Question: What happened to Patsey?
raywest
7th Aug 2020
12 Years a Slave (2013)
2nd Mar 2014
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Question: Why did all of the slaves have such beautiful teeth? The elderly woman slave who sang had a perfect set of white teeth. I can't imagine that slave owners took their "property" to the dentist on a regular basis. And how good was the dental work in the mid 1800's anyway?
Answer: Few slaves would have had healthy, straight white teeth or had access to professional dental care, which was not very advanced at that time and it was painful. This is a detail the filmmakers either deliberately chose to ignore or were careless in how they depicted the characters' conditions.
Answer: It's not specified. She recovered from the beating and presumably lived as a slave either until the end of the Civil War or until her death.
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