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The film of the same name won the Oscar for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Feature. "Twelve Years a Slave" comes from Solomon's personal experience. He was a free black man living in New York State, but was kidnapped and began his life as a slave. The publication of this book influenced the subsequent abolition movement in the United States and influenced modern American history. It was included in American history textbooks and required reading lists for students. Together with another famous book "Uncle Tom's Cabin", it is called an immortal classic that promoted the abolition process.

"Twelve Years a Slave" comes from Solomon's personal experience. He was a free black man living in New York State, but was kidnapped and began his life as a slave. The publication of this book influenced the subsequent abolition movement in the United States and influenced modern American history. It was included in American history textbooks and required reading lists for students. Together with another famous book "Uncle Tom's Cabin", it is called an immortal classic that promoted the abolition process. The place where Solomon Northup was sent was exactly where Uncle Tom was imprisoned in the novel; Northup's description of the life and events there are also strikingly similar to the stories in my novel. --Mrs. Stowe (author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin")

"12 Years a Slave" is a life legend about Solomon Northup, an African American in the 19th century, who tells the story of his struggle for love and family, and his struggle to return home. Since its publication, it has become a classic that has touched hundreds of millions of people around the world for centuries. In 2013, "12 Years a Slave" topped the bestseller list on Amazon in the United States, and was awarded the "Most Touching Book of the Year" in 15 countries including the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and Germany. President Obama shed tears in tribute to it. In the same year, the movie "12 Years a Slave" adapted from the original work swept the Oscars, Golden Globes, and British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards. Known as the black slave version of "The Shawshank Redemption", it shows the survival state of life in extreme environments. Solomon Northup, an African-American freedman living in New York State in the United States in the 19th century, enjoyed his time of freedom. However, black slave traders took advantage of his vision of getting rich through hard work and used deception to kidnap him and make him lose his status as a freedman.