I In Northup's '12 Years Of A Slave'

Years of a Slave Throughout our lives up until this point we have witness one major atrocity after another, as if history was made to repeat itself. It is at these times of great adversity that we truly discover just how the human mind and spirit has come to persevere in these dark times and how it exactly does so. it takes the impact of a single event like the enslavement of another human being only to be judged by the color of their skin is where we find a strange sense of community and finding self-worth in times we could barely fathom to be a part of ourselves. Both the book and the movie of 12 years as a slave depicts and explains just how the human spirit works, and how just instead of breaking apart and breaking down, a network of oppressed people, with nothing to look forward to but the harshest and inhumane labor day after day, could somehow make a bond amongst themselves full of love and self-worth, to survive and thrive with the hope that they would see a better time.
He begins his book “12 years of a slave” by explaining his background and how he came to be with the background of his father, He and his wife started a family and settled in Saratoga Springs, New York where he was ready for his life to be filled with “nothing but the common hopes, and loves, and labors of an obscure colored man, making his humble progress in the world.” It truly was an unexpected turn for the worst when He came across these two respectable looking men, they changed his viewpoint on life and it was the beginning of Solomon Northup’s true years of