After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Northup" id="mwVA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Solomon Northup">Solomon Northup</a> regains his freedom; his memoir <i id="mwVQ"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Years_a_Slave" id="mwVg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Twelve Years a Slave">Twelve Years a Slave</a></i> later becomes a national bestseller.<sup about="#mwt57" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_4#cite_note-10" id="mwVw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwWA">[10]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"><cite about="#mwt54" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFJoseph_Stromberg2014">Joseph Stromberg (3 March 2014). <a class="external text" href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-york-times-1853-coverage-solomon-northup-hero-12-years-slave-180949944/" id="mwCBo" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"The New York Times' 1853 Coverage of Solomon Northup, the Hero of "12 Years A Slave"<span class="cs1-kern-right" id="mwCBs"></span>"</a>. <i id="mwCBw">Smithsonian Magazine</i>. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190531175044/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-york-times-1853-coverage-solomon-northup-hero-12-years-slave-180949944/" id="mwCB0" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on 31 May 2019<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCB4">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCB8">31 May</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt54" class="Z3988" id="mwCCA" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Smithsonian+Magazine&amp;rft.atitle=The+New+York+Times%27+1853+Coverage+of+Solomon+Northup%2C+the+Hero+of+%2212+Years+A+Slave%22&amp;rft.date=2014-03-03&amp;rft.au=Joseph+Stromberg&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smithsonianmag.com%2Fhistory%2Fnew-york-times-1853-coverage-solomon-northup-hero-12-years-slave-180949944%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+4"></span></span>