Twelve Years a Slave

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Solomon Northup used to be born a free man in Minerva, New York, in 1808. His father, Mintus, used to be initially enslaved to the Northup circle of relatives from Rhode Island, but he used to be freed after the circle of relatives moved to New York. As a young man, Northup helped his father with farming chores and worked as a raftsman on the waterways of upstate New York. He married Anne Hampton and they had three children together. Right through the 1830s, Northup became in the neighborhood renowned as a very good fiddle-player. In 1841, two men offered Northup generous wages to enroll in a traveling musical show, but soon after he accepted, they drugged him and sold him into slavery. After years of bondage, he came into contact with an outspoken abolitionist from Canada, who sent letters to notify Northup’s circle of relatives of his whereabouts. An official state agent used to be sent to Louisiana to reclaim Northup. After he used to be freed, Northup filed kidnapping charges against the men who had defrauded him, but the lengthy trial that followed used to be in the end dropped on account of legal technicalities, and he received no remuneration. Little is known about Northup’s life after the trial, but he’s believed to have died in 1863

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