Oscar-winning source material

Cornell University Library holds several first editions of "12 Years a Slave," the devastating true story of Solomon Northup, a free man, kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841.

The film version of Northrup's story won best picture at the Oscars March 2.

Northup's story is included on the library's Aboltionism in America exhibition page, and in addition to physical copies of the book in the library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections and elsewhere on campus, you can.