{"product_id":"twelve-years-a-slave-a-true-story-pb-z44","title":"Solomon Northup: Twelve Years a Slave: z44 [2014] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe shocking first-hand account of one man's remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003e`Why had I not died in my young years - before God had given me children to love and live for? What unhappiness and suffering and sorrow it would have prevented. I sighed for liberty; but the bondsman's chain was round me, and could not be shaken off.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003e1841: Solomon Northup is a successful violinist when he is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Taken from his family in New York State - with no hope of ever seeing them again - and forced to work on the cotton plantations in the Deep South, he spends the next twelve years in captivity until his eventual escape in 1853.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1853, this extraordinary true story proved to be a powerful voice in the debate over slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. It is a true-life testament of one man's courage and conviction in the face of unfathomable injustice and brutality: its influence on the course of American history cannot be overstated.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Northup, Solomon","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53006567244115,"sku":"XV80007582952","price":3.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":53015443177811,"sku":"XE80007582952","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":42198817931449,"sku":"9780007582952","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/northup-solomon-solomon-northup-twelve-years-a-slave-z44-2014-paperback-1220779945.jpg?v=1770990442","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/twelve-years-a-slave-a-true-story-pb-z44","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}