12 Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave, Narrative of Solomon Northup by Solomon Northup. Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details his being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. It was Solomon's fortune, during his captivity, to be owned by several masters. The treatment he received while at the "Pine Wo...