Northup has to endure a lot of things throughout his captivity, such as beatings, and sickness, and running away - and lots and lots of violence. I'd learned a lot about the slave trade throughout my years of schooling, but I never really knew that some slaves were kidnapped free men and women, who had no means of communication or any credibility for people to fight for their freedom. It tells the true story (it's an autobiography) of Solomon Northup, a free man in the North who was kidnapped and forced into Southern slavery. However, I actually ended up enjoying reading this book. Having grown up my entire life learning American History, I was expecting this class to just be another situation where I processed regurgitated information and wanted to cry the entire time. I had to read this book for my college American History class, and I wasn't expecting to like it at all.
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