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12 Years a Slave Is Not About Survival. It’s About What Was Already There and Got Subtracted.
The Ledger Solomon Northup is not a character who grows. He does not learn. He does not transform. He does not discover inner resources he did not know he had. He arrives in the first scene of 12 Years a Slave as a complete human being. A husband. A father. A violinist. A free man…