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Black man Solomon Northup lives as a free man Saratoga. New York with his wife and two children, he earning a living as violinist. On what he believes will be an out of town music gig, he is instead drugged and sold into slavery in the deep south under the name Platt as that is for who the slave trader has papers. Initially incredidulous to his plight, he decides that cooparation is the best way to survive.