Illustrated 1855 Printing of Solomon Northup’s :Twelve Years a Slave" Documenting Washington Slave Markets and Louisiana Plantation Labor
[Slavery & Abolition][African American History] Northup, Solomon. Twelve Years a Slave (1855) stands as one of the most consequential firsthand accounts of American slavery, documenting the kidnapping and illegal enslavement of a free Black man from New York and exposing the interstate slave trade that linked Washington, D.C., to the.....