模仿文本："12 Years a Slave" is an adaptation of the 1853 memoir of Solomon Northup, a free black man living with his family in New York, who was captured and sold into slavery in the south. When he was eventually liberated, Northup described in detail his treatment under various masters. The book became a bestseller in part of the abolitionist debate of the 1850s.

 

译文：电影《为奴十二年》是从所罗门诺瑟普的1853年回忆录改编来的，他本来是一名自由的黑人，曾与他的家人生活在纽约，之后被抓住并作为奴隶被卖到南方。当他终于自由之后，诺瑟普详细讲述了他在各种不同的主人手下的经历。这本回忆录曾成为19世纪50年代废奴主义论题的一本畅销书。