The Story Of Solomon Northup

In the story, twelve years a slave about a man named Solomon Northup, is a free African American violinist who was born in New York . Northup has a wife and two children. In 1841 Solomon was drugged and abducted in Washington, DC , by two men named Hamilton and Brown and was sold into slavery. Solomon Northup was desperately to send a letter to Saratoga Springs. Solomon Northup worked on a plantation in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before his release receiving his freedom and was ruined with his family . The main protagonist is Solomon Northup. the slave trader who has given the identity as “pratt”, Northup was sold first to William ford sell him to another slave owner named Edwin Epps during his years of being a slave