Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

⏱ 8 minAmerican classic

A free black man, husband and violinist, is lured south, drugged, and sold into bondage, and endures twelve years on the Louisiana plantations before his near-hopeless rescue. Solomon Northup's searing true narrative.

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