{"id":708,"date":"2010-12-07T19:41:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T00:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/?p=708"},"modified":"2011-03-16T23:10:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T04:10:22","slug":"solomon-northrup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/2010\/12\/07\/solomon-northrup\/","title":{"rendered":"1840 (Arguing for Justice) Solomon Northrup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Solomon Northrup (House Divided)<\/p><\/div>\n

Sources <\/strong>
\nA key primary source is\u00a0Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853<\/a><\/em> (1853). In addition, see “An Account of Solomon Northup<\/a>” from the New York Times<\/em> on January 20, 1853 and an advertisement<\/a> for Northrup’s book in the August 26, 1853 issue of the Liberator<\/em>. You can read other accounts in the \u00a0“North American Slave Narratives<\/a>” collection at the \u00a0Documenting the American South<\/a> project.<\/p>\n

Places to Visit<\/strong>
\nA historical marker<\/a> on Northrup is located in Saratoga Springs, New York.<\/p>\n

Images<\/strong>
\nAn image is available on Northup’s House Divided<\/a> profile. Northrup’s Twelve Years a Slave<\/em> also included several images<\/a>, such as “Scene in the Slave Pen at Washington<\/a>” and “Chapin Rescues Solomon From Hanging<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sources A key primary source is\u00a0Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853 (1853). In addition, see “An Account of Solomon Northup” from the New York Times on January 20, 1853 and an advertisement for Northrup’s book in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8648,3973],"tags":[156,8663],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arguing-for-justice","category-grave-crisis-1801-1861","tag-images","tag-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2803,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}