1853 SOLOMON NORTHUP. Twelve Years a Slave. Influential Pre-Civil War Anti-Slavery Memoir. Americana The Guermantes Way (2 vols)

The Guermantes Way (2 vols)

Report of Revival in Hartford

Very good with only the slightest wear

also very black

1853 SOLOMON NORTHUP. Twelve Years a Slave. Influential Pre-Civil War Anti-Slavery Memoir. Americana The Guermantes Way (2 vols)A superb first edition, early printing of the Memoir of Solomon Northup, a free born African American. He was drugged and kidnapped in Washington, D. C. before being transported to New Orleans and sold into enslavement. Published during the first year of his regained freedom, the narrative was among the most influential of the anti slavery narratives of the era. It of course also formed the basis of the film of the same name, which won the Best