Analysis On Becaus Twelve Years A Slave

subjugated into slavery at the age of thirty. Northup was lured to travel to Washington, D.C. in 1841 with the false promise of gaining easy employment, quick money, and adventurous trips. He was offered money that was three times more than his monthly income and because his wife and children had gone to another town for three weeks, he felt it would be more productive to work in this time period, rather than sitting ideal and waiting for the return of his family. But little did Northup knew that he was brought to another state so that he could be sold, like an object, in slavery. In his narrative, Northup stated that he was drugged by his companions, beaten ruthlessly by his kidnapper, and sold into slavery within sight of the nation’s capital. When ex-slaves wrote their own narratives, free from any bondage, even then many of them strived to achieve freedom of expression in its entirety. Slave narrators, ex-slaves, struggled to acquire their narrative authority and to achieve sole authorship over their works of literature. This was
Twelve Years A Slave, by Solomon Northup.The central theme of Solomon Northup’s narrative is the Bravery that is shown by Northup. He had underwent severe changes in his life in these tweleve years of slavery and still he continued to survive and strive for his freedom. He didn’t let go of his true identity and adopted the identity of “Platt”. Also extreme ruthlessness and violence is shown in Northup’s narrative through the constant beatings, lashings and other punishments. His masters even attempted to kill him while he was a slave. Solomon Northup, when he was first kidnapped, he was stripped naked and nailed to the floor. Northup suffered with lashings after lashings and his enslavers would only pause to catch their breath. They beat him down to accept his new identity and his new status of being a slave.