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  2. Twelve Years a Slave - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Solomon Northup - Wikipedia

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    Writing Twelve Years a Slave. 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. A farmer and a professional violinist, Northup had ...

  4. 12 Years a Slave (film) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Samuel Bass (abolitionist) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. NYT Corrects 100-Year-Old Article on '12 Years a Slave'

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    Solomon Northup's story "12 Years a Slave" just won "Best Picture" at the Oscars, and now some 161-year-old errors are being corrected by The New York Times. You see, way back on January 20, 1853 ...

  7. Edwin Epps House - Wikipedia

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    Edwin Epps House is a Creole cottage built in 1852 (172 years ago) in part by Solomon Northup [1] on Bayou Boeuf near Holmesville in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. [2] It was built for Edwin Epps, a slaveholder. [1] The house was a "double-sided, wood frame house with one chimney, and a tin roof" of mid-sized farmers. [3]

  8. David Wilson (New York politician) - Wikipedia

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    David Wilson (September 17, 1818 – June 9, 1870) was an American lawyer, writer and politician from New York. He is best known for his role in publishing Twelve Years a Slave, as told to him by Solomon Northup, in 1853.

  9. List of accolades received by 12 Years a Slave (film) - Wikipedia

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    12 Years a Slave is a 2013 historical drama film directed and produced by Steve McQueen. It is an adaptation of the 1853 autobiographical slave narrative memoir of the same name by Solomon Northup, a New York-born free negro who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. in 1841 and sold into slavery. [1][2] The film stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as the ...