12 Years a Slave with Professor James Early

Description: Solomon Northup is wrenched from his home and life and sold into slavery. He is a free man who never gives up his spirit and belief in himself and his freedom. 12 Years a Slave is a fascinating story and gives us a lens into a dark time in United States history, but also a chance for hope and new beginnings.

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Narrator:                       This is Beyond the Big Screen Podcast with your host, Steve Guerra, an Agora Podcast Network member.

Steve Guerra:              Today, we're talking about the movie from 2013, 12 Years a Slave, and we're talking today with James Early, who is the administrator of the American History Fanatics Blog, and a very popular Facebook group. James is an adjunct professor of History at San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas, outside of Houston. And he's published one book and a number of scholarly articles. Along with running the blog and Facebook group, his main areas of research and interest are Eastern European history, the American Civil War, and the Cold War. Thank you so much for coming on today, James.

James Early:                 My pleasure, Steve. I'm excited to be here.

Steve Guerra:              Just to briefly introduce 12 Years a Slave, the movie documents the real life events of Solomon Northup, a free black man who lived in the mid-1800s New York, who was captured as a fugitive slave on a trip to Washington, D.C. Northup, also sometimes called Northrup, his freedom, and even his identity are stripped from him, and he continually finds himself in harsher and harsher conditions where he has to make even deeper critical moral decisions. Very briefly, the production details. It's based on the book, 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup. The screenplay is by John Ridley. It's directed by Steve McQueen, a different Steve McQueen, not the Steve McQueen from the '70s. It has a runtime of 134 minutes, and it did very well at the Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. And it has almost 100% Rotten Tomatoes and...

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