Solomon Northup, the author of “Twelve Years a Slave,” a memoir detailing how he was kidnapped into slavery to toil on Louisiana’s sugar and cotton plantations, was freed on Jan. 4, 1853.
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Solomon Northup, the author of “Twelve Years a Slave,” a memoir detailing how he was kidnapped into slavery to toil on Louisiana’s sugar and cotton plantations, was freed on Jan. 4, 1853.
