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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 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.
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.
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
1853, Solomon Northup v. Edwin Epps. Solomon Northup, a free citizen of Saratoga Springs, New York, had been abducted in Washington, D.C., and sold as a slave in Louisiana in 1841. In 1852 he convinced a white man to write a letter informing his friends in New York of his whereabouts.
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]
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.
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 ...