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Solmon Northup was a free black citizen of the United States, residing in Saratoga, New York. In 1841, he was lured by the promise of economic advancement to Washington, DC. There, he was abducted and sold into slavery, until the State of New York won his release. His account of the barbarism that he witnessed and his own treatment as property influenced the fight for abolition.