In mahayana buddhism, a (awakening being or buddha-to-be) is a person who is able to reach nirvana but delays doing so out of compassion, and vows to remain in samsara in order to alleviate the suffering of other sentient beings.

Bodhisattva

Explanation:

Bodhisattva is a just an ordinary person who is in the path of becoming a buddha by practicing the way of life of buddha .

Bodhisattva is just like the ordinary person but what makes him different is his  motivation to live with vows and some time even to break it by accepting the consequence  of his actions.

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.