12 Years a Slave

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• 3-17-14
  

  The Despicable Racist Backlash Against "12 Years a Slave"

  by Elwood Watson

  It didn't take long for the haters to come out.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3-7-14
  

  The historian who unearthed "Twelve Years a Slave"

  Sue Eakin spent her career rescuing Solomon Northup's memoir from obscurity.

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  3-2-14
  

  The Untold History Beneath "12 Years"

  by Manisha Sinha

  NYC's sordid history of slavery.

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera America
  1-18-14
  

  The Horrors "12 Years a Slave" Couldn't Tell

  by Adam Rothman

  What a Civil War soldier’€™s diary tells us about Solomon Northup’s ordeal.

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• SOURCE: New-York Historical Society
  1-15-14
  

  Generations a Slave: Unlawful Bondage and Charles Carroll of Carrollton

  by Julita Braxton

  A half century before, in the courts of the neighboring Upper South state of Maryland, Charles Mahoney successfully challenged the legality of his enslavement.

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• 1-20-14
  

  We Need to Include Reparations in the Story of Solomon Northup

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  The protagonist of "12 Years a Slave" was also a leader in the slavery reparations movement.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1-5-14
  

  'It’s Just How He Carries Himself'

  Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Stature Carries ‘12 Years a Slave.’

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  11-22-13
  

  Steve McQueen: New Readership for ’12 Years a Slave’ Is ‘Amazing’

  The book is #3 on The Wall Street Journal bestseller list.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  11-13-13
  

  White America and the Burden of Slavery

  by Vincent Intondi

  It is long overdue that whites, collectively, acknowledge, apologize, and condemn slavery.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11-6-13
  

  The Passion of Solomon Northrup

  by Eric Herschthal

  If the film is “true” to anything in the book, it should be true to Northup’s voice, not his facts; that voice is what makes “12 Years a Slave” so enduring.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  11-4-13
  

  Little-known slave site near DC has connection with new film ‘12 Years a Slave’

  Alexandria, Virginia, was once a slave-trading hub.

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• SOURCE: Chicago Reporter
  10-31-13
  

  History lessons: ‘12 Years a Slave’ book and film stir a national conversation

  Sometimes pop culture can be the best history teacher.

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• SOURCE: National Public Radio
  10-24-13
  

  David Blight Says '12 Years' Is A Story The Nation Must Remember

  "We love being the country that freed the slaves ... [but] we're not so fond of being the country that had the biggest slave system on the planet."

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• SOURCE: National Public Radio
  10-24-13
  

  Historian Says '12 Years' Is A Story The Nation Must Remember

  David Blight discusses how the movie 12 Years A Slave clashes with American's collective identity as a progressive country.

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• 10-28-13
  

  Why Did "12 Years a Slave" Get the Hollywood Treatment, Not Frederick Douglass's Autobiography?

  by Jeannine Marie DeLombard

  As it turns out, the movie owes much to Douglass.

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• 10-18-13
  

  The Surprisingly Central Role of Slave Women in "12 Years a Slave"

  by Brenda E. Stevenson

  Along with "Roots" and "Sankofa," the new Steve McQueen movie presents the most striking images of slave women put to celluloid.

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  10-16-13
  

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. Fact-Checks "12 Years a Slave"

  "It was refreshing how closely they followed the exact events."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9-23-13
  

  An Escape From Slavery, Now a Movie, Has Long Intrigued Historians

  The new movie is based on the story of Solomon Northup, kidnapped into slavery in 1841.