Merrill Brown One of two white con men who, with Abram Hamilton, deceived Solomon Northup and orchestrated his kidnapping. A lawyer, he journeyed south to rescue Solomon from captivity. Northup A white man, related to the family that owned Solomon’s father as a slave, and from the family from which Solomon took his last name. The author of the memoir 12 Years a Slave, he chronicled his experience and ultimate emancipation as part of the abolitionist movement in the mid-1800s. Solomon was married to Anne (Hampton) Northup and with her had three children: Elizabeth, Margaret, and Alonzo. Solomon Northup, aka “Platt” A free black man who lived in the northern United States in the 1800s, Solomon was kidnapped in 1841, at age 33, and sold into slavery in the South, where he lived until he was rescued by friends in 1853.
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