Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and a free woman of color. A farmer and a professional violinist, Northup had been a landowner in Hebron, New York. In 1841, he was offered a traveling musician's job and went to Washington, D.C. ; there he was drugged, kidnapped, and sold as a slave. He was shipped to New Orleans, purchased by a planter, and held as a slave for 12 years in the Red River region of Louisiana, mostly in Avoyelles Parish. He remained a slave until he met a Canadian working on his plantation who helped get word to New York, where state law provided aid to free New York citizens who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery. His family and friends enlisted the aid of the Governor of New York, Washington Hunt, and Northup regained his freedom on January 3, 1853.

From *.wikipedia.org,
General Info
.
Male
Birth Place
United States of America, New York
Date of Death
January 1st, 1863
Died Aged
-107
Social Networks , Links
Interest
Loading Chart...
Lists
    index: 1x 0.030547142028809s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.025782823562622s
t_/pages/fms-person-json: 1x 0.025757074356079s
t_/blocks/person-card-json: 1x 0.014225959777832s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.01079797744751s
headline: 4x 0.0074481964111328s
router_page: 1x 0.0036947727203369s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.0007021427154541s
head-facts: 1x 0.00067305564880371s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.00052499771118164s
t_/common/searcher-result: 1x 1.7166137695312E-5s
----- END OF DUMP (2024-11-02 20:12:11)  -----