Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York…

Solomon Northup's searing 1853 memoir: a free Black man from New York, lured south and kidnapped into slavery in Louisiana, endures twelve years in bondage before his desperate struggle back to…

At a glance Some testimonies are impossible to forget, and Solomon Northup's is among the most… What it's about Northup, a free Black citizen of New York, was lured to Washington with… His narrative recounts the twelve years that followed on the plantations of Louisiana… It closes with the extraordinary chain of events that finally restored him to his family…

Northup, a free Black citizen of New York, was lured to Washington with the promise of work, drugged, and sold into slavery in 1841.