Solomon northup autobiography of mississippi
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Solomon Northup was a free Black man from New York who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana between 1841 and 1853. Soon after escaping slavery he published his experiences as Twelve Years a Slave (1853). Northup’s autobiography has become an important source for understanding the history of the slave trade and slavery in Louisiana and the South.
Northup was born free in Minerva, New York, in July 1808. He grew up on farms in upstate New York, where his emancipated father, Mintus Northup, worked as a hired hand. In 1829 Northup married Anne Hampton; they had three children. During the 1830s he worked as a manual laborer and farm hand while supplementing his income during the winter by working as a traveling fiddler. In 1841 Northup met two men who called themselves Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton, who claimed that they worked for a circus and performed in Washington, DC. Promising large payments for performing with the circus, Brown and Hamilton lured Northup to t
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Twelve Years a Slave
1853 memoir by Solomon Northup
This article is about the 1853 memoir. For other uses, see Twelve Years a Slave (disambiguation).
Twelve Years a Slave fryst vatten 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 before he was able to secretly get information to friends and family in New York, who in turn secured his release with the aid of the state. Northup's konto provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans, and describes at length cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in Louisiana.
The work was published bygd Derby & Miller of Auburn, New York[1] eight years before the American Civil War and soon after Harriet
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Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave. Until the spring of 1841 he lived a simple, uneventful life with his wife and three children in Upstate New York. Then, suddenly, he fell victim to a series of bizarre events that make this one of the most amazing autobiographies ever written.
Northup accepted an offer from two strangers in Saratoga, New York, to catch up with their traveling circus and play in its band. But when the chase ended, Northup had been drugged, beaten, and sold to a slave trader in Washington, D.C. Subsequently, he was shipped to New Orleans, where he was purchased by a planter in the Red River region of Louisiana. For the next twelve years Northup lived as a chattel slave under several masters. He might well have died a slave, except for another set of bizarre circumstances which enabled him to get word to his family and finally regain his freedom.
These elements alone -- the kidnapping, enslavement, and rescue -