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Stolen into slavery : the true story of Solomon Northup, free black man
The true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in upstate New York, who was kidnapped in 1841 and spent 12 years as a slave on deadly Louisiana coastal plantations.
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Lost Plantation
Along the fertile banks of the Mississippi River across from New
Orleans, planter Camille Zeringue transformed a mediocre colonial
plantation into a thriving gem of antebellum sugar production,
complete with a columned mansion known as Seven Oaks. Under the
moss-strewn oaks, the privileged master nurtured his own family,
but enslaved many others. Excelling at agriculture, business, an
ambitious canal enterprise, and local politics, Zeringue ascended
to the very pinnacle of southern society. But his empire soon came
crashing down. After the ravages of the Civil War and a nasty
battle with a railroad company the family eventually lost the great
estate. Seven Oaks ultimately ended up in the hands of distant
railroad executives whose only desire was to rid themselves of this
heap of history. Lost Plantation: The Rise and Fall of Seven
Oaks tells both of Zeringue's climb to the top and of his
legacy's eventual ruin.
Preservationists and community members abhorred the railroad's
indifferent attitude, and the question of the plantation mansion's
fate fueled years of fiery, political battles. These hard-fought
confrontations ended in 1977 when the exasperated railroad
executives sent bulldozers through the decaying house. By analyzing
one failed effort, Lost Plantation provides insight into
the complex workings of American historical preservation efforts as
a whole, while illustrating how southerners deal with their
multifaceted past.
The rise and fall of Seven Oaks is much more than just a local
tragedy-it is a glaring example of how any community can be robbed
of its history. Now, as parishes around New Orleans recognize the
great aesthetic and monetary value of restoring plantation homes
and attracting tourism, Jefferson Parish mourns a manor lost.
Marc R. Matrana, Westwego, Louisiana, is a local historian and
preservationist. See the
author's site.
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Twelve years a slave : authoritative text : contexts, film adaptation : criticism, reviews, interviews
\"Twelve Years a Slave follows the life of Solomon Northup, a free blackman who was kidnapped and sold into slavery before the Civil War. Northup's memoir, published in 1853, riveted contemporary audiences but fell out of print for several generations at the start of the twentieth century. Although it was kept alive in the writings of literary scholars, historians, and bibliographers, it wouldn't return to print until 1968, and soon found a place in the canon of the literary genre known as \"the slave narratives.\" Northup's memoir was adapted for film in 2013 by black British auteur Steve McQueen, and the film received the Oscar for \"Best Motion Picture\" in 2014. Readers of this critical edition will find the Editor's Preface from 1853, the 1853 edition of the text and its appendices, as well as a number of illustrations from the original publication. \"Contemporary Sources (1853-1865)\" offers a range of contemporary reviews and responses, an excerpt from Harriet Beecher Stowe, and coverage of the court case brought against Northup's kidnappers. \"A Genealogy of Secondary Sources (1880-2014)\" provides readers with a comprehensive overview of early and modern commentary on Twelve Years a Slave. \"Film Criticism & Reviews: 12 Years a Slave (2013)\" includes responses to the film adaptation and an interview with the director Steve McQueen. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included, along with an introduction by the volume's co-authors.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Twelve Years a Slave
After living as a free man for the first thirty-three years of his life, Solomon Northup was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery, leaving behind a wife and three children in New York. Sold to a Louisiana plantation owner who was also a Baptist preacher, Northup proceeded to serve several masters, some who were brutally cruel and others whose humanity he praised. After years of bondage, he met an outspoken abolitionist from Canada who notified Northup's family of his whereabouts, and he was subsequently rescued by an official agent of the state of New York. ###Twelve Years a Slave# is his account of this unusual series of events. Northup describes life on cotton and sugar cane plantations in meticulous detail. One slave narrative scholar calls his narrative one of the most detailed and realistic portraits of slave life. He also leavens his account with wry humor and cultural commentary, making many parts of the narrative read more like travel writing than abolitionist literature. ###Twelve Years a Slave# presents the remarkable story of a free man thrown into a hostile and foreign world, who survived by his courage and cunning.
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Twelve Years a Slave
After living as a free man for the first thirty-three years of his life, Solomon Northup was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery, leaving behind a wife and three children in New York. Sold to a Louisiana plantation owner who was also a Baptist preacher, Northup proceeded to serve several masters, some who were brutally cruel and others whose humanity he praised. After years of bondage, he met an outspoken abolitionist from Canada who notified Northup's family of his whereabouts, and he was subsequently rescued by an official agent of the state of New York.Twelve Years a Slaveis his account of this unusual series of events. Northup describes life on cotton and sugar cane plantations in meticulous detail. One slave narrative scholar calls his narrative \"one of the most detailed and realistic portraits of slave life.\" He also leavens his account with wry humor and cultural commentary, making many parts of the narrative read more like travel writing than abolitionist literature.Twelve Years a Slavepresents the remarkable story of a free man thrown into a hostile and foreign world, who survived by his courage and cunning.A DOCSOUTH BOOK. This collaboration between UNC Press and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library brings selected classic works from the digital library of Documenting the American South back into print. DocSouth Books uses the latest digital technologies to make these works available as downloadable e-books or print-on-demand publications. DocSouth Books are unaltered from the original publication, providing affordable and easily accessible editions to a new generation of scholars, students, and general readers.
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Time, Productivity, and Race in Plantation Management and Medicine
By the mid-nineteenth century, plantation enslavers in Louisiana and Cuba had developed a new form of plantation management. Clock-time discipline, hierarchical divisions of labor, and the scientific authority of numbers, as filtered through accounting technologies like the plantation ledger, helped planters see enslaved people's health in seemingly precise terms of time, productivity, and race. In this cruelly meticulous system, some elite physicians saw a potential scientific foundation for medicine. Using plantation business records, agricultural trade periodicals, physician correspondence, medical publications, and memoirs, this article examines plantation management of enslaved health; physician appreciation of its quantitative, supposedly rigorous methods; and the intersections of management science and racial science in physician writing, where there were noticeable differences between Louisiana and Cuba. Physicians in both places believed that, under judicious management, Black people's bodies were naturally inclined to productivity, but in Cuba, there were different degrees of Blackness that needed to be taken into consideration.
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Twelve Years a Slave
For more than thirty years, Solomon Northup lived in New York as a free man. But in 1841, while pursuing a job offer in Washington DC, Northup was kidnapped and sold into slavery. After being brutally beaten for insisting on his right to live freely, Northup grew silent about his past. It was not until twelve years later that he shared his story with Samuel Bass, a white abolitionist, setting in motion the chain of events that would finally bring him home in 1853. Penned in his first year of renewed freedom, Northup's memoir unveils the inconceivable cruelties-and rare moments of kindness-he experienced during his enslavement. The revelations in his narrative served as a powerful contribution to the fight against slavery. This unabridged version of Northup's work is taken from an 1855 copyright edition.
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