12 Years a Slave: Adapting Freedom

12 Years a Slave: Adapting Freedom

by | May 1, 2018 | Criticism

12 Years a Slave is based on the 1853 memoir of Solomon Northup, a free black man from Saratoga, New York who was kidnapped and then spent twelve years in the South as a slave in Bayou Bouef, Louisiana.  Northup’s memoir is framed entirely from his own...