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Twelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841 and rescued in 1

 
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Source: Original data: Northup, Solomon,. Twelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841 and rescued in 1853 from a cotton plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana.. Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1853.
 
Notes:   At head of title: Seventeenth thousand.
Editor's pref. signed: David Wilson.
Imperfect: print faded with some loss of text.
 
Subjects:   Northup, Solomon, b. 1808.
Slavery -- Louisiana.
Plantation life -- Louisiana.
Slaves
Louisiana
 
Table of Contents
 
Front matter
Title page
Contents
Editors preface
Narrative of Solomon Northup. Chapter I. Introductory...
Chapter II. The two strangers...
Chapter III. Painful meditations...
Chapter IV. Elizas sorrows...
Chapter V. Arrival at Norfolk...
Chapter VI. Freemans industry...
Chapter VII. The steamboat Rodolph...
Chapter VIII. Fords embarrassments...
Chapter IX. The hot sun...
Chapter X. Return to Tibeats...
Chapter XI. The Mistress Garden...
Chapter XII. Personal apperance of Epps...
Chapter XIII. The curious axe-helve...
Chapter XIV. Destruction of the cotton crop on 1845...
Chapter XV. Labors on sugar plantations...
Chapter XVI. Overseers...
Chapter XVII. Wiley disregards the counsels of Aunt Phese and Uncle Abram, and his is cought by the patrollers...
Chapter XVIII. ONiel, the Tanner...
Chapter XIX. Avery, of Bayou Rouge...
Chapter XX. Bass faithful to his world...
Chapter XXI. The letter reaches Saratoga...
Chapter XXII. Arrival in New Orleans...
Appendix

   
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