Twelve Years A Slave - Northup, Solomon
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Twelve Years A Slave is about the story of Solomon Northup, a free negro in Saratoga Springs, New York who was a skilled carpenter and violinist. One day, Brown and Hamilton, two circus promoters offered him a high wage if he worked for them as a musician for their traveling circus. He accepted then left with them without informing his wife he was leaving to work in New York and Washington D.C. Not too long after his arrival, he awoke to find himself in a pen for slaves, drugged and bound. Northup was a free man not a slave; for asserting his rights he was beaten and was informed that he…mehr

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Twelve Years A Slave is about the story of Solomon Northup, a free negro in Saratoga Springs, New York who was a skilled carpenter and violinist. One day, Brown and Hamilton, two circus promoters offered him a high wage if he worked for them as a musician for their traveling circus. He accepted then left with them without informing his wife he was leaving to work in New York and Washington D.C. Not too long after his arrival, he awoke to find himself in a pen for slaves, drugged and bound. Northup was a free man not a slave; for asserting his rights he was beaten and was informed that he should never mention that he was a free man. The story takes you on a journey for Northup where he is transported to New Orleans with others; enslaved where his life of cruelty by his masters despite the fact that he was a skilled carpenter and a violinist. He is eventually rescued due to sheer desperation and luck when he confides in Samuel Bass, a white carpenter and abolitionist from Canada whilst working at the Epps plantation. Bass sends letters to Northup's wife and friends in Saratoga. One of these letters finds itself in the hands of Parker, a white shopkeeper who seeks help from Henry B. Northup, a white attorney and politician whose family had freed Solomon's father whose help with the assistance of John P. Waddill, an attorney assists in obtaining Solomon Northup's freedom. After numerous searches he succeeds in locating Solomon and freeing him from the plantation.
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Solomon Northrup (1807- between 1857-1864) Born to a freed black man and a free woman of colour, Solomon Northrup was a free-born African-American and an American abolitionist. He grew up in a relatively enlightened New York, which had abolished slavery in 1799. His father's freedom and successful farming business enabled Solomon and his brothers to receive an education and music lessons. He grew up to become a professional musician, specializing in playing the violin. However, Northrup's freedom was exclusive to his life in New York. It wasn't up until the end of the Civil War, in 1865, that the institution of slavery was abolished in the United States in its entirety. Northrup's freedom came to a very long, cruel, and painful pause when he was deceived into going to Washington DC on the pretext of being hired as a travelling musician. There, he was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery. Northrup spent the next 12 years enslaved, captive, in New Orleans where he experienced inhumane conditions under a cruel planter. Solomon Northrup regained his freedom on January 3, 1853 through the help of Samuel Bass, a Canadian working on the plantation. Northrup's freedom came after a long struggle, and while justice due to him was not entirely delivered, his lived experience was revealed to the world in the form of his memoir, 12 Years A Slave.