In this fact-based film, Solomon Northup (Avery Brooks) is a free black man living and working in Maryland during the 1840s. Unexpectedly, a visiting slave owner apprehends Solomon and brings him to the South as a slave. Unable to escape, Northup has no choice but to endure his plight for more than a decade, putting up with his cruel masters Epps (John Saxon) and Ford (Mason Adams) and struggling to maintain his inner strength as his family tries to find and rescue him. Wikipedia
In this fact-based film, Solomon Northup (Avery Brooks) is a free black man living and working in Maryland during the 1840s. Unexpectedly, a visiting slave owner apprehends Solomon and brings him to the South as a slave. Unable to escape, Northup has no choice but to endure his plight for more than a decade, putting up with his cruel masters Epps...