Solomon Northup was a free man living in New York. Then, his kidnappers sold him into slavery. Drugged, beaten, and given a new identity, he finds himself far away from his children on a plantation in Louisiana.

Solomon will end up dead if he reveals his past. A heartbreaking true story of the twelve years he spent as a slave: the relentless violence, the daily humiliations, and the constant fear, as well as the struggle of his fellow captives and himself for survival.

The book Twelve Years a Slave is a unique, irrefutable testament to slavery from firsthand experience and an astounding account of a man who had his very life taken from him and who fought very hard to regain it.