Hammond minister finds religious paralells in “12 Years a Slave”

Director Steve McQueen’s Academy Award-nominated film, “12 Years a Slave” takes the viewer to an intimate place where slavery is lashed at and dehumanized just as the slaves were in pre-Civil War North America. Stanley N. Helton, Minister of the Word at First Christian Church of Hammond, was intrigued by the adapted screen play since he had read the book from which it was based, “12 Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon