The author of Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northup (b. 1808) was an African American carpenter who was born free but bound into slavery later in life.
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In this riveting landmark autobiography that reads like a novel, Academy Award and Emmy winner Louis Gossett, Jr., masterfully transports us to 1840s New York, Louisiana, and Washington, DC, to experience the kidnapping and twelve-year bondage of Solomon ... SEE MORE