"12 Years a Slave" restores historic firsthand account

"12 Years a Slave" restores historic firsthand account

By PBS NewsHour
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In depicting American slavery, Hollywood has long left some of the most brutal realities largely unseen. But the filmmakers behind 12 Years a Slave tried not to flinch in showing the full system of human subjugation. Jeffrey Brown talks to screenwriter John Ridley about the challenge of humanizing a dehumanizing institution.