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Solomon Northup, a free African American man, was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Washington, D.C.
After being kidnapped, Northup was sold into slavery in Louisiana where he worked on plantations for 12 years.
With the help of a white carpenter and his friends, Solomon Northup was able to send a letter north and was eventually freed from slavery.
'Twelve Years a Slave,' Solomon Northup's memoir detailing his experience of being kidnapped and enslaved, was published and became a significant abolitionist literature.
Books:
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
by Alex Haley
The Known World
by Edward P. Jones
Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
The Good Lord Bird
by James McBride
Washington Black
by Esi Edugyan
Someone Knows My Name
by Lawrence Hill
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Harriet Jacobs
Movies:
The Last King of Scotland
The Help
Moonlight
If Beale Street Could Talk
Mudbound
Selma
The Butler
Fruitvale Station
Loving
Music:
Trouble So Hard by Vera Hall
Down in Mississippi by Mavis Staples
I’ll Be Rested by Rhiannon Giddens
Go Down Moses by Harriet Tubman
Freedom Road by The Staple Singers
Deep River by Marion Anderson
A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke
Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues by Skip James
Another Man Done Gone by Odetta
John Henry by Lead Belly
TV Shows:
Them
When They See Us
The Underground Railroad
Roots
Underground
The Book of Negroes
Godless
The Good Lord Bird
Lovecraft Country
Pose
Video Games:
The Last of Us
Assassin's Creed: Origins
This War of Mine
Detroit: Become Human
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Red Dead Redemption 2
A Plague Tale: Innocence
Spec Ops: The Line
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Watched this in theaters. Was a fun popcorn movie. I didn't like it as much as the first movie though. The nostalgia moments are a lot of fun for me, but the first movie had a ton of those too.
I need to rewatch this and see if it moves from a like to a favorite for me. I forget about it, see it mentioned, and remember that it was way better than I thought it was going to be. This is a great one to watch if you haven't yet.
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Finally got to see this in theaters - it's a lovely movie. One of the higher quality family-friendly sci fi movies in a LONG time. The part I liked least about the book was the humor - movie was the same. Which speaks to how good the adaptation was.
