Twelve Years a Slave: True Story behind the Oscar-Winning Movie: Memoir of Solomon Northup, a Free-Born African American Who Was Kidnapped and Sold into Slavery

“Twelve Years a Slave” is a slave narrative of Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and sold into slavery. Northup worked on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before his release. Director Steve McQueen, who

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