![]() ![]() ![]() In his first year of freedom, Northup wrote and published a memoir, Twelve Years a Slave (1853). Those who had kidnapped and enslaved Northup received no punishment. Later, in New York State, his northern kidnappers were located and charged, but the case was tied up in court for two years due to jurisdictional challenges and finally dropped when Washington, D.C., was found to have jurisdiction. Birch, was arrested and tried, but acquitted because District of Columbia law prohibited Northup as a black man from testifying against white people. The slave trader in Washington, D.C., James H. Family and friends enlisted the aid of the Governor of New York, Washington Hunt, and Northup regained his freedom on January 3, 1853. He remained in slavery until he met a Canadian working on his plantation who helped get word to New York, where state law provided for aid to free New York citizens kidnapped into slavery. He was shipped to New Orleans, purchased by a planter, and held as a slave for 12 years in the Red River region of Louisiana, mostly in Avoyelles Parish. (where slavery was legal), where he was kidnapped, and sold as a slave. In 1841, he was offered a traveling musician’s job and went to Washington, D.C. ![]() A farmer and violinist, Northup owned land in Hebron, New York. A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and free woman of color. Solomon Northup (July 1808–1863?) was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. ![]()
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