“Hope out of Darkness”: Statue commemorating wrongfully enslaved man Solomon Northup unveiled in Marksville
A statue was unveiled in Avoyelles Parish on Sunday to commemorate the 165th anniversary of the liberation of a wrongfully enslaved man. Solomon Northup was born a free black man in upstate New York in 1807; Melissa Howell, a direct descendant, says in 1841,... Read More.






