Solomon Northup: Movie Analysis

Solomon Northup and other slaves attempt to resistant slavery were pretty evident throughout the movie, especially Northup, as he never gives up within his 12 years as a slave. The first evidence of resistant of slavery is at the beginning of the film where Northup is chained up after being kidnapped to be sold as a slave. A white man who seems to be in charge of the operation of transporting captured slave to the south repeatedly asks Northup if he is a slave and Northup repeatedly says no. As Northup continue to say no, the white man beats him to try to break Northup’s will. This marks Northup first attempt of resisting slavery, by not accepting the fact that he has been tricked, played, finessed, and now is being entered to a society of
slavery which he had not lived ever in his life. Evidence, where other slaves try to resist slavery, was the scene of all the kidnapped African Americans being transported south to be auctioned off as slaves. One male African American insisted that all the African Americans on the ship rebel against the crew of the ship, by that, everyone on the ship will be free but the plan did not work out. Northup’s biggest attempt and resistant of slavery was his first attempt to get a letter to his family in the north of his well-being, and state. Northup was very desperate and saw his first attempt to escape slavery by trusting some white worker that was nice to him to sent the letter for him, but he was betrayed and snitched on.
The position of women in the slaveholding world was the worst position to be in.
The position of a white female was somewhat considered terrible, as they basically stayed home, and be obedient to their husband. Not allowed to vote, work, nor have equal treatment as a man. Knowing the position of white women during the slaveholding world, the comparison to the life of African American women in the slaveholding world is drastically different. African American women were considered as investment and property. Investment in a sense of eventually producing kids, which in theory mean more slave. As property, the expectation of whatever a slave was to upheld was demanded, and the owner could have done whatever he or she pleased. Eliza and Patsy are two women who fell victim as an example of the ideology of that they are just investment and property. Eliza is not born and breaded as a slave like Patsy, therefore Eliza is weak willed and weeps the life that she has to now endure. Patsy is considered by her owner “Queen of the field”, born and breaded into the perfect slave. Mr. Epps view Patsy explains to his wife Patsy is too valuable to get rid of. Both women are considered the same as African American women in the slaveholding world, but how each woman is brought up in the world
differ.