The story of Solomon Northup has been unsed in countless American classrooms thanks to historians who use the book as a primary source as well as the 1984 documentary "Solomon Northup's Odyssey" and the 2013 Hollywood film "12Years A Slave. Northup tells of his experience being owned by Epps in his 1853 book Twelve Years A Slave. The book became a best-seller and supported the growing abolitionist sentiment of the 1850s. Epps learned of Northup's status in this cabin. Understanding that Epps would either not believe or simply refuse to free Northup, Samuel Bass and Solomon Northup were careful to document Northup's illegal capture and involve Northups family, northern abolitionists, the media, and the courts prior to notifying Epps that Solomon Northup was a free man. Epps owned Northup until he was presented evidence that Northup was a free man in 1853. Approached to play for a group of men, he is kidnapped and sold into slavery. As the years of his enslavement continued, Northup feared that he would never be reunited with his wife and three children. After two years, Northup was purchased by Epps, a former plantation overseer, in 1843. Solomon Northup's Odyssey on Pluto TV Drama 1hr 54 min Solomon Northup was a black man in the mid 19th century who was born a freeman and worked as a carpenter and part-time musician. These two criminals drugged Northup and sold him into slavery. The memoir has been adapted and produced as the 1984 PBS television movie Solomon Northup's Odyssey and the 2013 Academy Award-winning film 12 Years a Slave.Northup was a free man of color in New York who was kidnapped and and sold into slavery by two criminals who later claimed to have legally purchased Northup from another slave trader.
The work was published by Derby & Miller of Auburn, New York, soon after Harriet Beecher Stowe's best-selling novel about slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), to which it lent factual support. Solomon Northups Odyssey, reissued as Half Slave, Half Free, is a 1984 American television film based on the 1853 autobiography Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a free black man who in 1841 was kidnapped and sold into slavery. and New Orleans and describes at length cotton and sugar cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.
Northup's account provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C. After having been kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana by various masters, Northup was able to write to friends and family in New York, who were able to secure his release. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York, details his kidnapping in Washington, D.C. Twelve Years a Slave is a memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup, as told to and edited by David Wilson.
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