Posted on 09/19/2013 9:05:08 AM PDT by rktman
Solomon Northup's harrowing tale has been made into a Hollywood film The movie is based on his memoir 12 Years A Slave, published in 1853 Northrup was born a free man but kidnapped and sold into slavery Movie is so powerful some critics walked out while others left in tears
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Well, and John Milius! :)
Yep, there’s already been a movie made of this as well ... quite a decent movie.
Part of my heritage is Slavic which means “slave.” I have relatives who lived in Lidice, the village which was completely destroyed by the Nazis, as were most of it inhabitants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidice
Oh great. More white liberal guilt. More black demands for justice. Just what we need 150 years later.
The 50 million killed in their wombs can't speak of the violence they've been subjected to, and only a few brave nurses and aids have dared to do so.
You're right, retribution for this heinous crime draws near.
"I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public." - Booker T. Washington
My Polish Silesian ancestors were busy dealing with the Kulturkampf at the time.
My great uncle showed up on these shores about the same time. Since he got here too late to own slaves he signed up with Black Jack Pershing to go chase Mexicans.
Not going to torment me, either. As a white man I know white men didn’t start slavery in the US, a black man did. Anthony Johnson, a black man, went to court to enslave John Casor, a black man.
AFAIC blacks and namby whites can take slavery and shove it up their rear end. I don’t give a damn about slavery and quite frankly I am weary of all this handwringing over blacks in general. I am also disgusted at all the whites who kowtow to this crap and dance around race as if they are guilty of something. This constant browbeating of whites over slavery as if whites and only whites are evil or only whites have sins to atone is total BS. Enough.
how about a movie about ARAB Slave Traders??
what a hit that would be!
There were many black landowners in the South; many of those who owned slaves as well. It was and is an ungodly institution, and practiced by most all people at some point.
The one thing that can be said about the practice of slavery in America: there has never been another time in history of man when a people repented for the practice of slavery through such sacrifice of their own blood and treasure.
So let’s see, the guy was sold for $1000 about 1841, which according to the Historical Inflation Calculator I found, would be about $22,000 today. Misusing “possessions” worth $22,000 as a matter of course, not as an exception, makes perfect financial sense. No wonder they lost the war.
According to the race pimps, you’ll need to kill yourself also.
Yawn. Another attempt to support the Official Narrative that blacks still suffer violence at the hands of whites. Unfortunately for the Narrative, there is statistically almost zero white on black violence in the USA today, while in fact, the very opposite is reality. Interracial violence in this country is overwhelmingly black-on-white.
So Narrative supporters have to reach back into history, to slavery, to the Civil Rights era, to rehash the same stories, (usually with distortion) of a victimization that no longer exists.
Well, I was talking about incredibly rich business men and women backing pro-America projects and good, wholesome and artistic endeavors. The Koch Brothers buying the State Theatre here in NYC was a very big deal.
That movie don’t have a Chinaman’s chance with me!
To Libs: That stuff happened before my time. I had no part of it. I did not inherit the sins of others. Now get out of my face or else!
One of the best books on Civil War ever written, and almost completely unknown, which will give you much insight about the attitudes of the times, the causes, and repercussions is:
Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Richard Taylor
Richard was the son of Zachary Taylor, president of the United States ("Old Rough and Ready's"). These people were all much larger than life. The 1800's is a period of unbelievably fascinating history - much of it unknown.
For instance, Lincoln was a private in Zachary Taylor's army during the Indian wars in Illinois. A lieutenant at the time, Jefferson Davis, would latter become not only his son-in-law, but also president of the Confederacy.
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