On the day after her boyfriend broke up with her, candace found out at work that someone else received the promotion she was hoping to get. instead of asking her manager what she could do to improve her chances in the future, she raged about how unfair life is. what did candace experience?

the answer is solomon northrup. he was a free-born african american, abolitionist and professional violinist that was drugged, kidnapped and sold as slave in 1841 and remained in captivity until 1853 where he regained his freedom with the of the then-governor of new york, washington hunt. he wrote and published his memoirs "twelve years a slave" in 1853, and in this text, he tells the story of his escape thru one of louisiana's swamps (the great pacoudrie swamp) in which he ended up covered in green slime from crossing the surface of the dead water.