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The summary of the book is that, The true story behind the movie 12 Years a Slave, this book is based on the life of Solomon Northup, a free black man from New York who was captured in the United States and sold into slavery in Louisiana. In 1841, Solomon Northup was abducted and sold as a slave. Nearly twelve years passed before Northup met a man who would help him return to his family—and freedom.people know something about the Underground Railroad, when African Americans to slavery to freedom, but this is the opposite scenario the enslavement of thousands of free Northern blacks.
Solomon Northup was one of 400,000 free blacks living in the United States in 1841. he was living in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. with his wife and three children,
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