Audiobooks by Solomon Northup

'12 Years a Slave' is the harrowing, true account of a free Black man living in New York during the early 1800's who is kidnaped, transported to Louisiana and forced to work and live as a slave for over a decade. Written by the man who experienced these horrors - Solomon Northup - this book is a powerful and disturbing first-hand account of what it was like to live under the lash and chronicles the torments Northup endured in attempting to escape his captors and return home to his family in New York. Northup's book was an immediate sensation when it was first published and was often singled out by the abolitionist movement as a foundational document in the argument to end the dehumanizing and morally bankrupt practice of human slavery in America. In 2013, it was the basis for the award-winning film of the same name. '12 Years a Slave' is presented here in its original and unabridged format.

Solomon Northup (Author), Amir Abdullah (Narrator)

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Twelve Years A Slave: (Full Book and Comprehensive Reading Companion)

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Solomon Northup was born a free black man. He was kidnapped, tortured, and sold into slavery. For 12 years, he was kept in bondage as a slave in Louisiana--Twelve Years a Slave is his moving and raw account of survival and life as a slave. This edition includes the full book as well as a comprehensive companion with historical notes, character overview, themes overview, and chapter summaries.

Solomon Northup (Author), Digital Voice Mike G (Narrator)

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Twelve Years a Slave (Unabridged)

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. In 1841, free Black man Solomon Northup is tricked into going south, kidnapped, and sold into slavery. Stripped of his identity, he endures 12 brutal years under various masters. Facing cruelty, betrayal, and the constant struggle for survival, Solomon clings to hope and his past. Through his skills and resilience, he forges alliances and earns trust. Finally, with a chance encounter, Solomon contacts his family in the North, leading to a daring escape and long-awaited freedom. 'Twelve Years a Slave' is a harrowing yet inspiring true story of resilience and the fight for basic human rights. Audiobook annotated with full book summary and top quotes.

Solomon Northup (Author), Digital Voice Mike G (Narrator)

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Doce años de esclavitud

Un desgarrador testimonio de primera mano sobre la experiencia de la esclavitud en Estados Unidos en el siglo XIX. Tal vez el mejor testimonio sobre la época más sombría de la historia estadounidense son las memorias de Solomon Northup, un afroamericano nacido como hombre libre en Nueva York, pero luego engañado, secuestrado y vendido, para acabar doce años esclavizado en varias plantaciones de Luisiana. Sus conmovedoras memorias, escritas después de su liberación en 1853, están introducidas en esta edición por el agudo estudio de la profesora e investigadora Marta Puxan-Oliva. Doce años de esclavitud ha perdurado como una crónica sobre el mal y el lado oscuro del ser humano, pero nos lega también un bello tratado sobre la amistad y la superación. Reseñas: «Cuando lo leí por primera vez, me pregunté: '¿Por qué este libro no está en los estantes de todo el mundo?'. Para mí, es un clásico. Debería encontrarse en todas las escuelas.» Steve McQueen, director de la adaptación cinematográfica del libro «Aterrador, fascinante y fuente de inspiración [...] La historia de Northup parece casi bíblica, escructurada como el descenso y la resurrección de un protagonista que, al igual que Cristo, tenía 33 años en el momento de su abducción [...] Northup nos recuerda lo frágil que es la naturaleza de la libertad en cualquier sociedad humana.» Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Root «El testamento conmovedor y vital de uno de los 'muchos miles perdidos' en la esclavitud, que supo conservar su humanidad en las entrañas de la humillación.» Saturday Review

Solomon Northup (Author), Víctor Sabi (Narrator)

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Classic Black Narratives: 12 Years a Slave, The Souls of Black Folk, The Interesting Narrative of th

Witness powerful stories about the effects and realities of living in a prejudiced society in this audio bundle of classic Black narratives. These selections are both fictional and nonfictional stories of living in a society that devalues and dehumanizes the lives of Black people. Though all four of these books were written over a hundred years ago, the realities within are still important for modern readers to read and understand. 12 Years a Slave - This is the memoir account of Solomon Northup, a man born free in New York but who ended up sold into slavery in Louisiana. This account tells of his time working in plantations and his eventual escape from slavery. The Souls of Black Folk - The Souls of Black Folk was published in 1903 as a collection of essays from W.E.B. Du Bois, an African-American sociologist. This book is comprised of 14 essays, with Du Bois's overall message being that Black people were equally worthy of the rights of white people. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano - This memoir is the story of a man born in Africa and sold into slavery as a young child. He was sold between several owners and sent around the world throughout his life, eventually working to purchase his own freedom. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - This novel follows the life of an unnamed biracial man who lives his early life among Black communities, but upon witnessing a horrific lynching, decides to live as an "Ex-Colored Man" and pass himself off as white.

James Weldon Johnson, Olaudah Equiano, Solomon Northrup, Solomon Northup, W. E. B. Du Bois (Author), David Dear, Janina Edwards, Mirron Willis, Rhett Samuel Price, Royal Jaye (Narrator)

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12 Years a Slave

Solomon Northup was born in the early 1800s in New York, and was born as a free man. He lived as a free man for over 30 years, until he was tricked into moving to Washington, D.C. by men offering him a job as a musician. Once he made it to D.C., he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana, where he was forced to work on a plantation until he could make his escape. His family had no way of knowing where he was or if he was safe – he was on his own with no hope of escaping the circumstance. In this harrowing memoir, Northrup describes the horrific conditions he and the other slaves lived in, the ways they were mistreated by their owners and were forced to mistreat one another, and the difficulty he had making his way out of slavery and back to his family. This tale is bleak, but eye-opening to the plights of slaves in the years leading up to the Civil War. 12 Years a Slave was a fast best-seller when it was published just 8 years before the Civil War, and is an integral text from the time period. This memoir was the basis for the 2013 Oscar-winning film of the same name.

Solomon Northup (Author), Mirron Willis (Narrator)

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Twelve Years a Slave

The story that inspired the major motion picture produced by Brad Pitt, directed by Steve McQueen, and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Benedict Cumberbatch, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing, vividly detailed, and utterly unforgettable account of slavery. This beautifully designed ebook edition of Twelve Years a Slave features an introduction by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, the bestselling author of Wench. Solomon Northup was an entrepreneur and dedicated family man, father to three young children, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Alonzo. What little free time he had after long days of manual and farm labor, he spent reading books and playing the violin. Though his father was born into slavery, Solomon was born and lived free. In March 1841, two strangers approached Northup, offering him employment as a violinist in a town hundreds of miles away from his home in Saratoga Springs, New York. Solomon bid his wife farewell until his return. Only after he was drugged and bound, did he realize the strangers were kidnappers—that nefarious brand of criminals in the business of capturing runaway and free blacks for profit. Thus began Northup's life as a slave. Dehumanized, beaten, and worked mercilessly, Northup suffered all the more wondering what had become of his family. One owner was savagely cruel and Northup recalls he was 'indebted to him for nothing, save undeserved abuse.' Just as he felt the summer of his life fade and all hope nearly lost, he met a kind-hearted stranger who changed the course of his life. With its first-hand account of this country's Peculiar Institution, this is a book no one interested in American history can afford to miss.

Solomon Northup (Author), David Johnson (Narrator)

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Twelve Years a Slave

The son of a freed slave, Solomon Northup lived the first thirty years of his life as a free man in upstate New York. In the spring of 1841, he was offered a job: a short-term, lucrative engagement as a violinist in a traveling circus. It was a trap. In Washington, DC, Northup was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years on plantations in Louisiana, enduring backbreaking labor, unimaginable violence, and inhumane treatment at the hands of cruel masters, until a kind stranger helped to win his release. His account of those years is a shocking, unforgettable portrait of America’s most insidious historical institution as told by a man who experienced it firsthand. Published shortly after Harriet Beecher Stowe’s abolitionist classic Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Northup’s memoir became a bestseller in 1853. With its eloquent depiction of life before and after bondage, Twelve Years a Slave was a unique and effective entry into the national debate over slavery. Rediscovered in the 1960s and now the inspiration for a major motion picture, Northup’s poignant narrative gives readers an invaluable glimpse into a shameful chapter of American history.

Solomon Northup (Author), Joey Smith (Narrator)

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Zniewolony. 12 years a slave

Jest rok 1841. Na dwadzieścia lat przed wybuchem wojny secesyjnej Solomon Northup – wolny i wykształcony człowiek z Północy, ojciec dwojga dzieci, szczęśliwy mąż i szanowany obywatel – zostaje podstępem porwany i sprzedany handlarzom niewolników. Tak rozpoczyna się trwająca dwanaście lat dramatyczna odyseja człowieka, który wbrew otaczającej go brutalnej rzeczywistości próbuje przetrwać i nigdy nie tracić nadziei na wolność. Po jakimś czasie spisuje swoją historię – poruszające świadectwo tego, czym było niewolnictwo w XIX-wiecznej Ameryce. Człowiek raz wolny, pozostanie nim na zawsze. Film na podstawie wspomnień Northupa zachwycił rzesze krytyków i został okrzyknięty przez publiczność absolutnym arcydziełem! Polskim dystrybutorem filmu jest Monolith.

Solomon Northup (Author), Wojciech żołądkowicz. (Narrator)

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