In 1841, free-born African American Solomon Northup was offered a
job in his hometown of Saratoga Springs, New York. He followed his
employers to the job site at Washington, D.C., where he was beaten,
drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery, eventually ending up on
a plantation in Louisiana owned by Edwin Epps. While there, in
1852, Northup befriended Canadian carpenter Samuel Bass, who was at
the time doing work for Epps. Secretly, Bass was able to contact
Northup's family, who informed New York governor Washington Hunt of
his kidnapping. The state was able to use a law passed in 1840 that
allowed the recovery of free black men who were sold into slavery
to rescue Northup. Solomon was finally made free again on January
4, 1853. One of few slaves of his era ever to regain freedom, he
devoted his time and energy to lecturing and educating others about
abolitionism. His memoir of the experience, Twelve Years a Slave, a
best-seller in its time, was published in 1853, during his first
year back as a free man. Cosimo Classics is now presenting a
paperback and hard cover jacketed republication of the original
edition. SOLOMON NORTHUP (1808-c. 1875) was a free African American
from New York who was deceived, drugged, and sold into slavery in
Washington, D.C. in 1841. He was transported to New Orleans and
sold to a plantation owner in Louisiana. For several years, he was
passed around between slave owners before winding up with
plantation owner Edwin Epps. There he met Canadian carpenter Samuel
Bass, who helped him regain his freedom in 1853. Solomon spent the
rest of his life as an abolitionist. He also assisted with the
Underground Railroad in the early 1860s.
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