{"id":628,"date":"2014-01-30T11:58:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T11:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/?p=628"},"modified":"2014-07-31T16:41:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T15:41:14","slug":"12-years-a-slave-on-bbc-history-extra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/2014\/01\/30\/12-years-a-slave-on-bbc-history-extra\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Years a Slave on BBC History Extra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Christer Petley, editor of the Slavery and Revolution website, answers questions on slavery and on the new movie, 12 Years a Slave, directed by Steve McQueen and based on the narrative of Solomon Northup.<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"BBC Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/feature\/your-60-second-guide-slavery\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #1b8be0\">Click here<\/span><\/a><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>for the &#8217;60-second guide&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Northup was a free man born in New York in 1808 who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841 before reclaiming his freedom in 1853. Read his story, the basis for the film, here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/fpn\/northup\/northup.html\"><span style=\"color: #1b8be0\">http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/fpn\/northup\/northup.html<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/files\/2014\/01\/BBC-12yrs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-667\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/files\/2014\/01\/BBC-12yrs.jpg\" alt=\"BBC 12yrs\" width=\"623\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/files\/2014\/01\/BBC-12yrs.jpg 623w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/files\/2014\/01\/BBC-12yrs-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/files\/2014\/01\/BBC-12yrs-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Christer Petley, editor of the Slavery and Revolution website, answers questions on slavery and on the new movie, 12 Years a Slave, directed by Steve McQueen and based on the narrative of Solomon Northup.\u00a0Click here\u00a0for the &#8217;60-second guide&#8217;. Northup was a free man born in New York in 1808 who was kidnapped and sold [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22393],"tags":[793322,16101],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-posts","tag-caribbean","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}