Twelve years a slave

Presents the true story of Solomon Northup, a born-free black man living in upstate New York. In 1841 he agreed to go with two men to Washington, D.C., supposedly to perform in a circus--instead the men drugged Solomon and took him to the South to sell him into slavery. For twelve years he worked for a variety of different masters, until he met a Canadian abolitionist who got word to his family.