Solomon and his Wife

Description

In 1841, Solomon Northup is a free and extremely well spoken African-American man working as a violinist, living with his wife and two children in Saratoga Springs, New York. 12 Years a Slave is a 2013 British-American historical drama film based on the 1853 autobiography Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup.

Two white men, Brown and Hamilton, offer him short-term employment as a musician if he will travel with them to Washington, D.C. However, once they arrive they conspire to drug Northup and deliver him to a slave pen run by a man named Birch