{"product_id":"twelve-years-a-slave-9781945186066","title":"Twelve Years a Slave","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe basis of the 2013 Academy Award-winning film 12 \u003ci\u003eYears a Slave\u003c\/i\u003e, this is the autobiography of Solomon Northup--an African American man born free in New York state who is tricked, kidnapped, taken to Washington, DC, and sold into slavery.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSolomon experiences the true horrors of the slave trade--intense cruelty, beatings, sickness, negligence, barbarism, starvation. Throughout the book's melancholic prose, Northup recounts these horrific experiences in excruciating and agonizing detail. In one of the book's passages, he states: \"My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!\" For the next twelve years, Northup kept his identity hidden only to himself and remained imprisoned in this state of bondage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally published eight years before the Civil War and similar in many ways to \u003ci\u003eNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass\u003c\/i\u003e, this groundbreaking work gave Americans from the north razor-sharp, firsthand insight into the tragedies that were occurring in the South. Still today, Northup's story is widely studied and reprinted, giving its readers a glimpse into a painful part of our country's past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePackaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. It features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. From the musings of literary geniuses like Mark Twain in \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e to the striking personal narrative of Harriet Jacobs in \u003ci\u003eIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, this new series is a comprehensive collection of our history through the words of the exceptional few.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Clydesdale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945186066\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d","brand":"Solomon Northup","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51924748632245,"sku":"9781945186066","price":3.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_fbfe8bbc-b0d1-4829-aea4-1a68c2186e59.jpg?v=1761660739","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/twelve-years-a-slave-9781945186066","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}