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Solomon Northup's descendant, the Northup family matriarch Victoria Northup Linzy Dunahm, died in California at the age of 98 in 2008.

Northup's and .
The circumstances of Northup's death are uncertain.
Solomon Northup's memoir was reprinted several times late in the 19th century.
The memoir was adapted and produced as a TV movie, Solomon Northup's Odyssey ( 1984 ), directed by Gordon Parks.
This debt saved Northup's life, for Tibeats did not want to lose him because of the money still outstanding on his purchase.
Bass wrote to Northup's family with details of his location at Bayou Boeuf in hopes of gaining his rescue.
The respective courts argued over whether the crime had been committed in New York, where Northup's testimony would have been accepted, or in Washington DC, where it would not.
Published when the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was a bestseller, Northup's book sold 30, 000 copies within three years.
Worley discounted concerns that Wright was pursuing his own interests and wrote of it: "' Twelve Years ' is convincingly Northup's tale and no one else's because of its amazing attention to empirical detail and unwillingness to reduce the complexity of Northup's experience to a stark moral allegory.
Northup's full and descriptive account has been used by numerous historians researching slavery.
For example, in his book Black Men Built the Capitol, Jesse Holland notes his use of Northup's narrative.
The scholar Kenneth M. Stampp referred to Northup's memoir in his book on slavery, The Peculiar Institution ( 1962 ).
Northup's memoir was reprinted in 1869, but over time his story was overlooked.
In 1984, a made-for-TV movie, based on Northup's memoir, was directed by Gordon Parks.
In 1998 a team of students at Union College in Schenectady, New York, with their political science professor Clifford Brown, undertook a project to document Northup's historic narrative.
* In 1984, Twelve Years a Slave was adapted as a PBS television movie entitled Solomon Northup's Odyssey, directed by Gordon Parks.
Blue, commissioned by the New York State Council on the Arts ( NYSCA ), recorded a musical expression of Northup's story on an album entitled Follow the North Star.
* In June 2012 started the filming of Twelve Years a Slave ( film ), directed by British director Steve McQueen who also co-wrote the script with John Ridley to adapt Northup's memoir book.
* In 1999, Renee Moore created Solomon Northup Day and approached Mayor Michael J. O ' Connell ( R ) who erected a historical marker at the corner of Congress and Broadway, to commemorate Solomon Northup's life.
An exhibit panel on Mr. Northup's life is at the Heritage Park Visitor Center.
* In 1968, Sue Eakin, a Louisiana historian and professor, published an annotated version of Northup's narrative, which provides information and context for his account and references.

wife and Anne
Theresa had seen him through the right college, into the right fraternity, and though pursued by various girls and various mammas of girls, safely married to the right sort, however much in the early years of that match his wife, Anne, had not seemed to understand poor George.
Then he met the grave eyes of his wife, Anne, from the photograph next to David's.
* 1669 – Anne Marie d ' Orléans, French wife of Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia ( d. 1728 )
After the death of his first wife Anne of Hungary, he married Yolanda ( renamed Irene ) of Montferrat, putting an end to the Montferrat claim to the Kingdom of Thessalonica.
Anne obtained a second post as governess to the children of the Reverend Edmund Robinson and his wife Lydia, at Thorp Green, a wealthy country house near York.
He has recently married an 18-year-old trophy wife, Anne, a vain girl who is in love with Fredrik, but too immature to grasp the concept of marriage.
The older woman explains to Anne that such is the lot of a wife, and that marriage brings pain (" Every Day A Little Death ").
* Anne Egerman: Fredrik's new, naive wife.
He married his first wife, Anne Child, in about 1677 in Ecton and emigrated with her to Boston in 1683 ; they had three children before emigrating, and four after.
Several of Ochino's Prediche were also translated into English by a lady, Anna Cooke ( or Anne Cooke ; b. 1533 ) afterwards second wife of Sir Nicholas Bacon ; and he published numerous controversial treatises on the Continent.
The dukedom was created in 1702 by Queen Anne ; John Churchill, whose wife was a favourite of the queen, had earlier been made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the Scottish peerage ( 1682 ), which became extinct with his death, and Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ) by King William III.
Her mother was Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn.
In Christmas 1581 Oxford reconciled with his wife, Anne, but his affair with Anne Vavasour continued to have repercussions.
Later, he attended the Actors Studio from its inception ; there, he would study acting with founding member Robert Lewis, alongside, among others, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Herbert Berghof, and Sidney Lumet, not to mention his soon-to-be wife, Anne Jackson.
Bacon was born on 22 January 1561 at York House near the Strand in London, the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne ( Cooke ) Bacon, the daughter of noted humanist Anthony Cooke.
* 1394 – Anne of Bohemia, English wife of Richard II of England ( b. 1367 )
* 1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
* 1906 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American writer, wife of Charles Lindbergh ( d. 2001 )
* 1540 – King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
The children were raised in Couëron, near Nantes, France, by Audubon and his wife Anne Moynet Audubon, whom he had married years before.
With his third wife, Beryl, he had three children, Johnny Weissmuller, Jr. ( September 23, 1940 – July 27, 2006 ), Wendy Anne Weissmuller ( b. June 1, 1942 ), and Heidi Elizabeth Weissmuller ( July 31, 1944 – November 19, 1962 ).
Similar examples were procured of Catharine Linck in Prussia in 1717, executed in 1721 ; Swiss Anne Grandjean married and relocated with her wife to Lyons, but was exposed by a woman with whom she had had a previous affair and sentenced to time in the stocks and prison.
* 1619 – Anne of Denmark, wife of James I ( b. 1574 )
Mary, born at St. James's Palace in London on 30 April 1662, was the eldest daughter of James, Duke of York ( the future James II & VII ), and his first wife, Lady Anne Hyde.

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