
In May 1863, during the American Civil War, the Union Army's 110th New York Infantry Regiment freed Patsey from slavery, and her life and fate thereafter was unknown. In 1853, Northup regained his freedom, but Patsey was doomed to another ten years of slavery. It should go without saying that an abusive, rapist slave owner who mistreats those in his service and is notorious. She was portrayed by Sarah Paulson, who also played Nurse Mildred Ratched in Ratched. Mary abuses Patsey in turn out of envy and racism. She is the wife of the main antagonist Edwin Epps, a deranged plantation owner who abuses his slaves, especially Patsey, whom he is obsessed with. The owners of a small store that Solomon used to shop at, and the people he mails to for aid. Mary Epps is the secondary antagonist of 2013 film 12 Years a Slave. Who are the two white men who come to Solomons aid when John and his gang try to lynch and hang him. One man identified with the evil of slavery was Edwin Epps, who once owned this land. Edwin Epps (And John Tibeats)- 12 Years A Slave Fox Searchlight Pictures. How long does Solomon spend as a slave of Edwin Epps Ten years. The film portrayed the brutality of slavery in a historically accurate way by showing the slave owners beating their slaves and treating them terribly. On one occassion, she was stripped naked and severely lashed by Epps after she briefly left the plantation to retrieve soap from a neighbor's house, causing her to wish death upon herself. Descendants of Slave, Owners Meet in Louisiana Novem6:02 PM Greg Flakus. Edwin Epps, in my eyes, is a very abusive master, although beating slaves is the correct thing to do, he tends to take it to an extreme level. Epps' wife Mary Elvira Robert frequently abused Patsey out of jealousy, but Epps said that he would sooner have his wife return to Cheneyville than sell Patsey.

She was frequently raped by Epps, starting in her teenage years, and she was whipped if she resisted. Solomon Northup, (born July 10, 1807, Schroon now Minerva, New York, U.S.died after 1857), American farmer, labourer, and musician whose experience of being kidnapped and sold into slavery was the basis for his book Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued. In 1843, she was sold to Edwin Epps in Bunkie, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, and she was nicknamed the "queen of the fields" for her cotton-picking skills she befriended fellow slave Solomon Northup during his ten years on Epps' plantation. Edwin Epps was born in North Carolina around 1808. Patsey was born into slavery in South Carolina in 1830, the daughter of an enslaved Guinean woman who came to America via Cuba.

Patsey (1830-1863) was an African-American woman who was enslaved by Louisiana slave owner Edwin Epps during the mid-19th century.
