12 Years a Slave: A True Story (Collins Classics)
By: Solomon Northup.
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BookPublisher: William Collins (6 February 2014)Description: 304 pages.ISBN: 9780007580422.DDC classification:
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Solomon Northup was born a free man in Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1808. He lived as such until 1841 when, attracted by a job offer, he travelled to Washington, DC, where he was drugged and sold into slavery by his supposed employers. Northup was enslaved for twelve years before he regained his freedom and returned to New York. There, he became an advocate for abolitionism and in the 1860s began helping fugitive slaves via the Underground Railroad. Northup is believed to have died between 1863 and 1875, but both the date and circumstances of his death are unknown.