Solomon Northup, b. 1808 Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853.

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Solomon Northup, b. 1808

Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853.

Auburn [N.Y.]: Derby and Miller, 1853.

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Summary of this title
Publisher's Advertisement for This Book in The Liberator 26 Aug. 1853
An Account of Solomon Northup in the New York Times 20 January 1853

Subjects

African Americans -- New York (State) -- Biography.
Kidnapping -- Washington D.C. -- History -- 19th century.
Northup, Solomon, b. 1808.
Plantation life -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- Louisiana.
Slaves -- Louisiana -- Biography.
Slaves' writings, American -- Louisiana.

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