为奴十二年 英文原版 Twelve years a slave

基本信息

Author: Solomon Northup

Format：Paperback | 304 pages

Publisher: penguin uk

ISBN10 0143106708

ISBN13 9780143106708

Publication 01 Nov 2012

Dimensions:129 x 198 x 8mm | 112g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍介绍

所罗门·诺瑟普1808年出生在纽约州，是一个自由人，1841年在华盛顿特区被绑架。在接下来的12年里，他作为奴隶在路易斯安那州的一个棉花种植园里生活。在此期间，他经常受到虐待，经常为自己的生命担心。在1853年重获自由后，诺萨普出版了这本扣人心弦的囚禁史。作为一个受过良好教育的人，诺萨普能够非常详细地描述奴隶生活和种植园社会。事实上，这本书可能是对美国内战前30年的“特殊制度”全面且现实的描述的一部作品。诺萨普从一个局外人的角度讲述了他的故事，在被捕之前，他在美国经历了30年的自由和尊严，作为一个奴隶，他被完全奴役和臣服。作为很少有奴隶有类似的历史记录的作品，这本非同寻常的关于奴隶的故事在企鹅经典推出。而获奖历史学家和作家艾拉·柏林更在在亨利·路易斯·盖茨的一篇文章中做了新的介绍。

Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. After regaining his freedom in 1853, Northup published this gripping account of his captivity. As an educated man, Northup was able to present an exceptionally detailed description of slave life and plantation society. Indeed, this book is probably the fullest, most realistic picture of the 'peculiar institution' during the three decades before the Civil War. Northup tells his story both from the viewpoint of an outsider, who had experienced thirty years of freedom and dignity in the United States before his capture, and as a slave, reduced to total bondage and submission. Very few personal accounts of American slavery were written by slaves with a similar history. This extraordinary slave narrative, new to Penguin Classics, has a new introduction by prize-winning historian and author Ira Berlin, an an essay by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

作者简介

所罗门·诺瑟普于1841年在华盛顿特区被绑架为奴隶。在他逃跑后不久，他出版了自己的回忆录，获得了极大的好评，并对绑架他的人采取了法律行动，尽管他们从未受到迫害。此后他的生活细节不得而知，但据信他大约在1863年死于纽约格伦福尔斯。

SOLOMON NORTHUP was kidnapped into slavery in Washington, D.C. in 1841. Shortly after

his escape, he published his memoirs to great acclaim and brought legal action against his

abductors, though they were never persecuted. The details of his life thereafter are unknown, but he is believed to have died in Glen Falls, NY, around 1863.