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12 Years A Slave

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The movie “Twelve Years a Slave” is about a free African American named Solomon Northups living in Saratoga, New York being tricked and kidnapped in another state waking up as a slave the next morning. Two men lied to Solomon saying that they knew he could play the violin and said they needed him to play the violin for some event in another state. They got Solomon drunk at dinner and then Solomon woke up in a box chained up. This movie relates to what I have learned in class because Solomon was a free man in one state and in another state Solomon became a slave. The way Solomon and other slaves were treated was absolutely brutal. Solomon did a number of different tasks and one of the main tasks he did was picking and harvesting cotton. Cotton
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