However, I'm not sure I'll be able to watch it. Reading Northrup's account of his kidnapping from New York to be sold finally to a Louisianan plantation, was nearly unbearable. Reading it was that agonizing. Living it a million times worse.
Cast list:
Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup
Michael Fassbender as Edwin Epps, a cruel plantation owner
Benedict Cumberbatch as William Ford, a Baptist preacher and a slave owner
Paul Dano as John Tibeats
Paul Giamatti as Theophilus Freeman
Lupita Nyong'o as Patsey, a slave on the Epps plantation
Brad Pitt as Samuel Bass, a Canadian carpenter
Alfre Woodard as Mistress Harriet Shaw
Sarah Paulson as Mistress Epps, wife of Edwin Epps
Quvenzhané Wallis as Margaret Northup, Solomon Northup's daughter
Dwight Henry as Uncle Abram
Adepero Oduye as Eliza
Michael K. Williams as Robert
Garret Dillahunt as Armsby
Ruth Negga as Celeste
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