Well, my boy, how yah feel now?

I am Solomon Northup. I am a free man; a resident of Saratoga, New York. The residence also of my wife and children who are equally free. I have papers. You have no right whatsoever to detain me...

Yah not any...

And I promise you - I promise - upon my liberation I will have satisfaction for this wrong.

Resolve this. Produce your papers.

[Solomon searches and finds no papers]

Yah no free man. And yah ain't from Saratoga. Yah from Georgia. Yah ain't a free man. Yah nuthin' but a Georgia runaway. Yah a runaway **** from Georgia.