Solomon Northup was born a free man in Minerva, New York, July 1808.
the Library of Congress Bicentennial "Local Legacies" Project.Anyone wishing to participate in the planning of this event may contact Renee at (518) 596-4329, Anyone wishing to learn more about the history of Solomon Northup or this event should contact, Renee Moore, Founder.Northup's autobiography, Twelve Years A Slave, forward by Sue Eakin. More information about Solomon Northup can be obtained through the following: Historians, academia, clergy and performers with a mid-program reception are apart of this educational program.Īdditionally, this celebration also takes place in Plattsburgh, NY on an alternative date in conjunction with the North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association. This event founded in 1999, includes an art exhibition, book display, and other historical and educational programs about Solomon Northup history, the abolitionist movement, the underground railroad and local African-American history and culture.
With details such as Eliza's sale substantiated by the historical record, the narrative provides an exceptional window on the world of the slave trade and illuminates the efforts of one man to navigate his way back to freedom.Solomon Northup Day - A Community Celebration SOLOMON NORTHUP
Northup's autobiography, Twelve Years a Slave, was published in 1853, just one year after Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and sold more than thirty thousand copies in three years.
Ford also purchased Eliza, but her children were sold to other buyers. His shipmate Eliza, listed as "Drady Cooper," and her children are the final entries on that manifest. After being sold from Freeman's slave pen to planter William Ford, Northup spent twelve years illegally enslaved on central Louisiana sugar and cotton plantations. The ship left Richmond on April 27, 1841, and arrived in New Orleans three weeks later, on May 24, carrying a cargo of forty-one men, women, and children, including Northup, who is listed as "Plat Hamilton" on line 33 of the ship manifest below. Renaming Northup "Platt Hamilton," Birch created a fictitious backstory for Platt before shipping him south via the brig Orleans to his partner Theophilus Freeman in New Orleans. In 1841 Solomon Northup, a free black New Yorker, was kidnapped in Washington, DC, and sold to slave trader James Birch.
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