Solomon Northup's Odyssey

Directed by Gordon Parks

Written by Solomon Northup, Lou Potter, Samm-Art Williams, Rudy Gray

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.

Cast

Avery Brooks

Solomon Northup

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Rhetta Greene

Jenny

Mason Adams

Ford

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Emory Beasley

Alonzo

Kent Broadhurst

Bass

Lee Bryant

Mrs. Epps

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Charles Darden

Robert

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Tony Dreyspool

Senator Soule

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Anthony Edenfield

Ned

Art Evans

Walton

J. Don Ferguson

Freeman

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Ralph Flanders

Captain