Rule in the hands of a few people that keeps one or a few in power describes . A. Constitutional Monarchies

B. Authoritarian Rule

C. Democratic Republics

D. Parliamentary Democracies

Democratic Republics as more than one person is assigned the position of power. This cancels out A and B as an answer since monarchies and totalitarian governments have one single person in power. Parliamentary Democracies is out of the question

the answer is solomon northrup. he was a free-born african american, abolitionist and professional violinist that was drugged, kidnapped and sold as slave in 1841 and remained in captivity until 1853 where he regained his freedom with the of the then-governor of new york, washington hunt. he wrote and published his memoirs "twelve years a slave" in 1853, and in this text, he tells the story of his escape thru one of louisiana's swamps (the great pacoudrie swamp) in which he ended up covered in green slime from crossing the surface of the dead water.