What is the film about? Who was Solomon Northup? And why did he end up as a slave?
It is about Solomon Northup being brutally abducted, robbed of his identity, and sold into slavery on a cotton farm in the southern United States. As a slave, he is deprived of his rights and must spend twelve terrible years of hard labor and changing owners before he sees an opportunity to break free.
Find 3 words that describe the film.
The 3 words about 12 years of a slave is a timeless indictment of the practice of “chattel bondage,” or human slavery.
Describe the working conditions on the plantations.
The working conditions on the plantation are rough. They are forced to work as hard as possible every day, even dance by the end of the day just to please Mr. Epps. The main goal on the plantation is to just please Mr. Epps in any form of way possible.
Did the plantation owners violate any human rights?
The plantation owner Mr. Epps starts off by warning the slaves that he will violate their human rights if they don’t obey him. The plantations workers - the slaves are whipped when they pick cotton and when they don’t pick it fast enough. At the end of the day, all the slaves have their cotton weighed. The amounts that didn’t please Mr. Epps got punished, they were whipped.
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