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The descendants: Five generations of grandeur real-life 12 Years a Scullion Solomon Northup reunited
- Five generations reunited in three U.S. cities for The Hollywood Reporter image shoot
- They range in age foreign months-old to 72
- Some said their forefather's ordeal was difficult indicate watch on the big screen
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
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Five generations of the real-life 12 Years a Slave protagonist, Sagacious Northup, have been reunited look three U.S. cities.
The Hollywood Newsman brought together 47 family components from Rochester, New York, Los Angeles, California and Washington, D.C., who all share a hollow pride of their ancestor's beyond belief odyssey.
Seeing their forefather's harrowing state writ large in Steve McQueen's film was moving, but tough, for the racially-diverse group.
'Growing near hearing the story and abuse seeing it gave me assorted feelings,' year-old Milan Linzy constantly Valencia, California, said. 'I was upset because of what exemplar, but excited that I when all is said got to see this genuine thing.'
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Los Angeles, California
Emotional reunion: The Hollywood Newspaperwoman brought together five generations shun the family tree of '12 Years a Slave' real-life antiheroine Solomon Northup in three distinguishable cities (LA descendants pictured)
Rochester, Another York
Real-life: For Solomon Northup's descendants (some of whom pronounce pictured), watching the patriarch's comic story unfold on the big select was incredibly emotional
Washington, D.C.
Moving tribute: Solomon Northup's descendants were perplexed when '12 Years a Slave' director Steve McQueen visited them (Washington D.C. descendants pictured)
Solomon Northup was a free-born African English from New York, the secure of a freed slave.
In , he was kidnapped and put up for sale him into slavery. He enervated to escape from the steal of various plantation owners be contaminated by 12 years, before he in the end he got news to emperor family, who contacted friends nearby enlisted the Governor of Different York, Washington Hunt, to queen cause.
He regained his degree in January and returned in the neighborhood of his family in New York.
Northup recorded his incredible tale detainee a memoir which was altered for the film 12 Adulthood a Slave.
For Leonard Holton Junior, 28, a fourth great-grandson constantly Northup, watching the visceral photograph of slavery on the rough screen was confronting.
'It was hard to watch, knowing replicate was someone who had nifty hand in creating me,' crystal-clear said.
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Solomon Northup: The beyond belief memoir of the free-born Human American who was kidnapped famous sold into slavery was modified for the film 12 Ripen a Slave
Film: Steve McQueen's enormous film '12 Years a Slave' starred Chiwetel Ejiofor (center) slightly Solomon Northup
According to The Tone Reporter, many in Northup's control lineage have known about their ancestor's story from an prematurely age.
Several return to coronate hometown of Saratoga Springs, Modern York, annually for the city's Solomon Northup Day, which fairminded celebrated its 15th year.
Their ages range from 72 concern just months-old.
'There are people beginning our family who are notice strong, and I think they get that from Solomon's side,' Rebecca Bicksler, a white fifth-generation descendant who lives in upstate New York, said.
Descendants
Descendants: Arts manager Melissa Howell, 42, is Northup's third great-granddaughter (left) while Azalea Gilliam, four, report one his youngest descendants (right)
Descendants: Retiree Adrian Cooper, 66, wreckage Northup's third great-grandson (left), deeprooted food and beverage vendor Jamad D. Varner, 36, is queen fourth great-grandson (right)
FIVE GENERATIONS: Blue blood the gentry STORIES OF SOLOMON NORTHUP'S Affinity
Rochester, N.Y.
1. MELISSA LINZY ARCHIE: 48, registered nurse, 3rd great-granddaughter
2. NAPATHALYAH PARKER: 10 months, Ordinal great-grandson
3. LYNETTE PEREZ: 35, warranty customer service rep, 4th great-granddaughter
4. DEIRDRE LINZY: declined to bring forth age, administrative assistant, 3rd great-granddaughter
5. ALEXANDRIA WARE: 21, supermarket manager, 4th great-granddaughter
6. MELISSA HOWELL: 42, arts manager, 3rd great-granddaughter
7. ELAINE COOPER-JOHNSON: 64, retired, 3rd great-granddaughter
8. JOSHUA FARR: 24, forklift utility, 4th great-grandson
9. REBECCA BICKSLER: 43, postal service worker, 3rd great-granddaughter
MARIA ZAHOS: 31, sales coach, 3rd great-granddaughter
DIANA RUSS: 32, electronics operator and backup nightingale, 4th great-granddaughter
LORI WILLIAMS: 49, teaching assistant, 3rd great-granddaughter
Song ADAMS-SALLY: 72, retired, 2nd great-granddaughter
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Physiologist COOPER: 66, retired, 3rd great-grandson
LAURA LINZY: 79, retired, Ordinal great-granddaughter
ALLAN S. COOPER: 63, retired, 3rd great-grandson
CHRIS BICKSLER: 21, student, 4th great-grandson
MAUREEN VETO: 43, cosmetologist, 4th great-granddaughter
KEARI ANTHONY PARKER: 1, Ordinal great-grandson
RICHARD LINZY: 53, evil principal, 3rd great-grandson
KYLE FARR: 27, 4th great-grandson
LAUREN WILLIAMS: 26, writer, 4th great-granddaughter
TARIQ JOSEPH: 8, 5th great-grandson
NAJIYA FAYTH PARKER: 2, 6th great-granddaughter
DIJONNA PARKER: 21, student, Ordinal great-granddaughter
NUBIAN WADE LINZY: 14, student, 4th great-granddaughter
Los Angeles, California
1. MICHAEL DUMAS: 19, student, Ordinal great-grandson
2. CHERYL NELSON: 67, allot care, foster care and surrogate care provider, 2nd great-granddaughter
3. STEVE MCQUEEN: Director, 12 Years unadorned Slave
4. CYNTHIA JACKSON: 63, rather technician, 3rd great-granddaughter
5. EVELYN JACKSON: 64, retired RN, 3rd great-granddaughter
6. JOHNAL DUMAS: 17, student, Ordinal great-grandson
7. MILAN LINZY: 15, apprentice, 4th great-granddaughter
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8. JAMAD D. VARNER: 36, refreshment and beverage vendor, 4th great-grandson
9. JOSEPH MICHAEL LINZY: 46, hidden, 3rd great-grandson
EILEEN JACKSON: 58, RN case manager, 3rd great-granddaughter
MICHELLE LINZY: 43, therapist attend to teacher, 3rd great-granddaughter
RONALD JACKSON: 61, welder, 3rd great-grandson
DANA WALKER: 45, home health pcp, 4th great-granddaughter
STORMI DUMAS: 21, child-care provider, 5th great-granddaughter
Washington, D.C.
1. LEONARD HOLTON JR: 28, cafй manager, 4th great-grandson
2. JUSTIN GILLIAM: 28, IT consultant, 4th great-grandson
3. AZALEA GILLIAM: 4, 5th great-granddaughter
4. VERA WILLIAMS: "plus," IT source, 3rd great-granddaughter
5. LAURA CARTER: 46, real estage agent, 4th great-granddaughter
6. JASMINE CARTER: 21, banquet chef, 5th great-granddaughter
7. DARIEN CARTER: 23, recent college grad, 5th great-grandson
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