true master.

Jason Thompson was an average 18-year-old college student. He played sports, partied with his friends, and got laid every chance he could, but deep inside burned a secret lust for tight bondage and painful discipline. At night, when tightly tied in some strict self-bondage position, he dreamed of a sexy, leather-clad mistress whipping his ass and brutally torturing him, making him suffer for her own sadistic pleasure.

An exhibit of BDSM photography ignites a secret longing for erotic sexual submission in a quiet, small town. Forcibly abducted, one woman must find the courage to escape from her lover's cruel hands. Another will discover the allure of consensual slavery, something she has always craved. A man hopes that by learning to transcend the barriers of erotic pain he can become the Dom he longs to be. Slave Academy will be the touchstone for them all. These different paths weave together into an erotic, and sometimes dark and dangerous, exchange of power that will leave you breathless and begging for more.

This is how The Slave Factory begins. It is the story of Tonya's journey of self-discovery as she and an eclectic group of fellow students undergo six-months of focused and brutal reshaping, guided by the Masters and Mistresses of the arts of sex, bondage, discipline, and submission and the love to serve within the walls of a place known only as The Academy.

Mark comes home, tired at the end of a long work week. But Brad has no intention of letting him rest...he is waiting for his sex slave, waiting to play with his toy, to tease him, and dominate him.