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Signature. 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 ...
Jul 6, 2024 · Solomon received some education and worked on his family’s farm as a child.He married Anne Hampton in 1828. In 1834, after selling their farm, the couple moved to Saratoga Springs, New York, where they worked odd jobs to support their three children. Northup also established a reputation as a talented fiddler.
- Solomon Northup wrote Twelve Years a Slave (1853), a memoir of his kidnapping and enslavement. Immensely popular upon its release, it remains one o...
- Solomon Northup was born a free person of colour. His father, who had been born into slavery but freed when his master died, acquired a farm and en...
- In 1841 Solomon Northup was recruited by two men, supposedly to join their circus act as a fiddler. The three traveled from New York to Washington,...
- Solomon Northup worked odd jobs and established a reputation as a talented fiddler. Following his kidnapping and 12 years of enslavement, he wrote...
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.'
Oct 29, 2013 · Learn about Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana for twelve years. Read his memoir, Twelve Years a Slave, and discover how he regained his freedom and fought for justice.
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 ...
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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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Apr 30, 2019 · Learn about the life of Solomon Northup, a free Black man who was kidnapped and enslaved for 12 years in the 19th century. Find out how he wrote a best-selling book about his ordeal and how it influenced the abolitionist movement.
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