Create a 1 page essay paper that discusses 12 years a slave.Northup attempted to write a letter home and after few attempt, the letter reached its destination where his friends came to rescue him in J

Create a 1 page essay paper that discusses 12 years a slave.

Northup attempted to write a letter home and after few attempt, the letter reached its destination where his friends came to rescue him in January 1853 and returned to his home in New York.

The story of Solomon Northup still very relates to racial discrimination today where African American are treated differently by police and usually with excessive force compared to whites. Accounts of African American being killed and some of which while arrested beginning from unarmed Trayvon Martin whose assailant was acquitted because he was white to the shooting of Michael Brown by a white officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson who was not indicted. The same thing happened to Eric Garner who was chokehold to death by his arresting officer and again, without any criminal indicted. Slavery may no longer be around but discrimination still exists only in different form where the whites can go scot free when they harm “dangerous” black