12 Years a Slave · written by John Ridley and Steve McQueen · 2013

The Chickasaws share roasted deer and a pipe with the workers, then play and dance; Solomon is drawn to their fiddle music before leaving the gathering.

Scene 103 of 211 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

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Begins 1:01 into a 2:22 film

The story so farBefore scene 103

After being kidnapped from New York and sold into slavery, Solomon Northup uses his skills and carefully placed trust to survive and seek a way back to his family.

Scenes 1–29
Solomon lives freely in Saratoga as a husband, father, worker, and musician.
Scenes 30–65
Kidnapped and held under the imposed name Platt, Solomon must preserve his life and identity.
Scene 86
Ford takes Solomon, Harry, and Eliza from Freeman; Eliza is dragged away from Emily, committing Solomon to plantation life and its family separations.
Scene 87
Ford brings Solomon and the other captives into plantation life; Solomon must survive within a system that denies his identity.
Just before
Scene 100
Tibeats takes Eliza away in a cart; Mistress Ford tells the remaining workers that the separation is for the best because Eliza’s grief disrupts her work.
Scene 101
Solomon and the enslaved men continue cutting timber in the woods.
Scene 102
On the road to the mill, Walton’s wagon stops for a group of Chickasaw travelers; the two groups regard one another across the road.
Scene 103
This scene

103EXT. FIELD - LATER

The groups of slaves and Chickasaws are now intermingled. They "break bread" - actually they work on the carcass of the deer which is now roasting over a large fire. As well the group share a smoke on a pipe.

One of the Chickasaws is playing a tune on an "INDIAN FIDDLE." The Chickasaws perform a customary dance; trotting after each other, and giving utterance to a guttural, sing-song noise.

The slaves enjoy the respite from work, Solomon particularly taken by the music...if not entirely enthralled by it.

After a bit, Solomon rights himself and heads from the group.