Bücher von Solomon Northup

DISCOVER A TALE OF UNIMAGINABLE ADVERSITYTwelve Years a Slave tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free-born man of colour who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South in 1841. His true tale of captivity, torture and abuse brings to life the unimaginable evils of slavery in a time when it was yet to be outlawed. Equal parts slave, travel, and spiritual narrative, Twelve Years A Slave reveals Northup to be a person of astonishing strength and wisdom.An insightful introduction by David Fiske reveals the world into which Northup was born, the kidnapping phenomenon to which he fell victim, and the legacy of slavery today.

A obra que originou o filme 12 Anos de Escravidão retrata a história de Solomon Northup, um homem negro nascido livre nos Estados Unidos, que após ter recebido uma falsa proposta de trabalho, foi sequestrado, drogado e comercializado como escravo, e passou doze anos em cativeiro, trabalhando, na maior parte do tempo em uma plantação de algodão no estado de Louisiana. Com uma escrita simples e ágil, Northup retrata os registros excepcionalmente vívidos e detalhados da vida de um escravo. Este é um dos poucos retratos da escravidão americana, redigido por alguém tão culto quanto Solomon Northup ¿ uma pessoa que viveu sua vida sob a óptica de uma dupla perspectiva: ter sido tanto um homem livre como um escravo.

Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped in Washington, D.C., sold into slavery, and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, as well as describing at length cotton and sugar cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.

In 1841, Solomon Northup was a free black man, married with three children and living in upstate New York, when he was tricked into going to Washington DC. There, he was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery, eventually ending up on a plantation in the Red River area of Louisiana. For twelve years he experienced and witnessed the arbitrary beatings and whippings, around-the-clock back-breaking work, and countless other degradations that came with being enslaved in the antebellum south. Through the sympathetic ear of a white man and with miraculous timing, he was eventually freed and returned home. He then wrote this memoir and contributed to the abolitionist movement before disappearing from the pages of history.Like Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Twelve Years a Slave stands in stark contrast to the eräs bucolic propaganda that the enslaved in the south were well treated, well provided for, and made ¿part of the family.¿ As a first-hand account, it exposes slavery for what it is: barbaric, dehumanizing, and evil.

True autobiography of an african-american which tells the horrific conditions of slaves in that era. In 1841, African American Solomon Northup, a free man, is kidnapped and forced into slavery under the name 'Platt' for 12 years. He faces the hardships of being a slave under the hands of a few different slave owners. Through faith, will power, and courage Northup must survive and endure those 12 years as a slave

Die bewegende, wahre Geschichte hinter dem preisgekrönten Film Der Kampf eines Mannes um Überleben und Freiheit. Solomon Northups authentischer Bericht von 1853, erstmals auf Deutsch. »Das Buch verschlug uns den Atem: der epische Umfang, die Details, das Abenteuer, der Horror und die Menschlichkeit. Es schien uns ebenso bedeutend wie ¿Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank¿.« Steve McQueen »Ein moderner Klassiker.« The Guardian Deutsche Erstausgabe

This unforgettable memoir was the basis for the Academy Award-winning film 12 Years a Slave. It is a memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup. A hardworking farmer and an exceptional fiddler, Solomon Northup is born a free man of colour. He lives happily with his wife and children in Saratoga County, New York, until the day an employment offer at a circus changes his life. Tricked, drugged and kidnapped, Northup gets sold as a slave. And for the twelve years that follow, he lives in bondage under different masters... This narrative reveals how Northup survived the harsh conditions of slavery, including smallpox, lashings, and an attempted hanging. Solomon Northup was among a select few who were freed from slavery. His account describes the daily life of slaves in Louisiana, their diet and living conditions, the relationship between master and slave, and how slave catchers used to recapture runaways. Northup's Twelve Years A Slave is one of the best slave narratives ever written.

This story of the abduction of a free Negro adult from the North and his enslavement in the South--provides a sensational element which cannot be matched in any of the dozens of narratives written by former slaves. 'Think of it: For thirty years a man, wit all man's hopes, fears and aspirations--with a wife and children to call him by the endearing names of husband and father--with a home, humble it may be, but still a home...then for twelve years a thing, a chattel personal, classed with mules and horses....Oh! it is horrible. It chills the blood to think that such are.'