Twelve Years a Slave - The Black History Classic

DISCOVER A TALE OF UNIMAGINABLE ADVERSITY

Twelve Years a Slave tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free-born man of colour who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South in 1841. His true tale of captivity, torture and abuse brings to life the unimaginable evils of slavery in a time when it was yet to be outlawed. Equal parts slave, travel, and spiritual narrative, Twelve Years A Slave reveals Northup to be a person of astonishing strength and wisdom.

An insightful introduction by David Fiske reveals the world into which Northup was born, the kidnapping phenomenon to which he fell victim, and the legacy of slavery today.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

An Introduction by David Fiske

About David Fiske

About Tom Butler-Bowdon

Twelve Years A Slave

Editor's Preface

CHAPTER I

Introductory - Ancestry - The Northup Family - Birth and Parentage - Mintus Northup - Marriage with Anne Hampton - Good Resolutions - Champlain Canal - Rafting Excursion to Canada - Farming - The Violin - Cooking - Removal to Saratoga - Parker and Perry - Slaves and Slavery - The Children - The Beginning of Sorrow

CHAPTER II

The Two Strangers - The Circus Company - Departure from Saratoga - Ventriloquism and Legerdemain - Journey to New-York - Free Papers - Brown and Hamilton - The Haste to Reach the Circus - Arrival in Washington - Funeral of Harrison - The Sudden Sickness - The Torment of Thirst - The Receding Light - Insensibility - Chains and Darkness

CHAPTER III

Painful Meditations - James H. Burch - Williams' Slave Pen in Washington - The Lackey, Radburn - Assert My Freedom - T he Anger of the Trader - The Paddle and Cat-o'-nine-tails - The Whipping - New Acquaintances - Ray, Williams, and Randall - Arrival of Little Emily and Her Mother in the Pen - Maternal Sorrows - The Story of Eliza

CHAPTER IV

Eliza's Sorrows - Preparation to Embark - Driven Through the Streets of Washington - Hail, Columbia - The Tomb of Washington - Clem Ray - The Breakfast on the Steamer - The Happy Birds - Aquia Creek - Fredericksburgh - Arrival in Richmond - Goodin and His Slave Pen - Robert, of Cincinnati - David and His Wife - Mary and Lethe - Clem's Return - His Subsequent Escape to Canada - The Brig Orleans - James H. Burch

CHAPTER V

Arrival at Norfolk - Frederick and Maria - Arthur, the Freeman - Appointed Steward - Jim, Cuffee, and Jenny - The Storm - Bahama Banks - The Calm - The Conspiracy - The Long Boat - The Small-Pox - Death of Robert - Manning, the Sailor - The Meeting in the Forecastle - The Letter - Arrival at New-Orleans - Arthur' s Rescue - Theophilus Freeman, the Consignee - Platt - First Night in the New-Orleans Slave Pen

CHAPTER VI

Freeman's Industry - Cleanliness and Clothes - Exercising in the Show Room - The Dance - Bob, the Fiddler - Arrival of Customers - Slaves Examined - The Old Gentleman of New-Orleans - Sale of David, Caroline, and Lethe - Parting of Randall and Eliza - Small-Pox - The Hospital - Recovery and Return to Freeman's Slave Pen - The Purchaser of Eliza, Harry, and Platt - Eliza's Agony on Parting from Little Emily

CHAPTER VII

The Steamboat Rodolph - Departure from New-Orleans - William Ford - Arrival at Alexandria, on Red River - Resolutions - The Great Pine Woods - Wild Cattle - Martin's Summer Residence - The Texas Road - Arrival at Master Ford's - Rose - Mistress Ford - Sally and Her Children - John, the Cook - Walter, Sam, and Antony - The Mills on Indian Creek - Sabbath Days - Sam's Conversion - The Profit of Kindness - Rafting - Adam Taydem, the Little White Man - Cascalla and his Tribe - The Indian Ball - John M. Tibeats - The Storm Approaching

CHAPTER VIII

Ford's Embarrassments - The Sale to Tibeats - The Chattel Mortgage - Mistress Ford's Plantation on Bayou Boeuf - Description of the Latter - Ford's Brother-in-law, Peter Tanner - Meeting with Eliza - She Still Mourns for Her Children - Ford's Overseer, Chapin - Tibeats' Abuse - The Keg of Nails - The First Fight with Tibeats - His Discomfiture and Castigation - The Attempt to Hang Me - Chapin's Interference and Speech - Ramsey - Lawson and the Brown Mule - Message to the Pine Woods

CHAPTER IX

The Hot Sun - Yet Bound - The Cords Sink into My Flesh - Chapin's Uneasiness - Speculation - Rachel, and Her Cup of Water - Suffering Increases - The Happiness of Slavery - Arrival of Ford - He Cuts the Cords which Bind Me, and takes the Rope from My Neck - Mi