Northup, a free black New Yorker, was enticed to go to Washington DC to play his violin in the stage show headlined by the congenial Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton. There, Northup was drugged and awoke in William s Slave Pen and his name had been changed to Platt. He was shipped to the slave market in New Orleans and sold there. Platt ended up working in the fields of a southern Louisiana Parish. The horrors of Platt s life as a slave are detailed. He also tells the emotionally wrenching story of Patsy, a remarkable female slave. In unusual circumstances, Platt was freed. As Northup, he sued the men who had forced him into slavery.
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