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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Briefly, until he was elected captain by the men of his company.
“Ubangi? Me bangi too!” - Ruth Wallis
Thanks Dick. But as we all know, what you have so graciously written for us to see is all fiction. NOT! But, to the lib/white guilt crowd, we owe everybody. Nice job by the way of stating what a lot of folks feel but couldn’t put in to words.
Slav doesn't come from slave. Slave comes from Slav. They were raided by Magyars, Byzantines, Norse and Germans for so long that the term Slav(e) eventually became equated with the Latin servus.
My family owned slaves, and it doesn’t torment me at all. Hollywood, certain blacks, liberals, the MSM, and B.H. Obama wish it would, but they’re out of luck.
I wonder if the movie points out who kidnapped the blacks and sold them into slavery-Muslims!
A truly lovely story, but unfortunately untrue. Possibly first black lifetime black slave in VA, but not in America.
Lifetime black slaves had been provided for in the law in several New England colonies more than 20 years earlier, if I remember correctly.
LOL!
I wasn’t alive then: no guilt at all.
Glen Beck is the only conservative I know putting his money into projects like that.
Still not good enough for a lot of people around here (most of which haven't done a 1/100th as much to help conservatism as Beck).
Some of those people make a pretty good arguement FOR slavery.
Looks like the left will get a true “hockey stick” graph after all, once the film screens. Only, it will be violence-related.
I have to compliment you on your tag line! Best I’ve seen today! LOL!
(Also compliment you on your post, which was very thoughtful. The reason I looked at your signature and tag line. :o)
Only idiots will get torn up about this, so yes, most of America will get torn up about this. We elected Obama out of idiocy, skin color, and white guilt! Common sense and thinking just doesn’t matter anymore.
It’s history and it’s truth. No running from it.
If anything it should reinforce to everyone how much that is NOT our situation today.
It's a movie, by definition untruth, fantasy, interpretation (at best.)
Not even “true stories” from Hollyweird are going to be all true... take the movie about the White House butler for instance. Good thing they changed his name, because it was not even close to factual.
Must have took place after Lincoln and his band of merry men were discharged, and on the long walk home. The liberties taken by some northern "historians" are comical. :-)
Hollywierd is on a mission to crank out a new “hate whitey” movie every six months or so.
My family (Irish) were as good as slaves on the railroad so don’t look our way.
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