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12 Years A Slave By Solomon Northup

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The film, 12 years a Slave was about Solomon Northup's life as the slave in the south. The film portrays the lives of Northup and other slaves in the Red River region of Louisiana. Solomon Northup was a free man from Saratoga, New York. He was a free man and a father of two children. During 1841, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery by Brown and Hamilton. These men offered Northup jobs in the circus, however, ended up selling him into slavery. As a slave in the south, Northup discovered the cruel reality of slavery, the sexual relationships between masters and slaves, the violence and the dehumanization of slavery. Though he was treated badly by his master Mr. Edwin Epps, he still fight for survival and freedom for himself.
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