Imagine being taken from your family and beaten. Imagine that you know you are free but you are claimed as a slave, breaking your soul.
The horrifying racism played out in this movie will touch your hearts deeply and drag you into the film. You will actually feel what’s going on.
In “12 Years a Slave,” a young black carpenter and musician named Solomon was living a successful life as a free man in the North when he was kidnapped from his family during the night. He was beaten and handed a slave name, Platt.
He spent 12 years enslaved. His life was harsh and brutal. Eventually, he was given back his liberty by those who realized he was a free man up North.
People should understand that this movie is more than a movie. It’s a message to white, black, and all races that this was going on -- and it really wasn’t OK.
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