Solomon Northup was a free Black man living in Saratoga Springs, New York—a married, educated carpenter and musician—when two white men asked him to be their fiddle player in Washington ...
Solomon Northup detailed his time in Central Louisiana in his 1853 narrative "Twelve Years a Slave," on which the Academy ...
A traveling exhibit called "Solomon Northup: Hope of Darkness" is on display at the Alexandria Museum of Art until April 22. The exhibit features a statue of Solomon Northup, a free man who was ...