The New York Times has corrected two errors from an article first published 161 years ago.

The story about Solomon Northup, the subject of triple Oscar-winning film ’12 Years a Slave’, was first published on 20 January 1853 and misspelled his name as both Northrup and Northrop. The first error was in the headline and the second was in the body of the text.

Author Rebecca Skloot pointed out the mistakes on Monday via Twitter, saying: “Interesting: That original 1853 article spelled Solomon's name differently in headline vs main article.”