12 Years a Slave

The movie is based of the life and measure of a man named Solomon Northup, who was born a free man in Minerva, late York, in 1808. In the movie, the book, and his life, little is cognize about his mother, because they never gave her name. However in all three we know of his return, a man named Mintus, who was originally enslaved to the Northup family from Rhode Island, and he was freed later on the family moved to bleak York.In the movie, a now young man, you saw that Northup helped his father with farming, chores and even worked as a raftsman on the waterways of up enounce New York. He married Anne Hampton, a woman of intricate black, white, and Native the Statesn ancestry, on declination 25th, 1829. They had three children together. During the 1830s, Northup became know as an superior fiddle player. In 1841, two manpower offered Northup large sums of wages to join a traveling musical show, exclusively unfortunately soon after he recognized it they drugged him and sol d him into slavery He was sold at auction in New Orleans in 1841.Now Northup had to operate a yield of masters, some of class were brutally cruel and others who were more humane. later on several years of slavery, he met with an outspoken abolitionist from Canada who sent letters to inform Northups family of Northups current situation. A state agent was sent to Louisiana to remedy Northup as a slave and he was successful through a number of chances. After he was finally declare a free man, Northup pressed charges of abduct against the men who had drugged him and sold him, but the length of the trial was dropped because of legal inabilities, and he received nonhing for it. Little is known about Northups later life after the trial, but he is said to deal finally passed away in 1863.Twelve age a Slave was recorded by David Wilson who is a white lawyer and legislator from New York who claimed to realize presented. The story is sometimes believed to generate been dedicated to Harriet Beecher Stowe and is even said to have introduced another key to Uncle Toms Cabin. Northups book was published in 1853 which was maybe less than a year after he was pose free. It sold over 30,000 copies and is therefore not only one of North Americas many slave books, but also one of the most ordinary ones.