In 1841, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a free negro working as a skilled carpenter and fiddle player, and living with his wife and two children in Saratoga Springs, New York. Two men (Scoot McNairy and Taran Killam) offer him a two-week job as a musician, but they drug Northup and he wakes up in chains, about to be sold into slavery.
Northup is shipped to New Orleans,
and is renamed "Platt", the identity of a runaway slave from Georgia.
Beaten repeatedly, he is ultimately sold by upscale, unrepentantly
callous ("My sentimentality stretches the length of a coin")
slave-trader Theophilus Freeman (Paul Giamatti) to plantation owner William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch).
Northup manages to stay on good terms with Ford, a relatively
benevolent master. Northup engineers a waterway for transporting logs
swiftly and cost-effectively downstream, and Ford presents him with a
violin in gratitude. Racist carpenter John Tibeats (Paul Dano) resents Northup, and begins verbally harassing him.
The tensions between Tibeats and Northup escalate; Tibeats attacks
Northup, and Northup fights back. In retaliation, Tibeats and his
friends attempt to lynch
Northup, but are driven away by the plantation's foreman who leaves
Northup to suffer in the noose. Northup is eventually cut down by Ford
and he later wakes up on the floor of Ford's house, being protected from
Tibeats and his friends by Ford with a gun. Ford explains that in order
to save Northup's life he must be sold to Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender).
Northup attempts to reason with Ford, explaining that he is actually a
free man. Ford states that he "cannot hear this" and responds "he has a
debt to pay" on Northup's purchase price.
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