Twelve Years a Slave: A Norton Critical Edition by Northup, Solomon (9780393264241)

Twelve Years a Slave: A Norton Critical Edition

by Northup, Solomon , Burke, Kevin M. , Gates, Henry Louis

Paperback - English

The Norton Critical Edition also includes:
- The illustrations printed in the original book.
- Contemporary sources (1853--62), among them newspaper accounts of Northup's kidnapping and ordeal and commentary by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Thomas W. MacMahon.
- A Genealogy of Secondary Sources (1880-2015) presenting twenty-four voices spanning three centuries on the memoir's major themes. Contributors include George Washington Williams, Marion Wilson Starling, Kenneth Stampp, Robert B. Stepto, Trish Loughran, and David Fiske, Clifford W. Brown, Jr., and Rachel Seligman, among others.
- The 2013 film adaptation--12 Years a Slave--fully considered, with criticism and major reviews of the film as well as Henry Louis Gates's three interviews with its director, Steve McQueen.
- A Chronology and Selected Bibliography.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

0393264246

EAN

9780393264241

Publisher

W W NORTON & CO

Publication Date

05 Dec 2016

Pages

432

Weight (kg)

0.41

Dimensions (cm)

21.1 x 13.0 x 2.5

Lexile Level

1200

About Author

A free-born African American, Solomon Northup was born in Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1808. He lived free until 1841 when, attracted by a job offer, he traveled to Washington, DC, where he was drugged and sold into slavery by his supposed employers. Northup was enslaved for twelve years before he regained his freedom and returned to New York. There, he became an advocate for abolitionism and in the 1860s began helping fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad. Northup published his own experiences in the memoir Twelve Years a Slave, which was adapted into the 1984 TV movie Solomon Northup