Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Solomon Northup
Born: July 10, 1807
Died: 1863 (aged 55)
Bio: Solomon Northup was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and free woman of color.
Known for:
- Twelve Years a Slave (1853)
- Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story
- 12 Years a Slave Novel Journal