No, it was not Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, whose memoirs were published and ultimately became a hit movie, Twelve Years a Slave. Northrup was a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery. But James Somersett, freed by court … Continued
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