Solomon Northup

Geboren: 10. Juli 1807· Minerva, New York, USA

† Gestorben: 1. Januar 1864

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Solomon Northup (born July 10, c. 1807 or 1808) was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and a free woman of color. A farmer and a professional violinist, Northup had been a landowner in Washington County, New York. In 1841, he was offered a traveling musician's job and went t… Mehr lesen