Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup was a free Black man - a husband, father, and musician living in upstate New York - when two men offered him a short-term job and drugged him instead. He woke up in chains in Washington, D.C., and spent the next twelve years enslaved on Louisiana plantations, surviving by concealing his education and waiting for one chance to get word to anyone who could prove who he really was. No...