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Stolen Into Slavery: The True Story Of Solomon Northup, Free Black Man (2012)

by Judith Bloom Fradin(Favorite Author)

4.01 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1426309376 (ISBN13: 9781426309373)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

National Geographic Children's Books

review 1: I thought this book was a very good book. The only thing that brought my rating down was all the bad language. I chose this book because in my class we are required to read two non-fiction books. So I looked on the shelf and found this book and it was short and easy. I would probably not recommend this book because of all the bad language, but other than that it was a very good book. I feel the authors wrote this book because they thought it was a touching story about Solomon Northup, the slave who escaped from slavery. If I could rewrite this book, I probably wouldn't change too much except the bad words. The author's writings and drawings were good, so really made me feel more into the story. I especially liked seeing the photo of his family. This book does no... moret have sequels and even if it did I probably would not read them.
review 2: This book was amazing. I knew that back then free African Americans were kidnapped and sold into slavery, but I did not know that it happened so often. Solomon Northup starts out as a free man looking for a job, then two men offer him a job. They travel far and then one night they go into a tavern and the two men put a very strong drug in his drink to make him even more dazed. The next morning he wakes up in a man's slave pen. This man is goes by the name of James Birch. Then Birch sold Solomon to Theophilus Freeman. Freeman put Solomon on a boat bound for New Orleans, Louisiana. There Solomon was sold to William Ford. Ford owes money to a carpenter, Tibaut, who did some work for him. Ford owed Tibaut six hundred dollars. Ford told Tibaut of Solomon's a thousand dollar worth, so Ford said that Tibaut had sixty percent ownership of Solomon, to pay off the six hundred dollars. Tibaut irrationally was going to beat Solomon, but Solomon tackled Tibaut and started to beat him. After that Tibaut tried so many times to kill him. Eventually Solomon was sold to Edwin Epps. Epps got Solomon a fiddle to play with at parties and celebrations. Samuel Bass did some work for Epps and Solomon helped Bass with his task. During that time Bass and Solomon became friends and Bass wrote letters to people that could come and free Solomon. They waited several months, but no letters were received. The letters did not get to the people for at least a month. The people eventually got the letters and started their search for Solomon. Solomon's uncle, Henry, found out that Bass helped Solomon and found Bass and talked to him. After Bass trusted Henry and understood who he was then Bass told Henry where Solomon was, how to get to him and who his master was. After Solomon was safe again and free his uncle took him back home to his wife and kids. Through all of his slavery from the beginning to the end Solomon had been a slave for eleven years. He served eleven years as a slave when he was a free man. less

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