The shocking first-hand account of one man's remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture.
"Why had I not died in my young years - before God had given me children to love and live for? What unhappiness and suffering and sorrow it would have prevented. I sighed for liberty; but the bondsman's chain was round me, and could not be shaken off."
1841: Solomon Northup is a successful violinist when he is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Taken from his family in New York ...