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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Solomon Northup was born in the early 1800s in New York, and was born as a free man. He lived as a free man for over 30 years, until he was tricked into moving to Washington, D.C. by men offering him a job as a musician. Once he made it to D.C., he was ki... SEE MORE