12 years a slave

This film is based on a true story and is very emotional to some people this movie won the best picture at the oscars. here is some more detailed writing about this emotional movie. Intro: In 1842  Solomon Northup lives in New York with his family as a skilled carpenter and a fiddle player. He was offered a job and the next thing he knew he was in chain sold as a slave and was separated form his loving family. He was sold as a slave and worked in the plantations of state Louisiana for 12 years until he is released but through that time he was sold to a white man that punched kicked and whipped around over and over againand told them to work and pick at least 200 pounds of cotton everyday he was also  given a new identity of a runaway slave from Georgia named Platt. Solomon gets sold to several different owners and his last boss was a canadian    












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