为奴十二年

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本书叙述的是一个自由人因为被骗而成为黑奴，在十二年的劳苦和等待中，终于遇见了一位开明的主人，而最终重获自由。这本书是《汤姆叔叔的小屋》的原型，书中所写的都是真事，可以说，它启迪了世界名著《汤姆叔叔的小屋》，并深深影响了美国的政治和历史。

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Solomon Northup (July 1808―after 1857) was a free-born African American from Saratoga Springs , New York . He is noted for having been kidnapped in 1841 when enticed with a job offer. When he accompanied his supposed employers to Washington D.C., they drugged him and sold him into slavery. From Washington D.C., he was transported to New Orleans where he was sold to a plantation owner from Rapides Parish, Louisiana. After 12 years in bondage, he regained his freedom in January 1853; he was one of very few to do so in such cases. Held in the Red River region of Louisiana by several different owners, he got news to his family, who contacted friends and enlisted the Governor of New York in his cause. New York state had passed a law in 1840 to recover African-American residents who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery. The circumstances of Northup's death are uncertain and no contemporary record of him exists from after 1857.

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为奴十二年是天津人民出版社于2014.4出版的中图分类号为 H319.4：I 的主题关于 英语－语言读物 ,传记小说－美国－近代 的书籍。