c. 1822–1913
Biography · Abolition
Solomon Northup
c. 1808–after 1863
United States
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Biography
A free Black man kidnapped and sold into slavery, Northup regained his freedom in 1853 and published a searing memoir that became a landmark document of the abolitionist movement.
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