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Twelve Years a Slave (Illustrated)

Solomon Northup

Casa editrice: coolaij

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This illustrated edition of "Twelve Years a Slave" includes:Illustrations of objects and places mentioned in the novel. Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details himself being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South.
Disponibile da: 23/05/2022.
Lunghezza di stampa: 215 pagine.

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