Solomon Northup: His Kidnapping and Escape from Slavery

In 1841, the criminal promised his work to tempt a free black New Yorker named Solomon North Up into a slave territory. So they illegally sold him as a slave. The dealer beat him when he protested the slave dealer that he was free. He did not claim his freedom, but in the following 12 years he tried to release himself, but failed until the last successful effort. On the way from North up to Louisiana, he met Arthur and Robert.

Solomon Northup is a free black man living in Saratoga, New York when he was kidnapped in 1841 and sold as a slave. He later escaped and wrote a book on his experience: "12-year slavery." The story of the New York citizen Solomon north up was kidnapped in Washington, DC in 1841 and rescued in 1853 (the base of the 2013 Oscar winning movie). This excerpt is based on the explanation of the North Up on the sale of New Orleans as well as other slaves Eliza and her children Randall and Emily.

Solomon North Up was a freelan abducted as a slave in Washington, DC in 1841. Immediately after he fled, he announced a memoir, received great praise and took legal action against his kidnappers even if they had never been kidnapped. Since then, I do not know the details of his life yet, but he is believed to have died in New York's Glen Falls around 1863. Solomnos' 12 year slave was one of about 150 so-called "slave stories" published before the Civil War. Their purpose is to provide white northern people with direct information on slavery and to include them in the crusade against slavery. They are both literature and publicity. What is the explanation about the nature of slavery in the southern part of Northup?

Born in 1841, Solomonos was born freely but was kidnapped as a slave, rescued in 1853 and returned to the country. Then he began to record everything he saw and everything that happened to him. His slaves provided a detailed picture of slavery on the Western border for 12 years. Northrop and his supporters tried to justice the kidnappers, but the criminals were found not guilty. In the section reprinted here, Northup talks about his kidnapping and sales.