Twelve Years a Slave
(Sprache: Englisch)
Now the major motion picture that won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong'o, and directed by Steve McQueen
Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is...
Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is...
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Now the major motion picture that won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong'o, and directed by Steve McQueenPerhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.
After his rescue, Northup published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave.
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Autoren-Porträt von Solomon Northup
SOLOMON NORTHUP was kidnapped into slavery in Washington, D.C. in 1841. Shortly afterhis escape, he published his memoirs to great acclaim and brought legal action against his
abductors, though they were never persecuted. The details of his life thereafter are unknown, but
he is believed to have died in Glen Falls, NY, around 1863.
IRA BERLIN (introducer) is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Maryland. His
many books include THE MAKING OF AFRICAN AMERICA (Viking Penguin) and MANY THOUSANDS GONE: THE FIRST TWO CENTURIES OF SLAVERY IN NORTH AMERICA, winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. (general editor) is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of
the W. E. B Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. A
MacArthur Fellow, he is also editor-in-chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center, host
of Faces of America (PBS), and editor-in-chief of TheRoot.com.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Solomon Northup
- 2012, 304 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Masse: 13 x 19,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
- ISBN-10: 0143106708
- ISBN-13: 9780143106708
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
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"For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement." --Ira Berlin, from the Introduction "A moving, vital testament to one of slavery's 'many thousands gone' who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation. It is also a chilling insight into the 'peculiar institution.'" --"Saturday Review"
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