Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born American of mixed race from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and a free woman of color. Northup was a professional violinist, farmer, and landowner in Washington County, New York. In 1841, he was offered a traveling musician's job and went to Washington, D.C. ; there, he was drugged and kidnapped into slavery. He was shipped to New Orleans on April 24, 1841 by James H. Birch aboard the Brig Orleans from Richmond, VA. Northup was purchased by a planter and held as a slave for nearly twelve years in the Red River region of Louisiana; mostly in Avoyelles Parish. He remained enslaved until he met Samuel Bass, a Canadian working on his plantation who helped get word to New York, where state law provided aid to free New York citizens who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery. His family and friends enlisted the aid of the governor of New York, Washington Hunt, and Northup regained his freedom on January 3, 1853.
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Flatland & Twelve Years A Slave Narrative Of Solomon Northup
with Edwin A. Abbott
White Fragility: Race, Racism and the Future of Black Lives Matter in America
with Harriet A. Jacobs and Sojourner Truth
12 Years a Slave Gold Collection: The Essential 12 Years a Slave Collection, Includes Twelve Years a Slave, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Life of Fredrick Douglass, The Life of Lincoln and more
Are We Not Sisters & Brothers?: Three Narratives of Slavery, Escape and Freedom-Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft, The ... & Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
with William Craft, Ellen Craft and Mary Prince
12 Years A Slave: True story of an African-American who was kidnapped in New York and sold into slavery - with bonus material: Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
with Sojourner Truth
