12 Yaers A Slave Overview

Hey everyone, how have you been? This blog post is going to be about my new memoir, "12 Years a Slave" by Soloman Northup. For this blog post I am doing a group project with a friend of mine, Sudar Addepaloi, a link to his blog will be down below. So lets get down to it.
http://sudarsreadingblog.blogspot.com/

To start the central idea of the book is that slavery can be brutal in many ways and shapes and should not be something that any person should have to endure. For example, Soloman explain n in his memoir that, "'In the first place, he does not deserve this treatment. It is a shame to murder him in this manner. I never knew a more a faithful boy than Platt (Soloman)" (Northup 75). There are many other examples of this horrendous punishments also given in this book.

Soloman Northup, who resided in the free state of new York, was lured down by easy money from his home to the city of Washington where he was captured and by slavers and sold into slavery. He stayed a slave for 12 years enduring many harsh punishments and having to go through many changes before finally being set free by his friends and family from the north.
    
     there is an article which will be linked at the end of this post about slavery and how many slaves in the south denied their lack of freedom. This shows that a lot of slaves in the south were actually free men that were kidnapped and sold to their masters. "Before the Civil War, nearly 4 million black slaves toiled in the American South. Modem scholars have assembled a great deal of evidence showing that few slaves accepted their lack of freedom or enjoyed life on the plantation," (Boles). This quote suggests that free black people were taken from their families and sold into the cruelty of slavery.