His memoir strips and exposes the malignant and flawed nature of Slave Keeping that was prevalent in the southern states of America at that time. The vivid details described by him are nothing less than horrifying. What followed was a period of enslavement and abuse that lasted 12 years, during which time he was repeatedly assaulted and was stripped of rudimentary human rights. Northup was tricked and drugged by the two men Northup and later sold him as a slave without his will in the Red River region of Louisiana. Solomon Northup's story starts in 1841 when he was tricked into coming to Washington by two men who lured him in by offering him work in the circus as a fiddle player. The book is based on his memoirs after he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. He married and settled in upstate New York. He was a laborer and a par excellence Violinist. Solomon Northup was born on 10th July 1808, in Minerva, New York, USA to a freed slave man Mintus.
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