Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?
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Name (Hebrew)
נורת'אפ, סולומון, 1808-1863?
Name (Latin)
Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?
Other forms of name
Platt, 1808-1863?
nnea Northup, Solomon, b. 1808
Northrup, Solomon, 1808-1863?
Northup, S. (Solomon), 1808-1863?
Northup, Solomon, b. 1808 nnea
Date of birth
1808
Date of death
1863?
Associated country
Louisiana
Occupation
Authors
Farmers
Fiddlers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- A freeman in bondage, 1890.
- African American National Biography, accessed March 23, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Northup, Solomon; slave narrative author, fiddler; born July 1808 in Minerva, New York; craftsman on waterways in upstate New York; farmer, fiddler; moved to Saratoga Springs (1834); strangers sold him to slave trader (1841); wrote Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, full of detailed portrait of people, circumstances, social practices, slave market, fellow captives; attempted to escape; sold to another owner (1852); regained freedom, reunited with wife and children (1853); contracted with David Wilson, legislator, to write his memoir, published later in 1853, most detailed and realistic portraits of slave life; novel sold well, and resulted in identification and subsequent arrest of his kidnappers; never received legal recompense for the crimes against him; returned to work as carpenter; apparently died in 1863, United States)
- African American biog. database, Mar. 27, 2003(Northup, Solomon)
- Amer. fict., 1851-1875, 1957(Northup, Solomon, pseud.)
- Amer. national biog. online, Mar. 27, 2003(Northup, Solomon (July 1808-1863?))
- Biog. & geneal. master index, Mar. 27, 2003(Northup, Solomon (1808-1860?); Northup, Solomon (1808-1863); Northrup, Solomon (1808-1863))
- Britannica online, Mar. 27, 2003(under Slave narrative: Solomon Northup)
- Northup Trail through central Louisiana, 1984?:cover p. 2 (Northup, called "Platt" as a slave)
- Twelve years a slave, 185-?:t.p. (S. Northup)
- Voice in the slave narrative of Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, and Solomon Northrup, 2003:CIP t.p. ; pref. (he came of age as a free black man in the northern state of New York, was kidnapped and enslaved for 12 years in Louisiana) chapter 1 (his slave narrative appeared in 1853)
- 12 שנים של עבדות, 2014: