Solomon Northup’s life, and most of his story, is heavily documented. But “scholars have been trying to untangle the literal truth of Mr. Northup’s account from the conventions of the antislavery literary genre” for decades.
Solomon Northup’s life, and most of his story, is heavily documented. But “scholars have been trying to untangle the literal truth of Mr. Northup’s account from the conventions of the antislavery literary genre” for decades.