Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup's riveting memoir written in 1853 and now an award winning major motion picture. Mr. Northup recounts his powerful life story of being born a free man in New York kidnapped and forced into slavery for twelve years and then freed and reunited with his wife and children. 12 YEARS A SLAVE: NARRATIVE OF SOLOMON NORTHUP A CITIZEN OF NEW-YORK KIDNAPPED IN WASHINGTON CITY IN 1841 AND RESCUED IN 1853 FROM A COTTON PLANTATION NEAR THE RED RIVER IN LOUISIANA.A moving vital testament to one of slavery's many thousands gone who retained his humanity in the depths of degradation. It is also a chilling insight into the peculiar institution. -Saturday Review