Which of these films is about a violinist who is kidnapped and forced into servitude?
Correct answer: 12 Years a Slave
Suzanne m. Russell
Sadly this type of slavery continues, just better hidden.
Maestro13
Another scary event in our history.
GruffSecretAgent9936
A gene that encourages discrimination?! What nonsense. Perhaps a person named Gene but genetics has little to do with it.
MoodyChef92025
I have a real hard time watching movie like that.It just breaks my heart and makes me mad. Nobody should be treated this way!
Hugo
ZyggyStardust, The slave trade was run by European Christians as well. That's the bitter fact.
Sloane Ranger
ZyggyStardust, The Ottoman Empire did run a large slave trading operation. Certain African nations did collaborate with European slave traders in terms of providing the slaves for shipping. They did NOT run the trade.
As for the US stopping the trade, yes it eventually made the international trade illegal but it continued to operate an internal slave trade which didn't end until the Confederacy was finally defeated in the American Civil War.
Laudy Miss Claudy
ZyggyStardust, And just why should the US and Britain get "credit" for stopping slavery in their own countries when they benefited from it in the first place.
* Seshati *
Hugo, yeah how does that figure huh preaching Christianity yet at the same time believing in segregation & slavery
Player Leuken
Steve McQueen the actor died in 1980. Steve McQueen the movie producer still lives in England.
Juliette
Thank you, Player Leuken, for explaining about 2 Steve McQueens.
At first I was puzzled: Steve McQuen is still around??? How did he manage that???
KD
humans seem to repeat atrocities in every generation since the beginning of time. The African people in Egypt enslaved the Israeli people over 2,000 years ago.
Veronica
Anil Gautam, story was awesome 👍
Veronica
Delma , what year did this happen
ganisgone
GruffSecretAgent9936, what's eugenics then?
Mel
BRITAIN GOT RID OF THE SLAVE TRADE EARLIER THAN THE U. S. SOUTHERNERS ALWAYS HAD REASONS TO JUSTIFY SLAVERY. OF COURSE IT IS MORALLY AND ETHICALLY WRONG FOR PEOPLE TO OWN OTHER PEOPLE.
Carla
CommonFalconer16586, Yes, it’s a heart-breaker.
Delma
what year did this happen
Christmas Joy Girl
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Elma
i will watch it it sawnds good and i rylly rekomend watching the pianist, if you like this film so den you will like the pianist
Tina
Player #29684811, A lot of Irish people were slaves, they built railroads worn the Chinese
Lorraine
Sloane Ranger, and then Jim Crow laws took effect for 80 or 90 years.
Mars
MoodyChef92025, yes!
Jayden
I hate Steve McQueen 😒
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Anil Gautam
story was awesome 👍
Player #49699886
This movie was another look into the evils of slavery and the inhumanity of those who profited from It's exsistance
Player #17548289
Player #20136064, it certainly is! He is an English director and writer who also made ‘hunger’ 2008 and ‘shame’ 2011
Player #20136064
Uninitialized, Gee, I wonder if it could possibly be a different Steve McQueen? Just a thought
Taramaiden
Laudy Miss Claudy, Because otherwise you would still be in chains and raped and beaten daily, underfed, overworked and unpaid. Does that answer your question?