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Collection Reference Number GLC05840
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to 1853 
Title Twelve years a slave: narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the red river, in Louisiana
Date 1853
Author Northup, Solomon (ca. 1808-1863)  
Document Type Book
Content Description Published in Auburn by Derby and Miller; Buffalo, New York by Derby, Orton and Mulligan; and Cincinnati, Ohio by Henry W. Derby. Woodcut illustrations. Northup dedicates the book to Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Subjects Slave Life  Slavery  African American History  Freemen  Reform Movement  Woman Author  Women's History  Prisoner  
People Northup, Solomon (ca. 1808-1863)  Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)  
Place written Auburn, New York
Theme African Americans; Slavery & Abolition; Women in American History
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859