by Solomon Northup · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490329320
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The harrowing memoirs of Solomon Northup, a free African-American kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana in 1841, offer a shocking testimony of slavery in the 19th century. In this account, Northup narrates his experience as a free man and as a victim of slavery, leaving a legacy of friendship and overcoming adversity. This edition includes a study by Marta Puxan-Oliva.
Solomon Northup 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. ; 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.
