Twelve Years a Slave 

A free man. A brutal betrayal. A story the world must never forget. Twelve Years a Slave is Solomon Northup's harrowing and powerful firsthand account of being kidnapped and sold into slavery in the pre-Civil War American South. Born a free Black man in New York, Northup's life was shattered when he was abducted and forced to endure years of cruelty, injustice, and endurance on Southern plantat...