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12 Years a Slave: The Suffering of the Oppressed - Progressive (Isaiah 53)

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In the powerful film *12 Years a Slave*, we meet Solomon Northup, a free Black man living in New York, whose life is shattered when he is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Picture him, once a proud violinist, now forced...

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Isaiah 53

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