Critical Insights: Twelve Years a Slave - 9781637007341

Critical Insights: Twelve Years a SlaveAuthor(s): Salem Press\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Grey House Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Grey House Publishing Inc\nISBN-13: 9781637007341, 978-1637007341\nSynopsis\nThis volume, devoted to Solomon Northups 1853 oral memoir (put into writing by David Wilson), will explore that book from numerous perspectives, including those of race, class, history, biography, psychology, and sociology, to mention just a few.\n\nNorthups narrative will be examined in terms of its reception in its own day and later, its rediscovery by scholars, its adaptations for television and film, its relevance to the history of American slavery, and its effectiveness as a piece of writing. It will be compared and contrasted with other works concerning slavery, such as Harriet Beecher StowesUncle Toms Cabin(to which it bears intriguing similarities), and it will be set in the context of the American abolitionist movement and later movements for civil rights in.