The impact of the movie 12 Years’s A Slave reaches far beyond the big screen. Nominated for Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards, the film is set to become a required course in public high schools. Great Britain already requires it’s students to study the history of Britain’s participation in slavery and it is […]
In 1841, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, was kidnapped and sold into slavery. On January 3, 1853, he regained his…
In 1841, 33-year-old Solomon Northup was a free black man living comfortably in Saratoga, NY with his wife, Anne, and three children – Margaret, Elizabeth…
