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12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

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starrdragon's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

Audio. Being audio may be what’s affecting my grading. This is an incredible autobiography of a black free man being taken into slavery. For a book said to have shook the world, having been written right after Uncle Toms Cabin changed many’s eyes on slavery, it was heavy. Solomon Northup learns ways to survive being a “dumb slave” while actually being an educated free man. Just this point, and how it brought up, was a lot to take it. Which was the same for a lot of the story. The story is slow going, and does feel like it matches with its publishing year (1841). Gives a new perspective to how slavery was viewed. The slow writing and lackadaisical tone was but difficult to keep up with as an audio, though.

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challenging emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

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challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Because it was written in an older form of English, it took a moment to get into the rhythm of it. It helped having watched the movie first, which I admit I liked better than the book. Anyone who excuses slavery as something that happened because it was acceptable at the time needs to read this book to see there were people aside from the slaves themselves who knew and acted on their own moral authority. The “kind” slave owner is a myth to appease white guilt and fragility. Books like this are important to keep our history straight.

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