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

The cabin workers cook their meal while Abram delivers a fervent speech celebrating General Jackson and praying that he rule them.

Scene 130 of 211 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Uncle Abram

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Begins 1:23 into a 2:22 film

The story so farBefore scene 130

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.
Scenes 66–123
He enters plantation life under Ford, passes through Tibeats’s violence and the near-lynching, and is transferred to Epps.
Scene 124
Solomon is transferred to Epps’s plantation and placed among Patsey and the enslaved workers, opening the harsher final plantation phase.
Just before
Scene 127
Epps weighs the cotton and mocks Solomon’s low quota while praising Patsey’s record yield; Phebe and Abram are also pulled from line for falling short.
Scene 128
Epps strips and perfunctorily whips Solomon, Phebe, and Abram for their cotton totals.
Scene 129
After the fieldwork, enslaved people continue their chores feeding animals, washing, and preparing food.
Scene 130
This scene

130INT. MASTER EPPS'S PLANTATION/SLAVE SHACK - NIGHT

A fire is kindled in the cabin. The slaves finally fix their own dinner of corn meal. Corn is ground in a small hand mill. The corn meal is mixed with a little water, placed in the fire and baked. When it is "done brown" the ashes are scraped off. Bacon is fried. The slaves eat.

As they eat, Abram goes on in great length and with much emotion about General Jackson.

UNCLE ABRAM

Hold my words: General Jackson

will forever be immortalized. His

bravery will be handed down to the

last posterity. If ever there be

a stain upon "raw militia," he

done wiped away on the eight of

January. I say da result a that

day's battle is of 'mo importance

to our grand nation than any

occurrence 'fo or since. Great

man. Great man in deed. We all

need pray to Heavenly Father da

General reign over us always.