12 Years A Slave Apa Citation
12 Years a Slave: A Movie Adaptation
Slavery in the United States started in the sixteenth century; the Europeans brought the first slaves from Africa to the North American colony, as they were cheaper than normal employment. Slavery lasted from 1501-1865 when the 13th Amendment outlawed it. Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup is a memoir, slave narrative, and an autobiography written by Solomon Northup in 1953. The autobiography was adapted into a film in 2013.
The movie starred Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup along with Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, and Alfre Woodard as supporting actors. It was directed by Steve McQueen and the screenplay …show more content…
Northup was skilled at playing the violin. In 1841, two men approached him in New York, using fake names, and told him that they were part of the circus in Washington. They convinced him that they needed his musical talent in the circus. He accompanied them, which resulted in him being drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery. Northup pleaded to James Burch, a slave dealer, that he was a free man by stating his name and where he was from but no one believed him. Instead, he was held down and beaten …show more content…
He is at once monstrous and pathetic, a petty tyrant with a sadistic need to own and abuse human chattel.”
After twelve years being a slave, with the help of Samuel Bass, a Canadian laborer played by Brad Pitt, he was able to return to his family and regain his freedom. Bass did not appreciate Epps’ ways of beating his slaves brutally, which was in Northup’s favor.
McQueen’s main aim was to fill the hole in cinema history when it came to slavery; he mentioned in an interview with Henry Louis Gates Jr., “[w]hen I read the book, I wanted to see those images. Slavery is like the elephant in the room. We have to confront this topic in a real way. No one’s blind anymore. No excuses. That’s the power of cinema.” (188). He wanted to show the world the impact of slavery on African-American people, which people nowadays chose to stay silent
Slavery in the United States started in the sixteenth century; the Europeans brought the first slaves from Africa to the North American colony, as they were cheaper than normal employment. Slavery lasted from 1501-1865 when the 13th Amendment outlawed it. Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup is a memoir, slave narrative, and an autobiography written by Solomon Northup in 1953. The autobiography was adapted into a film in 2013.
The movie starred Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup along with Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, and Alfre Woodard as supporting actors. It was directed by Steve McQueen and the screenplay …show more content…
Northup was skilled at playing the violin. In 1841, two men approached him in New York, using fake names, and told him that they were part of the circus in Washington. They convinced him that they needed his musical talent in the circus. He accompanied them, which resulted in him being drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery. Northup pleaded to James Burch, a slave dealer, that he was a free man by stating his name and where he was from but no one believed him. Instead, he was held down and beaten …show more content…
He is at once monstrous and pathetic, a petty tyrant with a sadistic need to own and abuse human chattel.”
After twelve years being a slave, with the help of Samuel Bass, a Canadian laborer played by Brad Pitt, he was able to return to his family and regain his freedom. Bass did not appreciate Epps’ ways of beating his slaves brutally, which was in Northup’s favor.
McQueen’s main aim was to fill the hole in cinema history when it came to slavery; he mentioned in an interview with Henry Louis Gates Jr., “[w]hen I read the book, I wanted to see those images. Slavery is like the elephant in the room. We have to confront this topic in a real way. No one’s blind anymore. No excuses. That’s the power of cinema.” (188). He wanted to show the world the impact of slavery on African-American people, which people nowadays chose to stay silent