Analyse af '12 Years a Slave'

Resume 12 years a slave is about a man’s life when he was a free man and then he became a slave for 12 years. Solomon Northup was born a free man. He lived, worked, and married in upstate New York, where his family resided. He was an accomplished violin player. In 1841, his wife and his two kids should leave for three weeks because his wife had some work to do, so she took their kids with her. One-day two con men offered him a job where he should play on his violin in a circus, so he travelled with them to Washington DC; here he was being drugged, kidnapped and afterwards subsequently sold as a slave to the Red River region of Louisiana. For the next twelve years, he survived as the human property of several different slave masters, for the main part of his slave period he lived under the cruel ownership of a southern planter named Edwin Epps. In January 1853, Northern friends who came to his rescue finally freed Northup. He returned home to his family in New York with the help of Bass.

SettingThe story in the film takes place in the 1800 in the southern state of Louisiana. In the 1800, you can see that there are divisions among classes between the blacks and whites. The black people were the lowest in society and did not have any rights. The white people was higher in the society than the black people were, the white people literally owned the black people, because they bought them as slaves.