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Solomon Northup ( July 1808 – c. 1864-1875 ) was a free-born African American from Saratoga Springs, New York.
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.
A farmer, Mintus Northup was successful enough to meet the state's property requirements for voters and could vote.
In 1841, Northup was looking for work in Saratoga Springs.
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.
Burch and Ebenezer Radburn, his turnkey, severely beat Northup to stop him from saying he was a free man.
Burch wrongfully claimed that Northup was a runaway slave from Georgia, and sold him as such.
Henry Northup was willing to help, but could not act without knowing where Solomon was held.
Northup was hired out to Mr. Eldret, who lived about 38 miles south on the Red River.
His case was tried in Washington DC where, as a black man, Northup was prohibited by law from testifying against whites.
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.
He was not listed in the 1865 New York state census, but his wife Anne Northup was reported as still living in nearby Moreau in Saratoga County, with their daughter and son-in-law, Margaret and Philip Stanton.
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.
* 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.
* Solomon Northup was a free-born African American fiddler who had a farm in Hebron before moving to Saratoga, New York.
* Solomon Northup ( 1808-d. c. 1863 ), born in Minerva as a free man, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841.
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 born to a large family, having nine sisters and a brother, and grew up in St. Matthews, a suburb of Louisville.
Northup was educated at Sacred Heart Academy and Saint Mary's College, earning a bachelor's degree in economics and business.

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In addition to its coachwork by Murray designed by their Amos Northup, the Royale also provided buyers with a straight-eight with a nine bearing crankshaft, one shot lubrication, and thermostatically controlled radiator shutters.
The master Northup manumitted Mintus by his will ; freed as a young man, Mintus took the surname Northup.
Burch shipped Northup and other slaves by sea to New Orleans, for his partner to sell.
They were supervised by Ford's overseer Chapin, who saved Northup from a lynching after he fought with Tibeats.
While held by Epps, in 1852 Northup secretly befriended Samuel Bass, an itinerant Canadian carpenter working for Epps.
In 1998, Northup defeated Democratic candidate Chris Gorman, a former state attorney general, by just 4 percentage points.
In polls before the debates, Northup led by 7 percentage points ; in polls afterwards, she led by 24 points.
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.
It was released from The Courier-Journal newspaper that Anne Northup was praised as a " formidable " candidate by the state's top Republican leader, long-time U. S Senator and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, although McConnell stopped short of an endorsement of any particular candidate.
On May 22, 2007, Northup was defeated in the Republican primary by Fletcher.
On November 4, 2008, Northup was defeated by John Yarmuth 59 % to 41 %.
After turning back a challenge in the Republican primary by former Congresswoman Anne Northup, Fletcher lost the general election to Democrat Steve Beshear.
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.
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.

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* Northup, Lesley.
Northup sued the slave traders in Washington, DC but lost in the local court.
Returning to his family in New York, Northup became active in abolitionism.
Northup gave nearly two dozen lectures throughout the Northeast on his experiences as a slave, in order to support the abolitionist cause.
In the early 1860s, Northup, along with another black man, aided a Methodist minister in Vermont in helping fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad.
Since 1999, Saratoga Springs has celebrated an annual Solomon Northup Day.
Mintus Northup married and moved north with his wife, a free woman of color, to the town of Minerva in Essex County, New York.
On Christmas Day in 1829, Solomon Northup married Anne Hampton.
Northup kept up with the violin, which he played well.
Solomon Northup's descendant, the Northup family matriarch Victoria Northup Linzy Dunahm, died in California at the age of 98 in 2008.
Expecting the trip to be brief, Northup did not write to his wife about his travel.

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