Write a persuasive essay in which try to convince your states senators to vote in favor of making election day a national holiday.

I need your help, my Senator friends, I had a good idea so that we can have a better result in the polls as a whole. We could declare a holiday, that would make people show more interest in voting, and it would also help Americans feel more comfortable going to vote. But I need your help.

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.