Solomon Northup’s slave narrative, Twelve Years A Slave, achieved a remarkable degree of success as an abolitionist indictment against slavery.

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 …

Oct 22, 2013 · In this Text to Text, we pair an excerpt from “Twelve Years a Slave” by Solomon Northup with a recent Times article that discusses Mr. Northup’s narrative in the context of the …

Solomon Northup's 12 Years a Slave recounts the author's life story as a free black man from the North who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the pre-Civil War South. The son of an …

Twelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853--, by Solomon Northup (b. 1808)

Feb 10, 2023 · Interim Archives/Getty Images An illustration of Solomon Northup from 1859, which originally appeared in the book Twelve Years a Slave. In 2013, movie audiences flocked …

Throughout his enslavement, Solomon Northup had to keep the fact that he could read and write a secret. In the cruel world of slavery, a literate slave was seen as a dangerous slave who …

The memoir, Twelve Years a Slave, chronicles the life of Solomon Northup, who was born free in New York, but captured and forced into slavery for 12 years in Louisiana. It was written in …

Those who had kidnapped and enslaved Northup received no punishment. In his first year of freedom, Northup wrote and published a memoir, Twelve Years a Slave (1853). He lectured …

Primary Sources Solomon Northup Solomon Northup was born in Saratoga Springs in July 1808. His father, who had been a slave until his master had granted him his freedom in his will. …

Solomon Northup (July 10, c. 1807/1808 — c. 1864) was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born American of mixed race from New …

May 6, 2025 · Northup was drugged, kidnapped, & sold to the slave trader James H. Birch. Northup grew up working on farms and canals, learned to read and write, and became …