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.
- Scene 30
Solomon is drugged and abducted in New York, abruptly ending his free life and beginning his captivity.
- Scene 31
After Solomon is drugged and abducted in scene 30, he wakes in chains and discovers that he has been stolen from his free life.
- Just before
- Scene 35
Solomon meets fellow captives Clemens and John and the child Randall in the yard; Randall asks for his mother, but Radburn drives him away.
- Scene 36
Radburn brings Solomon a dirty shirt and takes the shirt his wife gave him; Solomon reluctantly changes, thanks him, then refuses the food.
- Scene 37
Forced to wash naked with the other captives, Solomon comforts the crying Randall by promising his mother will come.
- Scene 38
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