12 YEARS A SLAVE A TRUE STORY (PB)

An extraordinary story of
resilience and hope  A free man, who is
a hard-working farmer, ends up in bondage serving under various masters. His
struggle for survival and freedom consumes 12 years of his life. His only
‘folly’? He was a man of colour. 12 Years a Slave is one of the best slave
narratives ever penned down, it was adapted into a movie by the same name in
2013 and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture (Drama).  The book was first published in 1853, three
years after the Fugitive Slave Act. Solomon Northup’s narrative acted as an
important cultural symbol of slave life on southern plantations in America
before the Civil War.