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Solomon Northup married Anne Hampton on December 25, 1829, one month after the death of his father, [13] [14] [22] or on November 22, 1829, according to sworn depositions by Anne Northup, Josiah Hand, and Timothy Eddy, the latter of whom was the Justice of the Peace who performed the wedding.
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.
A prominent example of this was Solomon Northup, born free around 1808 to Mintus Northup and his wife in Essex County, New York state. (In his memoir, Solomon did not name his mother but described her as of mixed race and a quadroon.) [11] In 1841, Northup was tricked into going to Washington, DC, where slavery was legal.
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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
Solomon Northup was born and raised a free negro in the free state of New York and was kidnapped and sold into Southern slavery in 1841, and was later rescued and regained his freedom in 1853. William Wells Brown: fugitive slave, author, playwright, activist; Charlotte L. Brown: civil rights activist in 1860s San Francisco