Book vs. Movie — 12 Years a Slave
Solomon Northup vs. Steve McQueen The Story It’s 1841 in the small town of Saratoga, New York, and Solomon Northup, a free black man, has established himself as an upstanding and honorable citizen with a loving wife and three – two in the movie – beautiful children. It’s a day like any other when he’s approached by two businessmen from the big city who offer him work in New York City and Washington DC, which he accepts with enthusiasm not suspecting treachery. After a few days, he finds himself drugged and in chains, captive in a basement in the nation’s [...]