Thread:Queen Misery/@comment-24859393-20171016013533/@comment-2059440-20180303073030

forgive EXTREMELY late response.. not shown on-screen but by his very being as a drunken, abusvive slave-owner outright said to be a " breaker" he is a murderer.. a breaker was a person known to torture and kill slaves, the most brutal of all slave-owners.. there's no way Edwin would of earned that name without killing many slaves.. don't forget that slaves were murdered for small offenses back then, especially by men like Edwin.

the only reason he didn't murder Northup is because Northup was so brave and clever in defying him, thus the twisted "breaker "logic in Epps made him determined to keep Northup alive so he could break his spirit - he even admited that he admired Northup's cleverness.. yet despised him for his skin.

Epps is definitely a murderer, he simply couldn't of gained his position of power without being one in that setting.