The author of Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northup (b. 1808) was an African American carpenter who was born free but bound into slavery later in life.
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'12 Years a Slave' is the harrowing, true account of a free Black man living in New York during the early 1800's who is kidnaped, transported to Louisiana and forced to work and live as a slave for over a decade. Written by the man who experienced these h... SEE MORE