Evil law is also law, how to escape

Lavada 2022-04-22 07:01:03

After watching, there is a huge sense of fear. When some social classes define evil policies and laws instead of universal truths, your personal struggle will be minimal. Solomon was deceived and sold from a free man. When he woke up, his wife and children, work, residence, freedom, and dignity were all gone, and only the chains were left.
At first, I thought that Solomon could fight and find an opportunity to escape, but the white society has taken slaves for granted. When they see slaves being sold on the street, good people and bad people will buy and sell them. The color of your skin is the biggest imprint on your body. You are a slave. You are a commodity born to work and buy and sell. How can you escape from this invisible network of society, live in seclusion in the mountains and forests, and never contact human society?
Later, I thought, slaves can unite to riot, the situation is the same as the Japanese invasion of China. Why can a Japanese soldier enslave a town and hundreds of people; why can a slave owner enslave a dozen slaves? My answer is that it is not easy to unite forces under high pressure, especially when you are used to being tortured every day, no one is willing to take such a big risk. It depends on the strength of unity to obtain freedom. Who is willing to fight and sacrifice but not be the first person to be free! I think this is also one of the considerations of the feudal and various brutal rulers' close guards. Of course, these close guards have already satisfied themselves with the identity, status, etc. brought to them by this system, and will not change. .
What strikes me is that the American contractual spirit has a long history. Under this extreme system, slave owners still believe in the law. When their slaves are sold again, they will resort to the law to get their private property back. Solomon also always believed that as long as you find someone to protect yourself, you can get freedom by finding the legal documents of your free person. In the end, white friends in the north sued, and the government guards really came to the local slave factory to question Solomon in accordance with the law. Just imagine in China, would ZF do this? Can Solomon really be free?
Even if you are free, but you are still black, your freedom proves that I can destroy you, and I can kidnap you again... Will you have such good luck and be free again?

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12 Years a Slave quotes

  • Clemens: If you want to survive, do and say as little as possible. Tell no one who you really are and tell no one that you can read and write. Unless you want to be a dead nigger.

  • Robert: I say we fight.

    Solomon Northup: The crew is fairly small. If it were well planned, I believe they could be strong armed.

    Clemens: Three can't stand against a whole crew. The rest here are niggers, born and bred slaves. Niggers ain't got the stomach for a fight, not a damn one.

    Robert: All I know, we get where we travelling we'll wish we'd died trying.

    Clemens: Survival is not about certain death, it is about keeping your head down.

    Solomon Northup: Days ago I was with my family, in my home. Now you tell me all is lost. "Tell no one who I really am" if I want to survive. I don't want to survive, I want to live.