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- GLC#
- GLC05840
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 1853
- Author/Creator
- Northup, Solomon, 1808-?
- Title
- Twelve years a slave: narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the red river, in Louisiana.
- Place Written
- Auburn, New York
- Pagination
- 1 v. : 336 p. : ill. Height: 19.7 cm, Width: 13.2 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Slavery & Anti-slavery
Published in Auburn by Derby and Miller; Buffalo, New York by Derby, Orton and Mulligan; and Cincinnati, Ohio by Henry W. Derby. Woodcut illustrations. Northup dedicates the book to Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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