"Clemens: If you want to survive, do and say as little as possible. Tell no one who you really are and tell no one that you can read and write. Unless you want to be a dead nigger."
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12 Years a Slave (film)
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 film about Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free black man who was kidnapped in [[w:Slavery in the District of Columbia|Washin
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