12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave2013

Director: Steve McQueen
Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K. Williams, Michael Fassbender
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 134 minutes

12 Years a Slave is a 2013 film about a New York State-born free negro who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. in 1841 and sold into slavery. more »



Burch:
Well, my boy, how yah feel now?

Solomon Northup:
I am Solomon Northup. I am a free man; a resident of Saratoga, New York. The residence also of my wife and children who are equally free. I have papers. You have no right whatsoever to detain me...

Burch:
Yah not any...

Solomon Northup:
And I promise you - I promise - upon my liberation I will have satisfaction for this wrong.

Burch:
Resolve this. Produce your papers.

[Solomon searches and finds no papers]

Burch:
Yah no free man. And yah ain't from Saratoga. Yah from Georgia. Yah ain't a free man. Yah nuthin' but a Georgia runaway. Yah a runaway n*gger from Georgia.

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