Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and free woman of color. A farmer and professional violinist, Northup had been a landowner in Hebron, New York. In 1841, he was offered a traveling musician's job and went to Washington, D.C.; there he was drugged, kidnapped, and sold as a slave. He was shipped to New...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
men evil temptation
Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.
struggle life-is worms
Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.
years childhood association
It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him. Taught from earliest childhood, by all that he sees and hears that the rod is for the slave's back, he will not be apt to change his opinions in maturer years.
agony suffering burning
My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!