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Solomon Northup and Eliza were both forcibly separated from their children. While both of them underwent this sad experience, they reacted in two very different ways. When Northup was separated from his children, via his kidnapping, he plotted to return home to them...even if this required murdering two men, namely the Captain and First Mate of the ship he was on, to do so. He continued planning escape, and often described his sadness at being separated from them.
Eliza's reaction, however, was very different. She did not plan on seeing her children again. She wept and wailed for days, seemingly inconsolably. She could be stopped, and was of no use to her Master or the trader during this time, unlike Northup, who continued working.
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