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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, 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.
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.
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.
With the assistance of Henry B. Northup, a relative of Mintus Northup’s former owner, as well as Washington Hunt, the Governor of New York, and Louisiana Senator Pierre Soule, Solomon Northup was finally located and released from slavery in 1853.
With Oscar buzz building around "12 Years a Slave," find out more about the mysterious life of protagonist Solomon Northup.
Solomon Northup, author of Twelve Years a Slave, wrote a harrowing account of being kidnapped into enslavement in the 1840s.
The Solomon Northup Foundation joins African Americans across the United States, commemorating 400 Years of our history.
Little is known about Northup's life after the trial, but he is believed to have died in 1863. Twelve Years a Slave was recorded by David Wilson, a white lawyer and legislator from New York who claimed to have presented "a faithful history of Solomon Northup's life, as [I] received it from his lips" (p. xv). Northup's book was published in 1853 ...
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?