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Solomon was born free in New York & lived and worked there with his wife and 3 children until 1841, when he was drugged, kidnapped & sold into slavery in the south. This is his heartbreaking

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I‘m not sure if it‘s because of the narrator or just the writing itself, but I found my mind wandering quite often while listening to this. It‘s an important story, but I almost wonder if I would have gotten more out of it just watching the movie.

Shows how valuable one‘s freedom is

#OnThisDay in 1853, Solomon Northrup regains his freedom. Born free in New York, Northrup was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. After regaining his freedom, he documented his time as an enslaved person in the bestseller 12 Years a Slave. Abolitionists used his narrative to add the weight of truth to "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and spread their cause. #HistoryGetsLIT

Some non-fiction. Fell in love with these. Probably going to start with Pompeij book. It tells about the lives of three different Pompeij residents.

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#Movie2BookRecs #lupitanyongo 30. I really do love Lupita in everything. 12 Years was a tough book to read though. I‘m reminded of Lupita in Us and it makes me think of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, which I loved.

Listened to this today while cross stitching and wow so moving and powerful 😢

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⭐️⭐️⭐️Such a sad story. It hurts my heart to hear about a free man being taken and made to be a slave foe 12 years. It greatly bothers me that anyone has ever believed that slavery is okay.

I believe I‘m better for purposely (and sometimes accidentally) including BIPOC stories, histories, and authors into my monthly reading. It seemed important to include this one, as well. It is beautifully told. #BookSpinBingo #DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

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This looks like a great movie. I need to see this one!

One of my last few books for 52 Books Around the World!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I am glad I got a chance to read this book. We read it for book club and had a really great discussion tonight. Spoiler: I cried when Solomon was reunited with his acquaintance from the North and knew his freedom had finally come. There are so many injustice actions and attitudes in this account that still happen today and it is sick that from 1840 to now so little has changed. Recommend for a true account of our country‘s history.

I enjoyed this book in parts; I know that it was made into a movie which I am planning on watching tomorrow. It was a really heartbreaking and unbelievable story. I just found it somewhat boring; the narrator, Solomon Northup, spent way too much time describing picking cotton and harvesting sugar cane. I know that that was his life, but I think shortening the description would have been more beneficial. 🌟🌟🌟

Unpopular opinion, I know. Maybe it‘s because I listened to it or I just wasn‘t in the mood. I understand it‘s historical value, but I had a hard time staying engaged.

It's hard to really rate a book like this because the story is so heartbreaking that no matter how it's told, you just have to respect the author for telling it. I can't imagine being kidnapped and sold into slavery, and Solomon wrote all about what that was like in graphic detail. I definitely recommend this to anyone who wants an idea of what life was like on a plantation.

I watched a documentary about the Civil War in a history class that I subbed for, and they talked a lot about Solomon Northrup. I saw the dramatized movie, but I'm just now starting his actual memoir.

i‘ve been eager to read this one. definitely a change of pace.. seen the movie a few years ago n may watch again after finishing 🎞
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Really enjoyed the book. Read it before watching the movie. But it was easy to follow and read and gave such a horrible insight into some of our nations worst crimes. #history #movietiein

I want to say that I enjoyed this book but it feels wrong to say that about a book on slavery. It was a well told biography. I did this on audio book and the narrator (Hugh Quarshie) was fabulous.

I'm only a few chapters in but I'm riveted by this story. I must be way behind the times cos apparently there's a movie of the same name but I must be the only one on earth who's not heard of it, or if I have seen it already I've completely forgotten.
This incredible recount is a true story which gives the reader an all too honest insight into life for people of color in the 1840's.

Solomon Northup‘s memoir of being kidnapped and sold into slavery for twelve years, despite being a free man, is a chilling portrayal of a shameful time in American history.

About time I read this one. Northrop‘s story is sad and infuriating.

As important as Uncle Tom's cabin is to the understanding of slavery, I think this book contributes another narrative, another perspective, another glimpse into slavery as experienced and recorded by those that lived it. I enjoyed the book. It was well written without it's words and grammar being inaccessible even though it was written 170 years ago. The characters were real people with real struggles and they have changed my life.

Life is precious. A man enslaved with the weight of Injustice fully upon his shoulders still holds on to his will to live when someone attends to take it away.

Note: A breakdown in physical or mental health can alter the strength of the hold we feel upon our lives. I just felt that needed to be said.

I understand that I am not a person of the years of slavery. I understand that we have seen our mistakes and move to correct them. But the horror I feel when I read passages like this, I want to scream at my ancestors for their ignorance. And I pray that my descendants will never grieve at my actions or despair over the things that I have done.

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Book#82 for my 400 goal. This was such a good read. It is always important to look on the past and learn from it in order to make a better future. The nasty, sick, cruel, inhuman things humans can do is just too much at times. We need to stop and question what is considered okay today and ask ourselves, is it really? Because there are many demonstrations of the opposite being true when you take a look at history.

Northup was kidnapped and was brought to New Orleans as a slave, where his first owner has a mill on a bayou.

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I‘m about 1.5 hours in. Although the subject matter is often horrifying to listen to, it‘s very engrossing and narrated so well.

Amazing book, really harrowing and intense as I expected but I was also really impressed by the warmth of the narration which I wasn‘t expecting as much. I can see why people read this and thought it would make a great film, it was very cinematic somehow. Must watch the movie now

I was so pleased to see this on sale on audible! I never got round to watching the movie but feel like the book must be better anyway? Excited to learn more about US slavery

We all know about the dark history of slavery this book depicts just how dark that chapter of history was.

This is an excellent read. Vital insight into the brutal reality of slavery from first hand experience. Absolute must read for anyone interested in slavery and American history.

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Solomon Northup is kidnapped and sold into slavery. It takes 12 years until he can escape and #getback to his family #heyjune

This powerful memoir of a free black man that was captured and sold into slavery #keptmecrying. It is his unforgettable story of courage, persistence, and hope. #aprella

The book is great. The movie was amazing..

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🎻 🎻🎻🎻🎻 This was a powerful story. One that will stay with me for quite some time. Now I'll be able to watch the film. (I wanted to read the book first.)

This is powerful narrative of the best & worst in the slave South. Northup‘s kidnapping from the North & subsequent experiences as a slave really rip the smokescreen from the lie of the “benevolent” slave industry. His balance in giving credit to people who were decent versus the monsters only highlights how few & far between the good ones were. What‘s sad is looking around & being honest, have we really come that far?

A must read to help understand what slavery was really like, and what life was like for African Americans during that time. Louis Gosset, Jr was the narrator, and he was so good.