He would spend the next 12 years of his life enslaved ... Northup and editor David Wilson wrote a book detailing his story. Titled Twelve Years a Slave, the memoir was published that summer.

Powerful memoir of a free man, Solomon Northup, who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South in 1841. Read by Rhashan Stone ...

One such slave was Solomon Northup, and it is the film adaptation of his 1853 narrative 12 Years a Slave that won best film drama at the Golden Globes yesterday. Like 12 Years a Slave, Beloved is ...