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Solomon Northup (July 10, c. 1807/1808 — c. 1864) was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born American of mixed race from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and a free woman of color. Northup was a professional violinist, farmer, and landowner in Washington County, New York. In 1841, he was offered a traveling musician's job and went to Washington, D.C. (where slavery was legal); there, he was drugged and kidnapped into slavery. He was shipped to New Orleans on April 24, 1841 by James H. Birch aboard the Brig Orleans from Richmond, VA. Northup was purchased by a planter and held as a slave for nearly twelve years in the Red River region of Louisiana; mostly in Avoyelles Parish. He remained enslaved until he met Samuel Bass, a Canadian working on his plantation who helped get word to New York, where state law provided aid to free New York citizens who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery. His family and friends enlisted the aid of the Governor of New York, Washington Hunt, and Northup regained his freedom on January 3, 1853. (From Wikipedia) More about Solomon Northup:
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Books by Solomon Northup Books about Solomon Northup: Filed under: Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853 (fifth thousand; Auburn, NY: Derby and Miller, et al., 1853), by Solomon Northup
Books by Solomon Northup: - Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?: Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853 (fifth thousand; Auburn, NY: Derby and Miller, et al., 1853)
Additional books by Solomon Northup in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?: 12 years a slave. (Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855) (page images at HathiTrust)- Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?: 12 years a slave (Philadelphia, Penn. : John E. Potter and Co., 185?, 1850), also by Kenny J. Williams and Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
- Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana (Auburn : Derby and Miller ; Buffalo : Derby, Orton and Mulligan ; London : Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1853., 1853), also by Carter Godwin Woodson, D. Wilson, and Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (page images at HathiTrust)
- Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?: Twelve years a slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana. (Derby and Miller;, 1853), also by D. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?: Twelve years a slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the red river, in Louisiana. (Miller, Orton & Mulligan;, 1854), also by D. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?: Twelve years a slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana. (C.M. Saxton, 1859), also by D. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?: Twelve years a slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana. (Derby and Miller, 1853), also by D. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?: Twelve years a slave : Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red river, in Louisiana. (Derby and Miller ;, 1853), also by D. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?: Twelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana. (Auburn [New York] : Derby and Miller ; Buffalo [New York] : Derby, Orton and Mulligan ; London : Sampson Low, Son & Company, 47 Ludgate Hill, 1854., 1854), also by Randall K. Burkett, Frederick M. Coffin, Nathaniel Orr, D. Wilson, Son & Co Sampson Low, Orton & Mulligan Derby, and Derby and Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
- Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?: Twelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New York :kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana (Derby and Miller ;, 1853), also by D. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?: Twelve years a slave; the thrilling story of a free colored man, kidnapped in Washington in 1841 ... reclaimed by state authority from a cotton plantation in Louisiana (International Book Co., 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?: Twelve years a slave : the thrilling story of a free colored man, kidnapped in Washington in 1841, sold into slavery, and after twelve years' bondage, reclaimed by state authority from a cotton plantation in Louisiana (International Book Company, 1828) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?: Twelve years a slave : the thrilling story of a free colored man, kidnapped in Washington in 1841, sold into slavery, and after a twelve years' bondage, reclaimed by state authority from a cotton plantation in Louisiana (Philadelphia : Keystone Pub. Co., [189-?], in the 1890s), also by Randall K. Burkett (page images at HathiTrust)
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