{"product_id":"12-years-a-slave-movie-tie-in-edition","title":"12 Years a Slave (Movie Tie In Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eSummary\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe official movie tie-in edition to the winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong’o, and directed by Steve McQueen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew York Times bestseller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It felt as important as Anne Frank’s Diary, only published nearly a hundred years before…. The book blew [my] mind: the epic range, the details, the adventure, the horror, and the humanity…. I hope my film can play a part in drawing attention to this important book of courage. Solomon’s bravery and life deserve nothing less.” —Steve McQueen, director of 12 Years a Slave, from the Foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter his rescue, Northup published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSolomon Northup (1808–c. 1863) was a free man kidnapped and forced into slavery in 1851. The details of his life after the publication of his acclaimed memoir are unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIra Berlin is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. His many books include The Making of African America and Many Thousands Gone, winner of the Bancroft Prize and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry Louis Gates, Jr., is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W. E. B Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8 B\/W Illustrations Throughout\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback: 304 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAutobiography\nBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography \\ Personal Memoirs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49411582951698,"sku":"9780143125419","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/2495841.jpg?v=1717475304","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/12-years-a-slave-movie-tie-in-edition","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}