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Journal Article
Brothers & Tricksters
2018
Overview
The two autobiographies and one biography under review provide us with some compelling, as well as disturbing, insights into this fascinating nineteenth-century world of slavery, fugitives, kidnapping, racial inequality, and cross-border travel. In 1997, it was digitalized for Documenting the American South collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.3 The 2013 movie version—which won academy awards for best picture, director, and supporting actress—has revived interest in Northup's odyssey. The New Orleans Daily Picayune featured a letter from one contributor who believed \"that Solomon was one of those cute Yankee niggers who permit themselves to be sold occasionally, pocketing half the proceeds, and then claiming and proving their freedom, under the plea of having been kidnapped\" (p. 240). [...]they were both dedicated to telling their different stories with the same aim of ending American slavery. According to his biographer, he was a trickster whose \"improvisation and dissembling played in his life as a border crosser.\"
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
