12 Years a Slave: the sad song of Solomon Northup
▻http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10498277/12-Years-a-Slave-the-sad-song-of-Solomon-Northup.html
At home in Syracuse, New York, Adams read Twelve Years a Slave alone in his room - “quicker than any book I’d ever read in my life”. And when he finished, he just sat there and cried like he’d never cried before. “I understood then that this really was my relative who was born free, then kidnapped and sold into slavery,” he says.
Twelve Years a Slave describes how Solomon Northup, born in upstate New York and married with three children at the time of his capture, ended up working in the cotton fields of Louisiana. It recounts in grim detail the suffering he endured at the hands of several slave owners before being rescued in 1853.
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