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Twelve Years a Slave, a chronicle of the amazing ordeal of a free African-American kidnapped in the north, and impressed into slavery in Louisiana, is one of the most compelling and detailed slave n …

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.   Twelve Years a Slave, a chronicle of the amazing ordeal of a free African-American kidnapped in the north …

‚Reader be assured this narrative is no fiction. I am aware that some of my adventures may seem incredible; but they are, nevertheless, strictly true.‘ — Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl   …

“In a stunning reversal of stereotype, he is often a man among beasts.”   —Eric Ashley Hairston, from the Introduction   Twelve Years a Slave, a chronicle of the amazing ordeal of Solomon N …