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.
- Scene 86
Ford takes Solomon, Harry, and Eliza from Freeman; Eliza is dragged away from Emily, committing Solomon to plantation life and its family separations.
- Scene 87
Ford brings Solomon and the other captives into plantation life; Solomon must survive within a system that denies his identity.
- Just before
- Scene 89
Sally explains the plantation’s work and Sabbath routine; a teenage slave runs in, stares at the newcomers, then laughs and leaves.
- Scene 90
Solomon and John join Walton’s gang in the sweltering woods, chopping trees into timber with Sam and Harry.
- Scene 91
The gang loads the cut timber onto a wagon in the heat.
- Scene 92
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