Twelve Years A Slave By Solomon Northup
Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup, (Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1975), 252 pgs.
There have been many accounts published in regards to the Civil War with the view point of Northerners or Southern plantation owners. Twelve Years a Slave, an autobiography, gives readers a different perspective in the fact it is written from a view of a freed man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. The author Solomon Northup gives us an interesting perspective into slave life, treatment by different owners and the trial of his kidnappers. Mr. Northup wrote this book in a first person account. The language used is very different from today and required the reader to notice context clues in reading. Throughout the chapters, Mr.
There have been many accounts published in regards to the Civil War with the view point of Northerners or Southern plantation owners. Twelve Years a Slave, an autobiography, gives readers a different perspective in the fact it is written from a view of a freed man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. The author Solomon Northup gives us an interesting perspective into slave life, treatment by different owners and the trial of his kidnappers. Mr. Northup wrote this book in a first person account. The language used is very different from today and required the reader to notice context clues in reading. Throughout the chapters, Mr.