Twelve Years a Slave

A Norton Critical Edition

By: Solomon Northup, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Editor)

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Paperback | 5 December 2016 | Edition Number 1

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432 Pages

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Critical

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2.1 x 1.3 x 0.2

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This Norton Critical Edition of Solomon Northup's harrowing autobiography is based on the 1853 first edition. It is accompanied by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kevin Burkeâs introduction and detailed explanatory footnotes.

The Norton Critical Edition also includes:

The illustrations printed in the original book.
Contemporary sources (1853-62), among them newspaper accounts of Northupâs kidnapping and ordeal and commentary by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Thomas W. MacMahon.
A Genealogy of Secondary Sources (1880-2015) presenting twenty-four voices spanning three centuries on the memoir's major themes. Contributors include George Washington Williams, Marion Wilson Starling, Kenneth Stampp, Robert B. Stepto, Trish Loughran, and David Fiske, Clifford W. Brown, Jr., and Rachel Seligman, among others.
The 2013 film adaptationâ"12 Years a Slaveâ"fully considered, with criticism and major reviews of the film as well as Henry Louis Gates's three interviews with its director, Steve McQueen.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography.

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