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.
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- Scene 158
As a wagon carries enslaved women away, Solomon moves toward Anna but cannot stop her departure; she looks back at him as the wagon disappears.
- Scene 159
Alone by the fire, Solomon burns a flower-shaped pattern into his forearm, marking the memory of the stained-glass gift from his daughter.
- Scene 160
Turner questions Solomon about his background and skills, then promotes him to driver in the sugar house and offers him paid fiddle work.
- Scene 161
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