Книга: Solomon Northup «Twelve Years a Slave»
Solomon Northup was born a free black man in upstate New York in 1808. By 1841, he had become a husband, a father, a raftsman, and a talented fiddle-player. That year, while his family was away, he agreed to accompany two men to Washington DC, on what he thought would be a brief trip performing for a circus. Instead, these new employers turned out to be con men, and Northup was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery. Northup was transported to New Orleans and remained a slave for the next twelve years, working for a number of masters in Louisiana-some brutal, some kind. Although Northup never stopped longing for home and thinking about how he could escape, it seemed impossible to trust anyone with the facts of his life. He remained a slave for a dozen years, until he finally met a Canadian abolitionist who was able to get a letter to his family and eventually gained his freedom. After his release, Northup told his story to David Wilson, an upstate New York-based white lawyer... Издательство: "Книга по Требованию" (2013)
ISBN: 9781429093378 |
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Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup (1808 - unknown: disappeared in 1863) was a free-born
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Solomon Northup was born in
The white Northups subsequently relocated to Hoosic, in
He married Anne Hampton in 1829 and they had three children. Solomon was a hard worker and he was constantly trying to achieve a better life for his family. It was through this pursuit for prosperity that he fell into the worst situation of his life. Solomon Northup eventually relocated his family to
Then Solomon met two white men by the names of Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton. The two men heard Solomon playing his violin and approached him. They offered Solomon a job in a travelling circus, offering to pay the princely sum of one dollar per day and three dollars per musical performance. They convinced Northup to travel with them to
Solomon Northup wrote an account of his experiences, "
It has been suggested by some that he was also involved in the
No known records on Northup exist after 1863 and the date, location and circumstances of his death are unknown.
Enigma of his death
Northup was reportedly mentioned in the 1860 Federal US census with the following address:
Town: Queensbury,County: Warren,State: NY,P.O. Glens Falls.
He was absent from the 1865
The best available evidence indicates that he disappeared in 1863 while staying in
Bibliography
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External links
* [http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/northup/northup.html Text of Northup's book, "Twelve Years a Slave"]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20051016085440/http://innercity.org/columbiaheights/newspaper/kidnap.html Archive of 1999 "Washington Post" newspaper article]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088148/ "Solomon Northup's Odyssey" - a 1984 made-for-TV movie]
* [http://www.geocities.com/old-history/p-1.jpgGenealogy of Solomon Northup's 4th generation ancestor, Joseph M. Linzy Sr. - Chart 1]
* [http://www.geocities.com/old-history/p-2.jpgGenealogy of Solomon Northup's 4th generation ancestor, Joseph M. Linzy Sr. - Chart 2]
* [http://www.ustrek.org/odyssey/semester1/112900/112900nicksolo.html Snatched Up and Sold Into Slavery: The Story of Solomon Northup]
* [http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/ny/slave_1 America's Story: Solomon Northup Day]
* [http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/narratives/bio_northrup.htm Solomon Northup: From Freedom to Slavery to Freedom Again]
Источник: Solomon Northup
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