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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.
Solomon Northup regained his freedom on January 3, 1853. The slave trader in Washington, D.C., James H. Birch, was arrested and tried, but acquitted because District of Columbia law prohibited Northup as a black man from testifying against white people.
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Melissa Howell, a Solomon Northup descendant, is loaning the prestigious Scripter Award, presented on behalf of Solomon Northup by the University of Southern California, to the Saratoga County History Center’s Brookside Museum, along with other memorabilia.
For 12 years, violinist Solomon Northup toiled as a slave in Louisiana in secret, after being kidnapped from his home in Saratoga, New York, and sold for $650. Finally, on January 4, 1853,...
May 7, 2024 · Solomon Northup, American farmer, laborer, and musician whose experience of being kidnapped and sold into slavery was the basis for his book Twelve Years a Slave (1853), which was adapted into an award-winning film in 2013. Learn more about Northup’s life in this article.
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Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave, now celebrated as an Academy Award–winning film, is one of the best-documented slave narratives from the antebellum period. Published in 1853, just one year after Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, it sold more than thirty thousand copies in three years.
