12 years a slave

Resource Information

The work 12 years a slave represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Neenah Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

12 years a slave

Statement of responsibility

Solomon Northup

Creator

• Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?

Contributor

• Findaway World, LLC
• Playaway Digital Audio

Subject

• Digital audio book
• Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?
• Plantation life -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century
• Slavery -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century
• African Americans -- Biography
• Slaves' writings, American
• Slaves -- Biography

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"Solomon Northup was born in the early 1800s in New York, and was born as a free man. He lived as a free man for over 30 years, until he was tricked into moving to Washington, D.C. by men offering him a job as a musician. Once he made it to D.C., he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana, where he was forced to work on a plantation until he could make his escape. His family had no way of knowing where he was or if he was safe - he was on his own with no hope of escaping the circumstance. In this harrowing memoir, Northrup describes the horrific conditions he and the other slaves lived in, the ways they were mistreated by their owners and were forced to mistreat one another, and the difficulty he had making his way out of slavery and back to his family. This tale is bleak, but eye-opening to the plights of slaves in the years leading up to the Civil War."--

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

PLAYA

Dewey number

• 306.3/62092
• B

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

LC call number

E444

LC item number

.N87 2021d

Music parts

not applicable

PerformerNote

Narrated by Mirron Willis

Target audience

adult

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable