![]() ![]() Adonijah Bass, had been a Loyalist during the American Revolution. Samuel Bass (who would later be one of Northup’s rescuers) was born a few weeks later, on August 5, in Augusta, Ontario. He therefore was born a free man (at a time when slavery still existed in New York). His father Mintus, a former slave, had been emancipated in 1798, and his mother had never been a slave. ![]() Solomon Northup (the man who would be rescued) was born in a small settlement in Essex County in New York State on J(though his autobiography gives his year of birth as 1808, other, more reliable, evidence indicates it was actually 1807). This fall, a major motion picture–12 Years A Slave–will tell the story on screen. In the summer of 1807, two babies were born–in towns only about 135 miles distant–whose lives would intermingle in a very unusual way: 45 years later, one (a Canadian) would help get the other released from slavery in the American southern state of Louisiana. SAMUEL BASS: THE BACK STORY BY HISTORIAN DAVID FISKEīy David Fiske, co-author of Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave (Praeger/ABC-CLIO, 2013) ![]()
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