Without an understanding of this history, we descend into fantasies about slavery in the United States. Lots of things are under the ground. Most of people can’t see it if we don’t dig it deeply. From ancient to now, many things are covered by clouds. We are cheating us, we are cheating this world too. In the history, there aren’t everything that we can hundred percent trust, Such as slavery. Black people got freedom at the end of civil war, but things are not simple as we looked. Are them totally free? No, I’m certainly know it’s not. Racial is not easy to eliminate. Some people won’t depend on the pieces papers to change themselves. Changing world is hard, changing people is harder. Some government and some people still keep slavery by their deception. What is real about slavery? What are the things under the ground? Slavery is not easy to end. We need time to change people.
Solomon Northup was born a free man Minerva, New York, in 1808. He married with Anne Hampton, a woman of mixed ancestry, on Christmas Day, 1829, they had three children together. Solomon Northup was a violin player in his town. But as a musician, his income was too instable. He can’t afford his family a great life. He struggle in this world. One day, two man offered Northup generous wages to join a traveling musical show. For his family, Northup accepted their invite. But soon after he accepted, they drugged him and sold him into slavery. There was no more slavery in the law and social, only stand on the surface of this society. Some of the people were still working illegally, they use their deception to cheat black people and sold them to slavery. As the one of victim of slavery, Solomon Northup was treated inhumanly. His life changed because of their deception. At that time, a lot of black people be cheated and sold as slave, even they are freedman, even the law says black people are free. Some white people still kept slavery, avoid laws.
There is not every laws are fair to black...