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

Dr. Carr drives Solomon, Eliza, Clemens, John, and other sick captives in a wagon toward treatment.

Scene 76 of 211 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 48 min into a 2:22 film

The story so farBefore scene 76

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.
Just before
Scene 73
Buyers inspect the captives; when a man wants Randall alone, Eliza begs to keep her family together, but Freeman separates the crying boy from his mother.
Scene 74
The captives moan through the night after Randall’s sale; Freeman and Bob try to silence them, while Solomon insists they need a doctor.
Scene 75
Doctor Carr dismisses Clemens’s symptoms as a fever until Solomon identifies smallpox from the disease aboard the ship.
Scene 76
This scene

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Solomon, Eliza, Clemens Ray, John and a few more sickly slaves are being driven in a wagon by Dr. Carr.