솔로몬 노섭

소개

솔로몬 노섭(Solomon Northup, 1808년 7월 ~ ?)은 미국 뉴욕주에서 태어나 인질로 납치되어 노예로 팔렸던 사람이었다. 자유 흑인으로 자라와 가족을 가진 동안 농부와 바이올린 연주자로 일하였던 그는 남부로 유인되어 납치되었고, 10년의 세월 이상 동안 노예가 되어 끔찍한 폭력 상황을 견디었다. 1853년 그는 동료와 친구들의 도움으로 해방되었다. 노섭의 사망일과 사망지는 아직도 미확인된 상태이다. 그의 회고록 〈노예 12년〉이 1853년 출판되었고, 그의 이야기를 담은 스티브 매퀸의 영화 《노예 12년》이 2013년 공개되었다.

Solomon Northup was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born American of mixed race from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and a free woman of color. Northup was a professional violinist, farmer, and landowner in Washington County, New York. In 1841, he was offered a traveling musician's job and went to Washington, D.C. ; there, he was drugged and kidnapped into slavery. He was shipped to New Orleans on April 24, 1841 by James H. Birch aboard the Brig Orleans from Richmond, VA. Northup was purchased by a planter and held as a slave for nearly twelve years in the Red River region of Louisiana; mostly in Avoyelles Parish. He remained enslaved until he met Samuel Bass, a Canadian working on his plantation who helped get word to New York, where state law provided aid to free New York citizens who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery. His family and friends enlisted the aid of the governor of New York, Washington Hunt, and Northup regained his freedom on January 3, 1853.