12 years a slave took place in upstate new york.
12 years a slave took place in upstate new york.
where did 12 years a slave take place?
upstate new york
"12 years a slave" premiered at the telluride film festival on august 30, 2013; it was later screened at the 2013 toronto international film festival on september 6, the new york film festival on october 8, the new orleans film festival on october 10, and the philadelphia film festival on october 19. on november 15, 2011, summit entertainment announced it had secured a deal to distribute "12 years a slave" to international markets. in april 2012, a few weeks before principal photography, new regency productions agreed to co-finance the film. because of a distribution pact between 20th century fox and new regency, fox searchlight pictures acquired the film's united states distribution rights. however, instead of paying for the distribution rights, fox searchlight made a deal in which it would share box-office proceeds with the financiers of the independently financed film. "12 years a slave" was commercially released on , 2013 in the united states for a limited release of 19 theaters, with a wide release in subsequent weeks. the film was initially scheduled to be released in late december 2013, but "some exuberant test screenings" led to the decision to move up the release date. the film was distributed by entertainment one in the united kingdom.
12 years a slave (film)
bullet::::- code of the nesilim: some of the laws were: "if anyone cause a free woman to miscarry, if it be the tenth month, he shall give ten half-shekels of silver, if it be the fifth month, he shall give five half-shekels of silver", "if anyone cause a female slave to miscarry, if it be the tenth month, he shall give five half-shekels of silver", "if a free man and a female slave be fond of each other and come together and he take her for his wife and they set up house and get children, and afterward they either become hostile or come to close quarters, and they divide the house between them, the man shall take the children, only one child shall the woman take", "if a slave take a woman as his wife, their case is the same. the majority of the children to the wife and one child to the slave", "if a slave take a female slave their case is the same. the majority of children to the female slave and one child to the slave", "if a slave convey the bride price to a free son and take him as husband for his daughter, nobody dare surrender him to slavery", "if a man have intercourse with his own mother, it is a capital crime, he shall die", "if a man have intercourse with a daughter, it is a capital crime, he shall die", "if a man and a woman come willingly, as men and women, and have intercourse, there shall be no punishment. and if a man have intercourse with his stepmother, there shall be no punishment; except if his father is living, it is a capital crime, the son shall die", "if a free man picks up now this woman, now that one, now in this country, then in that country, there shall be no punishment if they came together sexually willingly", "if the husband of a woman die, his wife may take her husband's patrimony", "if a free man pick up female slaves, now one, now another, there is no punishment for intercourse. if brothers sleep with a free woman, together, or one after the other, there is no punishment. if father and son sleep with a female slave or harlot, together, or one after the other, there is no punishment", "if a man sleep with the wife of his brother, while his brother is living, it is a capital crime, he shall die. if a man have taken a free woman, then have intercourse also with her daughter, it is a capital crime, he shall die. if he have taken her daughter, then have intercourse with her mother or her sister, it is a capital crime, he shall die", "if a man rape a woman in the mountain, it is the man's wrong, he shall die. but if he rape her in the house, it is the woman's fault, the woman shall die. if the husband find them and then kill them, there is no punishing the husband", and "if any man have intercourse with a foreign woman and pick up this one, now that one, there is no punishment."
timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) before the 19th century