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American Focus > Blog > Culture and Arts > Solomon Northup’s ‘Twelve Years a Slave’ Came to an End as He Regained His Long-Awaited Freedom on This Day in 1853
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Solomon Northup’s ‘Twelve Years a Slave’ Came to an End as He Regained His Long-Awaited Freedom on This Day in 1853

Last updated: January 4, 2025 10:34 am
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Solomon Northup’s ‘Twelve Years a Slave’ Came to an End as He Regained His Long-Awaited Freedom on This Day in 1853
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Solomon Northup, a free Black man living in Saratoga Springs, New York, was a married, educated carpenter and musician. In 1841, two white men approached him to be their fiddle player in Washington, D.C. Intrigued, Northup agreed and accompanied them to the nation’s capital, only to be drugged, tied up, and sold into slavery at the Williams Slave Pen.

For the next 12 years, Northup endured the horrors of slavery, starting from Washington to New Orleans and eventually ending up on multiple plantations in central Louisiana. Renamed “Platt” by his captors, Northup was bought by William Prince Ford, who treated him with some leniency. However, Ford eventually sold him to the sadistic plantation owner Edwin Epps, where Northup suffered under the lash of a cruel master who had a twisted attachment to one of his female slaves, Patsey.

In a stroke of luck, Epps hired a white Canadian carpenter named Samuel Bass, who was opposed to slavery. Bass wrote a letter to Northup’s friends in Saratoga, informing them of his enslavement. This led to Northup’s rescue by his attorney and local authorities, who legally obtained his freedom in 1853. Northup was reunited with his family and went on to write a memoir titled “Twelve Years a Slave,” detailing his harrowing experience. The book became a bestseller and was later adapted into a film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2013.

Following the publication of his book, Northup became an active abolitionist, giving speeches, staging plays based on his story, and likely aiding enslaved individuals on the Underground Railroad. However, his fate after a public appearance in Ontario, Canada, in August 1857 remains unknown.

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Solomon Northup’s story serves as a powerful reminder of the atrocities of slavery and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity. His legacy lives on through his memoir and the impact he had on the abolitionist movement.

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