12 Years a Slave, the movie adaptation of Solomon Northup’s harrowing memoir of slave life, opens in SA cinemas next Friday.
Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, 12 Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.
After his rescue, Northup published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognised for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave. Read an extract from 12 Years a Slave.
We’ve giving away three double tickets to the screening on Wednesday 15 January at Monte Casino Nu Metro in Johannesburg at 19h30, brought to you exclusively by Kaya FM & Nu Metro cinemas.
To enter send an email to readmore@za.penguingroup.com with '12 YEARS A SLAVE’ in the subject line, before 10h00 on 13 January 2014. Remember to include your name, telephone number and delivery address.
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