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Solomon Northup's odyssey

Title
Solomon Northup's odyssey [videorecording] / Yanna Kroyt Brandt; a production of Past America, Inc.
Publication
Miami : Past America, 1984.

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Additional Authors
  • Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006.
  • Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?
Description
1 videocassette (118 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Summary
In 1853, Solomon Northup wrote his autobiography, Twelve years a slave. It became a best-seller and helped focus attention on the Abolitionist cause. This program is a dramatization of Solomon Northup's odyssey from his home in Saratoga Springs, New York, to the slave plantations of the South. Lured by prospects of employment in Washington D.C., Northup, a gifted fiddler, carpenter, and freeman, was drugged and kidnapped by his bogus employers and sold into slavery in Louisiana. For twelve years, Northup was in servitude to two masters, until his eventual rescue and return to the North.
Subject
  • Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?
  • African Americans > Biography
  • African Americans > History
  • Slavery > United States
Note
  • An American Playhouse program, no. 313, telecast on December 3, 1984.
  • Based on Twelve years a slave, by Solomon Northup.
Credits (note)
  • Director, Gordon Parks; music composed by Gordon Parks; writers, Lou Potter, Samm-Art Williams.
Performer (note)
  • Avery Brooks, Petronia Paley, Michael Tolan, Mason Adams, John Saxon, Rhetta Green, Janet League, Joe Seneca.
Title
Solomon Northup's odyssey [videorecording] / Yanna Kroyt Brandt; a production of Past America, Inc.
Imprint
Miami : Past America, 1984.
Credits
Director, Gordon Parks; music composed by Gordon Parks; writers, Lou Potter, Samm-Art Williams.
Cast
Avery Brooks, Petronia Paley, Michael Tolan, Mason Adams, John Saxon, Rhetta Green, Janet League, Joe Seneca.
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Added Author
Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006.
Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863? Twelve years a slave.
Branch Call Number
VTH 296 S
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