Northup’s story remains a clear record of how slavery functioned not only through chains, but through laws that denied entire groups the right to be believed.

Follow the page for more daily history posts!

#SolomonNorthup #TwelveYearsASlave #AmericanSlavery #BlackHistory #FreedomRegained

#Slavery is bad enough, but #racialized slavery is peak evil. Free-born black musician #SolomonNorthup was tempted into a gig in #WashingtonDC. There he was drugged, kidnapped, & enslaved. He gained freedom again #ThisDayInHistory in 1853, and wrote his memoir #TwelveYearsASlave.

📚 On This Day in Black History – January 4, 1853 📚

Today we honor a powerful victory over the brutal system of slavery: Solomon Northup legally regained his freedom after being unlawfully held in bondage for nearly twelve years in Louisiana.

#BlackHistory365 #SolomonNorthup #TwelveYearsASlave

Happy 56th to Oscar winning Director Steve McQueen Photographed 10/22/2016 Chicago #stevemcqueen #TwelveYearsASlave #Hunger #happybirthday #starstruckfoto

El director de #Shame, Steve McQueen, Michael Fassbender i Benedict Cumberbatch: #TwelveYearsaSlave (via @USATODAY)