Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
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Avoyelles is a parish located in central eastern Louisiana on the Red River where it effectively becomes the Atchafalaya River and meets the Mississippi River. As of the 2020 census, the population wa
Texas and Pacific Railroad Depot in Bunkie
Formation of the Atchafalaya River and construction of the Old River Control Structure.
Solomon Northup
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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 wom
Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
…Ruth McEnery Stuart, Marksville Solomon Northup, a free man from Saratoga Springs, New York, was held for nearly 12 years as a slave in Avoyelles Parish after being kidnapped and sold before the…
Engraving from his autobiography
Old Fort House is a historic house located in the town of Fort Edward, New York. The house, the oldest house in Washington County, New York, is operated as a local history museum. Solomon Northup lived in Fort Edward as a child, he was married there, and he started his family in the town.
Solomon Northup returning home to his family, Twelve Years a Slave (1853), engraved by Nathaniel Orr, published by Frederick M. Coffin
Slave trader James H. Birch offers "cash for negroes" to resell to the Louisiana market (Daily National Intelligencer, Washington, D. C., December 19, 1840)