Автор: Solomon Northup

The shocking first-hand account of one man’s remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture.‘Why had I not died in my young years – before God had given me children to love and live for? What unhappiness and suffering and sorrow it would have prevented. I sighed for liberty; but the bondsman’s chain was round me, and could not be shaken off.’1841: Solomon Northup is a successful violinist when he is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Taken from his family in New York State – with no hope of ever seeing them again – and forced to work on the cotton…

Now a major motion picture nominated for nine Academy Awards. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup is a memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, DC, as well as describing at length cotton cultivation on major plantations in…

„12 aastat orjana“ on New Yorgi osariigi kodaniku Solomon Northupi jutustus sellest, kuidas ta 1841. aastal Washingtonis rööviti ja 1853. aastal Louisianas ühest Punase jõe ääres asunud puuvillaistandusest vabastati. Solomoni saatuseks oli viibida vangistuses mitme peremehe omanduses. See, kuidas teda koheldi Pine Woodsis viibimise ajal, näitab, et orjapidajate seas leidub nii humaanseid inimesi kui ka jõhkardeid. Mõnedest neist räägitakse tänulike tunnetega, teistest seevastu…