Category: Book Twelve Years A Slave

While at birth he was granted free man status, as he was born in Minerva, New York in 1808, Solomon Northup was the son of a liberated slave. He grew up in his father’s farm and received a basic education. He moved to Saratoga after marrying Anne Hampton in 1828 and had three children. Solomon…

Solomon Northup – Twelve Years a Slave Solomon Northup’s ‘Twelve Years a Slave”, provides readers with a different outlook on slavery. Northup discusses his days as a slave and the different obstacles he went through. Among the three owners he had, all of them had a different way of treating their slaves. Religion is one…