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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; EDITOR'S PREFACE; CHAPTER I -- Introductory -- Ancestry -- The Northup Family -- Birth and Parentage -- Mintus Northup -- Marriage with Anne Hampton -- Good Resolutions -- Champlain Canal -- Rafting Excursion to Canada -- Farming -- The Violin -- Cooking -- Removal to Saratoga -- Parker and Perry -- Slaves -- and Slavery -- The Children -- The Beginning of Sorrow. |
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CHAPTER II -- The two Strangers -- The Circus Company -- Departure from Saratoga -- Ventriloquism and Legerdemain -- Journey to New York -- Free Papers -- Brown and Hamilton -- The haste to reach the Circus -- Arrival in Washington -- Funeral of Harrison -- The Sudden Sickness -- The Torment of Thirst -- The Receding Light -- Insensibility -- Chains and Darkness. |
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CHAPTER III -- Painful Meditations -- James H. Burch -- Williams' Slave Pen in Washington -- The Lackey, Radburn -- Assert my Freedom -- The Anger of the Trader -- The Paddle and Cat-o'-nine- tails -- The Whipping -- New Acquaintances -- Ray, Williams, and Randall -- Arrival of Little Emily and her Mother in the Pen -- Maternal Sorrows -- The Story of Eliza. |
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CHAPTER IV -- Eliza's Sorrows -- Preparation to Embark -- Driven Through the Streets of Washington -- Hail, Columbia -- The Tomb of Washington -- Clem Ray -- The Breakfast on the Steamer -- The happy Birds -- Aquia Creek -- Fredericksburgh -- Arrival in Richmond -- Goodin and his Slave Pen -- Robert, of Cincinnati -- David and his Wife -- Mary and Lethe -- Clem's Return -- His subsequent Escape to Canada -- The Brig Orleans -- James H. Burch. |
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CHAPTER V -- Arrival at Norfolk -- Frederick and Maria -- Arthur, the Freeman -- Appointed Steward -- Jim, Cuffee, and Jenny -- The Storm -- Bahama Banks -- The Calm -- The Conspiracy -- The Long Boat -- The Small-Pox -- Death of Robert -- Manning, the Sailor -- The Meeting in the Forecastle -- The Letter -- Arrival At New-Orleans -- Arthur's Rescue -- Theophilus Free- man, the Consignee -- Platt -- First Night in the New-Orleans Slave Pen. |
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CHAPTER VI -- Freeman's Industry -- Cleanliness and Clothes -- Exercising in the Show Room -- The Dance -- Bob, the Fiddler -- Arrival of Customers -- Slaves Examined -- The Old Gentleman of New-Orleans -- Sale of David, Caroline, and Lethe -- Parting of Randall and Eliza -- Small-Pox -- The Hospital -- Recovery and Return to Freeman's Slave Pen -- The Purchaser of Eliza, Harry, and Platt -- Eliza's Agony on Parting from Little Emily. |
| Summary |
Here is the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York. He was kidnaped by unscrupulous slave hunters and sold into slavery where he endured unimaginable degradation and abuse until his rescue twelve years later. A powerful and riveting condemnation of American slavery. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?
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Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863? |
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1800-1899 |
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Slaves -- United States -- Biography.
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Slaves' writings, American.
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African Americans -- Biography.
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Plantation life -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century.
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Slavery -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century.
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African Americans. |
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Plantation life. |
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Slavery. |
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Slaves. |
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Slaves' writings, American. |
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Louisiana. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books. |
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Biography.
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History.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9781625586537 : $.99 |
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1625586531 : $.99 |
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