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Twelve Years a Slave
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Samuel Bass (1807–1853) was a white Canadian abolitionist who helped Solomon Northup, author of Twelve Years a Slave, attain his freedom. Northup was a free black man from New York who was kidnapped and forced into slavery in the Deep South. At risk of injury and conviction in default of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Bass mailed letters to ...
Solomon Northup's Odyssey. Solomon Northup's Odyssey, reissued as Half Slave, Half Free, is a 1984 American television film based on the 1853 autobiography Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a free black man who in 1841 was kidnapped and sold into slavery. [1] The film, which aired on PBS, was directed by Gordon Parks with Avery Brooks ...
12 Years a Slave (film)
Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years A Slave: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013; Giles, Ted. Patty Cannon: Woman of Mystery. Easton Publishing Company, 1965. Harrold, Stanley. Border War: Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War. Chapel Hill, NC: University ...
t. e. American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses is a book written by the American abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, his wife Angelina Grimké, and her sister Sarah Grimké, which was published in 1839. [1][2] A key figure in the abolitionist movement, Weld was a white New Englander. His wife, Angelina, and sister-in-law ...
My Bondage and My Freedom