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…
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