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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
I mean come on, the guy is constantly constantly beaten whipped, tortured all all the time, the girl constantly whipped beaten tortured all the time.

Well, they HAVE to perpetuate the ROOTS "Yo name is Toby, boy!" whipping scenes, don't they? Contrarily, I do remember seeing old photographs of some former slaves who obviously beaten like this. I guess I'd like to see exactly how the movie comported with the actual author's experience and its retelling. Sadly, I probably won't though as I'm not particularly inclined to review either.

13 posted on 02/20/2014 9:54:03 AM PST by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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To: Gaffer
Yes they have photos of slaves with scars - actually if you look it's just one slave, this guy:

There's not many other photos. In fact I would say this is the only one. I'm not saying this kind of stuff didn't go on, but not on the scale they were showing in this movie where EVERY white guy this guy runs into basically wants to beat the sh*t out him like it's some kind of snuff flick.

The thing you have to remember is back then the abolitionists, the REPUBLICANS were trying to end slavery so they were going full out making it look as bad as they possibly could, and they used that book "12 years a slave" by Solomon Northup as another means to end it. I read that book from cover to cover by the way, and the impression I got not long after starting it was a lot of it seemed far fetched as if was written exclusively to use for the anti-slavery agenda which to me was a good thing. What I have a problem with is now the very people who were pro-slavery, namely the DEMOCRATS, have used that book exclusively to foment racial tensions today.

19 posted on 02/20/2014 11:34:36 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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