New York Times® and USA Today® Best Seller
Winner of 3 Academy Awards® including Best Picture
"I wish to thank this amazing historian, Sue Eakin, who gave her life's work to preserving Solomon's story"
– Steve McQueen's Academy Awards® acceptance speech for Best Picture
Louis Gossett, Jr.
Audiobook Performed by an Academy Award® and Emmy® Winner
Listen: Introduction and Chapter One Sample
As one of the most respected African-American actors in film, television, stage and voiceover history, Louis Gossett is a triple threat talent with an Emmy® for Roots, an Oscar® for Officer and a Gentleman and a Golden Globe® for The Josephine Baker Story. He is also an humanitarian whose Eracism Foundation is planting the seeds of social tolerance. Read more.
Dr. Sue Eakin
E-Book Based on a Lifetime Project By the Recognized Authority
Originally published in 1853, Twelve Years a Slave was lost to history by the early twentieth century, when it could not be located by libraries, stores or catalogues. Then a 12-year-old avid reader in central Louisiana – the future Dr. Sue Eakin – reached upon the library shelf of a planation home and discovered a dusty copy of the book that would determine her life's path. Read more.