Twelve Years a Slave (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) - Northup, Solomon Ashley
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Twelve Years a Slave, a chronicle of the amazing ordeal of a free African-American kidnapped in the north, and impressed into slavery in Louisiana, is one of the most compelling and detailed slave narratives in existence. The text and story were virtually unchallenged by Southern apologists or partisans of the era. Northup resists the urge to laud himself as an exemplary character or focus solely his own experience, giving contemporary readers a remarkable account of the lives of the slave community as a whole. As an educated man, torn from freedom and plunged into slavery, he brings into…mehr

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Twelve Years a Slave, a chronicle of the amazing ordeal of a free African-American kidnapped in the north, and impressed into slavery in Louisiana, is one of the most compelling and detailed slave narratives in existence. The text and story were virtually unchallenged by Southern apologists or partisans of the era. Northup resists the urge to laud himself as an exemplary character or focus solely his own experience, giving contemporary readers a remarkable account of the lives of the slave community as a whole. As an educated man, torn from freedom and plunged into slavery, he brings into horrible and tantalizingly exact clarity the life and labor of slaves in the antebellum American South, the complex economic choices and ironic moral concessions of slaveholding, and the calamitous effect of slavery on the foundations of civilization.
Autorenporträt
Born in 1808, Solomon Northup lived the life of a free man and educated tradesman in New York. He was early acquainted with voting and civic life through his father, and he developed a strong sense of his own liberty and dignity. Like his father, he maintained a cordial relationship with the white family that had previously held his own family in bondage, an association that would help secure his freedom. Northup and his wife, Anne Hampton Northup, were engaged in a quintessentially American quest for social and economic advancement when he was enticed away from the safety of Saratoga Springs, New York, with the promise of work and kidnapped into slavery in 1841.
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Süddeutsche Zeitung | Besprechung von 07.03.2014

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„12 Years
a Slave“
Gegen den authentischen Bericht von Solomon Northup – verfilmt von Steve McQueen – verblasst Harriet Beecher Stowes „Onkel Toms Hütte“ zur sentimentalen Antiquität. Northup wurde 1841 als freier Bürger des Staates New York durch Betrug entführt, in die Sklaverei verkauft und erduldete zwölf lange Jahre ein grausames Martyrium auf Zucker- und Baumwollplantagen im Süden der USA. Dass er 1853 seine Freiheit wiedererlangte, grenzt ans Wunderbare. Anfangs versucht er, die Haltung eines freien Mannes zu wahren, doch die Sklavenhalter lassen keinen Zweifel, er muss unter einem Sklavennamen schuften. Erstaunlich ist die Genauigkeit in der Schilderung von Arbeitsdetails und wechselnden Stimmungen – Verzweiflung, Hoffnung und bitterer Fatalismus. Northup schönt so wenig wie er übertreibt, gerade deshalb ist sein Bericht so eindringlich und erzürnend. In all dem Elend und Blut wirkt die Beschreibung der Schönheit eines Feldes surreal: „Wenige Anblicke schmeicheln dem Auge mehr als ein weites Baumwollfeld in voller Blüte. Es bietet ein Bild von Reinheit ähnlich einer hellen Fläche jungfräulichen Neuschnees.“  HARALD EGGEBRECHT
  
Solomon Northup:
Twelve Years A Slave. A. d. Engl. von Johannes Sabinski, Alexander Weber. Piper Verlag, München 2014.
288 Seiten, 9,99 Euro.
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