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"The New York Times has published a correction for its 161-year-old story about Solomon Northup. The newspaper had on Monday (March 3) linked to a scan of its 1853 article about the man whose memoir 12 Years a Slave was adapted into the Best Picture-winning movie at this year&amp;#039;s Oscars.  An 1853 NYT account of Solomon Northup, the man &amp;quot;12 Years a Slave&amp;quot; is based on http://t.co/gtlZmsroJM \u2014 The New York Times (@nytimes) March 3, 2014  Read the original 1853 New York Times article in full here Readers looking at the archive piece had contacted the newspaper about the misspelling of Northup&amp;#039;s name and it yesterday (March 4) printed a full correction. &amp;quot;An article on Jan. 20, 1853, recounting the story of Solomon Northup, whose memoir 12 Years a Slave became a movie 160 years later that won the best picture Oscar at the 86th Academy Awards on Sunday night, misspelled his surname as Northrop,&amp;quot; The Times said. &amp;quot;And the headline misspelled it as Northrup. The errors came to light on Monday after a Twitter user pointed out the article in The Times archives. &amp;quot;(The errors notwithstanding, The Times described the article as &amp;#039;a more complete and authentic record than has yet appeared.&amp;#039;)&amp;quot; Watch screenwriter John Ridley talk about 12 Years a Slave at this year&amp;#039;s BAFTAs below:  Oscars 2014 - winners in pictures:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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