12 Years a Slave Paraphrase Activity

               The new film from the British director Steve McQueen is an adaptation of the memoirs of Solomon Northup, a freeborn black American family man from upstate New York who was kidnapped, shipped to the South and sold to the owner of a Louisiana plantation in 1841. There have been other films about American slaves, and films that have described or depicted the American slave trade in some way too: not many, but enough high-profile ones, from Gone With the Wind all the way to Mandingo, for the topic not to feel like unmapped territory. (Telegraph.co.uk article)

               In a part of Robbie Collins review of the film 12 years a slave he made the following points. The new version of the memoirs of Solomon Northup was directed by British Steve McQueen. It is the story of a free colored family from New York, Solomon was captured, and forced to the south and sold to a plantation owner of Louisiana in 1841. The other films about slavery have described and showed slave trade in many different ways. Only a few have become popular enough ,such as Gone with the Wind all they way to Mandingo have really gone into the unspoken territory of slavery.