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	Solomon Northup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Solomon Northup (1808 - ;????) was a free-born African-American from New York state who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. and sold into slavery.
		No known records on Northup exist after 1863 and the date, location and circumstances of his death are unknown.
		Others feel that the sudden disappearance of a well known public figure would have been noticed and since his health was probably declining due to his years of captivity under harsh conditions, he may well have simply died of natural causes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solomon_Northup (274 words)

	Solomon's Wisdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Solomon Northup's new friends led him from the tavern to the National Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street, where he had awakened that morning with the glorious sum of $43 in his pocket and a document proclaiming him a free fl man in slave territory.
		Solomon Northup's ability to overcome his outrage is one of the most compelling aspects of his endurance.
		Northup quickly realized he was strongly antislavery, the first with that sentiment Northup encountered in all his time in the South.
	innercity.org /columbiaheights/newspaper/kidnap.html (4575 words)

	The Union College Magazine
		Northup's wife received the letter and went to Henry B. Northup, district attorney of Washington County and nephew of the man who gave Solomon Northup's father his freedom -- and his name.
		When Solomon Northup arrived in Washington, he filed a suit against Birch, the owner of the slave pen where he was held and beaten.
		Northup's last reported sighting was in an 1855 book engagement in Montpelier, Vt. Five years later, the census listed his wife as the head of household.
	www.union.edu /N/DS/s.php?s=1502 (1924 words)

	Solomon Northup Day - A Community Celebration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Solomon Northup was born a free man in Minerva, New York, July 1808.
		Solomon was a literate man who worked on the Champlain Canal, was a carpenter and inventor.
		A display on Solomon Northup Day is now a the LOC as a permanent part of the Folklife Center.
	www.saratoga-springs.org /northup1.htm (563 words)

	Slavery in America
		For this day marked the release of Solomon Northup from twelve years of involuntary servitude as a slave to various owners throughout the region of Louisiana that sits to the northwest of New Orleans on the Red River.
		Solomon stayed in a hotel room in the back of Gadsby's Hotel, which was the only place in the establishment where fls were allowed to stay.
		Solomon noted throughout his time as a slave that the idea of slavery itself created an endless cycle of violence for both the enslaved and their owners through whippings and beatings, etc. Respond to this notion.
	www.slaveryinamerica.org /narratives/bio_northrup.htm (2190 words)

	Solomon Northup Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Northup was born a free man in Minerva, New York, in 1808.
		Northup was shipped south to New Orleans, along with other slaves, where he was sold in a slave market.
		Northup worked hard and endured much cruelty, but he was always looking for the chance to escape or contact his family and friends in New York.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/ny/slave_1 (277 words)

	American America History - Genovese and Northup
		Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave, in addition to being one of Genovese's own resources, fills this void with its brutally honest personal story of a slave's life.
		Northup is a slave, and any work he does for his master he does under duress, and so the benefit of his tale is to refocus the discourse on labor out of rhetoric and into a tangible sense of what is demanded of slaves.
		In fact, Northup recounts a conversation with Ford's slave Harry: "[he] spoke kindly and affectionately of him, as a child would speak of his own father." 8 This is exactly the feeling that Genovese uses to describe the things that slaveholders would think their slaves would say.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=23203 (2518 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Solomon had never been a slave, but he was given to a harsh slave owner in the South.
		Solomon befriended a northerner that worked on a plantation, he was called Bass.
		In 1853, twenty-three years after he was kidnapped, Solomon Northup was free once again.
	www.rpi.edu /dept/iear/wyred/yr2/ugrr/walkhb.html (261 words)

	Powell's Books - Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
		Born a free man in New York in 1808, Solomon Northrup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841.
		Northup's years in captivity are dramatically recounted here, as are his attempts to bring charges against the men who originally abducted him.
		An educated man when he entered slavery, Northup was able to write about the institution as both an outsider and as one of its victims.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0486411435-0 (354 words)

	Hartnett/Democratic Dissent & the Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America. Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Northup thus argues that the system of slavery is so totalizing, so omnipotent in socializing citizens (and slaves) into accepting the necessity and benefits of brutality, that the individual acts without significant choice.
		Northup reverses this perspective, however, so that slavery as a system becomes the agent or cause of the slavers' brutality, which is no more than the effect of something too big to check—slavery is not the slavers' fault but rather the cause of their (and our) predicament.
		Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana, ed.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /epub/books/hartnett/ch1.html (11713 words)

	Solomon Northup, Twelve Years A Slave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Solomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave.
		But when the chase ended, Northup had been drugged, beaten, and sold to a slave trader in Washington, D.C. Subsequently, he was shipped to New Orleans, where he was purchased by a planter in the Red River region of Louisiana.
		Northup’s account has been carefully checked by the editors and has been found to be remarkably accurate.
	www.lsu.edu /lsupress/Books/1968/Northup_Twelve.html (372 words)

	Twelve Years a Slave Review and price
		Solomon Northup was an educated literate man who worked in New York and was brutally kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana.
		Solomon Northup was an educated, free fl man from upstate New York with a wife and children in the 1841 when through a chain of events ended up being kidnapped and sold into slavery.
		Solomon was owned by a carpenter who mistreated him quite badly and Solomon had to fight him twice to prevent himself from being killed by his owner.
	www.wi-fitechnology.com /Wi-Fi-Products-0486411435.html (919 words)

	Twelve Years a Slave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In 1841, Solomon Northup was an educated, free fl man and a respected resident of Saratoga, New York.
		Northup describes his purchase by a slave trader and his journey to the swamps of Louisiana, where he became a slave on the cotton plantations of the notorious "Bayou Boeuf." For twelve years he labored for a succession of masters, some cruel and some kind.
		The story of Northup's rescue and return to his family in 1853 is compelling, as is the thoughtful way he relates the details of his ordeal.
	www.austincivilwar.org /twelve.htm (344 words)

	Mandeville Gallery at the Nott Memorial
		The installation born of these two sources, the story of Northup and the architecture of the Nott, is an ode to the strength of the spirit.
		Solomon Northup was a free fl enslaved; the scope of this phenomenon-freedom amid bondage- is broadened in Powre Above Powres to the exploration of imaginal spheres of free expression within slavery, relative to acts of yearning for liberation in this world and the next.
		Solomon Northup was targeted for his fiddling skills.
	www.union.edu /Gallery/Archives/powre_above_powres.htm (1057 words)

	Slave narrative from Solomon Northup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841.
		As an educated man, Northup was able to present an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society.
		Moreover, Northup tells his story both from the viewpoint of an outsider, who had experienced 30 years of freedom and dignity in the United States before his capture, and as a slave, reduced to total bondage and submission.
	www.opendoorbooks.com /africanamerican/twelveyrsaslave.htm (262 words)

	Northup
		Northup’s incredible recall of detail allowed him to write a narrative of his years in captivity which became a best seller.
		Fortunately for Northup he was able to get a letter off through a sympathetic person.
		Upon being able to identify his location his friends in the Saratoga area were able to approach the Governor of New York to appoint a delegation to find him and free him.
	www.ugrworkshop.com /snorthup.htm (182 words)

	359northup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Northup also describes the world of the masters and other free people.
		Northup’s narrative at once discusses “the slave experience” generally and also elements that made his particular situation as a slave unique.
		While Northup does not appear to have been working with an abolitionist society in constructing his narrative, his book is certainly something of an antislavery tract nevertheless.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~spangler/359northup.html (146 words)

	Capital News 9 \| 24 Hour Local News \| YOUR NEWS
		The fifth annual Solomon Northup Day, A Celebration of Freedom, took place at the Heritage Park Visitor Center on Saturday.
		Northup was a Saratoga resident who was kidnapped and sold into slavery during the 19th century.
		The annual event is a way for people to not only learn about Northup and his struggle, but to be proud of a man who made his way back to freedom.
	www.capitalnews9.com /content/your_news?ArID=33624 (202 words)

	Capital News 9 \| 24 Hour Local News \| HEADLINES \| People gather to remember Solomon Northup
		For the sixth year now, Saratoga Springs residents celebrated Solomon Northup's life with speakers and a tour of his home.
		Northup lived in Saratoga back in the early 1800s.
		Northup was a slave for 12 years before gaining his freedom.
	www.capitalnews9.com /content/headlines?ArID=84648&SecID=33 (259 words)

	An American Story: The Odyssey of Solomon Northup:Northup, Solomon:0964559331:eCampus.com
		Even Frederick Douglass was amazed in 1853 by Solomon Northup's best selling story: "It is a strange history" he wrote, "its truth is stranger than fiction." So it was.
		In 1841, Northup, a free fl New Yorker who lived in Saratoga, N.Y., was lured to Washington, DC by promises of the congenial Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton, who invited him with his violin to join their stage routine.
		As Solomon Northup, he brought suit against those who enslaved him.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?ISBN=0964559331 (158 words)

	Slavery and the Making of America . The Slave Experience: The Family \| PBS
		Solomon Northup was a free fl man, kidnapped from his home in New York and sold into slavery on a Louisiana cotton plantation.
		In this excerpt from the narrative of his life, he remembers his bittersweet reunion with a family from whom he had been separated for twelve years.
		Not forgetful of his enslaved, unfortunate grand-father, she had named the child Solomon Northup Staunton.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/slavery/experience/family/docs9.html (468 words)

	Solomon Northup, b. 1808 Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		1808 Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853.
		Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853.
		An Account of Solomon Northup in the New York Times 20 January 1853
	docsouth.unc.edu /northup/menu.html (169 words)

	Solomon Northrup Day
		Solomon Northup was born a free man in Minerva, New York, in 1808.
		Represented were a number of speakers from the community, clergy, elected officials and Northup descendants from four states.
		Northup, an accomplished violinist, carpenter and writer, published his autobiography entitled Twelve Years a Slave.
	www.loc.gov /bicentennial/propage/NY/ny-22_h_sweeney2.html (168 words)

	Corporate Info
		Solomon Northup was a free Black man living in 19
		Century America; he was a man with a trade an accomplishment for any man in his day and a man who led a good life, until his world was turned upside down.
		Directed by Emmy Award winning Gordon Parks, Solomon Northup’s Odyssey is a film that brings one mans tragic fate to life, all the more compelling because the story Solomon Northup is true.
	www.montereymedia.com /Corporate_Info/african_press.html (488 words)

	A slave auction Described by a Slave, 1841: Solomon Northup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Northup describes the preparation for the slave auction.
		According to Northup, they were treated much like horses.
		In conclusion, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel may seem sentimental and emotional – and it is. The autobiography of Solomon Northup supports the reality behind the novel, but it is impossible to write of realities so harsh and cruel without creating a work that tears at the heart.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /eng343/_disc2/00000028.htm (435 words)

	Cushcity.com - Solomon Northrup's Odyssey - Stage Play VHS
		Then, one fateful day, his good life and all his dreams came to a crashing halt.
		Solomon Northup was kidnapped and carried off into slavery to serve on plantations in the South.
		For the story of Solomon Northup is a true story.
	www.cushcity.com /books/1569940169.htm (129 words)

	Outpost.com \| -DVD
		Based on the autobiography Twelve Years a Slave, the film relates the story of Solomon Northup, a fl freedman who, in 1841, was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and sold into slavery.
		Avery Brooks stars as Northup, having spent a dozen years' servitude in Louisiana before managing his escape.
		Northup's own written words bespeak a rebellious spirit not far removed from the firebrand freedom fighters of the '60s.
	www.outpost.com /product/4346745 (152 words)

	Solomon Northup. Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative ofSolomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		CHAPTER I. Introductory—Ancestry—The Northup Family—Birth and Parentage—Mintus Northup—Marriage with Anne Hampton —Good Resolutions—Champlain Canal—Rafting Excursion to Canada—Farming—The Violin—Cooking— Removal to Saratoga—Parker and Perry—Slaves—and Slavery—The Children—The Beginning of Sorrow,.
		They belonged to a family by the name of Northup, one of whom, removing to the State of New York, settled at Hoosic, in Rensselaer county.
		Northup visited Albany and laid it before Governor Seward, but inasmuch as it gave no definite information as to my probable locality, it was not, at that time, deemed advisable to institute measures for my liberation.
	docsouth.unc.edu /northup/northup.html (18540 words)

	Scarpino/Emerson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Northup's book is a personal narrative about slavery, but at the same time, he provides us with information about several groups of people with whom he had contact: southern whites, free fls, and northern whites (indirectly).
		In a larger sense, Northup's autobiographical work adds another dimension to our understanding of the differences between the North and the South that contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War.
		Remember that Northup was a slave for twelve years.
	www.iupui.edu /~history/www/fall01/12years.htm (689 words)

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