Twelve Years a Slave

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup Audiobook
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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.

Studio Narrated Audiobook 7 hrs 55 mins | BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY | Cultural, Ethnic and Regional

Twelve Years a Slave

Publisher
Eakin Films & Publishing
Narrator
Louis Gossett Jr.

Studio Narrated Audiobook

This audiobook is a traditionally narrated work produced in a studio with a live voice actor and contains no content generated using Voice Replica technologies or synthetic narration.

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.

Chapters

# Title Duration
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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