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In a review of the film "12 Years a Slave" published by The Guardian and written by Robbie Collin, the historical accuracy and "enumeration of the everyday horrors" of slavery are brought to the audiences attention as he explains why it is "the best film that was yet to be made about American slavery." The historical accuracy is best seen in the minute interactions between Solomon and the slave owners and overseers, such as when the overseer at Ford's plantation attempts and fails to lynch Solomon. And while many things are omitted in a 2 hour documentation of 12 years of insanity, many of the sickening occurrences that were part of the daily life of a slave, such as the brutal work in the sugar plantation fields, and Solomon being forced to accomplice the overseer in torturing his fellow slave patsy, the audience gets a hard hitting personal view of just what life in slavery was like. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/06/03/12-years-a-slave-rev...

"As Lincoln,  Daniel Day-Lewis  is excellent: he has the president's famous height, and his reedy, hushed manner of speaking. Apparently, Lincoln used to drive his colleagues mad with his odd sense of humour and his long stories, just as we see in the film. We also get a much more rounded picture than usual of Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd. She's notorious for being on the far side of sane – she's reputed to have thrown crockery at Lincoln – and for spending pots of money. Sally Field shows her as a much more complex person, who had suffered real loss in the death of their son Willie." In her review Laura Barnett notes how Daniel Day-Lewis made an astounding performance as President Lincoln. Not only matching him in his grand stature, but also perfecting his quiet and pensive mannerisms. Just as Lincoln was known to irritate his compatriots with his outlandish style of jokes humour and lengthy parables Daniel Day-Lewis does so in the screen-play. The movie also p...

In looking through newspapers from the reconstruction era, the racism is apparent and appalling, but what strikes me more is how, in what I had previously thought to be a heavily deprecated economy, the prices of daily goods resemble the prices of today. I also found a paper in Slovenian which listed stock prices and recent news from the Chicago area. I wouldn't have expected to see a Slovenian newspaper due to how most foreign cultures were treated, I would have expected foreigners to have wanted to assimilate into American culture as fast as possible. Paper 1 Paper 2 Reconstruction ended in 1877 when, in order to win the presidential election, he promised to withdraw union troops from the south. And upon his victory, kept true to his promise and withdrew troops. Source