12 Years a Slave and Other Slave Narratives

12 Years a Slave and Other Slave Narratives

Twelve Years a Slave tells the remarkable true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped in Washington D.C. in 1841 and sold into slavery—for twelve years.

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