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Solomon Northup
ASIN: B00KFHB85O
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 143

NORTHUP'S MEMOIR WAS ADAPTED AND PRODUCED AS THE 1984 PBS TELEVISION MOVIE SOLOMON NORTHUP'S ODYSSEY, AND THE 2013 FEATURE FILM 12 YEARS A SLAVE. THE LATTER WON AN ACADEMY AWARD IN 2014 FOR BEST PICTURE."SUCH DUPES ARE MEN TO CUSTOM, AND SO PRONE TO REVERENCE WHAT IS ANCIENT, AND CAN PLEAD A COURSE OF LONG OBSERVANCE FOR ITS USE, THAT EVEN SERVITUDE, THE WORST OF ILLS, BECAUSE DELIVERED DOWN FROM SIRE TO SON, IS KEPT AND GUARDED AS A SACRED THING. BUT IS IT FIT, OR CAN IT BEAR THE SHOCK OF RATIONAL DISCUSSION, THAT A MAN COMPOUNDED AND MADE UP, LIKE OTHER MEN, OF ELEMENTS TUMULTUOUS, IN WHOM LUST AND FOLLY IN AS AMPLE MEASURE MEET, AS IN THE BOSOM OF THE SLAVE HE RULES, SHOULD BE A DESPOT ABSOLUTE, AND BOAST HIMSELF THE ONLY FREEMAN OF HIS LAND?" COWPER. SOLOMON NORTHUP (July 1808–1863?) was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born ...
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