Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup

ISBN-13: 9781536172041

Solomon Northup

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It was Solomon's fortune, during his captivity, to be owned by several masters. The treatment he received while at the "Pine Woods" shows that among slaveholders there are men of humanity as well as of cruelty. Some of them are spoken of with emotions of gratitudeaothers in a spirit of bitterness. It is believed that the following account of his experience on Bayou BAuf presents a correct picture of Slavery, in all its lights and shadows, as it now exists in that locality. Unbiased, as he conceives, by any prepossessions or prejudices, the only object of the editor has been to give a faithful history of Solomon Northup's life, as he received it from his lips.