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Title: Analysis on Twelve Years a Slave Student Name: Chen Jianing Student No. 20120923031 Telephone:Email: cjn_george0315@126.com Analysis on Twelve Years a Slave 2012秋季班 陈嘉宁 学号：20120923031 After watching the movie, Twelve Years A Slave, I thought a lot. The words I dont want to survive, I want to live inpressed me deeply. The Slavery destoyed so many African Americans lives. I can still remember Martin Luther King had said that people couldnt be judged by color but by their effort. Everyone is born to be equal. Then what we are? Cherish our moment life and keep fighting! Let’s begin with a short review of the original book. Twelve Years a Slave (1853) is a memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup, as told to and edited by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York, details his kidnapping in Washington, D.C. and subsequent sale into slavery. After having been kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana by various masters, Northup was able to write to friends and family in New York, who were in turn able to secure his release. Northups account provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans and describes at length cotton and sugar cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana. The work was published by Derby Miller of Auburn, New York, soon after Harriet Beecher Stowes best-selling novel about slavery, Uncle Toms Cabin (1852), to which it lent factual support. Northups book, dedicated to Stowe, sold 30,000 copies, making it a bestseller in its own right. After being published in several editions in the 19th century, the book fell into obscurity for nearly 100 years, until it was re-discovered on separate occasions by two Louisiana historians, Sue Eakin (Louisiana State University at Alexandria) and Joseph Logsdon (University of New Orleans). In the early 1960s, they researched and retraced Solomon Northup’s journey and co-edite