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#ThisDayInHistory Solomon Northup Gained His Freedom From SlaveryOn this day in 1853, Solomon Northrup, a free Black man who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery, legally obtained his freedom. He later wrote about his experiences in Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and a free…