Book Report
Solomon Northup was born a free man in Minerva New York, in 1808. We don't know much about his mother, who his narrative does not identify her by her name. His father Mintus, was originally enslaved to the Northup family from Rhode Island but he was freed after the family moved to New York. As a young man Northup would help his father on the farms and worked as a raftsman on the waterways in New York.
He later married a woman named Anne Hampton who was a mixed white/black race, They had three children together. He got recognized as an exultant Fiddle player. Two men offered him to travel in a music band and they said that they would pay him very well but they drugged him and sold him into slavery. He sold very fast in a auction in New Orleans. He didn't just serve for one person he served for multiple and some would beat him. A agent was sent to get him and the agent got him free but after he was a free man he tried to file kidnapping charges against the two men. In the book two years a slave Northup goes through many hard times from working as a Raftsman on the rivers to becoming a slave and having to work for other people without getting paid. Northup was beaten sold and worked just to live, If he did not work he would be killed.
This book relates to the real world because this happened to many african americans. they would be taken from there homes and turned into slaves. African americans in this time would be beaten or even killed for not working or doing what they were told. This book completely related to the real world by people would be drugged and kidnapped. Most whites had no respect for blacks.
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