Bonus Paper

Watch the film 12 Years A Slave.  It is a remarkable and quite stunning picture of slavery and one man's attempt to escape that fate.  Then listen to this podcast in which an historian critiques the film:  http://www.npr.org/2013/10/24/240491318/historian-says-12-years-is-a-story-the-nation-must-remember .  You then must write a 2-page paper that discusses the following questions:  What doe this film tell you about slavery?  How is this history different from what you read in textbooks or have learned about slavery through American culture in general?  In what ways is a historical picture like this useful and in what ways is it problematic?  The due date for this paper is the date of our mid-term.