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He is seeking job opertunities
While seeking a job Soloman Northup runs into two white men whe promise to pay him $1 per day for him to play the violin around America. -
He realises the true intent of his employers
One day he awakes no longer in the horse carrage that he was that night but in a pen made to keep a man in, hours past before he realises what is happening. He startes to get tourtured until he admits that he isnt the free man that he is but a slave that he is not. -
Sold to his 1st owner William Prince Ford
William Prince Ford was his most kind owner who said that Northup was his most loyal slave ever. -
sold to his 2nd owner John M. Tibaut
in the winter of 1842 Soloman was sold to his most aggresive owner John M. Tibaut who hated Northup for not using the nails that he used but the nails that another person told him to use and at one point threatoned to kill him. -
Sold to his last owner Edwin Eppes
some time in 1843 he was sold to his last of 3 owners Edwin Eppes who was an aalcoholic and when drunk he treated his slaves extremley poorly when compared to alot of other slave owners at the time and on one occasion tried to cut Soloman's throat for no reason.