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Solomon Northup (born July 10, c. 1807–1808; died c. 1864) was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and a free woman of color. A farmer and a professional violinist, Northup had been a landowner in Washington County, New ...
May 7, 2024 · Solomon Northup (born July 10, 1807, Schroon [now Minerva], New York, U.S.—died after 1857) was an American farmer, labourer, and musician whose experience of being kidnapped and sold into slavery was the basis for his book Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and ...
Apr 3, 2014 · Solomon Northup was an African American farmer and musician who was taken hostage and sold into slavery in 1841. His story is told in the film '12 Years a Slave.'
Feb 10, 2023 · 12 Years As A Slave. After the long journey by ship, Solomon Northup found himself in New Orleans, where he witnessed the heartbreaking separation of a woman named Eliza from her two children. And just like in the film, Northup and Eliza were both purchased by the same man, William Ford (portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch).
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Oct 28, 2013 · The sensational story blared from the front page of the January 20, 1853, edition of the New York Times. Shocked New Yorkers read the incredible tale of Solomon Northup, a free black man who had ...
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Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details himself being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. He was in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana ...
Oct 19, 2013 · Solomon Northup, an African-American musician from New York, was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841. He was eventually freed and wrote about his experience in Twelve Years a Slave, a memoir ...
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