12 anni schiavo

Old books get a bad rap...but do they deserve it? Check out my latest BooktTube Video - all about the fabulous (and not so fabulous) Olde Boies. The Written Review What difference is there in the color of the soul? Solomon Northup, born a free man during slavery times i

There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be reckoning yet ... it may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a coming as sure as the Lord is just. -Solomon Northup, 1855 I am a middle-age American white guy obsessed with my country's shameful Leggi tutto

Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northup (1808 - 1863) Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details his being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was Leggi tutto

I know it's a genuine slave narrative, but it is just one-note. It concentrates on episode after episode of intense and repeated physical abuse. I don't doubt its veracity but there are far more nuanced - and readable - narratives out there. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is about life as a s Leggi tutto

“Now had I approached within the shadow of the cloud, into the thick darkness whereof I was soon to disappear, thenceforward to be hidden from the eyes of all my kindred, and shut out from the sweet light of liberty for many a weary year.” I’m embarrassed to say I had no idea that this was a true st Leggi tutto

Um Herói da Vida Real Existem múltiplas e variadas ficções sobre a escravatura nos USA. Porém, histórias verdadeiras, narradas por alguém que as sofreu e viveu, não conheço outra além desta! Solomon Northup nasceu e viveu livre no Norte dos USA. Um dia foi emboscado, raptado e vendido como escravo no Leggi tutto

I cannot fathom this book. Everything that happens in this autobiography is so distant from anything that I have experienced that I cannot even conceive of the injustice in any sort of measurable or reasonable amount. I feel angry and heartbroken that this sort of crime ever took place in our countr Leggi tutto

This is a very powerful and important book. It seems like lately a lot of my selections have focused on the dark side of American history - and this one is particularly dark, sad, and disturbing. I missed the big rush to read this book a few years ago when the movie came out. But I am finally glad I Leggi tutto

“My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!” This book is told from the view point of a man who was a slave, not some historian’s interpretation of the events or a novelist’s aggrandisement. It is a frank narrative of the events that surrounded one man’s persecution Leggi tutto

I appreciated this excellent book (some of its scenes still haunt me), but compared to other non-fiction slave narratives such as Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl , there was a bit more distance of perspective here. The facts are still searing; the antidotes still filled me with horror. But some Leggi tutto