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Twelve Years A Slave By Solomon Northup

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Solomon Northup’s “Twelve Years a Slave” is a narrative about how he was kidnapped from his home and sold into slavery for twelve years. It describes the brutalities and the psychological torture he had to endure. Northup narrates his own life story and the life and conditions of being a slave. This book is a 4.5 on a 5 point scale, 5 being the best. This book is detailed and uncensored. It did not feel like it was made up or embellished, any of that. It forces the reader confront the truth, no sugarcoating, no PG-13. It is straight to the point, raw and uncensored. This book provokes many emotions. One of those emotions, is guilt. How could anyone take things for granted after reading something so in just? His tribulations over the twelve
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In his autobiography, Northup describes the everyday “obstacles of color”, in his life prior to his kidnapping. I can understand why the filmmakers wanted to include a strong opposition between Northup’s life as a free man in the North and the physical and mental trauma he endured while enslaved in the South. Twelve Years A Slave remains one of the most important American slave narratives. It is a valuable source of information regarding the daily lives of slaves in Central

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Solomon Northup was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and free woman of color. Born in July 1808 in Minerva, New York, Solomon Northup grew up a free man, working as a farmer and violinist while having a family. He was lured south and kidnapped in 1841 and enslaved for more than a decade, enduring horribly violent conditions. Northup was freed in 1853 with help from colleagues and friends.

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Solomon Northup was born in Minerva, New York on July 10, 1807. He grew up in Minerva and later moved to Saratoga Spring in New York where an unfortunate event occurred and he got kidnapped to Washington D.C. Prior to that, he was a farmer and a musician while raising a family. He was an American Abolitionists who wrote his own book called "Twelve Years a Slave” which was published in 1853, which was three years after the Fugitive slave act was passed on September 18, 1850, by Congress.

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Whether or not a slave narrative is able to persuade its readers of the inhumanities of slavery, the complexities within slave narratives and the discussions they create should not be overlooked. There is power within the act of writing one’s personal journeys and hardships throughout life, and that power gives former enslaved people the opportunity to express their own thoughts while making changes for future generations. Solomon Northup’s 12 Years A Slave gives a heart-wrenching depiction of what slavery was like in America. If the cruel images of the realities of slavery do not affect readers emotionally, then there is at least hope that the logical arguments raised throughout the novel can persuade those who are unwilling to see slavery

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Kevin Torres HIST 3330 December 4, 2017 12 Years a Slave Solomon Northup informs us early on that he wishes to have his life as a slave recorded, he leaves it up to the readers to form their own judgements regarding the institution of slavery; he did not wish to resort to hyperbole or polemic, but to merely recount things as he remembers them. It is a harrowing story, one which reads like an antebellum odyssey, with a cunning protagonist who employs his wit and physicality in order to get back home. Solomon lived his life with relative freedom, which is what makes this account even more tragic; most blacks were born into slavery, as were their parents; it was all that they knew. Solomon, however, was one of the lucky ones, since he did not

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The autobiographies 12 Years a Slave written by Solomon Northrup, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass written by himself, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl written by Harriet Jacobs examine the perils of slavery and share similar themes of black education and the anguish of women slaves. The book 12 Years a Slave describes how Northrup’s life changes

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The Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass' presented true facts, omitting nothing despite the dangers it imposed on him, in the hopes that they would provide proof for every speech and testimony he gave and would ever give. Narrative of William W. Brown: a Fugitive Slave sets itself apart from other autobiographies of his time by speaking for the masses of slaves and not by voicing his own opinions on the tragedies he recounts, but allowing its readers to draw their own conclusions. Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery showed its readers that slaves were just as much people as their masters. Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave didn’t leave out any information, his commitment to the details of his story provided an irrefutable testimony to the horrors of slavery.

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