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Directed by Steve McQueen Screenplay by John Ridley Based on Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup Produced by Brad Pitt Dede Gardner Jeremy Kleiner Bill Pohlad Steve McQueen Arnon Milchan Anthony Katagas Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor Michael Fassbender Benedict Cumberbatch Paul Dano Paul Giamatti Lupita Nyong'o Sarah Paulson Brad Pitt Alfre Woodard Cinematography Sean Bobbitt Edited by Joe Walker Music by Hans Zimmer Production companies Regency Enterprises[1] River Road Entertainment[1] Plan B Entertainment[1] Film4[1] Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures (United States and Canada)[1] Entertainment One (United Kingdom)[2] Summit Entertainment (International)[3][2]
The basis for the Academy Award®-winning movie! "A moving, vital testament to one of slavery's 'many thousand gone' who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation." — Saturday Review Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, DC, in 1841. He spent the next 12 harrowing years of his life as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. After regaining his freedom in 1853, Northup decided to publish this gripping autobiographical account of his captivity. As an educated man, Northup was able to present an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. Indeed, this book is probably the fullest, most realistic picture of the "peculiar institution" during the three decades before the Civil War. Moreover, Northup tells his story both from the viewpoint of an outsider, who had experienced 30 years of freedom and dignity in the United States before his capture, and as a slave, reduced to total bondage and submission. Very few personal accounts of American slavery were written by slaves with a similar history. Published in 1853, Northup's book found a ready audience and almost immediately became a bestseller. Aside from its vivid depiction of the detention, transportation, and sale of slaves, Twelve Years a Slave is admired for its classic accounts of cotton and sugar production, its uncannily precise recall of people, times, and places, and the compelling details that re-create the daily routine of slaves in the Gulf South. 7 illustrations. Index.
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Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kelsey Scott, Quvenzhané Wallis, and Cameron Zeigler in "12 Years a Slave" (2013) Photo Credit: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup / Platt in "12 Years a Slave" (2013) Photo Credit: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong'o in "12 Years a Slave" (2013) Photo by Francois Duhamel - © 2013 - Fox Searchlight Pictures
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