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- 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 Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana (1853).
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Jun 28, 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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Apr 3, 2014 · He was lured south and kidnapped in 1841 and enslaved for more than a decade, enduring horribly violent conditions. Northup was freed in 1853 with help from colleagues and friends. His...
Feb 10, 2023 · In 2013, movie audiences flocked to see 12 Years a Slave, which told the powerful story of a free Black man kidnapped from the North in the 19th century and sold as a slave in the South. But though the film is a product of Hollywood, its protagonist, Solomon Northup, was very real.
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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?
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.
Jul 15, 2020 · Twelve Years a Slave is a fact-checked view of the United States' most horrifying institution. Solomon Northup's tale is unique because his account of slavery was from the lens of a free man. He was educated, married, and had children before he was stolen and forced into 12 years of cruel bondage.
First published in 1853, three years after the Fugitive Slave Act, Northup’s narrative served as an important cultural symbol of slave life on southern plantations during antebellum America before the Civil War. Born into freedom, Northup was kidnapped into slavery at the age of thirty.
