Thursday, May 1, 2014

12 Years A slave

Hey guys, I was at the book store a while back and I scooped up this popular book. This autobiography was so good they made it into a movie. The discriptions in the book are very detailed and difficult to imagine, unless you watch the movie. The movie is very impactful, and sad.
It is about a free colored man, Soloman Northup, that lives in the North, has family, and a musical career. One day, thinking he could make a little extra money, he took up an offer from two conmen that offered him a job to play his violin o a tour when their real intentions were something else, they were slave snatchers. Dangerous whites who come from the south and try to snatch any runaway slaves. But in most cases, free african americans who never experienced the horrors of slavery.

        Soloman woke up chained. Arm, wrist,feet, everything. And with at terrible headache. He was dissoriented when a brute white man whipped, and paddled him furousiously. HE HIT HIM SO HARD THAT THE PADDLE BROKE.  And he stung him with the venemous whipp until his arm tired.  He ripped his free papers in bits. Soloman was beat ruthlessly until he stopped denying he was free. His name was "plate" and now he was on his way to a plantation.
        During his 12 years as a slave,  Solaman never lost hope or surrendered thinking one day he would be free again.
      After Soloman regained his liberty, he became a abolitionists and wrote his autobiography with such grotesque, awful, and accurate discriptions that no one could deny the autrosities that had been put on him. Soloman also became very close with a slave named patty who was treated with the harshest disrespect out of all the slaves, from her lustful master. He beat her inhumanly that one of Solaman descibes it as you could still here the screams after a slave got a whipping until dawn. One particular actor also made this movie very unique and well acted her name is Lupita. She is now very influential and got nominated to be on the cover of People's most beautiful people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z02Ie8wKKRg

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