{"product_id":"twelve-years-a-slave-a-true-story-collins-classics","title":"Twelve Years a Slave A True Story (Collins Classics) []","description":"\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\n\n\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\n\n\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":44213000273980,"sku":"9780007580422","price":625.5,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/twelve-years-a-slave-a-true-story-collins-classics-_5B_5D-9780007580422.jpg?v=1776705239","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/twelve-years-a-slave-a-true-story-collins-classics","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}