# Robert — Twelve Years a Slave character guide

> Robert in Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Lambert

**First appearance:** 0012-ix

## Who they are

A slave on a neighboring plantation.

## In the story

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twelve_years_a_slave_se/chapters/iv)

A free-born man from Cincinnati, chained with Solomon; dies shortly after.

### [Arrival at Norfolk and the Voyage to New Orleans](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twelve_years_a_slave_se/chapters/v)

Selected as the captain's waiter; joins the conspiracy to seize the brig; dies of smallpox during the voyage.

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