Twelve years a slave
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Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2000.
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ix, 336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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The story of Solomon Northup is a bizarre and incredible one. Born a free black in New York State in 1808, he was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841, and spent most of the next 12 years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. His years in this condition of servitude were filled with abuse, apprehension, and a profound fear for his life (he narrowly escaped lynching). Northup's years in captivity are dramatically recounted here, as are his attempts to bring charges against the men who originally abducted him. An educated man when he entered slavery, Northup was able to write about the institution as both an outsider and as one of its victims. The result was an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. A bestseller in its time, the work is "a moving, vital testament to one of slavery's 'many thousand gone' who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation.
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0486411435, 9780486411439, 9780329619299, 0329619292
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Originally published: Auburn, N.Y. : Derby and Miller, 1853.
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The story of Solomon Northup is a bizarre and incredible one. Born a free black in New York State in 1808, he was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841, and spent most of the next 12 years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. His years in this condition of servitude were filled with abuse, apprehension, and a profound fear for his life (he narrowly escaped lynching). Northup's years in captivity are dramatically recounted here, as are his attempts to bring charges against the men who originally abducted him. An educated man when he entered slavery, Northup was able to write about the institution as both an outsider and as one of its victims. The result was an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. A bestseller in its time, the work is "a moving, vital testament to one of slavery's 'many thousand gone' who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation.
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Northup, S. (2000). Twelve years a slave. Mineola, N.Y., Dover Publications.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?. 2000. Twelve Years a Slave. Mineola, N.Y., Dover Publications.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?, Twelve Years a Slave. Mineola, N.Y., Dover Publications, 2000.
MLA Citation (style guide)Northup, Solomon. Twelve Years a Slave. Mineola, N.Y., Dover Publications, 2000.
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Ancestry --|t gThe|t Northup Family --|t Birth and Parentage --|t Mintus Northup --|t Marriage with Anne Hampton --|t Good Resolutions --|t Champlain Canal --|t Rafting Excursion to Canada --|t Farming --|g The|t Violin --|t Cooking --|t Removal to Saratoga --|t Parker and Perry --|t Slaves and Slavery --|g The|t Children --|g The|t Beginning of Sorrow --|g The|t two Strangers --|g The|t Circus Company --|t Departure from Saratoga --|t Ventriloquism and Legerdemain --|t Journey to New-York --|t Free Papers --|t Brown and Hamilton --|g The|t haste to reach the Circus --|t Arrival in Washington --|t Funeral of Harrison --|g The|t Sudden Sickness --|g The|t Torment of Thirst --|g The|t Receding Light --|t Insensibility --|t Chains and Darkness --|t Painful Meditations --|t James H. Burch --|t Williams' Slave Pen in Washington --|g The|t Lackey, Radburn --|t Assert my Freedom --|g The|t Anger of the Trader --|g The|t Paddle and Cat-o'-nine-tails --|g The|t Whipping --|t New Acquaintances --|t Ray, Williams, and Randall --|t Arrival of Little Emily and her Mother in the Pen --|t Maternal Sorrows --|g The|t Story of Eliza --|t Eliza's Sorrows --|t Preparation to Embark --|t Driven Through the Streets of Washington --|t Hail, Columbia --|g The|t Tomb of Washington --|t Clem Ray --|g The|t Breakfast on the Steamer --|g The|t happy Birds --|t Aquia Creek --|t Fredericksburgh --|t Arrival in Richmond --|t Goodin and his Slave Pen --|t Robert, of Cincinnati --|t David and his Wife --|t Mary and Lethe --|t Clem's Return --|t His subsequent Escape to Canada --|g The|t Brig Orleans --|t James H. Burch --|t Arrival at Norfolk --|t Frederick and Maria --|t Arthur, the Freeman --|t Appointed Steward --|t Jim, Cuffee, and Jenny --|g The|t Storm --|t Bahama Banks --|g The|t Calm --|g The|t Conspiracy --|g The|t Long Boat --|g The|t Small-Pox --|t Death of Robert --|t Manning, the Sailor --|g The|t Meeting in the Forecastle --|g The|t Letter --|t Arrival at New-Orleans --|t Arthur's Rescue --|t Theophilus Freeman, the Consignee --|t Platt --|t First Night in the New-Orleans Slave Pen --|t Freeman's Industry --|t Cleanliness and Clothes --|t Exercising in the Show Room --|t Dance --|t Bob, the Fiddler --|t Arrival of Customers --|t Slaves Examined --|g The|t Old Gentleman of New-Orleans --|t Sale of David, Caroline, and Lethe --|t Parting of Randall and Eliza --|t Small-Pox --|g The|t Hospital --|t Recovery and Return to Freeman's Slave Pen --|g The|t Purchaser of Eliza, Harry, and Platt --|t Eliza's Agony on Parting from Little Emily --|g The|t Steamboat Rodolph --|t Departure from New-Orleans --|t William Ford --|t Arrival at Alexandria, on Red River --|t Resolutions --|t gThe|t Great Pine Woods --|t Wild Cattle --|t Martin's Summer Residence --|g The|t Texas Road --|t Arrival at Master Ford's --|t Rose --|t Mistress Ford --|t Sally and her Children --|t John, the Cook --|t Walter, Sam, and Antony --|t Mills on Indian Creek --|t Sabbath Days --|t Sam's Conversion --|t Profit of kindness --|t Rafting --|t Adam Taydem, the Little White Man --|t Cascalla and his Tribe --|g The|t Indian Ball --|t John M. Tibeats --|g The|t Storm approaching --|t Ford's Embarrassments --|g The|t Sale to Tibeats --|g The|t Chattel Mortgage --|t Mistress Ford's Plantation on Bayou Boeuf --|t Description of the Latter --|t Ford's Brother-in-law, Peter Tanner --|t Meeting with Eliza --|t She still Mourns for her Children --|t Ford's Overseer, Chapin --|t Tibeats' Abuse --|g The|t Keg of Nails --|g The|t First Fight with Tibeats --|t His Discomfiture and Castigation --|g The|t attempt to Hang me --|t Chapin's Interference and Speech --|t Unhappy Reflections --|t Abrupt Departure of Tibeats, Cook, and Ramsey --|t Lawson and the Brown Mule --|t Message to the Pine Woods --|g The|t Hot Sun --|t Yet bound --|g The|t Cords sink into my Flesh --|t Chapin's Uneasiness --|t Speculation --|t Rachel, and her Cup of Water --|t Suffering increases --|g The|t Happiness of Slavery --|t Arrival of Ford --|t He cuts the Cords which bind me, and takes the Rope from my Neck --|t Misery --|g The|t gathering of the Slaves in Eliza's Cabin --|t Their Kindness --|t Rachel Repeats the Occurrences of the Day --|t Lawson entertains his Companions with an Account of his Ride --|t Chapin's apprehensions of Tibeats --|t Hired to Peter Tanner --|t Peter expounds the Scriptures --|t Description of the Stocks --|t Return to Tibeats --|t Impossibility of pleasing him --|t He attacks me with a Hatchet --|g The|t Struggle over the Broad Axe --|g The|t Temptation to Murder him --|t Escape across the Plantation --|t Observations from the Fence --|t Tibeats approaches, followed by the Hounds --|t They take my Track --|t Their loud Yells --|t They almost overtake me --|t I reach the Water --|t Hounds confused --|t Moccasin Snakes --|t Alligators --|t Night in the "Great Pacoudrie Swamp" --|t Sounds of Life --|t North-West Course --|t Emerge into the Pine Woods --|t Slave and his Young Master --|t Arrival at Ford's --|t Food and Rest --|g The|t Mistress' Garden --|g The|t Crimson and Golden Fruit --|t Orange and Pomegranate Trees --|t Return to Bayou Boeuf --|t Master Ford's Remarks on the way --|g The|t Meeting with Tibeats --|t His Account of the Chase --|t Ford censures his Brutality --|t Arrival at the Plantation --|t Astonishment of the Slaves on seeing me --|g The|t anticipated Flogging --|t Kentucky John --|t Mr. Eldret, the Planter --|t Eldret's Sam --|t Trip to the "Big Cane Brake" --|g The|t Tradition of "Sutton's Field" --|t Forest Trees --|t Gnats and Mosquitoes --|t Arrival of Black Women in the Big Cane --|t Lumber Women --|t Sudden Appearance of Tibeats --|t His Provoking Treatment --|t Visit to Bayou Boeuf --|g The|t Slave Pass --|t Southern Hospitality --|g The|t Last of Eliza --|t Sale to Edwin Epps --|t Personal Appearance of Epps --|t Epps, Drunk and Sober --|g A|t Glimpse of his History --|t Cotton Growing --|g The|t Mode of Ploughing and Preparing Ground --|t Of Planting, of Hoeing, of Picking, of Treating Raw Hands --|g The|t difference in Cotton Pickers --|t Patsey a remarkable one --|t Tasked according to Ability --|t Beauty of a Cotton Field --|g The|t Slave's Labors --|t Fear of Approaching the Gin-House --|t Weighing --|t "Chores" --|t Cabin Life --|g The|t Corn Mill --|g The|t Uses of the Gourd --|t Fear of Oversleeping --|t Fear continually --|t Mode of Cultivating Corn --|t Sweet Potatoes --|t Fertility of the Soil --|t Fattening Hogs --|t Preserving Bacon --|t Raising Cattle --|t Shooting-Matches --|t Garden Products --|t Flowers and Verdure. |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g The|t Curious Axe-Helve --|t Symptoms of approaching Illness --|t Continue to decline --|g The|t Whip ineffectual --|t Confined to the Cabin --|t Visit by Dr. Wines --|t Partial Recovery --|t Failure at Cotton Picking --|t What may be heard on Epps' Plantation --|t Lashes Graduated --|t Epps in a Whipping Mood --|t Epps in a Dancing Mood --|t Description of the Dance --|t Loss of Rest no Excuse --|t Epps' Characteristics --|t Jim Barns --|t Removal from Huff Power to Bayou Boeuf --|t Description of Uncle Abram; of Wiley; of Aunt Phebe; of Bob, Henry, and Edward; of Patsey; with a Genealogical Account of each --|t Something of their Past History, and Peculiar Characteristics --|t Jealousy and Lust --|t Patsey, the Victim --|t Destruction of the Cotton Crop in 1845 --|t Demand for Laborers in St. Mary's Parish --|t Sent thither in a Drove --|g The|t Order of the March --|g The|t Grand Coteau --|t Hired to Judge Turner on Bayou Salle --|t Appointed Driver in his Sugar House --|t Sunday Services --|t Slave Furniture; how obtained --|g The|t Party at Yarney's, in Centreville --|t Good Fortune --|g The|t Captain of the Steamer --|t His Refusal to Secrete me --|t Return to Bayou Boeuf --|t Sight of Tibeats --|t Patsey's Sorrows --|t Tumult and Contention --|t Hunting the Coon and Opossum --|g The|t Cunning of the latter --|g The|t Lean Condition of the Slave --|t Description of the Fish Trap --|g The|t Murder of the Man from Natchez --|t Epps Chalenged by Marshall --|g The|t Influence of Slavery --|g The|t Love of Freedom --|t Labors on Sugar Plantations --|g The|t Mode of Planting Cane --|t Of Hoeing Cane --|t Cane Ricks --|t Cutting Cane --|t Description of the Cane Knife --|t Winrowing --|t Preparing for Succeeding Crops --|t Description of Hawkins' Sugar Mill on Bayou Boeuf --|g The|t Christmas Holidays --|g The|t Carnival Season of the Children of Bondage --|g The|t Christmas Supper --|t Red, the Favorite Color --|g The|t Violin, and the Consolation it afforded --|g The|t Christmas Dance --|t Lively, the Coquette --|t Sam Roberts, and his Rivals --|t Slave Songs --|t Southern Life as it is --|t Three Days in the Year --|g The|t System of Marriage --|t Uncle Abram's Contempt of Matrimony --|t Overseers --|t How they are Armed and Accompanied --|g The|t Homicide --|t His Execution at Marksville --|t Slave Drivers --|t Appointed Driver on removing to Bayou Boeuf --|t Practice makes perfect --|t Epps's Attempt to Cut Platt's Throat --|g The|t Escape from him --|t Protected by the Mistress --|t Forbids Reading and Writing --|t Obtain a Sheet of Paper after Nine Years' Effort --|g The|t Letter --|t Armsby, the Mean White --|t Partially confide in him --|t His Treachery --|t Epps' Suspicions --|t How they were quieted --|t Burning the Letter --|t Armsby leaves the Bayou --|t Disappointment and Despair --|t Wiley disregards the counsels of Aunt Phebe and Uncle Abram, and is caught by the Patrollers --|g The|t Organization and Duties of the latter --|t Wiley Runs Away --|t Speculations in regard to him --|t His Unexpected Return --|t His Capture on the Red River, and Confinement in Alexandria Jail --|t Discovered by Joseph B. Roberts --|t Subduing Dogs in anticipation of Escape --|g The|t Fugitives in the Great Pine Woods --|t Captured by Adam Taydem and the Indians --|t Augustus killed by Dogs --|t Nelly, Eldret's Slave Woman --|g The|t Story of Celeste --|g The|t Concerted Movement --|t Lew Cheney, the Traitor --|g The|t Idea of Insurrection --|t O'Niel, the Tanner --|t Conversation with Aunt Phebe overheard --|t Epps in the Tanning Business --|t Stabbing of Uncle Abram --|g The|t Ugly Wound --|t Epps is Jealous --|t Patsey is Missing --|t Her Return from Shaw's --|t Harriet, Shaw's Black Wife --|t Epps Enraged --|t Patsey denies his Charges --|t She is Tied Down Naked to Four Stakes --|g The|t Inhuman Flogging. |
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