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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Rhetta Greene

Rhetta Greene appears in American Playhouse: Solomon Northup's Odyssey, the film adaptation of the book by Solomon Northup Twelve Years a Slave, first published in 1853.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
American Playhouse: Solomon Northup's Odyssey. Poster of the 1984 movie and cover of the 1853 book, Twelve Years a Slave
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Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup, 1853
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American Playhouse: Solomon Northup's Odyssey
Gordon Parks, 1984

Solomon Northup’s Odyssey is based on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man in Saratoga, New York who was kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery. Northup was intelligent, skilled in carpentry, and was able to play music. He was enslaved in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before he was released.