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.
Gordon Parks
Director

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
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Anthony Edenfield
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