Twelve Years a Slave

Twelve Years a SlaveThe basis for the Academy Award winning movie! "A moving, vital testament to one of slavery's 'many thousand gone' who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation." Saturday Review Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, DC, in 1841. He spent the next 12 harrowing years of his life as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life.

A favorite for generations

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which went through more than a dozen printings in France and Italy

surface anatomy

and cross-sections that reveal inner workings — all of these help to clarify even further an already clear and well-organized presentation

the novel terrified readers of the Victorian era with its account of an invasion of hostile creatures from Mars who moved across the English landscape in bizarre metal transports

sturdily yet inexpensively produced

Step-by-step demonstrations and over 200 of the author's own drawings offer inspiration and practical guidance in the technique

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connection

with a New Introduction by Stanley Appelbaum

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