The Psychological Aspects in Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave

Abstract

Much of antebellum culture can be understood as a response to the dynamic and rapidly changing social, political and economic context of the nineteenth century. As well as in African- American literature; the black writers in the south tried to contact the white in the north by writing autobiographies. Among these writers Solomon Northup describes the historical context and literary review in his autobiography of twelve years a slave. This experience opened a discussion in the psychological fields, about psychological aspects of Solomon Northup, to analyse both his historical and literary facts at that period.