What were the major events in Northups life? Who were the key people he encountered? What was life like for slaves on the different plantations where Northup worked"

Solomon Northup was born a freeman. On Christmas day, 1829, Northup married Anne Hampton. He was about twenty one years old and decided to enter upon a life of industry so that he could help support him and his wife. He first was employed with others repairing the Champlain Canal. By the time the Canal was finished Northup purchased a pair of horses and other things necessarily required in the business of navigation. He hired several men to help him and he began to transport large rafts of timber from Lake Champlain to Troy. Beings involved with this type of work for awhile Northup became very good with the arts and mysteries of rafting. After he finished with that contract he...