{"product_id":"twelve-years-a-slave-by-solomon-northup-collins-classics-trade-paperback","title":"Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup (Collins Classics) - Trade Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe shocking first-hand account of one man's remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Why had I not died in my young years - before God had given me children to love and live for? What unhappiness and suffering and sorrow it would have prevented. I sighed for liberty; but the bondsman's chain was round me, and could not be shaken off.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1841: Solomon Northup is a successful violinist when he is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Taken from his family in New York State - with no hope of ever seeing them again - and forced to work on the cotton plantations in the Deep South, he spends the next twelve years in captivity until his eventual escape in 1853.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1853, this extraordinary true story proved to be a powerful voice in the debate over slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. It is a true-life testament of one man's courage and conviction in the face of unfathomable injustice and brutality: its influence on the course of American history cannot be overstated.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins Publishers UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45061662605427,"sku":"9780007580422","price":175.0,"currency_code":"PHP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0693\/1041\/4963\/files\/9780007580422.jpg?v=1780401222","url":"https:\/\/nationalbookstore.com\/products\/twelve-years-a-slave-by-solomon-northup-collins-classics-trade-paperback","provider":"National Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}