· Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in and Rescued in is one of the rare stories from the American slave narrative tradition that portrays slavery through the eyes of a kidnapped free man of color. Although all the other famous slave narratives of the pre-Civil War era come to us from men and . Others were sold on the block, as Solomon Northup described in his Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solomon, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in The very amiable, pious-hearted Mr. Theophilus Freeman, partner or consignee of James H. Burch, and keeper of the slave pen in New-Orleans, was out among his animals early in the morning. He is a carpenter and a talented violin player. One day, two men approach him and ask if he will accompany them and play his fiddle as they travel to Washington DC to the circus they work for. Solomon agrees. Unfortunately, he is drugged and wakes up in what he .
But, roughly twenty-five years later, John Northup died, freeing his slave (s) in his will. Mintus either asked to be named Northup out of respect and love of his former masters, or else that was the bureaucratic reality of the day, depending on whom you believe. What is certain is that Henry and Solomon were contemporaries, growing up together. The basis of the Academy Award-winning film 12 Years a Slave, this is the autobiography of Solomon Northup—an African American man born free in New York state who is tricked, kidnapped, taken to Washington, DC, and sold into slavery. Solomon experiences the true horrors of the slave trade—intense cruelty, beatings, sickness, negligence, barbarism, starvation. Northup, Solomon, ? LoC No. Title. Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in , and Rescued in , from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana. Alternate Title. 12 Years a Slave.
Twelve Years a Slave is in the public domain; e-book versions can be downloaded from several sites and many reprints are In , historians Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon, both based in Louisiana, published an edited and annotated version of In , David Fiske self-published the biography. Much like Northup himself, “Twelve Years a Slave” faded from the public consciousness after the guns of the Civil War fell silent. His story was resurrected, however, in a reprint that. Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in , and Rescued in Electronic Edition. Solomon Northup (b. ).
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