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Chapter 1
Solomon Northup’s life as a freeman in New York is of a man who is trying to better himself in every aspect of life and give his family a joyous life. He also enjoys the luxuries of being a freeman. He works on agriculture, canals, rail roads, navigation, Hack driver and occasionally plays the violin. Northup’s experience in a variety of work should enable him to have little to no trouble finding a job. His ancestors were all slaves but his father breaks the chain and achieves freedom after his master dies. He marries at age twenty-one which I assume was the norm at that time. Solomon interacts with slaves during the time he lived at the United States hotel but is rather blind to the cruel world of slavery by the appearance and lifestyle off the fields of the slaves.
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On the quest for a new job people tend to believe the fairy tales that the contractor spews at them. Is Solomon Northup oblivious to the fact that in most states the black men is seen inferior to the white men? If I was in his situation I would’ve gotten worried and question the trustworthiness of Brown and Hamilton when they got to New York City and the circus was not there. When they asked Northup that if he wanted to head south to Washington D.C. which at that time was a slave territory if I was in his situation by that moment I would know that they were not trustworthy people. The way in he is capture is dehumanizing it reminds me of when Hunters shoot animals with a tranquilizer and the animal afterwards wakes up in a different

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