Old Fort House Museum, Solomon Northup - Fort Edward, New York - Underground Railroad Sites on Waymarking.com

This marker is located at the Old Fort House Museum and was erected as part of the Underground Railroad Heritage Trail. The marker reads:

Solomon Northup, who lived
here from 1829 - 1832, wrote 'Twelve Years a Slave', an
account of his notorious capture and sale into slavery.
Northup, an African man born free in New
York State, had local acclaim as a fiddler. In 1841, two
white men heard him play and offered him a well-paying
job with a circus. Northup agreed to accompany them to
Washington, D.C.

Days later, Nprthup woke up in chains, missing his
money and the legal documents that proved he was a
free man. He spent twelve years enslaved in Louisiana,
unable to get word to his wife until 1853. Once notified
of his situation, Anne Northup quickly enlisted the aid
of attorney Henry B. Northup, who persuaded New
York Governor Horatio Seymour to intercede and win
Solomon Northup's release. Soon after his return home,
Northup wrote 'Twelve Years a Slave' and traveled the
North as an antislavery lecturer.

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Address: 29 Broadway Fort Edward, NY USA 12828 Web site: [Web Link] Site Details: Tuesday - Sunday: 1PM - 4PM Open to the public?: Public Name of organization who placed the marker: Office of Parks & Recreation & Historic Preservation New York State; Underground Railroad Heritage Trail

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