12 Years A Slave Essay

In, 12 Years a Slave, the movie starts off with Solomon Northup Staunton’s life in New York as a free man. He was educated enough to read and write and had the talent of playing the violin. Solomon had a wife, Anne, and two children. Solomon met to white men who had offered him a job position, but the men ended up betraying him and getting him intoxicated enough to where he became ill. When he woke up, he was chained up in a room, alone in the dark. The two men had ended up bringing him to Washington D.C where he was given to a hostile slave trader, Mr. Burch. When Solomon tries to explain that he is a free man, Burch beats him and threatens him to never speak of him being free again. Once he is cleaned and with other captured slaves, Solomon …show more content…
It’s based upon Solomon’s true life story, and clearly shows all the hard times he went through. It’s historically accurate because it includes how hostile most of the slave owners were and shows how unfairly and poorly treated the slaves were. It has accurate information about the unrealistic amount of work, and accurately shows how the slaves really didn’t have freedoms. 12 Years a slave is an amazing movie and a huge eye opener. People should definitely take their time to watch this movie. It does a great job of explaining the life of a slave. For example, Patsey worked far harder than everyone else and still continued to get beaten and raped repeatedly. Another example would be how Platt worked so well for Master Ford but still got beat by the younger master because the master was jealous that Platt was praised by Master Ford for his good ideas on how to save time. 12 Years a Slave even is helpful to understanding how life was back in those times for both the white men and the blacks. Luckily, Platt was even educated enough to read and write which benefitted him by allowing him more freedoms because the Masters wife would send him to collect her items such as paper, which is what he used to have Bass write to his Northern friends to come save

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