12 Years A Slave By Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave film, is the narrative life story of Solomon Northup, son of an liberated slave and a free black man from the North who was abducted and sold into slavery in the pre-Civil War South. He lived, worked, and married in Saratoga, New York, with his family. Northup was a multidimensional blue-collar worker and became a skillful violin player. In 1841, Northup, scammed by two men whom presented him an opportunity of a rewarding job playing fiddle in a circus. Northup decided to travel with them to Washington, D.C., where he was intoxicated, abducted, and successively sold as a slave into the Red River region of Louisiana. Over the ensuing twelve years he endured being flesh property of numerous slave masters, with majority of his slavery lived under the demonic possession of a southern, Edwin Epps. January of 1853, Northup, finally freed with help from his Northern friends and returned back to New York.

With straightforward actualities about the time period, the dwellings, the individuals, and the rituals, describing them all in extreme details. For example; the beating of Patsy was very graphic and disheartening scene. Epps forced Northup to beat Patsy, or he himself will get shot along with every slave in Epps’s sight. Epps takes the whip from Northup and continues to beat Patsy till she passes out. Through this scene the audience can somewhat visualize the pain and suffering slaves endured during