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Solomon Northup's Odyssey

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NR 1984 · 1h 55m
Drama, TV Movie
Starring Avery Brooks · Rhetta Greene · Mason Adams
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A free Black man from New York is tricked, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in the South, where he endures twelve years of brutal servitude before finding a way to contact his family and secure his freedom.

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Director
Gordon Parks
Producers
Preston L. Holmes, Yanna Kroyt Brandt, Shep Morgan
Music
Gordon Parks
Studio
The Fremantle Corporation, Past America
Keywords
inhumanity slavery freedom based on true story slave trade fiddler sold into slavery slave labor escape from slavery african american history 1840s american history kidnapped master-slave relationship antebellum south
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A
Avery Brooks
Solomon Northup
R
Rhetta Greene
Jenny
M
Mason Adams
Ford
K
Kent Broadhurst
Bass
L
Lee Bryant
Mrs. Epps
C
Charles Darden
Robert
T
Tony Dreyspool
Senator Soule
A
Art Evans
Walton
J
J. Don Ferguson
Freeman
T
Tanzia Franks
Elizabeth
J
Janet League
Eliza
D
Danny Nelson
Chapin
R
Ralph Pace
Birch
P
Petronia Paley
Anne Northup
R
Randal Patrick
Sailor
J
J.C. Quinn
Tibeats
J
John Saxon
Epps
J
Joe Seneca
Noah
M
Michael Tolan
Henry Northup
D
Don Devendorf
Plantation Owner (uncredited)

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