I find it hard to believe in a period of 12 years he couldn't find a single escape route, particularly during the later years of his slavery when he was in the countryside out in the open. Surely he could've just ran for his life, those crop fields go on for miles!
shareWhere was he gonna go ? he was a black man in a slave state surrounded by other slave states, it not like he could hitch-hike or get on a train home he had no freedom and no proof of who he was !
shareHe was out in the open fields, he could've ran for his life like there was no tomorrow surely! Hide behind some bushes, trees anything and when the coast is clear just make a run for it.
shareHe was out in the open fields, he could've ran for his life like there was no tomorrow surely! Hide behind some bushes, trees anything and when the coast is clear just make a run for it.
Is very bad to steal Jobu's rum. Is very bad.share
Also he experienced several situations where everything went south if you resisted. First in the boat when they tried to have a rebellion, in the fields when he attacked a white man and then when he actually did try to escape the first time he was let to go to town to get some supplies right? I mean he was running as if he was escaping but then he ran to some white trash on the way and became humbled.
All these experiences instilled fear in him, he was a clever man so he knew better not to try something stupid. And I mean thats what they did, the slave traders, they instilled fear into the slaves, made sure you wouldn't try anything.
Dogs kind of make hiding in any given place difficult.
shareSlave owners keep record of the slaves. If one went missing they would call in bounty hunters that knew how to find escape slaves. They had hunting dogs and hordes to ride, without knowing where he was going or how to get home and not being able to show himself to anyone escaping was bot easy
shareI'm not disputing the fact that the slave owners would've caught on to him missing, I know that. But What I'm saying is he was out in the open fields which is just miles and miles of countryside land, Hell if someone ran into that, you woudn't find no one missing in that area it doesn't matter who they are! He knew the number to his house phone I pressume, all he had to do was get as far as some sort of civlisation, find a phone and call home with as much information as poss!
I know I'm making it sound easy, I'm not saying that it was by any means, I'm just saying I don't think it was impossible.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, was 6 at the time Northup's book was published. So no, he couldn't simply get to a telephone and call home for help, telephones didn't exist yet! Did you even watch the movie??
shareHe should have just stole someone's cellphone and used the GPS to get to a city that had uber. Then a quick ride to the airport and he's home in a few hours.
shareLol you're giving them much more freedom than they actually had
share"...pants up..." "...you can't rape..."
I love it SO MUCH when someone clearly so completely lacking in self-awareness tries to be insulting! The ironic humor of it is HUGE, and SO perversely hysterical!
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
I love it SO MUCH when stupid people (that would be you) divert the topic and launch personal attacks. Regardless of what you think of me, your claims are factually incorrect. Duh! How dumb can you be?
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Just dumb enough to know that there's somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 million people in this country RIGHT NOW personally experiencing a very great deal of those factually incorrect things.
How about a quick extemporaneous list of some of my factually incorrect, historical examples:
Chattel slavery, Indian wars, the Dred Scott case, the Trail Of Tears, never honored Indian treaties, the very necessity for 3 civil rights acts (and counting), sharecropping, convict leasing, EVERY immigration act in American history, 19th century Chinese citizenship efforts, slave patrols, 150 years of post-Civil War segregation, the ability of the KKK (and its offshoots) to THRIVE (not just exist) for over 100 years, the policy of separate but equal, the Tuskegee experiment, forced sterilizations, lynchings, lead poisoning in urban housing, urban polluting, so-called urban renewal, Japanese internment camps, racial policies in the creation of the FHA (and thus, the ENTIRE US middle class), redlining, racial policies in the creation of welfare, COINTELPRO, fire hoses and police dogs on national TV, and last, but certainly not least, the very necessity for a nationwide Civil Rights Movement in the first place.
And this list generally does not include events of the last 60 years (or things we've done overseas)! So there's much more!
Most important of all, they're not random, unconnected, isolated incidents. So by all means, please show everyone where I'm being "factually incorrect"!
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
LOL! Thanks for proving my point that there was no "slavery was a nationwide, coast-to-coast SYSTEM predicated on the fundamental NON-personhood of ALL black people" as you claimed. Contrary to what you believe, your own examples do NOT prove your claim. Duh!
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Um...yeah...thanks Ted for that eloquent and detailed synopsis of your vast experience in such matters.
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
LOL! I love it SO MUCH how you cited examples involving Native Americans in an attempt to support your claim that "slavery was a nationwide, coast-to-coast SYSTEM predicated on the fundamental NON-personhood of ALL black people." Hahahaa!
Pants up, don't loot.
"slavery was a nationwide, coast-to-coast SYSTEM predicated on the fundamental NON-personhood of ALL black people."
Dummy,
Indians (both dots and feathers) are NOT "black." Chinese people are NOT "black." Japanese people are NOT "black." Mexicans are NOT "black." Middle Easterners are NOT "black." Duh! How dumb can you be?
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You can only "pretend" to not hear the fundamental part about "white" supremacy for so long. Then you quickly start to come across as willfully ignorant. ...and the clock's ticking.
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Dummy,
You claimed the entire nation was against "black" people. As I already pointed out, your ridiculous claims are factually incorrect. Instead of having the intelligence to research the subject, you cited examples that didn't support your claim. Good job! Obviously, your claims lack merit, which is why you have failed to provide such proof.
Try again.
Pants up, don't loot.
Ooh...what a surprise...not touching that "white" supremacy thingy with a ten-foot pole, huh?
Bye, bye.
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Gee, why haven't you been able to support your [ridiculous] claims with...get this...FACTS? Gee, I wonder why...
Pants up, don't loot.
I find it hard to believe in a period of 12 years he couldn't find a single escape route, particularly during the later years of his slavery when he was in the countryside out in the open. Surely he could've just ran for his life, those crop fields go on for miles!
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And you really think those people on horses wouldn't catch a black slave on foot? As you also saw, he could've ran into anyone ... Other slaves, other slave owners etc .. It wasn't easy. It took a lot of guts and planning for people to run away, it couldn't just have been a spontaneous thing plus he would have a long way to go... And he probably would've been caught and hung by then.
shareacehit
I totally agree with you. It is well known that black people have the power of invisibility and could had wondered around without anyone noticing them.
It's that man again!!
Yeah I think somebody wrote a book about it. Ralph Ellison I think with "Invisible Man". It was about black folks during the era of slavery who in the eyes of white folks didn't exist at all.
shareSomebody may have posted it by now. If so, I missed it.
Solomon Northup in his book writes that he did make attempts to escape. But wound up cold and starving and it didn't work. Without a map, enough food or knowing where you are going when others know the area, it's hard to escape.
In the movie I believe he tried it and wound up witnessing lynchings.
And remember there was a fugitive slave law and he had no papers saying he was free man.