Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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