Between 1863 and 1875 (aged 55–68) Solomon Northup (born July 10, c. 1807–1808; died c. 1864) 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 …

Feb 20, 2025 · Solomon Northup, American farmer, laborer, and musician whose experience of being kidnapped and sold into slavery was the basis for his book Twelve Years a Slave (1853), which was adapted into an award-winning film in 2013.

Feb 10, 2023 · In 1841, a free Black man named Solomon Northup from New York was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana before he was rescued 12 years later.

Oct 28, 2013 · Shocked New Yorkers read the incredible tale of Solomon Northup, a free black man who had been lured from upstate Saratoga Springs to the slave territory of Washington, D.C. by a pair of white...

Jan 9, 2014 · The film is based on a 150-year-old account of how Solomon Northup, born a free man, was kidnapped into slavery. But who was Northup and why, until recently, was...

Jan 4, 2025 · Solomon Northup was a free Black man living in Saratoga Springs, New York—a married, educated carpenter and musician—when two white men asked him to be their fiddle player in...

Apr 30, 2019 · Solomon Northup was a free Black resident of New York State who was drugged on a trip to Washington, D.C. in the spring of 1841 and sold to a dealer of enslaved people. Beaten and chained, he was transported by ship to a New Orleans market and suffered more than a decade of servitude on Louisiana plantations.

Solomon Northup (July 10, c. 1808 – c. 1863) [b] was an American abolitionist. He wrote the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. He was born as a free African American. He was a farmer and a professional violinist. He owned land in Washington County, New York.

Feb 26, 2018 · Solomon Northup, who was lured away from Saratoga Springs and into slavery before the Civil War, wrote a book, Twelve Years a Slave, following his fortuitous rescue in 1853. Some of his post-slavery life can be tracked via property records, court documents, and newspaper stories.

Solomon Northup was an American abolitionist and author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A freeborn man from New York, Northup was the son of a formerly enslaved man and a free African-American woman. As a professional violinist, he traveled to Washington, D.C. in 1841, where he was drugged, kidnapped and sold into slavery.