David Fiske, co-author of a new biography of the hero of
12 Years a Slave, saw the
recent post here and has sent along a
link to his own report on Samuel Bass, the Canadian carpenter played by Brad Pitt in the film.
Fiske's piece on Samuel Bass notes that the last known public appearance made by Northup was to have been an anti-slavery address in Streetsville (now Mississauga, Ont) in 1857 ... but it was prevented by rioting.
Solomon Northup: The Complete Story is published by Praeger and
available here.
Fiske
Eakin previously worked with
Sue Eakin, the Louisiana historian whose 1968 edition of Northup's memoir, did much to revive interest in Northup. Eakin died in 2009 at the age of 90.
