Plot
This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born free man who works as a carpenter and is also a part time musician. One day he is approached by some men who want him to play for them. However, that is not their intention; they have kidnapped him and sold him into slavery. Now he has to endure the hardships that he has been spared because of his status as a free man. And his family who don't know what happened to him is searching for him but where do they go? And Solomon also wishes to let them know where he is so that they could get him but unfortunately no one believes his story or is willing to help him.
Trailer
Cast
Avery Brooks
Solomon Northup
Rhetta Greene
Jenny
Mason Adams
Ford
Emory Beasley
Alonzo
Kent Broadhurst
Bass
Lee Bryant
Mrs. Epps
Charles Darden
Robert
Tony Dreyspool
Senator Soule
Anthony Edenfield
Ned
Art Evans
Walton
J. Don Ferguson
Freeman
Ralph Flanders
Captain
Tanzia Franks
Elizabeth
Harry George
Sheriff
Ann Pearl Gray
Kelsey
Janet League
Eliza
Charles McGhee
Luke
Jay McMillan
Harry
Danny Nelson
Chapin
John D. Northup
Sherrill
Ralph Pace
Birch
Petronia Paley
Anne Northup
Randal Patrick
Sailor
J.C. Quinn
Tibeats
John Saxon
Epps
Gerhard Schwisow
Manning
Joe Seneca
Noah
Michael Tolan
Henry Northup
Willie Woods
Shad
David Keith Anderson
Alonzo (uncredited)
Don Devendorf
Plantation Owner (uncredited)
Robert Oliveri
Boy (uncredited)