About Solomon Northrup
[Wikidata] free-born African American kidnapped by slave-traders... | [Wikipedia] 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 woman of color. Northup was a professional violinist, farmer, and landowner in Washington County, New Y
