LINES OF THE DAY

". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15

". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Solomon Northup: Twelve Years A Slave

A trailer has been released  for the film made from Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana (1853), by Solomon Northup as told to David Wilson.  Finally!  I've been looking forward to this for such a long time.

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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