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Book Review of Twelve Years a Slave

Twelve Years a Slave
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This is a fascinating book written by a free man of color from New York who in 1841 was kidnapped in the south and sold into slavery. He was a slave for 12 years before being rescued, and his insight into the institution of slavery is a story not to be missed.