Clifford W. Brown, PhD, is the Robert Porter Patterson Professor of Government at Union College, Schenectady, NY. His published works include Struggles in the State: Sources and Patterns of World Revolution, Jaws of Victory: The Game-Plan Politics of 1972; A Campaign of Ideas; and Serious Money: Fundraising and Contributing in Presidential Nomination Campaigns. Brown holds a doctorate from Harvard University.
A companion to the classic African-American autobiographical narrative, Twelve Years A Slave, this work presents fascinating new information about the 1841 kidnapping, 1853 rescue, and pre- and post-slavery life of Solomon Northup.
Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years A Slave provides a compelling chronological narrative of Northup's entire life, from his birth in an isolated settlement in upstate New York to the activities he pursued after...
