12 Years a Slave

Last week I went to the theater again, the first time in awhile because there have been no movies to peak my interest. 12 Years a Slave is an exception and I'm glad I saw it! It is the best or most realistic presentation of the daily life of a slave I have seen and a powerful true story of a free black man in New York being kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. He wrote a book about it in 1853 after he managed to get out of slavery. It was a best seller before the Civil War! It does not make me proud of my white southern roots.