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(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

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NARRATOR: Last on Roots:

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(GRILL YELLS)

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GRILL: He's got to be made a lesson of.

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You let him get away and

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every nigger on your place will be
hightailing it first chance they get.

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Can't find a way to run,
then I just lay here and die.

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You surely are some brave
Mandinka fighting man, Toby.

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Just what is it you're fighting now?

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You gonna make it,
I think you gonna make it!

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Toby, Lord be praised, you gonna walk!

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I'm gonna do better than learn to walk.

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I gonna learn to run.

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(MAN SINGING)

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KUNTA: Genelva.

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What you doing here?

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I's come to see you, Toby.

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You ain't never talking to no one,
I thought you might need a little coaxing.

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Harlan be looking for you.

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He looking in the wrong place.

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He think I'm looking to old Luther.

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He don't know nothing about
what a gal really wants.

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Uh...

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What? What you talking about?

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I ain't talking about nothing, Toby.

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I done all the talking
I'mma gonna do tonight.

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See, talking don't do
nothing that feels good.

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Doing.

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That's what makes me feel good.

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(CLEARS THROAT)

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Luther.

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I've been looking all over for ya.

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What you been doing out
this time of night?

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Felt the need, captain,
I was in the outback house.

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Not with Genelva?

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Don't you lie to me, now.

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She don't care beans about me.

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I'm too old, she says.

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You know, Toby's the one that's got her
scratching and howling.

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Toby?

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Gimp foot and all, Toby.

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Guess you don't limp in bed, do ya?

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One thing solved, Genelva.

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Good to know

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I won't have to waste my time keeping
an eye on you and Luther no more.

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You get in back
to your own cabin, for now.

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I'll speak to Dr. Reynolds in the morning

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to see if it's all right with him
for you and Toby here to make the beast.

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You one lucky nigger, Toby.

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One lucky nigger.

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Here the melons you want.

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I think come noontime
they'll still be cool.

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(BELL LAUGHS)

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You really don't care none?

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‘Bout what?

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Every no count nigger on this place
is snickering and laughing at ya.

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They saying Genelva teased you
into horsing into bed with her.

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Helping her and Luther to trick Mr. Harlan
so's the two of them be able to skip off.

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Was you horsing into bed
with her, is that so?

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Could be.

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You think she pretty?

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I suppose she pretty enough, but

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me, I likes a different kind of face.

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What kind?

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Kinda face you got, Bell.

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(CHUCKLES)

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That Mandinka face.

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Mandinka?

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Uh-huh.

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What fool's stuff that you talking about,
that's African?

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-I ain't no African.
-I'm Mandinka.

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-We are proud people.
-And I'm American.

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I was born here,
my mammy and my daddy was born here,

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and my daddy's daddy,
and I ain't no African.

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Bad time all around.

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Genelva running off like that,
knows more sense than a milly worm.

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Luther too, old fool.

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Make Massa mighty angry. Got no driver.

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Just a bad day.

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On top of all that,
you call me an African.

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I won't do it again, Bell. Never.

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Toby.

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Toby?

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(CHICKENS CLUCKING)

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DR. WILLIAM: And you think Toby would
make a good driver for me,

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now that Luther's run off, eh?

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Please, Massa?

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We're living in strange times, Bell.

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We're at war, we're fighting the British.

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I heard about that.

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Nearly two years,
longer than anyone expected.

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Now the British are
offering freedom to any slave

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who'll join their army and fight for them.

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Toby driving for me, we'd be
gone from the plantation overnight.

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For days at a time, sometimes.

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Could be a great temptation
for a certain kind of a slave.

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One with runaway blood.

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You see the connection?

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Yes, sir.

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It just seems funny, though.

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What seems funny?

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You trust Luther and he run off on you.

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You don't trust Toby none,

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and he probably loves you better than
anybody else on this whole place.

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(CLICKS TONGUE) It just seems funny.

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Bell, how sure are you?

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I wouldn't be talking, Massa,
if I wasn't sure.

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(LAUGHING)

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Get out.

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You win, Bell, but he better not run off.

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He damn well better not run off.

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Driver. Ain't that a thing, now?

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(LAUGHING)

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I expect it's good enough.

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You expect, that all?

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Well, Fiddler, how come Bell
talk the doctor into this?

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-How come she do that?
-l don't know, ask Bell.

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-Maybe she like you, that's all.
-I don't want her liking me.

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I don't want nobody liking me.

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Well, you liable enough to get your wish,
you keep talking like that.

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Fiddler, don't you see?
This the land of the tubab.

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I'm Mandinka warrior.

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I can't walk with these people
and talk with them, man,

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I can't do it!

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Lord, lord, lord, lord, lord.

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Horse.

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I hear tell that you ain't a horse at all.

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I hear tell that you think
you're a mighty crow.

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I hear tell that you fly

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from here abouts, all the way
to Annapolis and back again.

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For a horse, you look
mighty like a horse to me.

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And you sure smell mighty like a horse.

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I'm saying to you, that you is a horse.

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What you think you is

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don't matter a damn bit.

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The Mandinka talk don't matter
a damn bit, neither.

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You give it up, let it go.

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You is a nigger, Toby.

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Plain, old nigger, is all.

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Massa Reynolds is waiting, let's go.

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But, why?

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You told Bell you could drive, didn't you?

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Yeah, I can drive.

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You better drive this horse
pretty fast and pretty quick.

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How come?

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Barn door still closed.

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(SNICKERING)

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Hey, hey.

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(FIDDLER LAUGHS)

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(SIGHS)

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I'll go fetch Master Reynolds.

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You look fine, way up there like that.

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Bell, why you do this?
Why you do this for me?

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I see you crippling by the
vegetable garden with Fiddler,

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I know you don't like that.

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You, with your runaway blood.

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Driving for Massa, you be
all over the country, far and wide.

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Maybe you get your fill of wandering and
won't think about escaping all the time.

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You're a good woman, Bell.

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I told Massa I'd be responsible for you.

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You wouldn't run off.

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You promise?

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Africans.

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(BLOWING RASPBERRY)

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Americans.

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Toby, pull off to the side for a bit.

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Yes, sir. Whoa, now. Whoa.

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Whoa, boy. Whoa.

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-I'm going for a walk.
-Yes, Sir.

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You wait here.

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-I'll be back shortly.
-Yes, sir, I'll be right here.

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How's little Anne?

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She's more like you every day.

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-(LAUGHING)
-She has your eyes, you know?

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No, no, you have my eyes.

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Oh, God, you feel so good.

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Hold me close. Closer.

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-You know what I dreamed, last night?
-No.

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Last night I dreamed
I wanted to be a darkie.

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(LAUGHING)

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Why on Earth would you wanna be that?

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So an overseer could
come fetch me for you.

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So an overseer could say,

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"Here's a comely wench, Dr. William.

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"Do you want her?

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"If you want her, here she be for you.

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"Here she be."

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And then I could run away.

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But only so you could come after me.

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Would you like that?

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I never see white folks carry on so.
(LAUGHING)

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They all so happy, they can't believe it.

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They keep saying over and over,

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"The British have surrendered,
the war is over, the war is over.

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"Freedom is won."

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Ain't that just fine, though?

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White folks be free.

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I been worrying and tossing in the night
about them getting their freedom.

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Been the mostest thing on my mind.

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Sure am one happy nigger, now.

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Don't have to worry about
the poor white folks no more.

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You funny, Fiddler.

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And I know it, but you best
not let them catch you doing it.

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Ah...

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ANNE: Nanny Bell?

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Missy Anne.

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Uncle William said
I could have more cookies.

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You sure can, honey.

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Your Mammy Bell let you have
anything you want.

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(DOOR CLOSING)

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Little angel, doctor loves her
just like she was his own.

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Maybe she is, way I heard it.

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That's just gossip.

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That ain't the doctor's child,
that's John Reynolds' child.

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Ain't no proving that kind of foolish talk
one way or the other.

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It's just nigger gossip.

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Mmm-hmm.

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I got to drive early.

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I like driving.

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(DOOR CLOSING)

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Everybody's got to get up early, Fiddler.

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He was thanking you, Bell.

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He was just saying why
he had to get to bed early, is all.

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Goodnight, Fiddler.

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FIDDLER: Goodnight, Bell.

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(DOOR CLOSING)

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But what's this?

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That's for you.

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What's it for?

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It's for grinding corn in.

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Where's the part to grind the corn with?

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Well,

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I thought I'd bring the grinding part
by your cabin tonight.

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Well, I usually eats my supper
around about sunset.

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And I usually cooks way too much.

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Then I'll bring
the grinding part by tonight.

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I made cornbread.

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I like cornbread.

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You like chicken and dumpling?

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I do.

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And there's a stew made with peanuts,
and yams with butter.

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Ah. We had them in Africa, I liked them.

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Well, we can eat now if you want,
or we can sit and talk.

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That'd be fine.

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Which one be fine, eating or talking?

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Whatever you wanna do.

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(SIGHS)

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Massa just sit in his study
and do his papers all day.

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They all going over to the Ame plantation
for the big Thanksgiving celebration.

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Fiddler say Massa's gonna
take him along to play for people.

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You probably drive him.

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That's right.

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White folks

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gonna choose
General George Washington for President.

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I heard that.

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Bread.

257
00:21:43,349 --> 00:21:44,892
What you say?

258
00:21:46,519 --> 00:21:48,979
-What you made me to grind corn with...
-Uh-huh.

259
00:21:50,231 --> 00:21:53,859
First time in 22 years
since I been on this plantation

260
00:21:55,611 --> 00:21:57,613
any man ever made something for me.

261
00:22:16,590 --> 00:22:18,509
I made something for you, too.

262
00:22:24,807 --> 00:22:25,808
Oh.

263
00:22:29,228 --> 00:22:30,229
That be fine.

264
00:22:33,941 --> 00:22:35,943
That be right fine.

265
00:22:44,827 --> 00:22:45,828
(MOANING)

266
00:23:22,406 --> 00:23:24,366
Ain't seen you after dinner much, lately.

267
00:23:25,159 --> 00:23:26,452
Turning in early, uh?

268
00:23:26,660 --> 00:23:28,495
-Uh-huh.
-Uh-huh.

269
00:23:29,622 --> 00:23:31,832
Driving's hard work, uh?

270
00:23:32,583 --> 00:23:34,710
Hard, that's right, hard work.

271
00:23:35,169 --> 00:23:37,171
-Uh-huh.
-Uh-huh.

272
00:23:37,963 --> 00:23:40,674
-I found out something last night.
-What's that?

273
00:23:41,133 --> 00:23:43,052
Find out how come Luther cry
when him and Genelva

274
00:23:43,344 --> 00:23:45,304
got themselves sold off
to different places.

275
00:23:45,596 --> 00:23:46,597
How come, you think?

276
00:23:47,473 --> 00:23:48,724
Wasn't strong enough.

277
00:23:49,391 --> 00:23:51,518
On account of he ain't wanna
be by himself, no more.

278
00:23:52,519 --> 00:23:54,563
Think a man being by himself
make him strong?

279
00:23:54,855 --> 00:23:55,856
I do.

280
00:23:56,023 --> 00:23:57,524
-Tell you what I think.
-What?

281
00:23:58,484 --> 00:24:00,945
I think you the biggest fool
I ever saw on two legs.

282
00:24:01,695 --> 00:24:03,697
Why, on account of I wanna be strong?

283
00:24:04,114 --> 00:24:05,532
On account of there ain't
nothing in this world

284
00:24:05,783 --> 00:24:09,370
make a white massa happy
than seeing a nigger all by himself.

285
00:24:10,079 --> 00:24:13,749
Ain't no bigger battle he can win
than keeping niggers apart.

286
00:24:15,417 --> 00:24:18,087
Strong and stubborn ain't
nowhere near the same.

287
00:24:18,796 --> 00:24:19,797
Nowhere near.

288
00:24:21,173 --> 00:24:24,051
We just giving the white folks
the most biggest victory ever.

289
00:24:43,237 --> 00:24:44,405
(KNOCKING)

290
00:25:08,345 --> 00:25:10,639
I ain't never gonna be no Christian man.

291
00:25:13,183 --> 00:25:14,476
I know that.

292
00:25:16,061 --> 00:25:17,730
Won't never eat pig meat.

293
00:25:18,647 --> 00:25:19,648
I know.

294
00:25:22,443 --> 00:25:25,237
And I expect sometime
I ain't easy to be with.

295
00:25:28,032 --> 00:25:29,241
I know you ain't.

296
00:25:44,256 --> 00:25:46,133
(BOTH LAUGHING)

297
00:25:57,352 --> 00:25:59,688
AUNT SUKEY: Now, I am asking you all here,

298
00:26:00,481 --> 00:26:03,025
to pray for this union that God done made.

299
00:26:03,859 --> 00:26:06,445
And pray that they stays together.

300
00:26:07,321 --> 00:26:09,323
And that they don't do nothing,

301
00:26:10,574 --> 00:26:11,575
nothing,

302
00:26:12,910 --> 00:26:15,954
to get themselves
sold away from one another.

303
00:26:17,372 --> 00:26:21,335
And pray that they have
good, healthy youngins.

304
00:26:22,044 --> 00:26:23,629
(APPLAUSE)

305
00:26:32,096 --> 00:26:34,056
Ya'll sure ya'll wanna get married?

306
00:26:34,890 --> 00:26:36,475
-I does.
-I does.

307
00:26:37,768 --> 00:26:39,478
Then in the eyes of Jesus,

308
00:26:40,020 --> 00:26:44,316
jump over the broom
into the land of matrimony.

309
00:26:47,861 --> 00:26:49,488
(APPLAUSE)

310
00:26:54,034 --> 00:26:58,038
Now that you bought the cow, Toby,
you can get all the milk you want.

311
00:26:58,622 --> 00:26:59,998
(CHEERING)

312
00:27:04,086 --> 00:27:05,629
(BANJO PLAYS)

313
00:28:02,019 --> 00:28:03,187
(MUSIC STOPS)

314
00:28:03,687 --> 00:28:04,897
(CLAPPING)

315
00:28:08,525 --> 00:28:09,526
BELL: Toby?

316
00:28:15,991 --> 00:28:17,451
How come you leaving the wedding?

317
00:28:17,659 --> 00:28:18,660
It's yours, too.

318
00:28:18,869 --> 00:28:20,621
You jumped the broom along with me.

319
00:28:21,455 --> 00:28:22,956
I was just sitting here thinking

320
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:24,666
-about my village and my family and...
-Shh...

321
00:28:25,709 --> 00:28:28,629
I'm so happy, I don't want to hear
none of that African talk.

322
00:28:29,213 --> 00:28:32,966
You're not Kunta Kinte,
you're Toby and you belong to me.

323
00:28:33,634 --> 00:28:35,177
And I belong to you.

324
00:28:37,971 --> 00:28:39,973
And we both belong to Dr. Reynolds.

325
00:28:59,701 --> 00:29:00,702
EMMETT: Dr. Reynolds.

326
00:29:00,911 --> 00:29:02,788
-My dear Emmett.
-I'm so glad you could come.

327
00:29:03,121 --> 00:29:04,873
Oh, pleasure as always, my dear sir.

328
00:29:05,082 --> 00:29:07,084
I think you'll find some friends.

329
00:29:07,251 --> 00:29:08,502
(LAUGHING)

330
00:29:11,588 --> 00:29:13,340
Woah, now. Whoa.

331
00:29:15,300 --> 00:29:17,511
Seems like all I done all my life,

332
00:29:18,095 --> 00:29:21,139
was to wait to jump,
when the white folks call.

333
00:29:23,308 --> 00:29:24,309
(SIGHS)

334
00:29:27,145 --> 00:29:28,146
Fiddler?

335
00:29:28,772 --> 00:29:29,773
Fiddler, you all right?

336
00:29:30,232 --> 00:29:31,233
(SIGHS)

337
00:29:34,069 --> 00:29:35,195
Course not.

338
00:29:36,446 --> 00:29:37,572
But that don't matter none.

339
00:29:39,241 --> 00:29:40,242
(SCOFFS)

340
00:29:40,701 --> 00:29:42,703
You know what would happen
if I up and died

341
00:29:42,869 --> 00:29:45,289
-in the middle of fiddling a hoedown?
-Hmm?

342
00:29:45,706 --> 00:29:48,292
The white folks would be mad as all
get out,

343
00:29:49,001 --> 00:29:51,712
‘cause the fiddling had stopped.
(CHUCKLES)

344
00:29:52,296 --> 00:29:53,755
(LAUGHING)

345
00:29:56,591 --> 00:29:57,592
(SNIFFLES)

346
00:30:47,225 --> 00:30:48,769
(DRUMMING)

347
00:31:24,179 --> 00:31:25,472
(SPEAKING IN ARABIC)

348
00:31:29,476 --> 00:31:31,478
(SPEAKING IN ARABIC)

349
00:31:35,899 --> 00:31:37,359
All right boy, sit now.

350
00:31:39,820 --> 00:31:41,405
Don't be talking the old ways.

351
00:31:41,738 --> 00:31:42,989
Only make the trouble.

352
00:31:44,658 --> 00:31:45,659
Is you Mandinka?

353
00:31:46,743 --> 00:31:48,620
Mine are the Akan people.

354
00:31:51,164 --> 00:31:53,542
But the white folks,
they gave me the name of Pompey,

355
00:31:54,501 --> 00:31:55,585
but my real name is

356
00:31:56,169 --> 00:31:57,504
Boteng Bediako.

357
00:31:58,713 --> 00:32:00,215
-They calls me Toby.
-Hmm.

358
00:32:01,091 --> 00:32:02,759
My name Kunta Kinte.

359
00:32:03,468 --> 00:32:06,763
I heard of a village
named Jenay Kinte, once.

360
00:32:07,013 --> 00:32:10,350
The name of my father's brother,
that's his own village.

361
00:32:11,393 --> 00:32:13,520
Never forget those things, Kunta Kinte.

362
00:32:14,938 --> 00:32:18,817
We got to remember the old ways
and pass them on to the children.

363
00:32:20,235 --> 00:32:22,362
I feel sorry for these blacks
that's born here.

364
00:32:22,821 --> 00:32:23,947
They don't know who they is.

365
00:32:24,865 --> 00:32:27,033
-They from Africa, and yet they ain't.
-Hmm.

366
00:32:27,284 --> 00:32:28,702
They from the white folks land,

367
00:32:29,035 --> 00:32:30,036
and they ain't,

368
00:32:30,370 --> 00:32:31,371
(SCOFFS)

369
00:32:31,621 --> 00:32:32,622
It seem to me like...

370
00:32:33,540 --> 00:32:37,461
Like there's a whole tribe of
strange new people that is lost.

371
00:32:40,005 --> 00:32:42,215
They got no remembering of the old ways,

372
00:32:42,674 --> 00:32:43,675
to help them,

373
00:32:44,342 --> 00:32:45,594
to tell them who they are.

374
00:32:46,094 --> 00:32:47,721
The most ways I wanna be helped,

375
00:32:48,430 --> 00:32:50,265
is back to my own land.

376
00:32:52,017 --> 00:32:53,268
You're talking escape?

377
00:32:54,895 --> 00:32:56,563
But they catches niggers
and sends them back.

378
00:32:58,565 --> 00:33:00,066
Not if you smart.

379
00:33:00,692 --> 00:33:03,028
Not if you got a plan
that will get you north

380
00:33:03,236 --> 00:33:05,405
to some people they call
the Abolitionists.

381
00:33:05,822 --> 00:33:07,157
They hides niggers.

382
00:33:07,741 --> 00:33:09,743
And then they makes them free.

383
00:33:10,076 --> 00:33:12,913
And when the time come, I'm heading north.

384
00:33:14,539 --> 00:33:16,041
But you will go alone?

385
00:33:17,083 --> 00:33:18,585
Doesn't you wants to come with me?

386
00:33:19,503 --> 00:33:23,715
Me never wanted nothing more in my life,
Boteng Bediako. Nothing.

387
00:33:24,758 --> 00:33:26,259
You listen for the signal.

388
00:33:26,635 --> 00:33:28,136
(DRUMMING)

389
00:33:31,765 --> 00:33:32,766
When you hear that,

390
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,560
you follow the sound of the drum.

391
00:33:35,810 --> 00:33:36,811
Come as quick as you can.

392
00:33:37,103 --> 00:33:39,189
When I hear the drum,
I will come, quick as I can.

393
00:33:45,195 --> 00:33:47,447
This drummer, he gonna send a message.

394
00:33:48,949 --> 00:33:49,991
By drum.

395
00:33:51,493 --> 00:33:54,079
-We head north, to freedom.
-Stop that, stop that.

396
00:33:54,913 --> 00:33:56,498
But don't you want to be free, Bell?

397
00:33:56,957 --> 00:33:59,084
Just... Just stop all that African talk

398
00:33:59,584 --> 00:34:01,336
about, about drums and all that stuff.

399
00:34:02,629 --> 00:34:03,880
Yeah, but wait now, the drummer said if...

400
00:34:04,130 --> 00:34:05,590
He don't know.

401
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:06,841
I know.

402
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,388
I never tell nobody this before.

403
00:34:11,805 --> 00:34:12,806
Not nobody here.

404
00:34:15,267 --> 00:34:16,643
Before I come here, I was...

405
00:34:17,811 --> 00:34:20,981
I was on another plantation,
you ain't my first man.

406
00:34:24,359 --> 00:34:25,485
The first was

407
00:34:26,444 --> 00:34:27,904
when I was just a girl.

408
00:34:30,073 --> 00:34:31,408
We wasn't married Christian,

409
00:34:31,658 --> 00:34:34,160
that massa didn't believe
in Jesus for niggers.

410
00:34:36,663 --> 00:34:38,248
I loved that man.

411
00:34:38,707 --> 00:34:40,166
His name was Ben.

412
00:34:42,669 --> 00:34:45,589
We had two little baby girls.

413
00:34:49,175 --> 00:34:52,012
One night, he run off, I helped him.

414
00:34:54,097 --> 00:34:55,640
He was gonna get free,

415
00:34:57,017 --> 00:34:58,852
and then fetch me and the babies.

416
00:35:00,186 --> 00:35:02,522
And we'll all be free.

417
00:35:06,484 --> 00:35:07,861
But they catched him.

418
00:35:10,155 --> 00:35:11,323
They catched him,

419
00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:13,825
and they hanged him.

420
00:35:14,701 --> 00:35:17,454
(VOICE BREAKING)
And they sold off my...

421
00:35:19,539 --> 00:35:21,541
They sold off my babies.

422
00:35:24,961 --> 00:35:27,213
Never seen those sweet babies,

423
00:35:29,382 --> 00:35:31,426
for the rest of my whole life.

424
00:35:33,553 --> 00:35:34,971
(WEEPING)

425
00:35:37,474 --> 00:35:42,270
You keep talking about Africa,
and getting free,

426
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,231
and something terrible is gonna happen.

427
00:35:45,774 --> 00:35:50,278
One more terrible thing happen in my life,
Toby, and I'll just die.

428
00:35:51,946 --> 00:35:53,907
I just die.

429
00:35:54,783 --> 00:35:56,409
(CRYING)

430
00:36:05,919 --> 00:36:06,920
Bell.

431
00:36:09,339 --> 00:36:11,383
Why you tell me this now?

432
00:36:12,550 --> 00:36:13,551
Why?

433
00:36:59,139 --> 00:37:00,974
(BABY CRIES)

434
00:37:10,316 --> 00:37:11,651
Well, Toby,

435
00:37:12,485 --> 00:37:13,486
had a hard time.

436
00:37:14,487 --> 00:37:17,365
Bell is not a young woman,
but she's all right.

437
00:37:19,409 --> 00:37:21,578
And you have a beautiful young daughter.

438
00:37:22,287 --> 00:37:24,164
Ah. Ha.

439
00:37:24,330 --> 00:37:25,498
(BOTH LAUGHING)

440
00:37:26,666 --> 00:37:28,710
-You can go see her now.
-Yes, Sir.

441
00:37:31,171 --> 00:37:32,172
Fiddler.

442
00:37:34,215 --> 00:37:35,216
Go.

443
00:37:37,385 --> 00:37:38,720
(BABY CRIES)

444
00:37:40,013 --> 00:37:41,389
BELL: Toby, look.

445
00:37:41,598 --> 00:37:42,599
Ah...

446
00:37:45,602 --> 00:37:46,936
Ain't she pretty?

447
00:37:56,613 --> 00:37:58,364
Got a name for her already.

448
00:37:58,782 --> 00:37:59,866
Just the right name.

449
00:38:00,742 --> 00:38:02,202
We're gonna call her Kizzy.

450
00:38:03,036 --> 00:38:04,245
Kizzy?

451
00:38:04,537 --> 00:38:05,789
In Mandinka talk,

452
00:38:06,414 --> 00:38:07,791
it means she stay put.

453
00:38:08,041 --> 00:38:09,542
She never be took from you.

454
00:38:16,883 --> 00:38:17,884
(BABY COOING)

455
00:38:18,218 --> 00:38:19,552
Just you rest easy.

456
00:38:25,558 --> 00:38:28,978
Master Reynolds, he bound to wanna know
where we get the name Kizzy.

457
00:38:29,771 --> 00:38:32,732
He gonna wanna know
whether or not it's a Christian name.

458
00:38:34,734 --> 00:38:36,569
I don't know
what I ought to tell him, Fiddler.

459
00:38:37,779 --> 00:38:39,489
I don't know much about this lying.

460
00:38:39,823 --> 00:38:41,866
It come easy, after a time.

461
00:38:45,370 --> 00:38:48,206
White folks make it so.

462
00:38:51,543 --> 00:38:53,545
Say it's a family name.

463
00:38:54,420 --> 00:38:55,421
Bell's side.

464
00:38:56,047 --> 00:38:57,423
He'll believe that you think?

465
00:38:57,882 --> 00:38:58,883
(CHUCKLES)

466
00:39:01,386 --> 00:39:02,595
Pretty, ain't it?

467
00:39:02,971 --> 00:39:05,265
Shine like a baby's behind.

468
00:39:12,605 --> 00:39:14,315
(VIOLIN PLAYING)

469
00:39:16,776 --> 00:39:18,403
Yeah, he'll probably believe it.

470
00:39:19,821 --> 00:39:20,864
Now hush up.

471
00:39:22,490 --> 00:39:23,491
"Probably."

472
00:39:23,825 --> 00:39:26,286
I can't take no chance
on no "probably," Fiddler.

473
00:39:29,455 --> 00:39:30,623
(SIGHS)

474
00:39:31,165 --> 00:39:35,295
"Probably" is as good as it gets
for a nigger, Kunta.

475
00:39:36,921 --> 00:39:39,549
Make your peace with that.

476
00:39:40,258 --> 00:39:41,801
If you wants to talk,

477
00:39:42,802 --> 00:39:45,221
you go right on ahead and talk,
I can hear you.

478
00:39:45,430 --> 00:39:46,848
(SNIFFLES)

479
00:39:48,433 --> 00:39:49,601
Play me some music.

480
00:39:51,853 --> 00:39:53,813
Play me a song I wants to hear.

481
00:39:55,982 --> 00:39:59,235
Tired of all the time
playing white folk's song.

482
00:40:00,486 --> 00:40:02,363
My own song to play.

483
00:40:05,867 --> 00:40:07,660
(VIOLIN PLAYING)

484
00:40:12,165 --> 00:40:14,125
I just got to name her Kizzy.

485
00:40:17,378 --> 00:40:18,588
And when she grow up,

486
00:40:19,505 --> 00:40:21,507
I tell her what Kizzy really mean.

487
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:24,344
Tell her about her grandma.

488
00:40:25,428 --> 00:40:26,596
And her grandpa.

489
00:40:27,805 --> 00:40:29,641
And the village back in Africa.

490
00:40:31,517 --> 00:40:33,519
-Tell her about her peoples back there.
-(VIOLIN STOPS)

491
00:40:34,687 --> 00:40:38,274
So she'll know, she wasn't born to be
no slave here, in the white folk's land.

492
00:40:39,359 --> 00:40:40,360
Yeah.

493
00:40:41,110 --> 00:40:42,445
That's what I'll do, Fiddler.

494
00:40:43,529 --> 00:40:44,906
Fiddler, what you think?

495
00:40:48,117 --> 00:40:49,118
Fiddler?

496
00:40:50,620 --> 00:40:51,621
Fiddler?

497
00:40:52,038 --> 00:40:53,039
(SOFT GROAN)

498
00:41:06,386 --> 00:41:07,387
(VOICE BREAKING) Fiddler.

499
00:41:16,813 --> 00:41:19,190
Now you know
how it feel to be free, Fiddler.

500
00:41:23,403 --> 00:41:25,780
Now you know what I always talking about.

501
00:41:28,658 --> 00:41:30,284
(CRYING)

502
00:41:32,078 --> 00:41:34,080
Ain't free a fine way to be, Fiddler?

503
00:41:35,081 --> 00:41:36,082
Being free.

504
00:41:38,251 --> 00:41:40,169
Ain't it a fine way to be!

505
00:41:43,548 --> 00:41:44,549
Fiddler.

506
00:41:45,091 --> 00:41:47,051
(CRYING)

507
00:41:53,016 --> 00:41:54,267
Fiddler.

508
00:42:38,352 --> 00:42:39,353
(BABY COOING)

509
00:42:39,729 --> 00:42:40,730
How come?

510
00:42:42,607 --> 00:42:43,816
It's the way I was named.

511
00:42:44,442 --> 00:42:45,443
And my father.

512
00:42:45,735 --> 00:42:46,736
And his father.

513
00:42:47,195 --> 00:42:48,988
And it's the way
this child going to be named.

514
00:42:49,238 --> 00:42:50,239
(BABY COOING)

515
00:42:50,865 --> 00:42:53,534
But she got to know about her peoples
and their ways.

516
00:42:54,494 --> 00:42:57,163
I the only one that can teach her
the Mandinka way.

517
00:42:59,791 --> 00:43:01,084
Proper naming of her,

518
00:43:01,501 --> 00:43:03,169
that the first place to start.

519
00:43:04,087 --> 00:43:06,756
Make this child stand strong and tall.

520
00:43:07,507 --> 00:43:09,175
You ain't never give up, is you?

521
00:43:11,135 --> 00:43:13,137
Not for me, not for nobody.

522
00:43:15,181 --> 00:43:16,432
I love you, Bell.

523
00:43:17,183 --> 00:43:19,477
I ain't never loved no one
the way I love you.

524
00:43:19,977 --> 00:43:21,187
(BABY CRYING)

525
00:43:21,646 --> 00:43:23,523
But don't ask me to give this up.

526
00:43:24,023 --> 00:43:26,192
Not unless you really
wanna hear my answer.

527
00:43:27,276 --> 00:43:28,945
Only answer I can give.

528
00:44:34,552 --> 00:44:35,553
(CRYING)

529
00:44:47,607 --> 00:44:48,733
Kizzy.

530
00:44:49,442 --> 00:44:52,528
Behold, the only thing
greater than yourself.

531
00:44:58,951 --> 00:45:00,620
(DRUMMING)

532
00:45:16,844 --> 00:45:17,845
(DRUMMING STOPS)

533
00:45:26,479 --> 00:45:27,772
(DRUMMING)

534
00:45:42,745 --> 00:45:43,746
(GROANS)

535
00:45:45,539 --> 00:45:46,999
(DRUMMING STOPS)

536
00:45:50,628 --> 00:45:51,629
(PANTING)

537
00:45:55,508 --> 00:45:56,842
(DRUMMING)

538
00:46:01,514 --> 00:46:03,015
(BREATHING HEAVILY)

539
00:46:11,190 --> 00:46:13,150
(DRUMMING STOPS)

540
00:46:26,205 --> 00:46:27,665
(DRUMMING)

541
00:46:34,005 --> 00:46:35,214
The drums.

542
00:46:35,965 --> 00:46:37,049
What you gonna do?

543
00:46:37,466 --> 00:46:39,260
You ain't gonna leave us here, Toby?

544
00:46:39,468 --> 00:46:40,469
-This is your home.
- (DRUMMING STOPS)

545
00:46:41,220 --> 00:46:43,723
No, it's not my home.

546
00:46:44,598 --> 00:46:45,599
(GROANS)

547
00:46:49,812 --> 00:46:51,564
(KIZZY CRIES)

548
00:46:54,900 --> 00:46:56,569
But this my child.

549
00:46:58,612 --> 00:47:00,239
And we family.

550
00:47:01,240 --> 00:47:02,241
Oh...

551
00:47:28,893 --> 00:47:29,894
(DRUMMING)

552
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:42,782
(KIZZY CRIES)

553
00:47:48,371 --> 00:47:49,789
Girl,

554
00:47:50,039 --> 00:47:52,166
your name is Kizzy.

555
00:47:53,250 --> 00:47:56,420
You from special people,
baby Kizzy, special.

556
00:47:56,796 --> 00:47:59,048
And you gonna be
a special kind of woman, too.

557
00:48:01,092 --> 00:48:03,052
Your name means, "Stay put."

558
00:48:04,095 --> 00:48:06,180
But it don't mean, "Stay a slave."

559
00:48:07,056 --> 00:48:08,307
It won't never mean that.

560
00:48:11,435 --> 00:48:14,355
You is the daughter
of the African, Kunta Kinte.

561
00:48:15,022 --> 00:48:16,816
Of the village of Juffure,

562
00:48:17,024 --> 00:48:19,985
on the banks of the river,
called the Kamby Bolongo.

563
00:48:20,778 --> 00:48:24,407
The father of Kunta Kinte
is the Mandinka warrior, Omoro.

564
00:48:24,949 --> 00:48:26,325
His mama is Binta.

565
00:48:26,450 --> 00:48:29,328
The warrior, Omoro,
was the son of the holy man...

566
00:48:43,926 --> 00:48:45,428
NARRATOR: Next, Roots continues

567
00:48:45,553 --> 00:48:48,097
with Leslie Uggams
as the young woman, Kizzy.

568
00:48:48,222 --> 00:48:49,849
-Papa.
-Kizzy.

569
00:48:50,015 --> 00:48:52,268
NARRATOR: And Sandy Duncan
as her best friend.

570
00:48:52,393 --> 00:48:54,895
My friend, my dearest friend.

571
00:48:55,020 --> 00:48:58,232
I beg you, please don't sell her.

572
00:48:58,357 --> 00:49:01,360
-Please, Massa.
-Don't split up the family, Massa.

573
00:49:01,777 --> 00:49:03,195
You ain't never been that kind of man.

574
00:49:03,529 --> 00:49:05,489
-KIZZY: No, no, I don't wanna go.
-Oh, God.

575
00:49:05,698 --> 00:49:07,324
-My baby.
-KIZZY: No!

576
00:49:07,700 --> 00:49:09,952
No, Mama! Mama, Papal!

577
00:49:10,202 --> 00:49:13,205
NARRATOR: Roots, the triumph
of an American family, continues.

578
00:49:16,208 --> 00:49:18,377
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

579
00:50:01,545 --> 00:50:02,546
ENGLISH - SDH