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Solomon Northup, known as "Platt," experiences slave life in Louisiana with a "good master" and a "bad master."

Edwin Epps is a cruel slave-owner who frequently beats slaves for no reason other than to inflict misery. After John Tibeats, Solomon Northup ("Platt...

A mortgage, for the life of Solomon Northup ("Platt") ends-up saving him from death at the hands of a cruel slave-owner called John Tibeats.

The original story of "The Nutcracker," by E.T.A. Hoffman, introduces us to the Nutcracker in Chapter 3 where this interesting wooden creature is call...

Katniss Everdeen survives two Hunger Games; now the rebels demand a price for saving her life from the second. She becomes the Mockingjay, but what do...

After his slave ordeal is over, Solomon Northup brings charges against the people who wrongfully sold him into slavery. Because a black person cannot ...

While helping to build a home for the Epps family, Platt (Solomon Northup) meets a Canadian man called Bass. That meeting will change Platt's life.

With an intermediate stop in Richmond (Virginia), Solomon Northup (now known by his slave-name "Platt") spends time in another slave pen before he boa...

Slave pens, in Washington, are near America's Capitol Building and the White House in 1841.

Henry Northup tells Platt (Solomon Northup) to throw down his sack because his "cotton-picking days are over."

As Marie stays up late, to play with the Nutcracker and her other Christmas gifts, the clock strikes and strange things occur. The Nutcracker comes to...

Edwin Epps orders Platt (Solomon Northup) to beat Patsey, another slave. When Platt defies Epps' wishes, for an even-worse beating, Epps cruelly whip...