Sounded ID: 9781624609947
ISBN: 9781624609947
Publication Date: November 21, 2019
Publisher: Eakin Films & Publishing
Language: English
Author Name: Solomon Northup
Narrator Name: Louis Gossett Jr.
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 to the Civil War. It validated Harriett Beecher Stowe's fictional account of Southern slavery in Uncle Tom's Cabin, which had become the best-selling American book in history a few years earlier, and ...
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 to the Civil War. It validated Harriett Beecher Stowe's fictional account of Southern slavery in Uncle Tom's Cabin, which had become the best-selling American book in history a few years earlier, and significantly changed public opinion in favor of abolition. A major motion picture based on the book and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Paul Giamatti, and Michael Fassbender released in 2013.
Hard working Solomon Northup, an educated free man of color in 1841, enjoys family life with his wife and three children in Saratoga, New York. He delights his community with his fiddle playing and antic spirit and has positive expectations of everyone he meets. When he is deceived by 'circus promoters' who ask him to accompany them to a musical gig in Washington, DC, his joyful life takes an unimaginable turn. He awakes in shackles to find he has been drugged, kidnapped, and bound for the slave block in the nation's capital.
After Solomon is shipped a thousand miles to New Orleans, he is assigned his slave name and quickly learns that the mere utterance of his true origin or rights as a freeman are certain to bring severe punishment, maybe even death. While he endures the brutal life of a slave in Louisiana's isolated Bayou Boeuf plantation country, he must learn how to play the system and plot his escape home.
When Solomon finally finds a sympathizing friend who risks his life to secret a letter to the North, a courageous rescue attempt ensues that could either compound Solomon's suffering or get him back to the arms of his family.
# | Title | Duration |
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1. | 01-12YearsaSlave-Intro |
0 mins 57 secs |
2. | 02-12YearsaSlave-Chapter1 |
16 mins 39 secs |
3. | 03-12YearsaSlave-Chapter2 |
17 mins 50 secs |
4. | 04-12YearsaSlave-Chapter3 |
22 mins 25 secs |
5. | 05-12YearsaSlave-Chapter4 |
17 mins 07 secs |
6. | 06-12YearsaSlave-Chapter5 |
20 mins 33 secs |
7. | 07-12YearsaSlave-Chapter6 |
17 mins 45 secs |
8. | 08-12YearsaSlave-Chapter7 |
23 mins 44 secs |
9. | 09-12YearsaSlave-Chapter8 |
19 mins 02 secs |
10. | 10-12YearsaSlave-Chapter9 |
19 mins 45 secs |
11. | 11-12YearsaSlave-Chapter10 |
23 mins 25 secs |
12. | 12-12YearsaSlave-Chapter11 |
24 mins 30 secs |
13. | 13-12YearsaSlave-Chapter12 |
20 mins 32 secs |
14. | 14-12YearsaSlave-Chapter13 |
22 mins 27 secs |
15. | 15-12YearsaSlave-Chapter14 |
25 mins 25 secs |
16. | 16-12YearsaSlave-Chapter15 |
22 mins 48 secs |
17. | 17-12YearsaSlave-Chapter16 |
21 mins 19 secs |
18. | 18-12YearsaSlave-Chapter17 |
21 mins 40 secs |
19. | 19-12YearsaSlave-Chapter18 |
19 mins 11 secs |
20. | 20-12YearsaSlave-Chapter19 |
24 mins 34 secs |
21. | 21-12YearsaSlave-Chapter20 |
14 mins 25 secs |
22. | 22-12YearsaSlave-Chapter21 |
31 mins 49 secs |
23. | 23-12YearsaSlave-Chapter22 |
19 mins 02 secs |
24. | 24-12YearsaSlave-Afterword |
3 mins 40 secs |
25. | 25-12YearsaSlave-Outro |
1 mins 39 secs |
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