David Fiske (born 1954) is an author, local historian, and a retired librarian residing in Ballston Spa, New York.
He studied library science at the University at Albany, SUNY, where he received his master's degree.
[4] He has authored books about a free black man who was kidnapped and enslaved during the antebellum period.
[1] The book also explains the kidnapping phenomenon of the antebellum U. S. A key question about Northup is what happened to him after a scheduled lecture in 1857 in Streetsville, Mississauga in Ontario.
One, for which there is evidence in the form of letters, is that Northup became an Underground Railroad operator, helping people make it into Canada from Vermont.