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

At Charity Hospital, the arrivals see carpenters making rows of coffins behind the building.

Scene 77 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 77

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 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
Dr. Carr drives Solomon, Eliza, Clemens, John, and other sick captives in a wagon toward treatment.
Scene 77
This scene

77EXT. CHARITY HOSPITAL - LATER

The group arrives to CHARITY HOSPITAL which is built just outside of the city. It is a fairly large, three story structure of white marble.

Around the back of the hospital the group sees COFFINS BEING BUILT AND PREPARED BY CARPENTERS. Dozens and dozens of them. Not exactly a comforting sight.