1853 SOLOMON NORTHUP. Twelve Years a Slave. Influential Pre-Civil War Anti-Slavery Memoir. Leather and now published

and now published

pen in hand

Stuart (1780 - 1852) was an American biblical scholar

Brigham Young

it seems likely that the Bible was with him in France during his service during World War I

1853 SOLOMON NORTHUP. Twelve Years a Slave. Influential Pre-Civil War Anti-Slavery Memoir. Leather and now publishedA superb first edition, early printing of the Memoir of Solomon Northup, a free born African American. He was drugged and kidnapped in Washington, D. C. before being transported to New Orleans and sold into enslavement. Published during the first year of his regained freedom, the narrative was among the most influential of the anti slavery narratives of the era. It of course also formed the basis of the film of the same name, which won the Best