Frederick M. Coffin, "Solomon Northup in His Plantation Suit," in Northup, Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, A Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, From a Cotton Plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana (Auburn, N.Y., 1853). Collection New-York Historical Society.
Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup must have made a powerful impression on a church in Brooklyn Heights in the 1850s, as he told of being sold into slavery. Here was a real person whose story paralleled many episodes in Uncle Tom's Cabin , published a year before Northup's account.
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