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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.'
Jan 9, 2014 · The film is based on a 150-year-old account of how Solomon Northup, born a free man, was kidnapped into slavery. But who was Northup and why, until recently, was he virtually forgotten?
Jul 6, 2024 · Chiwetel Ejiofor (left) as Solomon Northup, a free Black man who is kidnapped and sold into slavery, and Michael Fassbender (right) as Edwin Epps, one of the men who buy him, in British director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, a dramatization of Northup's own book by that name.
- 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...
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.
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Feb 10, 2023 · In 1841, a free Black man named Solomon Northup from New York was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana before he was rescued 12 years later.
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Between 1863 and 1875 (aged 55–68) 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.
Jan 4, 2016 · Twelve years after being abducted and sold into slavery, Solomon Northup was legally granted his freedom on 4 January 1853. Northup’s story, entitled Twelve Years a Slave, was published in 1853. Northup was born a free person of colour in 1807 or 1808 in Upstate New York.
