Essay- 12 Years a Slave
Rich to poor. Free to imprisoned. Accepted and now treated like a thing. This was the normal routine of black me, who were kidnapped and sold by white people. The movie 12 Years a slave shows in a real way this horrible situation in this difficult time.
When someone told me something about slavery, I could hardly understand and feel how slaves felt back during the 1800s. Slaves were brutally beaten and worked all day long. Slave masters had no mercy with the black. They have beaten them sometimes until they were dead. What students are taught in lessons gives only the view of how slaves were treated. Because of this perspective I felt sorry for them and I felt lucky to be born in this century. I think the whole truth must be seen to understand. Born and raised as a free man, Solomon Northup was robbed of his free papers, and then he was sold into slavery. When Northup was brought into slavery, his first master, William Ford, was a kind master. He spoke only good things and encouraged his slaves to do better. But Ford was just one of thousands who treated his slave like, let’s say in a nice way. There were not many masters like him. He never beat them with a whip or humiliated them in front of their peers. So in comparison to other slave holders he was nice. I think this changes the view of the viewers of what slavery was like during this time. There may have been many slave masters who were brutal to their slaves, but slave masters like Ford changes that perspective then the reader begins to see that not all slave masters that they thought of were cruel. Northup’s second master, John M. Tibeats, was typical master who would beat, whip, and humiliate their slaves. Tibeats was in my view a uncontrollable, unpredictable and ruthless psychopath with a hard drinking