Courtesy of the Morris-Jumel Mansion Museum
Anne Northup, as seen in movie “12 Years a Slave,” is the focus of a tour and food tasting event being held Saturday at the Morris-Jumel Mansion Museum in Washington Heights.
An uptown twist on the “12 Years a Slave” story can be seen — and tasted — Saturday at the historic Morris-Jumel Mansion in Washington Heights.
After Solomon Northup, a free black man in 19th century upstate New York, was kidnapped and enslaved, as depicted in the Golden Globe-winning film, his wife, Anne Northup, and their children were left to carry on.
Northup found work as a cook, and became so skilled that she was hired to work in the kitchens of upscale hotels in Saratoga Springs, a locale frequented by the wealthy downstate city elite.
It was while working at the United States Hotel that Anne Northup met and prepared meals for socialite Eliza Jumel, the ex-wife of former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr.
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Morris-Jumel Mansion in upper Manhattan will host tour and talk Saturday.
Jumel was so taken with Northup’s innovative cuisine that she hired her to be her personal cook at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, which overlooks the Harlem River between 160th and 162nd Sts. She held the position until Solomon’s near-miraculous flight from slavery and return to his family.
On Saturday, Morris-Jumel staff historian Greg Washington will lead a tour of the mansion and surrounding neighborhood, as Northup would have experienced it in the 1840s. Jane Lancaster, a professor of American history at Brown University, will discuss the relationship between Northup and Jumel in Saratoga Springs and New York City.
Food historian/storyteller Tonya Hopkins will talk about Northup’s culinary prowess — along with the widespread influence that African-Americans have had on American cuisine — and prepare a meal that includes some of the dishes Northup would have cooked at the mansion.
“A lot of our programming will be involved with how people of the era interacted over food here at the mansion,” said Carol Ward, the director of the Morris-Jumel Mansion Musueum.
Saturday’s event runs from 2 to 7 p.m. at the mansion, 65 Jumel Terrace in Washington Heights. The tour, which runs from 2 to 5 p.m., is $ 10. Admission for the tour and sit-down dinner is $ 65 and must be prepaid. Call (212) 923-8008.
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