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Vlog-I just watched 12 Years A Slave

posted 8 years ago by ShadowsHeart09
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[–] activista 8 years ago

Here's a really interesting story about a white Civil War Union soldier whose diary revealed that he fought with a Union regiment that helped to free some of the same slaves Solomon Northup was enslaved with. Apparently he had read the book a decade earlier, and actually interviewed those same slaves, who confirmed that pretty much everything Northup wrote about in his book did, in fact, happen,and that he hadn't exaggerated a single thing in it----in fact, he might have left out the truly even more horrific things that he saw:

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/1/the-horrors-a-12yearsaslaveacouldnattell0.html

Here's an interview with Northup's great-great-great grandson about discovering his ancestor, and how that changed how he looked at himself, and his family's history:

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/america-tonight-blog/2014/1/17/for-subject-of-12yearsaslave150yearsinwronggrave.html