Author

Books by Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup (1807–c.1863) was a free Black man from Saratoga Springs, New York, who worked as a laborer and fiddle player before being kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841. After his release in 1853, he dictated his memoir to David Wilson, which became an immediate bestseller. He lectured on the abolitionist circuit and attempted, ultimately unsuccessfully, to secure the prosecution of his kidnappers. The circumstances of his death remain unknown, though he disappears from historical record around 1863.