Twelve Years a Slave (Film Tie-in)
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- £4.99
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Publisher Description
'I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It felt as important as Anne Frank's diary, only published nearly a hundred years before' - Steve McQueen, director of the Academy Award-winning film of Solomun Northup's powerful memoir
Solomon Northup is a free man, living in New York. Then he is kidnapped and sold into slavery.
Drugged, beaten, given a new name and transported away from his wife and children to a Louisiana cotton plantation, Solomon will die if he reveals his true identity. This is the searing true story of his twelve years as a slave: the endless brutality, daily humiliations and constant fear, but also the small ways in which he and his fellow men try to survive.
Twelve Years a Slave is a unique, unflinching record of slavery from the inside, and the incredible account of one man whose life was ripped from him - and who fought to get it back.
'A moving, vital testament to one of slavery's "many thousands gone" who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation' - Saturday Review
Customer Reviews
best book ever
this book is touching and extremely detailed making the reader feel the harsh cruelty inflicted upon Solomon and his fellow sufferers, like patsey who is punished for faults that do not belong to her. This book is reality on paper it shows the entire truth of life and the lack of equality given to slaves.
by Leya Bassa,13