Yet Patsey’s haunting question, “What’ll become of me?”, remains unanswered. Last year's big-screen adaptation of his narrative, 12 Years a Slave, is currently nominated for nine Academy Awards-including a best supporting actress nod for the woman who plays Patsey, Lupita Nyong’o. One hundred sixty-one years later, Northup's account of his kidnapping and time as a slave on Edwin Epps's Louisiana plantation has been authenticated by scholars with annotated versions of Northup’s book, supplemental textbooks and articles detailing his life. When a free black man named Solomon Northup was rescued from 12 years of bondage in January of 1853, a fellow slave, a young woman named Patsey, called after him tearfully.
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