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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Twelve Years a Slave Author: Solomon Northup Narrator: Peter Jay Fernandez Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins Language: English Release date: 09-03-13 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 74 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Twelve Years a Slave (Originally published in 1853 with the sub-title: "Narrative of Solomon Northup, a 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 the written work of Solomon Northup; a man who was born free, but was bound into slavery later in life. Northup's account describes the daily life of slaves in Bayou Beof, their diet, the relationship between the master and slave, the means that slave catchers used to recapture them and the ugly realities that slaves suffered. Northup's slave narrative is comparable to that of Frederick Douglas