#노예 12년 #회고록 #고전 #솔로몬 노섭 #노예 서사 #실화 “Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.” Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details his being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South.