12 Years A Slave

“12 years a slave” is a book about the slavery in the pre-Civil War South. It was written based on a true story that happened to Solomon Northup who is also the author of the book. The story was a violent protestation, but also full of love without any hatred of Black people, who were being slaved for all their life. The Slavery was abolished in North America; however, it still existed in the South America at that time. Solomon Northup, a Black citizen of New York City, was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1851. He was rescued at a Louisianan cotton plantation in 1853. After being freed, Solomon Northup wrote the book “12 years a slave” to recount the years of terrible abuses that he had been bearing under the Slavery. Northup’s story was regarded as a source of inspiration in Civil War which contributed in the democracy of United States as today. It was also a piece of art as well as a work of human insight which awaked the human love, conscious fight, dignity protection, and the freedom of man.

The film 12 Years is an accurate and verifiable account of the common slave experience in the United States in the antebellum South. 12 Years a Slave is set in the mid to late 1800s and tells a true life story of the life of Solomon Northup a free Black man sold south into slavery. He was the son of an emancipated slave. Northup was from upstate New York, and was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. Northup lived, worked, and was married in upstate New York, where his family resided. He was a multifaceted laborer and also an accomplished violin player. He was subjected to the cruelty for the next twelve years while he survived as the human property of several different slave masters, He continually struggled to survive and maintain some of his dignity. Then in the 12th year of the disheartening ordeal, a chance meeting with an abolitionist from Canada he was was finally freed and is taken home. After being unsuccessful in prosecuting his kidnappers, Northup continues upriver to New York, where he is finally reunited with his family and where he meets his grandson, Solomon Northup Staunton, for the first time. In the end, Northup gives one final, powerful argument against the evils of the slave industry, pointing not to rhetoric or debates, but lifting up his own life story as a vivid commentary for viewers to consider. The main idea of the book was to share with the reader and give

Imagine the horror of being used and abused from birth, capture, or purchase and there is nothing you can do about it. Although slavery is outlawed today, it continues to exist around the world in various forms and America is still coming to terms with its history and involvement. Two similar but very different stories that showcase what life was like for slaves back in the 18th and 19th century are that of Olaudah Equiano and Solomon Northup, two men subjected to torment, brutality, and dehumanization, all based on their skin color. Despite their similar introduction to slavery, their paths and attitudes diverged as demonstrated by their different beliefs on slavery, different motives to help them survive, and using different strategies to obtain their freedom.

When you think of slavery and how the experience of being a slave must have been like, you might think of picking cotton, or a cruel overseer who lashed slaves regularly. And while it’s true that many slaves experienced something along these lines, the slave narratives of the library of Congress illustrate that every slave’s story is a little different. The story of Solomon Northup, portrayed in his book 12 Years A Slave, is one much different from other slave narratives, such as the story of Amos Gadsden. The two stories differ in the way the stories are told, the men’s experiences as slaves and in their slaveowners.

During the 1800’s, slavery was vastly increasing in the South. Many plantation owners were growing mass quantities of cotton which had a huge effect on how many slaves they needed. Because of this, most African Americans experienced hardships and misery. Solomon Northup through “Twelve years a Slave” helps the reader understand the life of an enslaved African American. I have learned that Solomon Northup was captured as he was feeling under the weather and a man gave him an unknown pill on day. After taking the pill Northup woke up and he was chained to a wall. After this he was bought and sold for 12 years as a slave until his friend came to help. Solomon Northup had wrote about the hardships he faced as a slave in Twelve Years a Slave.

12 Years a Slave is an emotionally driven movie and book that exemplifies the painful truths of slavery. Slaves were killed, raped, hanged, and were viewed as property with no heart or soul. The scenes of beatings taken place, and slaves being hung, will make any hearted witness grimace and cringe in despair. This particular genre of entertainment is needed in order to inform and teach the history and stories behind the slave trade. It gives a vivid insight of how my ancestors were mistreated and felt the burning of hell every day. Solomon said, “He could not compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell” (45). We talk about slavery and how cruel it was, but I would not know unless I actually had to experience it myself. I’m not a voyeur of slavery, but I am a spectator through reading and watching. I do not enjoy reading a novel or observing a film that involves anything with black suffering, but in contrast I believe that by engaging in this type of theatre you can become a witness. I use this source of entertainment to gain knowledge and learn a sense of entitlement to my own history.

After his marriage he had become deprived of working on the farm and so he decided to go into the industry; his first industrial job was working on the Champlain Canal. From the day he was born to his early thirties, Northup’s life was filled with love and hope as a free man. He was living a humble life with a family of five, but all those good memories were soon washed away and replaced with sorrow and despair in the years 1841 to 1853. Twelve Years a Slave is an inspiring, chilling, dark, but powerful memoir about Solomon Northup’s life in the 1840’s to the 1850’s. Throughout Northup’s story he highlights the atrocious experiences he faced when he became a slave.

The film 12 Years a Slave, an adaptation of the 1853 autobiography by a slave named Solomon Northup, depicts his everyday life after his rights and freedoms are ripped away. Through the unpleasant slave auction scenes to the sickening slave punishments, 12 Years a Slave is a heartbreaking story that unfortunately conveys the harsh truth on the issues surrounding slavery. Consequently, during the film there are many themes and events that trigger different thoughts and reactions varying between viewers, and importantly a better understanding of Solomon Northup’s story and slavery itself.

Subjection is one of the darkest sections in American history, yet this motion picture gently catches the show in one slave's life and how he endeavors to cooperate sympathetic and gallantly with others notwithstanding his circumstance. It doesn't depend on excessively fierce and realistic scenes like numerous standard motion pictures with subjection or war topics (12 Years A Slave ringing a bell) to engage. Rather, this film depended on the dramatization, history, character advancement and the portrayal of how valuable flexibility is to

Slave Narratives served as a revelation of slave life in the Deep South during the 1840s and 1850s. The book, Twelve Years a Slave, was a means of educating whites about the true essence of the institution of slavery. One factor that helped maintain slavery was white supremacy due to the unawareness of what slavery truly consisted of. In the 1850s, blacks were viewed as being inferior beings by whites and blacks were conditioned to view themselves in a similar way. The manner in which Northup refers to himself and other blacks in his book can be regarded as being degrading.

12 Years a Slave was an outstanding representation of the lives of a slave. It was accurate, heartfelt, and detailed. It portrays the feelings of Solomon and the other slaves perfectly. The film really makes you think about the people and the situation back in the 1840’s. It is an exceptional historical film that teaches you the slavery times and the life of Solomon Northup. A freeman turned to a slave and put through a terrible life experience that no one should ever have to go

12 Years a Slave is a film based on the painful true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man from New York who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the south. He was rescued from a cotton plantation in Louisiana twelve years after he was kidnapped. Chiwetel Ejiofor captures Northup’s characters brilliantly. The audience can witness the sense of bewilderment at his plight, his initial despair, and his battle to keep his pride and self-respect. Ejiofor completely brings Northup’s characters back onscreen.

Before the Reconstruction which took place after the Civil War, many slaves began to acquire their freedom by many things, including escaping plantations, buying their freedom, or being granted freedom from their former owners. Once slaves entered the North, they were able to finally be seen as a free African American. The thing that scared African Americans the most, frequently happened, being sent back to the South into slavery. 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup gives a recap of how his life, filled with joy and freedom one day, became a living nightmare the next. Northup, a self-taught, master violin player is fooled into traveling with “gentlemen” to share his talents for a small fortune. Leaving his family behind, he decides to go with the men and once he reaches New York City, the men convince Northup to travel to Washington D.C. Solomon soon began feeling sick and one day wakes up chained in a cell. Next thing he knows, he is being sold into slavery. He lives a life of a slave for twelve years until he is rescued by Henry B. Northup, who saves Solomon while he was working in the field. Once back in his own home, Solomon writes an autobiography of his experiences. After many decades, a historical movie retelling Solomon’s autobiography was released. Throughout the movie, many differences are present. For example, the wife of Solomon’s master was portrayed to be an evil woman in the movie, but in the book not so evil. Another example is while slaves did not fight back

thesis:Twelve Years a Slave, is a vivid memoir of Northup's captivity as free man in the slave ridden south. Solomon's experience was one of countless millions kidnapped, and sold into slavery. What makes his Solomon's story unique, is that he lived to tell the, horrors and atrocities of slavery.

The movie, 12 Years A Slave, is a film based on the personal life and legacy of Solomon Northup. Solomon Northup was a free man living in Saratoga, New York, working as a violinist. He had a wife and children whom he loved him dearly, and vice versa. He is offered a job in Washington as a violinist at a circus. He is then drugged and becomes terribly sick. He ends up in a slave pen outside of Washington. This would be the beginning of his life as a slave. The movie portrays many of the personal events that Solomon Northup experienced, and the horrors of the kidnapping of freed slaves. The movie also shows the reality of slavery, and the possible brutality of the slave masters. The movie, 12 Years A Slave, is very well developed in sequencing