1853 – 12 Years a Slave, First Edition – Solomon Northup
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12 Years a Slave, First Edition 1853
Condition: wear to extremities, light staining to front board.
Solomon Northup (ca 1807/1808-ca 1864). Twelve Years a Slave.
Narrative of Solomon Northup. Auburn, NY, Buffalo, NY, and London: Derby and Miller, Derby, Orton and Mulligan, and Sampson Low, Son & Company, 1853.
Original brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered. First edition, “Twenty-Second Thousand”. Sabin 55847
Memoir of Solomon Northup.
A free-born African American, he was drugged and kidnapped in Washington, D.C. before being transported to New Orleans and sold into enslavement. Originally published during his first year of regained freedom. Reprinted several times with three additional editions by 1859.
