Changing Landscapes: Photographs Along the Solomon Northup Trail

Avoyelles Parish artist Jan Beauboeuf has been intrigued by Solomon Northup and his captivating story in Twelve Years a Slave since she returned to her childhood home of Louisiana after leaving the South initially due to discriminatory practices during the civil rights era. She felt a connection to Northup's story, having grown up in the rural Bayou Boeuf community close to where Northup spent time in Louisiana. Now, she has traveled to the sites Northup chronicles in Twelve Years a Slave, documenting the ways the landscape has changed since Northup walked that ground. Changing Landscapes: Photographs Along the Solomon Northup Trail was made possible in part by a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. louisianaoldstatecapitol.org.