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12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical historical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery.
Patsey (c. 1830–after 1863) was an African American enslaved woman.Solomon Northup wrote about her in his book Twelve Years a Slave, which is the source for most of the information known about her.
Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson.Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details himself being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South.
"Scene of the Slave Pen in Washington" after imploring that he was a free man, an illustration from Twelve Years A Slave (1853) After he made it back to New York, Solomon Northup wrote and published his memoir, Twelve Years a Slave (1853). The book was written in three months with the help of David Wilson, a local lawyer and writer. [3]
He was known in his own time as wealthy and problematic. Freeman's business practices were described in two antebellum American slave narratives—that of John Brown and that of Solomon Northup—and he appears as a character in both filmed dramatizations of Northup's Twelve Years a Slave.
Storm Reid (born July 1, 2003) is an American actress. After early roles in the television show A Cross to Bear (2012), the drama film 12 Years a Slave (2013), and the superhero film Sleight (2016), she played the lead role of Meg Murry in the fantasy film A Wrinkle in Time (2018).
His script for 12 Years a Slave won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, [16] making Ridley the second African American to win the award, after Geoffrey S. Fletcher (for Precious, based on the novel Push by Sapphire). [15] [17] In April 2015, Ridley was developing an ABC television series involving an existing Marvel Comics character ...
Wilson is best known for editing Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave (1853). [5] [9] He met Northup through Orville Clark, who provided an affidavit for Northrup and circulated and signed a petition that helped free him. [2]