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After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later becomes a national bestseller.
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Solomon Northup
Free-born African American kidnapped by slave-traders
Solomon Northup was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born American of mixed race from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and a free woman of color. Northup was a professional violinist, farmer, and landowner in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Twelve Years a Slave
1853 memoir by Solomon Northup
Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free and was an occasional touring musician in New York state, relates that he was lured to go to Washington, D.C. for promised…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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