1853 SOLOMON NORTHUP. Twelve Years a Slave. Influential Pre-Civil War Anti-Slavery Memoir. Americana also very black

also very black

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1853 SOLOMON NORTHUP. Twelve Years a Slave. Influential Pre-Civil War Anti-Slavery Memoir. Americana also very blackA superb first edition, early printing of the Memoir of Solomon Northup, a free born African American. He was drugged and kidnapped in Washington, D. C. before being transported to New Orleans and sold into enslavement. Published during the first year of his regained freedom, the narrative was among the most influential of the anti slavery narratives of the era. It of course also formed the basis of the film of the same name, which won the Best