Solomon Northup (born July 10, c. 1807–1808; died c. 1864) was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born...
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12 Years a Slave (film) (redirect from 12 Years a Slave: The Extraordinary True Story of Solomon Northup)
John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two...
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Solomon Northup's Odyssey, reissued as Half Slave, Half Free, is a 1984 American television film based on the 1853 autobiography Twelve Years a Slave...
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Samuel Bass (abolitionist) (section Solomon Northup)
white Canadian abolitionist who helped Solomon Northup, author of Twelve Years a Slave, attain his freedom. Northup was a free black man from New York who...
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Edwin Epps House (section Solomon Northup)
is a Creole cottage built in 1852 (172 years ago) (1852) in part by Solomon Northup on Bayou Boeuf near Holmesville in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. It...
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Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York...
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Roland Emmerich's 2012 (both 2009), Darryl Peabody in Salt (2010), Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave (2013), Vincent Kapoor in Ridley Scott's The Martian...
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Patsey (c. 1830–after 1863) was an African-American enslaved woman. Solomon Northup wrote about her in his book Twelve Years a Slave, which is the source...
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longest enslaver of Solomon Northup, who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. in 1841 and forced into slavery. On January 3, 1853, Northup left Epps's property...
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Louisiana. He was the slave owner who first bought Solomon Northup, a free African-American, after Northup had been kidnapped in Washington, D.C., and sold...
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Half Slave, Half Free: Solomon Northup's Odyssey, directed by Gordon Parks. The story chronicled the life of Solomon Northup, a free man from New York...
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responsible for the kidnapping and selling of Solomon Northup, a free man, in Washington in 1841. Northup wrote a memoir of his time as a slave, Twelve...
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Slave, as "the old yellow building". Northup's memoir was adapted as the PBS television movie Solomon Northup's Odyssey (1984) and the Oscar-winning film...
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political activist Nate Northup (born 1981), American soccer player Oliver Northup (1925–2013), American murder victim Solomon Northup (1808–1863), American...
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antebellum American slave narratives—that of John Brown and that of Solomon Northup—and he appears as a character in both filmed dramatizations of Northrup's...
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Supreme Court of the Utah Territory Solomon Northup (1808 – c. 1863), free black man kidnapped into slavery Solomon Christoffel Obeyesekere (1848–1927)...
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(1911). "Solomon Northup". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. Nelson, Emmanuel Sampath (2002). "Solomon Northup (1808–1863...
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for his role in publishing Twelve Years a Slave, as told to him by Solomon Northup, in 1853. David Wilson was born on September 17, 1818, in West Hebron...
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illustration from Twelve Years A Slave, the memoir of Solomon Northup, 1853: "Rescues Solomon from Hanging" A typical 19th century slave auction in the...
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Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir by Solomon Northup. Twelve Years a Slave may also refer to: 12 Years a Slave (film), a 2013 film based on the memoir...
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described as the standard monetary unit throughout the autobiography of Solomon Northup (1853) and mentioned several times in the Horatio Alger Jr. story Ragged...
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of this was Solomon Northup, born free around 1808 to Mintus Northup and his wife in Essex County, New York state. (In his memoir, Solomon did not name...
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Roger (January 10, 2014). "12 Years a Slave: Bianca Stigter on finding Solomon Northup". Evening Standard. Nicholson, Rebecca (January 24, 2023). "Three Minutes:...
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Massa: The Slave Narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup. Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-131432-2. Mohammad Ali (2009). Thrilla...
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struggling with sex addiction; 12 Years a Slave (2013), an adaptation of Solomon Northup's 1853 slave narrative memoir; and Widows (2018), a crime thriller set...
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a Slave, based on the memoirs of Solomon Northup. Dano portrayed John Tibeats, an overseer at the plantation Northup is sold to. The film was a critical...
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[user-generated source] Corry, John (February 13, 1985). "TV Review; 'Solomon Northrup's Odyssey,' Story of a Slave". The New York Times. Davis, Slaves...
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had to retreat to their ships. Medical historians also suspect that Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841,...
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American Association of University Women. Eakin researched the story of Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave, and published a version of the book that corrected...
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Ejiofor received numerous accolades for playing American abolitionist Solomon Northup in the 2013 biographical period drama film 12 Years a Slave. He received...
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