Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born American of mixed race 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 York. In 1841, he was offered a traveling musician's job and went to Washington, D.C. ; there, he was drugged and kidnapped into slavery. He was shipped to New Orleans on April 24, 1841 by James H. Birch aboard the Brig Orleans from Richmond, VA. Northup was purchased by a planter and held as a slave for nearly twelve years in the Red River region of Louisiana; mostly in Avoyelles Parish. He remained enslaved until he met Samuel Bass, a Canadian working on his plantation who helped get word to New York, where state law provided aid to free New York citizens who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery. His family and friends enlisted the aid of the governor of New York, Washington Hunt, and Northup regained his freedom on January 3, 1853.
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Books
Twelve Years a Slave
2011
ISBN 9780807869444
12 years a slave
2019
ISBN 9781722523930
Slavery
2017
ISBN 9788026873754
12 Years a Slave A Slave Narrative
2013
ISBN 9781494365073
Solomon Northup - Twelve Years a Slave
2016
ISBN 9781541228375
Twelve Years a Slave – Enhanced Edition by Dr. Sue Eakin Based on a Lifetime Project. New Info, Images, Maps
2014
ISBN 9780989794800
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
2008
ISBN 9781429015929
LIVING TO TELL THE HORRID TALES
2017
ISBN 9788027225491
The Unchained
2018
ISBN 9788026883241
12 Years a Slave A Memoir of Kidnap, Slavery and Liberation
2014
ISBN 9781496098078
BREAKING THE CHAINS – The Essential & Powerful Narratives that Shook the Roots of Slavery (17 Books in One Volume) Memoirs of Frederick Douglass, Underground Railroad, 12 Years a Slave, Incidents in Life of a Slave Girl, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Running A Thousand Miles for Freedom and many more
2017
ISBN 9788026873747
UNCHAINED - Powerful & Unflinching Narratives Of Former Slaves
2017
ISBN 9788026874164
ONCE UPON A SLAVE
2017
ISBN 9788027225507
UNMASKING THE SILENCE - 17 Powerful Slave Narratives in One Edition Memoirs of Frederick Douglass, Underground Railroad, 12 Years a Slave, Incidents in Life of a Slave Girl, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Running A Thousand Miles for Freedom and many more
2017
ISBN 9788027225545
The Faces Behind the Chains
2018
ISBN 9788027240616
The Slavery Collection
2022
ISBN 9798352458013