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
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)
The pre-American Civil War practice of kidnapping into slavery in the United States occurred in both free and slave states, and both fugitive slaves and free negroes were transported to slave markets
Tearing up the free-born and manumission papers and kidnapping of a free black, in the U.S. free states, to be sold into Southern slavery, from an 1838 abolitionist anti-slavery almanac
"Kidnapping" (Picture of Slavery in the United States of America by Rev. George Bourne, published by Edwin Hunt in Middletown, Connecticut, 1834)
"The house of Mr. H. Slatter" would have been Hope H. Slatter's slave jail in Baltimore ("Kidnapping" New Orleans Times-Picayune, February 25, 1841)
Jesse Torrey, Jr., depicted recording the narrative of free people who had been kidnapped