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12 Years a Slave: Movie based on Solomon Northup slave narrative echoes and departs from historical genre.
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Amazon.com: Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped In Washington City in 1841 and Rescued in 1853, From a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River
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