In the canon
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
- Form
- Form Memoir
- Year
- Year 1853
- Pages
- Pages 250
He woke in a cell within sight of the Capitol, in chains, and when he said he was a free man from Saratoga they beat him until he stopped saying it. Until that morning Solomon Northup had a wife, three children, and a violin that paid his way.
Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State
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