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12 Years a Slave is a 2013 British-American historical drama film, an adaptation of the 1853 autobiography Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. in 1841 and sold into slavery. He worked on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before his release. The first scholarly edition of Northup's memoir, co-edited by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon in 1968, carefully retraced and validated his account, finding it to be remarkably accurate. The film is directed by Steve McQueen and written by John Ridley. Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Solomon Northup. 12 Years a Slave premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2013. The film was given a limited release in the United States on October 18, 2013, with a larger release on November 1, 2013. Despite advertising, Fox Searchlight has not confirmed a nationwide release date.
In 1841, Solomon Northup (Ejiofor) is a free black man living with his wife and children in Saratoga, New York. He makes his living playing the violin. One day he is lured into a lucrative touring gig by a pair of men (Scoot McNairy and Taran Killam). After a night out with the two men, who drugged and sold him into slavery, Northup awakens to find himself chained to the floor, as he is now being transported to a cotton plantation in the American South, where he is purchased as a slave by slave owner William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch) and eventually sold to another plantation run by abusive slave driver Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender). Northup spends 12 years as a Southern slave before his release.