[Updated 11:31 AM]
So the last post on differences between the book and the movie discussed the fact that Anne Northrup was miscast as a "dark skinned" black woman (not going to get into that), when by Solomon's description she was far lighter than that. This next issue discusses his children:
At this time we were the parents of three children— Elizabeth, Margaret, and Alonzo. Elizabeth, the
eldest, was in her tenth year; Margaret was two years younger, and little Alonzo had just passed his fifth birth-day. They filled our house with gladness. Their young voices were music in our ears. Many an airy castle did their mother and myself build for the little innocents. When not at labor I was always walking with them, clad in their best attire, through the streets and groves of Saratoga. Their presence was my delight; and I clasped them to my bosom with as warm and tender love as if their clouded skins had been as white as snow.[My emphasis]
"As if their
clouded skins had been 'white as snow' "
As far as the movie is concerned this makes the entire casting of Solomon's family
completely false.
The above is TOTALLY not what the Northrop family could have looked like if we go by what was written in Solomon's biography.
Second thing is the clear adoration of things white by a soon to be abolitionist. I have had a critical opinion of black abolitionists for being no less "white supremacist" than the people they were agitating against.
Here's another fine example:
Mary, a tall, lithe girl, of a most jetty black, was listless and apparently indifferent. Like many of the class, she scarcely knew there was such a word as freedom. Brought up in the ignorance of a brute, she possessed but little more than a brute's intelligence. She was one of those, and there are very many, who fear nothing but their master's lash, and know no further duty than to obey his voice
Did Solomon call this black woman a "brute" with little more than "a brute's intelligence"?
After getting his ass beat to the point where he was willing to deny he was a "free" man from New York. His ONE and ONLY time having his ass beat and being removed from his normal life, Solomon has such
unkind words to speak of a person who likely has only known captivity, non-schooling? Seriously?
