How Did Solomon Northup Survive Slavery

In Solomon Northup's "Excerpt from Twelve years a slave" Northup's cruel false captivation represents the awful human trafficking in society today, and how Trafficking victims are forced to perform different types of labor for ones pleasures or luxury. In this essay, I compare Northup's predicament to victims of human trafficking, who are dehumanized and mistreated severely in society today, they are stripped of their natural rights and are taken advantage of by being seen as less than human. I first use use my northup source “Conversational Analysis from the Perspective of the Cooperative Principle—Taking the Film Twelve Years A Slave as an Example” by Shuaijie Guo to support my argument with information about Northup and his he endures to

In my first article from Shuaijie Guo, he evaluates the story of Solomon Northup, Northup was born free in the state of New York, and was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Northup endured years of mistreatment, including beatings, whippings, and even attempted murder, all because of someone elses desires for money and profit. Guo states how "In front of money” the slave owners “have no human nature” and sadly in the eyes of “white people,” “money is more valuable than free.” (Guo 850). These slave owners looked at their slaves as prizes and needless to say less than humans. Most days they were beaten so badly they could hardly stand let alone live, Northup shared how “I thought I must die” just “beneath the lashes of the accursed brute” (Northup 23). This was Northups very first beaten going into slavey so one can only imagine the suffering and honor he experinced for 12 years. Northup had two beatuiful Children and a wonderful wife that he looked forward going back home to, he loved his family, it was evident. "These refined words” that solomon shared “reflect a happy life” in the “family before Solomon was arrested.”(Guo 848), Guo knew just like anyone reading northups article how much he loved his kids, out of Nothups own mouth he expressed how he cherished his kids. “Their presence was my delight” and “I clasped them to my bosom” with as “warm and tender love” as if their “clouded skins” had been as “white as snow” (Northup 9)

Northup had got taken advantage of and with held from his rights, this essay compared how forced labor and brutal capitvation is still present in society today. Northup's story is a reminder that we must remain watchful in the fight against exploitation and abuse of vulnerable people, and continue to work towards a world in which all human beings are free and equal. As a society, we must strive to learn from Northup's story and work toward justice for those who have been wrongfully ripped from their natural born rights and forced to do hard labor, sexual acts etc. Would you enjoy being trafficed? Probaby not so Next time you see someone by themselves watch their