About the Book: Twelve Years a Slave
The shocking firsthand account of one mans remarkable fight for freedom; now an
awardwinning motion picture. An excellent addition to our remarkable Collins
Classics range.
1841: Solomon Northup is a successful violinist when he is kidnapped and sold
into slavery. Taken from his family in New York State - with no hope of ever
seeing them again - and forced to work on the cotton plantations in the Deep
South, he spends the next twelve years in captivity until his eventual escape in
1853. First published in 1853, this extraordinary true story proved to be a
powerful voice in the debate