Episode 2 ‹ Roots

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This programme contains graphic violent scenes from the start,	0:00:02	0:00:04
scenes of sexual violence and some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting	0:00:04	0:00:08
What is the warrior's first responsibility?	0:00:08	0:00:10
I know what I want.	0:00:10	0:00:11
The first duty of a Mandinka warrior	0:00:11	0:00:13
is to raise a family, to have children.	0:00:13	0:00:16
-DJELIBA: -It's time your family paid	0:00:16	0:00:18
for all the trouble they have caused me, Kunta.	0:00:18	0:00:20
Run! SCREAMING	0:00:20	0:00:22
Hyah!	0:00:22	0:00:24
GUNSHOT	0:00:24	0:00:26
HORSE SQUEALING	0:00:26	0:00:28
Sell the boy to the English with the other captives.	0:00:31	0:00:34
Take as many of his friends as you can.	0:00:34	0:00:36
SKIN SIZZLES	0:00:36	0:00:37
HE SCREAMS	0:00:37	0:00:38
SHOUTS IN HIS OWN LANGUAGE	0:00:39	0:00:41
Jinna!	0:00:44	0:00:45
-CONNELLY: -'You can't buy a slave.	0:00:49	0:00:52
'You got to make a slave.'	0:00:52	0:00:55
Kunta Kinte.	0:00:55	0:00:56
That's not your name.	0:00:56	0:00:58
Toby's your name.	0:00:58	0:01:00
Say your name so you know this ain't Africa.	0:01:00	0:01:03
This is Virginia,	0:01:03	0:01:05
and you're the property of John Waller	0:01:05	0:01:07
like the horses and hogs.	0:01:07	0:01:08
Nothing more.	0:01:08	0:01:09
DOGS BARKING	0:01:11	0:01:12
HORSE NEIGHS	0:01:14	0:01:15
HE GRUNTS	0:01:15	0:01:16
You can't trust Fiddler. Sell him.	0:01:16	0:01:18
I'll buy him.	0:01:18	0:01:20
-This is none of your business, brother. -The amount of money that you owe me, brother,	0:01:20	0:01:23
the entire estate is my business.	0:01:23	0:01:25
Tell me your name! Say it, damn you!	0:01:26	0:01:29
Kunta Kinte.	0:01:29	0:01:30
WHIP CRACKS	0:01:30	0:01:32
Toby!	0:01:32	0:01:33
HE SCREAMS	0:01:33	0:01:34
He said it.	0:01:34	0:01:36
Toby.	0:01:36	0:01:37
-HALEY: -For ten years, not a day went by	0:01:46	0:01:48
that Kunta wasn't looking to escape again.	0:01:48	0:01:52
And when that opportunity arose,	0:01:52	0:01:55
he took it.	0:01:55	0:01:56
LEAVES RUSTLE	0:02:02	0:02:03
KUNTA PANTS	0:02:03	0:02:05
BRANCHES CRACK	0:02:05	0:02:06
GUNSHOTS	0:02:08	0:02:09
Soldiers! Soldiers!	0:02:10	0:02:12
HORSE NEIGHS	0:02:12	0:02:14
HORSE NEIGHS	0:02:17	0:02:19
Soldier! Soldier!	0:02:19	0:02:20
Help!	0:02:20	0:02:22
Help me!	0:02:22	0:02:24
Soldier! Soldier!	0:02:24	0:02:26
HORSE SNORTS	0:02:28	0:02:30
I will fight for your king.	0:02:30	0:02:31
GUNSHOT	0:02:31	0:02:32
-DISTORTED: -Toby!	0:02:36	0:02:38
Get back here, you skulkin' ape!	0:02:40	0:02:42
HORSE WHINNIES	0:02:42	0:02:44
HE CHOKES	0:03:00	0:03:02
My name...	0:03:05	0:03:07
is Kunta Kinte!	0:03:07	0:03:09
HE GASPS	0:03:09	0:03:10
GASPING STOPS	0:03:15	0:03:17
HORSE NEIGHS	0:03:19	0:03:20
Surrender your weapon.	0:03:23	0:03:24
HORSE NEIGHS	0:03:24	0:03:26
You are English.	0:03:38	0:03:40
You know Juffure.	0:03:40	0:03:41
I am a Mandinka warrior.	0:03:41	0:03:43
I will kill many Americans for your king!	0:03:45	0:03:48
You'll have to walk.	0:03:52	0:03:54
Head east into the Great Dismal Swamp	0:03:54	0:03:56
and meet up with Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian regiment.	0:03:56	0:03:59
You'll be given food, shelter and a letter of manumission.	0:03:59	0:04:01
What is "a letter of manumission"?	0:04:01	0:04:04
It's the piece of paper that states you're free.	0:04:04	0:04:06
And slave masters will believe this paper?	0:04:09	0:04:11
They will in England. Hyah!	0:04:11	0:04:13
HORSE NEIGHS	0:04:13	0:04:14
Single file!	0:04:14	0:04:16
Forward!	0:04:20	0:04:22
MAN COUGHS	0:04:22	0:04:23
Touch him and you'll look the same soon enough.	0:04:28	0:04:30
Better off being actually dead than living dead.	0:04:30	0:04:33
-What sickness do they have? -The pox.	0:04:33	0:04:37
-A new recruit? -He's a Mandinka warrior.	0:04:37	0:04:40
Says he wants to fight for us against the Americans.	0:04:40	0:04:43
What's your name?	0:04:43	0:04:45
Go on. You're safe here.	0:04:45	0:04:48
It was the English who captured me	0:04:48	0:04:51
and brought me to this country.	0:04:51	0:04:54
Now you tell me I am "safe".	0:04:54	0:04:55
Quite so.	0:04:56	0:04:58
Quite so.	0:04:59	0:05:01
You'll be wanting a meal and a good night's rest.	0:05:02	0:05:04
Lord Dunmore will be around in the morning with orders.	0:05:04	0:05:07
I wish you well.	0:05:07	0:05:09
-MAN: -My people fought three wars with the white men	0:05:16	0:05:18
and signed three peace treaties.	0:05:18	0:05:19
All brought death.	0:05:19	0:05:21
Why you fighting for them? You're already free.	0:05:21	0:05:24
I'm free to watch white planters take our land.	0:05:24	0:05:26
Kill more animals than they can eat.	0:05:26	0:05:29
Leave us nothing.	0:05:29	0:05:30
Can you see good enough to fight?	0:05:31	0:05:32
I see good enough. I found my way here.	0:05:32	0:05:35
Don't think about even their own people.	0:05:35	0:05:38
I figure I can at least spook some of them rebels.	0:05:38	0:05:42
They don't remember where they came from.	0:05:42	0:05:44
My massa put out his cigar in my eye	0:05:44	0:05:46
cos I cried when he sold my ma and sisters.	0:05:46	0:05:48
I ran away the next day.	0:05:49	0:05:52
You have children?	0:05:52	0:05:54
HE SIGHS	0:05:57	0:05:59
I have a younger brother your age.	0:05:59	0:06:04
He, my mother and my father are still in Juffure.	0:06:04	0:06:09
Africa.	0:06:11	0:06:12
I have not seen them in almost ten years.	0:06:12	0:06:15
When the governor of Virginia comes tomorrow,	0:06:17	0:06:19
-he'll give us our guns and our freedom papers. -Mm. Mm.	0:06:19	0:06:21
This governor rules all of Virginia?	0:06:21	0:06:23
-Every last plot and parcel. -Then he must have slaves.	0:06:23	0:06:27
Did he free them, too?	0:06:27	0:06:28
English say white man who fights for King George	0:06:28	0:06:31
can keep his slaves.	0:06:31	0:06:32
INDISTINCT CHATTER	0:06:32	0:06:34
That says "liberty to slaves".	0:06:37	0:06:39
That says "liberty to slaves".	0:06:40	0:06:43
-Do you know your size? -Big.	0:06:43	0:06:45
That says "liberty to slaves".	0:06:46	0:06:49
Ruck up, men! Ruck up!	0:06:49	0:06:50
There's much work ahead.	0:06:50	0:06:52
Prepare yourselves for glorious battle.	0:06:52	0:06:54
Lord Dunmore will issue his orders shortly.	0:06:54	0:06:58
Thank you.	0:07:13	0:07:15
I am Kunta Kinte.	0:07:16	0:07:19
Carleton.	0:07:19	0:07:21
OK.	0:07:22	0:07:24
Your mother and sisters	0:07:24	0:07:27
will be very proud of you, Carleton.	0:07:27	0:07:31
Mm.	0:07:38	0:07:40
-DUNMORE: -You are to march east to the Great Dismal Swamp.	0:07:45	0:07:49
Rebel factions have taken the bridge	0:07:49	0:07:51
that serves as the passageway through to the Carolinas.	0:07:51	0:07:54
Your orders are to take that bridge.	0:07:54	0:07:57
Where are our guns?	0:07:57	0:07:59
CROWD MURMURS	0:07:59	0:08:01
We have encountered heavy rebel resistance	0:08:01	0:08:03
along crucial supply routes	0:08:03	0:08:05
in Charleston and New York Harbour.	0:08:05	0:08:08
Our armaments are delayed.	0:08:08	0:08:10
You will instead be armed with pikes.	0:08:10	0:08:14
Pikes?	0:08:14	0:08:15
If you want your freedom,	0:08:15	0:08:17
you'll fight with what we give you.	0:08:17	0:08:19
Will you be fighting on the bridge with us?	0:08:19	0:08:21
You are not to question His Lordship's orders...	0:08:21	0:08:23
I am your commander, who serves at the pleasure of the King,	0:08:23	0:08:27
who imparts our purpose.	0:08:27	0:08:29
Therefore, it would be imprudent of me	0:08:29	0:08:32
to march into battle with you.	0:08:32	0:08:35
Then may we have your gun?	0:08:35	0:08:36
CROWD MURMURS IN AGREEMENT	0:08:36	0:08:38
THUNDER RUMBLES	0:08:38	0:08:39
Why are you not advancing across the bridge?	0:08:39	0:08:42
Without guns, we cannot defend ourselves in this fog.	0:08:42	0:08:45
You were all given orders.	0:08:45	0:08:47
If you do not follow them, you will be charged with mutiny	0:08:47	0:08:50
and summarily executed for desertion.	0:08:50	0:08:52
Now, secure this bridge!	0:08:52	0:08:55
Company!	0:08:55	0:08:56
Will advance at the ordinary!	0:08:56	0:08:59
Forward, march!	0:08:59	0:09:02
Stay behind me.	0:09:08	0:09:11
THUNDER RUMBLES	0:09:14	0:09:15
Advance. Charge bayonets.	0:09:15	0:09:18
Take the bridge.	0:09:18	0:09:20
Charge bayonets. Take the damn bridge!	0:09:22	0:09:25
Huzzah!	0:09:25	0:09:27
PLANKS CLUNK	0:09:30	0:09:33
THUNDER CRACKS	0:09:33	0:09:36
WOOD CREAKS	0:09:36	0:09:37
-MAN: -Sh!	0:09:42	0:09:43
GUNFIRE	0:09:45	0:09:46
MEN SHOUTING	0:09:46	0:09:49
Hold your ground!	0:09:49	0:09:51
Go back!	0:09:52	0:09:53
Shoot anyone who leaves this bridge!	0:09:53	0:09:55
GUNSHOTS, SOLDIERS SCREAMING	0:09:55	0:09:57
-Can you swim? -Huh?	0:09:59	0:10:01
-Can you swim?! -Y-Yeah.	0:10:01	0:10:03
SOLDIERS SHOUTING	0:10:08	0:10:10
THUNDER RUMBLES	0:10:17	0:10:18
MUFFLED GUNSHOTS	0:10:20	0:10:22
THUNDER RUMBLES	0:10:29	0:10:30
INSECTS CHIRP	0:10:36	0:10:38
SNAKE HISSES	0:10:55	0:10:57
INDISTINCT SHOUTING	0:10:57	0:10:58
There are snakes?!	0:11:04	0:11:05
HE BREATHES HEAVILY	0:11:05	0:11:06
Stay here. Stay here.	0:11:15	0:11:18
From now on, we don't fight for English.	0:11:18	0:11:20
We fight for ourselves. You understand?	0:11:20	0:11:22
Now we look for a place that's safe.	0:11:22	0:11:24
HE BREATHES SHAKILY	0:11:29	0:11:31
WATER SLOSHES	0:11:36	0:11:38
-MAN: -I hear them. Let's go that way.	0:11:42	0:11:44
INSECTS CHIRP	0:11:52	0:11:55
GRUNTING	0:11:57	0:11:59
GAGGING	0:12:00	0:12:02
BIRDS FLAP	0:12:03	0:12:05
Carleton. Carleton.	0:12:20	0:12:22
HE SNIFFS	0:12:50	0:12:52
BRANCHES SNAP	0:13:07	0:13:09
SHOUTING, DOGS BARK IN DISTANCE	0:13:10	0:13:12
THUNDER RUMBLES	0:13:18	0:13:20
BIRDS CHIRP	0:13:54	0:13:56
-MAN: -Keep those barrels moving!	0:14:16	0:14:18
HORSE NEIGHS	0:14:18	0:14:19
# Oh, how come me here?	0:14:29	0:14:33
-ALL: -# Oh, how come me here?	0:14:33	0:14:37
# Oh, how come me here?	0:14:37	0:14:40
# Oh, oh, River Jordan	0:14:40	0:14:43
# Farewell, hard times	0:14:43	0:14:46
# Farewell, farewell	0:14:46	0:14:48
# Farewell, dark times	0:14:48	0:14:51
# Farewell, farewell	0:14:51	0:14:53
# Ain't gon' see ya no more	0:14:53	0:14:56
# Farewell, dark times	0:14:56	0:14:59
# Farewell, farewell	0:14:59	0:15:01
# Ain't gon' see ya no more... #	0:15:01	0:15:04
Don't you look dashing in that costume...Toby.	0:15:14	0:15:18
Unh-unh!	0:15:18	0:15:20
Get him up here.	0:15:20	0:15:22
What you got here?	0:15:24	0:15:26
Oooh. Just like the poster said.	0:15:32	0:15:35
You sure do got the treasure map here.	0:15:35	0:15:37
HE CHUCKLES	0:15:37	0:15:38
What's this writing say?	0:15:40	0:15:41
"Liberty to slaves."	0:15:43	0:15:44
HE SCOFFS	0:15:44	0:15:45
"Liberty to slaves"!	0:15:45	0:15:47
Whoo!	0:15:47	0:15:49
Man alive!	0:15:49	0:15:50
I done seen an elephant.	0:15:50	0:15:52
I ought to get something sewed on my jacket.	0:15:52	0:15:54
How 'bout "Friend to the slaves,"	0:15:54	0:15:56
seeing as I went to hell across lots to bring you back home.	0:15:56	0:15:59
Hmm?	0:15:59	0:16:01
Tie him up.	0:16:01	0:16:03
Let's go.	0:16:04	0:16:06
But first, the law says	0:16:06	0:16:10
that I got to fix things	0:16:10	0:16:12
so that you don't wander off no more.	0:16:12	0:16:14
No.	0:16:14	0:16:16
-Sh! -No! -Just relax. -No!	0:16:16	0:16:18
-You're spent, Toby. -No!	0:16:18	0:16:19
-No more running for you, boy. -No! No! No, please!	0:16:19	0:16:22
HE GRUNTS	0:16:22	0:16:23
HE SCREAMS	0:16:23	0:16:25
-ECHOING: No! No! -No more running for you, boy.	0:16:29	0:16:31
SCREAMING	0:16:31	0:16:32
-CONNELLY: -Get back here, ya skulkin' ape!	0:16:32	0:16:35
SKIN SIZZLES	0:16:35	0:16:36
CHAINS JINGLE	0:16:38	0:16:39
GUNSHOT	0:16:40	0:16:42
Kunta, Allah sends us dreams to guide us.	0:16:42	0:16:45
-Your name is your spirit. -Come.	0:16:45	0:16:47
-Tell me your name. -Kunta Kinte!	0:16:47	0:16:50
Toby! Say it!	0:16:50	0:16:52
As soon as he's mobile, he's going in my pocket.	0:16:52	0:16:55
It don't matter what the massa call you.	0:16:56	0:16:59
You keep your true name inside you.	0:16:59	0:17:02
-SILLA: -Dream of seeing your family again.	0:17:02	0:17:05
Will you do that for me, Kunta?	0:17:05	0:17:08
Guide me, Fa. Be with me, N'na.	0:17:08	0:17:11
How did you find me?	0:17:11	0:17:12
You are a Mandinka.	0:17:15	0:17:17
You will always be a Mandinka.	0:17:18	0:17:20
May Allah guide you.	0:17:20	0:17:22
You got to live. You hear me, Kunta Kinte?	0:17:22	0:17:26
Kunta Kinte.	0:17:26	0:17:28
Always remember who you are. May Allah bless you.	0:17:28	0:17:31
May Allah keep you.	0:17:31	0:17:33
-WILLIAM: -Fever's finally broken.	0:17:33	0:17:35
I'm so relieved you gon' make it, Toby.	0:17:39	0:17:42
My name is Belle.	0:17:42	0:17:44
I'm using my medicine.	0:17:51	0:17:52
Works better than Dr Waller's.	0:17:52	0:17:55
DOOR OPENS	0:17:56	0:17:57
Let me die.	0:18:00	0:18:01
HE SCOFFS	0:18:04	0:18:05
Well, you almost did die.	0:18:08	0:18:09
After all the...the caring	0:18:09	0:18:11
that...that Belle's done done for you?	0:18:11	0:18:14
After all the beggin' and the pr... prayin'	0:18:14	0:18:17
that I had to do for you?	0:18:17	0:18:19
Heaven must've heard me cos we... we here on Doc Waller's farm.	0:18:19	0:18:23
His brother John owed him a heap of money, so...	0:18:23	0:18:27
Doc took me and you as a start payment.	0:18:27	0:18:30
So you listen to Belle.	0:18:33	0:18:35
She gon' get you walking again real soon. Right, Belle?	0:18:35	0:18:38
Where will I walk to?	0:18:38	0:18:39
Huh?	0:18:42	0:18:43
He just needs rest.	0:18:47	0:18:49
Uh-huh.	0:18:49	0:18:50
Every day after working hard,	0:19:01	0:19:03
he come here, and he hold your hands.	0:19:03	0:19:06
He call you his warrior son.	0:19:06	0:19:09
I read my Bible.	0:19:27	0:19:28
And God sends signs. That's a truth.	0:19:28	0:19:31
Dr Waller's driver ran off	0:19:31	0:19:33
two weeks 'fore you got here.	0:19:33	0:19:35
How came that to be?	0:19:35	0:19:37
Word gets round.	0:19:37	0:19:39
You going to be trouble. I know it.	0:19:39	0:19:42
A good man named Connelly got killed.	0:19:44	0:19:46
Word floatin' on the wind is that was you.	0:19:46	0:19:50
I am ready for you.	0:19:50	0:19:52
HE SHOUTS AND GRUNTS	0:19:54	0:19:55
You don't have to worry, Massa.	0:19:59	0:20:00
I'm here watchin' him, just like Dr Waller told me.	0:20:00	0:20:03
Then you watch him.	0:20:07	0:20:08
Yes, Massa.	0:20:08	0:20:10
KUNTA GROANS	0:20:11	0:20:13
Swallow this. No fuss.	0:20:20	0:20:23
DOOR CLOSES	0:20:31	0:20:33
I'll see you next Wednesday.	0:20:33	0:20:35
Mind that cold, now.	0:20:35	0:20:37
Hyah!	0:20:37	0:20:38
SLAVES SING INDISTINCTLY	0:20:38	0:20:40
METAL CLANKS	0:20:40	0:20:42
DOOR OPENS	0:20:45	0:20:47
Toby.	0:20:58	0:21:00
I had this made for you.	0:21:01	0:21:03
It'll help you balance	0:21:03	0:21:04
till you're strong enough to walk on your own.	0:21:04	0:21:07
And I asked the blacksmith	0:21:07	0:21:09
to fit these old boots here special for you.	0:21:09	0:21:11
Hmm?	0:21:11	0:21:12
Well...	0:21:13	0:21:15
let's just try 'em on, see how they fit.	0:21:15	0:21:18
Ona, come help me with this.	0:21:18	0:21:21
OK.	0:21:28	0:21:30
You might have fooled Fiddler, but you don't fool me.	0:21:55	0:21:57
He say you was a...a great warrior in Africa.	0:21:57	0:22:02
What kind of warrior waits to die?!	0:22:02	0:22:05
I seen plenty of men far worse off than you...	0:22:05	0:22:08
no strip of skin left on they back,	0:22:08	0:22:10
overseer beat them near to death.	0:22:10	0:22:12
Seen women worked to death,	0:22:12	0:22:15
girls' bodies used up hard... no older than children.	0:22:15	0:22:19
But they found a way to get up.	0:22:19	0:22:21
THEY was warriors.	0:22:21	0:22:24
Not you.	0:22:24	0:22:25
I tell you what.	0:22:28	0:22:30
I will never let you treat me like a massa in a temper.	0:22:32	0:22:36
BOOTS THUD	0:22:36	0:22:38
DOOR CLOSES	0:22:41	0:22:42
BOOTS SCRAPE	0:22:54	0:22:56
-Let's go. -Fiddler!	0:22:59	0:23:00
Ow!	0:23:00	0:23:01
Fiddler, it hurts! Fiddler!	0:23:01	0:23:03
It ain't hurt me at all.	0:23:03	0:23:05
I guess I'm the fool for livin'.	0:23:05	0:23:07
-That what you sayin'? -Fiddler!	0:23:07	0:23:08
I know I'm a fool for putting up with all your nonsense.	0:23:08	0:23:10
Open up the gate, boy.	0:23:10	0:23:12
Tell me.	0:23:15	0:23:17
HE GRUNTS	0:23:19	0:23:21
And no matter how much I may play my fiddle for 'em,	0:23:21	0:23:25
they ain't ever going to tear me down.	0:23:25	0:23:27
You right.	0:23:27	0:23:29
I ain't never been free.	0:23:29	0:23:31
And I may never be.	0:23:31	0:23:33
But I tell you this.	0:23:33	0:23:34
Your ornery Mandinka ways,	0:23:34	0:23:38
they done started to rub off on me.	0:23:38	0:23:39
So I'mma leave you right here.	0:23:39	0:23:42
And you going to get your own self up.	0:23:42	0:23:44
You going to walk right on back to the house,	0:23:44	0:23:46
and you gon' say sorry to Miss Belle.	0:23:46	0:23:48
I ain't got nothing else to do with you no more.	0:23:48	0:23:51
HOOVES POUND	0:23:54	0:23:57
HORSE NEIGHS	0:23:57	0:23:58
I know you have been taught to ride by your family,	0:23:58	0:24:01
but not a horse like this.	0:24:01	0:24:03
Who will ride him?	0:24:03	0:24:05
Oh, Kunta volunteers.	0:24:05	0:24:07
HORSE SNORTING	0:24:08	0:24:09
HORSE WHINNIES	0:24:25	0:24:27
-OMORO: -'You are a Mandinka.	0:24:31	0:24:34
'You will always be a Mandinka, Kunta Kinte.	0:24:34	0:24:39
'Always remember who you are.	0:24:41	0:24:44
'Kunta Kinte.'	0:24:44	0:24:45
HE GRUNTS	0:24:50	0:24:51
HE YELLS	0:24:52	0:24:54
I am Kunta Kinte! Kunta Kinte!	0:24:59	0:25:02
Kunta Kinte.	0:25:06	0:25:08
Son of Omoro Kinte.	0:25:12	0:25:15
Kunta Kinte.	0:25:15	0:25:17
Juffure.	0:25:17	0:25:20
In the kingdom of Niumi.	0:25:22	0:25:24
On the Kamby Bolongo.	0:25:29	0:25:31
KUNTA GRUNTS	0:25:36	0:25:37
HE GRUNTS	0:25:47	0:25:49
HE GRUNTS	0:25:54	0:25:55
HE GROANS	0:26:30	0:26:32
Shh.	0:26:33	0:26:34
Shh.	0:26:36	0:26:38
HE HISSES	0:26:38	0:26:39
Shh.	0:26:39	0:26:41
Thank you...	0:26:46	0:26:47
..Belle.	0:26:50	0:26:51
Hitch up my horse, would you, Spalding?	0:27:18	0:27:20
Three stops today, Belle, so late home.	0:27:26	0:27:30
-A cold supper will be fine. -Yes, Massa.	0:27:30	0:27:32
It's a shame, you having to drive yourself.	0:27:32	0:27:35
Yes, well, God willing,	0:27:35	0:27:37
the militia will track down Luther.	0:27:37	0:27:39
And if not, I shall have to buy another driver.	0:27:39	0:27:41
-Go! Go! -HORSE NEIGHS	0:27:41	0:27:44
MAN: Stop!	0:27:44	0:27:45
Goddamn.	0:27:45	0:27:47
PEOPLE SHOUT, HORSE NEIGHS	0:27:49	0:27:51
WOMEN SCREAM	0:27:51	0:27:52
HORSE NEIGHS	0:27:56	0:27:57
Hey! Hey! Hey.	0:27:57	0:28:01
-MAN: -Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!	0:28:01	0:28:03
Shh.	0:28:03	0:28:05
HORSE SNORTS	0:28:05	0:28:06
What's he doing?	0:28:06	0:28:08
-Goodness. -Mm-hmm.	0:28:09	0:28:12
Toby done calmed him down. Ooh-whee.	0:28:14	0:28:16
I've never seen...	0:28:21	0:28:23
HE SIGHS	0:28:31	0:28:32
Hyah. Hyah!	0:28:36	0:28:38
-SPALDING: -Quit staring and get back to work!	0:28:45	0:28:47
How on earth did you manage that?	0:28:53	0:28:54
I knew he was scared.	0:28:54	0:28:56
Toby's got a gift for horses.	0:28:56	0:28:58
Real special touch, Massa.	0:28:58	0:28:59
Get back in the field!	0:28:59	0:29:01
Ah, ah. Steady on, Spalding.	0:29:01	0:29:02
What did you think of Toby's special touch with the horse? It was astonishing, no?	0:29:02	0:29:05
Why, it's just dumb luck, sir.	0:29:05	0:29:07
The horse is probably smarter than an African.	0:29:07	0:29:10
Good God, man.	0:29:10	0:29:12
The Semites brought horses to Africa	0:29:12	0:29:15
when they defeated the Egyptians more than 2,000 years before the birth of Christ.	0:29:15	0:29:18
It never fails to amaze me that you've travelled the world, Spalding,	0:29:18	0:29:21
and seem to know nothing about it.	0:29:21	0:29:23
It's sad, really.	0:29:23	0:29:24
Toby could drive for you, too, Massa.	0:29:24	0:29:26
You could see more people, not get tired.	0:29:26	0:29:30
Yes, I guess I wouldn't have to buy another driver.	0:29:30	0:29:32
Mm.	0:29:32	0:29:33
Or a horse trainer.	0:29:33	0:29:35
It would appear that I have both right here.	0:29:35	0:29:36
Well done, Toby.	0:29:36	0:29:38
Hitch up the horse, Spalding. I'm late.	0:29:38	0:29:40
Yes. Well done.	0:29:42	0:29:45
Hmm.	0:30:00	0:30:02
Shh.	0:30:14	0:30:15
RIFLE TAPS	0:30:21	0:30:22
HE GASPS	0:30:22	0:30:23
Come on.	0:30:23	0:30:24
Luther the carriage driver, he was a quiet one...	0:30:28	0:30:32
like you...	0:30:32	0:30:34
all the while hatching a devious plan.	0:30:34	0:30:37
Stabbed two militiamen, the bloodthirsty bastard.	0:30:37	0:30:41
Now...he's quiet again.	0:30:41	0:30:44
ROPE CREAKS	0:30:44	0:30:46
What I'm wondering is,	0:30:46	0:30:49
do I save myself the trouble of having to look for you,	0:30:49	0:30:52
seeing as I've got you here now, Toby?	0:30:52	0:30:55
Toby! Toby!	0:30:55	0:30:57
Get back to the farm!	0:30:57	0:30:59
I just came to remind Toby	0:30:59	0:31:00
that Mrs Malloy's baby could come at any time.	0:31:00	0:31:03
Toby, you remember Massa says	0:31:03	0:31:04
you might have to drive him tonight.	0:31:04	0:31:07
Massa'll be awful vexed if you ain't ready to drive him.	0:31:07	0:31:09
Tell Massa I'll be ready.	0:31:09	0:31:12
And you'll catch hell from me if you keep the master waiting.	0:31:16	0:31:20
SHE SOBS	0:31:27	0:31:29
ROPE CREAKS	0:31:45	0:31:46
Toby...	0:32:05	0:32:07
..stay here in the wagon.	0:32:09	0:32:11
HORSE SNORTS	0:32:19	0:32:20
BELL TOLLS	0:32:38	0:32:40
MEN CHEERING AND SHOUTING	0:32:40	0:32:42
You there! What's all the carousing about?	0:32:45	0:32:48
The war's done!	0:32:48	0:32:49
British troops have withdrawn from Charleston and Savannah!	0:32:49	0:32:52
We're free! No more royal subjects are we!	0:32:52	0:32:55
Long live freedom!	0:32:55	0:32:57
Long live freedom!	0:32:58	0:33:00
Ain't that wonderful?	0:33:03	0:33:05
White folk finally got they freedom.	0:33:05	0:33:07
SHE LAUGHS	0:33:07	0:33:09
What will happen to the slaves	0:33:09	0:33:11
who fought in the Continental Army?	0:33:11	0:33:14
I'm sure General Washington will find them work.	0:33:14	0:33:16
Alongside his other slaves!	0:33:16	0:33:18
HE STRUMS	0:33:19	0:33:21
Sound about right to you?	0:33:22	0:33:24
Sounds real fine.	0:33:24	0:33:25
Fiddler!	0:33:29	0:33:30
Dr Waller's guests	0:33:30	0:33:32
want to hear you scratching on your fiddle!	0:33:32	0:33:34
Yessuh!	0:33:34	0:33:36
Lord must've been in a powerful bad mood	0:33:38	0:33:39
when He, uh, made white folk.	0:33:39	0:33:41
He must've stubbed his toe.	0:33:41	0:33:44
"Ow!"	0:33:44	0:33:46
Tripped over his dog.	0:33:46	0:33:47
Hit his head on a shovel.	0:33:47	0:33:49
And when He was cursing up a storm,	0:33:50	0:33:53
He spat out the word.	0:33:53	0:33:55
(White folk!)	0:33:55	0:33:57
LAUGHTER	0:33:57	0:33:59
-SPALDING: -Fiddler, get moving!	0:33:59	0:34:01
-Go on, Fiddler. -Yessuh!	0:34:01	0:34:03
Now my foot's starting to hurt.	0:34:07	0:34:10
Rain must be coming.	0:34:10	0:34:11
I been putting some yarn aside for you, knit you some socks	0:34:11	0:34:15
so your boots will fit more comfortable.	0:34:15	0:34:17
You know, my Kintango came to me in a dream, huh?	0:34:19	0:34:21
And he said that	0:34:23	0:34:25
a warrior must learn to defeat pain, mm?	0:34:25	0:34:30
Now I stand in the downpours.	0:34:33	0:34:34
Oh, Lord.	0:34:34	0:34:36
You and your African ghosts.	0:34:36	0:34:38
They're not ghosts.	0:34:39	0:34:41
They're my people visiting me.	0:34:41	0:34:43
Mm. Mm-hmm.	0:34:43	0:34:45
Telling me things.	0:34:45	0:34:47
And what do these African ghosts tell you?	0:34:47	0:34:51
They tell me the world is bigger than this farm.	0:34:51	0:34:54
Oh, well, of course it is.	0:34:54	0:34:56
We won't never see it.	0:34:56	0:34:57
And you always thinking about it	0:34:57	0:34:59
just piles on the agony and makes you loon crazy.	0:34:59	0:35:02
And you not thinking about it makes your life small.	0:35:02	0:35:05
What you know about my life?	0:35:05	0:35:08
When have you ever asked me about my life?	0:35:08	0:35:11
VIOLIN PLAYS	0:35:25	0:35:26
Massa!	0:35:45	0:35:47
Massa!	0:35:47	0:35:49
MUSIC STOPS I think Ona's baby is coming!	0:35:49	0:35:51
She's not seven months along.	0:35:51	0:35:52
Just false pangs. They'll pass.	0:35:52	0:35:54
She fainted in the fields.	0:35:54	0:35:55
Doctor, you'd better come quick.	0:35:55	0:35:58
Oh.	0:36:04	0:36:05
All right.	0:36:09	0:36:11
There. There we go.	0:36:11	0:36:13
SHE LAUGHS	0:36:14	0:36:16
Cut the cord.	0:36:16	0:36:18
OK. Come along. Come along.	0:36:19	0:36:21
Breathe.	0:36:21	0:36:23
-Please, Lord. -Breathe.	0:36:23	0:36:24
-Please, Jesus. -Breathe.	0:36:24	0:36:26
Oh, please, Jesus.	0:36:26	0:36:27
Come on, little one.	0:36:27	0:36:28
-BABY CRIES -Wait. Ah!	0:36:28	0:36:30
-There we are. -Oh!	0:36:30	0:36:32
Oh. Oh.	0:36:32	0:36:35
I told you explicitly	0:36:39	0:36:41
not to put pregnant hands in the field!	0:36:41	0:36:44
She were only harvesting, sir. She weren't swinging no axe.	0:36:44	0:36:47
She is coming out of your wages.	0:36:47	0:36:48
Where's the wet nurse?	0:36:48	0:36:50
She's in the cabin, Massa.	0:36:50	0:36:52
-I'll take him to her. -No, I'll do it.	0:36:52	0:36:54
You and Toby bury his mother.	0:36:54	0:36:55
We're calling this little boy... Noah.	0:36:58	0:37:01
Make a record of it, Spalding.	0:37:03	0:37:06
Out of my way!	0:37:06	0:37:07
Oh, thank you for your peace, Jesus.	0:37:13	0:37:16
Thank you for your peace, Lord.	0:37:18	0:37:19
Get back to work!	0:37:22	0:37:24
Thank you for your peace, Jesus.	0:37:26	0:37:28
Thank you for your rest, my Lord.	0:37:34	0:37:36
Thank you for your rest, Lord.	0:37:36	0:37:38
HE SINGS IN HIS OWN LANGUAGE	0:37:44	0:37:46
DOOR OPENS	0:37:54	0:37:56
SINGING CONTINUES	0:38:02	0:38:04
Belle,	0:38:11	0:38:13
my Kintango teaches...	0:38:13	0:38:14
Uh, my Kintango teaches me	0:38:17	0:38:19
that a warrior must make a family.	0:38:19	0:38:24
And what I mean is, uh...	0:38:24	0:38:25
Is...	0:38:26	0:38:28
Every Mandinka warrior must complete these tasks, eh?	0:38:28	0:38:32
Like, uh...like riding,	0:38:32	0:38:34
um, um, paddling, and the...	0:38:34	0:38:37
Why don't you try and knock again,	0:38:41	0:38:43
and maybe talk about something different?	0:38:43	0:38:46
DOOR OPENS	0:38:58	0:38:59
HE SIGHS	0:39:04	0:39:06
Belle.	0:39:06	0:39:07
When I arrived in this country, America,	0:39:11	0:39:15
I decided to close my heart.	0:39:15	0:39:16
It was the only way for me to stay strong...	0:39:17	0:39:20
care for no-one.	0:39:20	0:39:21
Then, I remember opening my eyes in great pain.	0:39:24	0:39:28
And the first thing I saw was you.	0:39:30	0:39:32
Helping me.	0:39:35	0:39:37
No, I didn't see you.	0:39:38	0:39:40
I depended on you, but I did not see you.	0:39:40	0:39:43
It took too long, Belle, but now I see	0:39:44	0:39:47
a woman like no-one I've ever met...	0:39:47	0:39:49
kind and strong...	0:39:49	0:39:52
and very beautiful	0:39:52	0:39:55
and smart, and...	0:39:55	0:39:56
I hope that...	0:39:58	0:40:00
Well, I-I hope that...	0:40:02	0:40:05
What I would like...	0:40:05	0:40:07
Yes.	0:40:07	0:40:08
Kunta Kinte,	0:40:08	0:40:10
I will be your wife.	0:40:10	0:40:14
She will!	0:40:19	0:40:21
LAUGHTER	0:40:21	0:40:22
Yes!	0:40:22	0:40:24
Whatever happens, this matters.	0:40:33	0:40:36
Our love matters.	0:40:36	0:40:38
The Lord sure did limit	0:40:41	0:40:43
the amount of time we has together.	0:40:43	0:40:46
But he didn't limit	0:40:46	0:40:48
how much we can love one another.	0:40:48	0:40:50
With God as my witness,	0:40:50	0:40:53
I say you man and wife.	0:40:53	0:40:56
BOTH GIGGLE	0:40:56	0:40:58
Even if he parts you tomorrow,	0:40:58	0:41:01
your love, it will never die.	0:41:01	0:41:03
BOTH CHUCKLE	0:41:04	0:41:06
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, now. Hey, now. Hey, now.	0:41:06	0:41:08
Calm down.	0:41:08	0:41:10
We gon' make this official.	0:41:10	0:41:12
There you go.	0:41:12	0:41:13
How does a broom make it official?	0:41:13	0:41:16
Well, we jump it together, just like in Africa.	0:41:16	0:41:19
Uh, no people in Africa jump brooms.	0:41:19	0:41:22
You don't know every people in Africa.	0:41:22	0:41:24
Every nigger on every plantation say	0:41:24	0:41:26
that jumping' the broom when you get married come from the old way.	0:41:26	0:41:29
Old ways from Europe, must be.	0:41:29	0:41:30
Passed down from master to slave.	0:41:30	0:41:32
Belle, they making fun of us.	0:41:32	0:41:34
-Oh, no. -Won't let us marry under their laws...	0:41:34	0:41:36
to remind us we belong to them,	0:41:36	0:41:38
not each other.	0:41:38	0:41:39
Boy, either you jump over this broom,	0:41:39	0:41:42
or I'mma swat you upside the head with it.	0:41:42	0:41:45
See this? Making this good woman wait!	0:41:45	0:41:50
Look at her.	0:41:50	0:41:52
Look at them eyes.	0:41:52	0:41:54
Look at that smile.	0:41:54	0:41:55
Belle, if doing this makes you happy,	0:41:58	0:42:02
I'll jump with you.	0:42:02	0:42:03
High as I can.	0:42:03	0:42:05
-You ready? Mm? -Yes.	0:42:05	0:42:06
-OK. -Mm-hmm.	0:42:06	0:42:09
Aah!	0:42:09	0:42:10
Congratulations!	0:42:19	0:42:21
May God bless your womb, Belle.	0:42:23	0:42:25
This suit you so well.	0:42:27	0:42:29
LAUGHTER	0:42:35	0:42:37
INDISTINCT SHOUTS	0:42:41	0:42:43
-MAN: -Hey, come on, now.	0:43:02	0:43:04
LAUGHTER	0:43:06	0:43:08
HORSE SNORTS	0:43:21	0:43:23
Looky there! Look at that step!	0:43:26	0:43:29
LAUGHTER	0:43:29	0:43:30
Watch it! Come on!	0:43:35	0:43:37
Old Massa's wagon.	0:43:48	0:43:50
MUSIC STOPS Doctor's brother.	0:43:50	0:43:52
Oh, Lord, not now.	0:43:52	0:43:54
Not today.	0:43:54	0:43:56
I sure do hate to cause consternation.	0:43:56	0:43:58
Dr Waller needs to come quick.	0:43:58	0:44:00
His brother's wife is fixing to have a baby.	0:44:00	0:44:03
Bless you.	0:44:06	0:44:09
Belle, continue.	0:44:09	0:44:11
I'm sorry. I have to go.	0:44:11	0:44:14
CROWD MURMUR	0:44:14	0:44:16
MUSIC RESUMES	0:44:16	0:44:18
Oh, so you just wanted to dance with me.	0:44:21	0:44:23
Is that what it was?	0:44:23	0:44:24
You look beautiful. Come on.	0:44:25	0:44:27
Congratulations.	0:44:27	0:44:29
Thank you, Fiddler.	0:44:29	0:44:31
Be sure to be ready earlier tomorrow, Toby,	0:44:54	0:44:55
and we'll come back	0:44:55	0:44:57
and visit with Mrs Waller and the baby.	0:44:57	0:44:59
Yes, Massa.	0:44:59	0:45:00
You mind if I ask what Miss Elizabeth had?	0:45:00	0:45:03
Beautiful baby girl... Melissa Kathryn.	0:45:03	0:45:05
But we're going to call her "Missy."	0:45:05	0:45:07
Truly, I've never been happier.	0:45:07	0:45:10
Yes, Massa.	0:45:10	0:45:11
I'm sure you love that child as if she was your own, eh?	0:45:11	0:45:14
HE CHUCKLES	0:45:14	0:45:15
Don't you dare insult my character	0:45:15	0:45:17
or my sister-in-law's virtue.	0:45:17	0:45:19
Do you understand me?	0:45:19	0:45:20
You black bastard.	0:45:20	0:45:22
I'm sorry.	0:45:22	0:45:23
That's not what I meant. Uh, sometimes my...	0:45:25	0:45:27
Oh, just drive!	0:45:27	0:45:29
DOOR SLAMS	0:45:33	0:45:34
I could have killed him.	0:45:34	0:45:36
Hmm? I should have killed him.	0:45:36	0:45:38
He strike me on my wedding day!	0:45:38	0:45:40
Shh! It's over now.	0:45:40	0:45:42
It's never going to be over, Belle!	0:45:42	0:45:44
Listen to me. Listen to me.	0:45:44	0:45:46
Listen to me!	0:45:46	0:45:48
At least we're together.	0:45:49	0:45:50
The three of us.	0:45:55	0:45:56
Our family.	0:45:57	0:46:00
There's something I need to tell you.	0:46:04	0:46:06
This won't be my first child.	0:46:07	0:46:10
I had two sons when I was just a girl,	0:46:10	0:46:13
but my old massa sold 'em both	0:46:13	0:46:16
and my husband, too.	0:46:16	0:46:18
I never thought I'd be able to have another child.	0:46:18	0:46:22
If I was to lose this one, I'm...	0:46:22	0:46:25
I will protect our child.	0:46:26	0:46:29
He will be our warrior.	0:46:36	0:46:38
BABY CRIES	0:47:07	0:47:09
What you going to name her?	0:47:19	0:47:22
I guess...	0:47:22	0:47:23
.."Fiddler" ain't the right name for a little baby girl.	0:47:24	0:47:28
Mnh.	0:47:28	0:47:29
You could call her "Fiddleretta".	0:47:29	0:47:32
I always thought I'd have a boy child.	0:47:32	0:47:34
A warrior.	0:47:34	0:47:35
I was always too afraid to have a family.	0:47:38	0:47:42
But you got yourself	0:47:42	0:47:44
a beautiful baby girl and a beautiful wife.	0:47:44	0:47:47
Yes.	0:47:47	0:47:49
And Massa got us all.	0:47:49	0:47:50
BABY CRIES	0:47:50	0:47:53
So, this here the... the real Africa ways?	0:47:53	0:47:57
Naming your child 'fore the stars and all creation.	0:47:57	0:48:01
No.	0:48:01	0:48:03
The man usually names the child alone.	0:48:04	0:48:06
Mm-hmm.	0:48:06	0:48:07
But I have my own way.	0:48:07	0:48:09
And I want you here with me.	0:48:10	0:48:12
-Yeah? -Yes.	0:48:13	0:48:15
I'm here.	0:48:17	0:48:19
And if you...	0:48:19	0:48:21
if you play my mother's song,	0:48:21	0:48:24
then she will be with me, too.	0:48:24	0:48:25
FIDDLER PLUCKS A MELODY	0:48:25	0:48:28
HORSE NEIGHS	0:48:44	0:48:45
BABY CRIES	0:48:45	0:48:47
You boys having yourselves a hoedown, are ya?	0:48:47	0:48:50
-It's candle-lighting time. -Yes, sir.	0:48:50	0:48:51
Everybody in the state of Virginia know a nigger can't be on the road after sundown.	0:48:51	0:48:55
We're not in the road.	0:48:55	0:48:56
-Come again? -We're not in the road.	0:48:56	0:48:59
This is Dr Waller's property.	0:48:59	0:49:01
-Are you correcting me, boy? -No, sir! No, he ain't. He ain't.	0:49:01	0:49:04
We...we...we on our way to the farm proper.	0:49:04	0:49:07
Whoa. Hold on, Uncle.	0:49:07	0:49:09
HORSE NEIGHS	0:49:09	0:49:10
We got to gather us a nigger tax.	0:49:10	0:49:12
-I ain't got no money. -How 'bout you just hand over the tar baby?	0:49:12	0:49:16
BABY CRIES	0:49:16	0:49:17
You gentlemen, you got it all wrong.	0:49:24	0:49:26
You got it all wrong.	0:49:26	0:49:29
My name ain't Uncle.	0:49:30	0:49:32
My name ain't "boy".	0:49:32	0:49:34
My name ain't Fiddler.	0:49:37	0:49:39
My name is Henry.	0:49:44	0:49:46
THUNDER RUMBLES	0:49:46	0:49:48
So y'all call me Henry.	0:49:48	0:49:52
Just get on out of here.	0:49:54	0:49:56
Go on! Just go on.	0:49:56	0:49:58
Go on 'fore you start causing trouble.	0:49:58	0:50:00
-Just go on. -He's running!	0:50:00	0:50:01
-Go on! -GUNSHOT	0:50:01	0:50:02
HORSE NEIGHS	0:50:02	0:50:04
BABY CRIES	0:50:08	0:50:10
HE GRUNTS	0:50:15	0:50:17
HE GASPS	0:50:21	0:50:24
BABY FUSSES	0:50:27	0:50:29
Oh, ho, ho, ho.	0:50:32	0:50:34
HORSE NEIGHS	0:50:34	0:50:36
(Fa is here. Fa is here.)	0:50:47	0:50:50
BABY CRIES	0:50:50	0:50:51
THUNDER CRACKS	0:50:53	0:50:55
Fiddler.	0:51:04	0:51:05
Fiddler.	0:51:07	0:51:08
THUNDER CRACKS	0:51:11	0:51:13
THUD	0:51:14	0:51:16
Get up.	0:51:16	0:51:17
Fiddler.	0:51:17	0:51:19
BREATHES SHAKILY	0:51:19	0:51:20
Fiddler! Fiddler, wake up.	0:51:20	0:51:24
Get up!	0:51:25	0:51:26
Get up! Now!	0:51:26	0:51:28
HE YELLS	0:51:28	0:51:30
Fiddler!	0:51:30	0:51:32
No!	0:51:32	0:51:34
HE YELLS	0:51:34	0:51:36
Fiddler!	0:51:36	0:51:38
BABY CRIES	0:51:41	0:51:43
THUNDER RUMBLES	0:51:45	0:51:46
DOOR OPENS	0:51:46	0:51:47
They're never going to let us live, Belle.	0:51:47	0:51:50
-Let me have the baby. -We're running now. -No!	0:51:50	0:51:52
Give me my baby. No!	0:51:52	0:51:54
Many have made it to the North.	0:51:54	0:51:56
No. Please don't take my child! Please!	0:51:56	0:51:58
You'll get us all killed.	0:51:58	0:51:59
Babies cry.	0:51:59	0:52:00
They cry when they hungry,	0:52:00	0:52:02
they cry when they cold,	0:52:02	0:52:04
they cry when they scared.	0:52:04	0:52:05
When the slave catcher's a foot away	0:52:05	0:52:07
and you hiding in the bushes, babies cry.	0:52:07	0:52:09
So we cannot run!	0:52:09	0:52:11
I will never make peace with this life,	0:52:11	0:52:13
but I will not orphan a child again, not when I have a choice.	0:52:13	0:52:16
HE CRIES	0:52:16	0:52:18
They killed Fiddler, Belle.	0:52:18	0:52:20
He saved us.	0:52:23	0:52:25
And they killed him!	0:52:26	0:52:27
No, no, no, no.	0:52:27	0:52:29
-They killed him! -No. Shh.	0:52:29	0:52:32
I hate this country!	0:52:32	0:52:35
America will never be my home!	0:52:35	0:52:38
I hate this country!	0:52:38	0:52:40
HE SIGHS	0:52:42	0:52:44
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.	0:52:44	0:52:46
But you... Ah!	0:52:46	0:52:48
HE INHALES DEEPLY	0:52:48	0:52:50
..and our daughter, our child,	0:52:50	0:52:53
you are my family now.	0:52:53	0:52:55
And I will protect you both.	0:53:00	0:53:01
Hey.	0:53:11	0:53:12
Your name is your spirit.	0:53:14	0:53:17
Your name is your shield.	0:53:19	0:53:21
THUNDER CRACKS	0:53:21	0:53:24
And I will name you Kizzy...	0:53:24	0:53:27
KIZZY COOS	0:53:27	0:53:28
..which means "Stay put".	0:53:28	0:53:30
But not stay a slave!	0:53:30	0:53:31
Kizzy, you are the daughter of Kunta Kinte,	0:53:37	0:53:42
the daughter of Belle.	0:53:42	0:53:45
And though you will never know them,	0:53:45	0:53:48
granddaughter of Omoro	0:53:48	0:53:52
and Binta Kinte.	0:53:52	0:53:53
Allahu Akbar!	0:53:56	0:53:57
ECHOING: Behold!	0:53:57	0:54:00
The only thing greater than you.	0:54:02	0:54:04
If you feel him slowing down, just give him a little kick now.	0:54:11	0:54:14
It won't hurt him.	0:54:14	0:54:15
That's it.	0:54:15	0:54:17
How 'bout now, Mama?	0:54:17	0:54:19
Mnh-mnh.	0:54:19	0:54:20
You got to mix the honey till it blends in.	0:54:20	0:54:22
One, two...	0:54:22	0:54:24
Count in your head!	0:54:24	0:54:26
Yes, Mama.	0:54:26	0:54:27
Yes. Very good.	0:54:31	0:54:34
How 'bout now, Mama?	0:54:37	0:54:39
Let me see.	0:54:41	0:54:42
Mm-hmm. That's just fine.	0:54:46	0:54:48
NOW you can take some to your papa.	0:54:48	0:54:50
Be careful.	0:54:52	0:54:53
Fa! I made it for you.	0:54:59	0:55:02
Kizzy, I'm here!	0:55:02	0:55:03
Missy!	0:55:03	0:55:05
Thank you.	0:55:05	0:55:06
Hi, Uncle William!	0:55:10	0:55:11
Well, well!	0:55:11	0:55:13
Girls, look at Noah, my new horseman.	0:55:13	0:55:16
Hi, Auntie Belle.	0:55:16	0:55:18
Good morning, Miss Missy. How are you today?	0:55:18	0:55:20
Kizzy, look what I brought you.	0:55:20	0:55:22
I spilled punch on it,	0:55:26	0:55:28
so I asked Mama if I could give it to you.	0:55:28	0:55:30
It's so pretty. Thank you, Missy.	0:55:30	0:55:32
Come on. Let's go play.	0:55:36	0:55:37
But I'm helping Mama.	0:55:37	0:55:38
You don't mind,	0:55:38	0:55:39
do you, Auntie Belle? Please?	0:55:39	0:55:41
No, no, no. Belle doesn't mind. Do you, Belle?	0:55:41	0:55:44
For a little while, hmm?	0:55:44	0:55:46
-Good. -Don't go far.	0:55:46	0:55:49
Yes, Mama.	0:55:49	0:55:50
Put on your new dress and let's go!	0:55:50	0:55:52
GIRLS GIGGLE	0:55:54	0:55:55
You run, and I'm going to catch you!	0:56:07	0:56:09
One, two, three, four,	0:56:09	0:56:13
five, six, seven...	0:56:13	0:56:16
SHE SCREAMS	0:56:16	0:56:18
Will you accept the body and blood of our Saviour? You have a soul, child!	0:56:18	0:56:21
It belongs to God, not your captor!	0:56:21	0:56:24
Let her go! She's mine!	0:56:24	0:56:25
Jesus alone can wash you of sin.	0:56:25	0:56:27
Aah!	0:56:27	0:56:29
Jesus alone!	0:56:29	0:56:31
Jesus!	0:56:31	0:56:32
Where'd that old coot come from?	0:56:35	0:56:36
He was pickled for sure.	0:56:36	0:56:38
BOTH GIGGLE	0:56:38	0:56:39
CONGREGATION SINGS	0:56:39	0:56:41
WATER SLOSHES	0:56:41	0:56:43
Ye that fear God, give audience.	0:56:52	0:56:56
The darkness of the night that you experience	0:56:56	0:56:59
is deserved punishment	0:56:59	0:57:00
for your disgraceful and iniquitous practice	0:57:00	0:57:03
of keeping African slaves.	0:57:03	0:57:04
This base custom,	0:57:06	0:57:08
so evidently contrary to the laws of God,	0:57:08	0:57:11
violates the natural	0:57:11	0:57:13
and unalienable rights of mankind.	0:57:13	0:57:16
For all those who prosper from slavery,	0:57:16	0:57:19
hellfire will be your ultimate reward.	0:57:19	0:57:23
CONGREGATION SING	0:57:23	0:57:25
Will the toubab go to hell because they own slaves?	0:57:25	0:57:29
Because they own us?	0:57:29	0:57:31
That'd be a lot of toubab in hell.	0:57:31	0:57:34
Don't you ever let me hear you say that word again.	0:57:34	0:57:36
But that's what the preacher said.	0:57:36	0:57:37
-You ain't a preacher. -Your mama is right.	0:57:37	0:57:39
You're not a preacher.	0:57:39	0:57:42
Cos preachers are...	0:57:42	0:57:43
Hmm?	0:57:44	0:57:46
SHE GIGGLES	0:57:46	0:57:47
Besides, hell is not punishment enough for the toubab.	0:57:48	0:57:52
How will the toubabs be punished?	0:57:54	0:57:56
What did I just tell you? God will take care of us.	0:57:56	0:58:00
Now eat your food.	0:58:00	0:58:02
OK, that's good. That's good.	0:58:08	0:58:10
You don't want to make him fat.	0:58:10	0:58:11
No, I want him to get fat, Fa.	0:58:11	0:58:14
-Why? -So he'll be happy.	0:58:14	0:58:16
But if he's fat, he can't run, eh?	0:58:17	0:58:19
And it's running that makes him most happy.	0:58:19	0:58:21
Running makes him feel free, eh?	0:58:21	0:58:24
Hi, Uncle Toby!	0:58:24	0:58:25
Kizzy, I brought you a bonnet!	0:58:25	0:58:29
Toby, can we see how it fits?	0:58:29	0:58:30
Auntie Belle said yes. We'll just be right outside.	0:58:30	0:58:33
Wait! Don't go far.	0:58:33	0:58:36
-Hey, Kizzy! -Hey, stupid.	0:58:36	0:58:39
Oh, it's so pretty! Thank you!	0:58:46	0:58:49
Hold on. Over here.	0:58:49	0:58:51
-Goes with my dress. -Sit down right here.	0:58:52	0:58:55
MAN SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY IN DISTANCE	0:58:56	0:58:59
I thought we could read together.	0:59:04	0:59:06
-Missy! -I'm just learning,	0:59:06	0:59:07
but I can teach you what I know.	0:59:07	0:59:08
But Mama said	0:59:08	0:59:10
slaves have been whipped and put in jail,	0:59:10	0:59:12
-and even... -So we just got to keep it a secret.	0:59:12	0:59:15
But...	0:59:15	0:59:16
Cos you and me are friends.	0:59:16	0:59:18
Ain't we?	0:59:18	0:59:20
Yes.	0:59:22	0:59:24
You and me are friends.	0:59:24	0:59:25
For always.	0:59:25	0:59:27
For always.	0:59:27	0:59:29
-"A." -"A."	0:59:33	0:59:35
Like an apple.	0:59:35	0:59:36
-"B." -"B."	0:59:36	0:59:38
Like, um, a bee.	0:59:38	0:59:39
-"C." -"C."	0:59:39	0:59:42
Like a...a cat.	0:59:42	0:59:43
-COUGHING -Father!	0:59:43	0:59:45
Missy, what are you doing out here all alone	0:59:47	0:59:49
with a little nigger girl, huh?	0:59:49	0:59:51
We were just playing, Papa.	0:59:51	0:59:53
Yeah, well, this one is devious.	0:59:53	0:59:56
Just like her father.	0:59:56	0:59:57
Anything you need, Massa Waller?	0:59:57	1:00:00
I can, uh, get Belle to cook you up something real good.	1:00:00	1:00:03
HE BREATHES HEAVILY	1:00:06	1:00:08
LEATHER CREAKS	1:00:08	1:00:10
You take me for a fool, boy?	1:00:13	1:00:14
Hmm?	1:00:14	1:00:16
Huh?	1:00:16	1:00:18
No, Massa.	1:00:18	1:00:20
This piccaninny of yours	1:00:20	1:00:22
is trying to beguile my innocent little girl.	1:00:22	1:00:24
You think I'm going to stand by and let that happen,	1:00:24	1:00:27
you have another thing coming.	1:00:27	1:00:29
STOMPS FOOT	1:00:32	1:00:33
You understand me, boy?	1:00:33	1:00:35
Yes, Massa.	1:00:37	1:00:38
Mm.	1:00:38	1:00:39
All right.	1:00:41	1:00:42
Abigail, here's one for you,	1:00:44	1:00:46
and one for you, Kizzy.	1:00:46	1:00:48
Thank you, Missy.	1:00:48	1:00:49
You're welcome, Kizzy.	1:00:49	1:00:51
DOLL THUDS	1:00:54	1:00:56
Here. You can be the piccaninny.	1:01:01	1:01:04
Why do you get to decide?	1:01:04	1:01:06
I'm white, and the Bible says	1:01:06	1:01:08
white people are made in the image of God.	1:01:08	1:01:11
This one's my favourite.	1:01:11	1:01:14
Good. She can be my wife.	1:01:14	1:01:16
-DEEP VOICE: -Fetch me my dinner, woman.	1:01:16	1:01:18
Get it yourself.	1:01:18	1:01:19
A good wife obeys her husband.	1:01:19	1:01:21
Sort of like a slave has to obey her master?	1:01:21	1:01:24
Guess us girls ain't that different after all.	1:01:26	1:01:28
Your nigger's stupid.	1:01:28	1:01:30
Stop being so cross.	1:01:30	1:01:32
Well, I hope that smart-mouth piccaninny	1:01:32	1:01:34
stabs you in your sleep.	1:01:34	1:01:36
I'm fixin' to stab you right now!	1:01:36	1:01:38
DOOR SLAMS	1:01:38	1:01:40
-Nigger lover! -Devil!	1:01:40	1:01:42
Missy, don't!	1:01:42	1:01:43
Land sakes!	1:01:43	1:01:45
Abigail, why are you all screaming like savages?	1:01:45	1:01:48
Missy and...me...	1:01:48	1:01:53
was just asking Kizzy to bring us some refreshments.	1:01:53	1:01:59
That's what you all were screaming at?	1:01:59	1:02:01
Well, Kizzy, go fetch some refreshments for the girls.	1:02:01	1:02:04
Yes, ma'am. 'Scuse me, ladies.	1:02:04	1:02:07
Careful with that, Kizzy.	1:02:09	1:02:11
They want to have that tonight for dinner?	1:02:11	1:02:13
I believe so.	1:02:13	1:02:15
Happy birthday, Kizzy!	1:02:38	1:02:41
-Missy, it's beautiful! -Ah!	1:02:46	1:02:48
I was worried sick about orderin' it	1:02:48	1:02:50
without Mama asking pesky questions.	1:02:50	1:02:52
But then I realised we have the same initials! Hmm?	1:02:52	1:02:56
Melissa Kathryn Waller.	1:02:56	1:02:58
Miss Kizzy Waller.	1:02:58	1:02:59
I'm such a ninny, I didn't realise it before.	1:02:59	1:03:02
I'll never be able to thank you.	1:03:02	1:03:03
Oh, no great shakes.	1:03:03	1:03:05
Now, listen, Mama keeps going on	1:03:05	1:03:07
about shipping me off to London for finishing school.	1:03:07	1:03:10
And I know you don't believe in God,	1:03:10	1:03:12
but say a prayer anyway.	1:03:12	1:03:13
Oh, yeah.	1:03:13	1:03:15
Jesus sure have taken care of us Negroes(!)	1:03:15	1:03:18
Time's running short. What's your fancy?	1:03:18	1:03:20
You already know all the dreadful Shakespeare dramas by heart, huh?	1:03:20	1:03:24
What's this monstrosity?	1:03:24	1:03:26
Dr John Hunter's Gross Anatomy.	1:03:26	1:03:31
Mm.	1:03:31	1:03:32
Oh, eugh!	1:03:34	1:03:36
Is that really what it looks like on the inside?	1:03:36	1:03:38
I will never, ever have a baby.	1:03:38	1:03:40
Oh, don't be hysterical.	1:03:40	1:03:42
How does it stand up like that?	1:03:45	1:03:47
I...	1:03:47	1:03:48
I don't...	1:03:48	1:03:50
"Pubescent male peach fuzz	1:03:50	1:03:52
"corresponds with the accelerated growth	1:03:52	1:03:54
"of the corpus spongiosum."	1:03:54	1:03:56
Ugh, look at all that corpus... and hair.	1:03:56	1:04:00
Do you have any hair down there?	1:04:00	1:04:03
Hmm?	1:04:03	1:04:04
Have you lost your senses?!	1:04:04	1:04:06
Let me see! It's my right.	1:04:06	1:04:08
KNOCK ON DOOR, DOOR OPENS	1:04:08	1:04:10
Kizzy, Miss Missy, y'all in here?	1:04:10	1:04:12
Yes.	1:04:12	1:04:13
Well, what is it?	1:04:15	1:04:17
Your governess is here to fetch you home.	1:04:17	1:04:19
Happy birthday, Kizzy.	1:04:21	1:04:23
Thank you, Noah.	1:04:23	1:04:24
CLOCK TICKING	1:04:24	1:04:27
Noah.	1:04:27	1:04:28
Bless your heart.	1:04:32	1:04:35
Perhaps it would help if you ate some peaches.	1:04:35	1:04:40
SHE LAUGHS	1:04:40	1:04:42
Happy birthday, young lady!	1:04:54	1:04:56
-My, how you've blossomed! -See you tomorrow!	1:04:56	1:04:59
Oh, yes. That's right. Happy birthday, Kizzy.	1:04:59	1:05:02
-Thank you, Massa. -Kizzy.	1:05:02	1:05:05
Mother needs help in the sick cabin.	1:05:05	1:05:07
-Yes, Fa. -Go. Go.	1:05:07	1:05:08
We'll ride later, when it is less...wet.	1:05:08	1:05:10
What...what...uh, what is she?	1:05:10	1:05:12
She's 15?	1:05:12	1:05:14
Yes, Massa.	1:05:14	1:05:16
Well, I suppose it's about time that I bred her...	1:05:16	1:05:19
with Noah, here.	1:05:19	1:05:21
What do you think about that, Noah?	1:05:21	1:05:23
But, uh, Kizzy has not reached womanhood.	1:05:25	1:05:28
-Hasn't she by now? -No, sir.	1:05:28	1:05:30
Her mother knows for sure, and that's what she says.	1:05:30	1:05:32
Well, it won't be long.	1:05:32	1:05:34
All in good time, Noah, eh?	1:05:34	1:05:36
HE WHISTLES	1:05:36	1:05:38
If you ever touch her...	1:05:44	1:05:47
LEVER CREAKS	1:06:01	1:06:03
Come with me.	1:06:10	1:06:12
BREATHING HEAVILY	1:06:16	1:06:18
Do what I do.	1:06:19	1:06:21
Your turn.	1:06:26	1:06:27
Go.	1:06:29	1:06:31
SHE GRUNTS	1:06:32	1:06:33
The horse is too tall. And I have a dress on.	1:06:35	1:06:38
And how do you know what you'll be wearing?	1:06:38	1:06:40
You must be prepared at all times.	1:06:40	1:06:41
GRUNTING	1:06:41	1:06:44
Are you defeated?	1:06:50	1:06:51
Go!	1:06:52	1:06:53
Faster.	1:06:54	1:06:56
But it don't have a saddle on.	1:06:56	1:06:57
It does not need a saddle.	1:06:57	1:06:59
He was born free. So be free with him.	1:06:59	1:07:01
SMOOCHING	1:07:01	1:07:02
Stop kissing and ride him!	1:07:02	1:07:04
Hey, faster.	1:07:06	1:07:08
Do not allow yourself to be defeated.	1:07:11	1:07:13
They can put the chains on your body.	1:07:13	1:07:15
Never let them put the chains on your mind.	1:07:15	1:07:18
You are the daughter of Belle Kinte and Kunta Kinte.	1:07:18	1:07:22
Anything is possible. Go! Eh.	1:07:22	1:07:25
SHE GRUNTS	1:07:26	1:07:28
SHE GROANS	1:07:28	1:07:31
You are more Belle's child than mine.	1:07:32	1:07:34
BEES BUZZING	1:07:36	1:07:38
-But what am I supposed to knock it down with? -Hey.	1:07:38	1:07:40
Anything within reach, hmm, is a weapon.	1:07:40	1:07:43
GRUNTING	1:07:50	1:07:53
BEES BUZZING	1:07:55	1:07:57
SHE SCREAMS	1:07:57	1:07:58
SHE SCREAMS	1:08:00	1:08:02
HORSE SNORTS	1:08:11	1:08:12
SHE GRUNTS	1:08:24	1:08:25
Oh!	1:08:25	1:08:28
-East. -Sun comes up.	1:08:28	1:08:30
-West. -Sun goes down.	1:08:30	1:08:31
-North. -Freedom.	1:08:31	1:08:33
-South. -Death.	1:08:33	1:08:34
Binta.	1:08:34	1:08:35
Grandmother.	1:08:35	1:08:37
-Omoro. -Grandfather.	1:08:37	1:08:38
-Belle. -Mother.	1:08:38	1:08:40
-Kunta. -Fa.	1:08:40	1:08:41
Eh?	1:08:41	1:08:43
Ah.	1:08:45	1:08:47
Let's go!	1:08:47	1:08:48
SHE STRAINS	1:08:48	1:08:50
What are you doing with that?!	1:08:58	1:08:59
This is yours?	1:08:59	1:09:01
I-I came in for some kindling.	1:09:01	1:09:03
-I wasn't stealing. -Get out.	1:09:03	1:09:05
-I ain't gon' tell nobody. -Get out!	1:09:05	1:09:07
Kizzy, I swear!	1:09:07	1:09:08
BLADE THWACKS	1:09:09	1:09:11
# Well, it's early in the mornin'	1:09:11	1:09:13
# Mornin'... #	1:09:13	1:09:14
INDISTINCT SINGING	1:09:14	1:09:18
# Well, it's early every mornin'	1:09:18	1:09:20
# Baby	1:09:20	1:09:21
# Baby, when I rise	1:09:21	1:09:24
# When I rise... #	1:09:24	1:09:25
Kizzy, it's been a while now.	1:09:25	1:09:27
And I ain't told nobody, just like I said.	1:09:27	1:09:29
And I won't.	1:09:29	1:09:31
Will you please teach me how to read?	1:09:31	1:09:33
SINGING CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY	1:09:38	1:09:40
Either way, this is for you.	1:09:40	1:09:43
# Cuttin' sugar	1:09:43	1:09:45
# Runnin' my right side	1:09:45	1:09:46
# For the baby	1:09:46	1:09:48
# Runnin' my right side	1:09:48	1:09:50
# For the sugar	1:09:50	1:09:52
# Runnin' my right side	1:09:52	1:09:54
# Wellah	1:09:54	1:09:56
# Well, it's early in the mornin'	1:09:56	1:09:58
# Baby	1:09:58	1:09:59
# When I rise	1:09:59	1:10:02
# When I rise	1:10:02	1:10:03
# Well, it's early in the mornin'	1:10:03	1:10:06
# Baby. #	1:10:06	1:10:07
And you follow this creek to the water wheel.	1:10:07	1:10:11
Then you make your way across the field home.	1:10:11	1:10:13
Return before the Massa sees you.	1:10:13	1:10:15
-OK. -Fa.	1:10:15	1:10:17
If we were in Juffure, could I be a Mandinka warrior?	1:10:17	1:10:19
HE LAUGHS	1:10:19	1:10:21
No. A woman cannot be a warrior in Juffure.	1:10:21	1:10:24
But they don't know what I know about you.	1:10:25	1:10:27
Now, Kizzy,	1:10:27	1:10:30
this country will always be dangerous for you, mm?	1:10:30	1:10:33
Many massas, massas' sons, overseers,	1:10:33	1:10:35
rape slave women and pay no price.	1:10:35	1:10:38
Now, if you ever feel you must kill a toubab,	1:10:38	1:10:42
then do it without hesitation.	1:10:42	1:10:45
Only if you are prepared to die yourself.	1:10:45	1:10:48
That is your choice to make.	1:10:48	1:10:51
Do you understand?	1:10:51	1:10:53
Yes.	1:10:53	1:10:55
Good.	1:10:55	1:10:58
Come. Come.	1:10:58	1:11:00
Ready.	1:11:08	1:11:10
Be careful.	1:11:10	1:11:11
Yes.	1:11:16	1:11:17
What if a...a patrol finds her?	1:11:22	1:11:25
My Kintango would make us do far worse.	1:11:25	1:11:27
I don't want to hear nothing about no Africa!	1:11:27	1:11:29
This is our only child!	1:11:29	1:11:30
She has the spirit of a warrior.	1:11:30	1:11:32
She is a child.	1:11:32	1:11:34
Yes.	1:11:34	1:11:35
And I can't protect her.	1:11:35	1:11:37
Fa!	1:11:39	1:11:40
It felt like the water was talkin' to me.	1:11:40	1:11:42
Leading me home.	1:11:42	1:11:44
Mm.	1:11:44	1:11:46
When I became a warrior, mm-hmm,	1:11:46	1:11:50
my mother gave me beads just like these.	1:11:50	1:11:53
SHE SIGHS	1:12:02	1:12:04
The best one is about a slave who convinces his massa to free him.	1:12:06	1:12:09
H-How'd he do that?	1:12:09	1:12:10
I sure want to learn that trick.	1:12:10	1:12:13
By using logic, and arguing that no man	1:12:13	1:12:15
should ever deny another's liberty.	1:12:15	1:12:17
I like that.	1:12:17	1:12:19
And I don't know why Massa threw it out.	1:12:19	1:12:20
It must've been an abolitionist who wrote this.	1:12:20	1:12:23
All other toubab might applaud the speaker's skill	1:12:23	1:12:26
but vehemently reject the conclusion.	1:12:26	1:12:28
Wh... When I found this, I told myself,	1:12:30	1:12:32
"Before I die,	1:12:32	1:12:34
"I'mma at least learn how to read me a page."	1:12:34	1:12:36
You ain't dead yet.	1:12:36	1:12:38
I'll be happy to teach you.	1:12:39	1:12:40
But you mustn't tell Fa.	1:12:40	1:12:43
Kizzy, come on.	1:12:43	1:12:44
Kunta the last person I would tell.	1:12:44	1:12:46
I sure would love to kiss you.	1:12:49	1:12:51
DOOR OPENS	1:12:51	1:12:53
Fa, stop. Nothing happened!	1:12:55	1:12:57
-Go home now. -No.	1:12:57	1:12:58
Do what I say, child!	1:12:58	1:12:59
I told you the truth.	1:12:59	1:13:01
If you don't believe my word, then you don't respect me.	1:13:01	1:13:03
The boy knows you can read?	1:13:26	1:13:27
Does your mother know?	1:13:29	1:13:30
Do you have any idea how you could end up?	1:13:33	1:13:36
Hmm?	1:13:36	1:13:37
In jail. Or worse.	1:13:37	1:13:39
You can't frighten me.	1:13:39	1:13:41
You frighten me!	1:13:41	1:13:42
Do you know what they want to do to you out there?	1:13:42	1:13:44
Reading is my way of being a warrior.	1:13:44	1:13:47
Of being free inside.	1:13:47	1:13:50
And it's worth jail to me or whatever comes.	1:13:52	1:13:56
INDISTINCT SHOUTING IN DISTANCE	1:14:04	1:14:08
You clumsy devil.	1:14:26	1:14:28
Be more careful next time.	1:14:29	1:14:31
Yes.	1:14:35	1:14:37
What did you say?	1:14:37	1:14:38
Yes, Massa.	1:14:39	1:14:41
A nigger named Noah.	1:14:41	1:14:43
I ain't never knew the doctor	1:14:43	1:14:44
to be a man of humour before he gave you that name.	1:14:44	1:14:47
I wonder what my mama would've named me.	1:14:49	1:14:51
What's that, now?	1:14:51	1:14:53
Said I wonder what my mama would've named me...	1:14:53	1:14:55
had she not died the way she done.	1:14:55	1:14:57
You wonder about your mama? I wonder about your...	1:14:57	1:15:00
Noah!	1:15:00	1:15:01
Massa wants that new Arabian broke	1:15:01	1:15:03
for the next subscription race, hmm?	1:15:03	1:15:05
Just remember one thing...	1:15:05	1:15:07
you may work for the African,	1:15:07	1:15:10
but you answer to me.	1:15:10	1:15:12
I ain't a murderer.	1:15:23	1:15:25
One day, they gon' turn me into one.	1:15:25	1:15:28
They treat you like an animal till you strike like one, hm?	1:15:28	1:15:31
Then they kill you like one.	1:15:31	1:15:33
Not if you get away.	1:15:33	1:15:35
THUNDER RUMBLES	1:15:43	1:15:45
Florida's not a state yet, so any Negro there is somewhat free.	1:15:45	1:15:49
-Florida, then. -But it's so far away.	1:15:52	1:15:54
Yeah, it's far.	1:15:54	1:15:55
It's hard to get to.	1:15:55	1:15:57
And it's even harder to be found once you're there.	1:15:57	1:15:59
There's plenty of free blacks in New York...	1:15:59	1:16:01
although they live in fear of being abducted.	1:16:01	1:16:03
-They can't abduct us all. -Maybe.	1:16:03	1:16:05
But you won't have manumission papers.	1:16:05	1:16:07
Still, spring is hiring season at the docks.	1:16:07	1:16:10
If you made it up there, I'm sure you could find shelter	1:16:10	1:16:12
with an abolitionist society...	1:16:12	1:16:14
stow away on a ship bound for Canada.	1:16:14	1:16:16
And the second that ship docked, you'd be free.	1:16:16	1:16:19
THUNDER RUMBLES	1:16:19	1:16:20
DOOR SLAMS IN DISTANCE HORSE NEIGHS	1:16:20	1:16:22
-Hey! -Noah, duck!	1:16:22	1:16:24
Fa!	1:16:24	1:16:27
Are you OK?	1:16:27	1:16:28
Yeah. Some of the roofing hit me.	1:16:28	1:16:30
HE GRUNTS	1:16:30	1:16:32
Eh, I'm fine.	1:16:32	1:16:33
We've got to get to the big house. Go!	1:16:33	1:16:36
Kizzy! Come!	1:16:40	1:16:43
-Belle! -Mama!	1:16:43	1:16:45
-Belle! -Mama!	1:16:45	1:16:46
SHE SCREAMS	1:16:46	1:16:50
Where'd this weather come from?!	1:16:50	1:16:52
It's going to stay a while!	1:16:52	1:16:54
Oh, Lord! What happened?!	1:16:54	1:16:56
Hurry, Fa! Hurry!	1:16:56	1:16:58
You think it's a hurricane, Uncle Toby?	1:16:58	1:17:02
Hey, hey! THEY SCREAM	1:17:02	1:17:04
-WILLIAM: -Missy? Are you all right?	1:17:08	1:17:10
-JOHN: -What in God's name is going on?	1:17:10	1:17:11
Toby, what happened to your shoulder?	1:17:11	1:17:13
-SPALDING: -Board the window	1:17:13	1:17:14
before the debris starts blowing in the house!	1:17:14	1:17:17
Be safer in the cellar!	1:17:17	1:17:18
-ELIZABETH: -Yes, by all means, we must make it to the cellar.	1:17:18	1:17:20
-JOHN: -Now, now. Let's not all play the lady.	1:17:20	1:17:22
This is not a hurricane.	1:17:22	1:17:24
You see? Come and gone just as fast.	1:17:24	1:17:28
All right, it's no holiday. Get back to work!	1:17:28	1:17:30
I'll never get used to this weather!	1:17:30	1:17:32
Massa, this storm ain't done.	1:17:32	1:17:35
Well, it appears to be.	1:17:35	1:17:39
Missy, come back to the house.	1:17:39	1:17:41
-Come on in, Kizzy. -Come on.	1:17:41	1:17:43
Fa!	1:17:43	1:17:45
-BELLE: -Kizzy!	1:17:45	1:17:46
THUNDER CRACKS	1:17:50	1:17:53
WEATHER VANE CREAKS	1:17:53	1:17:55
-You come back here! -Noah!	1:17:58	1:18:00
-Noah! Noah! -Kizzy, is everything all right?	1:18:00	1:18:03
You've got to go right now.	1:18:03	1:18:05
-Right this second. -What do you mean?	1:18:05	1:18:07
No militia's going to be out in the storm.	1:18:07	1:18:08
The dogs can't pick up your scent.	1:18:08	1:18:10
You may get a full day, if not two.	1:18:10	1:18:12
You should go. Now.	1:18:12	1:18:13
Kizzy, come with me.	1:18:13	1:18:14
SHE GASPS, SIGHS	1:18:14	1:18:17
Kizzy, we can make a real life together in Canada.	1:18:17	1:18:20
I'll find work.	1:18:20	1:18:21
They got plenty of horses up there.	1:18:21	1:18:24
And you...you could go to school.	1:18:24	1:18:25
Maybe even one day teach.	1:18:25	1:18:27
We'll earn enough money to buy back your folks.	1:18:28	1:18:32
Kizzy, please say yes.	1:18:32	1:18:33
THUNDER CRACKS	1:18:34	1:18:36
WIND HOWLS	1:18:36	1:18:38
Lord, I wish you'd been wrong about this storm!	1:18:42	1:18:44
Please go inside and rest that shoulder!	1:18:44	1:18:46
He's going to run.	1:18:48	1:18:49
What? Where's Kizzy?!	1:18:49	1:18:50
Go in and batten the sick house!	1:18:50	1:18:52
If it loses a solitary shingle,	1:18:52	1:18:54
it'll be your hide!	1:18:54	1:18:55
I can take her to the cellar, sir.	1:18:55	1:18:57
No, we're all going to the cellar.	1:18:57	1:19:00
Kizzy!	1:19:00	1:19:02
Kizzy!	1:19:02	1:19:05
-MISSY: -Where's Kizzy? Where'd Kizzy go?	1:19:05	1:19:07
-JOHN: -Move! Stop lollygagging about!	1:19:07	1:19:09
Where's Kizzy?!	1:19:09	1:19:10
No! Kizzy!	1:19:10	1:19:12
SHE SCREAMS	1:19:12	1:19:13
Kizzy!	1:19:13	1:19:15
Don't! Kizzy!	1:19:15	1:19:17
What are you doing?!	1:19:17	1:19:19
Have you gone deaf, girl? Go! Go!	1:19:19	1:19:21
-Mama, Kizzy's still out here! -Get into that cellar!	1:19:21	1:19:23
-In! -She'll be fine! -She needs to be in the cellar with us!	1:19:23	1:19:26
Get into the cellar, girl!	1:19:26	1:19:28
-She is our family! -Inside!	1:19:28	1:19:30
She needs to be with her family!	1:19:30	1:19:31
-We are her family! -Close it, Toby!	1:19:31	1:19:33
And don't stay out there!	1:19:33	1:19:35
HE BREATHES HEAVILY	1:19:35	1:19:36
Come on!	1:19:38	1:19:39
I can't find Kizzy!	1:19:39	1:19:40
-This way! -I can't find her!	1:19:40	1:19:43
Come on!	1:19:45	1:19:46
Where'd our baby go?! Where did our baby go?!	1:19:56	1:19:59
-Mama! -Kizzy!	1:19:59	1:20:01
Here!	1:20:01	1:20:03
Kizzy!	1:20:03	1:20:05
SHE SOBS	1:20:05	1:20:07
Oh, my God!	1:20:07	1:20:08
Where did our baby go?!	1:20:10	1:20:12
CRASH, BOTH SCREAM	1:20:15	1:20:18
SINGING IN DISTANCE	1:20:20	1:20:21
-Come on. -Throw him in a hole! -Yessuh.	1:20:21	1:20:24
Move on!	1:20:24	1:20:25
-# Roll down... # BELLE: -Kizzy!	1:20:25	1:20:28
# Roll down	1:20:28	1:20:30
-# Roll down... # -Kizzy!	1:20:30	1:20:33
HE SIGHS, SHE SOBS	1:20:34	1:20:36
# Roll down... #	1:20:36	1:20:38
-Fa? -Kizzy?	1:20:38	1:20:41
Fa?	1:20:41	1:20:42
Kizzy!	1:20:42	1:20:44
Fa!	1:20:44	1:20:45
Kizzy!	1:20:47	1:20:49
She just sits there, cryin'.	1:20:59	1:21:01
-Can't get a word out of her. -KIZZY SNIFFLES	1:21:01	1:21:04
I just hope the boy makes it.	1:21:04	1:21:05
DOGS BARK	1:21:05	1:21:07
INDISTINCT SHOUTING	1:21:07	1:21:10
HORSE NEIGHS Go back to the cabin.	1:21:10	1:21:12
-SPALDING: -Toby. Get the wagon. Now!	1:21:12	1:21:15
HORSES NEIGH	1:21:16	1:21:19
-KIZZY SOBS -Shh. Shh.	1:21:24	1:21:27
DOGS BARKING, BAYING	1:21:27	1:21:30
-SPALDING: -We're moving out now!	1:21:33	1:21:35
Just bring him alive.	1:21:39	1:21:41
Of course, sir. No time at all.	1:21:41	1:21:43
Noah!	1:21:43	1:21:45
DOGS BARK	1:21:45	1:21:47
CHAIN CLINKS	1:21:48	1:21:50
You got to come out, boy.	1:21:50	1:21:51
CHAINS CLACK	1:21:55	1:21:58
I got to bring you home.	1:21:58	1:22:01
Noah...	1:22:01	1:22:02
HE SCREAMS	1:22:10	1:22:13
Noah, no!	1:22:17	1:22:18
TRIBAL MUSIC	1:22:45	1:22:48
Doctor wants to see you.	1:23:07	1:23:09
KIZZY CRIES	1:23:09	1:23:11
No.	1:23:13	1:23:15
All of you.	1:23:15	1:23:16
Kizzy, you're to wear your best dress from Missy.	1:23:18	1:23:20
SHE SOBS	1:23:27	1:23:30
No, no, no, sir. It is not my fault.	1:23:30	1:23:32
You leave her unsupervised with the nigger girl.	1:23:32	1:23:35
She used your house as her schoolroom.	1:23:35	1:23:37
And now, in addition to all the storm damage I've suffered,	1:23:37	1:23:39
I've lost a valuable slave, my Noah.	1:23:39	1:23:41
-And you shall be compensated. -Compensated? -Yes, sir.	1:23:41	1:23:43
-Brother, you are a man of debt, not assets! -Doctor. -Belle.	1:23:43	1:23:46
WILLIAM SIGHS	1:23:46	1:23:48
Now, you've worked for me for a long time, Belle,	1:23:49	1:23:51
since I was a young man, and I can honestly say	1:23:51	1:23:53
this is a day I hoped would never come.	1:23:53	1:23:54
-What day, Massa? -I've just received this road pass,	1:23:54	1:23:57
forged by Kizzy to Noah, so that he could escape.	1:23:57	1:24:00
-No. -Yes! -No, no, that can't be true. -Yes, it appears that somebody's	1:24:00	1:24:03
been teaching her to read and write!	1:24:03	1:24:05
What are you waiting for? Come along, gentlemen.	1:24:05	1:24:07
-Do not tarry. Take this girl away! -Missy!	1:24:07	1:24:08
I'm very sorry, Belle.	1:24:08	1:24:10
-Missy! -No. -No, I'm very sorry, Belle. -No. No. No.	1:24:10	1:24:13
-No! -Missy!	1:24:13	1:24:14
-No! No, Massa! -Missy!	1:24:14	1:24:16
-Get back! -Missy, you've got to help me! Help me!	1:24:16	1:24:18
Please, Massa, don't take the only child I got left, Massa, please!	1:24:18	1:24:21
Help you?! How could you do this to me?!	1:24:21	1:24:23
After all these years...	1:24:23	1:24:24
-Missy! -..after everything that I've done for you!	1:24:24	1:24:26
I was going to ask Mama to buy you. We could have stayed	1:24:26	1:24:28
-together forever. -Massa, please. -Please!	1:24:28	1:24:30
I would've kept you safe. How could you do this?!	1:24:30	1:24:32
-DOOR OPENS -You brought this upon yourself.	1:24:32	1:24:34
-Off with her. -And upon your poor family.	1:24:34	1:24:36
-No! You brought it on my family! -Take her away.	1:24:36	1:24:39
-You brought it on my family! -Oh, take her away!	1:24:39	1:24:41
-Massa! -What a mess. -I beg you, please, Massa... Wait! No!	1:24:41	1:24:43
Please! Please, listen to me, Massa, please!	1:24:43	1:24:46
-I beg you, don't do this, please! -Get off of me.	1:24:46	1:24:48
I promise, Massa, please, don't do that!	1:24:48	1:24:50
-Please! Please! -Don't you touch me!	1:24:50	1:24:52
Kizzy!	1:24:52	1:24:53
-What a mess! -KIZZY SCREAMS	1:24:53	1:24:55
Oh! What a mess.	1:24:55	1:24:56
I know Missy is your child. Hm?	1:24:56	1:24:58
Now you stop this or I will tell your brother the truth.	1:24:58	1:25:02
Oh, go on. Tell him about his wife, me and his wife.	1:25:02	1:25:05
Slander his wife to his face, and we'll see how quick he is	1:25:05	1:25:07
to wrap a rope around your neck and hoist you into a tree!	1:25:07	1:25:10
Did you really think a NIGGER could accuse me,	1:25:10	1:25:13
a white man, of anything at all?	1:25:13	1:25:15
Oh, get out of here, you wretch.	1:25:15	1:25:16
Go, go. Go.	1:25:16	1:25:18
BELLE AND KIZZY SCREAM	1:25:18	1:25:20
-Kizzy! Kizzy! -Easy, Belle.	1:25:20	1:25:22
Kizzy! No! No, no!	1:25:22	1:25:24
My baby! Kizzy!	1:25:24	1:25:26
No! No, Kizzy!	1:25:26	1:25:28
-SCREAMING, CRYING -My baby!	1:25:28	1:25:30
-Toby... -Kizzy!	1:25:30	1:25:32
-Kizzy! -Get a hold of yourself.	1:25:32	1:25:35
-No! No! -SCREAMS: -Mama!	1:25:35	1:25:38
SCREAMING, CRYING	1:25:41	1:25:44
Stop! Let her go! Please!	1:25:44	1:25:47
Fa! Fa!	1:25:47	1:25:50
My baby!	1:25:50	1:25:51
Kizzy!	1:25:53	1:25:55
SHE SOBS	1:25:55	1:25:57
TRIBAL MUSIC	1:25:59	1:26:02
-MUFFLED: -'Fa! Fa!	1:26:02	1:26:05
'Kizzy!'	1:26:05	1:26:08
SCREAMING, CRYING	1:26:13	1:26:16
Whoa.	1:26:47	1:26:48
Yeah, girl. Saddle up.	1:26:55	1:26:57
She out?	1:27:02	1:27:03
URINE SPLASHES	1:27:20	1:27:22
SHE YELLS, HORSE NEIGHS	1:27:33	1:27:35
SHE SCREAMS	1:27:42	1:27:44
Get in!	1:28:00	1:28:02
CHAINS JANGLE	1:28:02	1:28:04
CHICKENS CLUCKING	1:28:24	1:28:26
DOOR OPENS	1:28:33	1:28:35
HE CHUCKLES	1:28:45	1:28:47
Hello.	1:28:54	1:28:55
What do we got here?	1:29:02	1:29:05
HE CHUCKLES	1:29:05	1:29:07
You hidin'?	1:29:10	1:29:11
I ain't going to hurt you.	1:29:13	1:29:14
Whoa, nelly!	1:29:14	1:29:15
Now, this ain't the house that Jack built.	1:29:17	1:29:21
Though you sure do look like a maiden all forlorn.	1:29:23	1:29:26
Bet you never heard that nursery rhyme, huh?	1:29:33	1:29:36
This is the man, all tattered and torn,	1:29:38	1:29:42
who kissed the maiden all forlorn.	1:29:42	1:29:46
CHAINS RATTLE	1:29:46	1:29:48
HE GRUNTS	1:29:48	1:29:51
Where in the hell do you think you're going?!	1:29:56	1:29:58
-SHE SCREAMS -No!	1:29:58	1:30:00
Now, you going to behave, or do I have to get a whip?	1:30:00	1:30:03
-Kill me! -Kill you?	1:30:03	1:30:05
I just spent 600 on you, girl.	1:30:05	1:30:08
You know how long and hard I have to work to earn that money?	1:30:08	1:30:10
And this is my right.	1:30:10	1:30:12
No! Kill me!	1:30:12	1:30:14
This is my right!	1:30:14	1:30:15
Kill me!	1:30:15	1:30:16
SHE CRIES, FABRIC RIPS	1:30:16	1:30:19
Stay still, now!	1:30:20	1:30:21
You stay still now!	1:30:21	1:30:23
No! Kill me!	1:30:23	1:30:24
This is my right!	1:30:24	1:30:25
Kill me!	1:30:25	1:30:27
KIZZY SOBS	1:30:27	1:30:29
Kill me...	1:30:31	1:30:33
BABY CRIES	1:30:34	1:30:36
KIZZY SOBS	1:30:40	1:30:43
FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING	1:30:45	1:30:48
Goddamn it.	1:30:48	1:30:49
I heard her howling all the way up at the house.	1:30:49	1:30:51
Miss Malizy?	1:30:54	1:30:55
Well, what is it?	1:30:55	1:30:57
A boy.	1:30:57	1:30:59
BABY COOS	1:30:59	1:31:00
A boy, huh?	1:31:00	1:31:02
Well, bring him over here.	1:31:02	1:31:04
Shh.	1:31:09	1:31:11
MUFFLED CRYING	1:31:11	1:31:13
Well, I'll be damned.	1:31:13	1:31:15
BABY CRIES	1:31:15	1:31:18
SHE SOBS SOFTLY	1:31:21	1:31:22
I'm going to name you after my daddy.	1:31:24	1:31:26
What do you think about that?	1:31:29	1:31:31
George Lea II.	1:31:31	1:31:33
Welcome home, George.	1:31:35	1:31:36
He got to eat now, Massa.	1:31:36	1:31:38
Well, get to it.	1:31:40	1:31:42
Kizzy, you feed him well, now.	1:31:46	1:31:49
Old George is going to have a mighty big appetite.	1:31:49	1:31:52
HE LAUGHS GIDDILY	1:31:52	1:31:55
GEORGE CRIES	1:31:56	1:31:59
SHE SOBS	1:32:03	1:32:06
SHE SOBS	1:32:09	1:32:12
ROCKS CLACK	1:32:15	1:32:17
SHE BREATHES HEAVILY	1:32:24	1:32:26
SHE SOBS	1:32:36	1:32:38
-'Kill me! -Kill you?	1:32:38	1:32:40
'I just spent 600 on you, girl!	1:32:40	1:32:41
-'This is my right! -Kill me!'	1:32:41	1:32:43
-WILLIAM: -'You brought this upon yourself... -Help me!	1:32:43	1:32:45
'..and your poor family.'	1:32:45	1:32:46
-'Kizzy! -No!'	1:32:46	1:32:48
-Please! Help me! Help me! -KUNTA: 'Your name is your spirit.	1:32:48	1:32:52
-'Your name is your shield.' -I'm sorry.	1:32:52	1:32:54
'I will name you Kizzy.'	1:32:54	1:32:56
-I'm sorry. -'Granddaughter...	1:32:56	1:32:58
'Binta of Omoro...' Grandmother. '..and Binta Kinte.'	1:32:58	1:33:01
-Omoro. -Grandfather.	1:33:01	1:33:04
BABY CRIES, KIZZY SOBS	1:33:04	1:33:07
-BELLE: -'Kizzy!	1:33:07	1:33:08
'Kizzy, no! Please don't take my baby!	1:33:08	1:33:10
-'Please!' -KUNTA: 'I can't protect her.'	1:33:10	1:33:12
Shh, shh...	1:33:12	1:33:14
-NOAH: -'Kizzy, please say yes.	1:33:14	1:33:16
'I love you. I've always loved you.'	1:33:16	1:33:20
'I ain't never been free.	1:33:20	1:33:21
'They ain't ever gon' tear me down.'	1:33:21	1:33:24
-'You got to live.' -I'm sorry.	1:33:24	1:33:25
KUNTA: 'They can put the chains on your body.	1:33:25	1:33:27
'Never let them put the chains on your mind.'	1:33:27	1:33:29
-KINTANGO: -'First duty of a Mandinka warrior	1:33:29	1:33:32
'is to raise a family.'	1:33:32	1:33:33
-OMORO: -'You must always honour your ancestors.	1:33:33	1:33:36
'The ones who love you and watch out for you.'	1:33:36	1:33:38
I don't know if this is the right kind of place.	1:33:38	1:33:42
GEORGE CRIES	1:33:42	1:33:45
I don't even know all of the story...	1:33:45	1:33:47
There wasn't enough time.	1:33:47	1:33:49
But I've got to tell you about our people.	1:33:49	1:33:53
My father is Kunta Kinte.	1:33:53	1:33:55
He's a Mandinka warrior.	1:33:55	1:33:57
You've got to know who he is so you can know who you are.	1:33:57	1:34:00
Look up, little one.	1:34:03	1:34:05
See the stars, the moon, the whole sky.	1:34:05	1:34:08
Behold, the only thing that is greater than you.	1:34:10	1:34:13
THUNDER RUMBLES	1:34:13	1:34:15

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