“Twelve Years a Slave”: Kidnapped Into the Horror of Slavery
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Originally published in 1853, Twelve Years a Slave has periodically been revived to provide a detailed, first-person account of the business and culture of enslavement in the Southern United States. In 2013, Northup’s memoir became a national sensation as a film directed by Steve McQueen, a British-born director, and starring Chiwetelu Ejiofor, an actor also from the UK, as Solomon Northup.
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His memoir offers a vivid, horrifying account of the abominable practice. It was released just a few years prior to the Civil War. Although it did not have the widespread impact of writers and abolitionists such as Frederick Douglas, it was an important testimonial that influenced a growing Northern movement to end slavery.
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