A moving, vital testament.
-Saturday Review An incredible document, amazingly told and structured.
Tough, but riveting.
-Rachel Kushner The best firsthand account of slavery.
-James McPherson Twelve Years a Slave (1853) is considered to be be one of the most riviting and important documents recounting slavery in the United States.
It is the heart-rending memoir of a free black man who is taken hostage and sold into slavery in a Louisiana pl.
Mint Editions Twelve years a slave, paperback/solomon northrup
