Major symbols: Chains the whip the Bible water the swamp Major Thematic Topics: Slavery as a moral cancer freedom injustice the inherent dignity of all humanity the place of women in society religion and slavery man’s inhumanity to man slavery’s toll on servant and master alike Tibeats, Edwin Epps, Patsey, Mistress Epps, Mr. Main Characters: Solomon Northup (aka “Platt”), James H. Settings (secondary): Saratoga Springs, New York Washington, D.C.
Setting (primary): The Red River region of Louisiana Written by: Solomon Northup (as told to editor David Wilson) He returned home to his family in New York and there, with the help of editor David Wilson, wrote his account in 12 Years a Slave. In January 1853, Northup was finally freed by Northern friends who came to his rescue. For the next twelve years he survived as the human property of several different slave masters, with the bulk of his bondage lived under the cruel ownership of a southern planter named Edwin Epps. In 1841, two con men offered him lucrative work playing fiddle in a circus, so he traveled with them to Washington, D.C., where he was drugged, kidnapped, and subsequently sold as a slave into the Red River region of Louisiana. He was a multifaceted laborer and also an accomplished violin player. He lived, worked, and married in upstate New York, where his family resided. The son of an emancipated slave, Northup was born free. Solomon Northup’s 12 Years a Slave recounts the author’s life story as a free black man from the North who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the pre-Civil War South.
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