Twelve Years a Slave

Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State—and having at the end of that time been kidnapped and sold into Slavery; where I remained; until happily rescued in the month of January; 1853; after bondage of twelve years—it has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public." -an excerpt