Solomon Northup

Un desgarrador testimonio de primera mano sobre la experiencia de la esclavitud en Estados Unidos en el siglo XIX. Introducción de Marta Puxan-Oliva, investigadora posdoctoral de la Universidad de Harvard Traduccion de Noemi Sobregues, Juan Camargo, Juan Castilla y Javier Fernandez de Castro Tal vez el mejor testimonio sobre la epoca mas sombria de la historia estadounidense son las memorias de Solomon Northup, un afroamericano nacido como hombre libre en Nueva York, pero luego engañado, secuestrado y vendido, para acabar doce años esclavizado en varias plantaciones de Luisiana. Sus conmovedoras memorias, escritas despues de su liberacion en 1853, estan introducidas en esta edicion por el agudo estudio de la profesora e investigadora Marta Puxan-Oliva. Doce años de esclavitud ha perdurado como una cronica sobre el mal y el lado oscuro del ser humano, pero nos lega tambien un bello tratado sobre la amistad y la superacion.Reseñas:Cuando lo lei por primera vez, me pregunte: "¿Por que este libro no esta en los estantes de todo el mundo?". Para mi, es un clasico. Deberia encontrarse en todas las escuelas.Steve McQueen, director de la adaptacion cinematografica del libro Aterrador, fascinante y fuente de inspiracion [...] La historia de Northup parece casi biblica, escructurada como el descenso y la resurreccion de un protagonista que, al igual que Cristo, tenia 33 años en el momento de su abduccion [...] Northup nos recuerda lo fragil que es la naturaleza de la libertad en cualquier sociedad humana.Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Root El testamento conmovedor y vital de uno de los "muchos miles perdidos" en la esclavitud, que supo conservar su humanidad en las entrañas de la humillacion.Saturday Review

The official movie tie-in edition to the winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong'o, and directed by Steve McQueen "New York Times "bestseller Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, "Twelve Years a Slave" is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, Northup published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave.

I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It felt as important as Anne Franks diary, only published nearly a hundred years before - Steve McQueen, director of the Academy Award-winning film of Solomun Northups powerful memoirSolomon Northup is a free man, living in New York. Then he is kidnapped and sold into slavery.Drugged, beaten, given a new name and transported away from his wife and children to a Louisiana cotton plantation, Solomon will die if he reveals his true identity. This is the searing true story of his twelve years as a slave: the endless brutality, daily humiliations and constant fear, but also the small ways in which he and his fellow men try to survive.Twelve Years a Slave is a unique, unflinching record of slavery from the inside, and the incredible account of one man whose life was ripped from him - and who fought to get it back.A moving, vital testament to one of slaverys "many thousands gone" who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation - Saturday Review

RESUMEN Y ANALISIS: 12 AÑOS DE ESCLAVITUD (12 YEARS A SLAVE) - BASADO EN EL LIBRO DE SOLOMON NORTHUP-CONTENIDO:RESUMEN DE LA TRAMAANÁLISIS DE LOS TEMASRacismo Y EsclavitudJusticiaVerdadCristiandad-ACERCA DE SOLOMON NORTHUP: EL AUTOR DEL LIBRO ORIGINALSolomon Northup nacio como un hombre libre en 1808, en Nueva York. Su padre habia sido un esclavo liberado tras la muerte de su amo. Solomon pudo tener varios trabajos gracias a su libertad: fue violinista y granjero, entre otras ocupaciones. Formo una familia con su esposa Anne Hampton y sus tres hijos, Elizabeth, Margaret y Alonzo.-ACERCA DE STORIFY EDITORIALLos libros son canales de comunicacion que eliminan las fronteras. No solo las fisicas, que definen a los paises, sino tambien las temporales. Los libros permiten que las ideas se sostengan en el tiempo y esten disponibles para todos. Los libros informan, enseñan, entretienen, brindan herramientas para la vida.Seguramente, todos recordamos algun libro que ha dejado huellas en nosotros. Quizas porque mostraba una historia con la que nos identificamos, o porque nos enseño a vivir mejor. Tal vez porque leyendolo comenzamos a ver el mundo de otra manera. O porque aprendimos conocimientos valiosos para nuestro trabajo. Los libros permiten compartir experiencias y visiones de la vida.Ahora bien. Hay personas que no son amigas de la lectura. Muchas de ellas reconocen que un libro contiene ideas que le seran utiles, pero el largo camino de leerlo los paraliza. ¿Como acceder al contenido esencial de un libro sin leerlo?A traves de un resumen. Precisamente, un resumen es como el esqueleto sobre el que se construye el libro completo. Esqueleto integrado por las ideas esenciales que el libro encierra, despojadas de argumentaciones, de narraciones y de detalles.El resumen de un libro es el resultado de un minucioso proceso de lectura y elaboracion de quien, responsablemente, toma uno a uno los conceptos y los pensamientos del autor y los presenta manteniendo la fidelidad esencial, pero reduciendo los detalles innecesarios.En esto consiste este resumen. Contiene las ideas y conceptos del libro original. Esta destinado a esas personas que no tienen interes o tiempo para leer todo el libro.

A testimony of personal strength and a telling portrait of American slavery in the pre-Civil War South.When Solomon Northup, born a free black man in Saratoga, New York, was offered a short-term job with a circus in Washington, D.C., in 1841, he jumped at the opportunity. But when he arrived, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana. Finally, with the help of a Canadian abolitionist, he was rescued and reunited with his family in New York. In this memoir published in 1853, Northup tells the incredible story of his twelve years as a slave.

This is an official tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany Steve McQueen's major new film starring Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Quvenzhane Wallis. Solomon Northup is a free man, living in New York. Then he is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Drugged, beaten, given a new name and transported away from his wife and children to a Louisiana cotton plantation, Solomon will die if he reveals his true identity. This is the searing true story of his twelve years as a slave: the endless brutality, daily humiliations and constant fear, but also the small ways in which he and his fellow men try to survive. Twelve Years a Slave is a unique, unflinching record of slavery from the inside, and the incredible account of one man whose life was ripped from him - and who fought to get it back. "A moving, vital testament to one of slavery's "many thousands gone" who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation". (Saturday Review). "I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It felt as important as Anne Frank's diary, only published nearly a hundred years before". (Steve McQueen). Solomon Northup was a free man kidnapped into slavery in Washington, D.C. in 1841. Shortly after his escape, he published his memoirs to great acclaim and brought legal action against his abductors, though they were never prosecuted. The details of his life thereafter are unknown, but he is believed to have died in Glen Falls, New York, around 1863.

¿Quién había oído hablar de Solomon Northup antes de que se supiera que se estrenaría en el cine Doce Años de Esclavitud? ¿Por qué la vida de un hombre, aparentemente insignificante para la Historia, trasciende mas de cien años hasta llegar a la gran pantalla el pasado 13 de diciembre?Solomon Northup nacio negro en una de las epocas mas despiadadas de la Historia de Norteamerica. Nacio libre pero su condicion de piel le convirtio en esclavo en 1843. Antes de aquel año, Solomon Northup tenia una familia, un pequeño patrimonio en Nueva York, era un hombre culto y se ganaba la vida como musico. Un encuentro desafortunado con dos mentes brutales y un engaño, le condenaron a la esclavitud en una plantacion de Louisiana, convirtiendo en un infierno los siguientes 12 años de su vida. Una vez liberado, quiso denunciar a quienes lo vendieron como esclavo una decada atras pero aun la justicia no estaba de su lado y todavia una ley impedia a un hombre negro demandar a un hombre blanco por lo que aquellos seres despiadados que lo traicionaron, humillaron y sometieron, salieron impunes. A Solomon Northup solo le quedo el recurso de escribir su historia en un libro que narraba el dia a dia de sus años como esclavo. El libro, desgarrador y emocionante, verdadero homenaje al instinto de supervivencia y superacion del ser humano, llego a ser un superventas y se convirtio, desde ese instante, en un activo abolicionista. Hoy, a pocos dias de la muerte de Nelson Mandela, icono de la lucha contra el Apartheid en Sudafrica y en el mundo, y con motivo del exito rotundo de la conmovedora y brutal cinta del britanico Steve McQueen, Barataria publica la obra literaria homonima de Solomon Northup, Doce Años de Esclavitud, que regresa en una edicion española cuidada hasta en el minimo detalle para hacernos reflexionar sobre nuestra perversa condicion humana y nuestro a veces frivolo concepto de los derechos humanos. Tal vez alguno no podremos evadir el sentimiento de verguenza porque, no habiendo escogido nacer en "Occidente" nos lo pusieron facil al ser asi.

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"12 anys d´esclavitud narra les vicissituds del seu autor, Solomon Northup, un home negre lliure dels estats del nord dels Estats Units que un dia és raptat, transportat al sud i venut com esclau, condició en la que romandra 12 anys de la seva vida. La narració, punyent i d´una gran qualitat literaria, ens fa viure les increïbles peripècies d´un home enfrontat a un destí que no li correspon. La història descriu la vida diaria dels esclaus a les plantacions de Bayou Boeuf a Louisiana, la seva dieta i condicions de vida, i les relacions entre els esclaus i els seus amos, així com els maltractes a què eren sotmesos. Publicada amb èxit al segle XIX, la novel·la va caure en l´oblit fins que el 1968 els historiadors Joseph Logsdon i Sue Eakin la van recuperar. La història va ser traslladada al cinema pel director Steve McQueen, obtenint l´Oscar a la millor pel·lícula l´any 2013. "

Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. It features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. From the musings of literary geniuses like Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the striking personal narrative of Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this new series is a comprehensive collection of our history through the words of the exceptional few.The original story for the 2013 Academy Awardwinning film Twelve Years a Slave is the autobiographical account of Solomon Northupan African American man born free in New York State who is tricked, kidnapped, taken to Washington, DC, and sold into slavery. After being drugged, bound, and denied his rights as a free man, Northup is sold and transported to slave owners in New Orleans.Here he experiences the true horrors of the slave tradeintense cruelty, beatings, sickness, negligence, barbarism, starvation. Throughout the books melancholic prose, Northup recounts these horrific experiences in excruciating and agonizing detail. In one of the books passages, he states: My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell! For the next twelve years, Northup kept his identity hidden only to himself and remained imprisoned in this state of bondage.Originally published eight years before the Civil War and written in the same vein as the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, this groundbreaking work gave Americans from the north razor-sharp, firsthand insight into the tragedies that were occurring in the South. Still today, Northups story is widely studied and reprinted, giving its readers a glimpse into a painful part of our countrys past.

Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. It features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. From the musings of literary geniuses like Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the striking personal narrative of Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this new series is a comprehensive collection of our history through the words of the exceptional few.The original story for the 2013 Academy Awardwinning film Twelve Years a Slave is the autobiographical account of Solomon Northupan African American man born free in New York State who is tricked, kidnapped, taken to Washington, DC, and sold into slavery. After being drugged, bound, and denied his rights as a free man, Northup is sold and transported to slave owners in New Orleans.Here he experiences the true horrors of the slave tradeintense cruelty, beatings, sickness, negligence, barbarism, starvation. Throughout the books melancholic prose, Northup recounts these horrific experiences in excruciating and agonizing detail. In one of the books passages, he states: My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell! For the next twelve years, Northup kept his identity hidden only to himself and remained imprisoned in this state of bondage.Originally published eight years before the Civil War and written in the same vein as the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, this groundbreaking work gave Americans from the north razor-sharp, firsthand insight into the tragedies that were occurring in the South. Still today, Northups story is widely studied and reprinted, giving its readers a glimpse into a painful part of our countrys past.

The story that inspired the major motion picture, with an introduction by the bestselling author of Wench, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing, vividly detailed, and utterly unforgettable account of slavery.The story that inspired the major motion picture, with an introduction by the bestselling author of Wench, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing, vividly detailed, and utterly unforgettable account of slavery.Solomon Northup was an entrepreneur and dedicated family man, father to three young children, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Alonzo. What little free time he had after long days of manual and farm labor he spent reading books and playing the violin. Though his father was born into slavery, Solomon was born and lived free.In March 1841, two strangers approached Northup, offering him employment as a violinist in a town hundreds of miles away from his home in Saratoga Springs, New York. Solomon bid his wife farewell until his return. Only after he was drugged and bound did he realize the strangers were kidnappersthat nefarious brand of criminals in the business of capturing runaway and free blacks for profit. Thus began Northups horrific life as a slave.Dehumanized, beaten, and worked mercilessly, Northup suffered all the more, wondering what had become of his family. One owner was savagely cruel and Northup recalls he was indebted to him for nothing, save undeserved abuse. Just as he felt the summer of his life fade and all hope nearly lost, he met a kindhearted stranger who changed the course of his life.With its firsthand account of this countrys Peculiar Institution, this is a book no one interested in American history can afford to miss.

Filmatized in 2013 and the official recipient of three Oscars, Solomon Northups powerful slave narrative Twelve Years a Slave depicts Nortups life as he is sold into slavery after having spent 32 years of his life living as a free man in New York.Working as a travelling musician, Northup goes to Washington D.C, where he is kidnapped, sent to New Orleans, and sold to a planter to suffer the relentless and brutal life of a slave. After a dozen years, Northup escapes to return to his family and pulls no punches, as he describes his fate and that of so many other black people at the time.It is a harrowing but vitally important book, even today. For further reading on this subject, try Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

With a new introduction, Northups memoir reveals the living truth of slavery, poverty and racism in a world set apart from elite metropolitan lifestyles.The 1853 memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York, relates his tale, of being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. He was in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before smuggling information to friends and family in New York, who in turn secured his release with the aid of the state. Northups account provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, and describes the cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in Louisiana.Foundations of Black Science Fiction. New forewords and fresh introductions give long-overdue perspectives on significant, early Black proto-sci-fi and speculative fiction authors who wrote with natural justice and civil rights in their hearts, their voices reaching forward to the writers of today. The series foreword is by Dr Sandra Grayson.

"Doce años de esclavitud" es un libro de memorias de un ciudadano estadounidense llamado Solomon Northup, contada y editada por el abogado y político contemporáneo de su época, David Wilson. Publicada en 1852, se trata de una novela de tematica esclavista contada por un hombre afroamericano libre que fue secuestrado y convertido en esclavo en el sur de los Estados Unidos. "¿Acaso es correcto, o siquiera razonable, que un hombre de materia igual a la de otro, tan compuesto de lo mismo y en misma variedad, cuya locura e impudicia comparte con los esclavos a los que gobierna, se erija en despota absoluto y diga quien es libre y quien no en su tierra?"Solomon Northup nacio en Saratoga, Nueva York, a principios del siglo XIX como hombre libre. Northup se establecio en su ciudad natal como carpintero y violinista, y entrado en la edad adulta, dos promotores de circo le ofrecieron un trabajo bien remunerado como musico para su circo. Northup acepto el trabajo sin pensarselo dos veces y emprendio su viaje con el circo hacia Nueva York y Washington. Poco despues del inicio de su viaje, Northup fue secuestrado, agredido, drogado y encarcelado. Seguidamente, fue transportado hasta Nueva Orleans, habiendose convertido en esclavo. Solomon Northup vivio los siguientes 12 años de su vida como esclavo en el sur de los Estados Unidos, siendo vendido y forzado a trabajar en plantaciones de algodon de azucar en Luisiana. Northup intento ponerse en contacto con su familia al inicio de su secuestro, pero nunca llego a conseguirlo hasta que le explico su historia a Samuel Bass, un carpintero y abolicionista blanco que estaba trabajando en la misma plantacion que el. Arriesgando su propia vida, Bass se puso en contacto con la familia de Northup en Saratoga y finalmente consiguieron liberarlo. "Doce años de esclavitud" tiene un gran valor historico y academico, ya que describe fiel y extensamente como funcionaban los mercados de esclavos, asi como las plantaciones en Luisiana. Ademas, representa un testimonio valioso sobre las dificultades y maltratos que la poblacion negra de la epoca tuvo que sufrir, siendo o no esclavos."Doce años de esclavitud" ha sido adaptada a la gran pantalla en dos ocasiones, la primera en 1984, y la segunda, en 2013. La ultima version cinematografica, dirigida por Steve McQueen y con Chiwetel Ejofor como protagonista, fue la ganadora de tres Premios Oscars ese mismo año por mejor pelicula, mejor actriz de reparto para Lupita Nyongo y mejor guion adaptado. Tambien gano, entre otros, un Globo de Oro a la mejor pelicula dramatica y un premio BAFTA.

"I had not the slightest idea of the depth of suffering in the human heart, until I became a slave." Solomon Northups Twelve Years a Slave is one of the most powerful autobiographies ever writtena harrowing and deeply moving true story of endurance, injustice, and ultimate redemption.Born a free Black man in New York, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery in the Deep South. For twelve long years, he endured the brutality of bondage on Louisiana plantations before finally regaining his freedom. His detailed account exposes the cruelty, dehumanization, and moral horror of slavery, while also illuminating the strength, intelligence, and faith that sustained him through unimaginable suffering.First published in 1853, this extraordinary memoir became a vital document in the fight against slavery, standing alongside the works of Frederick Douglass as a cornerstone of American history and literature.With honesty, dignity, and poetic precision, Northups narrative transcends its time, reminding us that the pursuit of justice and equality is both eternal and essential.A story of unimaginable loss and unbreakable spirit, Twelve Years a Slave remains a timeless testament to the resilience of the human soul. Click Buy Now to read Twelve Years a SlaveSolomon Northups unforgettable true story of courage, faith, and freedom.

Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of a black man 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. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, as well as describing at length cotton and sugar cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.

Born free. Sold into slavery. Twelve years in chains.Twelve Years a Slave (1853), by Solomon Northup, is one of the most powerful slave narratives ever writtena true story of resilience, injustice, and the enduring will to be free.Northup, a free Black man living in New York, was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., and sold into slavery in the Deep South. For twelve years he endured brutal treatment on Louisiana plantations before finally regaining his freedom.Told with unflinching honesty and vivid detail, his memoir exposes the cruelty of slavery while honoring the strength, dignity, and humanity of those who endured it. More than just a historical document, it is a testament to the triumph of the human spirit against overwhelming odds.Praised in its time and rediscovered in the modern era, Twelve Years a Slave remains essential reading for understanding Americas past and the ongoing struggle for justice and equality. Click "Buy Now" and experience Solomon Northups unforgettable true story of survival and freedom.