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In 1841, Solomon Northup, a free man of color from New York, was sold into slavery at Theophilus Freeman's notorious slave pen in the Faubourg Marigny at the corner of Esplanade Ave. and Chartres St. The slave pen was demolished after the Civil War. Northup's story was chronicled in his 1853 memoir "12 Years a Slave" and in the award winning movie by the same name.
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