Solomon Northup was a farmer and a musician who was taken hostage and sold into slavery in 1841. In his first year of freedom, Northup wrote and published a memoir, Twelve Years a Slave (1853). It was Solomon&#39;s fortune, during his captivity, to be owned by several masters. The treatment he received while at the &quot;Pine Woods&quot; shows that among slaveholders there are men of humanity as well as of cruelty. Some of them are spoken of with emotions of gratitude &mdash; others in a spirit of bitterness. It is believed that the following account of his experience on Bayou B&oelig;uf presents a correct picture of Slavery, in all its lights and shadows.<br /><br />This Premium Edition comes with :<br />. A beautiful Easy-to-Read layout which makes reading comfortable<br />. Black and White illustrations