Solomon Northup

The story of a 19th-century Saratoga Springs man kidnapped and sold into slavery re-entered the national consciousness with the 2013 Oscar-winning film 12 Years a Slave. More recently, the legal community created an award to honor the memory of the lawyer who represented that man as he fought to regain his freedom. An Albany County justice recently became the fourth jurist to receive the award at a ceremony in Glens Falls.

Commemorations are scheduled for this weekend in Washington County and Saratoga Springs, New York in honor of a free man captured and sold into slavery in…

Almost 200 years ago, Utica was home to a passionate abolitionist community determined to rid the young nation of slavery. Now a local group is trying to…

The story of Solomon Northup, a free man lured from New York and sold into slavery in 1841, is now known by a worldwide audience thanks to the…