In America today everyone that is born here has freedom but at one point and time America was a slave owning country. Free slaves were abducted by whites humiliated by being sold into to the slave system with no way to prove their freedom is the picture painted by John Ridley’s movie 12 years a slave.In the movie 12 years a slave a young free black man named Solomon Northup is kidnapped by two white men and sold into slavery. The questions is was the film historical accurate? The film is historically accurate in most aspects and paints a good picture of slave life in the nineteenth century.In the film cotton was the main crop that was grown and picked by slaves which is true in the nineteenth century south (Oxford 356).Although they were other
