Actually he disappeared from his again, no one ever found out what happened to him. Many thought that he was kidnapped again for speaking out against slavery and telling people what happened to him. Sad story
The largest slave owner in North Carolina was a black man name John Carruthers Stanly . He kidnapped a free black man . Forced him to work for him till he escaped and took him to court in Craven County where the judge sided with the free man , and told Stanly he would have to pay the man 2 yrs wages for forced labor .
@@shirleyross6037 "He largely disappeared from the historical record after 1857, although a letter later reported him alive in early 1863." He did not disappear, he moved to a place where his family was deemed safe until AFTER 1857. "According to John R. Smith, in letters written in the 1930s, his father Rev. John L. Smith, a Methodist minister in Vermont, had worked with Northup and former slave Tabbs Gross in the early 1860s, during the Civil War, aiding fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad. Northup was said to have visited Rev. Smith after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which was made in January 1863"
the worst thing is, after he returned to his family, he was kidnapped again and never found again. nobody knows how, when or where he died. he was probably returned to his last master and executed😢
Now, if you consume animal products, you force animals to he slaves, tortured, murdered... and you probably use the same excuses as people did to own slaves back then.
It’s great to know even in those harsh times of extreme discrimination and racism there were those who saw others as human beings alike and fought for their rights
@@RepublicansRuleDemocratsDroolWho then changed their name to democrats so despite being called republicans they are more similar to democrats of current day
My heart broke many times watching this movie. The way the slave traders tricked him, knowing he was free was horrible. No one should be owned by another. God bless him for helping others be free also.
"God bless him"? The Bible EXPLICITLY condones owning other humans as property and passing them on to your children as inheritances. Your Bible is the REASON and JUSTIFICATION for the enslavement of black people. The LAST thing they need is you praying...you might attract God's attention and nobody needs that bloodthirsty monster around here.
"God bless him..."? You do know that god condoned slavery, right? I suggest you read up on Exodus 21 and Leviticus 25 concerning the laws on owning slaves.
Movie Title: 12 Years a Slave: He (Solomon Northup "Platt" was a respected musician in the north and on the way to another gig, which was a trap, got kidnapped and sold into slavery unlawfully. He spent 12 years before being rescued.
He was lied to told he was going to play for the circus and they tricked him some of you need to go back a watch the movie because you know not what you saw
@@Calcanthite Yeah, I think she's happy now that she mentioned it was a circus instead of an unspecific music gig he was attending to. I'd like to know the specifics of the truth, too.
@@tanishadeloach8959years after he was saved from his unlawful imprisonment (forced to be a slave) he went missing again. Some think he just lived in private and away from the public eye but the more believed and likely outcome was he was captured and sent back to the same plantation where he would be tortured/executed by his former master
"As it will be my pleasure to bankrupt you in the courts, your decision!" That line hits hard. It's always good to see someone standing up for the weak.
The weak? He was a man stripped of his rights and humanity by an evil government practice and survived 12 years of brutal slavery. I'd say he was stronger than any of them.
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They are all such good actors. I love Michael Fassbender and he’s so good in his role that his performance fills me with rage and sadness every time. I know it’s just a movie, but it accurate depicts at least a portion of the evils of slavery.
Mr. Northup tried to sue them in civil court, but at the time, a black man could not testify against a white man in court, even in the north. It was terrible.
They were no worse than anyone else involved. In a land where anyone with dark skin was a slave, everyone was responsible for keeping him as one. The fact that Solomon was "free" and the other slaves didn't have that bit of paper, doesn't make enslaving them any more legitimate. Every individual who saw him as a slave by looking at him, is exactly as guilty as his kidnappers.
@@greenaum I disagree simply because they didn't approach him in that manner. They presented themselves as friends/allies and sold him as a free man into slavery. In my opinion that's much dirtier than your everyday slaver
Now we are all treated worse. People kill themselves more then slaves did. We are taxed and controlled we just have the appearance of freedom. cops pull you over you stop and ask questions and are told cooperate now or end up in jail. Innocent means nothing in the U.S, accusations is what is held to. You make your case in court, you end up in jail for false accusations and you are locked up with real criminals naked and searched.
I love how he reserved his anger and realizes no matter how disgusting the man is trying to enslave him, in order to get him the hell out of there while the authorities are present and states it as a title of respect and tells him that he's your equal now scumbag, and he won't be your property anymore.
This film shocked me to the core. The vicious way these people treated another human being was appalling, thank God someone came to rescue him and thank God and the people who fought for it that this terrible practise was abolished. I know there are still some people would have it as it was.
These are the "black people" jobs trump is referring to when he says, "Make America great again." trump and his cult followers want America back to Jim Crow era America and Willie Lynch America 🇺🇸 🙄 keep black folks in their place!!!
No, slaves were not often killed unless they were rebeling for their freedom and because they made their owners' money and cost money. They were just heavily abused and tortured, which is probably worse.
@@edward9232 even that was more the exception than the norm in the US, where slaves were mostly for work. A tortured slave couldn't do as much work Most of the worst beatings came from other slaves who were given authority
for those wondering what happened afterwards he reunited with his family met his son in law and his grandchild the men responsible for his kidnapping escaped prosecution and were never convicted Solomon assisted in the underground railroad and spoke across the U.S. about abolishing slavery
Imagine collapsing in that carriage, heartbroken and relieved, and looking back into the field and leaving everyone behind; knowing that they were just as exhausted, knowing they have family they won't be going home to.
@@EastOaklandRoyaltythat's... A bit different unless you where in it then still in one case you exist and get Exploited in the other you searched for it by doing illegal stuff or fucking up badly, or got wrongly accused
@@GiuseppePelucchiniyou think the modern prison system is somehow different from slavery? A system that disproportionately targets and affects black and brown people, that was literally modeled after the oppressive nature of slavery. Don’t forget by law, slavery is still a viable form of punishment for criminals. Slavery was never truly abolished they just changed its name
This is a true story Northup was a free man and a musician I believe and one day he was offered a job playing for a traveling group(I forget what it was ) however while they were on the road they knocked him out and when he woke up he was chained and shortly thereafter sold into slavery under a new name and he was a slave for I wanna say 10+ years until finally he met someone he was able to trust and he got that person to write a letter to one of his old friends describing the whole situation and as soon as his friend got that letter he immediately went to where Northup was being held as a slave and manage to get him back and reunite him with his family who thought he was dead…amazing story truly….
@@ButBut-f1f its called "12 years a Slave" you should be able to stream on popular streaming services like Netflix and Prime. Great great movie. Brad Pitt has a part in movie and was also the Producer of a Black Film.
My great grandfather bought his boyhood best friend out of slavery, and built a home for him, and his family on his property, outside of Monroeville, Alabama. That man's granddaughter kept my mother alive, by nursing her, because my grandmother had no milk.
12 Years a Slave. True story. A free man of higher learning and status in his community kidnapped and sold into slavery. Watch the movie or read the book. You will cry, and you will cheer.
I will always be completely lost when it comes to slavery. I am a 41 year old white man (who's half Seneca American Indian as my grandfather was a chief), and I will never understand how a man could legally purchase another human being and force them to work, and be whipped and beaten if they don't. I will just never get that.
The guys fighting for his rights were true hero’s. In a time like that standing up for a black persons freedom was hard to come by. You really had to want to help to do that.
@auntjenifer7774 the scrutiny you would receive from everyone else would have been significant. It would be like all the people who got mad if you didn't wear a mask during covid
@@thebassassin5507 the devils shouldn't have never left mount siani nor heaven, bunch of cowards, hating on true people that were living as our Creator left us, no there's nothing good about these type situations be it black or white, stop promoting the devils craftiness, the devils work to cause destruction where there is peacefulness, were sick of seeing it, and definitely tired of hearing about the filthyness these animals has caused on the earth
In whole human history we had maybe 100 years without wars. Rest of the time it was: stronger exploiting weaker. We humans are not so good as some would wish us to be.
Truth be told in Mister Nothrop's autobiography he described his master as quite humane and honorable and much better than the average. But of course, he still bought and sold humans.
@@caesar628 eh, in certain cases? Yes, we can. Slavery had long been viewed as abhorrent by no small percentage of the national and global populace at the time. By your logic, we cannot judge the Nazis by the standards of the present, and that's just downright absurd.
@zubdub2506 slavery back then was a wide and accepted business that took an enlightened bunch of Western Men to finally consider the practice beneath them because their Religion and Morals got to challenge that Practice. So for thousands of years Slavery was the go to for capital punishment in many nations, its only a recent modern times that people would taught and told that Slavery is abhorrent. If I took you back in time not even 300 years ago, people would laugh and spit at you for ever thinking Slavery wouldve banned, and I would guess that the Law Enforcement at the time would throw you into prison for be a lunatic in broad daylight. You have the privilege to speak only because hindsight is 20/20 and the greater population agrees with you. You would not gain a single foothold back then with your current morality
This scene is so uplifting, and then immediately destroyed when he looks back, and realizes, while he might be free, he is leaving everyone he knows in hell behind him.
12 years a slave a fantastic true, sad, heroic, shameful, persistence, hopeful, tragic, dark, disgusting sick happy and triumphant tale of one man’s struggle in America as a black freeman. It’s a story of hope that takes place in a racist, disrespectful and unfair world.
A story of hope? In what way, shape or form, being sold into slavery for over a decade is a story of hope? Didnt they make him disappear soon after he found freedoom again?
@@spectralstriker I didn't think I had to point out to complete idiocracy. It's not like we had a system like some other cultures where freedom was traded for debt or because of military raids.
@@CHMichaelSlavery has been a thing since the dawn of time, instead of crying about the horrible past, let's be happy that it is now widely viewed as an inhumane and cruel practice, just a little more time and it will be completely abolished everywhere
@CHMichael numerous cultures practiced chattel slavery and the west wasn't the first. The Arabs practiced it for millenia. African tribes practiced it. Stop your BS and historical revisionist crap.
@@cult_of_odin but that's not what happened in the south. Especially the character depicted in the movie sees his slaves as something below him, in an evolutionary sense.
It's disgusting to know that real men fought with the real idea that they were in the right to own a slave. It's almost worse to know that there are still people that think they would be in their rights to own one. Pain
Civil war was a major turning point in history... up until that point owning other people was common... most of the time it was tribal but it was the norm... while America wasn't the first to abolish it, it was the a major turning point because we are the only ones that fought ourselves over it... so regardless of what you think now... it was the norm in history back then
@@jasonhodges9546 you were the only ones to fight yourself over it because others countries never had the need to do so, and agreed as a group to abolish it. Theres a reason America has so much issue with racism and discrimination still to this day.
For anyone who thinks slavery was such a long time ago, the last known child of a former slave died on October 19th 2022, his name was Daniel Robert Smith, who died at the age of 90
I mean you can keep moving the goalposts like that forever. I’m sure there is now a living great-grandchild of a former slave and soon there will be a last living great-great-grandchild of a former slave. So this means nothing really
That man was never free again.. he missed watching his children grow up and by the time he returned they were grown with children. The hug he gave b4 leaving that plantation showed he knew he would never see her or it again.
Slavery truly was deplorable, its good we have movies like 12 years a slave to highlight that; hatred is learned it can be unlearned with time if those who perpetuate it learn to have empathy for humanity.
@@mattykirk2875 It happened in the past hence the past tense, its still a tragedy but its been over for some time; reparations are still needed though since this damage was never attempted to be mended like it was promised to be.
I met a black man in 1976 that was incarcerated for 26 years for one joint. He was used as free labor for the wardens fund. He had scars from being chained up all those years.
That is exactly what Kamala Harris did to prisoners in California. Kept them in jail past their time to use them as cheap laborers. That is why I could never vote for her.
@@berniemadoff7837 26 years for one joint is definitely way worse than smoking a joint. Instead of shitting on that decision, you only saw "smoking a joint".
It’s crazy how often this really happened. Even free black folks weren’t safe from the evil and horrors of slavery. (Edit: I absolutely love how much my comment is pissing racists off🫶)
Imagine the trauma. I can't get wrapped up in the good deed being done bc I see a man who has been undone. Being set free does not erase the new behavior that was traumatized in. If we lost nothing else in Slavery we all lost our humanity. We all lost our humanity in slavery. Feel good moments are eternal now but at the time I'm sure they were fleeting AF.
You cry for them that's the past but now around the world are millions of slaves and you say not one word while you buy their products people being sold by people of their own race
Well said, however did those who enslaved other human beings ever really have humanity in the first place? I not so sure it was ever there to begin with. And any humanity gained was at a terrible price, we Black people had to pay. 🙍🏿♀️
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This happened more often than you would believe… slaves that paid and got their freedom… would just be kidnapped off the street and sold again, despite the proof that they were freed men… Same thing happened to Irish slaves… they would be signed into a contract to work for seven years, when that seven years was up… they would say I am dissatisfied with the service and I demand you give me another seven years… they would repeat the process over and over… even when they did pay for their freedom… they would just be grabbed off the street and sold to another person But, Whereas Irish slaves could die their hair, get rid of their accent and disguise themselves as English or European… African slaves couldn’t do the same😢 That’s why Irish slavery died out and was replaced by African slaves 😡 I hate that anyone thought that slavery was a good idea😢
Chattel slavery was in a class all its own. Slavery has always existed. It’s an economic system that never left and will return full force if industrialization ceases. Just grow all your own food on bad land. You instantly understand…….Nasty business…
Fun fact: there is a massive difference between Irish (White Slaves) and African Slaves. Look at the British ran colony’s created in the Caribbean and see Irish slavery there, they actually were more forced into a job, but I am pretty sure they did receive some payment. But refusal was met with death most times At least I think from my memory
@@mycharredrose most folks don't care, anything to make them feel less guilty-by-proxy, really more of an indictment of their own self-image that they even feel such a thing necessary
I can't imagine the raw emotion and unintentional contention that must have electrified the air when they were filming this movie & scene. As with so many other human atrocities, we must never forget for when we forget we are doomed to repeat. Maybe not the exact same pattern but the exact same issues.
Brings tears to my eyes....a man that has to swallow the fact that he is not a man in a man's eyes...Lincoln gave a wonderful reason for abolishing slavery but what I learned about him makes my feelings conflicted with each other.
12 Years a Slave was really well acted. It immediately makes me think of Django with Jamie Fox in it. Leonardo DiCaprio was a mean slave master. The places actors go to make their characters come alive is something to behold. I saw Leonardo DiCaprio in an interview and if I am remembering correctly, Samuel L Jackson was there as well. Leonardo was having difficulty saying some of the dialogue with all the hate and the N word being thrown around, whippings, etc. And, I think it was Samuel L Jackson that talked to Leonardo to help him "go there" to be the evil, hateful tyrant needed to play that part. I honestly think it bodes well for Leonardo to have had a difficult time with the role though it was not real life, not who he actually is. It's a "heart thing" (which is beautiful).
And it this was a true story. Many free blacks were kidnapped and forced into slavery like him. Due to the lack of technology and records it’s hard to say how many of those people were rescued like him.
As painful as it to watch the mistreatment of another human being and in this case a (person, man) still, we must watch in painful disbelief, because we must never forget the pain, suffering and the inhumane atrocities which many have endured. We must be terrified and appalled when we witness blatant discrimination of all kind (especially in our society today). and we must stand up and be willing to speak out for the justice of our sisters and brothers.
100% correct and is why we must stand against DEI policy as it is a return to officially sanctioned and legally enforced discrimination. Those who support this policy learnt nothing from slavery and discrimination over the centuries. Make me ashamed that some human beings can say DEI is a great step forward when it is a return to discrimination. Anytime ANYONE is treated differently due to skin colour, race, religious beliefs, political beliefs etc than anyone else under the law that is DISCRIMINATION pure and simple. Amazing that in 2024 some claim DEI is good. It is pure EVIL.
12 Years a Slave was the last movie about slavery I will ever watch. It was too painful to see how black people were treated. And I don't need to see it in a movie theater ever again.
You do realize it was FAR from only black people… right? And the first slave owner was a black man. Before that it was limited indentured servitude in the US!!! Slavery is something that has damaged ALL groups of people at some point. It is absolutely an evil.
I feel the same... My wife and I talk a lot about how traumatizing it is to see movies like these. I still haven't watched it, Amastad, Roots was enough for me... Even Django had some parts that was too much.
Go check what King Leopoldo did to Congo... literally the worst crime ever known to humanity. Hitler would pale compared to. It brings me pain just to think about it.
This is the unbelievable part of 19th century America, according to many college level history books I have read, the practice of kidnapping free black men out of New York , Boston. And other union cities, and sell into slavery was very common.
I read where someone from the south would show up claiming some man was a runaway. It would go to court. If the judge said the man was a runaway, he got paid more than if he said the man was free. Yup. Just wanted more money.
Like so many folks waiting on tables across the US today - they have to rely on earning tips because their "owners" don't pay them a living wage and dont house or feed them either - so just a modern form of slavery.
12 Years a Slave. I love this movie. It's such a horrible true story, but I'm glad he finally got his freedom. Just a shame he couldn't take the others with him.
@coins8602 According to certain groups, black people have been used as a weapon of the Jewish people to wage a proxy war on American soil. The end game being to destroy American culture, traditions, and the economy in order to make the American people easier to control, like a pen of domestic hogs.
To call a fully grown man a “boy” is so humiliating and degrading…. And then to fight over him like he’s a possession, a mere object… that just adds salt to the wound… I’m truly sorry humans are capable of doing this to each other… 😔
The reason he was fighting over him like he was just his property is bc unfortunately that is what most people believed in that African amaerican people were sold and bought to work for rich white people its horrid but thats how white men that agreed wid slavery acted like they weren't humans they were just machines for whatever they wanted them for disgusting but how it was
I love this, we need more people to see this so they can appreciate the fact that pale skin doesnt mean your a racist colonizer. Too many people are brainwashed into thinking other are the reason to all their problems when it can stem from being blind to your blessing from people who took on burdens that would have never effected them if they ignored it.
Except in real life it was his father's former master's son who rode across the country to free him. Ironic. The family who originally owned your parent being the one who travel a thousand miles to free you.
Another proof that White people knew how to treat Blacka back then. 12 years as a slave were probably the best in his life. He didn't get fat or become a thief.
@@kyleburnette1872 No, they didn't. The only reason they got off on the court case is that the crime (shanghaiing) was deemed to have happened in Washington DC but Northrop couldn't testify there. If they set foot in New York, they would have been prosecuted under an 1840 law that made it illegal to "entice" someone in New York out of state for the purpose of selling him into slavery. Northrop would have been able to testify against them in New York. .
What a movie I'm 45 yrs old and I'm from a mixed race family and I'm white my brothers and sisters are brown skin. We have hated racism from very young and I learnt about these times from the movie colour purple it broke our hearts watching it as 10 yr old kids. We are all sooo equal and give me a like for we are one on one planet.😊
Same here. I'm the lightest of the blood kids parents adopted too. We never cared about the shade of wheat we were. Movies like this are gur wrenching. We each talk sometimes over a couple drinks of how we are dismissed from our race or racial identity or mistaken or judged. In the end we have just coined it melonin judgement. Most people are guilty of it to a degree. Even people of similar shade. And almost always the ones saying they champion for other races. They sure due until you step off the reservation of ideas. I'm always heartened to hear that other mixed race families hold together over topics like this. There is a future for us all. ❤
Yep… democrats loved their slavery! They started a whole war to keep slavery legal… thank god republicans came along and freed them all, but then of course the bitter democrats installed Jim Crow laws!
So did our white ancestors.. the word slave comes from the Slavic people who long before black slaves were white slaves. Oh but you didn't learn that in government school.
@@tangoseal1..this clip NOR her comment is about you and yours. Do not make assumptions about people because you fail to properly regulate your emotions. Books are in fact easily accessible. We DO know that slavery did not only affect Africans and Caribbeans…HOWEVER, the lengths taken against us were not the same. Simmer down and crack open a book!
What about Native americans! They were invaded, hunted like animals, thrown from their ancestral lands, they were also enslaved, and were finally given american citizenship in 1957!! In some states they weren't allowed to vote until 1958!!
Hearing even an actor call someone the n-word, treating a human being like property makes my skin crawl. I'm so ashamed that my southern roots includes some of these atrocities.
I’m not my white but African. My ancestors were part of the slave trade in the east. I don’t feel ashamed about it because that’s how people were back then nor should you.
No reason to be ashamed of something you didn't do. Our actions as individuals are what defines us. If your daddy (hypothetically) was a horrible person, then you can choose to be better and not let it affect how you see others and others see you. I'm proud to be southern. I know that because of the Christian values this nation was built on and that all men are created equal, no man or woman should be treated that way. Some will argue that the South fought to keep slaves, and its true some did but that's not what it was all about. Even if we succeeded from the union, slavery would've been outlawed in due time anyway. Abraham Lincoln only cared about it when the union was deep into the war and needed a moral high ground to get people on their side and justify their own atrocities they commited to southern civilians during their campaign
He spent the rest of his life freeing those who were enslaved.
Actually he disappeared from his again, no one ever found out what happened to him. Many thought that he was kidnapped again for speaking out against slavery and telling people what happened to him. Sad story
The largest slave owner in North Carolina was a black man name John Carruthers Stanly . He kidnapped a free black man . Forced him to work for him till he escaped and took him to court in Craven County where the judge sided with the free man , and told Stanly he would have to pay the man 2 yrs wages for forced labor .
@@shirleyross6037 "He largely disappeared from the historical record after 1857, although a letter later reported him alive in early 1863." He did not disappear, he moved to a place where his family was deemed safe until AFTER 1857. "According to John R. Smith, in letters written in the 1930s, his father Rev. John L. Smith, a Methodist minister in Vermont, had worked with Northup and former slave Tabbs Gross in the early 1860s, during the Civil War, aiding fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad. Northup was said to have visited Rev. Smith after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which was made in January 1863"
Movie?????
@@thouxanunooo 12 Years a Slave
12 Years A Slave. Such a good movie. He was basically a free man that was thrown into slavery for 12yrs unlawfully.
Thank you, king 👑. You dropped this
the worst thing is, after he returned to his family, he was kidnapped again and never found again. nobody knows how, when or where he died. he was probably returned to his last master and executed😢
thanks I wanted the name
@@mrrobot3kthat’s not confirmed that he got kidnapped again
@@mrrobot3kI’ve never heard that version. But I’ve only watched the movie and never read the book or researched it.
“That is MISTER Solomon Northup” shit like that always gets me
“Gets me up”
@@Luppy014 "Gets me erect"
What was said is....
HE is Mister Solomon Northup!
Well, did you tear up when Mr. Potato Head said "That's *Mr.* Potato Head you back-stabbing murderer!"? XD
@@SourcianMStudioyou could t handle the fact that BUZZ was cutting in on your playtime 😂😂
One of the best, most honest movies ever made about slavery. I cried so often watching it. Amazing story.
Casper the ghost is more historically accurate
Wats the nsme
@@sh1r013WTH
insane how the director just released one of the worst movies i’ve ever seen lol.
Now, if you consume animal products, you force animals to he slaves, tortured, murdered... and you probably use the same excuses as people did to own slaves back then.
It’s great to know even in those harsh times of extreme discrimination and racism there were those who saw others as human beings alike and fought for their rights
Yeah they were called REPUBLICANS.
@@RepublicansRuleDemocratsDroolWho then changed their name to democrats so despite being called republicans they are more similar to democrats of current day
@@RepublicansRuleDemocratsDroolof course someone has to make it political and ruin it smh
@itwasidio8036 your mom uses ur eye as her ashtray 😂
@Tang1294 Sorry kid, but until you can speak using proper grammar, I am not considering your small attempts of calling my mother an abuser
My heart broke many times watching this movie. The way the slave traders tricked him, knowing he was free was horrible. No one should be owned by another. God bless him for helping others be free also.
"God bless him"? The Bible EXPLICITLY condones owning other humans as property and passing them on to your children as inheritances. Your Bible is the REASON and JUSTIFICATION for the enslavement of black people.
The LAST thing they need is you praying...you might attract God's attention and nobody needs that bloodthirsty monster around here.
Tell that to africa. They loooooooovvvveeeee the slave trade to this day lmao.
"God bless him..."?
You do know that god condoned slavery, right? I suggest you read up on Exodus 21 and Leviticus 25 concerning the laws on owning slaves.
God COULD have blessed him...but instead God told his followers that he approved of slavery and didn't intervene.
Movie name
Movie Title: 12 Years a Slave: He (Solomon Northup "Platt" was a respected musician in the north and on the way to another gig, which was a trap, got kidnapped and sold into slavery unlawfully. He spent 12 years before being rescued.
He was lied to told he was going to play for the circus and they tricked him some of you need to go back a watch the movie because you know not what you saw
@@tanishadeloach8959 Jesus are you happy
@@Calcanthite Yeah, I think she's happy now that she mentioned it was a circus instead of an unspecific music gig he was attending to. I'd like to know the specifics of the truth, too.
@@tanishadeloach8959”you know not what you saw” GET OUT
@@tanishadeloach8959years after he was saved from his unlawful imprisonment (forced to be a slave) he went missing again. Some think he just lived in private and away from the public eye but the more believed and likely outcome was he was captured and sent back to the same plantation where he would be tortured/executed by his former master
Thank you for this true story. I am stunned at how ignorant & hateful people can be over money. Incredibly sad
"As it will be my pleasure to bankrupt you in the courts, your decision!"
That line hits hard. It's always good to see someone standing up for the weak.
The weak? He was a man stripped of his rights and humanity by an evil government practice and survived 12 years of brutal slavery. I'd say he was stronger than any of them.
@a-aron6838 I'm not disagreeing with you. All I meant was that he wasn't in a position to stand up for himself.
@@a-aron6838its a movie ffs
... settle down children😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@Latviešu_Amēlijait’s a movie based on reality fool.
PLEASE, you, and EVERYONE, if you haven't already, embrace the One True Only God YHWH Jehovah, Only One Jesus Christ His Only Begotten Son and Lord and Savior of our souls and the Only One Holy Spirit. God is good. God is love. Jesus is Lord. Jesus IS coming. Your soul depends on it!
I have seen God act in my life. He saved my soul, changed my heart, changed my mind, helped people through me, took care of people in my life, people I hurt before I found God. God is the only reason I was able to reconcile with my dad before he died.
God worked through Jesus Christ to save our souls. Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins. Believe in your heart and confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and that God raised Him from the dead and you will be saved. Be baptized in The Holy Spirit, and if He wills, water as well. Repent of your sins, accept God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit into your heart, that Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son Jesus Christ, that all who believe on Him shall not perish but have eternal life. Jesus Christ is The Way, The Truth and The Life. No one comes to the Father Jehovah God but through Him.
Not long after I got saved I prayed to God for help understanding the Holy Bible, and that same day someone knocked on my door asking me if I wanted to understand the Bible.
The Holy Bible says, "love thy enemy", "turn the other cheek", "If your enemy is hungry, feed him", "if he is thirsty, give him a drink", "pray for those who persecute you", "do not repay evil for evil".
LORD willing, all humans may commit sin of almost every kind (gay, straight), and that's wrong, and all humans sin, as God tells us through the The Holy Bible, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus." The Holy Bible also says, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.", "Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you." and, “For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."
I hate that this is something that is real and that this is something that someone had to actually experience and go through. God bless all
The real history is worse.
If the world hates you remember it hated me first...Jesus.
Well you should hate that is still happens to this day right now is africa, asia, and the Middle East where it’s allowed to flourish
@@taanklin Worse is happening today. People love their weirdo fictions.
This is till no excuse for talking in the theater.
Bro asked him the first ever 'forgot password' security questions.
Naa 😂😂
There was also a Captcha to prove “I'm not
a slave.”
lmao
@@nocalsteveget the heck out of here hahah
😂🤣you stuuuuuuuupid ‼️😂🤣
They are all such good actors. I love Michael Fassbender and he’s so good in his role that his performance fills me with rage and sadness every time. I know it’s just a movie, but it accurate depicts at least a portion of the evils of slavery.
AMISTAD
The two cowards who kidnapped him and sold him into slavery were never prosecuted
Makes me hope there IS a Hell.
Yes they WERE prosecuted, BUT they unfortunately were not charged.
Mr. Northup tried to sue them in civil court, but at the time, a black man could not testify against a white man in court, even in the north. It was terrible.
They were no worse than anyone else involved. In a land where anyone with dark skin was a slave, everyone was responsible for keeping him as one. The fact that Solomon was "free" and the other slaves didn't have that bit of paper, doesn't make enslaving them any more legitimate.
Every individual who saw him as a slave by looking at him, is exactly as guilty as his kidnappers.
@@greenaum I disagree simply because they didn't approach him in that manner. They presented themselves as friends/allies and sold him as a free man into slavery. In my opinion that's much dirtier than your everyday slaver
No one ever deserved to be treated like that.
Now we are all treated worse. People kill themselves more then slaves did. We are taxed and controlled we just have the appearance of freedom. cops pull you over you stop and ask questions and are told cooperate now or end up in jail. Innocent means nothing in the U.S, accusations is what is held to. You make your case in court, you end up in jail for false accusations and you are locked up with real criminals naked and searched.
Maybe only those that did this to them.
@@Carlos-ff7rm Yes they deserved it so do murderers rapists and child molesters!!!
Apart from Furries and Satanists
Slavery didn’t end tho. Its still rampant in the world.
“ He is Mr. Solomon Northup.” The respect that he put on his name was just made my so happy
I love how he reserved his anger and realizes no matter how disgusting the man is trying to enslave him, in order to get him the hell out of there while the authorities are present and states it as a title of respect and tells him that he's your equal now scumbag, and he won't be your property anymore.
This film shocked me to the core. The vicious way these people treated another human being was appalling, thank God someone came to rescue him and thank God and the people who fought for it that this terrible practise was abolished. I know there are still some people would have it as it was.
True...however the sheriff was still referring to that grown ass man as "boy" and speaking down to him in tone and manner.
These are the "black people" jobs trump is referring to when he says, "Make America great again." trump and his cult followers want America back to Jim Crow era America and
Willie Lynch America 🇺🇸 🙄 keep black folks in their place!!!
@@dunbarf2413 That was part of the times, though, not necessarily because he's black.
You can LITERALLY and ACTUALLY hear who Northrup truly is rising up in his spirit with every word he spoke proclaiming his TRUE IDENTITY!
He signed her death warrant saying good bye to each other.
No, slaves were not often killed unless they were rebeling for their freedom and because they made their owners' money and cost money. They were just heavily abused and tortured, which is probably worse.
No one is to blame but the murderer
@@edward9232 even that was more the exception than the norm in the US, where slaves were mostly for work. A tortured slave couldn't do as much work
Most of the worst beatings came from other slaves who were given authority
@@edward9232did you watch this?
its a fucking movie that dramatizes history of slavery in the US
for those wondering what happened afterwards he reunited with his family met his son in law and his grandchild the men responsible for his kidnapping escaped prosecution and were never convicted Solomon assisted in the underground railroad and spoke across the U.S. about abolishing slavery
Ever heard of full stops or commas?
@@dexterjohn6816
Nobody cares.
It's not the most important thing.😅
Thank you. ❤
@@dexterjohn6816its a youtube comment, not an official letter from the goverment or your job.
@@dexterjohn6816Get a Life.
Imagine collapsing in that carriage, heartbroken and relieved, and looking back into the field and leaving everyone behind; knowing that they were just as exhausted, knowing they have family they won't be going home to.
Brutal
How it feels like leaving a jail or prison
@@EastOaklandRoyaltythat's... A bit different unless you where in it then still in one case you exist and get Exploited in the other you searched for it by doing illegal stuff or fucking up badly, or got wrongly accused
The confliction of emotions would give anyone and everyone whiplash- holy crap
@@GiuseppePelucchiniyou think the modern prison system is somehow different from slavery? A system that disproportionately targets and affects black and brown people, that was literally modeled after the oppressive nature of slavery. Don’t forget by law, slavery is still a viable form of punishment for criminals. Slavery was never truly abolished they just changed its name
Why don't these clips ever tell you the name of the movie. It drives me crazy when I don't know the name. This is "12 Years a Slave"
This is a true story Northup was a free man and a musician I believe and one day he was offered a job playing for a traveling group(I forget what it was ) however while they were on the road they knocked him out and when he woke up he was chained and shortly thereafter sold into slavery under a new name and he was a slave for I wanna say 10+ years until finally he met someone he was able to trust and he got that person to write a letter to one of his old friends describing the whole situation and as soon as his friend got that letter he immediately went to where Northup was being held as a slave and manage to get him back and reunite him with his family who thought he was dead…amazing story truly….
12 years....same as name of the movie is
@immoral_jaguar7337. 12 years a slave. One of my favorite movies. You mention 10 years it was 12...im sure those 2 years mattered to that slave.❤
What is that movie called and where can I watch it???
@@lashawnabrady7063where can I watch the movie and what is it called
@@ButBut-f1f its called "12 years a Slave" you should be able to stream on popular streaming services like Netflix and Prime. Great great movie. Brad Pitt has a part in movie and was also the Producer of a Black Film.
“It will be my pleasure to bankrupt you in the courts, YOUR DECISION.” The power in the your decision was such good acting.
😂😂😂 oh, the sarcasm
His story was in the African American museum, I shed a tear seeing his real-life picture with his family and all
the actor is so good, it takes a real one to answer truthfully and actually sound like its really plausible
My great grandfather bought his boyhood best friend out of slavery, and built a home for him, and his family on his property, outside of Monroeville, Alabama. That man's granddaughter kept my mother alive, by nursing her, because my grandmother had no milk.
Would you happen to know his friend's name? My great-grandparents were from Monroeville.
Wow! Amazing!
Your great-grandfather is the definition of a real one. That's a TRUE best friend. Hats off to him.
Wow! That’s amazing… what a story. You should write it out or hire a writer I bet it would make an awesome book .
Are we sure this how it went ??? lol jk ❤️
12 Years a Slave. True story. A free man of higher learning and status in his community kidnapped and sold into slavery. Watch the movie or read the book. You will cry, and you will cheer.
Name of movie?
@@anitasnyder9503 12 Years a Slave is the movie.
I've seen it and while sad it doesn't hold s candle to Rosewood. That movie makes me so sad.
@@diontaerespress3602try this one my friend Netflix racism in America who we are
Did you read the book? it is amazing and the movie showed all the true events.
Magneto be wildin with the pass💀
in the pass?
LMAOOOO
😹😹😹😹😹
SHIT, I THOUGHT I'D BE THE FIRST TO MAKE A COMMENT LIKE THAT😭😭😭🤣🤣
excuse you thats, David. You dont know how Ian McKellen looks like huh.
I will always be completely lost when it comes to slavery. I am a 41 year old white man (who's half Seneca American Indian as my grandfather was a chief), and I will never understand how a man could legally purchase another human being and force them to work, and be whipped and beaten if they don't. I will just never get that.
There are more slaves on earth now go look into it. 😔
It’s his realization that he’s going back home that always gets me
he just wanted a better master
Excuse me !!!
@@williamhendricks4093 you blks always need a master
Typical brotha...
They will do ANYTHING to get out of a hard day of work.
😂 JK
@@sticksnstonespatriot1728 bu tits true
It broke me finding out his wife had died before he was found. The whole movie rips at your heart. He was free once more, but the losses were huge.
Is that a fact? So the movie was inaccurate on that part? In the movie, I thought he, reunited with his wife and family?
@@thisguyyy8866 yeah me too. In the movie, he was reunited with his wife and grown children.
Damn now idw to watch it
These movies are just race bait for the easily manipulated to keep the division going through modern times.
Movie name?
Damn that made me cry immediately. Took me to a place ,a feeling,I wish no one ever had to have.
Movie name: "12 Years A Slave", (from 2013)
Thank you.
Thank you...@@Caramia-w1x
i would like ur comment but it would ruin the number 69 :)
And the movie is almost 12 years old 😂
@@jacobmaddox7119well abit older
The guys fighting for his rights were true hero’s. In a time like that standing up for a black persons freedom was hard to come by. You really had to want to help to do that.
Or just uphold thy human rights of any free man. 😂
@auntjenifer7774 the scrutiny you would receive from everyone else would have been significant. It would be like all the people who got mad if you didn't wear a mask during covid
@@thebassassin5507 the devils shouldn't have never left mount siani nor heaven, bunch of cowards, hating on true people that were living as our Creator left us, no there's nothing good about these type situations be it black or white, stop promoting the devils craftiness, the devils work to cause destruction where there is peacefulness, were sick of seeing it, and definitely tired of hearing about the filthyness these animals has caused on the earth
It took 12 yrs are you serious? He could've been freed right away if he was so well respected.
Hard to come by? The majority of people opposed slavery. But like today, the rich and powerful wrote law.
It’s kind of crazy that it actually happened. They just take people that were free and then just say that they were runaways, which was just crazy
And it would just let people take them without any proof or anything
In whole human history we had maybe 100 years without wars. Rest of the time it was: stronger exploiting weaker. We humans are not so good as some would wish us to be.
Corruption exists everywhere
They were always free. Slavery was made up by persons with no regard for anyone but themselves.
Remember these slaveholders were the 1% of their day. The billionaires, so to speak. Not much has changed.
This particular junction in the movie is the first time a movie ever made me cry. I was in an hotel room in Antigua, I will never forget that moment.
Truth be told in Mister Nothrop's autobiography he described his master as quite humane and honorable and much better than the average. But of course, he still bought and sold humans.
We can’t judge the past by standards of the present.
@@caesar628 eh, in certain cases? Yes, we can. Slavery had long been viewed as abhorrent by no small percentage of the national and global populace at the time. By your logic, we cannot judge the Nazis by the standards of the present, and that's just downright absurd.
Bought and sold humans is essentially what we do now with athletes, so we haven't moved that far.
@zubdub2506 slavery back then was a wide and accepted business that took an enlightened bunch of Western Men to finally consider the practice beneath them because their Religion and Morals got to challenge that Practice.
So for thousands of years Slavery was the go to for capital punishment in many nations, its only a recent modern times that people would taught and told that Slavery is abhorrent.
If I took you back in time not even 300 years ago, people would laugh and spit at you for ever thinking Slavery wouldve banned, and I would guess that the Law Enforcement at the time would throw you into prison for be a lunatic in broad daylight.
You have the privilege to speak only because hindsight is 20/20 and the greater population agrees with you. You would not gain a single foothold back then with your current morality
@@zubdub2506well even in their time period what the Nazis were doing was considered wrong, slavery in it's time wasnt
The saddest part. Is so few were discovered this way and so many remained slaves, slaughtered to the end.
Lol
Womp womp
@@mincoarmin1260…
Womp womp
@@mincoarmin1260 common edgy npc, that mommy probably hates, daddy gone, and uncle butt fcks u, no wonder
@@10PercentFr These things might be funny to you as a child but when you grow up you’ll change your tune
This scene is so uplifting, and then immediately destroyed when he looks back, and realizes, while he might be free, he is leaving everyone he knows in hell behind him.
They would of done the same
hes just going to work for another yte tho
That's not everyone he knows.
Just like leaving prison.. but I have to go
Movie name
So, this is where the common phrase started: My, N, my N.
*_"My 🥷🏿, my business"_* is absolutely CRAZY 😭😭😭💀💀💀
I know... its crazy to believe it was really like this way back then too..
HES MY 🥷🏿💀
@@Reverb_97it’s history
"My nigga my business" 😂
Newgen
So this is what magneto did after x men first class
Edit thanks for the likes I didn't think my little dumb joke would blow up thank you all
Ironically magneto would absolutely hate this guy
@@prophecybydefault4708right like that don’t work here bud lol
@@prophecybydefault4708 Maybe, but iirc 40% of slave owners were ethnic jews so......
Actually this is BEFORE X-Men because during the Holocaust Magneto was a kid
@@nikkimiddlekillsday5161 I know it was a joke
Him hugging mister Parker always sends me into tears 😭😭😭
No it dont
@@Bankyga678 yea it do
@@ThayloBlue no it don’t luh bro💀 u a sissy💀
@@Bankyga678 Oh great, it's another one of those "tough" people
@@shmish5818 fr
It's wild to think people used to treat other people like this. Heart wrenching😔...
they still do in africa lmao
Since the beginning of history people have been enslaving others. Many suffered far worse conditions than the slaves in the US
12 years a slave a fantastic true, sad, heroic, shameful, persistence, hopeful, tragic, dark, disgusting sick happy and triumphant tale of one man’s struggle in America as a black freeman. It’s a story of hope that takes place in a racist, disrespectful and unfair world.
Similar things still perpetrated by our government.
@@JoyPeace-ej2uv... and the people in our cities and states!
A story of hope?
In what way, shape or form, being sold into slavery for over a decade is a story of hope?
Didnt they make him disappear soon after he found freedoom again?
@HaloNeInTheDark27 he endured until the end and as a Christian there's alot to take from this movie especially in this day and age.
Cringe
This scene really got me. I was cheering when he was rescued but then he saw Patsy....😢 and she literally fainted when he left
humans being dont see color no matter what color they are classified as good people
So was I..
Relax ppl dont act like u went thru that
@@CarlosMorales-eo6tsdidn’t need to go through to feel the effects….hope you tell Jews the same thing when watching a movie about hitler
@@CarlosMorales-eo6ts what's the reason for this comment?
"Sir.. your line was: "thats my slave""
Was looking for this comment I’m not going to lie 😂
That’s not what was said back in those times lol 😅
Wild😂😂😂
I'm just keeping it historically accurate, sir👀
Top ten times actors weren't acting
That man waited his whole life ready to say that word 😂
... and the guy next to him is property.
Yes, because that is how it worked back then. Sorry.
@@spectralstriker I didn't think I had to point out to complete idiocracy.
It's not like we had a system like some other cultures where freedom was traded for debt or because of military raids.
@@CHMichaelSlavery has been a thing since the dawn of time, instead of crying about the horrible past, let's be happy that it is now widely viewed as an inhumane and cruel practice, just a little more time and it will be completely abolished everywhere
@CHMichael numerous cultures practiced chattel slavery and the west wasn't the first. The Arabs practiced it for millenia. African tribes practiced it. Stop your BS and historical revisionist crap.
@@cult_of_odin but that's not what happened in the south.
Especially the character depicted in the movie sees his slaves as something below him, in an evolutionary sense.
It's disgusting to know that real men fought with the real idea that they were in the right to own a slave. It's almost worse to know that there are still people that think they would be in their rights to own one. Pain
There are still slave markets in Algeria
Take heart that there are still men who will fight against those monsters.
Civil war was a major turning point in history... up until that point owning other people was common... most of the time it was tribal but it was the norm... while America wasn't the first to abolish it, it was the a major turning point because we are the only ones that fought ourselves over it... so regardless of what you think now... it was the norm in history back then
@@jasonhodges9546 you were the only ones to fight yourself over it because others countries never had the need to do so, and agreed as a group to abolish it. Theres a reason America has so much issue with racism and discrimination still to this day.
You do know that the civil war wasn’t about slaves
For anyone who thinks slavery was such a long time ago, the last known child of a former slave died on October 19th 2022, his name was Daniel Robert Smith, who died at the age of 90
Yeah, that’s still nearly two centuries
I mean you can keep moving the goalposts like that forever. I’m sure there is now a living great-grandchild of a former slave and soon there will be a last living great-great-grandchild of a former slave. So this means nothing really
Dude if he was a direct descendant of someone who was a slave he would have been 157 years old to die in 2022. Slavery ended in 1865
Assuming he was born right as slavery ended.
Well slavery still exists today in many parts of the world.
The sheriff even seemed to play an understanding part in this scene.
That man was never free again.. he missed watching his children grow up and by the time he returned they were grown with children. The hug he gave b4 leaving that plantation showed he knew he would never see her or it again.
No adult is free
@@gloriatucker6158 No adult is legally a slave in this country anymore, as well. What the hell is wrong with you?
Slavery truly was deplorable, its good we have movies like 12 years a slave to highlight that; hatred is learned it can be unlearned with time if those who perpetuate it learn to have empathy for humanity.
@@princessmorgan5444was?
@@mattykirk2875 It happened in the past hence the past tense, its still a tragedy but its been over for some time; reparations are still needed though since this damage was never attempted to be mended like it was promised to be.
I watch this clip over and over.
I can just imagine how he felt to see that man Mr Parker after so many years
This goes right to my throat. That burn in your throat and in your eyes when you feel an emotion so intense.
People, especially Americans forget that this really happened and it still has an impact today.
I met a black man in 1976 that was incarcerated for 26 years for one joint.
He was used as free labor for the wardens fund. He had scars from being chained up all those years.
That is exactly what Kamala Harris did to prisoners in California. Kept them in jail past their time to use them as cheap laborers. That is why I could never vote for her.
Prison is legal slavery.
Maybe DON'T commit crimes.
Yeah, slavery's still legal if you're a criminal.
@@berniemadoff7837 26 years for one joint is definitely way worse than smoking a joint. Instead of shitting on that decision, you only saw "smoking a joint".
Breaks my heart to see a human treat another human in this destrepectable way😢 will it ever stop😢
Michael Fassbender deserved the Oscar, in my opinion. I never despised and pitied a character in such equal measure as Edwin Epps.
He acted his ass off cause I love him and hated him in that part
He's proven to be a solid actor in a lot of movies.
Indeed he did!!
“He’s my ninja and I’ll fight U for it” that’s krazy🤦🏽♂️
The lightness in his eyes and voice when he realized it was Parker was a beautiful moment. He realized that he never had to slave away ever again.
Chiwetel Ejiofor nails every role. What a legend.
That Sheriff was absolutely killing it with the drip .It is insane .
Thats not a sheriff
@@buffducks They just called him Sheriff in the clip fool
It’s crazy how often this really happened. Even free black folks weren’t safe from the evil and horrors of slavery. (Edit: I absolutely love how much my comment is pissing racists off🫶)
Nor were women.
This went on until at least the 1980's, under peonage slavery.
@@tjalliemicheaux3719 And now according to the very constitution that freed the slaves, anyone who is thrown in prison, even falsely is a slave.
Ok?😂@@Loralanthalas
You do know that there were free blacks who had slaves themselves, right?
Mr. Parker came in and 'Karen'd' in the middle of the field!! I CHOKE UP every time!!
Imagine the trauma. I can't get wrapped up in the good deed being done bc I see a man who has been undone. Being set free does not erase the new behavior that was traumatized in. If we lost nothing else in Slavery we all lost our humanity. We all lost our humanity in slavery. Feel good moments are eternal now but at the time I'm sure they were fleeting AF.
Beautifly said😢🎉
You cry for them that's the past but now around the world are millions of slaves and you say not one word while you buy their products people being sold by people of their own race
Well said, however did those who enslaved other human beings ever really have humanity in the first place?
I not so sure it was ever there to begin with. And any humanity gained was at a terrible price, we Black people had to pay. 🙍🏿♀️
Nothing has changed. Only now, WE ARE ALL SLAVES. Bet.
You're absolutely right❣️✊🏾
😢 i can’t believe we treated people this way. The things we do to animals and each other is so shameful.
PLEASE, you, and EVERYONE, if you haven't already, embrace the One True Only God YHWH Jehovah, Only One Jesus Christ His Only Begotten Son and Lord and Savior of our souls and the Only One Holy Spirit. God is good. God is love. Jesus is Lord. Jesus IS coming. Your soul depends on it!
I have seen God act in my life. He saved my soul, changed my heart, changed my mind, helped people through me, took care of people in my life, people I hurt before I found God. God is the only reason I was able to reconcile with my dad before he died.
God worked through Jesus Christ to save our souls. Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins. Believe in your heart and confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and that God raised Him from the dead and you will be saved. Be baptized in The Holy Spirit, and if He wills, water as well. Repent of your sins, accept God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit into your heart, that Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son Jesus Christ, that all who believe on Him shall not perish but have eternal life. Jesus Christ is The Way, The Truth and The Life. No one comes to the Father Jehovah God but through Him.
Not long after I got saved I prayed to God for help understanding the Holy Bible, and that same day someone knocked on my door asking me if I wanted to understand the Bible.
The Holy Bible says, "love thy enemy", "turn the other cheek", "If your enemy is hungry, feed him", "if he is thirsty, give him a drink", "pray for those who persecute you", "do not repay evil for evil".
LORD willing, all humans may commit sin of almost every kind (gay, straight), and that's wrong, and all humans sin, as God tells us through the The Holy Bible, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus." The Holy Bible also says, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.", "Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you." and, “For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."
I like that you said 'we'. Bless you... my grandmother (born in 1883) was the daughter of a slave.
Hey black people are not animals…
My people were in Eastern Europe and we had our own suffering 🤔
Believe it, some still try to do it today.
This happened more often than you would believe… slaves that paid and got their freedom… would just be kidnapped off the street and sold again, despite the proof that they were freed men…
Same thing happened to Irish slaves… they would be signed into a contract to work for seven years, when that seven years was up… they would say I am dissatisfied with the service and I demand you give me another seven years… they would repeat the process over and over… even when they did pay for their freedom… they would just be grabbed off the street and sold to another person
But, Whereas Irish slaves could die their hair, get rid of their accent and disguise themselves as English or European… African slaves couldn’t do the same😢
That’s why Irish slavery died out and was replaced by African slaves 😡 I hate that anyone thought that slavery was a good idea😢
Chattel slavery was in a class all its own. Slavery has always existed. It’s an economic system that never left and will return full force if industrialization ceases. Just grow all your own food on bad land. You instantly understand…….Nasty business…
The Irish weren’t slaves. They were just treated shit
Original…. Irish slavery didn’t “die out”. The UK passed laws against slavery
Fun fact: there is a massive difference between Irish (White Slaves) and African Slaves.
Look at the British ran colony’s created in the Caribbean and see Irish slavery there, they actually were more forced into a job, but I am pretty sure they did receive some payment. But refusal was met with death most times
At least I think from my memory
@@mycharredrose most folks don't care, anything to make them feel less guilty-by-proxy, really more of an indictment of their own self-image that they even feel such a thing necessary
Kind of sad cuz ur owning somebody and suddenly he’s gone what a tragic movie i hope platt goes back to to his work
I can't imagine the raw emotion and unintentional contention that must have electrified the air when they were filming this movie & scene. As with so many other human atrocities, we must never forget for when we forget we are doomed to repeat. Maybe not the exact same pattern but the exact same issues.
The farewell between Solomon and Patsey was devastating 🥺
Brings tears to my eyes....a man that has to swallow the fact that he is not a man in a man's eyes...Lincoln gave a wonderful reason for abolishing slavery but what I learned about him makes my feelings conflicted with each other.
12years is crazy, I’d like to see a film of him after, using all his resources to try and rescue slaves.😊
magneto really lost sight of his goals
lol yooooooooooo
12 Years a Slave was really well acted. It immediately makes me think of Django with Jamie Fox in it. Leonardo DiCaprio was a mean slave master. The places actors go to make their characters come alive is something to behold. I saw Leonardo DiCaprio in an interview and if I am remembering correctly, Samuel L Jackson was there as well. Leonardo was having difficulty saying some of the dialogue with all the hate and the N word being thrown around, whippings, etc. And, I think it was Samuel L Jackson that talked to Leonardo to help him "go there" to be the evil, hateful tyrant needed to play that part. I honestly think it bodes well for Leonardo to have had a difficult time with the role though it was not real life, not who he actually is. It's a "heart thing" (which is beautiful).
I have yet to watch this movie because of the emotions that will undoubtedly follow 😢
@@adrin1512 same 😢
And it this was a true story. Many free blacks were kidnapped and forced into slavery like him. Due to the lack of technology and records it’s hard to say how many of those people were rescued like him.
Plus all the hundreds of thousands of blacks kidnapped by other blacks in Africa and sold into slavery
Yup. The only reason he was saved is a neighbor sent a letter for him.
Yeah
All slaves were kidnapped and put into slavery
Don’t say “blacks”
What's this called and where can I watch it?
As painful as it to watch the mistreatment of another human being and in this case a (person, man) still, we must watch in painful disbelief, because we must never forget the pain, suffering and the inhumane atrocities which many have endured.
We must be terrified and appalled when we witness blatant discrimination of all kind (especially in our society today). and we must stand up and be willing to speak out for the justice of our sisters and brothers.
Absolutely right!
Amen 🙏❤️🙏 Let Us Not Forget The Past...
Slavery is alive and well today yet no one does anything to stop it.
100% correct and is why we must stand against DEI policy as it is a return to officially sanctioned and legally enforced discrimination. Those who support this policy learnt nothing from slavery and discrimination over the centuries.
Make me ashamed that some human beings can say DEI is a great step forward when it is a return to discrimination.
Anytime ANYONE is treated differently due to skin colour, race, religious beliefs, political beliefs etc than anyone else under the law that is DISCRIMINATION pure and simple.
Amazing that in 2024 some claim DEI is good. It is pure EVIL.
and hopefully be appalled by human trafficking that is still taking place preying on vulnerable people.
12 Years a Slave was the last movie about slavery I will ever watch. It was too painful to see how black people were treated. And I don't need to see it in a movie theater ever again.
You do realize it was FAR from only black people… right? And the first slave owner was a black man. Before that it was limited indentured servitude in the US!!!
Slavery is something that has damaged ALL groups of people at some point. It is absolutely an evil.
Understandable response. Unfortunately for the enslaved, they endured the pain not of a 2 hour movie but a lifelong torment...
I feel the same... My wife and I talk a lot about how traumatizing it is to see movies like these. I still haven't watched it, Amastad, Roots was enough for me... Even Django had some parts that was too much.
Go check what King Leopoldo did to Congo... literally the worst crime ever known to humanity. Hitler would pale compared to. It brings me pain just to think about it.
sadly others were tricked and "unlawfully" put in slavery.
This is the unbelievable part of 19th century America, according to many college level history books I have read, the practice of kidnapping free black men out of New York , Boston. And other union cities, and sell into slavery was very common.
I read where someone from the south would show up claiming some man was a runaway. It would go to court.
If the judge said the man was a runaway, he got paid more than if he said the man was free.
Yup. Just wanted more money.
The fugitive slave act (1850) was a direct cause of the civil war.
Is it unbelievable really?
"College level history books I've read"
Really got to turn it into a you moment huh?
Seeing the practice is still being used today, all over the world, it's not hard to believe l.
When he said Margaret and Alonzo I felt that lol😅
This is one of the best movies ever, but hard to watch. Broke my heart!! I was so glad when they rescued him!!
That show made me cry. To become a slave for someone to live offer your strength .😢😢😢😢😢😢❤ Im glad he found him.
What is the name of the movie/show?
Like so many folks waiting on tables across the US today - they have to rely on earning tips because their "owners" don't pay them a living wage and dont house or feed them either - so just a modern form of slavery.
@@leliaorosco6785it's called 12 years a slave. I highly recommend you read the book first. It makes the movie so much better.
@leliaorosco6785 12 years a slave. It's based off a book as well. Definitely recommend it
No one deserves to be treated like this😢
Oh a lot of people do.
It’s still happening all over the world.
@@anthonyramirez134 false
@@Latviešu_Amēlija yeah it is….
@@Latviešu_AmēlijaHe's right slavery still happens
The movie is called 12 Years A Slave. He was a free man. He was lied to, kidnapped, and sold into slavery for 12 years
12 Years a Slave. I love this movie. It's such a horrible true story, but I'm glad he finally got his freedom. Just a shame he couldn't take the others with him.
Where can I see it
So much hate in people such a desire to dominate other's just to feel superior only to loose everything they have 😢
Rich vs really rich
LMFAO😂
Rich vs wealthy
1% rich vs "what the hell is 401k rich"
statistically more like jewish people vs black people at least in america
@coins8602 According to certain groups, black people have been used as a weapon of the Jewish people to wage a proxy war on American soil. The end game being to destroy American culture, traditions, and the economy in order to make the American people easier to control, like a pen of domestic hogs.
"I am who I say" such a
awesome line.
Magneto buying Baron Mordo is crazyy
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Years later and this still bring tears to my eyes 😢
To call a fully grown man a “boy” is so humiliating and degrading…. And then to fight over him like he’s a possession, a mere object… that just adds salt to the wound… I’m truly sorry humans are capable of doing this to each other… 😔
I know. I kept looking for a boy until I realized it was disrespect.
Is this the first y’all ever heard of US history?
Humans do a lot worse than this to each other. Human history is filled with atrocities, globally.
You and me both.
The reason he was fighting over him like he was just his property is bc unfortunately that is what most people believed in that African amaerican people were sold and bought to work for rich white people its horrid but thats how white men that agreed wid slavery acted like they weren't humans they were just machines for whatever they wanted them for disgusting but how it was
I love this, we need more people to see this so they can appreciate the fact that pale skin doesnt mean your a racist colonizer. Too many people are brainwashed into thinking other are the reason to all their problems when it can stem from being blind to your blessing from people who took on burdens that would have never effected them if they ignored it.
12 years a slave, this is a true story.
Except in real life it was his father's former master's son who rode across the country to free him. Ironic. The family who originally owned your parent being the one who travel a thousand miles to free you.
It was an excellent movie! I cried and cheered at the same time..
Another proof that White people knew how to treat Blacka back then. 12 years as a slave were probably the best in his life. He didn't get fat or become a thief.
The original movie was great also
@@raymondmcmillan9241what’s the movie name
Director: Your Line Was "Fine You Can Have The Fine Gentleman" 💀
Do you know that sometime after he returned home he disappeared again…
No ! Now i gotta research!
I heard that as well. I would assume that the same individuals took him and ended his life. 😔
Yeah for good
HE WAS RUNNING FROM HIS OL LADY ! the wifey / lol
@@kyleburnette1872 No, they didn't. The only reason they got off on the court case is that the crime (shanghaiing) was deemed to have happened in Washington DC but Northrop couldn't testify there. If they set foot in New York, they would have been prosecuted under an 1840 law that made it illegal to "entice" someone in New York out of state for the purpose of selling him into slavery. Northrop would have been able to testify against them in New York. .
The most heartbreaking scene when he saw lupita's character how she was envious of him and his freedom😢 i cried
What a movie I'm 45 yrs old and I'm from a mixed race family and I'm white my brothers and sisters are brown skin. We have hated racism from very young and I learnt about these times from the movie colour purple it broke our hearts watching it as 10 yr old kids. We are all sooo equal and give me a like for we are one on one planet.😊
Same here. I'm the lightest of the blood kids parents adopted too. We never cared about the shade of wheat we were. Movies like this are gur wrenching. We each talk sometimes over a couple drinks of how we are dismissed from our race or racial identity or mistaken or judged. In the end we have just coined it melonin judgement. Most people are guilty of it to a degree. Even people of similar shade. And almost always the ones saying they champion for other races. They sure due until you step off the reservation of ideas. I'm always heartened to hear that other mixed race families hold together over topics like this. There is a future for us all. ❤
Yep… democrats loved their slavery! They started a whole war to keep slavery legal… thank god republicans came along and freed them all, but then of course the bitter democrats installed Jim Crow laws!
You mean PREJUDICE.
Womp womp
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Our ancestors endured so much suffering and still maintained their dignity. They knew who they were.
So did our white ancestors.. the word slave comes from the Slavic people who long before black slaves were white slaves. Oh but you didn't learn that in government school.
We was kangz
@@tangoseal1classic racist trying to play victim
@@tangoseal1..this clip NOR her comment is about you and yours. Do not make assumptions about people because you fail to properly regulate your emotions. Books are in fact easily accessible. We DO know that slavery did not only affect Africans and Caribbeans…HOWEVER, the lengths taken against us were not the same. Simmer down and crack open a book!
What about Native americans! They were invaded, hunted like animals, thrown from their ancestral lands, they were also enslaved, and were finally given american citizenship in 1957!! In some states they weren't allowed to vote until 1958!!
Hearing even an actor call someone the n-word, treating a human being like property makes my skin crawl. I'm so ashamed that my southern roots includes some of these atrocities.
It hits you like that, you have nothing to be ashamed of! That's fully on them if they did any of the above, bless you!
I’m not my white but African. My ancestors were part of the slave trade in the east. I don’t feel ashamed about it because that’s how people were back then nor should you.
Interesting
So you willing to relinquish everything in your life today that can be proven to be connected to the slavery of black people ? …..
No reason to be ashamed of something you didn't do. Our actions as individuals are what defines us. If your daddy (hypothetically) was a horrible person, then you can choose to be better and not let it affect how you see others and others see you. I'm proud to be southern. I know that because of the Christian values this nation was built on and that all men are created equal, no man or woman should be treated that way. Some will argue that the South fought to keep slaves, and its true some did but that's not what it was all about. Even if we succeeded from the union, slavery would've been outlawed in due time anyway. Abraham Lincoln only cared about it when the union was deep into the war and needed a moral high ground to get people on their side and justify their own atrocities they commited to southern civilians during their campaign
I love Michael Fassbender but I hated that he had this role saying that word. I couldn't and wouldn't do it.
That hug did it for me. Powerful scene