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Northup and published
That year Northup published a book about his kidnapping and years as a slave.
Solomon Northup published an account of his experiences, Twelve Years a Slave ( 1853 ).

Northup and memoir
In his memoir, Northup characterized Ford as a good man, considerate of his bondspeople.
( Note: In his memoir, Solomon did not name his mother, but described her as of mixed race and a quadroon ..) In 1841 Northup was tricked into going to Washington, DC, where slavery was legal.

Northup and Twelve
* Solomon Northup, David Wilson, Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, Auburn, N. Y .: Derby and Miller, 1853, at Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina.

Northup and Slave
* Gilbert Osofsky, Puttin ' on Ole Massa: The Slave Narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup ( New York: Harper and Row, 1969 )

Northup and 1853
The story chronicled the life of Solomon Northup, a free man from New York kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841 and held until 1853, when he regained his freedom.

Northup and ),
Brown and Hamilton sold Northup to James H. Burch ( spelled as Birch in some accounts ), a slave trader in Washington, claiming that he was a fugitive.
In 2001, the City Council of Saratoga Springs, under the leadership of former Mayor Ken Klotz ( D ), inaugurated Solomon Northup Day as the third Saturday in July.
* David Fiske, Solomon Northup: His Life Before and After Slavery ( 2012 ), a book about Northup's life during his years in New York State.
* Solomon Northup ( 1808-d. c. 1863 ), born in Minerva as a free man, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841.
Los Angeles poets: Leland Hickman ( 1934 – 1991 ), Holly Prado ( born 1938 ), Harry Northup ( born 1940 ), Wanda Coleman ( born 1946 ),
On July 30, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Northup to a seat on the Consumer Product Safety Commission ( CPSC ), and was confirmed by the U. S. Senate on August 7.
Northup was endorsed by The Courier-Journal ( typically seen as liberal ), several local Democratic officeholders, and former state Attorney General Chris Gorman, a Democrat who ran against her for the seat in 1998.
T. J. Day Hall ( formerly Northup Hall ), built in 1936, was the library through 2003.
Ed Doberman ( Harry Northup ), the most hated cop in town.
Snottites were recently brought to attention by researchers Diana Northup and Penny Boston, studying them ( and other organisms ) in a toxic sulfur cave called Cueva de Villa Luz ( Cave of the Lighted House ), in Tabasco, Mexico.

Northup and slave
Northup sued the slave traders in Washington, DC but lost in the local court.
Northup gave nearly two dozen lectures throughout the Northeast on his experiences as a slave, in order to support the abolitionist cause.
Solomon's father Mintus was a freedman, who had been a slave in the early part of his life in service to the Northup family.
Burch wrongfully claimed that Northup was a runaway slave from Georgia, and sold him as such.
His wife went for help to Henry B. Northup, a local lawyer and member of the family who had once held her father-in-law as a slave.
At the New Orleans slave market, Burch's partner Thomas Freeman sold Northup under the name of Platt to William Ford, a planter on Bayou Boeuf of the Red River ( Mississippi ) in Louisiana.
Included in the genre of slave narratives, the scholar Sam Worley says that the book does not fit the standard expectations of the genre and was overlooked for many years, in part because Northup was assisted in the writing by a white man, David Wright.
In 1876 a local historian speculated that Northup was kidnapped or killed by persons unknown while in Boston, but contemporary historians think the kidnapping unlikely, as he was too old to be of interest to slave catchers.

Northup and life
* 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.

Northup and on
In the early 1860s, Northup, along with another black man, aided a Methodist minister in Vermont in helping fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad.
In the winter of 1842, Ford sold Northup to Tibeats at a price that left the carpenter owing money on him.
Northup was hired out to Mr. Eldret, who lived about 38 miles south on the Red River.
John L. Smith, a Methodist minister in Vermont, with whom Northup had worked aiding fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad.
He made headlines in 2007 when he called on Fletcher's lieutenant governor, Steve Pence, to resign for his disloyalty after Pence endorsed Anne Northup in the Republican gubernatorial primary rather than backing Fletcher's re-election bid.
Northup ran on her record of getting federal money for the district, and argued Jordan would be " too liberal " for constituents.
At a press conference held in front of a gas station on June 17, 2008, Northup said that the 2008 elections were about the rising price of energy.
Northup campaigned on the idea that Fletcher's involvement in the hiring scandal had made him " unelectable ".
Despite his solid hitting, Martin kept Northup on the bench for part of the year.

Northup and Red
Spider's targets include " The Red Baron ," played by Harry Northup, a neo-Nazi who uses a high-powered CB base station to broadcast white supremacist monologues ; " The Hustler ", a teenage boy who reads pornography aloud over the air, and several others.
* Harry Northup as The Red Baron

Northup and Louisiana
In cooperation with the senator and local authorities of Louisiana, Henry Northup located Solomon.

Northup and Washington
He contacted the state, and New York Governor Washington Hunt took up the case, appointing Henry Northup as his legal agent.
His case was tried in Washington DC where, as a black man, Northup was prohibited by law from testifying against whites.
* On May 23, 2000 as part of the Bicentennial Local Legacies project, Renee Moore, founder of Solomon Northup Day, was honored along with other Americans at a reception in the Library of Congress's ( LOC ) Great Hall in Washington DC.

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