![]() ![]() Then after she’s climaxed, she’s back where she was. ![]() McQueen has said of the scene: “I just wanted a bit of tenderness-the idea of this woman reaching out for sexual healing in a way, to quote Marvin Gaye. She grabs his hand and uses it to bring herself to orgasm. The movie prefaces its scenes of Northup in New York with a flash-forward that is McQueen and Ridley’s invention: Solomon, while enslaved, turns to find an unidentified woman in bed with him. His wife and children were away when he was offered an unusually profitable gig from his eventual kidnappers, who called themselves Hamilton and Brown. As in the movie, he was married to Anne Hampton, who was of mixed race, and they had three children-Elizabeth, Margaret, and Alonzo. Solomon was born a free man and received an unusually good education for a black man of his time, eventually coming to work as a violinist and a carpenter. Solomon Northup was the son of Mintus Northup, who was a slave in Rhode Island and New York until his master freed him in his will. ![]()
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