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12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave

Movie Review: 12 Years a Slave

On first encountering the 1853 memoir of Solomon Northup, a free black man drugged and kidnapped from an educated, domestic life by opportunistic slave-traders in Washington D.C., director Steve McQueen felt he had read the “[A...