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(THEME SONG PLAYING)

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NARRATOR: Last on Roots...

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Master made me head trainer today.

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That nice.

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I'm gonna make a name for myself.
Get me some respect.

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I'm gonna pick them birds
until I can buy myself free.

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You are gonna stay here
and fight my chickens.

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It don't matter how much
I saves to buy myself.

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You're my nigger, George.

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Can't you get that
through your thick skull?

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It got through that time.

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-It be the worst sin there is!
-Killing Master Tom Moore?

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That's no more than killing a dog.
Now, move.

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No, damn it, no!

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He's your daddy!

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MR. MOORE: Don't know about you, George,

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but I want to win that money
and be champion.

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The Speckled Red wins,

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I'll set you free.

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Master Moore's Speckled Red
will be the winner!

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(CROWD CHEERING)

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REFEREE: The bird of Sir Eric Russell
is the winner!

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(CROWD CHEERING)

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Perhaps we could resolve your indebtedness

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in some mutually satisfactory fashion.

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England.

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We can call things square
if he can have you over there.

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He says for just a few years, George,
to train somebody else.

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No, I don't want no crying. None of y'all.

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I'm your husband, your pappy,
and I'm telling you, now.

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(CHUCKLES) A few years!
That's no time at all.

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Be back! You'll see.

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Glory hallelujah. He's back.

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-Excuse me, missy.
-What y'all want?

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-Am I near the Harvey plantation?
-(SCOFFS) Nearly there already.

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Do you know the Harvey family?

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Oh, my! Oh, my!

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(GIGGLING)

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What are you giggling at, girl?

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I'm giggling at you, Chicken George!

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My Tom don't talk about nothing
excepting his daddy.

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Tom?

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My son, Tom?

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And my man, Tom.

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Then, you...

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-You my Tom's woman?
-(CHUCKLES)

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I'm called Irene, sir.

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Irene.

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Well then, let's see you.

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(BOTH LAUGHING)

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I see my boy studied me well.

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He picked himself a fine woman.

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Oh, my.

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Well, they told me that
you was a handsome man,

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but they didn't say how grand you are.

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(CHUCKLES) Oh, I...

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I ain't nothing special.

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-Yes, I am.
-(BOTH LAUGHING)

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And now,

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where's my boy?

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I'll take you to him.

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Tom?

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What is it, honey?

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Man wants his horse shoed, Tom.

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Well, he gonna have to get back.
I'm powerful busy.

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Well, I don't know, Tom.
He don't look like the getting-back kind.

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Daddy?

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It's my daddy!

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Ease up.

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(CHUCKLES) You about to crush my ribs.

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Ain't you something to see?

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You're grown about as big as a bull!

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There ain't a patch on you.

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Daddy, you come back in style.

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Tom, where your mama?

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She back in our cabin,
near the chicken coop.

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Then I'll see you later.

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Ooh! (LAUGHING)

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Hey, little one. You all right?

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MATHILDA: Here, chickie, chickie, chickie.

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Here, chickie, chickie, chickie.

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Here, chickie, chickie, chickie,
chickie, chickie, chickie.

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Here, chickie, chickie. Here...

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Sometimes,

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I feared I would
never see you again, husband.

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There ain't nothing this side of hell
could've kept me away, Tildy.

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My heart's beating so fast,
about to fly all to pieces.

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Tildy, honey.

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I is free.

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Massa Moore gave me my papers.

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-(LAUGHING)
-George.

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First he said he'd never said
no such thing.

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Then he said, I ought to stay on
and, "Help your daddy," he said.

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(LAUGHING)

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I told him I didn't have no daddy.

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You ought to see him.
Old, stinking of corn.

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The plantation's gone all to the seed.

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Mama Kizzy.

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I know.

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Massa Moore told me she died last spring.

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You was her joy.

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Oh, girl,

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I missed you sorely.

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(ALL LAUGHING)

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If you take all the houses

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in all of Alamance County,

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they still wouldn't be as big as
that place where that old king lived.

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(ALL LAUGHING)

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He calls it a "castle."

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-(LAUGHTER)
-Oh!

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All right, y'all get now. Me and Daddy
going into town for supplies. Go on.

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Ooh!

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I want to hear another one of them stories
about the grand old folks in England.

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There be time for storytelling.
You got chores to do, Lewis.

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You too, Virgil.

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-Especially you, Bud.
-(ALL LAUGHING)

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I'm so glad to be home.

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And I sure do love my first grandson!

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-(ALL LAUGHING)
(KISSES)

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Here, take this boy.

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Come on, come on.

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TOM: Here you go, Daddy.
Let me give you a hand.

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Hey, what's going on here?

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Massa Harvey, this here's my daddy.

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Well, I've heard a lot about you,
Chicken George.

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Howdy do, sir.

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Looks like your family's mighty glad
to see you.

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Yeah.

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SAM: You still over
at the Moore place, George?

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My daddy's a free man, Massa Harvey.
Massa Moore give him his papers.

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Is that a fact?

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Well, you're welcome to stay here
if you've a mind to work, George.

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Why, thank you, sir. I appreciate it.

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(ALL LAUGHING)

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All right, let's go on out of here, now.

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-Bye!
-Drive careful.

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Just do what you gotta do and get on back.
I expect you before sunset.

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-Good morning, Tom.
-Good morning, Massa.

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I see folks regard you,
kind of highly, Tom.

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Guess they likes me well enough.

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Ain't too many blacksmiths in the county.

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MAN: Nigger!

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Yes, Massa Brent?

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Coming, boss.

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I'm coming.

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Yes, sir?

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Can't you see I'm thirsty, boy?

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Yes, sir, Massa Brent.

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Let this run nice and cold for you.

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My little brother's thirsty, too.

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-Yes, sir, powerful hot--
-Uh, not you.

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This old buck here.

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The name's George Moore, sir.

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I don't care what your name is, slave.

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You just fill me this dipper mighty quick.

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I ain't no slave, Mr. Brent.

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No, sir, I ain't.

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This here my daddy, Massa Brent.
He a free man.

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Ah.

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-Let's see your papers, free man.
-You want me to whup him, Evan?

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You daft, Jemmy?

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You can't go around whipping free men
like they was just niggers.

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Come here.

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-You staying on at the Harvey place?
-Harvey say I could stay.

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Do he, now?

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He do.

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Sam Harvey ought to know better than that.

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What you mean?

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We got a law here, Mr. Free Man.

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You stay in this state more than 60 days,

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you get to be plain nigger again.

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(BOTH CACKLING)

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EVAN: Did you see the look
on that nigger's face?

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-(CONTINUES CACKLING)
-He's gonna be a plain nigger again.

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MATHILDA: Tom was so proud
the way you stood up to Evan Brent.

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Showed him what a black man could be.

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Maybe I showed him wrong.

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Better learn how to keep his head down
in the dirt.

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'Cause he raise it up, they sure
find ways to smack it back down.

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(OWL HOOTING)

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Tildy.

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I can't leave you. I can't.

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I knows, honey.

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I knows how you feel.

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But you the first, George.

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The first in this family
not to be a slave.

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I remember you telling me
about your grandpa.

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They had to cut off old Kunta's foot
to keep him from escaping.

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You can't turn your back on him.

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And you can't steal the hope
of freedom from your own children.

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Then you want me to go?

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Listen to me.

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My man.

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My beautiful man.

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I got to stop myself from getting down
on my knees and begging you to stay.

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It's so lonely when you was away.

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I like to dried up and died.

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Tildy.

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You decide.

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I'm married to a free man, George Moore.

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I ain't about to live
with no slave ever again.

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War! It's war, boys!

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Our boys just attacked Fort Sumter
this morning! It's war!

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Long live the Confederacy!
It's war, boys! It's war!

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(ALL CHEERING)

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Well, this is what
we've been waiting for, huh, boys?

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-ALL: Yeah!
(GUNSHOTS)

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MAN: Yes, sir.

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Are we gonna whup them Yankees?

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-ALL: Yeah!
(GUNSHOTS)

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No, no, no.

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I said, are we gonna whup them Yankees?

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(CROWD CHEERING)

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(GUNSHOT)

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(ALL SINGING "DIXIE")

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Yokes!

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-Tallyho!
-(ALL LAUGHING)

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Yokes!

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Tallyho!

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(LAUGHING)

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What they yell, Granddaddy?

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Yokes.

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Tallyho!

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(LAUGHING)

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I guess that means,

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"Watch out, little fox.
We after your hide."

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(LAUGHS)

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Well, it's time your Granddaddy
got back out into the world.

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I done told all the stories I got to tell,
and I gotta go find me some more.

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(LAUGHS)

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Virgil.

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-Y'all be good boys, you hear?
-Okay, Daddy.

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Okay.

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Somewhere,

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somebody's saying,

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"If I only had a trainer
like Chicken George."

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(LAUGHS)

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I don't know where it is,

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and I don't know how far away.

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It don't matter.

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‘Cause I'm coming back for you, wife.

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Don't you never give up on me.

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First slave, he weren't always a slave.

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Before he was a slave, he a free man

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in Africa.

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And he was called Kunta Kinte.

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But one day, he went to the jungle
to fetch some wood to make a drum.

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There, the slavers, they catch him,

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and they sold him into slavery.

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Then they chop off half his foot
so he couldn't run away.

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TOM: And Kunta Kinte had a daughter.

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Kizzy.

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And he teach her some words
he brung from Africa.

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He teach her Kamby Bolongo.

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Mean a river.
He teach her ko, mean a fiddle.

256
00:21:36,383 --> 00:21:39,678
And she remembered,
and she teach her own son.

257
00:22:07,873 --> 00:22:09,625
And the son of Kizzy

258
00:22:10,084 --> 00:22:13,462
was the man folks call Chicken George.

259
00:22:15,089 --> 00:22:17,299
And he raised hisself from slavery

260
00:22:19,301 --> 00:22:21,178
and became a free man.

261
00:22:25,474 --> 00:22:26,767
My daddy.

262
00:22:45,494 --> 00:22:47,288
Why ain't that platoon shoed up, yet?

263
00:22:47,454 --> 00:22:48,455
I is doing my best, captain.

264
00:22:48,622 --> 00:22:51,292
-My troop's tied down till you finish.
-I gets them ready, sir.

265
00:22:51,458 --> 00:22:53,836
You better be quick.
Army don't like you working for it

266
00:22:54,003 --> 00:22:55,588
any more than you like working for us.

267
00:22:55,796 --> 00:22:58,757
The faster you get finished,
the sooner you go back to your massa.

268
00:22:58,924 --> 00:23:00,217
Yes, sir.

269
00:23:16,650 --> 00:23:17,943
(CRASH)

270
00:24:00,277 --> 00:24:01,987
Get out of my way!

271
00:24:23,884 --> 00:24:25,135
What's going on here?

272
00:24:25,302 --> 00:24:28,138
There was a white boy, captain.

273
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,558
Trying to steal some food.

274
00:24:33,644 --> 00:24:37,940
Massa, I swears there was
a white boy in here stealing.

275
00:24:39,566 --> 00:24:41,276
I don't see no boy.

276
00:24:42,319 --> 00:24:44,071
Any of you see a white boy?

277
00:24:44,279 --> 00:24:48,450
All I see is a full-grown darkie
with his hands full of stolen grub.

278
00:24:50,786 --> 00:24:54,748
What's the matter, nigger? Ain't we
been feeding you sufficient slops?

279
00:24:55,082 --> 00:24:57,876
Captain, sir, I swears to God.

280
00:25:03,841 --> 00:25:04,925
Evan?

281
00:25:05,426 --> 00:25:08,679
I think you hit it right on the head.
It's a fact.

282
00:25:09,805 --> 00:25:12,558
We ain't been feeding this nigger proper.

283
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:20,274
You is skinny. Is he skinny?
Why, look at them ribs.

284
00:25:20,607 --> 00:25:23,569
Now, look at that rib poking out
right there. See that rib, Evan?

285
00:25:23,736 --> 00:25:26,155
Why don't you just tuck it in for him?

286
00:25:27,031 --> 00:25:28,365
(GRUNTS)

287
00:25:29,908 --> 00:25:33,120
Nigger, why, you ain't nothing

288
00:25:34,204 --> 00:25:35,706
but skin and bones.

289
00:25:35,873 --> 00:25:36,874
(GRUNTS)

290
00:25:37,082 --> 00:25:38,292
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

291
00:25:44,798 --> 00:25:46,467
Excuse me, ma'am.

292
00:25:47,384 --> 00:25:50,471
Please? Maybe y'all got some scraps
I could eat?

293
00:25:52,473 --> 00:25:54,058
Poor child.

294
00:25:55,309 --> 00:25:56,685
Come oniin.

295
00:25:58,270 --> 00:26:00,022
Much obliged, ma'am.

296
00:26:01,982 --> 00:26:04,193
Sit right down here
while I fix you something.

297
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:05,736
Thank you.

298
00:26:07,529 --> 00:26:09,490
I ain't no beggar, ma'am.

299
00:26:09,656 --> 00:26:12,367
Been working a small patch of land
in South Carolina,

300
00:26:12,534 --> 00:26:14,078
me and my wife, Martha.

301
00:26:14,620 --> 00:26:17,539
Then the fighting started,
and we had to get...

302
00:26:18,082 --> 00:26:21,877
The war ruined the crops, and everything
was so bad, even the rabbits left.

303
00:26:22,669 --> 00:26:26,840
Since then, it's been nothing
but walking and asking folks for food.

304
00:26:27,382 --> 00:26:31,553
And you takes it too when you gets
the chance, ain't that true, boy?

305
00:26:35,682 --> 00:26:38,310
Come back here! I said come back here!

306
00:26:40,562 --> 00:26:43,732
Tom, what in the world is going on here?

307
00:26:45,526 --> 00:26:48,112
This here thieving boy

308
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,573
earned me my cracked ribs
you wrapped up so pretty.

309
00:26:52,741 --> 00:26:54,409
I was just hungry.

310
00:27:07,548 --> 00:27:08,882
Finish your plate.

311
00:27:12,052 --> 00:27:14,680
I been hungry in my time, too.

312
00:27:17,891 --> 00:27:19,059
Go on.

313
00:27:36,118 --> 00:27:37,494
Well, what's your name, son?

314
00:27:37,786 --> 00:27:40,747
George, ma'am. George Johnson.

315
00:27:43,750 --> 00:27:47,421
Well, we already got one George,

316
00:27:49,089 --> 00:27:50,716
and you So young.

317
00:27:51,758 --> 00:27:55,512
I reckon we'll just have
to call you "OI' George."

318
00:27:55,929 --> 00:27:57,723
(BOTH LAUGHING)

319
00:28:01,727 --> 00:28:03,395
Eat up, Ol' George.

320
00:28:11,778 --> 00:28:14,740
You reckon you got enough
for another helping, ma'am?

321
00:28:15,449 --> 00:28:18,076
You reckon you got belly enough
for another helping?

322
00:28:18,785 --> 00:28:21,622
It's not for me. It's for my wife, Martha.

323
00:28:24,041 --> 00:28:25,459
Your wife with you?

324
00:28:26,460 --> 00:28:27,753
Yes, sir.

325
00:28:28,712 --> 00:28:29,963
Outside.

326
00:28:37,638 --> 00:28:39,223
Martha, come on.

327
00:28:40,432 --> 00:28:42,726
Come on, honey, it's all right.

328
00:28:44,478 --> 00:28:46,021
It's all right.

329
00:28:53,946 --> 00:28:55,489
This is Martha.

330
00:29:05,874 --> 00:29:07,292
Pleased to meet you.

331
00:29:17,344 --> 00:29:21,181
Well, I couldn't let you work
in the fields. That wouldn't do.

332
00:29:23,517 --> 00:29:27,479
-Maybe you could be an overseer.
-Sure, I could do that, sir.

333
00:29:27,646 --> 00:29:30,524
I couldn't pay you much. Just good food

334
00:29:30,691 --> 00:29:32,693
and a place big enough
for you and your wife to sleep.

335
00:29:32,859 --> 00:29:35,279
Oh, that fine with me, sir. Mighty fine.

336
00:29:35,445 --> 00:29:38,949
Good. I'd like to see you
get started right away, then.

337
00:29:39,157 --> 00:29:41,201
Thanks, sir. Much obliged.

338
00:30:04,891 --> 00:30:07,728
Well, I is the overseer.

339
00:30:10,522 --> 00:30:12,399
Well, ain't that fine?

340
00:30:13,608 --> 00:30:16,236
Yeah, I reckon it'll go all
right except...

341
00:30:17,404 --> 00:30:18,655
Except what?

342
00:30:19,656 --> 00:30:22,075
Tom, what exactly is an overseer?

343
00:30:23,785 --> 00:30:25,787
-You fooling me?
-No, sir.

344
00:30:27,414 --> 00:30:30,917
Then you is the most ignorant white boy
I ever did see.

345
00:30:32,002 --> 00:30:34,087
Ain't there no slaves where you come from?

346
00:30:34,254 --> 00:30:35,589
Not hardly.

347
00:30:35,756 --> 00:30:37,966
It's mostly poor white people like me.

348
00:30:41,595 --> 00:30:43,388
-Lewis?
-Yeah, Tom?

349
00:30:44,681 --> 00:30:47,601
Gonna learn OI' George here
about overseeing.

350
00:30:47,976 --> 00:30:49,061
Huh?

351
00:30:54,149 --> 00:30:58,487
Why should we? I mean, white folks
make enough trouble for us as it is.

352
00:30:59,279 --> 00:31:01,490
If OI' George don't be overseer,

353
00:31:01,656 --> 00:31:04,451
maybe massa find someone
who knows how to do it.

354
00:31:04,618 --> 00:31:06,370
Who likes doing it.

355
00:31:08,663 --> 00:31:11,625
Now, you being the overseer,
first thing you need is a whip.

356
00:31:11,792 --> 00:31:15,962
Can't be no overseer without no whip.
Supposing this here your whip.

357
00:31:16,505 --> 00:31:19,966
And suppose, you want this here slave

358
00:31:21,259 --> 00:31:24,846
to fetch yonder bucket of water.

359
00:31:25,555 --> 00:31:27,766
How you gonna get him
to fetch you that bucket?

360
00:31:31,853 --> 00:31:33,730
Go on, go on, show me.

361
00:31:38,735 --> 00:31:40,362
Excuse me, Lewis.

362
00:31:40,946 --> 00:31:43,323
Y'all mind fetching me
that bucket of water?

363
00:31:43,990 --> 00:31:45,992
(BOTH LAUGHING)

364
00:31:50,205 --> 00:31:52,165
That ain't exactly how you goes about it.

365
00:31:54,418 --> 00:31:57,003
Now, you watch me. Hmm? Watch me good.

366
00:31:57,671 --> 00:32:00,507
I'm gonna show you
how you talks to slaves.

367
00:32:08,306 --> 00:32:09,516
Nigger!

368
00:32:10,684 --> 00:32:11,935
Yes, sir?

369
00:32:12,394 --> 00:32:14,271
Come fetch me this bucket of water.

370
00:32:15,397 --> 00:32:20,068
Oh, Massa! Ask some other nigger.
I is powerful tired.

371
00:32:21,486 --> 00:32:23,905
Tired, is you, you black trash?

372
00:32:24,072 --> 00:32:25,365
LEWIS: Yes, sir.

373
00:32:25,907 --> 00:32:28,618
Well, maybe this here
is going to perk you up a little.

374
00:32:28,785 --> 00:32:32,873
Oh, no, sir, massa. Don't.
Please don't whip my poor black body!

375
00:32:33,039 --> 00:32:35,000
-Is you tired?
-No, sir.

376
00:32:35,167 --> 00:32:38,587
I is feeling right lively.
See how lively I is, massa?

377
00:32:39,588 --> 00:32:40,964
See, massa?

378
00:32:42,466 --> 00:32:45,760
Please, massa.
Please, please don't whip me.

379
00:32:45,969 --> 00:32:47,429
I'll be good.

380
00:32:49,514 --> 00:32:51,808
You watching and learning, boy?

381
00:32:53,185 --> 00:32:57,105
No. I couldn't do that.
I couldn't whup Lewis.

382
00:32:57,314 --> 00:32:58,607
I don't want you to whup him, either.

383
00:32:58,773 --> 00:33:01,610
You gotta makes it like you
got a mind to whup him if you wants to.

384
00:33:01,776 --> 00:33:04,237
No! I likes Lewis.

385
00:33:04,404 --> 00:33:07,073
Like him or don't like him,
you're the overseer, he the slave.

386
00:33:07,782 --> 00:33:08,950
Can't never forget that.

387
00:33:12,787 --> 00:33:15,290
Are you teaching me to be mean, Tom?

388
00:33:16,625 --> 00:33:20,921
I'm teaching you how to stay alive
and how to keep some skin on our backs.

389
00:33:23,965 --> 00:33:27,093
Don't you ever call me "sir" again.
Do you hear?

390
00:33:27,802 --> 00:33:28,929
Yeah.

391
00:33:29,763 --> 00:33:30,889
Massa.

392
00:33:38,271 --> 00:33:39,481
Nigger.

393
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:56,122
(HORSES NEIGHING)

394
00:34:34,411 --> 00:34:37,497
EVAN: They're wearing us down, Sam.
They're wearing us down.

395
00:34:38,123 --> 00:34:41,126
We been fighting
as well as in the good years.

396
00:34:41,585 --> 00:34:43,795
But they just got too much of everything.

397
00:34:44,004 --> 00:34:45,171
We kill off a company,

398
00:34:45,338 --> 00:34:48,842
seems like they send down
five companies to take their place.

399
00:34:49,009 --> 00:34:52,512
We capture a cannon.
They ship a new battery.

400
00:34:52,679 --> 00:34:57,475
My brother's right. We just gotta hold on
long enough to turn this thing about.

401
00:34:58,143 --> 00:34:59,185
Sam.

402
00:35:00,186 --> 00:35:03,940
We need everybody
to rally around the Confederacy.

403
00:35:04,566 --> 00:35:07,569
And I don't mean just moral support.

404
00:35:07,736 --> 00:35:09,946
Well, we'll give all the help
we can, of course, Evan.

405
00:35:10,530 --> 00:35:12,699
Frankly, we're out of cash.

406
00:35:12,907 --> 00:35:16,411
But, of course, I'll give all the horses
and food I can spare.

407
00:35:16,578 --> 00:35:18,872
The Confederacy can have
my silver service, Sam.

408
00:35:20,206 --> 00:35:21,207
Lila.

409
00:35:21,583 --> 00:35:23,668
Lila, are you sure you want to do that?

410
00:35:24,085 --> 00:35:26,838
You know what that service means to you.

411
00:35:27,130 --> 00:35:29,174
Confederacy's entitled to
anything we have.

412
00:35:30,675 --> 00:35:32,552
Mathilda, come with me.

413
00:35:40,518 --> 00:35:43,146
Tom, Irene, somebody, hurry. It's me.

414
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:44,856
(PANTING)

415
00:35:45,190 --> 00:35:46,900
It's Martha,
she's gonna have the baby, hurry!

416
00:35:47,067 --> 00:35:50,153
Well, I'll go get Mathilda. Don't worry.

417
00:35:52,572 --> 00:35:54,240
What should I do?

418
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:58,203
Ol' George, it looks like
you already done it.

419
00:36:05,627 --> 00:36:06,711
Tom,

420
00:36:08,505 --> 00:36:10,423
what keeping that baby?

421
00:36:11,091 --> 00:36:14,928
Ain't no particular time
for a baby to be birthed, OI' George.

422
00:36:17,097 --> 00:36:18,973
Well, maybe I just ought to go in there.

423
00:36:21,309 --> 00:36:24,729
Why don't you let Mathilda
and Irene look after her?

424
00:36:24,896 --> 00:36:28,149
There ain't nothing they don't know
about birthing.

425
00:36:34,447 --> 00:36:36,908
Give us a smoke of your pipe, Tom.

426
00:36:39,494 --> 00:36:40,829
Thank you.

427
00:36:58,388 --> 00:37:00,515
Your Martha's fine, Georgie.

428
00:37:02,100 --> 00:37:03,810
She's sleeping now.

429
00:37:12,819 --> 00:37:14,863
I ain't heard no baby cry.

430
00:37:18,324 --> 00:37:20,201
Martha's a young girl.

431
00:37:21,494 --> 00:37:24,122
She got plenty of time for more babies.

432
00:38:02,952 --> 00:38:04,204
I ain't no preacher,

433
00:38:05,038 --> 00:38:07,290
but I'd like to say something.

434
00:38:08,041 --> 00:38:09,250
This here little baby,

435
00:38:10,293 --> 00:38:13,463
we don't know what he might have been,

436
00:38:15,715 --> 00:38:17,634
but we knows one thing.

437
00:38:19,552 --> 00:38:21,221
If he like his daddy,

438
00:38:21,679 --> 00:38:24,891
he'd a growed to be a good man.

439
00:38:25,225 --> 00:38:26,851
-MEN: Amen.
-MATHILDA: Amen.

440
00:38:38,488 --> 00:38:40,323
You's all my friends.

441
00:38:41,866 --> 00:38:45,078
You's the only friends
I ever did know in all my life.

442
00:38:45,912 --> 00:38:47,747
You's like my family.

443
00:38:50,667 --> 00:38:52,752
Martha and me, we thanks you.

444
00:38:55,088 --> 00:38:58,842
(SINGING JOHNNY CASH SONG
"I'M BOUND FOR THE PROMISED LAND")

445
00:39:45,096 --> 00:39:46,139
MAN: Tom.

446
00:39:47,557 --> 00:39:48,641
Tom.

447
00:39:49,642 --> 00:39:50,727
Tom.

448
00:40:00,987 --> 00:40:02,280
Who that?

449
00:40:04,157 --> 00:40:05,992
It's me, Jemmy Brent.

450
00:40:08,870 --> 00:40:10,204
What you doing here?

451
00:40:11,247 --> 00:40:14,042
We're whupped, Tom. The South is finished.

452
00:40:14,584 --> 00:40:16,961
Evan and them other patriots
can go on fighting if they like,

453
00:40:17,211 --> 00:40:19,547
but I'm gonna get out with my whole skin
while I got a chance.

454
00:40:19,714 --> 00:40:21,299
You got to help me, Tom.

455
00:40:21,466 --> 00:40:23,009
Why should I help you?

456
00:40:23,676 --> 00:40:25,470
I know, Tom, I know.

457
00:40:25,929 --> 00:40:27,805
You're grieved at me, and you got a right.

458
00:40:28,765 --> 00:40:32,185
But hard times are coming, Tom.
For white folks and blacks alike.

459
00:40:32,685 --> 00:40:36,022
We got to learn a new way
of getting along together.

460
00:40:36,856 --> 00:40:39,901
Isn't this just
as good a time as any to start?

461
00:40:44,697 --> 00:40:46,282
What you want me to do?

462
00:40:46,908 --> 00:40:50,536
If I stay in uniform, Tom,
there's a good chance they'll catch me,

463
00:40:50,703 --> 00:40:52,914
and they're hard on deserters.

464
00:40:54,332 --> 00:40:57,293
Now, here's the key to my place,
to Company Shops.

465
00:40:58,252 --> 00:41:00,213
I got some regular clothes in there.

466
00:41:00,797 --> 00:41:02,507
Fetch them for me.

467
00:41:04,801 --> 00:41:05,885
Tom.

468
00:41:14,978 --> 00:41:17,772
I knew I could count on you, Tom.
I knew it.

469
00:41:17,939 --> 00:41:20,692
I'll wait right here for you. Right here.

470
00:41:28,241 --> 00:41:30,535
Trust has got to start somewhere, Tom.

471
00:41:30,702 --> 00:41:34,539
Let it be here and now.
Let it be us that does it.

472
00:41:37,834 --> 00:41:39,752
I wouldn't blame you if you don't go, Tom.

473
00:41:43,172 --> 00:41:45,133
But I'll never forget if you do.

474
00:42:05,194 --> 00:42:06,279
Nigger.

475
00:42:37,685 --> 00:42:38,770
Tom?

476
00:42:39,645 --> 00:42:41,856
What are you doing still here?

477
00:42:47,612 --> 00:42:48,988
Where's Tom?

478
00:42:49,906 --> 00:42:51,491
What'd you done?

479
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:53,326
Well.

480
00:42:55,745 --> 00:42:57,330
You sweet thing.

481
00:42:58,498 --> 00:43:00,041
Oh, no, Massa.

482
00:43:00,833 --> 00:43:02,168
Oh, no.

483
00:43:02,335 --> 00:43:05,546
I'm not gonna do you no harm.
I wouldn't hurt you.

484
00:43:06,130 --> 00:43:07,173
No!

485
00:43:09,675 --> 00:43:11,719
I just want a little kiss.

486
00:43:15,181 --> 00:43:16,307
Tom.

487
00:43:18,142 --> 00:43:19,185
Tom.

488
00:43:21,479 --> 00:43:24,482
You brought my clothes. That's good, Tom.

489
00:43:25,691 --> 00:43:29,028
Tom. Honey, it don't matter.

490
00:43:32,406 --> 00:43:36,494
Now, Tom. There ain't no harm done.
Just having a little fun.

491
00:43:36,911 --> 00:43:39,622
Makes no difference between you and me.

492
00:43:39,914 --> 00:43:41,457
I believed you.

493
00:43:43,584 --> 00:43:45,878
I wanted it so to be true.

494
00:43:46,420 --> 00:43:47,964
I believed you.

495
00:43:48,631 --> 00:43:50,716
I got no more time for jawing.

496
00:43:50,883 --> 00:43:53,803
Hand me them clothes,
and I'll be on my way.

497
00:43:56,556 --> 00:43:59,517
I do believe
you are looking for a whipping.

498
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:01,602
No.

499
00:44:02,687 --> 00:44:05,064
You ain't gonna do nothing to me.

500
00:44:09,485 --> 00:44:12,071
Now, how you figures that?

501
00:44:16,033 --> 00:44:18,244
'Cause I ain't gonna let you, Jemmy Brent.

502
00:44:18,452 --> 00:44:19,704
(CHUCKLES)

503
00:44:20,079 --> 00:44:21,289
Ain't you now?

504
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:29,255
Ain't you?

505
00:44:30,673 --> 00:44:33,092
No. No, Tom.

506
00:44:39,682 --> 00:44:41,184
You're one dead nigger.

507
00:44:41,559 --> 00:44:42,602
(IRENE EXCLAIMS)

508
00:44:44,228 --> 00:44:45,313
Tom!

509
00:44:48,691 --> 00:44:49,692
Oh!

510
00:44:55,573 --> 00:44:56,949
I'm going to have to kill you, boy.

511
00:45:19,764 --> 00:45:21,599
(HORSE WHINNYING)

512
00:45:23,100 --> 00:45:24,310
Help me!

513
00:45:25,144 --> 00:45:26,979
God darn it, help me.

514
00:45:28,481 --> 00:45:31,525
Listen to me, Jemmy Brent. Listen to me.

515
00:45:31,901 --> 00:45:34,237
Take this message with you to hell.

516
00:45:34,403 --> 00:45:37,531
The last hands
that touched you on this Earth

517
00:45:37,698 --> 00:45:40,743
was my black hands.

518
00:46:18,447 --> 00:46:20,741
Him or me.

519
00:46:21,826 --> 00:46:23,703
(WHIMPERING)

520
00:46:25,413 --> 00:46:28,249
It was him or me.

521
00:46:29,208 --> 00:46:30,960
(BREATHING HEAVILY)

522
00:46:32,712 --> 00:46:34,714
(CHICKENS CLUCKING)

523
00:46:38,009 --> 00:46:39,593
(NEIGHING)

524
00:46:44,557 --> 00:46:47,518
Now, Captain Brent's brother
has been missing for three days.

525
00:46:47,685 --> 00:46:50,563
Any of you all seen Jemmy Brent, speak up.

526
00:46:55,985 --> 00:46:58,029
Now, some of you
must have seen my brother.

527
00:47:03,659 --> 00:47:06,662
They found his horse
no more than a mile from here.

528
00:47:06,912 --> 00:47:08,914
(DOG BARKING)

529
00:47:11,542 --> 00:47:14,503
Damn niggers.
They wouldn't help none if they could.

530
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:15,921
Ha!

531
00:47:31,312 --> 00:47:32,772
Where'd you get them lumps, boy?

532
00:47:34,648 --> 00:47:37,318
Gots me kicked by a plow horse, Massa.

533
00:47:46,035 --> 00:47:48,287
That's mighty curious.

534
00:47:49,205 --> 00:47:51,374
You being a blacksmith,
you ought to know better.

535
00:47:51,540 --> 00:47:55,294
Yes, sir.
Gots to watch out for the animals.

536
00:47:56,087 --> 00:47:59,048
Even a plow horse kick out
when he paining enough.

537
00:48:01,300 --> 00:48:05,471
Any animal that pains that much
should be put out of its misery.

538
00:48:11,977 --> 00:48:14,730
You ain't seen the last of me, nigger.

539
00:48:17,608 --> 00:48:18,984
-(NEIGHS)
-Hal

540
00:48:19,402 --> 00:48:21,320
Ha! Ha!

541
00:48:42,550 --> 00:48:44,468
Freedom!

542
00:48:44,635 --> 00:48:47,555
NARRATOR:
Next, the two-hour conclusion of Roots.

543
00:48:47,721 --> 00:48:50,683
The war is over. Slavery's no more!

544
00:48:50,933 --> 00:48:52,768
NARRATOR:
For 10 hours, you've lived their struggle.

545
00:48:52,935 --> 00:48:54,562
To your cabins, everybody. Quick!

546
00:48:54,770 --> 00:48:57,273
NARRATOR: Shared their pain,
their joy, their triumph.

547
00:48:57,440 --> 00:48:58,983
We ain't gonna never get away from here.

548
00:48:59,150 --> 00:49:01,527
NARRATOR: And next,
the fulfillment of a dream.

549
00:49:01,694 --> 00:49:05,698
If you bother me or mine ever again,

550
00:49:06,949 --> 00:49:07,950
I'll kill you.

551
00:49:08,117 --> 00:49:12,830
NARRATOR: The final triumph of an
American family, the conclusion of Roots.

552
00:49:16,208 --> 00:49:18,210
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

553
00:50:02,546 --> 00:50:03,547
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