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Book Review of Twelve Years a Slave

Twelve Years a Slave
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I enjoyed reading this book. I saw the movie which was really intense and very emotional. I wanted to read the book which was less intense but still emotional. Solomon Northrup was a free black man who was tricked by some evil men who ended up kidnapping him and selling him into slavery. He spent twelve agonizing years under several different masters and the lash until he was at last freed. Solomon Northrup tells you his story as he remembers it in the twelve years that he was a slave.