Twelve Years a Slave. Born Minerva, New YorkSolomon Northup was a freeborn farmer, landowner, and violinist in Hebron, New York, when he signed on as a musician with a traveling circus act. His supposed employers were actually kidnappers, however, who pretended he was a fugitive slave.

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