Writing more than a decade after his kidnapping, Northup still has difficulty believing that Brown and Hamilton could be so evil as to feign friendship and then use it as a means of betrayal. The first casualty of the slave trade, according to this portion of Solomon Northup’s narrative, is human integrity.
On the way to see the physician, he passed out, eventually waking up in darkness-and in chains. After a day of celebration in Washington, D.C., Northup began to feel sick, though not drunk. At this point, Northup was not suspicious of them whatsoever. Brown and Hamilton then urged Solomon to go farther to Washington, D.C., which at the time was slave territory. The three men traveled to New York City, but the circus was not there. While walking in Saratoga Springs, he met Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton, two “gentlemen of respectable appearance.” They asked about his experience as a violin player and offered Solomon lucrative pay to join them in working for a circus in New York City. In March 1841, Northup was unemployed and looking for work. Chapter II reveals how Solomon Northup came to be lured away from his home in Saratoga Springs and subsequently kidnapped and forced into slavery.
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