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    Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born...
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  • 12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years...
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  • Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir by Solomon Northup. Twelve Years a Slave may also refer to: 12 Years a Slave (film), a 2013 film based on the memoir...
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    African-American enslaved woman. Solomon Northup wrote about her in his book Twelve Years a Slave, which is the source for most of the information known about her...
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    Solomon Northup (category People who wrote slave narratives)
    memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and a free woman of color. A farmer and a professional...
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  • politician from New York. He is best known for his role in publishing Twelve Years a Slave, as told to him by Solomon Northup, in 1853. David Wilson was born...
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  • (1807–1853) was a white Canadian abolitionist who helped Solomon Northup, author of Twelve Years a Slave, attain his freedom. Northup was a free black man...
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  • reissued as Half Slave, Half Free, is a 1984 American television film based on the 1853 autobiography Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a free black...
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    Slavery (redirect from Life as a slave)
    ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location of work...
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  • selling of Solomon Northup, a free man, in Washington in 1841. Northup wrote a memoir of his time as a slave, Twelve Years a Slave. Birch was tried but acquitted...
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    Monkeys The Dirty Dozen The Twelve Chairs (1970, 1971 and 1976) 12 Rounds Twelve Twelve Years a Slave The number twelve plays a significant role in the television...
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    memoir, Twelve Years a Slave (1853), a slave narrative of plantation life on the Red River in Louisiana, and a description of Washington, D.C.'s slave trade...
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  • Edwin Epps (category American slave owners)
    the 2013 film 12 Years a Slave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118944104/edwin-epps Stevenson 2014, p. 110. "Twelve Years a Slave. Solomon Northrup"...
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  • 'Twelve Years a Slave', 'You Are Here', 'Claire's Cambodia'". June 25, 2012. Retrieved July 9, 2014. "'Last Man on Earth' Returns in Season 3 With a Major...
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    away. From 1843 to 1853, Epps, a small planter, owned Solomon Northup, author of famous slave narrative Twelve Years A Slave. Scott, Mike (September 10,...
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  • in 2023 Appel à candidatures: envie de figurer aux côtés d’Emilia Clarke («Game Of Thrones») et Chiwetel Ejiofor («Twelve Years A Slave»)? (in French)...
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    former overseer turned planter and, for 10 years, owner of Solomon Northup, who authored Twelve Years a Slave. Erchinoald (died 658), mayor of the palace...
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    Theophilus Freeman (category 19th-century American slave traders)
    American slave narratives—that of John Brown and that of Solomon Northup—and he appears as a character in both filmed dramatizations of Northrup's Twelve Years...
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    Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House, in 1868. It was both a slave narrative and a portrait of the first family...
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    the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in...
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    from 1974 to 1980 Sue Eakin, author and editor of Twelve Years a Slave. Leroy Augustus Stafford, a Rapides Parish planter and brigadier general in the...
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  • Governor's Council to serve as a slave for the remainder of his life. Two European men who ran away with him received a lighter sentence of extended indentured...
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  • Music from and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave is the soundtrack album to 12 Years a Slave. It contains two tracks from the film score composed by Hans Zimmer...
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  • Watson, A Fugitive Slave, Boston, 1848. Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave, Auburn, and Buffalo, New York, and London, 1853 John Brown, Slave Life in...
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  • 12 Years a Slave is the original soundtrack album to the 2013 film 12 Years a Slave starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch...
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    A house slave was a slave who worked, and often lived, in the house of the slave-owner, performing domestic labor. House slaves performed essentially...
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    from 1841 until he was rescued and liberated in 1853. Author of Twelve Years a Slave. Solomon Flores, enslaved man from northern Alabama. Sosias the Thracian...
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    Kidnapping into slavery in the United States (category Slave trade in the United States)
    Solomon Northrup published Twelve Years a Slave, a memoir of his kidnapping from New York and twelve years spent as a slave in Louisiana. His book sold...
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  • and four black collaborators. He is then sold to a slave trader and placed aboard the slave ship for a three-month journey to Colonial America. The ship...
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  • University Women. Eakin researched the story of Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave, and published a version of the book that corrected historical inaccuracies...
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