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 53
Solomon cleans the galley and studies Robert’s confident knife work as the captives cook.
- Scene 54
Solomon empties the galley’s waste over the side of the ship.
- Scene 55
In the crowded hold, Arthur recounts his kidnapping and joins Solomon’s plan to seize the ship and sail north, but they debate the risks and who else might join.
- Scene 56
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