
Twelve Years a Slave
In this riveting landmark autobiography that reads like a novel, Academy Award and Emmy winner Louis Gossett, Jr., masterfully transports us to 1840s New York, Louisiana, and Washington, DC, to experience the kidnapping and twelve-year bondage of Solomon Northup, a free man of color.
Twelve Years a Slave, published in 1853, was an immediate bombshell in the national debate over slavery leading up t...
In this riveting landmark autobiography that reads like a novel, Academy Award and Emmy winner Louis Gossett, Jr., masterfully transports us to 1840s New York, Louisiana, and Washington, DC, to experience the kidnapping and twelve-year bondage of Solomon Northup, a free man of color.
Twelve Years a Slave, published in 1853, was an immediate bombshell in the national debate over slavery leading up t...