![]() ![]() He is sold to William Ford, a kindly minister with a small plantation in the Great Pine Woods. ![]() Solomon witnessed firsthand the horror of a slave mother being separated from her children. ![]() He and several other slaves are taken down South to Louisiana to be sold. Solomon is cowed into submission but is inconsolable about his new situation. Unfortunately, he is drugged and wakes up in what he discovers is a slave pen within view of the Capitol.īurch, a cruel slave trader, beats Solomon and tells him never to mention that he is from the North and that he was kidnapped. One day, two men approach him and ask if he will accompany them and play his fiddle as they travel to Washington DC to the circus they work for. He is a carpenter and a talented violin player. Solomon Northup is a free black man living in upstate New York with his family in the 1840s. ![]()
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