1 00:00:16,935 --> 00:00:18,603 You are Kunta Kinte. 2 00:00:18,687 --> 00:00:19,938 Behold! 3 00:00:21,022 --> 00:00:23,191 The only thing greater than yourself. 4 00:00:26,528 --> 00:00:30,949 The first duty of a Mandinka warrior is to raise a family. 5 00:00:51,886 --> 00:00:55,682 It's time your family paid for all the trouble they have caused me, Kunta. 6 00:00:55,765 --> 00:00:56,808 Run! 7 00:01:05,483 --> 00:01:08,111 Sell the boy to the British with the other captives. 8 00:01:26,087 --> 00:01:28,840 - No more running for you, boy. - No! No! 9 00:01:28,923 --> 00:01:29,924 No, please don't! 10 00:01:32,385 --> 00:01:35,180 I'm so relieved you're gonna make it. 11 00:01:35,263 --> 00:01:36,931 My name is Belle. 12 00:01:37,015 --> 00:01:38,725 Let's make it official. 13 00:01:44,230 --> 00:01:46,983 I never thought I'd be able to have another child. 14 00:01:47,108 --> 00:01:49,652 I'll protect our child. 15 00:01:49,736 --> 00:01:51,696 Kizzy, I think I was selfish 16 00:01:51,780 --> 00:01:54,324 to have you born into a world like this. 17 00:01:54,407 --> 00:01:57,368 Don't worry, Fa. You trained me well. 18 00:01:57,452 --> 00:01:59,788 Kizzy! No! No, Kizzy! 19 00:02:02,123 --> 00:02:03,750 No! 20 00:02:04,751 --> 00:02:06,711 - Fa! - Kizzy! 21 00:02:07,712 --> 00:02:09,714 Where the hell do you think you're going? 22 00:02:09,798 --> 00:02:12,383 - This is my right! - Kill me! 23 00:02:14,010 --> 00:02:15,804 I'm gonna name you after my daddy... 24 00:02:15,887 --> 00:02:18,223 George Lea II. 25 00:02:20,308 --> 00:02:22,852 # One day, one day # 26 00:02:22,936 --> 00:02:25,271 # One day, one day # 27 00:02:25,355 --> 00:02:27,440 # I were walking along # 28 00:02:27,524 --> 00:02:29,609 # I were walking along # 29 00:02:29,692 --> 00:02:31,778 # And I heard a little voice # 30 00:02:31,861 --> 00:02:34,072 # And I heard a little voice # 31 00:02:34,155 --> 00:02:36,032 # Didn't see no one # 32 00:02:36,157 --> 00:02:38,201 # Didn't see no one # 33 00:02:38,284 --> 00:02:40,286 # It was old lost John # 34 00:02:40,370 --> 00:02:42,330 # It was old lost John # 35 00:02:42,413 --> 00:02:44,499 # He said he was long gone # 36 00:02:44,582 --> 00:02:46,376 # He said he was long gone # 37 00:02:46,459 --> 00:02:48,670 # Like a turkey through the corn # 38 00:02:48,753 --> 00:02:50,672 # Like a turkey through the corn # 39 00:02:50,755 --> 00:02:52,674 # With his long clothes on # 40 00:02:52,757 --> 00:02:54,401 # With his long clothes on # 41 00:03:28,543 --> 00:03:30,378 Seems hotter today than yesterday. 42 00:03:30,461 --> 00:03:31,880 Yes, Massa. 43 00:03:31,963 --> 00:03:34,173 Sky just sits on you. 44 00:03:34,257 --> 00:03:40,388 When I was a boy, I'd spend a day like this just sitting buck naked in the creek. 45 00:05:12,563 --> 00:05:13,690 Why are you here? 46 00:05:13,773 --> 00:05:16,776 He pretty. I wanted to touch him. 47 00:05:16,859 --> 00:05:19,153 He could scratch the prying eyes from your head. 48 00:05:19,237 --> 00:05:21,823 I'm gonna tell Massa Tom to beat the hell out of you. 49 00:05:21,906 --> 00:05:23,658 Make sure you stay away from my chickens. 50 00:05:23,741 --> 00:05:25,326 Now get! 51 00:05:38,756 --> 00:05:40,174 Mama. 52 00:05:40,258 --> 00:05:41,968 N-Not in my front of my boy, Massa Tom. 53 00:05:42,051 --> 00:05:43,344 Get up, George. 54 00:05:45,179 --> 00:05:46,431 You need to learn! 55 00:05:46,514 --> 00:05:48,725 George, what'd you do? What... What'd he do, Massa? 56 00:05:48,808 --> 00:05:51,019 Little monkey keeps bothering Mingo, 57 00:05:51,102 --> 00:05:53,646 messing with my birds in the range walk. 58 00:05:53,730 --> 00:05:55,314 Mingo's got too much work to do, boy. 59 00:05:55,398 --> 00:05:57,150 George, them birds will hurt you. 60 00:05:57,233 --> 00:05:58,901 You scared of them birds? 61 00:06:00,069 --> 00:06:01,922 Then I'm gonna put your yellow ass up on the wagon 62 00:06:01,946 --> 00:06:03,489 when Mingo and me go out and fight. 63 00:06:03,573 --> 00:06:04,949 You're gonna help. 64 00:06:05,033 --> 00:06:08,536 Mingo don't like children. He... He don't like people. 65 00:06:08,619 --> 00:06:10,204 Get your clothes on, boy. 66 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:23,301 - You look pretty in this light, Kizzy. - Please. He watching us. 67 00:06:24,552 --> 00:06:25,928 Can I hold the bird, Massa Tom? 68 00:06:26,012 --> 00:06:28,473 You do what Mingo tells you to do. 69 00:06:28,556 --> 00:06:30,475 And you be on your best behavior, 70 00:06:30,558 --> 00:06:32,560 or I'll sell you to Cherokee savages. 71 00:06:41,611 --> 00:06:44,113 Oh, Fa. 72 00:06:44,197 --> 00:06:47,575 Papa, he trying to take my boy. 73 00:06:49,202 --> 00:06:52,455 Massa Tom, why you start fighting chickens? 74 00:06:52,538 --> 00:06:55,583 Gamecocks, George, not chickens. 75 00:06:55,666 --> 00:06:57,668 And I fight them 'cause they're magic. 76 00:06:57,752 --> 00:07:01,130 Carried me from a backwoods shack with 10 brothers and sisters... 77 00:07:01,214 --> 00:07:03,466 Abracadabra. Bought my own farm. 78 00:07:03,549 --> 00:07:05,384 Bought my first nigger. 79 00:07:05,468 --> 00:07:08,012 His name was George, like yourn. 80 00:07:08,096 --> 00:07:11,265 Tough old boy. Died too fast. 81 00:07:11,349 --> 00:07:13,768 - He my daddy? - Your daddy's long gone. 82 00:07:13,851 --> 00:07:16,229 No-account white man, passing through. 83 00:07:16,312 --> 00:07:18,064 Gave you that yellow skin. 84 00:07:18,147 --> 00:07:19,941 Second nigger I bought was Mingo. 85 00:07:20,024 --> 00:07:21,651 Best move I ever made. 86 00:07:21,734 --> 00:07:24,445 Wants this all clear by sundown. 87 00:07:25,446 --> 00:07:27,365 See that land over there? 88 00:07:27,448 --> 00:07:31,077 Biggest farm in Carolina ain't enough for Mr. William Byrd. 89 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:32,954 That bastard hates me 'cause I'm Irish 90 00:07:33,037 --> 00:07:35,581 and 'cause my daddy was backwoods poor. 91 00:07:35,665 --> 00:07:37,291 Thinks he knows who I am. 92 00:07:38,292 --> 00:07:40,211 He don't know a damn thing about Tom Lea. 93 00:07:41,212 --> 00:07:44,257 Thinks he's prince of Caswell County. 94 00:07:44,340 --> 00:07:46,968 Hell, I'm gonna be king of Caswell County. 95 00:07:47,051 --> 00:07:50,304 - Pay what you owe, Irish! - I'll pay you in a week! 96 00:07:50,388 --> 00:07:52,682 Oyez! Oyez! 97 00:07:57,562 --> 00:08:00,356 Whoa! Hit him! Don't tickle him! 98 00:08:00,481 --> 00:08:01,899 Ooh! 99 00:08:01,983 --> 00:08:04,819 Oyez! Oyez! 100 00:08:04,902 --> 00:08:08,906 The main match... a struggle to the death. 101 00:08:08,990 --> 00:08:11,450 - I give you Tom Lea... - Yeah! Whoo-hoo! 102 00:08:11,534 --> 00:08:12,869 ...and Farnie Deets. 103 00:08:12,952 --> 00:08:14,954 Bring that cock to the pen, Mingo. 104 00:08:15,037 --> 00:08:16,664 - You get him, Mingo! - Let's go, Mingo! 105 00:08:18,332 --> 00:08:19,876 Look at my Red. 106 00:08:19,959 --> 00:08:21,879 - You ever seen anything so beautiful? - Unh-unh. 107 00:08:21,961 --> 00:08:23,254 - Huh? - Yeah. 108 00:08:24,255 --> 00:08:26,215 - Gonna bring me luck, boy? - Yes, Massa. 109 00:08:26,299 --> 00:08:28,634 Go and add $200 to my bet. 110 00:08:28,718 --> 00:08:30,344 Bill your cocks. 111 00:08:32,555 --> 00:08:33,973 Come on now, Mingo! 112 00:08:34,056 --> 00:08:35,892 - Step back, gentlemen. - Come on, Mingo! 113 00:08:35,975 --> 00:08:36,976 Step back. 114 00:08:37,059 --> 00:08:39,020 - Come on, boy. - Come on, Mingo! 115 00:08:39,103 --> 00:08:40,354 Pit your cocks! 116 00:08:47,528 --> 00:08:48,779 Go, Red! 117 00:08:50,323 --> 00:08:51,699 Come on. 118 00:08:51,782 --> 00:08:54,035 Come on! 119 00:08:54,118 --> 00:08:55,745 - Come on! - Come on! 120 00:08:55,828 --> 00:08:58,164 Come on! Get him, Red! 121 00:09:02,210 --> 00:09:03,461 Ah, shit! 122 00:09:03,544 --> 00:09:07,173 Mingo, what the hell you doing, boy? Fight them cocks! 123 00:09:07,256 --> 00:09:08,841 Come on, Red! 124 00:09:10,718 --> 00:09:12,220 - Come on, Red! - Fight the cock, boy! 125 00:09:12,303 --> 00:09:14,222 Red! Come on! 126 00:09:14,305 --> 00:09:15,848 Come on! 127 00:09:15,932 --> 00:09:17,934 Come on, Red! 128 00:09:18,017 --> 00:09:19,810 Come on, Red! 129 00:09:19,894 --> 00:09:21,854 Get him! Come on, boy! Get him! 130 00:09:25,858 --> 00:09:27,526 And the match goes to Tom Lea! 131 00:09:27,610 --> 00:09:30,029 - Ah, yeah! - Yes! 132 00:09:30,112 --> 00:09:31,113 Yeah! 133 00:09:32,365 --> 00:09:34,325 What a row! 134 00:09:34,408 --> 00:09:37,495 Nobody beats my Red! Nobody beats my Red! 135 00:09:37,578 --> 00:09:39,830 Nobody beats the Red! Nobody! 136 00:09:39,914 --> 00:09:41,415 Yeah! 137 00:09:41,499 --> 00:09:44,585 - Good job there, Mingo! - Attaboy, Mingo! 138 00:09:44,669 --> 00:09:46,295 - Yeah, Mingo! - Come on. 139 00:09:46,379 --> 00:09:49,966 - Hey! Mingo! - Oh, I love your money, boys! 140 00:09:50,049 --> 00:09:52,677 You can all win it back at the next county fair. 141 00:09:55,388 --> 00:09:57,265 Mingo, big Red all right? 142 00:10:03,312 --> 00:10:04,605 Piss. 143 00:10:05,648 --> 00:10:07,483 Piss on the damn bird, boy. 144 00:10:07,608 --> 00:10:10,069 You sure this good for the bird? 145 00:10:10,152 --> 00:10:11,988 You think you Massa Tom? 146 00:10:12,071 --> 00:10:14,073 Don't ever question me about these birds. 147 00:10:14,156 --> 00:10:16,617 I tell you to do something, you just do it. 148 00:10:16,701 --> 00:10:18,786 Think you know. Don't know nothing. 149 00:10:18,869 --> 00:10:22,415 Don't know the Lord gave chickens worst things in the world... 150 00:10:22,498 --> 00:10:25,209 pip, distemper, apoplexy, 151 00:10:25,293 --> 00:10:27,211 cholera, lime leg, and canker. 152 00:10:27,295 --> 00:10:30,423 You don't know pee clean like a good turpentine. 153 00:10:33,634 --> 00:10:36,804 Yeah. All right. 154 00:10:36,887 --> 00:10:38,973 I don't know why we even brought you along, no way. 155 00:10:39,056 --> 00:10:40,349 'Cause Massa Tom says I can help. 156 00:10:40,433 --> 00:10:42,852 - How? - I talk to your birds. 157 00:10:42,935 --> 00:10:45,062 Talk nothing but hot air. 158 00:10:45,146 --> 00:10:47,565 Birds use they eyes to talk. 159 00:10:47,648 --> 00:10:49,775 Got to hold your stare. 160 00:10:49,859 --> 00:10:53,279 Turn your head away, show you weak. 161 00:10:55,489 --> 00:10:57,116 Stand up. 162 00:10:57,199 --> 00:11:00,703 Got to be a man when you messing with these birds. 163 00:11:00,786 --> 00:11:04,915 Such a big help you is, Chicken George. 164 00:11:08,919 --> 00:11:12,798 "The first cut of... 165 00:11:12,882 --> 00:11:17,595 w-wheat is... 166 00:11:17,678 --> 00:11:20,598 m-most... most... 167 00:11:20,681 --> 00:11:24,977 f-fa... fav..." 168 00:11:25,061 --> 00:11:26,937 What's this say, Kizzy? 169 00:11:29,357 --> 00:11:30,733 Favorable. 170 00:11:31,859 --> 00:11:37,698 "...favorable on a cool... 171 00:11:37,782 --> 00:11:39,492 day." 172 00:11:39,575 --> 00:11:41,952 Yes. 173 00:11:43,954 --> 00:11:47,083 Never thought nobody could learn farming by reading, Kizzy. 174 00:11:47,166 --> 00:11:50,711 Need to read something to tell me how to act around fancy ladies. 175 00:11:50,795 --> 00:11:54,632 Bit of gossip, weather, fashion. 176 00:11:54,715 --> 00:11:56,467 The more you talk about nothing, 177 00:11:56,550 --> 00:11:58,511 the smarter them ladies think you be. 178 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:01,347 Whoa! 179 00:12:01,430 --> 00:12:04,350 You won't tell Massa Tom I been teaching you. 180 00:12:04,433 --> 00:12:07,853 Whew! 181 00:12:07,937 --> 00:12:09,730 Why don't you pour me a drink, Kizzy? 182 00:12:09,814 --> 00:12:11,357 Can't you see I'm parched? 183 00:12:12,608 --> 00:12:13,943 George! 184 00:12:16,737 --> 00:12:18,489 Oh, my God. 185 00:12:18,572 --> 00:12:20,616 Whose blood that is? 186 00:12:20,741 --> 00:12:22,952 - What Mingo do to you? - I got clawed. 187 00:12:23,035 --> 00:12:24,370 Did they hurt you? 188 00:12:24,453 --> 00:12:27,623 Massa Tom said I held 'em real good, and they true killers. 189 00:12:27,748 --> 00:12:29,166 Still waiting on that drink, Kizzy. 190 00:12:31,752 --> 00:12:33,629 George, get over here. 191 00:12:34,672 --> 00:12:36,674 I got a question for ya. 192 00:12:36,757 --> 00:12:39,176 You want to keep fighting gamecocks with Mingo and me, 193 00:12:39,260 --> 00:12:41,846 or you want to get sunburned working them fields? 194 00:12:41,929 --> 00:12:43,889 Want to work with Mingo... and you! 195 00:12:44,890 --> 00:12:46,892 Massa, he a big help with all my chores. 196 00:12:46,976 --> 00:12:51,063 Mama, I like them birds, and they like me. 197 00:12:51,147 --> 00:12:52,940 Good boy. 198 00:12:53,023 --> 00:12:55,609 Now, you know you got to sleep with them birds, too. 199 00:12:55,693 --> 00:12:58,654 Down by old Mingo. That ain't no place for no little boy. 200 00:12:58,779 --> 00:13:00,322 Ah, you can visit him every Sunday. 201 00:13:00,406 --> 00:13:03,451 I'm a fair man, Kizzy. You know that. 202 00:13:03,534 --> 00:13:05,286 Be good for the boy. 203 00:13:05,369 --> 00:13:07,788 He gonna be my good luck charm. 204 00:13:07,872 --> 00:13:09,707 Ain't that right, Tricia? 205 00:13:09,790 --> 00:13:13,002 Well, uh, maybe he could wait a year. 206 00:13:13,085 --> 00:13:16,005 What the hell you know about children, since you can't have none? 207 00:13:20,968 --> 00:13:23,345 Boy, why you still standing there? 208 00:13:23,429 --> 00:13:24,930 Go help Mingo with the birds. 209 00:13:25,014 --> 00:13:26,557 Yes, sir. 210 00:13:29,477 --> 00:13:31,812 Boy's gonna be my good luck charm, Kizzy. 211 00:13:46,285 --> 00:13:48,370 Here, boy. 212 00:13:50,414 --> 00:13:51,874 That's bird food, Mingo. 213 00:13:51,957 --> 00:13:56,212 Barley, milk, corn, rice, and my secret... 214 00:13:56,295 --> 00:13:58,297 my own brewed hops. 215 00:13:58,380 --> 00:14:01,217 Let them niggers on the farm eat flesh. 216 00:14:01,300 --> 00:14:04,011 What's good for birds is good for men. 217 00:14:04,094 --> 00:14:06,639 You can game a bird for 10 years. 218 00:14:06,722 --> 00:14:10,476 Take him from the cage, leave him one step in the trees, 219 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:13,354 he gonna turn back wild just like that. 220 00:14:13,437 --> 00:14:16,190 'Cause these birds, they from across the sea. 221 00:14:16,273 --> 00:14:18,567 In they hearts, they always free. 222 00:14:18,651 --> 00:14:21,320 Mingo, can you teach me all about birds? 223 00:14:21,403 --> 00:14:23,030 Teach me to fight them? 224 00:14:23,113 --> 00:14:26,408 What you think we is, friends? 225 00:14:26,492 --> 00:14:30,871 Come on, boy. I'll teach you how to clean these cages. 226 00:14:50,099 --> 00:14:51,934 Oh, Mama. 227 00:14:52,017 --> 00:14:55,312 You look awful, and you stink. 228 00:14:55,396 --> 00:14:58,190 - It's the cocks. - Ain't no cocks in here. 229 00:14:58,274 --> 00:15:02,027 Mama, I let all the birds free, cage by cage! 230 00:15:02,111 --> 00:15:03,654 Big ones, Mama! 231 00:15:03,737 --> 00:15:05,573 And fed them and helped Mingo fix them. 232 00:15:05,656 --> 00:15:07,366 Oh, you should've seen it, Mama. 233 00:15:07,449 --> 00:15:10,661 All these white men saying, "Hey, Mingo," patting him on his back. 234 00:15:10,744 --> 00:15:14,248 Can you believe that, white men respecting an old nigger like Mingo? 235 00:15:14,331 --> 00:15:18,043 And it was fun watching Massa Tom smiling and strutting around. 236 00:15:18,127 --> 00:15:19,837 Hey, look. He gave me money. 237 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:22,381 Ain't nothing fun about being with that man, 238 00:15:22,464 --> 00:15:24,425 no matter how they make Mingo feel. 239 00:15:24,508 --> 00:15:28,053 - But Mama... - Come here. 240 00:15:30,973 --> 00:15:34,351 Tom Lea ain't no better than no other toubab. 241 00:15:34,435 --> 00:15:36,604 No matter how much laughing they do, 242 00:15:36,687 --> 00:15:39,690 no matter how much you get to play with them damn birds, 243 00:15:39,773 --> 00:15:43,027 Mingo a slave at the end of it all. 244 00:15:43,110 --> 00:15:44,737 And you one, too. 245 00:15:44,820 --> 00:15:46,739 But Massa Tom likes me, Mama. 246 00:15:46,822 --> 00:15:51,327 He don't know how to like nobody. 247 00:15:54,538 --> 00:15:57,708 And don't nobody love ya like your mama. 248 00:16:02,588 --> 00:16:07,092 Go on, eat. Wash up. Go to bed. 249 00:16:13,474 --> 00:16:15,309 Massa Tom like me. 250 00:16:30,532 --> 00:16:32,576 Whoa! 251 00:16:36,997 --> 00:16:38,540 Uh... 252 00:16:41,251 --> 00:16:45,005 - Miss Patricia. - Thank you, George. 253 00:16:46,423 --> 00:16:48,634 I'll be at the church in the trees when you want me, 254 00:16:48,717 --> 00:16:52,054 - ready to go home. - Since when you a man of faith? 255 00:16:52,137 --> 00:16:54,640 Since you seen that preacher's daughter? 256 00:16:55,724 --> 00:16:57,685 - Go on. - Thank you, sir. Excuse me. 257 00:16:57,768 --> 00:16:59,228 Only last week, and I... 258 00:16:59,311 --> 00:17:02,648 - Morning. - Keep walking. 259 00:17:03,649 --> 00:17:04,942 Patricia. 260 00:17:07,695 --> 00:17:09,530 Mr. Byrd. 261 00:17:31,301 --> 00:17:34,763 How come I always end up at the back? 262 00:17:34,847 --> 00:17:40,978 See, the Lord say that... that he that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life. 263 00:17:41,061 --> 00:17:42,461 All right, Reverend. All right. 264 00:17:42,521 --> 00:17:46,233 - But he who opens his lips... - Yes, sir. 265 00:17:46,316 --> 00:17:49,194 - ...shall face destruction. Amen! - Uh-huh. 266 00:17:49,278 --> 00:17:50,320 - Amen! - Amen! 267 00:17:50,404 --> 00:17:52,156 - Hallelujah - Amen! 268 00:17:52,239 --> 00:17:57,870 You see, wealth gathered by vanity will diminish. 269 00:17:57,953 --> 00:17:59,413 And see, my eyes is old, 270 00:17:59,496 --> 00:18:01,915 but I can see what the Lord says. 271 00:18:01,999 --> 00:18:06,879 See, the Lord tells us beware of flattering lips 272 00:18:06,962 --> 00:18:10,799 and men who speak with double hearts. 273 00:18:10,883 --> 00:18:12,885 Truth is your sustenance. 274 00:18:12,968 --> 00:18:17,181 And beware that man who talk about money and worship money. 275 00:18:17,264 --> 00:18:19,141 See, that, too, is vanity. 276 00:18:20,976 --> 00:18:24,480 The righteous man eateth to satisfy his soul! 277 00:18:24,563 --> 00:18:27,983 But the belly of the wicked shall want chicken! 278 00:18:29,568 --> 00:18:31,361 And taters! 279 00:18:31,445 --> 00:18:33,489 'Cause a full belly is a righteous belly! 280 00:18:33,572 --> 00:18:34,865 Whoo! 281 00:18:34,948 --> 00:18:36,867 Chicken! Oh, chicken! 282 00:18:36,950 --> 00:18:38,202 Everybody need chicken! 283 00:18:39,912 --> 00:18:42,706 I told you what I'd do. You keep it up every Sunday. 284 00:18:42,790 --> 00:18:44,750 So rude and disrespectful to my daddy. 285 00:18:44,833 --> 00:18:46,877 Oh, Lord, help me now. I got a she-wolf on me. 286 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:48,212 My daddy is a kind man. 287 00:18:48,295 --> 00:18:51,006 You just a flim-flam fool not fit to walk in my daddy's shadow. 288 00:18:51,131 --> 00:18:54,885 Don't you have love in your heart for anybody but yourself? 289 00:18:56,637 --> 00:18:58,013 Hang on, now. 290 00:18:58,138 --> 00:18:59,449 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. 291 00:18:59,473 --> 00:19:01,451 - Hold on. Hold on. - Move away or I'll whop you again. 292 00:19:01,475 --> 00:19:02,893 And I deserve it. 293 00:19:02,976 --> 00:19:05,604 Ain't got no right to be mocking your daddy. He a fine preacher. 294 00:19:05,687 --> 00:19:07,314 Look around. 295 00:19:07,397 --> 00:19:09,983 More folks watching me than listening to him. 296 00:19:11,151 --> 00:19:13,551 Now, if all these folk, tired from working so hard every day, 297 00:19:13,612 --> 00:19:15,781 will stop to hear the word of the Lord, 298 00:19:15,864 --> 00:19:20,494 does it really matter if it comes from the mouth of a fool like me? 299 00:19:20,577 --> 00:19:22,746 "Thy lips are as the honeycomb. 300 00:19:22,830 --> 00:19:25,165 Honey and milk are on thy tongue. 301 00:19:25,249 --> 00:19:29,169 Thou art all fair, my love." 302 00:19:29,253 --> 00:19:31,588 I heard your daddy preach that from King Solomon's songs. 303 00:19:33,549 --> 00:19:35,342 Save your pretty talk. 304 00:19:35,425 --> 00:19:37,970 You see me giggling and swooning? 305 00:19:38,971 --> 00:19:41,431 Hm. I know one thing. 306 00:19:41,515 --> 00:19:44,476 - You ain't never met a girl like me. - Well, maybe not. 307 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:46,645 I'm not a pious man like your daddy, 308 00:19:46,728 --> 00:19:48,897 but I know you ain't let go of my hand yet. 309 00:19:50,315 --> 00:19:52,109 I'm George. Live on the Lea farm. 310 00:19:52,192 --> 00:19:53,944 I know who you is, 311 00:19:54,027 --> 00:19:56,280 and I know all you care about is fighting chickens. 312 00:19:56,363 --> 00:19:58,407 I do. Know about other birds, too... 313 00:19:58,490 --> 00:20:01,159 starling, sparrow, 314 00:20:01,243 --> 00:20:02,995 mourning doves sing so sweet and soft, 315 00:20:03,078 --> 00:20:05,831 make you want to open your eyes to a new day. 316 00:20:05,914 --> 00:20:09,042 And I'm gonna see you again, my mourning dove. 317 00:20:10,460 --> 00:20:12,796 My daddy decides who courts me. 318 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:14,298 Well, I ain't afraid of your daddy. 319 00:20:14,381 --> 00:20:16,216 Then why don't you try me out? 320 00:20:18,510 --> 00:20:19,887 Hold this, Til. 321 00:20:20,971 --> 00:20:22,973 You got something to say to me, boy? 322 00:20:26,602 --> 00:20:31,023 Now, I can feel the Holy Spirit right here... 323 00:20:32,107 --> 00:20:33,984 right now! 324 00:20:35,402 --> 00:20:36,945 Mm! Whoo! 325 00:20:37,029 --> 00:20:40,240 Hallelujah! You my one and only. 326 00:20:47,873 --> 00:20:50,959 He gonna put the fear of God in them other handlers. 327 00:20:52,669 --> 00:20:54,671 What the hell you doing, boy? 328 00:20:54,755 --> 00:20:56,840 Letting him see me eye-to-eye. 329 00:20:58,050 --> 00:21:01,595 I want him to know my hands till he thinks we the same, me and him. 330 00:21:01,678 --> 00:21:04,306 Just feed him, clean him, and put him away. 331 00:21:11,688 --> 00:21:16,234 Mingo, I got a notion from watching all these fights. 332 00:21:16,318 --> 00:21:17,861 Keep a count. 333 00:21:17,945 --> 00:21:20,238 Times we lose mostly when some other bird 334 00:21:20,322 --> 00:21:22,699 get over Massa's bird, gaff him from the top. 335 00:21:22,783 --> 00:21:26,578 I think we need to give Massa's birds a whole lot of training for they wings, 336 00:21:26,662 --> 00:21:29,081 make them stronger so they fly higher, 337 00:21:29,164 --> 00:21:30,999 win even more than they do now. 338 00:21:31,083 --> 00:21:32,918 I figured out special exercises. 339 00:21:33,001 --> 00:21:37,255 You good at exercising your mouth, but you don't know birds. 340 00:21:37,339 --> 00:21:39,800 Killing bred into the bird. 341 00:21:39,883 --> 00:21:42,469 Don't need no wing training. 342 00:21:42,552 --> 00:21:45,973 You don't do nothing till I say so. 343 00:21:46,056 --> 00:21:48,684 Been doing this 'fore you was alive. 344 00:22:02,155 --> 00:22:03,407 Get back here! 345 00:22:14,835 --> 00:22:18,213 What you doing to that bird? What'd I tell you? 346 00:22:18,338 --> 00:22:20,090 You don't listen. 347 00:22:20,173 --> 00:22:21,591 Damn fool. 348 00:22:21,675 --> 00:22:24,094 Look how high I got him to fly. Told you I could do it. 349 00:22:28,932 --> 00:22:31,560 I know what I see. Damn truth. 350 00:22:45,615 --> 00:22:47,826 Want my mama to look at that cough? 351 00:22:47,909 --> 00:22:50,037 Don't need no African medicine. 352 00:22:50,120 --> 00:22:54,624 And don't you say nothing about this to Massa Tom. 353 00:23:06,261 --> 00:23:08,305 There's a gathering down by the river tonight. 354 00:23:10,140 --> 00:23:12,642 Boys stopping by to play for everybody. 355 00:23:12,726 --> 00:23:15,312 - Come with me. - Don't need to see nobody. 356 00:23:16,813 --> 00:23:19,524 Malizy said she ain't never see you come by to visit. 357 00:23:19,608 --> 00:23:22,319 Only see you driving out or coming back here. 358 00:23:22,402 --> 00:23:24,780 Can't stay by yourself all the time. 359 00:23:24,863 --> 00:23:26,114 Leave me be. 360 00:23:26,198 --> 00:23:28,742 You a shadow on a moonless night. 361 00:23:28,825 --> 00:23:30,994 You ain't hardly here, Mingo. 362 00:23:31,078 --> 00:23:32,412 The way I like it. 363 00:23:34,539 --> 00:23:37,375 People say they know who I am. 364 00:23:37,459 --> 00:23:39,252 They don't know me. 365 00:23:39,336 --> 00:23:41,922 Say they care about me. 366 00:23:42,005 --> 00:23:45,092 Had too many people taken away 367 00:23:45,175 --> 00:23:48,261 'cause of gossip and tall tale. 368 00:23:48,345 --> 00:23:51,348 Can't trust nobody. 369 00:23:51,431 --> 00:23:56,645 These birds, they can cut my flesh, not my inside. 370 00:23:56,728 --> 00:24:00,065 Trust my birds, no one else. 371 00:24:00,148 --> 00:24:02,776 Don't trust you, neither. 372 00:24:14,830 --> 00:24:17,332 Your bid is clear and ready. Pit your cock! 373 00:24:17,457 --> 00:24:19,334 Come on! 374 00:24:19,459 --> 00:24:21,503 Come on! Come on! 375 00:24:21,586 --> 00:24:23,713 - Get up! - Get him! 376 00:24:23,797 --> 00:24:26,800 Come on! 377 00:24:26,883 --> 00:24:29,761 - Come on up! Come on! Get him! - Come on, you son of a bitch! 378 00:24:29,845 --> 00:24:31,179 Fight him! 379 00:24:33,056 --> 00:24:35,934 That's it! Come on! 380 00:24:36,017 --> 00:24:37,853 - Fight him, Mingo! - Get him! 381 00:24:39,980 --> 00:24:41,857 Get him! 382 00:24:41,940 --> 00:24:43,900 Aw, come on! 383 00:24:43,984 --> 00:24:46,486 Come on! Come on, now! Come on! 384 00:24:46,570 --> 00:24:49,030 Get him! Get him! 385 00:24:50,615 --> 00:24:52,617 - Fight him, Mingo! - Get him! 386 00:24:52,701 --> 00:24:54,619 Come on! Rise up! 387 00:24:56,580 --> 00:24:57,914 Show him who we are! 388 00:25:01,877 --> 00:25:02,878 Mingo! 389 00:25:02,961 --> 00:25:06,381 - It's over. It's done. - He's done. 390 00:25:06,506 --> 00:25:10,051 Tom Lea resigns. Match to Francis Dunnery. 391 00:25:10,135 --> 00:25:13,805 - Shit. - Get your bets in, gentlemen. 392 00:25:13,889 --> 00:25:15,140 God damn me! 393 00:25:15,223 --> 00:25:18,268 I'll take a French pox and a screw fore I lose this goddamn bet. 394 00:25:18,351 --> 00:25:19,644 Massa, I got a scheme. 395 00:25:19,728 --> 00:25:21,438 Mingo said his bird was sure to win. 396 00:25:21,521 --> 00:25:23,273 I'm tired of working land. 397 00:25:23,356 --> 00:25:26,193 I ain't gonna wait till I'm old to rise up where I should be. 398 00:25:26,276 --> 00:25:27,944 We need these goddamn birds to win! 399 00:25:28,028 --> 00:25:29,279 I'll fetch the white. 400 00:25:29,362 --> 00:25:30,739 You can bet him hard. Can't lose. 401 00:25:30,822 --> 00:25:32,574 Nuh-unh. Use the Red for the next fight. 402 00:25:32,657 --> 00:25:34,242 - Red? - No. 403 00:25:34,326 --> 00:25:35,952 No, he ain't trained. 404 00:25:36,036 --> 00:25:37,871 I trained him... myself. 405 00:25:37,954 --> 00:25:39,539 You sneaking 'round 'hind my back? 406 00:25:39,623 --> 00:25:42,584 Massa, all these birds attack head on, maybe with a little jump. 407 00:25:42,667 --> 00:25:44,252 Now, I trained my Red out in the woods. 408 00:25:44,336 --> 00:25:46,254 I dropped from a chestnut tree high as a hawk, 409 00:25:46,338 --> 00:25:48,131 so he got wings stronger than nothing else. 410 00:25:48,215 --> 00:25:49,841 Ain't no bird gonna get above him. 411 00:25:49,925 --> 00:25:52,052 Ain't no bird gonna beat him. 412 00:25:52,135 --> 00:25:56,056 You think you can throw me out like some used-up old bird 413 00:25:56,139 --> 00:25:58,850 just 'cause you kissing Massa's ass? 414 00:25:58,934 --> 00:26:02,312 I raised these birds since they was chicks. 415 00:26:02,395 --> 00:26:04,356 But I trained them right. 416 00:26:04,439 --> 00:26:05,690 I trained them better. 417 00:26:05,774 --> 00:26:07,025 Massa. 418 00:26:07,108 --> 00:26:10,779 I can still make you money. 419 00:26:10,862 --> 00:26:12,322 Whole lot. 420 00:26:16,576 --> 00:26:19,246 George, next fight's yours. 421 00:26:19,329 --> 00:26:22,457 Let's see if your scheme works. 422 00:26:22,582 --> 00:26:25,502 But, George, if you lose this fight, 423 00:26:25,585 --> 00:26:29,089 you can forget about me buying that Matilda gal. 424 00:26:31,049 --> 00:26:32,592 Son of a bitch. 425 00:26:42,769 --> 00:26:47,565 Tom Lea ain't never gonna forgive poor old Mingo for losing his money. 426 00:26:47,649 --> 00:26:51,528 Tom Lea dreams of every penny slipped through. 427 00:26:51,611 --> 00:26:55,198 I'm gonna win back all them pennies and more. 428 00:26:55,282 --> 00:26:56,533 I hope not. 429 00:26:56,616 --> 00:26:58,868 You and me hack fighting next. 430 00:26:58,952 --> 00:27:01,997 Then, your Massa gonna be terribly disappointed. 431 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:06,084 I fight for myself. Bought my papers three years ago. 432 00:27:06,167 --> 00:27:09,296 Now these my birds, my money. 433 00:27:11,548 --> 00:27:13,174 You a free man? 434 00:27:13,258 --> 00:27:14,718 Whole lot more than just me. 435 00:27:14,801 --> 00:27:17,804 Durham, Fayetteville. You'll find us. 436 00:27:17,887 --> 00:27:21,516 But, yeah, I'm free. 437 00:27:21,641 --> 00:27:26,271 Till some sheriff wakes up in a bad mood, has a sore tooth. 438 00:27:27,272 --> 00:27:31,067 Being free takes a watchful eye, but I prefer it to the alternative. 439 00:27:31,151 --> 00:27:33,236 But how'd you get the money? 440 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,406 Kept my hand in my own pocket, coin by coin. 441 00:27:36,489 --> 00:27:37,991 Went without a lot of things. 442 00:27:38,074 --> 00:27:41,077 Kept looking ahead, not regretting what got left behind. 443 00:27:41,161 --> 00:27:44,164 Way you carry yourself, I thought for a minute you was free, too. 444 00:27:44,247 --> 00:27:45,957 I got a good Massa. 445 00:27:46,041 --> 00:27:48,918 Good enough to let you buy yourself? 446 00:27:49,002 --> 00:27:52,047 He is giving you a fine cut of his winnings. 447 00:27:55,175 --> 00:27:58,011 Think I'll take your good Massa's money today. 448 00:28:00,513 --> 00:28:02,432 'Course, nobody knows you. 449 00:28:02,515 --> 00:28:04,476 Might be a skinny purse. 450 00:28:04,559 --> 00:28:08,104 These boys might need a push to risk their money. 451 00:28:11,566 --> 00:28:13,902 Gentlemen, a hack fight! 452 00:28:13,985 --> 00:28:16,738 Birds... four pound six. 453 00:28:16,821 --> 00:28:18,365 Last wagers! 454 00:28:18,448 --> 00:28:20,617 Whoo! 455 00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:25,872 The ear of man has not heard nor head has felt 456 00:28:25,955 --> 00:28:30,251 nor eye has seen a bird such as this. 457 00:28:31,753 --> 00:28:33,797 Wait. Hang on now. 458 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:35,799 I mislead you boys. 459 00:28:35,882 --> 00:28:37,926 This ain't no bird at all. 460 00:28:38,009 --> 00:28:40,845 This is a creature you ain't never seen... 461 00:28:40,929 --> 00:28:42,472 half bird, half man, 462 00:28:42,555 --> 00:28:44,391 half of the forest, half of my own soul. 463 00:28:44,474 --> 00:28:45,809 Now, what do y'all think of that? 464 00:28:47,227 --> 00:28:49,771 I'll take $500, sir. 465 00:28:49,854 --> 00:28:51,398 And I'll give it. 466 00:28:51,481 --> 00:28:53,316 All right, all right, all right, all right. 467 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,902 Now, you are all men of refinement and discretion, 468 00:28:55,985 --> 00:28:57,779 but why'd y'all come here today? 469 00:28:57,862 --> 00:29:00,240 For a simple gambling diversion? 470 00:29:00,323 --> 00:29:02,826 To take a chance against a fine man like my Massa Tom Lea? 471 00:29:02,909 --> 00:29:04,619 No. 472 00:29:04,744 --> 00:29:08,248 You crave wonderment, jubilation, revelation! 473 00:29:08,331 --> 00:29:11,584 Ooh, glory! That's what you came to see! 474 00:29:11,668 --> 00:29:14,546 This bird, this uncommon, fearsome campaigner 475 00:29:14,629 --> 00:29:15,922 leaves the barn in victory! 476 00:29:16,005 --> 00:29:18,299 You will cry tears that you've seen the last of him, 477 00:29:18,383 --> 00:29:20,844 and you will yearn for more! 478 00:29:20,927 --> 00:29:23,430 I yearn to win my money back, Chicken George. 479 00:29:23,513 --> 00:29:27,183 All right. 480 00:29:28,685 --> 00:29:30,603 I like it. Yes, sir! 481 00:29:34,149 --> 00:29:37,735 Come on! Put your money on me, boys! 482 00:29:37,819 --> 00:29:39,320 Bet $1,000? 483 00:29:39,404 --> 00:29:42,198 If you have faith in your Chicken George. 484 00:29:42,282 --> 00:29:44,742 Always happy to take your money, Jewett. 485 00:29:44,826 --> 00:29:49,456 What you got, boy? What you got? 486 00:29:49,539 --> 00:29:53,084 Place your birds. 487 00:29:53,168 --> 00:29:56,296 You put on a good show for your Massa, didn't you? 488 00:29:56,379 --> 00:29:58,590 Come on now, George. 489 00:30:03,386 --> 00:30:04,971 Step out. 490 00:30:14,689 --> 00:30:16,024 Pit your cocks! 491 00:30:30,455 --> 00:30:33,333 - No hard feelings, right? - None at all. 492 00:30:33,416 --> 00:30:35,084 Just make sure some of that pot is yours. 493 00:30:35,168 --> 00:30:37,253 You staying around these parts? 494 00:30:37,337 --> 00:30:39,380 For a while, long as it's safe. 495 00:30:39,464 --> 00:30:40,924 Come by the Easter picnic. 496 00:30:42,008 --> 00:30:44,848 I want to hear more about what it takes to get that paper make you free. 497 00:30:45,845 --> 00:30:47,180 Now, if you'll excuse me... 498 00:30:47,263 --> 00:30:49,766 go ask Massa for my cut. 499 00:30:49,849 --> 00:30:51,100 Pay the man his money. 500 00:30:51,184 --> 00:30:52,435 Thank you. 501 00:30:52,519 --> 00:30:55,605 Your Chicken George has skill. 502 00:30:55,688 --> 00:30:58,525 I had more skill to see it. 503 00:30:58,608 --> 00:31:01,152 Mr. Lea, as one gentlemen to another, 504 00:31:01,236 --> 00:31:03,363 I'd like to buy the boy from you. 505 00:31:04,781 --> 00:31:06,074 Buy my George? 506 00:31:06,157 --> 00:31:09,577 I inquire merely because I understand you've acquired debt on your farm 507 00:31:09,661 --> 00:31:11,204 for equipment, seed, and stock. 508 00:31:11,287 --> 00:31:15,375 What happened to your nigger? I heard he was a good man with the birds. 509 00:31:15,458 --> 00:31:18,419 Boy forgot his pass while traveling to buy gamecocks for me. 510 00:31:18,503 --> 00:31:23,007 Patrol scared him. He ran, and they shot him. 511 00:31:23,091 --> 00:31:25,677 Sorry for your inconvenience. 512 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,805 Name your price, but I'd have this boy. 513 00:31:28,888 --> 00:31:30,640 No. 514 00:31:30,723 --> 00:31:33,935 Not now. Not never. 515 00:31:34,018 --> 00:31:36,980 Never is a long time. 516 00:31:39,190 --> 00:31:40,984 And never to you, sir. 517 00:31:44,445 --> 00:31:47,073 May I invite you and your lovely wife 518 00:31:47,156 --> 00:31:49,909 to dine at our table at the Easter picnic? 519 00:31:51,911 --> 00:31:53,162 You can expect it. 520 00:31:53,246 --> 00:31:54,789 I look forward to it. 521 00:31:55,039 --> 00:31:57,000 - Mr. Jewett. - Mr. Lea. 522 00:31:57,083 --> 00:31:58,334 Gentlemen. 523 00:32:02,088 --> 00:32:04,924 Got lucky this time. 524 00:32:06,551 --> 00:32:09,637 Here we come, George, just like I said. Here we come. 525 00:32:09,721 --> 00:32:11,806 Look, Massa, some folks saying it's a custom 526 00:32:11,931 --> 00:32:15,018 to give me a bigger piece of the pot when I win big. 527 00:32:15,101 --> 00:32:19,022 Did Mingo tell you that? Son of a bitch. 528 00:32:25,528 --> 00:32:26,904 You won me lots of money, sir. 529 00:32:26,988 --> 00:32:28,573 Thanks, George. You won me plenty today. 530 00:32:28,656 --> 00:32:30,533 Thank you. Thank you. All right. 531 00:32:31,534 --> 00:32:35,288 I think I'm gonna save up my money, just like you, Massa. 532 00:32:35,371 --> 00:32:36,623 You earned it. 533 00:32:36,706 --> 00:32:38,958 - Thank you. - Mm-hmm. 534 00:32:39,042 --> 00:32:40,376 Thank you, Massa. Thank you. 535 00:32:40,460 --> 00:32:43,379 Ah, we're winning, George. 536 00:32:43,463 --> 00:32:47,592 Boy, come on. You ain't got no money. 537 00:32:47,675 --> 00:32:48,968 Shit. 538 00:32:59,479 --> 00:33:01,230 I'm gonna do something for you, George. 539 00:33:01,314 --> 00:33:03,274 I need younger field hands. 540 00:33:03,358 --> 00:33:06,736 Old Pompey and Malizy gonna be used up sooner than later. 541 00:33:06,819 --> 00:33:09,280 Old Sarah don't work so hard right now. 542 00:33:09,364 --> 00:33:11,658 So if that gal's fool enough to jump the broom 543 00:33:11,741 --> 00:33:14,243 with someone who loves running tail as much as you, 544 00:33:14,327 --> 00:33:16,454 I'll ride over and talk to MacGregor. 545 00:33:16,537 --> 00:33:18,706 If he's got as many hands as you say, 546 00:33:18,790 --> 00:33:20,458 he ought not to miss a field gal. 547 00:33:20,541 --> 00:33:21,876 Thank you, Massa. 548 00:33:22,001 --> 00:33:24,837 That's if we come to a decent price. 549 00:33:24,921 --> 00:33:27,465 Then you can move that gal... 550 00:33:27,548 --> 00:33:30,426 - What's her name? - Matilda. 551 00:33:30,510 --> 00:33:32,720 You can build Matilda a cabin at my place. 552 00:33:32,804 --> 00:33:36,224 Long as you understand your first place is with my birds. 553 00:33:36,307 --> 00:33:37,725 The way it should be. 554 00:33:37,809 --> 00:33:40,019 And I expect you to keep her belly full. 555 00:33:40,103 --> 00:33:43,815 Keep them babies sliding out, increase my stock. 556 00:33:43,898 --> 00:33:47,485 I'll make my money back, and more. 557 00:33:47,568 --> 00:33:49,779 Kizzy like this gal? 558 00:33:49,862 --> 00:33:52,490 I wouldn't want to get on her bad side if I were you. 559 00:33:59,122 --> 00:34:01,749 All this spinning is making me dizzy. 560 00:34:01,833 --> 00:34:04,293 One, two, three. That's how they do it. 561 00:34:05,712 --> 00:34:09,215 - Where you get all this finery? - Oh, I bought these. 562 00:34:09,298 --> 00:34:12,343 Massa pays us a little when our birds win. 563 00:34:12,427 --> 00:34:15,513 Money ain't nothing but a butterfly to you... 564 00:34:15,596 --> 00:34:17,306 come pretty and go fast. 565 00:34:17,390 --> 00:34:21,602 You don't need no fancy clothes. 566 00:34:23,146 --> 00:34:26,983 - Mama, you need to meet somebody. - What you need me to come for? 567 00:34:27,066 --> 00:34:28,776 She Matilda. 568 00:34:28,860 --> 00:34:31,154 She hardheaded, but I like her. Come on. 569 00:34:31,237 --> 00:34:33,865 I thought you said tonight was our night. 570 00:34:33,948 --> 00:34:36,784 You and that girl connived this whole coming together. 571 00:34:39,412 --> 00:34:41,539 - Matilda. - I'm Matilda, ma'am. 572 00:34:41,622 --> 00:34:44,292 This my father, Reverend Lyon. 573 00:34:44,375 --> 00:34:47,712 Your son say you a woman of, uh, faith. 574 00:34:47,795 --> 00:34:50,631 I am. 575 00:34:50,715 --> 00:34:52,341 But it ain't your faith. 576 00:34:52,425 --> 00:34:54,594 I ain't interested in the white man's God. 577 00:34:54,677 --> 00:34:57,263 My daddy say the only reason our folk is 578 00:34:57,346 --> 00:34:59,682 - is 'cause it got beat into us. - The Lord say that... 579 00:34:59,766 --> 00:35:02,059 Mama, why don't we get our guests something to eat? 580 00:35:02,143 --> 00:35:04,771 Uh, I ain't offended. I know my God's real. 581 00:35:04,854 --> 00:35:07,398 He love me, and He love you, too. 582 00:35:07,482 --> 00:35:08,816 Amen. Let's dance, Mama. 583 00:35:08,900 --> 00:35:10,735 You ever preach from the book of Exodus? 584 00:35:10,818 --> 00:35:12,361 Well, I... 585 00:35:12,445 --> 00:35:14,089 White preacher don't let no slave preacher man 586 00:35:14,113 --> 00:35:16,449 talk about the Israelites or Pharaoh, do they? 587 00:35:16,532 --> 00:35:19,660 No slaves marching across the sea to be free. 588 00:35:19,744 --> 00:35:22,497 Bet them pages cut right out your Bible. 589 00:35:22,580 --> 00:35:24,457 Start preaching about Exodus, 590 00:35:24,540 --> 00:35:27,043 find yourself swinging from a low limb. 591 00:35:27,126 --> 00:35:30,087 Mama, folks say make the best of a hard situation. 592 00:35:30,171 --> 00:35:33,216 Maybe that's all folks who believe in God trying to do. 593 00:35:33,299 --> 00:35:35,092 Have his God make slavery go away, 594 00:35:35,176 --> 00:35:37,220 I'll meet you in church every Sunday. 595 00:36:08,251 --> 00:36:12,171 My daddy likely to beat you if he hear you playing like that. 596 00:36:12,255 --> 00:36:15,383 Mama, I make Massa money. 597 00:36:15,466 --> 00:36:17,677 Truth is, I know the white gamblers 598 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,929 bet more just to see me. 599 00:36:20,012 --> 00:36:22,890 All that stuff matter more to him than you. 600 00:36:22,974 --> 00:36:24,851 It ain't our way. 601 00:36:24,934 --> 00:36:27,979 I heard about some slaves buying their freedom nowadays. 602 00:36:28,062 --> 00:36:31,482 More famous I get, more I get a chance to buy my freedom. 603 00:36:31,566 --> 00:36:33,651 You think you gonna buy your freedom? 604 00:36:33,734 --> 00:36:35,278 Mine, yours. 605 00:36:36,946 --> 00:36:38,906 Mama, I want to marry Matilda. 606 00:36:38,990 --> 00:36:41,951 - I can look after all of us. - Do you love her? 607 00:36:42,034 --> 00:36:44,996 She a good woman, Mama. 608 00:36:45,079 --> 00:36:46,330 Different than everybody else. 609 00:36:46,414 --> 00:36:48,833 She's smart, stubborn, like you. 610 00:36:48,916 --> 00:36:51,794 She's so pretty. 611 00:36:51,878 --> 00:36:53,671 Not as pretty as me, but she pretty. 612 00:36:53,754 --> 00:36:56,257 You can't make no plans depend on Massa. 613 00:36:58,384 --> 00:37:00,386 You mean so much to me. 614 00:37:01,804 --> 00:37:04,849 Let me teach you how to read so you can be your own man. 615 00:37:04,932 --> 00:37:07,393 I'll always be my own man. 616 00:37:07,476 --> 00:37:11,063 Only knew one other somebody 617 00:37:11,147 --> 00:37:13,482 live his life trying to be his own man... 618 00:37:13,566 --> 00:37:16,986 your grandpapa, Kunta Kinte. 619 00:37:17,069 --> 00:37:20,072 With them roosters, I can do anything. 620 00:37:20,156 --> 00:37:22,241 That's how I'm getting free. 621 00:37:22,325 --> 00:37:25,995 That's how we're all getting free. 622 00:37:26,078 --> 00:37:28,247 Come on, Mama. They ain't gonna play all night. 623 00:37:28,331 --> 00:37:30,917 You go. I'm gonna stay here, 624 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,294 spend some time talking with my daddy. 625 00:37:33,377 --> 00:37:35,838 Mama, you can't... 626 00:37:35,922 --> 00:37:37,465 You go. 627 00:38:02,907 --> 00:38:06,452 Mrs. Shubal, breakfast looks delightful, does it not? 628 00:38:06,535 --> 00:38:10,539 It's a beautiful day, isn't it? My favorite holiday. 629 00:38:10,623 --> 00:38:13,626 - Mr. Lea, Miss Patricia. - Morning, Reverend. 630 00:38:15,002 --> 00:38:16,629 Your hat, sir? 631 00:38:27,098 --> 00:38:29,308 George, what are you doing? 632 00:38:29,392 --> 00:38:32,853 Well, there's Tom Lea and his lovely wife, Patricia. 633 00:38:32,937 --> 00:38:34,772 Good morning, Mr. Lea. 634 00:38:34,855 --> 00:38:36,649 Good morning, Mr. Jewett. 635 00:38:36,732 --> 00:38:39,026 - Mrs. Lea. - Morning. 636 00:38:39,110 --> 00:38:41,278 Good morning, Mrs. Lea. 637 00:38:41,362 --> 00:38:43,114 Morning, Mrs. Jewett. 638 00:38:47,243 --> 00:38:48,953 Please, allow me. 639 00:38:49,036 --> 00:38:51,622 Thank you, Mr. Jewett. 640 00:38:51,706 --> 00:38:53,874 There you are. 641 00:38:53,958 --> 00:38:57,253 Now, our table is complete. 642 00:39:02,049 --> 00:39:06,512 Mama, this is Marcellus, free man I told you about. 643 00:39:06,595 --> 00:39:10,266 I'm not sure which one of y'all is the bad influence. 644 00:39:10,349 --> 00:39:14,145 I'm not sure anyone has much sway over your boy. 645 00:39:14,228 --> 00:39:17,356 Seems like his spark can dazzle anyone. 646 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,443 Now it's obvious he gets that from you, 647 00:39:20,526 --> 00:39:23,362 which makes his daddy a lucky man. 648 00:39:23,446 --> 00:39:26,866 - My mama lives alone. - Just like I like it. 649 00:39:26,949 --> 00:39:28,617 I'd never have some man bossing me around, 650 00:39:28,701 --> 00:39:30,494 acting like he my second massa. 651 00:39:30,578 --> 00:39:35,124 Ma'am, there are two things I'll never understand: 652 00:39:35,207 --> 00:39:38,794 A man who mistreats a woman who loves him... 653 00:39:38,878 --> 00:39:40,379 That's one. 654 00:39:40,463 --> 00:39:44,717 Oh, the other would be a man who can't appreciate 655 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,678 a woman who knows her own mind. 656 00:39:55,436 --> 00:39:57,730 I thought you were a free man. 657 00:39:57,813 --> 00:40:02,318 Who's freely deciding to carry this tray for a beautiful woman. 658 00:40:05,196 --> 00:40:09,200 Anyone can see that Jackson is too boorish to be president. 659 00:40:09,283 --> 00:40:12,286 He's a warmonger and an adulterer. 660 00:40:12,411 --> 00:40:16,624 Only ignorant men without land or education would back him. 661 00:40:16,707 --> 00:40:18,084 Tom. 662 00:40:19,543 --> 00:40:21,879 I say Old Hickory's gonna be a damn good president. 663 00:40:21,962 --> 00:40:24,215 He'll protect cotton investors clearing out woods 664 00:40:24,298 --> 00:40:27,093 in Mississippi and Alabama. 665 00:40:27,176 --> 00:40:31,347 - Yeah, I'll vote Jackson. - My point proven. 666 00:40:31,430 --> 00:40:33,265 This country will sink into a cesspool 667 00:40:33,349 --> 00:40:35,184 if we keep giving lowborn men a vote. 668 00:40:35,267 --> 00:40:38,229 We're going by train to New York to visit my cousin. 669 00:40:38,312 --> 00:40:41,065 Her husband has a position with new clothiers... 670 00:40:41,148 --> 00:40:42,650 Mr. Lord and Mr. Taylor. 671 00:40:42,733 --> 00:40:48,239 But she warned us that the streets are foul with horse droppings and Irish. 672 00:40:52,368 --> 00:40:53,689 What have I ever done to you, sir? 673 00:40:55,538 --> 00:40:57,748 I pay no attention to you at all... 674 00:40:57,832 --> 00:40:59,083 sir. 675 00:40:59,166 --> 00:41:02,086 I offer conversation and good cheer on a fine holiday. 676 00:41:02,169 --> 00:41:05,714 And yet you poke, poke, poke me like a damn hog. 677 00:41:10,261 --> 00:41:11,762 I demand you tell me why. 678 00:41:11,846 --> 00:41:13,556 Take your hands off me. 679 00:41:13,639 --> 00:41:16,308 Let's go. Can't stop these men once they start. 680 00:41:16,392 --> 00:41:18,394 I have no idea if they're clean. 681 00:41:18,477 --> 00:41:20,104 God damn me. 682 00:41:20,187 --> 00:41:24,275 On Easter Sunday, in front of my wife and these good people? 683 00:41:26,318 --> 00:41:27,987 Look at me, Byrd! 684 00:41:28,070 --> 00:41:33,993 I see you clearly, sir, exactly as they all see you. 685 00:41:34,076 --> 00:41:36,287 You bungle you farm till it's near in ruin, 686 00:41:36,370 --> 00:41:38,706 waste your money on drink and gambling. 687 00:41:38,789 --> 00:41:40,541 Earn a penny, spend a dollar... 688 00:41:40,624 --> 00:41:42,251 Oh, that's the Irish. I know them. 689 00:41:42,334 --> 00:41:44,003 Scrub all you will, sir. 690 00:41:44,086 --> 00:41:46,672 The dirt is not under your nails, sir. 691 00:41:46,755 --> 00:41:48,757 It's in your soul. 692 00:41:48,841 --> 00:41:50,843 And I'd dine with niggers before I'd dine with you. 693 00:41:55,014 --> 00:41:56,849 Get off of me! Get off me! 694 00:41:56,932 --> 00:41:59,059 Get your hands off me, you son of a bitch! 695 00:41:59,143 --> 00:42:02,104 I'll geld you, you bastard. 696 00:42:02,188 --> 00:42:04,773 You need to come home, Massa! 697 00:42:04,857 --> 00:42:06,400 I'm worth 10 like you. 698 00:42:06,525 --> 00:42:08,861 You never did a hard day's work in your life. 699 00:42:08,944 --> 00:42:10,362 Soft hands, like a woman. 700 00:42:10,446 --> 00:42:12,781 You think your money makes you a man? 701 00:42:12,865 --> 00:42:15,326 I'm the only real man in this goddamn county. 702 00:42:15,409 --> 00:42:16,911 Son of a bitch! 703 00:42:16,994 --> 00:42:19,538 I do not settle my battles with fisticuffs, 704 00:42:19,622 --> 00:42:21,749 like some drunken bar brawler. 705 00:42:21,832 --> 00:42:23,667 You settle this however the hell you will. 706 00:42:23,751 --> 00:42:26,337 For once, act like a gentleman. 707 00:42:26,420 --> 00:42:29,882 Allow me satisfaction in the field... a duel. 708 00:42:29,965 --> 00:42:31,258 Face-to-face. 709 00:42:31,342 --> 00:42:33,969 Whenever and wherever you say. 710 00:42:35,679 --> 00:42:37,348 You bucket of piss! 711 00:42:38,349 --> 00:42:39,642 You'll stand by me, George. 712 00:42:39,725 --> 00:42:41,644 Attend my weapons, be my second. 713 00:42:41,727 --> 00:42:44,563 You ain't fired a gun in a while, Massa. Let it be. We got... 714 00:42:44,647 --> 00:42:48,025 George, I need you to do this for me. 715 00:42:48,108 --> 00:42:51,528 - I depend on you. - Yes, Massa. 716 00:42:51,612 --> 00:42:53,656 Patricia. 717 00:42:53,739 --> 00:42:57,409 Can't no slave be 'round no white men when they get like this. 718 00:42:57,493 --> 00:42:59,954 Massa Byrd can kill you without thinking. 719 00:43:00,037 --> 00:43:02,706 And ain't no sheriff gonna do nothing 'bout it. 720 00:43:02,790 --> 00:43:06,210 - Kizzy, he can't say no. - Yes, he can. 721 00:43:06,293 --> 00:43:07,711 But he too caught up and concerned 722 00:43:07,795 --> 00:43:09,964 about that no-count cracker and his birds. 723 00:43:10,047 --> 00:43:11,858 What you think gonna happen if Massa Tom get killed? 724 00:43:11,882 --> 00:43:14,468 Think Miss Patricia gonna sell us all together? 725 00:43:14,593 --> 00:43:16,238 She gonna run off to the woods she came from, 726 00:43:16,262 --> 00:43:18,573 and we gonna end up on paddle wheelers for cotton Mississippi. 727 00:43:18,597 --> 00:43:20,683 Why can't you understand? 728 00:43:20,766 --> 00:43:23,644 You can't risk your life for that man. 729 00:43:23,727 --> 00:43:25,688 Not for him... for us. 730 00:43:25,771 --> 00:43:28,440 I need to keep Tom Lea alive for us. 731 00:43:31,318 --> 00:43:33,153 George. 732 00:43:33,237 --> 00:43:36,448 Not by chance, not any of this. 733 00:43:38,784 --> 00:43:41,120 There's the man wants your massa dead. 734 00:43:44,456 --> 00:43:46,458 Massa Jewett? 735 00:43:46,542 --> 00:43:49,295 If Tom Lea is killed, he's gonna buy your son. 736 00:43:49,378 --> 00:43:52,464 Tom Lea made a mistake refusing his offer for George. 737 00:43:52,548 --> 00:43:54,758 And the thing about rich white men, 738 00:43:54,842 --> 00:43:56,927 they'll take 10 steps at a tilt 739 00:43:57,011 --> 00:43:59,722 just to take one step straight to what they want. 740 00:44:18,073 --> 00:44:19,408 Whoa. 741 00:44:28,042 --> 00:44:30,294 You think you doing this for your family. 742 00:44:30,377 --> 00:44:32,880 But I known you since you was a little boy. 743 00:44:32,963 --> 00:44:35,632 I know the love you got inside you for Massa. 744 00:44:35,716 --> 00:44:39,136 You thinking maybe one tiny piece of him inside the same. 745 00:44:39,219 --> 00:44:41,013 Make you as stupid as he is. 746 00:44:41,096 --> 00:44:43,390 He ain't never gonna see you for what you truly is 747 00:44:43,474 --> 00:44:45,351 no matter what you think. 748 00:44:45,434 --> 00:44:48,854 Pardon me if I don't wish him luck. 749 00:45:17,049 --> 00:45:19,134 I'll look after him. 750 00:45:27,518 --> 00:45:30,521 Less likely to string the two of us up, 751 00:45:30,604 --> 00:45:33,232 but I've been wrong before. 752 00:45:44,159 --> 00:45:46,203 High card will decide who fires first. 753 00:45:46,286 --> 00:45:49,206 You will then separate and face each other. 754 00:45:49,289 --> 00:45:52,751 On my command, you will each discharge your pistols in succession. 755 00:45:52,835 --> 00:45:55,546 If you both remain alive, 756 00:45:55,629 --> 00:45:59,383 you will proceed with swords until one of you is dead. 757 00:46:04,847 --> 00:46:06,098 Five diamonds. 758 00:46:11,353 --> 00:46:12,855 Three clubs. 759 00:46:12,938 --> 00:46:15,691 Mr. Lea will shoot first. 760 00:46:15,774 --> 00:46:18,610 And may God have mercy on your souls. 761 00:46:29,705 --> 00:46:32,374 This your day. 762 00:46:32,458 --> 00:46:34,877 Take your time. 763 00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:38,797 Got to wait till your eyes see clear, breathing even. 764 00:46:38,881 --> 00:46:41,467 You hear me? Take your time. 765 00:46:41,550 --> 00:46:43,594 I know, George. 766 00:46:43,677 --> 00:46:46,388 I intend to kill him with my first shot. 767 00:47:05,532 --> 00:47:07,409 You're my only true friend. 768 00:47:08,410 --> 00:47:11,497 Do this friend a favor. Kill that son of a bitch. 769 00:47:14,625 --> 00:47:17,002 Your first shot, Mr. Lea. 770 00:47:28,388 --> 00:47:30,474 Still shaking, didn't even take aim. 771 00:47:30,557 --> 00:47:32,893 Mr. Byrd. First shot. 772 00:47:39,191 --> 00:47:41,652 Goddamn. This can't be. 773 00:47:42,945 --> 00:47:45,364 Aah! 774 00:47:51,703 --> 00:47:53,956 You do this next shot right, now. 775 00:47:54,039 --> 00:47:57,334 Take your time. Nice and steady. 776 00:47:59,711 --> 00:48:01,672 If you niggers interfere, we'll kill you! 777 00:48:01,755 --> 00:48:03,549 Be sure of that! 778 00:48:03,632 --> 00:48:07,177 Second shot, Mr. Lea. 779 00:48:30,993 --> 00:48:33,328 Mr. Byrd, second shot. 780 00:48:53,807 --> 00:48:55,058 Aah! 781 00:48:56,059 --> 00:48:57,394 Gentlemen. 782 00:48:58,937 --> 00:49:02,149 Gentlemen. Do either of you yield? 783 00:49:02,232 --> 00:49:04,735 No. 784 00:49:04,818 --> 00:49:06,612 No! 785 00:49:06,695 --> 00:49:08,071 Mr. Lea does not yield! 786 00:49:08,155 --> 00:49:10,616 Gentlemen, swords! 787 00:49:12,993 --> 00:49:14,411 Sword. 788 00:49:15,537 --> 00:49:17,080 Damn it, Byrd, yield. 789 00:49:17,164 --> 00:49:19,499 He's bleeding hard. Can't let him find his legs. 790 00:49:19,583 --> 00:49:20,834 Get right at him. 791 00:49:20,959 --> 00:49:22,169 No! Get away. 792 00:49:22,252 --> 00:49:23,629 I can't feel my hand, George. 793 00:49:23,712 --> 00:49:25,172 You take this sword. 794 00:49:25,255 --> 00:49:27,135 You got to fight hard if you want to stay alive. 795 00:49:27,174 --> 00:49:28,925 Now get on your damn feet! Get up! 796 00:49:31,887 --> 00:49:33,138 - Get up! - Sword! 797 00:49:33,221 --> 00:49:35,974 - Put it in my hand. - Come on! 798 00:49:36,058 --> 00:49:38,101 - Got it. - Get up! 799 00:49:46,693 --> 00:49:48,320 Aah! 800 00:50:15,597 --> 00:50:17,933 No, no. 801 00:50:19,643 --> 00:50:21,436 Massa, you stay down, you gonna die. 802 00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:22,771 That what you want? 803 00:50:22,854 --> 00:50:24,690 Is that what you came here for today? 804 00:50:27,567 --> 00:50:29,528 Him on his feet, looking down on you? 805 00:50:29,611 --> 00:50:31,279 The way everybody look down on you? 806 00:50:31,363 --> 00:50:34,741 He say you dirt. 807 00:50:34,825 --> 00:50:36,305 That's how we'll bury you if you want, 808 00:50:36,326 --> 00:50:38,245 deep in the damn dirt! 809 00:50:38,328 --> 00:50:40,956 Mr. Lea, do you yield? 810 00:50:41,039 --> 00:50:42,833 George, it hurts so bad. 811 00:50:42,916 --> 00:50:45,335 Oh, you in the pit now, Massa. 812 00:50:45,419 --> 00:50:47,003 Want to let him jeer you, 813 00:50:47,087 --> 00:50:49,089 throw your carcass in a dung hole? 814 00:50:49,172 --> 00:50:50,424 Step back, boy! 815 00:50:50,507 --> 00:50:52,676 - Rise up high. You the gamecock now. - Get up, George. 816 00:50:52,759 --> 00:50:54,553 Rise up! Come down on this son of a bitch! 817 00:50:54,636 --> 00:50:56,346 Rise up, Tom Lea, come on! 818 00:50:56,430 --> 00:50:58,306 Come on, show them all! 819 00:50:59,391 --> 00:51:01,101 Show him, Tom! 820 00:51:15,741 --> 00:51:17,033 Aah! 821 00:51:17,117 --> 00:51:19,327 - No, Massa! - I yield! I yield! 822 00:51:19,411 --> 00:51:21,663 - I yield. - He yields! Let him be! 823 00:51:25,292 --> 00:51:27,794 I'm a better man than you. 824 00:51:29,421 --> 00:51:32,090 He yielded! It's time for mercy. 825 00:51:38,013 --> 00:51:39,806 All right. I got you, I got you. 826 00:51:39,890 --> 00:51:41,725 - I got you. - Mr. Byrd! Mr. Byrd! 827 00:51:41,808 --> 00:51:44,311 Folks are gonna talk about what you did today. 828 00:51:44,394 --> 00:51:46,271 All across Carolina, they'll say, 829 00:51:46,354 --> 00:51:48,732 "Tom Lea is a gentleman." 830 00:51:48,815 --> 00:51:52,861 I was... a fine gentleman. 831 00:51:52,944 --> 00:51:55,864 They're gonna say my name, ain't they... Tom Lea. 832 00:51:55,947 --> 00:51:58,116 For sure. 833 00:52:00,118 --> 00:52:01,953 Take me home, George. 834 00:52:03,830 --> 00:52:05,707 Take me home. 835 00:52:44,746 --> 00:52:47,999 You over there? 836 00:53:05,100 --> 00:53:08,728 I'd have bled my soul out on that field. 837 00:53:08,812 --> 00:53:13,191 You pushed me hard. Kept me strong. 838 00:53:13,275 --> 00:53:16,194 You don't win, what happen to all of us? 839 00:53:16,278 --> 00:53:20,156 Damn right. 840 00:53:20,240 --> 00:53:21,950 I want to tell you something. 841 00:53:26,246 --> 00:53:30,083 I was 11 years old when I hit the road, 842 00:53:30,208 --> 00:53:32,627 asking for a job. 843 00:53:32,711 --> 00:53:34,629 I ate scraps. 844 00:53:34,713 --> 00:53:37,340 Nights I'd chew bark. 845 00:53:38,842 --> 00:53:41,177 Dry leaves my only blanket. 846 00:53:41,261 --> 00:53:43,096 Froze my ass. 847 00:53:44,723 --> 00:53:48,727 The whole lot of you has it a damn lot easier. 848 00:53:48,810 --> 00:53:52,105 Oh, any man with eyes can see that. 849 00:53:54,858 --> 00:53:57,360 Oh, hell, George. 850 00:53:57,444 --> 00:54:00,572 I ain't as bad as some. 851 00:54:00,655 --> 00:54:03,617 What do I always say? 852 00:54:03,700 --> 00:54:05,577 Make me rich. 853 00:54:05,660 --> 00:54:08,163 Raise yourself up. 854 00:54:10,081 --> 00:54:11,416 That's how money works. 855 00:54:14,502 --> 00:54:18,048 Then I'd like some of that money to start working to get me papers... 856 00:54:19,299 --> 00:54:21,176 ...to be free. 857 00:54:26,306 --> 00:54:27,724 I intend to work hard. 858 00:54:27,807 --> 00:54:30,268 Win every cock fight, make you real rich. 859 00:54:32,646 --> 00:54:36,900 I got to know a time gonna come when I can buy me free. 860 00:54:40,904 --> 00:54:42,822 I don't see why not, George. 861 00:54:44,574 --> 00:54:46,409 It's all dollars and cents. 862 00:54:52,082 --> 00:54:56,086 When the number's right, I promise... 863 00:54:57,462 --> 00:55:00,465 I'm gonna write those papers for you. 864 00:55:03,343 --> 00:55:06,221 Then I'm gonna make you so damn dirty rich, 865 00:55:06,304 --> 00:55:09,683 gonna need to buy a new wagon just to load the moneybags. 866 00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:17,232 Oh, you and me think the same way, George. 867 00:55:17,315 --> 00:55:19,651 I brought you up right. 868 00:55:19,734 --> 00:55:22,112 She ought to thank me. 869 00:55:33,790 --> 00:55:37,544 One, two, three. 870 00:55:37,627 --> 00:55:39,421 Oh! 871 00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:44,718 Thank y'all. Thank y'all. 872 00:55:44,801 --> 00:55:46,344 Congratulations. Bless you. 873 00:55:48,972 --> 00:55:50,432 Oh. 874 00:55:57,772 --> 00:56:00,650 I promise to stay by your side forever. 875 00:56:00,734 --> 00:56:02,193 I never had a daddy, 876 00:56:02,277 --> 00:56:04,988 but my baby's gonna have me all the time. 877 00:56:05,071 --> 00:56:07,699 Nothing ever gonna pull me away from you. 878 00:56:07,782 --> 00:56:11,161 That's all I want, George. 879 00:56:12,162 --> 00:56:15,123 May the Lord keep and bless this holy union. 880 00:56:15,206 --> 00:56:17,459 - Hallelujah! - Hallelujah! 881 00:56:17,542 --> 00:56:18,918 All right. 882 00:56:22,589 --> 00:56:23,840 Yes, sir. 883 00:56:24,841 --> 00:56:27,844 It was so nice of Mama Kizzy to lend me her dress for the wedding. 884 00:56:27,927 --> 00:56:28,928 So beautiful. 885 00:56:36,770 --> 00:56:38,271 What you know about that? 886 00:56:38,396 --> 00:56:41,399 You ain't the only one know about African tradition. 887 00:56:41,483 --> 00:56:43,818 You declaring your intention? 888 00:56:43,902 --> 00:56:46,446 Expect so. 889 00:56:47,989 --> 00:56:49,574 That make you dizzy? 890 00:56:49,657 --> 00:56:52,285 No, dance didn't make me dizzy. 891 00:56:52,410 --> 00:56:55,330 Just feel like I fit right in your arms. 892 00:56:55,413 --> 00:56:57,082 My arms can go wide, 893 00:56:57,165 --> 00:56:59,959 they can come tight. 894 00:57:00,043 --> 00:57:03,088 But I do what I can to make the fit work. 895 00:57:07,133 --> 00:57:08,426 George. 896 00:57:16,142 --> 00:57:18,686 Why is that man always showing off your boy? 897 00:57:18,770 --> 00:57:20,939 For better or worse, they got a bond. 898 00:57:21,022 --> 00:57:24,442 What we got is a bond. 899 00:57:24,526 --> 00:57:28,738 What they got, something completely different. 900 00:57:31,241 --> 00:57:32,842 Glad to see you're feeling better, Massa. 901 00:57:32,867 --> 00:57:38,289 We can get back on the road, make some money. 902 00:57:38,373 --> 00:57:40,373 Of course it's gonna take your first year's salary, 903 00:57:40,375 --> 00:57:43,545 pay me back for buying that Matilda gal from MacGregor. 904 00:57:43,628 --> 00:57:46,548 She worth every penny. 905 00:57:46,631 --> 00:57:51,970 You get to making babies, increase my stock. 906 00:57:52,053 --> 00:57:57,600 And when a boy comes, Tom would be a fine name for a boy. 907 00:57:57,684 --> 00:58:01,855 - Ain't that right, Sarah? - Strong name, Massa. 908 00:58:01,938 --> 00:58:03,398 Tom it'll be, Massa. 909 00:58:04,899 --> 00:58:06,901 If it's a boy. 910 00:58:06,985 --> 00:58:08,486 George. 911 00:58:08,570 --> 00:58:11,197 I think you mama's sweet on that boy. 912 00:58:11,281 --> 00:58:13,241 I ain't never seen mama in a mood like this. 913 00:58:13,324 --> 00:58:15,326 Wakes up happy. 914 00:58:16,995 --> 00:58:19,873 - She always pretty when she smiles. - Mm-hmm. 915 00:58:25,211 --> 00:58:28,006 You know what they call a free nigger in North Carolina? 916 00:58:31,050 --> 00:58:32,343 Nigger. 917 00:58:45,106 --> 00:58:48,401 Folks sure did miss you at the wedding. 918 00:58:48,526 --> 00:58:50,820 Smoothest liar I ever met. 919 00:58:50,904 --> 00:58:52,530 Thank you. 920 00:58:57,535 --> 00:58:59,162 Bet your mama gonna be after you 921 00:58:59,245 --> 00:59:01,039 to hatch some chickens of your own. 922 00:59:01,122 --> 00:59:03,875 Not if he gonna name the first one Tom. 923 00:59:03,958 --> 00:59:07,670 Miss Kizzy, congratulations on your happy day. 924 00:59:07,754 --> 00:59:11,633 It was happy, till I heard my boy promised his firstborn son 925 00:59:11,716 --> 00:59:13,676 gonna carry Massa's name. 926 00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:15,678 Me and Matilda gonna have lots of babies. 927 00:59:15,762 --> 00:59:18,598 Plenty of names to go around. Maybe even Mingo. 928 00:59:18,681 --> 00:59:21,976 You can't name no one in this family after that man. 929 00:59:24,437 --> 00:59:26,689 Gonna go gather up some wood for my fire. 930 00:59:28,566 --> 00:59:30,818 I know how to handle Tom Lea, Mama. 931 00:59:30,902 --> 00:59:33,363 Ain't no handling no massa, 932 00:59:33,446 --> 00:59:35,365 especially not one like Tom Lea. 933 00:59:35,448 --> 00:59:37,367 It's just a name, Mama. 934 00:59:37,450 --> 00:59:39,994 A name is who you is. 935 00:59:40,078 --> 00:59:44,040 My daddy took whippings night and day to protect his name. 936 00:59:44,123 --> 00:59:45,667 What is it you want from me? 937 00:59:45,750 --> 00:59:48,670 Wouldn't make no sense to say 'cause I ain't never gonna get it. 938 00:59:48,753 --> 00:59:52,090 I shouldn't be surprised you act the way you do. 939 00:59:52,173 --> 00:59:55,510 But don't you ever get no shame, George. 940 00:59:55,593 --> 00:59:57,053 I'm famous up and down this county. 941 00:59:57,136 --> 00:59:59,138 I know who I am, and you should, too. 942 00:59:59,222 --> 01:00:00,848 Only time I knew who you was 943 01:00:00,932 --> 01:00:03,476 was when I took your yellow ass out to the spot 944 01:00:03,601 --> 01:00:05,019 where I stood and named you. 945 01:00:05,103 --> 01:00:08,398 Well, I ain't trying to be no beat-down African with half a foot! 946 01:00:11,192 --> 01:00:14,821 You ain't nowhere near the man my daddy was. 947 01:00:14,904 --> 01:00:18,491 Some time I look at you, and I see Tom Lea. 948 01:00:18,616 --> 01:00:21,661 I can't even tell you 'part. 949 01:00:21,744 --> 01:00:25,081 And it break my heart. 950 01:00:47,270 --> 01:00:48,771 It's pretty. 951 01:00:48,855 --> 01:00:51,232 Came up from Durham way? 952 01:00:52,900 --> 01:00:54,819 Came from my papa. 953 01:00:54,902 --> 01:00:58,239 Came from Juffure, from Africa. 954 01:00:58,323 --> 01:01:01,159 What don't come from Africa, according to you? 955 01:01:01,242 --> 01:01:02,535 Hey, no, no. 956 01:01:07,915 --> 01:01:11,127 I spent my life in a cabin like this. 957 01:01:11,210 --> 01:01:13,129 And now that I'm free, 958 01:01:13,212 --> 01:01:16,049 I'd rather sleep under the stars. 959 01:01:18,426 --> 01:01:19,677 Kizzy. 960 01:01:21,346 --> 01:01:23,264 I'm always passing through places, 961 01:01:23,348 --> 01:01:25,683 so I find it best to speak my mind. 962 01:01:27,477 --> 01:01:30,772 I want you to come with me. 963 01:01:30,855 --> 01:01:33,232 - What would we do? - Go north... 964 01:01:33,316 --> 01:01:36,486 Pennsylvania, Vermont. 965 01:01:37,695 --> 01:01:39,530 I'm tired of pulling out my papers 966 01:01:39,614 --> 01:01:42,367 every time some sheriff gets in a mood 967 01:01:42,450 --> 01:01:44,660 or some cracker don't like my look. 968 01:01:44,744 --> 01:01:46,913 I like your look. 969 01:01:54,712 --> 01:01:57,256 Getting free was all my daddy ever wanted. 970 01:01:57,340 --> 01:02:01,594 - But I'd be so far from George. - Far is free. 971 01:02:04,722 --> 01:02:06,599 Your boy has his own life now. 972 01:02:07,934 --> 01:02:10,103 It's time you loved yours. 973 01:02:12,605 --> 01:02:14,941 That's Massa Lea. 974 01:02:23,491 --> 01:02:25,243 Didn't know you were entertaining, Kizzy. 975 01:02:25,326 --> 01:02:28,871 Now you see, so you can go on home. 976 01:02:28,955 --> 01:02:30,748 This is my property, boy. 977 01:02:31,999 --> 01:02:34,752 I own it and everything on it. 978 01:02:34,836 --> 01:02:37,880 Then turn a profit on what you own. I want to buy Kizzy. 979 01:02:39,924 --> 01:02:42,718 - Is that right? - Mm-hmm. 980 01:02:42,802 --> 01:02:44,137 I'd have to reckon it. 981 01:02:44,220 --> 01:02:46,722 Name your price... any number. 982 01:02:46,806 --> 01:02:48,182 I can pay it. 983 01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:51,310 Ain't you a businessman? 984 01:02:54,313 --> 01:02:58,151 Well, she's almost past having babies. That's in your favor. 985 01:02:58,234 --> 01:03:00,611 But she's strong as a woman half her age. 986 01:03:00,695 --> 01:03:02,447 That's in my favor. 987 01:03:02,530 --> 01:03:05,032 Reads, too, by my good graces. 988 01:03:05,116 --> 01:03:07,618 Other masters wouldn't have it. 989 01:03:07,702 --> 01:03:11,372 Cooks, sews, handles the house. 990 01:03:11,456 --> 01:03:13,291 Understands a man's needs. 991 01:03:15,251 --> 01:03:17,837 - $2,000. - You can't. 992 01:03:19,046 --> 01:03:20,882 You don't have half it. 993 01:03:20,965 --> 01:03:23,759 It's everything, but I have it. 994 01:03:23,843 --> 01:03:26,721 Make her free to leave with me tomorrow, 995 01:03:26,804 --> 01:03:28,514 and I'll give it to you. 996 01:03:33,269 --> 01:03:35,730 I think we can come to some kind of agreement. 997 01:04:06,469 --> 01:04:08,513 Something you need, Massa? 998 01:04:13,392 --> 01:04:15,144 Miss Patricia need something? 999 01:04:15,228 --> 01:04:19,023 She's sleeping. Not that that matters. 1000 01:04:21,901 --> 01:04:24,070 I'm making sweet rolls for tomorrow. 1001 01:04:24,153 --> 01:04:27,156 Ah. Tomorrow. 1002 01:04:31,494 --> 01:04:33,371 Way of saying goodbye? 1003 01:04:37,208 --> 01:04:38,626 Tell me you want to go. 1004 01:04:38,709 --> 01:04:41,003 He gonna pay you well. 1005 01:04:41,087 --> 01:04:44,840 You expect me to sell you to that nigger bastard who looks down on me? 1006 01:04:44,924 --> 01:04:47,009 Pick that nigger over me?! 1007 01:04:47,093 --> 01:04:49,554 Over George?! 1008 01:04:49,637 --> 01:04:52,181 You have a place here with people who love you, 1009 01:04:52,265 --> 01:04:54,684 and you just want to go somewheres else. 1010 01:04:56,310 --> 01:04:58,062 Please! Please, Massa! Don't. 1011 01:04:59,146 --> 01:05:02,900 You ain't never been beat. I don't overwork you. 1012 01:05:02,984 --> 01:05:05,987 I have more right than that free nigger! 1013 01:05:07,905 --> 01:05:10,616 You've been bragging to George about how you gonna be leaving me. 1014 01:05:10,700 --> 01:05:12,451 I ain't been bragging. 1015 01:05:12,535 --> 01:05:15,079 You just expect me to let you go? 1016 01:05:15,162 --> 01:05:18,040 I can't go. 1017 01:05:18,124 --> 01:05:19,667 Ungrateful. 1018 01:05:19,750 --> 01:05:22,545 You think I'm just gonna let you go? 1019 01:05:22,628 --> 01:05:24,088 I can't go. 1020 01:05:24,171 --> 01:05:25,798 Ungrateful. 1021 01:05:25,923 --> 01:05:27,425 I ain't leaving! I ain't leaving! 1022 01:05:27,508 --> 01:05:30,219 You think I'd leave my family here with you? 1023 01:05:31,220 --> 01:05:35,891 And the time they start having babies, I'd be a thousand miles gone. 1024 01:05:35,975 --> 01:05:39,937 And I see you still they massa? 1025 01:05:40,938 --> 01:05:43,107 I'd die every day. 1026 01:05:43,190 --> 01:05:47,194 But when George and Matilda have children, 1027 01:05:47,278 --> 01:05:52,575 if you ever touch just one, I'll kill you. 1028 01:05:52,658 --> 01:05:55,953 And I'll hang for it gladly. 1029 01:05:59,957 --> 01:06:01,626 Now, now, Kizzy. 1030 01:06:01,709 --> 01:06:05,254 They're gonna be my grandchildren, too. 1031 01:06:14,263 --> 01:06:17,308 Now be quick about it. 1032 01:07:19,787 --> 01:07:23,874 If you won't come with me, take this. 1033 01:07:23,958 --> 01:07:26,794 Day might come when you're able to buy yourself free. 1034 01:07:26,877 --> 01:07:30,673 I can't. 1035 01:07:30,756 --> 01:07:33,134 You start a new life. 1036 01:07:33,217 --> 01:07:37,304 Keep traveling north and find some... 1037 01:07:39,849 --> 01:07:42,768 Find somebody else. 1038 01:08:12,548 --> 01:08:14,759 My daddy would have liked you. 1039 01:08:30,107 --> 01:08:32,526 Get up, now. 1040 01:09:13,943 --> 01:09:16,362 - Give me that. - Don't need no help. 1041 01:09:18,322 --> 01:09:21,450 You sure Massa say I should come? 1042 01:09:21,534 --> 01:09:25,663 Long ride, lots to do. 1043 01:09:25,746 --> 01:09:27,706 Greensville County in Virginia. 1044 01:09:27,790 --> 01:09:31,710 A thousand men come for this match. Six tents. We taking 20 birds. 1045 01:09:31,794 --> 01:09:33,045 20? 1046 01:09:33,170 --> 01:09:36,048 Told Massa he want that many, he can't do it without Mingo. 1047 01:09:36,173 --> 01:09:38,259 Clear as day to those got eyes. 1048 01:09:38,342 --> 01:09:41,971 To watch the cages. 1049 01:09:42,054 --> 01:09:45,015 Tend the birds. 1050 01:09:45,099 --> 01:09:46,433 Oh. 1051 01:09:48,477 --> 01:09:49,937 You got my feed? 1052 01:09:57,987 --> 01:09:59,864 Just like I told you, boy. 1053 01:09:59,947 --> 01:10:01,866 Birds leave they marks on a man. 1054 01:10:01,949 --> 01:10:05,369 But still so pretty, women cry when I pass by. 1055 01:10:05,452 --> 01:10:08,122 You're still a slave, too. 1056 01:10:08,205 --> 01:10:09,456 That may be. 1057 01:10:09,540 --> 01:10:12,293 I've been saving up. Got me a scheme. 1058 01:10:12,376 --> 01:10:15,045 - Scheme? Uh-huh. - Mm-hmm. 1059 01:10:15,129 --> 01:10:18,257 I'm gonna buy Matilda, then all my babies free. 1060 01:10:18,340 --> 01:10:21,051 Man saving up money got to pinch every penny. 1061 01:10:21,135 --> 01:10:24,054 Damn hard scheme for the likes of you. 1062 01:10:24,138 --> 01:10:27,683 You toss away money like you feeding it to the hens. 1063 01:10:29,351 --> 01:10:31,937 All your bragging and carrying on, 1064 01:10:32,021 --> 01:10:35,232 I know how much time you spend with my birds. 1065 01:10:35,316 --> 01:10:37,401 Folks say birds are stupid. 1066 01:10:37,484 --> 01:10:41,030 Birds know who they can trust, know who love them. 1067 01:10:42,072 --> 01:10:46,452 Folks is mostly fools when it come to knowing that. 1068 01:10:46,535 --> 01:10:51,123 Birds know a man by his touch, by the sweat. 1069 01:10:57,922 --> 01:11:00,507 You a better bird man than me. 1070 01:11:03,052 --> 01:11:05,930 Only 'cause I had the best damn teacher in Carolina. 1071 01:11:07,890 --> 01:11:10,100 You damn right you did. 1072 01:11:18,859 --> 01:11:21,487 Hyah! Hyah! 1073 01:11:21,570 --> 01:11:23,489 The Prophet's coming! 1074 01:11:23,572 --> 01:11:25,115 The Prophet's coming! 1075 01:11:25,199 --> 01:11:27,034 He's on his way! 1076 01:11:27,117 --> 01:11:29,411 River of blood is what's speeding him on his way! 1077 01:11:29,495 --> 01:11:30,746 Whoa, you! Hup! 1078 01:11:30,829 --> 01:11:32,831 Got plenty of ammunition. 1079 01:11:35,459 --> 01:11:36,919 Everybody carrying guns. 1080 01:11:37,002 --> 01:11:38,545 Damn. What the hell is this? 1081 01:11:38,629 --> 01:11:40,255 Where's everybody going? 1082 01:11:40,339 --> 01:11:42,540 Never heard of canceling no match, rain or shine, Massa. 1083 01:11:45,427 --> 01:11:46,971 I don't think we should stay, Massa. 1084 01:11:47,054 --> 01:11:48,555 We just drove four days to Virginia. 1085 01:11:48,639 --> 01:11:49,932 Pretty penny out of pocket, too. 1086 01:11:50,015 --> 01:11:52,768 I need an explanation, or someone's gonna pay me for my trouble. 1087 01:11:52,851 --> 01:11:55,229 Savages! That's all they are, is savages! 1088 01:11:55,312 --> 01:11:56,647 What's going on here? 1089 01:11:56,730 --> 01:11:58,816 Nigger from Sam Turner's farm named Nat 1090 01:11:58,899 --> 01:12:00,859 running loose with hundreds of other niggers. 1091 01:12:00,943 --> 01:12:02,194 I hear thousands. 1092 01:12:02,319 --> 01:12:05,364 Killing men, women, children, any white folks they come upon. 1093 01:12:05,447 --> 01:12:07,783 Whole families dead. 1094 01:12:07,866 --> 01:12:12,079 Babies in their beds, using axes, swords, clubs. 1095 01:12:12,162 --> 01:12:14,665 They beat Margaret Whitehead to death with a fence post. 1096 01:12:14,748 --> 01:12:17,251 Reading the Bible over their bloody bodies, 1097 01:12:17,334 --> 01:12:19,670 calling himself the Prophet. 1098 01:12:19,753 --> 01:12:21,964 He ain't just killing. He's a cannibal. 1099 01:12:22,047 --> 01:12:25,426 Burning up little babies, serving them to his gang to eat. 1100 01:12:25,509 --> 01:12:26,760 Why ain't nobody find him yet? 1101 01:12:26,844 --> 01:12:28,804 Other slaves hiding these killers on farms, 1102 01:12:28,887 --> 01:12:31,682 in barns, cabins... right under our noses. 1103 01:12:31,765 --> 01:12:34,518 I'm warning you boys... murder's spreading everywhere! 1104 01:12:34,601 --> 01:12:37,771 I'm six days from home, and I got five little ones. 1105 01:12:39,565 --> 01:12:43,318 God! I'll kill any nigger that gets in my way! 1106 01:12:45,362 --> 01:12:47,156 Hey! What y'all doing? 1107 01:12:47,239 --> 01:12:49,408 Don't hurt my birds. Don't hurt my birds. 1108 01:12:49,491 --> 01:12:51,744 You got any guns and knives in this wagon? 1109 01:12:53,495 --> 01:12:55,164 Get away from Massa Lea's birds. 1110 01:12:55,247 --> 01:12:57,291 Mingo! Mingo! 1111 01:12:57,374 --> 01:12:58,542 Hey, boy! 1112 01:12:58,625 --> 01:13:00,044 No, please! Please, Massa! 1113 01:13:00,127 --> 01:13:01,253 Please! 1114 01:13:01,378 --> 01:13:04,298 He a good ol' boy. Good ol' boy, no problem. 1115 01:13:04,381 --> 01:13:06,383 - We with Massa Tom... - Hey! 1116 01:13:09,094 --> 01:13:10,471 These yours? 1117 01:13:10,554 --> 01:13:12,056 Yeah. 1118 01:13:13,515 --> 01:13:16,310 You vouch for them? 1119 01:13:16,393 --> 01:13:18,520 Came with me to fight birds. 1120 01:13:18,604 --> 01:13:22,608 Can't find that devil's Prophet. 1121 01:13:22,691 --> 01:13:24,651 Niggers. 1122 01:13:24,735 --> 01:13:28,447 Hiding guns and knives any place they can. 1123 01:13:28,530 --> 01:13:30,991 I don't care how long you own them sons of bitches. 1124 01:13:31,075 --> 01:13:33,327 I wouldn't trust no one. 1125 01:13:39,041 --> 01:13:42,419 We need a doctor for Mingo, Massa. 1126 01:13:46,548 --> 01:13:49,009 We need to go home now. Patricia's by herself. 1127 01:13:49,093 --> 01:13:51,220 Mama there for Miss Patricia. She be fine. 1128 01:13:51,303 --> 01:13:53,430 You take us home. Now! 1129 01:13:53,514 --> 01:13:55,724 Yes, Massa. Yes, Massa. 1130 01:13:55,808 --> 01:13:57,768 Now, come on. I got you. 1131 01:13:57,851 --> 01:14:00,354 You strong. You fine, you hear me? 1132 01:14:00,437 --> 01:14:02,189 You fine! 1133 01:14:02,272 --> 01:14:03,565 Hurry up, George! 1134 01:14:03,649 --> 01:14:05,442 Yes, Massa. 1135 01:14:05,526 --> 01:14:07,903 Come on, let's go! 1136 01:14:07,986 --> 01:14:09,905 That nigger Turner's the devil on earth. 1137 01:14:10,906 --> 01:14:14,118 Mingo's hurt real bad, Massa. We've been riding like this for three days. 1138 01:14:14,201 --> 01:14:16,120 You'd never think of rising up with no slaves 1139 01:14:16,203 --> 01:14:17,996 against me and Tricia, would you, George? 1140 01:14:18,080 --> 01:14:20,124 No, Massa. You know me. 1141 01:14:20,207 --> 01:14:23,043 We got to find a doctor somewhere. 1142 01:14:23,127 --> 01:14:27,005 'Cause if you did, George, I'd blow your goddamn head off. 1143 01:14:28,757 --> 01:14:30,050 Stop the wagon. 1144 01:14:30,134 --> 01:14:33,720 - Ho! Ho! - Hold up now. Hold up. 1145 01:14:33,804 --> 01:14:36,932 - Where y'all coming from? - Southampton. 1146 01:14:37,015 --> 01:14:38,993 Trying to get home before the Prophet reaches my farm. 1147 01:14:39,017 --> 01:14:40,829 We got every man with a gun out looking for him. 1148 01:14:40,853 --> 01:14:42,104 Uh-huh. 1149 01:14:44,481 --> 01:14:45,691 This your boy? 1150 01:14:47,401 --> 01:14:48,652 Yes, sir. 1151 01:14:48,735 --> 01:14:52,322 Well, you a damn fool if you ain't got him tied up good. 1152 01:14:52,406 --> 01:14:53,949 That Nat Turner's a fever. 1153 01:14:54,032 --> 01:14:56,076 You never know which nigger's gonna catch it. 1154 01:15:05,794 --> 01:15:07,379 Massa, what you doing? 1155 01:15:10,299 --> 01:15:12,509 Chain yourself to the wagon, George. 1156 01:15:14,428 --> 01:15:16,263 Massa, it's me. 1157 01:15:16,346 --> 01:15:17,639 It's George. You trust me. 1158 01:15:17,723 --> 01:15:20,517 Do it, George, or I will shoot you. 1159 01:15:20,601 --> 01:15:22,811 Go on! 1160 01:15:46,001 --> 01:15:47,377 Let 'em through. 1161 01:15:51,006 --> 01:15:53,050 You've known me since I was a child. 1162 01:15:53,133 --> 01:15:54,760 I can trust a child. 1163 01:15:54,843 --> 01:15:57,221 It's when y'all get growed is when you get ideas. 1164 01:15:57,304 --> 01:15:59,765 God help you if anything's happened to Tricia. 1165 01:15:59,848 --> 01:16:01,558 Hyah! 1166 01:16:03,435 --> 01:16:05,437 Hyah! 1167 01:16:08,190 --> 01:16:09,441 Hyah! 1168 01:16:11,944 --> 01:16:13,278 Hyah! 1169 01:16:13,362 --> 01:16:15,405 Ho! 1170 01:16:19,576 --> 01:16:21,286 What have you niggers done to my farm? 1171 01:16:23,705 --> 01:16:24,957 Tricia! 1172 01:16:26,375 --> 01:16:29,127 Don't you move, boy! Stay in that wagon! 1173 01:16:29,211 --> 01:16:30,796 Tricia! 1174 01:16:30,879 --> 01:16:32,339 - Tom! - Tom! 1175 01:16:32,422 --> 01:16:34,716 I come to make sure Miss Patricia's all right. 1176 01:16:37,886 --> 01:16:40,597 Dirty nigger. Dirty bastards! 1177 01:16:42,266 --> 01:16:43,558 Get inside, Tricia. 1178 01:16:43,642 --> 01:16:45,560 Now! Go on! 1179 01:16:45,644 --> 01:16:48,230 Five militiamen came over here looking for slaves. 1180 01:16:48,313 --> 01:16:50,440 They set the cabins on fire. 1181 01:16:50,524 --> 01:16:53,360 Thank God you're back. I was so scared. 1182 01:16:57,614 --> 01:16:59,449 Reverend Lyon, what the hell you doing here? 1183 01:16:59,533 --> 01:17:01,076 This ain't no place to be right now. 1184 01:17:01,159 --> 01:17:03,161 Heard some riders was heading for the Lea farm, 1185 01:17:03,245 --> 01:17:05,414 so I come over to check on Matilda and the family. 1186 01:17:05,497 --> 01:17:08,417 But them white boys came up on... on the cabins so fast. 1187 01:17:08,500 --> 01:17:10,168 I had to hide. 1188 01:17:10,252 --> 01:17:13,130 They burned down everything they could. 1189 01:17:15,215 --> 01:17:18,593 I don't know where Kizzy and Tilda are. 1190 01:17:18,677 --> 01:17:22,055 Guess I talk a lot, but I can't help nobody. 1191 01:17:22,139 --> 01:17:23,974 Look at me, look at me. 1192 01:17:24,057 --> 01:17:26,518 Get me that ax. Get me that ax. 1193 01:17:30,772 --> 01:17:32,024 Get the wood. 1194 01:17:38,697 --> 01:17:40,198 Gonna find Mama and Matilda. 1195 01:17:40,282 --> 01:17:42,451 I need to find my children, but I'll be back. 1196 01:17:42,534 --> 01:17:44,953 You can watch Mingo till I can find help, all right? 1197 01:17:45,037 --> 01:17:47,039 - I'll stay with him. - All right. 1198 01:17:50,208 --> 01:17:52,002 Promise me you'll hold on, all right? 1199 01:17:52,085 --> 01:17:53,545 You strong like nobody else. 1200 01:17:53,670 --> 01:17:57,049 Watch out for Massa Tom. 1201 01:17:57,132 --> 01:18:00,677 He ain't never gonna see you for who you truly is. 1202 01:18:01,678 --> 01:18:04,264 Hold on. I'll be back. 1203 01:18:07,684 --> 01:18:10,395 Take my secret feed. 1204 01:18:10,479 --> 01:18:14,691 I got something for you... for your scheme. 1205 01:18:17,027 --> 01:18:19,529 All right. All right. 1206 01:18:30,624 --> 01:18:32,084 I see you, George! 1207 01:18:32,167 --> 01:18:34,252 You ain't gonna slit my throat while I sleep! 1208 01:18:34,336 --> 01:18:35,670 I see you! 1209 01:18:35,754 --> 01:18:38,090 Tilda! 1210 01:18:41,468 --> 01:18:43,387 Tilda! 1211 01:18:43,470 --> 01:18:44,971 Matilda, it's me! 1212 01:18:50,268 --> 01:18:52,145 Matilda, it's me! 1213 01:19:00,904 --> 01:19:02,155 Tilda! 1214 01:19:04,241 --> 01:19:05,742 Mama? 1215 01:19:05,826 --> 01:19:08,412 Matilda! 1216 01:19:08,495 --> 01:19:10,497 Mama! 1217 01:19:10,580 --> 01:19:13,333 Matilda, it's me, George! 1218 01:19:28,557 --> 01:19:30,725 Oh, George. 1219 01:19:30,809 --> 01:19:35,439 I thought you was dead. 1220 01:19:43,905 --> 01:19:45,198 Come see the babies. 1221 01:19:52,080 --> 01:19:55,625 Matilda was scared to death she was never gonna see you again. 1222 01:19:55,709 --> 01:19:58,420 - Sister Sarah. - George! Oh, child! 1223 01:19:58,503 --> 01:20:00,464 - Thank God. - Oh, God. 1224 01:20:00,547 --> 01:20:03,758 Glad to see you. Thank God! 1225 01:20:03,842 --> 01:20:07,554 Tilda, come on out. 1226 01:20:07,637 --> 01:20:09,806 Come on. 1227 01:20:10,807 --> 01:20:11,892 George. 1228 01:20:11,975 --> 01:20:13,560 - George! George! - Tilda! 1229 01:20:14,978 --> 01:20:16,521 George. 1230 01:20:16,605 --> 01:20:18,565 Oh, George. 1231 01:20:21,818 --> 01:20:24,112 Your mama the only reason we're alive. 1232 01:20:24,196 --> 01:20:27,073 She brought us out here, been catching food for us, too. 1233 01:20:27,157 --> 01:20:30,160 Cabins was on fire. I didn't know what happened to you. 1234 01:20:30,243 --> 01:20:31,953 We heard them coming in the night. 1235 01:20:32,037 --> 01:20:34,331 Me and Mama Kizzy went to Miss Patricia with the babies, 1236 01:20:34,414 --> 01:20:37,876 but she had locked everything up, and we couldn't get in. 1237 01:20:37,959 --> 01:20:40,712 Then the militiamen showed up, 1238 01:20:40,837 --> 01:20:42,797 set fire everywhere. 1239 01:20:42,881 --> 01:20:46,885 Screaming about some man named Turner and an uprising. 1240 01:20:46,968 --> 01:20:49,346 They was hunting us, George. 1241 01:20:49,429 --> 01:20:52,182 We barely made it out here to the woods. 1242 01:20:52,265 --> 01:20:54,768 It's all right now. It's all right now. 1243 01:20:54,851 --> 01:20:57,145 Where my babies? 1244 01:20:59,439 --> 01:21:01,358 It's all right. It's all right. 1245 01:21:01,441 --> 01:21:03,109 I'm home now. 1246 01:21:19,167 --> 01:21:21,086 He's gone. 1247 01:21:24,339 --> 01:21:26,716 Never did talk about hisself. 1248 01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:28,927 Just talked about them birds. 1249 01:21:30,720 --> 01:21:32,931 I don't even know where he was born. 1250 01:21:33,014 --> 01:21:35,100 I don't know if he had one damn person cry for him! 1251 01:21:35,183 --> 01:21:36,601 He had you. 1252 01:21:36,685 --> 01:21:39,396 He had you. 1253 01:21:39,479 --> 01:21:40,730 He had you. 1254 01:21:40,814 --> 01:21:43,108 Let me go. 1255 01:21:46,903 --> 01:21:48,530 You need to be with Matilda now. 1256 01:21:48,613 --> 01:21:49,864 Son of a bitch! 1257 01:21:49,948 --> 01:21:51,908 Too goddamn good to come down here. 1258 01:21:51,992 --> 01:21:53,952 Mingo worked his life away for him. 1259 01:21:54,035 --> 01:21:56,371 That's what that bastard want for all of them... 1260 01:21:56,454 --> 01:21:58,832 - just work till we dead. - George, no. 1261 01:21:58,915 --> 01:22:01,126 You gonna kill Massa Tom? 1262 01:22:01,209 --> 01:22:03,086 That gonna make anything better for us? 1263 01:22:03,169 --> 01:22:05,398 You think I've been ignorant about that man my whole life? 1264 01:22:05,422 --> 01:22:07,549 Look at me! 1265 01:22:07,632 --> 01:22:10,093 You think I don't know I'm his son? 1266 01:22:10,176 --> 01:22:12,470 I've been drowning that truth in my head 1267 01:22:12,554 --> 01:22:15,307 'cause I want so bad for us to be away from him. 1268 01:22:15,390 --> 01:22:18,727 And I... ain't never gonna be that. 1269 01:22:18,810 --> 01:22:20,520 We're all gonna be like Mingo. 1270 01:22:20,604 --> 01:22:22,355 And I've been waiting for the right moment 1271 01:22:22,439 --> 01:22:25,567 to give him everything he gave us, and right now I'm gonna kill him. 1272 01:22:25,650 --> 01:22:26,901 No, you can't kill him. 1273 01:22:26,985 --> 01:22:29,988 'Cause then they gonna kill you, and that would rip me apart. 1274 01:22:30,071 --> 01:22:33,450 All I know is how to make all this livable. 1275 01:22:33,533 --> 01:22:35,493 And I can't do that no more. 1276 01:22:37,954 --> 01:22:41,499 I almost took my life when you was born. 1277 01:22:41,583 --> 01:22:43,335 And yours, too. 1278 01:22:44,628 --> 01:22:47,714 For a while, I didn't know how to feel nothing. 1279 01:22:47,797 --> 01:22:51,009 Nothing but shame and sorrow. 1280 01:22:51,092 --> 01:22:54,262 And so far away from my mama and daddy, 1281 01:22:54,346 --> 01:22:56,723 but it would have been a terrible sin 1282 01:22:56,806 --> 01:22:59,225 against everything my daddy taught me. 1283 01:22:59,309 --> 01:23:04,981 It seemed like I could hear his voice right here... stopping me. 1284 01:23:06,316 --> 01:23:11,946 He came to me, and I decided to live. 1285 01:23:12,030 --> 01:23:14,449 You a fine man, George. 1286 01:23:15,492 --> 01:23:17,577 And I ain't told you enough. 1287 01:23:17,661 --> 01:23:23,041 Maybe I was scared you got too much of Massa's blood. 1288 01:23:23,124 --> 01:23:26,503 But you have honored my father. 1289 01:23:26,586 --> 01:23:31,800 You here to keep this family going, to survive. 1290 01:23:31,883 --> 01:23:35,887 He always said we fight when we need, 1291 01:23:36,012 --> 01:23:38,973 but first, we got to survive. 1292 01:23:39,057 --> 01:23:44,354 Tom Lea whole life gonna be a waste. 1293 01:23:44,437 --> 01:23:46,523 But not yours. 1294 01:23:46,606 --> 01:23:49,651 What keeps me living. 1295 01:23:49,734 --> 01:23:51,528 I love you. 1296 01:23:51,611 --> 01:23:54,072 I love you too much. 1297 01:23:54,155 --> 01:23:57,075 Stay with me. 1298 01:23:57,158 --> 01:23:59,035 Please. 1299 01:23:59,119 --> 01:24:01,955 Live. 1300 01:24:29,899 --> 01:24:33,528 Oh, uh, Mingo wanted you to have this bucket with his secret feed in it. 1301 01:24:33,611 --> 01:24:36,281 - Hey, that's too heavy for you. - Oh, shit. 1302 01:25:32,253 --> 01:25:34,714 George, you and Matilda got two girls and two boys, 1303 01:25:34,798 --> 01:25:36,424 and ain't none of them named Tom yet. 1304 01:25:36,508 --> 01:25:38,009 I ain't giving them that man's name. 1305 01:25:38,134 --> 01:25:40,303 - Mama, you said... - I know what I said, 1306 01:25:40,386 --> 01:25:42,972 and I knew what he'd do if you don't name that boy Tom. 1307 01:25:43,056 --> 01:25:46,059 He'll ride him the rest of his living days. 1308 01:25:46,142 --> 01:25:47,727 Do it, George. 1309 01:25:49,729 --> 01:25:52,106 Name him Tom. 1310 01:25:52,190 --> 01:25:53,733 Tilda. 1311 01:25:53,817 --> 01:25:55,777 Mourning dove, you need to rest. 1312 01:25:55,860 --> 01:26:00,240 And I want you to name him the way Mama Kizzy says her daddy taught her, 1313 01:26:00,323 --> 01:26:03,034 the way Kunta Kinte would do it. 1314 01:26:03,159 --> 01:26:07,247 I know I didn't pay it no mind with all our other babies. 1315 01:26:07,330 --> 01:26:10,250 It ain't the way my daddy taught me. 1316 01:26:10,333 --> 01:26:15,338 But I heard Mama Kizzy telling the stories to the boys one night. 1317 01:26:15,421 --> 01:26:19,425 Something passed through me, George. 1318 01:26:19,509 --> 01:26:22,428 I don't see how both ways... 1319 01:26:22,512 --> 01:26:25,181 mine and Mama Kizzy's... can't be true. 1320 01:26:26,182 --> 01:26:30,603 And I believe it will protect this baby and all of us. 1321 01:26:34,816 --> 01:26:38,069 I don't know how. 1322 01:26:42,407 --> 01:26:44,492 Moving too fast for me, Mama. 1323 01:26:44,576 --> 01:26:46,828 I ain't hardly trying, George. 1324 01:26:46,911 --> 01:26:50,456 Like I say, them birds a soft kind of work. 1325 01:26:55,628 --> 01:26:57,338 Here. 1326 01:27:02,760 --> 01:27:04,846 How you know it's the right spot? 1327 01:27:04,929 --> 01:27:06,890 I know. 1328 01:27:16,107 --> 01:27:17,483 Look up, little one. 1329 01:27:20,278 --> 01:27:23,531 That's the only thing greater than yourself. 1330 01:27:40,882 --> 01:27:42,800 Gonna be more money 1331 01:27:42,884 --> 01:27:44,844 at that Charleston jamboree than we ever seen, 1332 01:27:44,928 --> 01:27:46,804 and I am gonna win it. 1333 01:27:46,888 --> 01:27:49,891 And turn it to ash in a bonfire of foolishness, 1334 01:27:49,974 --> 01:27:51,351 the way you always do. 1335 01:27:52,727 --> 01:27:55,188 Matilda. After George leaves, 1336 01:27:55,271 --> 01:27:56,951 get the children weaving new grain baskets. 1337 01:27:56,981 --> 01:27:58,983 Ashford and George Jr. can start clearing out 1338 01:27:59,067 --> 01:28:01,361 - that stand of walnut trees. - Yes, ma'am. 1339 01:28:03,446 --> 01:28:04,906 How we looking, George? 1340 01:28:04,989 --> 01:28:07,325 We got 10 strong killers, 1341 01:28:07,408 --> 01:28:08,769 five young stags hungry for blood. 1342 01:28:08,785 --> 01:28:12,664 I say we be fine, long as you listen to me. 1343 01:28:12,747 --> 01:28:15,333 Can't ever talk to me like that, George. 1344 01:28:15,416 --> 01:28:16,709 Goddamn. 1345 01:28:16,793 --> 01:28:18,628 I swear I'll sell your ass in New Orleans. 1346 01:28:18,711 --> 01:28:22,006 And fight your own birds. 1347 01:28:22,090 --> 01:28:23,508 Look, George, 1348 01:28:23,591 --> 01:28:29,013 there's more money to be won in that Charleston jamboree than we ever seen, 1349 01:28:29,097 --> 01:28:30,390 and we got to win big. 1350 01:28:30,473 --> 01:28:32,976 That's what we'll do. 1351 01:28:33,059 --> 01:28:37,021 George, you and me used to be best friends. 1352 01:28:37,105 --> 01:28:39,107 Ever since Mingo died, 1353 01:28:39,190 --> 01:28:42,485 I can barely get a word out of you. 1354 01:28:44,320 --> 01:28:45,960 It's a long road to Charleston, Massa Tom. 1355 01:28:49,534 --> 01:28:52,245 I'm gonna go help our boys in the field. 1356 01:28:52,328 --> 01:28:56,332 I'll bring back gifts for everybody, my mourning dove. 1357 01:28:56,416 --> 01:28:59,460 Just bring yourself home safe. 1358 01:29:07,802 --> 01:29:10,054 Hey, hey, hey. 1359 01:29:10,138 --> 01:29:12,306 You ain't never been gone this long before, George. 1360 01:29:12,390 --> 01:29:16,519 Well, got you to watch over everybody. 1361 01:29:16,602 --> 01:29:18,229 Ain't got no worries. 1362 01:29:21,357 --> 01:29:23,901 And my daddy gonna watch over you. 1363 01:29:23,985 --> 01:29:26,112 Charleston's a long ways away. 1364 01:29:31,909 --> 01:29:34,579 Yes, Mama. 1365 01:29:45,131 --> 01:29:46,382 Hyah! 1366 01:30:10,406 --> 01:30:13,993 George. There's more money here than I ever thought could be. 1367 01:30:14,077 --> 01:30:15,328 Where we going, Massa? 1368 01:30:17,622 --> 01:30:19,832 Here he is, Jewett. 1369 01:30:19,916 --> 01:30:21,959 Oh, Chicken George. 1370 01:30:22,043 --> 01:30:26,839 Meet my cousin from Hampshire, Sir C. Eric Russell. 1371 01:30:27,924 --> 01:30:30,301 Jewett tells me you're a sovereign of avifauna. 1372 01:30:30,426 --> 01:30:32,571 I look forward to testing your prowess against my birds. 1373 01:30:32,595 --> 01:30:34,347 Thank you, sir. 1374 01:30:34,430 --> 01:30:37,225 Tom Lea and I have wanted to settle once and for all 1375 01:30:37,308 --> 01:30:39,477 who's best in our noble sport. 1376 01:30:39,560 --> 01:30:42,021 But it's gonna cost you to find out. 1377 01:30:42,105 --> 01:30:46,317 Mr. Lea, while I understand your confidence about a bird or two, 1378 01:30:46,442 --> 01:30:48,945 I did not get wealthy by betting small. 1379 01:30:49,028 --> 01:30:51,781 A man who bets a mere thousand here or there 1380 01:30:51,864 --> 01:30:55,034 is a man who won't risk enough to take what he wants. 1381 01:30:55,118 --> 01:30:58,204 Or perhaps Chicken George is only a small-time fighter. 1382 01:30:58,287 --> 01:31:01,791 Oh, you ain't never seen a fighter like me before... sir. 1383 01:31:01,874 --> 01:31:03,292 $10,000. 1384 01:31:04,961 --> 01:31:06,462 Plus side bets. 1385 01:31:11,968 --> 01:31:14,595 Accepted. 1386 01:31:14,679 --> 01:31:16,514 $10,000 it is. 1387 01:31:16,597 --> 01:31:20,726 And, boys, I'll be open to all offers. 1388 01:31:26,649 --> 01:31:28,317 Gentlemen. 1389 01:31:32,655 --> 01:31:35,116 - Feel good about the birds? - Best I ever felt. 1390 01:31:35,199 --> 01:31:37,160 Today's the day, George. 1391 01:31:37,243 --> 01:31:39,304 I'm gonna rise up above every man who ever looked down on me. 1392 01:31:39,328 --> 01:31:42,373 $10,000? Massa, you ain't got that much. 1393 01:31:42,498 --> 01:31:44,578 Don't matter how much I got if we win, do it, George? 1394 01:31:44,625 --> 01:31:47,503 - Besides, my farm's worth half that much. - No. 1395 01:31:48,713 --> 01:31:50,673 Can't bet our home. 1396 01:31:50,756 --> 01:31:53,092 Not where my family live. 1397 01:31:59,015 --> 01:32:02,518 You win this for me, and I'll set you free. 1398 01:32:03,519 --> 01:32:06,230 I swear. 1399 01:32:06,314 --> 01:32:07,732 Write it. 1400 01:32:07,815 --> 01:32:11,444 Write that paper, right here. 1401 01:32:11,527 --> 01:32:14,155 Be waiting for you when you're done. 1402 01:32:16,657 --> 01:32:21,412 This ain't no dream, George. Wide awake as I ever been. 1403 01:32:21,537 --> 01:32:25,958 We're gonna be rich, just like I said. 1404 01:32:33,132 --> 01:32:35,009 Who that Englishman think he is? 1405 01:32:35,092 --> 01:32:37,345 How dare he fight us? 1406 01:32:38,346 --> 01:32:42,183 We faster, smarter, stronger, prettier. 1407 01:32:42,266 --> 01:32:45,353 Insult to be in the same pit with you and me. 1408 01:32:45,436 --> 01:32:47,730 Come on now, you little bastard. 1409 01:32:47,813 --> 01:32:50,650 I gave you blood and sweat. 1410 01:32:50,733 --> 01:32:53,653 Make George a free man today. 1411 01:32:58,574 --> 01:32:59,867 George. 1412 01:33:06,999 --> 01:33:08,542 Oyez! Oyez! 1413 01:33:08,626 --> 01:33:11,879 Our final pair of the Charleston Main! 1414 01:33:11,963 --> 01:33:13,881 A heavy match of birds. 1415 01:33:13,965 --> 01:33:15,841 Six pounds four, 1416 01:33:15,925 --> 01:33:20,304 Sir C. Eric Russell of Hampshire, England. 1417 01:33:20,388 --> 01:33:24,517 And Tom Lea of Caswell County, North Carolina. 1418 01:33:26,769 --> 01:33:31,774 Gentlemen, face your birds! 1419 01:33:31,857 --> 01:33:33,526 Come on now, George! 1420 01:33:40,950 --> 01:33:42,201 Rile 'em up. 1421 01:33:44,620 --> 01:33:46,455 Step out. 1422 01:33:50,960 --> 01:33:54,505 - Ready! - Come on now, George. 1423 01:33:56,674 --> 01:33:58,050 Pit your cocks! 1424 01:34:03,097 --> 01:34:04,348 - Kill him! - Fight him! 1425 01:34:07,810 --> 01:34:09,061 Come on now! 1426 01:34:09,145 --> 01:34:11,314 Come down on him! 1427 01:34:13,774 --> 01:34:15,026 Come on, George. 1428 01:34:21,407 --> 01:34:22,825 Come on! Get him, boy! 1429 01:34:31,667 --> 01:34:33,294 Come on now, Red! Come on, Red! 1430 01:34:40,593 --> 01:34:42,029 The match goes to Tom Lea! 1431 01:34:42,053 --> 01:34:43,054 Yes! 1432 01:34:43,137 --> 01:34:45,181 Yeah! 1433 01:34:45,264 --> 01:34:47,016 Whoo! 1434 01:34:47,099 --> 01:34:49,852 Yeah, boys! 1435 01:35:02,948 --> 01:35:04,283 Thanks, boys. 1436 01:35:36,232 --> 01:35:38,234 I'm free. 1437 01:35:43,656 --> 01:35:44,907 I'm free! 1438 01:35:47,368 --> 01:35:50,454 I'm free! 1439 01:35:56,961 --> 01:35:58,587 Now you can get the cock out. 1440 01:36:07,805 --> 01:36:10,349 Come on. Get in it. Get in, boys. 1441 01:36:10,433 --> 01:36:11,851 Glad y'all made money. 1442 01:36:14,353 --> 01:36:16,939 I know you can read it, George. 1443 01:36:17,022 --> 01:36:19,733 Know Kizzy been teaching you. 1444 01:36:19,817 --> 01:36:21,944 It looks fine. 1445 01:36:22,027 --> 01:36:23,946 It look real fine. 1446 01:36:24,029 --> 01:36:26,157 Your man has a rare skill. 1447 01:36:28,409 --> 01:36:29,785 Plain to see. 1448 01:36:29,869 --> 01:36:31,871 And yet, why do I feel like a marionette, 1449 01:36:31,954 --> 01:36:34,748 my strings pulled by a clever manipulator? 1450 01:36:34,832 --> 01:36:36,667 Did you set me up, Mr. Lea? 1451 01:36:36,792 --> 01:36:39,712 You challenged me. 1452 01:36:39,795 --> 01:36:44,133 I had the courage to take it, and I had the man to win it. 1453 01:36:44,216 --> 01:36:45,468 Then I assume your courage 1454 01:36:45,551 --> 01:36:48,304 will permit me an opportunity to recoup my losses, 1455 01:36:48,387 --> 01:36:49,763 penny for penny. 1456 01:36:49,847 --> 01:36:52,433 Well, even an Irishman understands fair play. 1457 01:36:52,516 --> 01:36:55,019 Sir Eric is willing to wager another $10,000. 1458 01:36:59,398 --> 01:37:01,817 Can your damn English cousin handle $20,000? 1459 01:37:06,947 --> 01:37:08,741 I relish the opportunity. 1460 01:37:08,824 --> 01:37:11,035 Done. 1461 01:37:15,039 --> 01:37:16,874 Come with me, cousin. 1462 01:37:16,957 --> 01:37:19,919 I have something I want to show you. 1463 01:37:20,002 --> 01:37:22,046 Here you are, sir. 1464 01:37:24,381 --> 01:37:26,926 His line has fought for kings. 1465 01:37:27,009 --> 01:37:29,345 He'll have no trouble with an Irishman and a nigger. 1466 01:37:39,897 --> 01:37:42,316 My money's on you. My money's on you. 1467 01:37:42,399 --> 01:37:43,734 You can do it. Do it, George. 1468 01:37:43,859 --> 01:37:45,402 Come on, clear the ring! 1469 01:37:57,414 --> 01:38:00,876 - Look at the size of that! - That's a big cock. 1470 01:38:03,420 --> 01:38:05,214 Look at the bird. He's looking well. 1471 01:38:08,300 --> 01:38:10,302 Oyez! Oyez! 1472 01:38:10,386 --> 01:38:12,513 A private hack between Tom Lea 1473 01:38:12,596 --> 01:38:15,266 of Caswell County, North Carolina... 1474 01:38:17,309 --> 01:38:20,688 ...and Sir C. Eric Russell of Hampshire, England. 1475 01:38:22,690 --> 01:38:25,234 Gentlemen, face your birds! 1476 01:38:30,823 --> 01:38:32,074 That's it, George. 1477 01:38:32,157 --> 01:38:34,451 Step out! 1478 01:38:34,535 --> 01:38:37,746 Oh, he smells blood, Chicken George! I know it! 1479 01:38:37,830 --> 01:38:40,416 Let's go, Chicken George! 1480 01:38:40,499 --> 01:38:42,501 Gentlemen... 1481 01:38:44,587 --> 01:38:45,963 pit your cocks! 1482 01:38:46,046 --> 01:38:49,008 Come on! Come on, now! 1483 01:38:58,934 --> 01:39:00,269 Damn it! 1484 01:39:03,063 --> 01:39:05,524 That's it! That's it! Just like that! 1485 01:39:05,608 --> 01:39:06,984 Come on, boy! 1486 01:39:07,067 --> 01:39:10,279 Down! Down! Down! Come down hard on him! 1487 01:39:18,954 --> 01:39:20,831 Come on, George! 1488 01:39:20,956 --> 01:39:22,166 Come on! 1489 01:39:23,792 --> 01:39:25,044 Come on. 1490 01:39:29,006 --> 01:39:30,257 Shit! 1491 01:39:34,970 --> 01:39:36,388 Finish him! 1492 01:39:43,646 --> 01:39:46,607 Match to Sir C. Eric Russell! 1493 01:40:26,355 --> 01:40:27,606 George. 1494 01:40:29,400 --> 01:40:31,902 I don't know what happened. We need to set up another fight. 1495 01:40:32,027 --> 01:40:36,365 They gamed us, George, like fish at the end of a line. 1496 01:40:36,448 --> 01:40:40,035 I lost everything... 1497 01:40:40,119 --> 01:40:42,663 every penny. 1498 01:40:42,746 --> 01:40:48,168 Look, George, the farm ain't gonna cover my bets. 1499 01:40:48,252 --> 01:40:52,089 Ain't even gonna cover what I borrowed against it. 1500 01:40:52,172 --> 01:40:53,716 I'm ruined, 1501 01:40:53,799 --> 01:40:58,137 but that English bastard's offering me a way out. 1502 01:40:59,555 --> 01:41:02,224 Said he never saw a man with a touch for the birds like you. 1503 01:41:02,307 --> 01:41:05,769 Said you was a magician. Used that very word. 1504 01:41:05,853 --> 01:41:07,896 What you saying? 1505 01:41:07,980 --> 01:41:11,859 Not to drag it out, 1506 01:41:11,942 --> 01:41:14,445 that Englishman will call me even if I give you to him... 1507 01:41:14,528 --> 01:41:16,280 take back to England. 1508 01:41:16,363 --> 01:41:18,323 - England?! - Mm-hmm. 1509 01:41:18,407 --> 01:41:20,701 Now you ain't making no sense. 1510 01:41:20,784 --> 01:41:23,036 Train his birds and his handlers. 1511 01:41:23,120 --> 01:41:25,914 I don't understand the hell you saying to me. 1512 01:41:25,998 --> 01:41:28,125 I'm free! That's what we agreed. 1513 01:41:28,208 --> 01:41:29,877 Money was in my hand, George. 1514 01:41:29,960 --> 01:41:32,421 What's worse than being rich for one day? 1515 01:41:32,504 --> 01:41:34,339 You can't tell me to leave my family! 1516 01:41:34,423 --> 01:41:36,592 I ain't going nowhere for you, you understand me?! 1517 01:41:36,675 --> 01:41:40,471 I'm sorry, George. I ain't got no other way to survive. 1518 01:41:40,554 --> 01:41:42,389 The time will pass like a summer squall. 1519 01:41:42,473 --> 01:41:45,350 No, you bastard. I am a free man. 1520 01:41:45,434 --> 01:41:47,853 You ain't free, George. 1521 01:41:47,936 --> 01:41:50,230 Not unless I register them papers with the county. 1522 01:41:50,314 --> 01:41:53,609 Now I will tell you something. 1523 01:41:53,692 --> 01:41:55,694 When you come back, 1524 01:41:55,778 --> 01:41:58,530 I'll have papers for your whole family waiting in a lockbox. 1525 01:41:58,614 --> 01:41:59,865 I'm not going! 1526 01:41:59,948 --> 01:42:01,992 I'm tired of explaining it to you! 1527 01:42:02,117 --> 01:42:05,454 I don't have to give no damn explanation to no damn slave! 1528 01:42:05,537 --> 01:42:07,331 Sir Eric's carriage is leaving. 1529 01:42:07,414 --> 01:42:09,458 Do not resist. Do not waste his time. 1530 01:42:09,541 --> 01:42:11,293 You can't do this! You hear me? 1531 01:42:11,376 --> 01:42:12,753 I earned it! I'm free! 1532 01:42:12,836 --> 01:42:14,838 You low bastard, Tom Lea! 1533 01:42:14,922 --> 01:42:16,590 You ain't a man! 1534 01:42:16,673 --> 01:42:19,510 You don't love nothing but money and a whiskey jug! 1535 01:42:19,593 --> 01:42:21,011 That's all you love! 1536 01:42:21,136 --> 01:42:23,222 - Get this nigger off of me! - Stop him! 1537 01:42:25,599 --> 01:42:27,935 You really are the trash everybody says you is! 1538 01:42:28,018 --> 01:42:31,313 Ain't got no honor and ain't got no pride! 1539 01:42:31,396 --> 01:42:33,440 Not even say goodbye to my family?! 1540 01:42:33,524 --> 01:42:35,692 Matilda?! My children and my mama?! 1541 01:42:35,776 --> 01:42:38,654 You a lying dog, Tom Lea! 1542 01:42:38,737 --> 01:42:42,616 Who gonna watch 'em, Tom?! Who gonna watch my family?! 1543 01:42:42,699 --> 01:42:44,409 Tom Lea! 1544 01:43:47,097 --> 01:43:49,057 # Oh, oh, oh, oh # 1545 01:43:49,141 --> 01:43:50,851 # Oh, oh, oh, oh # # Ah # 1546 01:43:50,934 --> 01:43:54,271 # Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh # 1547 01:43:54,354 --> 01:43:56,273 # Oh, oh, oh, oh # 1548 01:43:56,356 --> 01:43:58,275 # Oh, oh, oh, oh # # Ah # 1549 01:43:58,358 --> 01:44:01,278 # Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh # 1550 01:44:01,361 --> 01:44:03,071 # Had a heart full of hope # 1551 01:44:03,155 --> 01:44:04,615 # I swallowed my pride # 1552 01:44:04,698 --> 01:44:08,035 # Seeing everything I had go away # 1553 01:44:08,118 --> 01:44:10,037 # Praying for delivery now # 1554 01:44:10,120 --> 01:44:11,997 # Peace on my mind # 1555 01:44:12,080 --> 01:44:14,958 # Now let your grace rain on me # 1556 01:44:15,959 --> 01:44:17,669 # What happened to my freedom? # 1557 01:44:17,753 --> 01:44:19,046 # Separated my family # 1558 01:44:19,129 --> 01:44:23,008 # Bringing to me this foreign place # 1559 01:44:23,091 --> 01:44:25,010 # Now my hope is for surviving # 1560 01:44:25,093 --> 01:44:26,637 # In the midst of evil # 1561 01:44:26,720 --> 01:44:29,097 # Things are never gonna be the same # 1562 01:44:29,181 --> 01:44:31,975 # I wasn't born this way # 1563 01:44:32,059 --> 01:44:35,145 # No, I wasn't born this way # 1564 01:44:35,270 --> 01:44:38,148 # No, I wasn't born in vain # 1565 01:44:38,273 --> 01:44:41,151 # Oh no # 1566 01:44:41,276 --> 01:44:43,111 # Oh no # 1567 01:44:43,195 --> 01:44:47,449 # Why do I feel so much shame? #