{"product_id":"twelve-years-a-slave","title":"Twelve Years a Slave","description":"\u003cb\u003eSolomon Northup\u003c\/b\u003e was a free man living and working in New York in the years before the Civil War. He was kidnapped and enslaved in 1841 and freed twelve years later in 1853. He lived the rest of his life as a free man, but the date and nature of his death are to this day unknown.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Louis Gates, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e (Ph.D.Cambridge), is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and American Research, Harvard University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLife Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513–2008\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBlack in Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eTradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eFaces of America\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eFigures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLoose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eColored People: A Memoir; The Future of Race with Cornel West\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWonders of the African World\u003c\/i\u003e; Thirteen \u003ci\u003eWays of Looking at a Black Man\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Trials of Phillis Wheatley\u003c\/i\u003e. His is also the writer, producer, and narrator of PBS documentaries \u003ci\u003eFinding Your Roots\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBlack in Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eFaces of America\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Lives 1 and 2\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLooking for Lincoln\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAmerica Beyond the Color Line\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eWonders of the African World\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eAfrican American National Biography\u003c\/i\u003e with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, and \u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of African Biography\u003c\/i\u003e with Anthony Appiah; \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia Africana\u003c\/i\u003e with Anthony Appiah; and \u003ci\u003eThe Bondwoman's Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e by Hannah Crafts, as well as editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003eTheRoot.com\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Henry Louis Gates, Jr.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42849530576957,"sku":"9780393264241","price":31.46,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780393264241_0ff42f51-3f70-4eff-b5cb-cd2096493694.jpg?v=1767070552","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/twelve-years-a-slave","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}