Twelve Years a Slave, a chronicle of the amazing ordeal of a free African-American kidnapped in the north, and impressed into slavery in Louisiana, is one of the most compelling and detailed slave nar
Originally published in 1853, Twelve Years a Slave is a haunting portrayal of stolen freedom and brutal life on the sugar and cotton plantations of the Deep South. Landowner, carpenter, and skilled vi
Former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, in his own wordsConsidered to be the most famous work written by a former slave, this memoir, first published in 1845 set the tone for the American ab
