[ENSLAVEMENT & ABOLITION]. NORTHUP, Solomon (ca 1807/1808-ca 1864). Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup. New York, NY and Auburn, NY: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1855.
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Oct 25, 2024
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[ENSLAVEMENT & ABOLITION]. NORTHUP, Solomon (ca 1807/1808-ca 1864). Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup. New York, NY and Auburn, NY: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1855.
12mo. Frontispiece portrait and 6 plates. Brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered.
Provenance: Bookplate of historian Arthur M. Schlesinger.
“Twenty-Eighth Thousand” memoir of Solomon Northup. A free-born African American, he was drugged and kidnapped in Washington, DC before being transported to New Orleans and sold into enslavement. Northup's memoir was published during the first year of his regained freedom with several printings in the first edition and 3 additional editions by 1859.
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