Tuesday 14 January 2014 at 16:27
The memoir by Solomon Northup upon which the recent much acclaimed feature film, Twelve Years a Slave directed by Steve McQueen, was based. The narrative tells the harrowing true story of Northup, who was born free in New York state but kidnapped in Washington, D.C., sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/01/14/twelve-years-a-slave-1859/