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Solomon Northup's Father

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Not all African Americans were slaves. Some slave owners had their slaves emancipated through their wills after they died. One case is Solomon’s father. Although legally these emancipated slaves were free, their freedom was not always respected. One such case is Solomon Northup. In March of 1841, Solomon was unemployed and looking for work. He was well known for his skill with a violin. “Throughout the surrounding villages [his] fiddle was notorious,”(Northup 9). He soon ran into two respectable looking men, Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton, in Saratoga Springs. They talked with him about his experience with a violin and then offered him a good pay to join them working for the circus and he accepted readily. They acted like his friend and
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