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My suffering I could compare to nothing else but the burning agony of hell

Northup “ still I would not yield all his brutal blows could not force my lips the foul lie that I was a slave”

A white man walked in and said notthup was now his slave and that he had bought him
Northup insisted he was not a Slave
The man stripped his clothes off, stepped on northups chains on his wrist and beat him
He stopped a few times to ask if northup was a freeman or a slave and each time northup said he was a freeman man the white man started being him again to the point of breaking the paddle he was using

He got free papers then got on the road
After some time he and the guys were out drinking
They drugged him
That night he started to feel very ill
So much so that he became unconscious/ lapse in time/ hours to days he doesn’t remember
He does remember the guys that we’re supposedly his friends and other men coming into his room then he remembers waking up in chains in a slave pin

True story
Freeman
Job, family, wife kids land home joy love
He played the violen and some guys asked if he’d travel with them and play on the road
He said yes and bc his wife was out of time and he expected to be back before her he didn’t write her
No one knew where he had gone