OT: Solomon Northrop (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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You may have seen the publicity for the new film "Twelve Years a Slave",
about free black man Solomon Northrop, of New York, who was kidnapped
and sold to a Louisiana plantation.  He wrote a book about the
experience, and then no one knows what happened to him.  I was going
through newspaper databases searching for him and found that one of his
grandsons played for the Cuban Giants, a proto-Negro Leagues team.  I
passed the info on to a friend who does blogging about historical
baseball, and he added to it and posted this:
http://agatetype.typepad.com/agate_type/2013/10/harry-northup-cuban-gian
ts.html

Like I say in the subject line, it is pretty much off-topic to this
list, (except for some of the historical research methods), but it is
interesting (at least to me), and timely, given the movie.

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for.

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