Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. It features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. From the musings of literary geniuses like Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the striking personal narrative of Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl , this new series is a comprehensive collection of our history through the words of the exceptional few.
The original story for the 2013 Academy Award–winning film Twelve Years a Slave is the autobiographical account of Solomon Northup—an African American man born free in New York State who is tricked, kidnapped, taken to Washington, DC, and sold into slavery. After being drugged, bound, and denied his rights as a free man, Northup is sold and transported to slave owners in New Orleans.
Here he experiences the true horrors of the slave trade—intense cruelty, beatings, sickness, negligence, barbarism, starvation. Throughout the book's melancholic prose, Northup recounts these horrific experiences in excruciating and agonizing detail. In one of the book's passages, he states: “My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!" For the next twelve years, Northup kept his identity hidden only to himself and remained imprisoned in this state of bondage.
Originally published eight years before the Civil War and written in the same vein as the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass , this groundbreaking work gave Americans from the north razor-sharp, firsthand insight into the tragedies that were occurring in the South. Still today, Northup's story is widely studied and reprinted, giving its readers a glimpse into a painful part of our country's past.

Twelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 181, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana

为奴十二载 = 12 years a slave Wei nu shi er zai = 12 years a slave

Twelve Years a Slave (Clydesdale Classics)

Twelve Years a Slave (Chinese Edition)

Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr; Berlin, Ira, 1941-2018; McQueen, Steve, 1969-

Northup, Solomon; Gates, Henry Louis; Berlin, Ira; McQueen, Steve; Gates, Henry Louis

Solomon Northup; Henry Louis Gates; Ira Berlin; Steve McQueen; Henry Louis Gates

Suoluomen Nuosepu zhu; Chang Fei yi

Solomon Northup, Sue L. Eakin

Solomon Northup; 3M Company

诺瑟普, 所罗门, 1808-1863 author

Beijing da xue chu ban she; Bei jing da xue chu ban she

Bei Jing Da Xue Chu Ban She/ Tsai Fong Books

Penguin, Random House, Random House Canada

北京大学出版社 Beijing da xue chu ban she

Louisiana State University Press

Putnam Publishing Group, The

Penguin Publishing Group

Peking University Press

Clydesdale Press, LLC

Anthony Lyons

Puffin Books

Place of publication not identified, 2013

Louisiana paperback edition, 1975, 1997

United States, United States of America

Penguin classics, New York, NY, 2013

Di 1 ban, Beijing Shi, China, 2014

Simon & Schuster, New York, 2016

Penguin Classics, New York, 2012

Di 1 ban, 北京市 Beijing Shi, 2014

China, People's Republic, China

Media Tie In, 2013

Bei jing, 2014

Reprint, 2016

Toronto, 2014

Translation of: 12 years a slave : a true story of betrayal, kidnap and slavery.

1 online resource (xxxviii, 240 pages) :
Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, Northup published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave.--Page [4] of cover
Originally published in 1853
"Now a major motion picture."--Cover
Includes bibliographical references and index
Print version record
General editor essay / Henry Louis Gates Jr -- Introduction / Ira Berlin -- Suggestions for further reading -- Twelve Years A Slave: -- Editor's Preface -- Chapter 1: -- Introductory -- Ancestry -- Northup family -- Birth and parentage -- Mintus Northup -- Marriage with Anne Hampton -- Good Resolutions -- Champlain canal -- Rafting excursion to Canada -- Farming -- Violin -- Cooking -- Removal to Saratoga -- Parker and Perry -- Slaves and slavery -- Children -- Beginning of sorrow -- Chapter 2: -- Two strangers -- Circus company -- Departure from Saratoga -- Ventriloquism and legerdemain -- Journey to New York -- Free papers -- Brown and Hamilton -- Haste to reach the circus -- Arrival in Washington -- Funeral of Harrison -- Sudden sickness -- Torment of thirst -- Receding light -- Insensibility -- Chains and darkness -- Chapter 3: -- Painful meditations -- James H Burch -- Williams slave pen in Washington -- Lackey, Radburn -- Assert my freedom -- Anger of the trader -- Paddle and cat-o-ninetails -- Whipping -- New acquaintances -- Ray, Williams, and Randall -- Arrival of little Emily and her mother in the pen -- Maternal sorrows -- Story of Eliza -- Chapter 4: -- Eliza's sorrows -- Preparation to embark -- Driven through the streets of Washington -- Hail, Columbia -- Tomb of Washington -- Clem Ray -- Breakfast on the streamer -- Happy birds -- Aquia Creek -- Fredericksburgh -- Arrival in Richmond -- Goodin and his slave pen -- Robert, of Cincinnati -- David and his wife -- Mary and Lethe -- Clem's return -- His subsequent escape to Canada -- Brig Orleans -- James H Burch -- Chapter 5: -- Arrival at Norfolk -- Frederick and Maria -- Arthur, the freeman -- Appointed steward -- Jim, Cuffee, and Jenny -- Storm -- Bahama Banks -- Calm -- Conspiracy -- Long-boat -- Small-pox -- Death of Robert -- Manning, the sailor -- Meeting in the forecastle -- Letter -- Arrival at New Orleans -- Arthur's rescue -- Theophilus Freeman, the consignee -- Platt -- First night in the New Orleans slave pen -- Chapter 6: -- Freeman's industry -- Cleanliness and clothes -- Exercising in the show room -- Dance -- Bob, the fiddler -- Arrival of customers -- Slaves examined -- Old gentleman of New Orleans -- Sale of David, Caroline and Lethe -- Parting of Randal and Eliza -- Small-pox -- Hospital -- Recovery and return to Freeman's slave pen -- Purchaser of Eliza, Harry, and Platt -- Eliza's agony on parting from little Emily -- Streamboat Rodolph -- Departure from New Orleans -- William Ford -- Arrival at Alexandria, on Red River -- Resolutions -- Great Pine Woods -- Wild cattle -- Martin's summer residence -- Texas road -- Arrival at Master Ford's -- Rose -- Mistress Ford -- Sally, and her children -- John, the cook -- Walter, Sam, and Antony -- Mills on Indian Creek -- Sabbath days -- Sam's conversion -- Profit of kindness -- Rafting -- Adam Taydem, the little white man -- Cascalla and his tribe -- Indian Ball -- John M Tibets -- Storm approaching -- Chapter 8: -- Ford's embarrassments -- Sale to Tibests -- Chattel mortgage -- Mistress Ford's plantation on Bayou Boeuf -- Description of the latter -- Ford's brother-in-law, Peter Tanner -- Meeting with Eliza -- She still mourns for her children -- Ford's overseer, Chapin -- Tibeats' abuse -- Keg of nails -- First fight with Tibeats -- His discomfiture and castigation -- Attempt to hang me -- Chapin's interference and speech -- Unhappy reflections -- Abrupt departure of Tibeats, Cook and Ramsay -- Lawson and the brown mule -- Message to the pine woods -- Chapter 9: -- Hot sun -- Yet bound -- Cords sink into my flesh -- Chapin's uneasiness -- Speculation -- Rachel, and her cup of water -- Suffering increases -- Happiness of slavery -- Arrival of Ford -- He cuts the Cords which bind me, and takes the rope from my neck -- Misery -- Gathering of the slaves in Eliza's cabin -- Their kindness -- Rachel repeats the occurrences of the day -- Lawson entertains his companions with an account of his ride -- Chapin's apprehensions of Tibeats -- Hired to Peter Tanner -- Peter expounds the scriptures -- Description of the stocks -- Chapter 10: -- Return to Tibeats -- Impossibility of pleasing him -- He attacks me with a hatchet -- Struggle over the broad-axe -- Temptation to murder him -- Escape across the plantation -- Observations from the fence -- Tibeats approaches, followed by the hounds -- They take my track -- Their loud yells -- They almost overtake me -- I reach the water -- Hounds confused -- Moccasin snakes -- Alligators -- Night in the "Great Pacoudrie Swamp" -- Sounds of life -- North-West course -- Emerge into the pine woods -- Slave and his young master -- Arrival at Ford's -- Food and rest -- Chapter 11: -- Mistress' garden -- Crimson and golden fruit -- Orange and pomegranate tress -- Return to Bayou Beouf -- Master Ford's remarks on the way -- Meeting with Tibeats -- His account of the chase -- Ford censures his brutality -- Arrival at the plantation -- Astonishment of the slaves on seeing me -- Anticipated flogging -- Kentucky John -- Mr Eldret, the planter -- Eldret's Sam -- Trip to the "big cane brake" -- Tradition of "Sutton's Field" -- Forest trees -- Gnats and mosquitoes -- Arrival of black women in the big cane -- Lumber women -- Sudden appearances of Tibeats -- His provoking treatment -- Visit to Bayou Boeuf -- Slave pass -- Southern hospitality -- Last of Eliza -- Sale to Edwin Epps
Chapter 12: -- Personal appearance of Epps -- Epps, drunk and sober -- Glimpse of his history -- Cotton growing -- Mode of ploughing and preparing ground -- Of planting -- Of hoeing, of picking, of treating raw hands -- Difference in cotton pickers -- Patsey a remarkable one -- Tasked according to ability -- Beauty of cotton field -- Slave's labors -- Fear on approaching the Gin-house -- Weighting -- Chores -- Cabin life -- Corn mill -- Uses of the gourd -- Fear of oversleeping -- Fear continually -- Mode of cultivating corn -- Sweet potatoes -- Fertility of the soil -- Fattening hogs -- Preserving bacon -- Raising cattle -- Shooting -- Matches -- Garden products -- Flowers and verdure -- Chapter 13: -- Curious Axe-helve -- Symptoms of approaching illness -- Continue to decline -- Whip ineffectual -- Confined to the cabin -- Visit by Dr Wines -- Partial recovery -- Failure at cotton picking -- What may be heard on Epps' plantation -- Lashes graduated -- Epps in a Whipping mood -- Epps in a dancing mood -- Description of the dance -- Loss of rest no excuse -- Epps' characteristics -- Jim Burns -- Removal from Huff Power to Bayou Boeuf -- Description of Uncle Abram; of Wiley; of Aunt Phebe; of Bob, Henry, and Edward; of Patsey; with a genealogical account of each -- Something of their past history, and peculiar characteristics -- Jealousy and lust -- Patsey, the victim -- Chapter 14: -- Destruction of the cotton crop in 1845 -- Demand for laborers in St Mary's Parish -- Sent thither in a drove -- Order of the march -- Grand Coteau -- Hired to Judge Turner on Bayou Salle -- Appointed driver in his sugar house -- Sunday services -- Slave furniture; how obtained -- Party at Yarney's in Centreville -- Good fortune -- Captain of the steamer -- His refusal to secret me -- Return to Bayou Boeuf -- Sight of Tibeats -- Patsey's sorrows -- Tumult and contention -- Hunting the coon and opossum -- Cunning of the latter -- Lean condition of the slave -- Description of the fish trap -- Murder of the man from Natchez -- Epps challenged by Marshall -- Influence of slavery -- Love of freedom -- Chapter 15: -- Labors on sugar plantations -- Mode of planting cane -- Of hoeing cane -- Cane ricks -- Cutting cane -- Description of the cane knife -- Winrowing -- Preparing for succeeding crops -- Description of Hawkin's sugar mill on Bayou Boeuf -- Christmas holidays -- Carnival season of the children of bondage -- Christmas supper -- Red, the favorite color -- Violin, and the consolation it afforded -- Christmas dance -- Lively, the coquette -- Sam Roberts, and his rivals -- Slave songs -- Southern life as it is -- Three days in the year -- System of marriage -- Uncle Abram's contempt of matrimony -- Chapter 16: -- Overseers -- How they are armed and accompanied -- Homicide -- His execution at Marksville -- Slave-drivers -- Appointed driver on removing to Bayou Boeuf -- Practice make perfect -- Epps attempt to cut Platt's throat -- Escape from him -- Protected by the mistress -- Forbids reading and writing -- Obtain a sheet of paper after nine years' effort -- Letter -- Armsby, the mean white -- Partially confide in him -- His treachery -- Epps' suspicions -- How they were quieted -- Burning the letter -- Armsby leaves the Bayou -- Disappointment and despair -- Chapter 17: -- Wiley disregards the counsels of Aunt Phebe and Uncle Abram, and is caught by the patrollers -- Organization and duties of the latter -- Wiley runs away -- Speculations in regard to him -- His unexpected return -- His capture on Red River, and confinement in Alexandria jail -- Discovered by Joseph B Roberts -- Subduing dogs in anticipation of escape -- Fugitives in the great pine woods -- Captured by Adam Taydem and the Indians -- Augustus killed by dogs -- Nelly, Eldret's slave woman -- Story of Celeste -- Concerted movement -- Lew Cheney, the traitor -- Idea of insurrection -- Chapter 18: -- O'Neil, the tanner -- Conversation with Aunt Phebe overheard -- Epps in the tanning business -- Stabbing of Uncle Abram -- Ugly wound -- Epps is jealous -- Patsey missing -- Her return from Shaw's -- Harriet, Shaw's black wife -- Epps enraged -- Patsey denies his charges -- She is tied down naked to four stakes -- Inhuman flogging -- Flaying of Patsey -- Beauty of the day -- Bucket of salt water -- Dress stiff with blood -- Patsey grows melancholy -- Her idea of god and eternity -- Of heaven and freedom -- Effect of slave-whipping -- Epps' oldest son -- Child is father to the man -- Chapter 19: -- Avery, of Bayou Rouge -- Peculiarity of dwellings -- Epps builds a new house -- Bass, the carpenter -- His noble qualities -- His personal appearance and eccentricities -- Bass and Epps discuss the question of slavery -- Epps' opinion of Bass -- I make myself known to him -- Our conversation -- His surprise -- Midnight meeting on the Bayou bank -- Bass' assurances -- Declares war against slavery -- Why I did not disclose my history -- Bass writes letters -- Copy of his letter to Messrs Parker and Perry -- Fever of suspense -- Disappointments -- Bass endeavors to cheer me -- My faith in him -- Chapter 20: -- Bass faithful to his word -- His arrival on Christmas Eve -- Difficulty of obtaining an interview -- Meeting in the cabin -- Non-arrival of the letter -- Bass announces his intention to proceed North -- Christmas -- Conversation between Epps and bass -- Young Mistress McCoy, the beauty of Bayou Boeuf -- Ne plus ultra of dinners -- Music and dancing -- Presence of the Mistress -- Her exceeding beauty -- Last slave dance -- William Pierce -- Oversleep myself -- Last whipping -- Despondency -- Cold morning -- Epps' threats -- Passing carriage -- Strangers approaching through the cotton field -- Last hour on Bayou Boeuf -- Chapter 21: -- Letter reaches Saratoga -- Is forwarded to Anne -- Is laid before Henry B Northup -- Statute of May 14, 1840 -- Its provisions -- Anne's memorial to the governor -- Affidavits accompanying it -- Senator Soule's letter -- Departure of the agent appointed by the governor -- Arrival at Marksville -- Hon John P Waddill -- Conversation on New York politics -- It suggests a fortunate idea -- Meeting with Bass -- Secret out -- Legal proceedings instituted -- Departure of Northup and the sheriff from Marksville for Bayou Boeuf -- Arrangements on the way -- Reach Epps' plantation -- Discover his slaves in the cotton field -- Meeting -- Farewell -- Chapter 22: -- Arrival in New Orleans -- Glimpse of Freeman -- Genois, the recorder -- His description of Solomon -- Reach Charleston -- Interrupted by custom house officers -- Pass through Richmond -- Arrival in Washington -- Burch arrested -- Shekels and thorn -- Their testimony -- Burch acquitted -- Arrest of Solomon -- Burch withdraws the complaint -- Higher tribunal -- Departure from Washington -- Arrival at Sandy Hill -- Old friends and familiar scenes -- Proceed to Glens Falls -- Meeting with Anne, Margaret, and Elizabeth -- Solomon Northup Staunton -- Incidents -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Index

The official movie tie-in edition to the winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong’o, and directed by Steve McQueen
New York Times bestseller
“I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It felt as important as Anne Frank’s Diary, only published nearly a hundred years before. . . . The book blew [my] mind: the epic range, the details, the adventure, the horror, and the humanity. . . . I hope my film can play a part in drawing attention to this important book of courage. Solomon’s bravery and life deserve nothing less.” — Steve McQueen, director of 12 Years a Slave, from the Foreword
Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.
After his rescue, Northup published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave.

"Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve harrowing years of his life as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. After regaining his freedom in 1853, Northup decided to publish this gripping autobiographical account of his captivity. As an educated man, Northup was able to present an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. Indeed, this book is probably the fullest, most realistic picture of the "peculiar institution" during the three decades before the Civil War. Moreover, Northup tells his story both from the viewpoint of an outsider, who had experienced thirty years of freedom and dignity in the United States before his capture, and as a slave, reduced to total bondage and submission. Very few personal accounts of American slavery were written by slaves with a similar history. Published in 1853, Northup's book found a ready audience and almost immediately became a bestseller. Aside from its vivid depiction of the detention, transportation, and sale of slaves, TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE is admired for its classic accounts of cotton and sugar production, its uncannily precise recall of people, times, and places, and the compelling details that recreate the daily routine of slaves in the Gulf South"-- Provided by publisher

One of the best and most enduring of the slave narratives, it is a frank, incisive depiction of slavery in the American south. Solomon was an African American born free in New York during the 19th century, but was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the south. Twelve Years a Slave paints a vivid picture of the horrid realities of slavery and the harrowing circumstances under which Northup was restored to freedom. It was recently adapted into a multi-Oscar winning film directed by Steve McQueen and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong'o, Michael Fassbender, and Benedict Cumberbatch. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in ebook form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved

"A harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American historyBorn a free man in New York, Solomon Northup was abducted in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, he published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life--perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave"-- Provided by publisher

Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. It features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. From the musings of literary geniuses like Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the striking personal narrative of Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this new series is a comprehensive collection of our history through the words of the exceptional few. The original story for the 2013 Academy Award#x96;winning film Twelve

Shu shi suo luo men de ge ren hui yi lu, jiang shu le zai 19 shi ji zhong ye de mei guo, suo luo men bei ren you pian zhi hua sheng du can zao bang jia bing luo ru nu li fan zi zhi shou, er ta zai nan fang zheng zha qiu sheng shi er nian, zhong yu mi de liang ji xie xin hui xiang qiu yuan bing huo jiu de gu shi. shu zhong suo bao han de shi shi da duo you ju ke cha, bi ru suo luo men zai " song shu lin " shou dao de dai yu, biao ming le nu li zhu zhong you ren dao he can ren zhi fen ; zai bei fu he de jing li ze ru shi zhan xian le dang di xian cun nu li zhi du de fang fang mian mian deng

Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having at the end of that time been kidnapped and sold into Slavery, where I remained, until happily rescued in the month of January, 1853, after a bondage of twelve years-it has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next 12 years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation, and during this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. This is his detailed description of slave life and plantation society.

书是所罗门的个人回忆录,讲述了在19世纪中叶的美国,所罗门被人诱骗至华盛顿惨遭绑架并落入奴隶贩子之手,而他在南方挣扎求生十二年,终于觅得良机写信回乡求援并获救的故事.书中所包含的事实大多有据可查,比如所罗门在"松树林"收到的待遇,表明了奴隶主中有人道和残忍之分;在贝夫河的经历则如实展现了当地现存奴隶制度的方方面面等

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