12 Years a Slave
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SOLOMON NORTHUP (1808 - ca. 1857) was a free-born African American from Saratoga Springs, New York. His memoir, TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE, recounts his kidnapping in 1841 and sale into slavery, where he was kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. The book provides details of slave markets in Washington, DC, as well as describing at length cotton cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana. Northup was rescued in 1853.