12 Years A Slave Blog #3

Violence played a vicious role throughout the slave society. The ways that slaves are led to violence are by being tortured and/or killed by white slave owners. The forms of violence are being lashed, being lynched, being shot, etc. In the movie 12 Years a Slave, Solomon as well as Patsey and a few others got lashed by a whip of Master Epps', simply because they didn't either obey his orders or didn't work enough. Epps didn't like Solomon in the first place which set the tone for the rest of the days. No one died from Solomon's group but Pastey was critically hurt after being lashed by Solomon under Master Epps' orders. Having a slave beat another slave was also common back then because owners would be too tired to do so. 

Solomon almost killed by hanging