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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 ...
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. Northup was a professional violinist, farmer, and landowner in Washington County, New ...
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery. He was put to work on plantations in the state of ...
(In his memoir, Solomon did not name his mother but described her as of mixed race and a quadroon.) [11] In 1841, Northup was tricked into going to Washington, DC, where slavery was legal. He was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery, and he was held as a slave in Louisiana for 12 years. One of the very few to regain freedom under such ...
William Prince Ford (January 15, 1803 – August 23, 1866) was an American Baptist minister, preacher, and planter in pre-Civil War Louisiana. [1] [2] Ford was the enslaver who first bought Solomon Northup, a free African-American, after Northup was kidnapped in the District of Columbia, and sold in New Orleans in 1841. [3]
Patsey. Patsey (c. 1830–after 1863) was an African American enslaved woman. Solomon Northup wrote about her in his book Twelve Years a Slave, which is the source for most of the information known about her. There have been two adaptations of the book in film, Solomon Northup's Odyssey in 1984 and the better known 12 Years a Slave, in 2013.
June 16, 2023 at 9:45 AM. Nikole Hannah-Jones created "The 1619 Project," which began as a collection of essays that soon spawned a book and a podcast, and now a Hulu series. (John Minchillo/AP ...
Edwin Epps. Edwin Epps (1808 – March 3, 1867) was an enslaver on a cotton plantation in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. Epps was the third and longest enslaver of Solomon Northup, who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and forced into slavery. On January 3, 1853, Northup left Epps's property and returned to his family in New York. [1][2]