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23 lis 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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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 York.
3 kwi 2014 · Solomon Northup was an African American farmer and musician who was taken hostage and sold into slavery in 1841. His story is told in the film '12 Years a Slave.'
10 lut 2023 · Born in upstate New York, Solomon Northup was abducted as an adult and sold into slavery in Louisiana — and then he wrote 12 Years a Slave about his experience. Interim Archives/Getty Images An illustration of Solomon Northup from 1859, which originally appeared in the book Twelve Years a Slave.
Solomon Northup was an American abolitionist and author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A freeborn man from New York, Northup was the son of a formerly enslaved man and a free African-American woman.
Northup’s kidnappers robbed him of his free papers and sold him to an infamous slave trader, James H. Birch (spelled “Burch” in Twelve Years a Slave). Northup’s protests and insistence on his free identity led to severe beatings followed by eventual transfer to New Orleans.
4 sty 2016 · Twelve years after being abducted and sold into slavery, Solomon Northup was legally granted his freedom on 4 January 1853. Northup’s story, entitled Twelve Years a Slave, was published in 1853. Northup was born a free person of colour in 1807 or 1808 in Upstate New York.
