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Twelve Years a Slave
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March 1, 2014
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March 31, 2014
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Group Read Archive 2014-16
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Non-Fiction Group Read - March 2014

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What Members Thought

Brie_reads
Aug 26, 2017 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
A heartbreaking narrative of the life of a man named Solomon Northup, kidnapped and sold into slavery from New York to New Orleans. It tells the hardships men and women faced before the American civil war and sadly after it as well, and the brutality that society deemed acceptable upon humanity. A narrative that should be explored by all.

Reasons I Recommend:
1) slavery is an injustice and blight in human history that took place in society on every continent since the beginning and to read the har
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Kelley
Nov 21, 2013 rated it really liked it
A great piece of history! Sometimes the language was difficult to read but I really liked the book. Now I have to see the movie! (This book is considered an "African American classic". So glad I read it. ...more
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