Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave was one of some 150 so-called “Slave Narratives” published before the Civil War. Their purpose was to give the white Northerners a first-hand glimpse of slavery and to enlist them in the antislavery crusade. They were both literature and propaganda. What is the essence of Northup’s description of Southern slavery?
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