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Twelve Years a Slave (1853) is a memoir by Solomon Northup, a free black man from New York who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. After enduring 12 years of bondage in Louisiana, Northup managed to contact friends in New York, who helped secure his release with state assistance. His account offers detailed insights into slave markets in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans, as well as the cultivation of cotton and sugar and the treatment of slaves on major plantations in Louisiana. Published shortly before the Civil War by Derby & Miller, the memoir emerged in the wake of Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), providing factual support to the abolitionist cause. Northup's work, dedicated to Stowe, achieved bestseller status with 30,000 copies sold. Although it fell into obscurity for nearly a century, it was rediscovered by Louisiana historians Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon in the early 1960s. They researched Northup's journey and co-edited a historically annotated version published by Louisiana State University Press in 1968, revitalizing interest in this important narrative of American history.
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