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.