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- Title
More Than Twelve Years A Slave: The Enduring Legacy of Solomon Northup.
- Authors
Sanson, Jerry Purvis
- Abstract
The article discusses the the legacy of the late author and former slave Solomon Northrup who documented his real-life experiences with slavery in the book "Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northrup, A Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, From a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River, in Louisiana." According to the article, Northrup was a free black man when he was forced into slavery in 1841. Author Harriet Beecher Stowe is also examined.
- Subjects
UNITED States; NORTHRUP, Solomon; TWELVE Years a Slave (Book); FREE African Americans; SLAVE narratives; STOWE, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; AFRICAN American authors; KIDNAPPING; SLAVERY in the United States; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, 2015, Vol 22, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0735-8342
- Publication type
Article