The new film from the British director Steve McQueen is an adaptation of the memoirs of Solomon Northup, a freeborn black American family man from upstate New York who was kidnapped, shipped to the South and sold to the owner of a Louisiana plantation in 1841. There have been other films about American slaves, and films that have described or depicted the American slave trade in some way too: not many, but enough high-profile ones, from Gone With the Wind all the way to Mandingo, for the topic not to feel like unmapped territory. (Telegraph.co.uk Review)
Steve McQueen, the well known British director, makes his new film based off of an adaptation of the memoirs of Solomon Northup, a black, American man who was born free in the North, but later kidnapped and sold as a slave in the South in 1841. His movie, however, is not the first film that has been made based in this time period and centered around topics like slavery and slave ownership. For example, Gone with the Wind and Mandingo have also covered issues concerning American slave trade.
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