The astonishing memoir of a free man who was sold into Slavery in Louisiana where he was kept for12 Years a powerful, riveting condemnation of slavery, and a storysoon to be introduced to a new audience through a major filmTricked by two men offering him a job as a musician in New York state in 1841, Solomon Northup was instead drugged and kidnapped.
Taken to Louisiana on a disease-ridden plague ship, he was initially.
Threatened with death, Northup was forced to assume a new name and fake past.
The astonishing memoir of a free man who was sold into Slavery in Louisiana where he was kept for12 Years a powerful, riveting condemnation of slavery, and a storysoon to be introduced to a new audience through a major filmTricked by two men offering him a job as a musician in New York state in 1841, Solomon Northup was instead drugged and kidnapped