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Twelve Years a Slave By Solomon Northup

Twelve Years a Slave

By Solomon Northup

  • Release Date: 2021-08-13
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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Solomon Northup, (born July 10, 1807, Schroon [now Minerva], New York, U.S.—died after 1857), American farmer, labourer, and musician whose experience of being kidnapped and sold into slavery was the basis for his book Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana (1853).