{"product_id":"9780007580439_twelve-years-a-slave-a-true-story-collins-classics","title":"Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story (Collins Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eHarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. A shocking first-hand account of one man’s remarkable fight for freedom which became an award-winning motion picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\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":"Solomon Northup","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47275097063573,"sku":"9780007580439","price":1.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007580439.png?v=1776889852","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007580439_twelve-years-a-slave-a-true-story-collins-classics","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}