Salomon

His name is Solomon Northup and he was born as a free-born African in july, 1808 in New York, he was the son of a freed slave and a free women. He died in 1863 but nobody know how he died. His language was English. He was being tricked to go to Washington DC, where he was Kidnapped and sold into slavery in the deep South. After he was A slave for twelwe years, Northup was able to write to his friends and family in New York. Some of his friends secured him from slavery.