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Twelve Years a Slave, a chronicle of the amazing ordeal of a free African American kidnapped in the North, and impressed into slavery in Louisiana, is one of the most compelling and detailed slave narratives in existence. Northup resists the urge to laud himself as an exemplary character of focus solely on his own experience, giving contemporary readers a remarkable account of the lives of the slave community as a whole. As an educated man, torn from...
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