A free man life is flipped upside when he wakes up in a dark room and realizes his life is going to be changed forever.

Rating: 8/10 (1 January 2016)

Solomon Northrop, a free man from Saratoga New York is abducted and sold into slavery. He is sold to owners under the pretense that he is an escaped slave from Georgia. When he is first sold he takes a liking to his owner, Brown, and even though he is a slave to him he felt grateful to him for how kind he was. However one of the men on his farm thinks he's a horrible and useless black man so he is no longer safe with Brown so he ends up Edwin Epps and his wife Mistress Epps, these owners were terrible and cruel to their slaves and Solomon and others like Patsey were beaten within inches of their lives. Solomon was with that family until Epps believed they cursed his family and stopped his cotton from growing so he sent them away to the Fords with their sugarcane. Solomon was a little safer there for a year or two but he returned to the Epps household when his crop grew back. Epps now has a child with Patsey and his wife despises her and wants her either out or beaten every time she sees her happy. Solomon tries twice to write letters to get out, the first time Armsby goes and tells Epps and Solomon is almost killed. The second time however he asks Bass and Bass gets him out. He goes home to find both children grown and his daughter married with a child of her own. The last spoken line of the movie is him apologizing and that just shows the irony of the whole plot. Solomon was one of the few kidnapped blacks to escape their owners and live.