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Oct 31, 2013 · Our exploration into the true story behind 12 Years a Slave brought to light the fact that Solomon's father Mintus Northup was a former slave who had been emancipated in approximately 1798. His mother had never been a slave.
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery.
Solomon Northup also detailed the experiences of the slave women he encountered during his twelve years as a slave, and especially elaborated on the experience of Patsey, a twenty-three-year-old slave who was the victim of a licentious master and a jealous mistress.
An integral part of ‘Twelve Years a Slave’ is the fact that Northup was not born into slavery, nor was he brought to the United States from Africa as a slave. He was born a free man in the North and was tricked, drugged, and kidnapped by slave traders who took him to Louisiana.
Nov 19, 2013 · His account is a powerful one: A free African American, Northup was kidnapped in 1841 and taken from New York to Washington, D.C., then to New Orleans, where he was sold into twelve years of slavery. A study of primary sources from the Library of Congress indicates that Northrup’s experience was far from unique.
Oct 24, 2013 · Solomon Northup's memoir tells this quite unusual story of the kidnapping of a free Northern African-American and his enslavement in the Deep South in Louisiana — on two, three different kinds of...
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12 Years a Slave destined to become a film classic, as some commentators have noted, because of the heart-wrenching depiction of Patsey, the brutalized sex slave of her sadistic master, Edwin Epps.
