So, out of this musical heritage emerged the blues, what James Cone calls “a secular spiritual”. In the most boisterous outburst of rapturous sentiment, there was ever a tinge of deep melancholy” According to one slave who escaped, Frederick Douglas, the slave songs were “of a plaintive cast, and told a tale of grief and sorrow. They are sorrow songs, they are the wail of people suffering a huge injustice. As you watch, you begin to get a little sense of what the blues are all about. In the film we get a number of scenes where the black slaves, toiling in the cotton fields, begin to sing as they work. James Cone suggests that “the blues is the experience of being black in a white racist society.” Handy said simply, “The blues were conceived in aching hearts”. It’s no wonder that it was out of the experience of slavery and the way of life that followed it in the Southern States for black people, that the blues were born. The truth for most slaves in the ante-bellum South was that there was no way out and life was a misery from birth to death. (download it from Amazon for just over a dollar). The film is based on the eponymous memoir by Northrup from 1873. Everything comes good is the end – and that’s not just a Hollywood spin on things.
As well as the flickering light of hope which sustains the viewer through the inhuman brutality that is depicted. The film is beautifully shot and the actors’ performances, particularly that of Chiwetel Ejiofor, are outstanding.īut the shocking and savage barbarity of slavery is what stands out from the film.
DOWN AT THE CROSSROADS SONG FREE
It tells the true story of Solomon Northup, a musician and businessman who lived in the North as a free man but who was kidnapped and sold into the slave markets of Louisiana.
DOWN AT THE CROSSROADS SONG MOVIE
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave is a very important movie that depicts the brutal horror of slavery in the Southern states of the US before the Civil War.
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