This winter thousands of American moviegoers have been introduced to Solomon Northup, a free black man kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana. His life narrative provides the subject of Steve McQueen’s brutally painful new film, 12 Years a Slave. The movie is difficult to watch and, while it uncritically deploys elements of the standard …
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