The Historian Who Unearthed 'Twelve Years a Slave' : The New Yorker

The Historian Who Unearthed 'Twelve Years a Slave' : The New Yorker

  Without the historian Sue Eakin, who died in 2009, nobody would be
talking about Solomon Northup or the other once-forgotten souls
portrayed in “Twelve Years a Slave.” Michael Schulman on the woman who
spent her career rescuing Northup’s memoir from obscurity.