Solomon Northup, was born 10th July 1807yr Schroon (presently Minerva), Unused York, US, and was passed on after 1857yr, was a American rancher, worker, and artist whose involvement of being seized and sold into servitude was the premise for his book “Twelve A long time a Slave”- Story of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of Unused York, Seized in Washington.