In 2014, I accepted my first master's student of African nationality, so I found this movie, thinking that we should have more topics after watching it. The result has been dragging on. The students have started to study for Ph.D. I just finished watching this movie (fortunately, I have seen some other movies and books about Africa, and we still have other topics to talk about). But after reading it, I don't think this is a very exciting story. The film tells the story of a black musician who lived on the violin in New York, was tricked into Washington by human traffickers, and then sold as a slave in the southern United States. After 12 years of hard work, he finally returned to the story of his family with the help of a carpenter who was "emancipated". I think the most exciting part of the film is to show the abuse and bullying of black slaves by southern slave owners before the American Civil War, so I can think of the inevitability of the "Civil War" and the ultimate failure of the Southern Army. Even those slave owners with a slight conscience would treat their slaves better than their family animals. Of course, there are also some slaves who are willing to be slaves, so-called natural cultivators...
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