{"id":1231,"date":"2014-03-03T15:48:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T20:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2014-03-04T14:35:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T19:35:24","slug":"12-years-slave-chronicling-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2014\/03\/03\/12-years-slave-chronicling-america\/","title":{"rendered":"“12 Years a Slave” in Chronicling America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our friends at the Vermont Digital Newspaper Project <\/a>shared this link to today’s blog post:<\/p>\n

“Fresh from Oscar fever & “12 Years a Slave” winning Best Film 2014, Pruedence Doherty (our Special Collections Librarian) dug into our digitized content and found accounts of Solomon Northup kidnapping, subsequent rescue, and persecutions of his kidnappers. Read more about it!”<\/p>\n

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Vermont Watchman and State Journal. February 10, 1853.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Further references to Solomon Northup’s narrative can be found by using Chronicling America’s Advanced Search option<\/a>. However, note that his last name is spelled both as Northup and Northrop.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Erenst, Prudence, and all at VDNP for sharing this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our friends at the Vermont Digital Newspaper Project shared this link to today’s blog post: “Fresh from Oscar fever & “12 Years a Slave” winning Best Film 2014, Pruedence Doherty (our Special Collections Librarian) dug into our digitized content and found accounts of Solomon Northup kidnapping, subsequent rescue, and persecutions of his kidnappers. Read more … Continue reading “12 Years a Slave” in Chronicling America<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[9,6,7,8],"yoast_head":"\n"12 Years a Slave" in Chronicling America - Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2014\/03\/03\/12-years-slave-chronicling-america\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/\",\"name\":\"Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project\",\"description\":\"A joint effort between the University of Tennessee and the Tennessee State Library and Archives\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2014\/03\/03\/12-years-slave-chronicling-america\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vtdnp.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/watchman1853feb10_3.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2014\/03\/03\/12-years-slave-chronicling-america\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2014\/03\/03\/12-years-slave-chronicling-america\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"12 Years a Slave\\\" in Chronicling America - Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2014\/03\/03\/12-years-slave-chronicling-america\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-03-03T20:48:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-03-04T19:35:24+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/#\/schema\/person\/c70d25c0274f6b5f51cfdb9ac26b1571\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2014\/03\/03\/12-years-slave-chronicling-america\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":[\"Person\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/#\/schema\/person\/c70d25c0274f6b5f51cfdb9ac26b1571\",\"name\":\"Louisa Trott\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/248de97c24fafb9aaf91f3883154fb4a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Louisa Trott\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}