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Northup’s story remains a clear record of how slavery functioned not only through chains, but through laws that denied entire groups the right to be believed.
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#Slavery is bad enough, but #racialized slavery is peak evil. Free-born black musician #SolomonNorthup was tempted into a gig in #WashingtonDC. There he was drugged, kidnapped, & enslaved. He gained freedom again #ThisDayInHistory in 1853, and wrote his memoir #TwelveYearsASlave.
📚 On This Day in Black History – January 4, 1853 📚
Today we honor a powerful victory over the brutal system of slavery: Solomon Northup legally regained his freedom after being unlawfully held in bondage for nearly twelve years in Louisiana.
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⛓️✒️ #OTD in #History 3 January 1853, #SolomonNorthup was freed following twelve years of illegal slavery, with assistance from Washington Hunt, Governor of New York. Northup wrote about his harrowing ordeal and the plight of others in the memoir, 12 YEARS A SLAVE.
4 January- on this day in 1853 Solomon Northup regained his freedom.
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A Year of Film Day 331: 12 Years a Slave
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Following his release, the slave trader who sold him was arrested but ultimately not convicted for kidnapping - partly because as an Black American, #SolomonNorthup was not legally allowed to testify against him a court of law.
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ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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Facts: #SolomonNorthup was enslaved in Louisiana for twelve years. When family and friends finally learned what happened to him, they petitioned Washington Hunt, Governor of New York, for help.
#12YearsASlave
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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#OTD in #History 1808
July 10: 12 Years a Slave Primary Author, #SolomonNorthup was Born.
Context: Northup was free-born Black American in Minerva, NY. A concert violinist, in 1841, was offered the chance to play in Washington, DC. During the trip he was drugged, kidnapped & sold as a slave.
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⛓️✒️ #OTD in #History 3 January 1853, #SolomonNorthup was freed following seven years of illegal slavery, with assistance from Washington Hunt, Governor of New York. Northup wrote about his harrowing ordeal and the plight of others in the memoir, 12 YEARS A SLAVE.
