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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.
Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years A Slave: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-4408-2975-8. Fradin, Judith Bloom; Fradin, Dennis Brindell (2012). Stolen into Slavery: The True Story of Solomon Northup, Free Black Man. National Geographic Books. ISBN 978-1-4263-0987-8.
Solomon Northup and Patsey became friends on the Epps plantation. Known as the "queen of the fields", Patsey was often praised by her owner for her ability to pick large amounts of cotton, up to 500 pounds a day. Northup said that she was unlike the other enslaved people and had a spirit that was unwavering in its strength.
[4] and he authored Solomon Northup: His Life Before and After Slavery [1] He wrote another book about more people who were kidnapped and sold into slavery entitled Solomon Northup's Kindred: The Kidnapping of Free Citizens before the Civil War. [1] The book also explains the kidnapping phenomenon of the antebellum U. S.
He was known in his own time as wealthy and problematic. Freeman's business practices were described in two antebellum American slave narratives—that of John Brown and that of Solomon Northup—and he appears as a character in both filmed dramatizations of Northup's Twelve Years a Slave.
Epps also enslaved Solomon Northup, who had re-named "Platt" after he had been kidnapped into slavery. Northup wrote the story in the memoir entitled Twelve Years a Slave. [6] Northup and a Canadian carpenter Samuel Bass worked together on the modest plantation, Edwin Epps House. Bass wrote letters to Northup's friends in New York, leading to ...
The development of slave narratives from autobiographical accounts to modern fictional works led to the establishment of slave narratives as a literary genre.This large rubric of this so-called "captivity literature" includes more generally "any account of the life, or a major portion of the life, of a fugitive or former slave, either written or orally related by the slave himself or herself". [4]
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]