Solomon Northup's Odyssey

Name: Solomon Northup's Odyssey
Director: Gordon Parks
Genre: TV Movie, Drama
Released: 1991-09-21
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Avery Brooks, Rhetta Greene, Mason Adams, Emory Beasley, Kent Broadhurst

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Directed by Gordon Parks

A free Black man from New York is tricked, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in the South, where he endures twelve years of brutal servitude before finding a way to contact his family and secure his freedom.

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freedominhumanityslaverybased on true storyslave tradefiddlersold into slaveryslave laborescape from slaveryafrican american history1840samerican history