Further Reading
- with David Wilson, Twelve Years a Slave (1853)
- In 1968, Sue Eakin, a Louisiana historian and professor, published an annotated version of Northup's narrative, which provides information and context for his account and references.
- David Fiske, Solomon Northup: His Life Before and After Slavery (2012), a book about Northup's life during his years in New York State.
- Julius Lester, To Be a Slave (New York, 1968), pp. 39–58, Newberry Honor Medal, ages 10 and up.
- Gilbert Osofsky, Puttin' on Ole Massa: The Slave Narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup (New York: Harper and Row, 1969)
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