Introduction Transatlantic and American Slavery Facts and Figures Solomon Northup: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text Twelve Years a Slave Appendix A: Proslavery and Antislavery Views and Voices 1. Proslavery Views and Voices a. From George Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South, or, The Failure of Free Society(1854) b. From James O. Breeden, editor, Advice Among Masters: The Ideal in Slave Management in The Old South(1980) c. "A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union" (1861) 2. The Colonization Debate a. Bishop Richard Allen, "The Argument Against Colonization" (2 November 1827) b.

From Lyman Beecher, "Dr. Beecher's Address" (November 1834) c. Benjamin Coates to Frederick Douglass, North Star(16 January 1851) d. From Martin Delany, "Political Destiny of the Colored Race, on the American Continent" (August 1854) 3. Gradual Emancipation Views a. "An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery," The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania(1780) 4. Antislavery Views and Voices a. From Theodore Dwight Weld, American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses(1839) b.

From Frederick Douglass, [What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?] (5 July 1852) c. William Lloyd Garrison, No Compromise with Slavery(1854) d. The Slave Ship Brooks Appendix B: Fugitive Slave Laws and Fugitivity 1. Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3, US Constitution 2. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 3. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 4. Map of the Underground Railroad 5. Runaway Slave and Fugitive Hunting Notices a.

Advertisement for a Runaway Slave [Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Gazette(14 September 1769)] b. Broadside Offering Reward for Runaway Slaves (23 August 1852) c. Political Cartoon (24 April 1851) Appendix C: Contemporary Notices and Book Reviews of Twelve Years a Slave 1. "A Striking Contrast," New Orleans Bee(22 January 1853) 2. "Uncle Tom's Cabin--No. 2," Salem Press(26 July 1853) 3. "Literary Notices," Frederick Douglass' Paper(5 August 1853) 4. "Publisher's Advertisement," The Liberator(26 August 1853) 5.

"Letter to Frederick Douglass from Sigma," Frederick Douglass' Paper(13 January 1854) 6. "More Uncle Tom," Daily Picayune(26 January 1855) Works Cited and Recommended Reading.