Annals of work: On a cotton plantation in antebellum Louisiana
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Solomon Northup had been a free man in New York before being kidnapped into slavery in the early 1840s. Rising demand and soaring prices for cotton tempted slave traders to acquire, by almost any means, black men and women for transport to the cotton regions of the South. Northup was carried to Louisiana, where he toiled on the plantation of Edwin Epps. There he learned the art of growing the white gold.
Annals of work: On a cotton plantation in antebellum Louisiana
Annals of work: On a cotton plantation in…
Annals of work: On a cotton plantation in antebellum Louisiana
Solomon Northup had been a free man in New York before being kidnapped into slavery in the early 1840s. Rising demand and soaring prices for cotton tempted slave traders to acquire, by almost any means, black men and women for transport to the cotton regions of the South. Northup was carried to Louisiana, where he toiled on the plantation of Edwin Epps. There he learned the art of growing the white gold.