A memoir by Solomon Northup, a free African American who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. He takes us through the darker side of American slavery that existed once. He clearly narrates the daily life of a slave, the tortures they suffered, the devils that surrounded them with whip in their hands and few Master Gods around them.
The lives of slaves in cotton farm is the most touching and heart breaking . They collect the cotton and clean them from dust and at the end of the day they will take them to the master who weighs the bag.There will be a minimum weight which the Master expects. If the bag weighs less than that, Master will start whipping them. If the bag weighs more than what the Master expects, then the new weight will be set as his expected weight from next day on wards. So at the end of each day, the slaves will be taking the bags to Master with much fear.This is just a small incident from their lives.
This is a haunting memoir which made me sleepless. How can one human being torture another human being to this much extent ?
