The town of Saratoga Springs declared July 24 Solomon Northup Day to remember the suffering of Northup and other African Americans who lived as slaves.
Too many people view their jobs as a 5-day prison, which they are paroled every Friday, says Joel Goodman, founder of the humor project, a humor consulting group in Saratoga Springs, New York.
" Did you write a letter for a colored man as that place to some gentleman in Saratoga Springs? " " Excuse me, sir, if I say that is none of your business, " answered Bass, stopping and looking his interrogator searchingly in the face.