12 Years a Slave . Solomon Northup

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Solomon Northup was an American abolitionist and author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A freeborn African American from New York City, he was the son of a freed slave and a free woman of color. A farmer and professional violinist, Northup was a landowner in Washington County, New York. In 1841, he was offered a job as a traveling musician and traveled to Washington, D.C. (where slavery was legal); there he was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery.