12 Years a Slave Study Guide

Armsby

He told Northup's master Epps about the letter.

Northup lied and said Armsby made it up.

<p>'Spare the rod, spoil the child'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He said he would like for O'Niel to buy him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Epps whips Northup.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Uncle Abram</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mistress Epps</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She sewed up the wound.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Harriet Beecher Stowe</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>1853</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>New York</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Northup traces his ancestry on his paternal side to slaves from Rhode Island</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mintus Northup</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Henry B. Northup</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Northup's father was freed in his owner's will</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Northup marries Anne Hampton; she has a job as a cook</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The fact that he can swim proves he is free because slaves were never taught how to swim because that would make it easier to escape</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Northup went to Canada while working in the rafting business.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Northup had three children; Elizabeth, 10, Margaret, 8, and Alonzo, 5.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He can play the violin</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>1841</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Two men named Brown and Hamilton kidnapped Northup; Northup went with them because they said they were from a circus and they offered him a job in the circus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Northup didn't leave a letter to his wife about where he was going because he thought that, since she was also on a trip away from home, he would be back before she got back and she'd never know he went.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Brown and Hamilton told Northup to get free papers before they left New York.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>While in Washington DC, Northup saw the funeral of General Harrison.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They kidnapped him by drugging him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He is in shackles in Williams Slave Pen.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>James Burch is the slave trader that owns Northup for the time being until he sells him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Northup is whipped because he keeps saying that he is free, and although Burch knows that, Burch doesn't want Northup to tell people that.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Eliza is another slave that was brought to Williams Slave Pen; her children are Randall and Emily.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The difference between what appears to be true and what actually is true.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The irony about Washington DC is that it is the capital of a country whose laws are based on people's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, yet there is a slave pen there in which nobody is free.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>At the second slave pen Northup meets Robert; they are both free men who were kidnapped into slavery.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are confidants to each other.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Orleans</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Virginia</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tobacco</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He carves their initials onto their tin cups; this is important because not only would that then mean they owned the cups, which is important because they owned almost nothing (not even themselves), but also it had their real names on it not the names given to them as slave names.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He is arrested but is not found guilty.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Arthur is another slave who Northup meets in Freeman's Slave Pen; he, like Northup and Robert, was kidnapped and put into the slave pen.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Steward</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are confidants to each other.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Northup and Arthur plan to take over the ship by killing the captain; they include Robert in their plans.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The overturned boat is useful because it is a very good hiding place, which would be helpful in their plan to take over the ship.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Robert gets small pox and dies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>John Manning is a sailor; he agrees to send a letter to Northup's family for Northup.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Another fact that makes him more trustworthy is the fact that he is from Canada, which means he does not like slavery.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The letter is an image because it shows Northup's one real chance to gain back his freedom, and how he is always looking for a way to write and get a letter sent to his family.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Arthur's family comes to rescue him, because they found out where he was.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Northup's second slave name is Platt; Northup's name must be changed because normal slaves did not have last names.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A buyer checks slaves by looking in the slaves' mouths, checking their body to make sure it was strong, and other things to see how healthy the slave was.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It shows that the slave has been whipped a lot which usually means they aren't obedient.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Randall is bought by someone and is therefore separated from his mother.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Almost all of them catch small pox.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>1,000</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She is sad because Emily is her daughter and she has already been separated from her son, so she doesn't want to be separated from her daughter too.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Theophilus Freeman doesn't sell Emily because he thinks that when she is older she could be sold for a lot of money because of her beauty.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The horrors of slavery because families were split apart.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He says she is a smart, strong woman but that after losing Emily she was devastated.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Northup's master is William Ford; he pays 1,000 dollars for Northup.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ford was a preacher; he also owned a mill.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Northup says that his first master was an extremely nice slave owner, and that since he treated his slaves nicely, they worked better.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Northup says the nicer you treat your slave the more work you'll get out of them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He builds a raft that allows wood to be transported quicker and cheaper.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are mad at Ford for allowing his slaves to have Bibles because that encourages the slaves to try to read it, which means they'll try to read, and also it would be another thing that they'd own.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ford reads the Bible to his slaves to give them hope that once they die they'll go to a better place.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Northup because he is good at almost everything.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He describes him as a short-tempered man who is the opposite of Ford in almost every way.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ford is in debt to Tibeats, so he has to partially sell some of his slaves to Tibeats to pay that debt.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chapin</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He gets into a fight with Tibeats over the nails Northup brought, and overpowers Tibeats and whips Tibeats.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They begin to tie him up and hang him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chapin defends Platt because he does not like Tibeats and he also reminds Tibeats that Ford has ownership of Northup legally so that would make Tibeats have to pay for Northup.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He doesn't take off the ropes because he doesn't want to go against Tibeats anymore and he wants Ford to see what Tibeats did.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chapin is a foil to Tibeats because he is nice to slaves.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ford tells Northup to sleep in the main house because then if Tibeats killed Northup, Ford could testify against Tibeats in court, whereas the other slaves couldn't testify against a white man in court.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No slaves could testify against Tibeats in court because there was a law that prohibited slaves/blacks from being able to testify in court against a white man.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tanner is related to Ford because Ford's wife is Tanner's sister.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ford and Tanner are foils because they use the Bible in different ways; Ford uses it to give his slaves hope, and Tanner uses it to justify the whipping of his slaves.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tanner tells Northup to put the other slaves into the stocks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tibeats tries again to kill Northup; only this time he attacks Northup with many things including an axe.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That is a biblical allusion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The difference between Northup and many other slaves is he can swim, which throws the dogs off of his scent and therefore they cannot track him anymore.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He walks back and even outsmarts another plantation owner into telling him which way Ford's plantation was.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Northup tends to the garden while he is healing/resting.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tibeats temporarily sells Northup to Mr. Eldret.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Slaves without a pass can be arrested or whipped severely.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Eliza will grow old and eventually will be practically whipped to death by her last master.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Northup's next owner is Mr. Epps.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Epps is different from Ford because he is very cruel to his slaves.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Epps has a bad habit of drinking a lot; when he is drunk, he either makes his slaves dance or whips them just for the fun of it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>200 lbs</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Patsey</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Picking cotton</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>25-small offense, 50-average offense, 100-severe offense, 150-200-for being lazy, 500-attempting to run away.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>10 years</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Patsey was whipped so much because Mistress Epps did not like the fact that her husband had a sexual relationship with Patsey and so to make up for it she had her husband whip Patsey every time she found out.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A 'guinea ******' is a person who is from Guinea, Africa; Patsey is from there and she is proud of that because it means she isn't from a long line of slaves in the South.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mrs. Epps is jealous of Patsey because her husband has a sexual relationship with Patsey.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Northup gets food by setting up a trap to trap his food; he eats fish a lot. This develops the theme of survival and the ability to adapt because Northup has to adapt to getting his own food and he does.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Must be cruel, brutal, and heartless.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>While being a driver, Northup pleases both Epps and the other slaves by perfecting a technique of whipping where he isn't actually whipping the slaves but he gets close enough that when Epps looks, he thinks Northup is whipping the others a lot.</p> Signup and view all the answers