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Twelve years a slave : 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
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Twelve years a slave : 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
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- Date
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- 1854
- Publisher
- Auburn, New York; London, United Kingdom: Miller, Orton and Mulligan
- Summary
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- Brown vertical-fine-rib-grain cloth. Blind stamping on front and back. Blind and gold stamping on spine. Green endpapers.
- Book topics: Plantation life; Slavery--Louisiana.
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- Author
- Northup, Solomon, b. 1808
- Publisher
- Auburn, New York; London, United Kingdom: Miller, Orton and Mulligan
- Date
- 1854
- Description of Original
- Height: 20 cm.; Width: 14 cm.; Depth: 3 cm.
- Format
- Still image
- Language
- English
- Location of Original
- University of Alabama Libraries. W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, Rare Books Collection. : E444 .N872 1854
Subjects
- Books — Binding style — Raised bands
- Decoration/Ornament — Lines
- Decoration/Ornament — Corner pieces
- Decoration/Ornament — Arabesque
- Decoration/Ornament — Borders — Lines
- Decoration/Ornament — Floral
- Decoration/Ornament — Banners
- People — African Americans
- People — Men
- Weaponry — Whips
- Book-cloth — Color — Brown
- Book-cloth — Grain pattern — Rib
- Bookbinding — Techniques — Blind stamping
- Bookbinding — Techniques — Gold stamping
- Endpapers — Colored
- Endpapers — Color — Green
- United States