In no more than 1500 words (and no less than 1000 words) answer the following questions.
1. How the fact that Solomon was raised and lived as a free man affects his right to freedom? Is there a difference in that right for him and the other slaves? Which ethical theories mentioned in class better describe the behaviour of the main characters in the film?
2. What is the role of Christian religion in the film? How Epps uses religion?
3. American historian R. Palmer opined that the abolition of slavery in the United States without compensation to the former slave owners was an “annihilation of individual property rights without parallel…in the history of the Western world”. What is your opinion in that?

12 Years A Slave and Business Ethics