If not officially, then certainly in spirit: He was born into

Alec Turner was the real life inspiration for Django Unchained. If not officially, then certainly in spirit: He was born into slavery on the Gouldin tobacco plantation in Port Royal, Virginia in 1845. The plantation owner’s granddaughter made the stupid mistake of being a decent person in the southern half of America during the mid 1800s: She supposedly taught 5 year old Alec how to read and write in secret.