12 Years a Slave Literary Devices

Explanation and Analysis—Solomon's Letters:

Near the end of 12 Years a Slave, Solomon describes how months go by after Bass sends out letters detailing where Solomon is being unjustly enslaved. When a carriage finally arrives to escort Solomon home, he pauses the scene and includes a flashback to explain why it took so long for his friends and family to respond to the letters, introducing it as so:

Having now brought down this narrative to the last hour I was to spend on Bayou Bœuf—having gotten through my last cotton picking, and about to bid Master Epps farewell—I must beg the reader to go back with me to the month of August; to follow Bass’ letter on its long journey to Saratoga; to learn the effect it produced—and that, while I was repining and despairing in the slave hut of Edwin Epps, through the friendship of Bass and the goodness of Providence, all things were working together for my deliverance.

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