Episode 3

0:00:02 > 0:00:04This programme contains scenes of sexual violence,

0:00:04 > 0:00:07some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting

0:00:07 > 0:00:09and graphic violent scenes from the start.

0:00:09 > 0:00:13You are Kunta Kinte. Behold! The only thing greater than yourself.

0:00:14 > 0:00:18The first duty of a Mandinka warrior is to raise a family.

0:00:22 > 0:00:24HE LAUGHS

0:00:24 > 0:00:25HE WHOOPS

0:00:38 > 0:00:41It's time your family paid for all the trouble

0:00:41 > 0:00:42they have caused me, Kunta.

0:00:42 > 0:00:43Run!

0:00:51 > 0:00:54Sell the boy to the British with the other captives.

0:00:58 > 0:00:59HE SCREAMS

0:01:00 > 0:01:02THUNDER CRASHES

0:01:04 > 0:01:07GUNSHOTS, INDISTINCT SHOUTING

0:01:11 > 0:01:14- No more running for you, boy. - No! No!

0:01:14 > 0:01:15No, please don't!

0:01:15 > 0:01:17HE SCREAMS

0:01:17 > 0:01:20I'm so relieved you're gonna make it.

0:01:20 > 0:01:22My name is Belle.

0:01:22 > 0:01:24Let's make it official.

0:01:24 > 0:01:26BOTH LAUGH

0:01:29 > 0:01:31I never thought I'd be able to have another child.

0:01:31 > 0:01:34I'll protect our child.

0:01:34 > 0:01:36Kizzy, I think I was selfish

0:01:36 > 0:01:38to have you born into a world like this.

0:01:38 > 0:01:41Don't worry, Fa. You trained me well.

0:01:41 > 0:01:44Kizzy! No! No, Kizzy!

0:01:44 > 0:01:46SOBBING

0:01:46 > 0:01:48No!

0:01:48 > 0:01:49Run!

0:01:49 > 0:01:51Kizzy!

0:01:51 > 0:01:53Where the hell do you think you're going?

0:01:53 > 0:01:54This is my right!

0:01:54 > 0:01:56Get off me!

0:01:56 > 0:01:57BABY CRIES

0:01:57 > 0:01:59I'm gonna name you after my daddy...

0:01:59 > 0:02:01George Lea II.

0:02:03 > 0:02:06# One day, one day

0:02:06 > 0:02:08# One day, one day

0:02:08 > 0:02:10# I were walking along

0:02:10 > 0:02:12# I were walking along

0:02:12 > 0:02:14# And I heard a little voice

0:02:14 > 0:02:16# And I heard a little voice

0:02:16 > 0:02:18# Didn't see no-one

0:02:18 > 0:02:20# Didn't see no-one

0:02:20 > 0:02:22# It was old lost John

0:02:22 > 0:02:24# It was old lost John

0:02:24 > 0:02:26# He said he was long gone

0:02:26 > 0:02:28# He said he was long gone

0:02:28 > 0:02:30# Like a turkey through the corn

0:02:30 > 0:02:32# Like a turkey through the corn

0:02:32 > 0:02:34# With his long clothes on

0:02:34 > 0:02:37- # With his long clothes on... # - MOANING AND GRUNTING

0:02:37 > 0:02:39HE PANTS

0:02:44 > 0:02:47HE SIGHS DEEPLY

0:03:05 > 0:03:07HE SIGHS

0:03:07 > 0:03:09CHICKENS CLUCK

0:03:09 > 0:03:10Seems hotter today than yesterday.

0:03:10 > 0:03:12Yes, Massa.

0:03:12 > 0:03:14Sky just sits on you.

0:03:14 > 0:03:17When I was a boy, I'd spend a day like this

0:03:17 > 0:03:20just sitting buck naked in the creek.

0:03:20 > 0:03:22HE SPITS

0:04:34 > 0:04:37ROOSTER CLUCKS

0:04:37 > 0:04:38HE WHISTLES

0:04:47 > 0:04:48HE GASPS

0:04:48 > 0:04:49Why are you here?

0:04:49 > 0:04:52He pretty. I wanted to touch him.

0:04:52 > 0:04:55He could scratch the prying eyes from your head.

0:04:55 > 0:04:57I'm gonna tell Massa Tom to beat the hell out of you.

0:04:57 > 0:04:59Make sure you stay away from my chickens.

0:04:59 > 0:05:00Now get!

0:05:09 > 0:05:10ROOSTER CROWS

0:05:13 > 0:05:14Mama.

0:05:14 > 0:05:16N-Not in my front of my boy, Massa Tom.

0:05:16 > 0:05:18Get up, George.

0:05:19 > 0:05:21You need to learn!

0:05:21 > 0:05:23George, what'd you do? What... What'd he do, Massa?

0:05:23 > 0:05:25Little monkey keeps bothering Mingo,

0:05:25 > 0:05:27messing with my birds in the range walk.

0:05:27 > 0:05:29Mingo's got too much work to do, boy.

0:05:29 > 0:05:31George, them birds will hurt you.

0:05:31 > 0:05:33You scared of them birds?

0:05:33 > 0:05:35Then I'm gonna put your yellow ass up on the wagon

0:05:35 > 0:05:37when Mingo and me go out and fight.

0:05:37 > 0:05:38You're gonna help.

0:05:38 > 0:05:40Mingo don't like children.

0:05:40 > 0:05:42H-He don't like people.

0:05:42 > 0:05:43Get your clothes on, boy.

0:05:53 > 0:05:55You look pretty in this light, Kizzy.

0:05:55 > 0:05:57Please. He watching us.

0:05:57 > 0:05:59Can I hold the bird, Massa Tom?

0:05:59 > 0:06:01You do what Mingo tells you to do.

0:06:01 > 0:06:03And you be on your best behaviour,

0:06:03 > 0:06:05or I'll sell you to Cherokee savages.

0:06:11 > 0:06:14SHE EXHALES

0:06:14 > 0:06:16Oh, Fa.

0:06:16 > 0:06:19Papa, he trying to take my boy.

0:06:21 > 0:06:24Massa Tom, why you start fighting chickens?

0:06:24 > 0:06:26Gamecocks, George, not chickens.

0:06:26 > 0:06:28And I fight them cos they're magic.

0:06:28 > 0:06:30Carried me from a backwoods shack

0:06:30 > 0:06:32with ten brothers and sisters...

0:06:32 > 0:06:33Abracadabra.

0:06:33 > 0:06:35Bought my own farm.

0:06:35 > 0:06:36Bought my first nigger.

0:06:36 > 0:06:38His name was George, like yourn.

0:06:38 > 0:06:42Tough old boy. Died too fast.

0:06:42 > 0:06:43He my daddy?

0:06:43 > 0:06:44Your daddy's long gone.

0:06:44 > 0:06:47No-account white man passing through.

0:06:47 > 0:06:48Gave you that yellow skin.

0:06:48 > 0:06:51Second nigger I bought was Mingo.

0:06:51 > 0:06:52Best move I ever made.

0:06:52 > 0:06:56- MAN:- Wants this clear by sundown.

0:06:56 > 0:06:58See that land over there?

0:06:58 > 0:07:01Biggest farm in Carolina ain't enough for Mr William Byrd.

0:07:01 > 0:07:03That bastard hates me cos I'm Irish

0:07:03 > 0:07:06and cos my daddy was backwoods poor.

0:07:06 > 0:07:08Thinks he knows who I am.

0:07:08 > 0:07:11He don't know a damn thing about Tom Lea.

0:07:11 > 0:07:14Thinks he's prince of Caswell County.

0:07:14 > 0:07:16Hell, I'm gonna be king of Caswell County.

0:07:16 > 0:07:18Pay what you owe, Irish!

0:07:18 > 0:07:19I'll pay you in a week!

0:07:19 > 0:07:21- CALLER:- Oyez! Oyez!

0:07:26 > 0:07:29- MAN:- Whoa! Hit him! Don't tickle him!

0:07:29 > 0:07:30Ooh!

0:07:30 > 0:07:33Oyez! Oyez!

0:07:33 > 0:07:37The main match... a struggle to the death.

0:07:37 > 0:07:40- I give you Tom Lea... - Yeah! Whoohoo!

0:07:40 > 0:07:41..and Farnie Deets.

0:07:41 > 0:07:43- MAN:- Bring that cock to the pen, Mingo.

0:07:43 > 0:07:46- You go get him, Mingo! GEORGE:- Let's go, Mingo!

0:07:46 > 0:07:48Look at my Red.

0:07:48 > 0:07:50- You ever seen anything so beautiful?- Unh-unh.

0:07:50 > 0:07:51- Huh?- Yeah.

0:07:51 > 0:07:54- Gonna bring me luck, boy? - Yes, Massa.

0:07:54 > 0:07:57Go and add 200 to my bet.

0:07:57 > 0:07:58Bill your cocks.

0:07:58 > 0:08:00ROOSTERS CLUCK

0:08:00 > 0:08:02- MAN:- Come on now, Mingo!

0:08:02 > 0:08:04- Step back, gentlemen. - Come on, Mingo!- Step back.

0:08:04 > 0:08:06- Come on, boy. - Come on, Mingo!

0:08:06 > 0:08:08Pit your cocks!

0:08:08 > 0:08:10ROOSTERS CLUCK

0:08:10 > 0:08:11INDISTINCT SHOUTING

0:08:14 > 0:08:16- MAN:- Go, Red!

0:08:17 > 0:08:19Come on.

0:08:19 > 0:08:21Come on!

0:08:21 > 0:08:23- Come on!- Come on!

0:08:23 > 0:08:24Come on!

0:08:24 > 0:08:25Get him, Red!

0:08:28 > 0:08:30Ah, shit!

0:08:30 > 0:08:32Mingo, what the hell you doing, boy?

0:08:32 > 0:08:34Fight them cocks!

0:08:34 > 0:08:35Come on, Red!

0:08:36 > 0:08:38- Come on, Red! - Fight the cock, boy!

0:08:38 > 0:08:40Red! Come on!

0:08:40 > 0:08:42Come on!

0:08:42 > 0:08:44Come on, Red!

0:08:44 > 0:08:46Come on, Red!

0:08:46 > 0:08:48Get him! Come on, boy! Get him!

0:08:48 > 0:08:51CROWD MURMURS

0:08:51 > 0:08:53And the match goes to Tom Lea!

0:08:53 > 0:08:54Ah, yeah!

0:08:54 > 0:08:56- Yes!- Yeah!

0:08:56 > 0:08:57CHEERING

0:08:57 > 0:08:59What a row!

0:08:59 > 0:09:02Nobody beats my Red! Nobody beats my Red!

0:09:02 > 0:09:04Nobody beats the Red! Nobody!

0:09:04 > 0:09:06Yeah!

0:09:06 > 0:09:09- What have you got there, Mingo? - Attaboy, Mingo!

0:09:09 > 0:09:11- MAN:- Yeah, Mingo! - Come on.

0:09:11 > 0:09:12- GEORGE:- Hey! Mingo!

0:09:12 > 0:09:14Oh, I love your money, boys!

0:09:14 > 0:09:17You can all win it back at the next county fair.

0:09:19 > 0:09:21Mingo, big Red all right?

0:09:24 > 0:09:25HE SPITS

0:09:28 > 0:09:29Piss.

0:09:29 > 0:09:32Piss on the damn bird, boy.

0:09:32 > 0:09:34You sure this good for the bird?

0:09:34 > 0:09:36You think you Massa Tom?

0:09:36 > 0:09:38Don't ever question me about these birds.

0:09:38 > 0:09:40I tell you to do something, you just do it.

0:09:40 > 0:09:42Think you know. Don't know nothing.

0:09:42 > 0:09:45Don't know the Lord gave chickens

0:09:45 > 0:09:48worst things in the world... pip, distemper, apoplexy,

0:09:48 > 0:09:51cholera, lime leg, and canker.

0:09:51 > 0:09:54You don't know pee clean like a good turpentine.

0:09:57 > 0:09:58Yeah.

0:09:58 > 0:10:00All right.

0:10:00 > 0:10:02I don't know why we even brought you along, no way.

0:10:02 > 0:10:03Cos Massa Tom says I can help.

0:10:03 > 0:10:05- How?- I talk to your birds.

0:10:05 > 0:10:07Talk nothing but hot air.

0:10:07 > 0:10:10Birds use they eyes to talk.

0:10:10 > 0:10:12Got to hold your stare.

0:10:12 > 0:10:15Turn your head away, show you weak.

0:10:15 > 0:10:17HE GRUNTS

0:10:17 > 0:10:20Stand up.

0:10:20 > 0:10:22Got to be a man when you messing with these birds.

0:10:22 > 0:10:26Such a big help you is, Chicken George.

0:10:30 > 0:10:34PATRICIA: "The first cut of...

0:10:34 > 0:10:39"w-wheat is...

0:10:39 > 0:10:42"m-most...most...

0:10:42 > 0:10:46"f-fa...fav..."

0:10:46 > 0:10:47What's this say, Kizzy?

0:10:50 > 0:10:52Favourable.

0:10:52 > 0:10:59"..favourable on a cool...

0:10:59 > 0:11:01"day."

0:11:01 > 0:11:02Yes.

0:11:02 > 0:11:04SHE LAUGHS

0:11:04 > 0:11:07Never thought nobody could learn farming by reading, Kizzy.

0:11:07 > 0:11:11Need to read something to tell me how to act around fancy ladies.

0:11:11 > 0:11:14Bit of gossip, weather, fashion.

0:11:14 > 0:11:15The more you talk about nothing,

0:11:15 > 0:11:17the smarter them ladies think you be.

0:11:19 > 0:11:22- Whoa! - HORSE WHINNIES

0:11:22 > 0:11:24You won't tell Massa Tom I been teaching you.

0:11:24 > 0:11:26Whew!

0:11:26 > 0:11:28Why don't you pour me a drink, Kizzy?

0:11:28 > 0:11:30Can't you see I'm parched?

0:11:31 > 0:11:32George!

0:11:35 > 0:11:37Oh, my God.

0:11:37 > 0:11:39Whose blood that is?

0:11:39 > 0:11:40What Mingo do to you?

0:11:40 > 0:11:42I got clawed.

0:11:42 > 0:11:43Did they hurt you?

0:11:43 > 0:11:44Massa Tom said I held 'em real good,

0:11:44 > 0:11:46and they true killers.

0:11:46 > 0:11:47Still waiting on that drink, Kizzy.

0:11:49 > 0:11:52George, get over here.

0:11:52 > 0:11:55I got a question for ya.

0:11:55 > 0:11:57You want to keep fighting gamecocks with Mingo and me,

0:11:57 > 0:11:59or you want to get sunburned working them fields?

0:11:59 > 0:12:02Want to work with Mingo...and you!

0:12:02 > 0:12:05- Massa, he a big help with all my chores.- Mama,

0:12:05 > 0:12:08I like them birds, and they like me.

0:12:08 > 0:12:10Good boy.

0:12:10 > 0:12:12Now, you know you got to sleep with them birds, too.

0:12:12 > 0:12:15Down by old Mingo. That ain't no place for no little boy.

0:12:15 > 0:12:17Ah, you can visit him every Sunday.

0:12:17 > 0:12:21I'm a fair man, Kizzy. You know that.

0:12:21 > 0:12:22Be good for the boy.

0:12:22 > 0:12:25He gonna be my good luck charm.

0:12:25 > 0:12:29- Ain't that right, Tricia?- Well, uh, maybe he could wait a year.

0:12:29 > 0:12:31What the hell you know about children?

0:12:31 > 0:12:32Since you can't have none.

0:12:37 > 0:12:39Boy, why you still standing there?

0:12:39 > 0:12:41Go help Mingo with the birds.

0:12:41 > 0:12:42Yes, sir.

0:12:44 > 0:12:46DOOR CLOSES

0:12:46 > 0:12:48Boy's gonna be my good luck charm, Kizzy.

0:12:55 > 0:12:57CHICKENS CLUCK

0:13:01 > 0:13:03Here, boy.

0:13:05 > 0:13:07That's bird food, Mingo.

0:13:07 > 0:13:11Barley, milk, corn, rice, and my secret...

0:13:11 > 0:13:13my own brewed hops.

0:13:13 > 0:13:16Let them niggers on the farm eat flesh.

0:13:16 > 0:13:18What's good for birds is good for men.

0:13:18 > 0:13:21You can game a bird for ten years.

0:13:21 > 0:13:25Take him from the cage, leave him one step in the trees,

0:13:25 > 0:13:27he gonna turn back wild just like that.

0:13:27 > 0:13:30Cos these birds, they from across the sea.

0:13:30 > 0:13:32In they hearts, they always free.

0:13:32 > 0:13:35Mingo, can you teach me all about birds?

0:13:35 > 0:13:37Teach me to fight them?

0:13:37 > 0:13:40What you think we is, friends?

0:13:40 > 0:13:42Come on, boy.

0:13:42 > 0:13:44I'll teach you how to clean these cages.

0:14:03 > 0:14:04Oh, Mama.

0:14:04 > 0:14:07You look awful, and you stink.

0:14:07 > 0:14:08It's the cocks.

0:14:08 > 0:14:10Ain't no cocks in here.

0:14:10 > 0:14:14Mama, I let all the birds free, cage by cage!

0:14:14 > 0:14:16Big ones, Mama!

0:14:16 > 0:14:17And fed them and helped Mingo fix them.

0:14:17 > 0:14:19Oh, you should've seen it, Mama.

0:14:19 > 0:14:21All these white men saying, "Hey, Mingo,"

0:14:21 > 0:14:22patting him on his back.

0:14:22 > 0:14:24Can you believe that,

0:14:24 > 0:14:26white man respecting an old nigger like Mingo?

0:14:26 > 0:14:28And it was fun watching Massa Tom

0:14:28 > 0:14:29smiling and strutting around.

0:14:29 > 0:14:31Hey, look. He gave me money.

0:14:31 > 0:14:34Ain't nothing fun about being with that man,

0:14:34 > 0:14:35no matter how they make Mingo feel.

0:14:35 > 0:14:38But Mama...

0:14:38 > 0:14:39Come here.

0:14:41 > 0:14:45Tom Lea ain't no better than no other Toubab.

0:14:45 > 0:14:47No matter how much laughing they do,

0:14:47 > 0:14:50no matter how much you get to play with them damn birds,

0:14:50 > 0:14:53Mingo a slave at the end of it all.

0:14:53 > 0:14:55And you one, too.

0:14:55 > 0:14:57But Massa Tom likes me, Mama.

0:14:57 > 0:15:00He don't know how to like nobody.

0:15:04 > 0:15:07And don't nobody love ya like your mama.

0:15:12 > 0:15:14Go on, eat.

0:15:14 > 0:15:16Wash up. Go to bed.

0:15:22 > 0:15:24Massa Tom like me.

0:15:29 > 0:15:31BELL TOLLS

0:15:31 > 0:15:34INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS

0:15:38 > 0:15:40Whoa!

0:15:45 > 0:15:46Uh...

0:15:49 > 0:15:51Miss Patricia.

0:15:51 > 0:15:54Thank you, George.

0:15:54 > 0:15:56I'll be at the church in the trees when you want me,

0:15:56 > 0:15:57ready to go home.

0:15:57 > 0:15:59Since when you a man of faith?

0:15:59 > 0:16:02Since you seen that preacher's daughter?

0:16:02 > 0:16:04- Go on.- Thank you, sir.

0:16:04 > 0:16:06- Excuse me. - Only last week, and I...

0:16:06 > 0:16:08Morning.

0:16:08 > 0:16:10Keep walking.

0:16:10 > 0:16:12Patricia.

0:16:14 > 0:16:16Mr Byrd.

0:16:16 > 0:16:17Huh.

0:16:20 > 0:16:22ORGAN PLAYS

0:16:33 > 0:16:35Hmm.

0:16:37 > 0:16:39How come I always end up at the back?

0:16:41 > 0:16:45See, the Lord say th-that he that keepeth his mouth

0:16:45 > 0:16:46keepeth his life.

0:16:46 > 0:16:50- MAN:- All right, Reverend. All right. - But he who opens his lips...

0:16:50 > 0:16:51- WOMAN:- Yes, sir.

0:16:51 > 0:16:53..shall face destruction.

0:16:53 > 0:16:55- Uh-huh.- Amen!- Amen!- Amen!

0:16:55 > 0:16:57- Hallelujah!- Amen!

0:16:57 > 0:17:02You see, wealth gathered by vanity will diminish.

0:17:02 > 0:17:04- LAUGHTER IN DISTANCE - And see, my eyes is old,

0:17:04 > 0:17:06but I can see what the Lord says.

0:17:06 > 0:17:11See, the Lord tells us beware of flattering lips

0:17:11 > 0:17:15and men who speak with double hearts.

0:17:15 > 0:17:17- Truth is your sustenance. - LAUGHTER IN DISTANCE

0:17:17 > 0:17:21And beware that man who talk about money and worship money.

0:17:21 > 0:17:23See, that, too, is vanity.

0:17:23 > 0:17:25THEY LAUGH

0:17:25 > 0:17:28The righteous man eateth to satisfy his soul!

0:17:28 > 0:17:31But the belly of the wicked shall want...

0:17:31 > 0:17:33- CHICKEN! - LAUGHTER

0:17:33 > 0:17:35And taters!

0:17:35 > 0:17:37Cos a full belly is a righteous belly!

0:17:37 > 0:17:38Whoo!

0:17:38 > 0:17:40Chicken! Oh, chicken!

0:17:40 > 0:17:41Everybody need chicken!

0:17:43 > 0:17:44I told you what I'd do.

0:17:44 > 0:17:45You keep it up every Sunday.

0:17:45 > 0:17:47So rude and disrespectful to my daddy.

0:17:47 > 0:17:50Oh, Lord, help me now. I got a she-wolf on me.

0:17:50 > 0:17:52My daddy is a kind man. You just a flim-flam fool

0:17:52 > 0:17:53not fit to walk in my daddy's shadow.

0:17:53 > 0:17:56Don't you have love in your heart

0:17:56 > 0:17:57for anybody but yourself?

0:17:57 > 0:17:59- OTHERS:- Oh-h!

0:17:59 > 0:18:01Hang on, now. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

0:18:01 > 0:18:03- Hold on. Hold on. - Move away or I'll whop you again.

0:18:03 > 0:18:06And I deserve it. Ain't got no right to be mocking your daddy.

0:18:06 > 0:18:07He a fine preacher.

0:18:07 > 0:18:09Look around.

0:18:09 > 0:18:12More folks watching me than listening to him.

0:18:12 > 0:18:13Now, if all these folk,

0:18:13 > 0:18:15tired from working so hard every day,

0:18:15 > 0:18:17will stop to hear the word of the Lord,

0:18:17 > 0:18:19does it really matter if it comes

0:18:19 > 0:18:22from the mouth of a fool like me?

0:18:22 > 0:18:24"Thy lips are as the honeycomb.

0:18:24 > 0:18:27"Honey and milk are on thy tongue.

0:18:27 > 0:18:29"Thou art all fair, my love."

0:18:30 > 0:18:32I heard your daddy preach that from King Solomon's songs.

0:18:34 > 0:18:36Save your pretty talk.

0:18:36 > 0:18:39You see me giggling and swooning?

0:18:39 > 0:18:41Hm. I know one thing.

0:18:41 > 0:18:43You ain't never met a girl like me.

0:18:43 > 0:18:45Well, maybe not.

0:18:45 > 0:18:47I'm not a pious man like your daddy,

0:18:47 > 0:18:49but I know you ain't let go of my hand yet.

0:18:49 > 0:18:50SHE GASPS

0:18:50 > 0:18:52I'm George. Live on the Lea farm.

0:18:52 > 0:18:54I know who you is,

0:18:54 > 0:18:56and I know all you care about is fighting chickens.

0:18:56 > 0:18:58I do. Know about other birds, too...

0:18:58 > 0:19:00starling, sparrow,

0:19:00 > 0:19:03morning doves sing so sweet and soft,

0:19:03 > 0:19:05make you want to open your eyes to a new day.

0:19:05 > 0:19:08And I'm gonna see you again, my morning dove.

0:19:09 > 0:19:12My daddy decides who courts me.

0:19:12 > 0:19:13Well, I ain't afraid of your daddy.

0:19:13 > 0:19:15Then why don't you try me out?

0:19:17 > 0:19:18Hold this, Til.

0:19:20 > 0:19:21You got something to say to me, boy?

0:19:25 > 0:19:30Now, I can feel the Holy Spirit right here...

0:19:30 > 0:19:33right now!

0:19:33 > 0:19:35Mm! Whoo!

0:19:35 > 0:19:37Hallelujah! You my one and only.

0:19:43 > 0:19:46He gonna put the fear of God in them other handlers.

0:19:46 > 0:19:48ROOSTER CLUCKS

0:19:48 > 0:19:50What the hell you doing, boy?

0:19:50 > 0:19:53Letting him see me eye-to-eye.

0:19:53 > 0:19:54I want him to know my hands

0:19:54 > 0:19:57till he thinks we the same, me and him.

0:19:57 > 0:19:59Just feed him, clean him, and put him away.

0:20:06 > 0:20:11Mingo, I got a notion from watching all these fights.

0:20:11 > 0:20:12Keep a count.

0:20:12 > 0:20:15Times we lose mostly when some other bird

0:20:15 > 0:20:17get over Massa's bird, gaff him from the top.

0:20:17 > 0:20:18I think we need to give Massa's birds

0:20:18 > 0:20:20a whole lot of training for they wings,

0:20:20 > 0:20:23make them stronger so they fly higher,

0:20:23 > 0:20:25win even more than they do now.

0:20:25 > 0:20:26I figured out special exercises.

0:20:26 > 0:20:28You good at exercising your mouth,

0:20:28 > 0:20:31but you don't know birds.

0:20:31 > 0:20:33Killing bred into the bird.

0:20:33 > 0:20:36Don't need no wing training.

0:20:36 > 0:20:39You don't do nothing till I say so.

0:20:39 > 0:20:42Been doing this 'fore you was alive.

0:20:46 > 0:20:48ROOSTER CROWS

0:20:55 > 0:20:56Get back here!

0:21:07 > 0:21:09What you doing to that bird?

0:21:09 > 0:21:10What'd I tell you?

0:21:10 > 0:21:12You don't listen.

0:21:12 > 0:21:13Damn fool.

0:21:13 > 0:21:15Look how high I got him to fly.

0:21:15 > 0:21:16Told you I could do it.

0:21:20 > 0:21:23I know what I see. Damn truth.

0:21:23 > 0:21:25MINGO COUGHS

0:21:36 > 0:21:38Want my mama to look at that cough?

0:21:38 > 0:21:40Don't need no African medicine.

0:21:40 > 0:21:45And don't you say nothing about this to Massa Tom.

0:21:46 > 0:21:48HE COUGHS

0:21:56 > 0:21:58There's a gathering down by the river tonight.

0:21:59 > 0:22:02Boys stopping by to play for everybody.

0:22:02 > 0:22:03Come with me.

0:22:03 > 0:22:06Don't need to see nobody.

0:22:06 > 0:22:09Malizy said she ain't never see you come by to visit.

0:22:09 > 0:22:11Only see you driving out or coming back here.

0:22:11 > 0:22:14Can't stay by yourself all the time.

0:22:14 > 0:22:15Leave me be.

0:22:15 > 0:22:17You a shadow on a moonless night.

0:22:17 > 0:22:20You ain't hardly here, Mingo.

0:22:20 > 0:22:21The way I like it.

0:22:23 > 0:22:26People say they know who I am.

0:22:26 > 0:22:28They don't know me.

0:22:28 > 0:22:30Say they care about me.

0:22:30 > 0:22:33Had too many people taken away

0:22:33 > 0:22:36cos of gossip and tall tale.

0:22:36 > 0:22:38Can't trust nobody.

0:22:40 > 0:22:43These birds, they can cut my flesh,

0:22:43 > 0:22:45not my inside.

0:22:45 > 0:22:48Trust my birds, no-one else.

0:22:48 > 0:22:50Don't trust you, neither.

0:22:56 > 0:22:58MINGO SIGHS

0:23:01 > 0:23:03- MAN:- Your bid is clear and ready.

0:23:03 > 0:23:04Pit your cock!

0:23:04 > 0:23:06Come on!

0:23:06 > 0:23:08Come on! Come on!

0:23:08 > 0:23:10- Get up!- Get him!

0:23:10 > 0:23:12TOM: Come on!

0:23:12 > 0:23:14Come on up! Come on! Get him!

0:23:14 > 0:23:16Come on, you son of a bitch!

0:23:16 > 0:23:18Fight him!

0:23:19 > 0:23:22- That's it!- Come on!

0:23:22 > 0:23:23Fight him, Mingo!

0:23:23 > 0:23:24Get him!

0:23:26 > 0:23:27Get him!

0:23:27 > 0:23:29- Aw!- Come on!

0:23:29 > 0:23:31Come on! Come on, now!

0:23:31 > 0:23:32Come on!

0:23:32 > 0:23:35Get him! Get him!

0:23:35 > 0:23:38- Fight him, Mingo! - Get him!

0:23:38 > 0:23:40Come on! Rise up!

0:23:42 > 0:23:43Show him who we are!

0:23:43 > 0:23:45INDISTINCT SHOUTING

0:23:47 > 0:23:48Mingo!

0:23:48 > 0:23:49It's over. It's done.

0:23:49 > 0:23:51- MAN:- He's done.

0:23:51 > 0:23:54- MAN:- Tom Lea resigns. Match to Francis Dunnery.

0:23:54 > 0:23:56Shit.

0:23:56 > 0:23:58Get your bets in, gentlemen.

0:23:58 > 0:23:59Goddamn me!

0:23:59 > 0:24:02I'll take a French pox and a screw 'fore I lose this goddamn bet.

0:24:02 > 0:24:04Massa, I got a scheme.

0:24:04 > 0:24:05Mingo said his bird was sure to win.

0:24:05 > 0:24:07I'm tired of working land.

0:24:07 > 0:24:10I ain't gonna wait till I'm old to rise up where I should be.

0:24:10 > 0:24:12We need these goddamn birds to win!

0:24:12 > 0:24:13I'll fetch the white.

0:24:13 > 0:24:14You can bet him hard. Can't lose.

0:24:14 > 0:24:16Nuh-uh. Use the Red for the next fight.

0:24:16 > 0:24:17Red?

0:24:17 > 0:24:19No. No, he ain't trained.

0:24:19 > 0:24:21I trained him...myself.

0:24:21 > 0:24:23You sneaking round 'hind my back?

0:24:23 > 0:24:24Massa, all these birds attack head on,

0:24:24 > 0:24:26maybe with a little jump.

0:24:26 > 0:24:27Now, I trained my Red out in the woods.

0:24:27 > 0:24:29I dropped from a chestnut tree high as a hawk,

0:24:29 > 0:24:31so he got wings stronger than nothing else.

0:24:31 > 0:24:33Ain't no bird gonna get above him.

0:24:33 > 0:24:35Ain't no bird gonna beat him.

0:24:35 > 0:24:39You think you can throw me out like some used-up old bird

0:24:39 > 0:24:41just cos you kissing Massa's ass?

0:24:41 > 0:24:45I raised these birds since they was chicks.

0:24:45 > 0:24:47But I trained them right.

0:24:47 > 0:24:48I trained them better.

0:24:48 > 0:24:50Massa.

0:24:50 > 0:24:53I can still make you money.

0:24:53 > 0:24:54Whole lot.

0:24:58 > 0:25:02George, next fight's yours.

0:25:02 > 0:25:04Let's see if your scheme works.

0:25:04 > 0:25:07But, George, if you lose this fight,

0:25:07 > 0:25:10you can forget about me buying that Matilda gal.

0:25:12 > 0:25:14Son of a bitch.

0:25:24 > 0:25:26Tom Lea ain't never gonna forgive poor old Mingo

0:25:26 > 0:25:28for losing his money.

0:25:28 > 0:25:32Tom Lea dreams of every penny slipped through.

0:25:32 > 0:25:35I'm gonna win back all them pennies and more.

0:25:35 > 0:25:37I hope not.

0:25:37 > 0:25:39You and me hack fighting next.

0:25:39 > 0:25:42Then, your massa gonna be terribly disappointed.

0:25:42 > 0:25:44I fight for myself.

0:25:44 > 0:25:46Bought my papers three years ago.

0:25:46 > 0:25:49Now these my birds, my money.

0:25:51 > 0:25:52You a free man?

0:25:52 > 0:25:54Whole lot more than just me.

0:25:54 > 0:25:57Durham, Fayetteville. You'll find us.

0:25:57 > 0:26:01But, yeah, I'm free.

0:26:01 > 0:26:04Till some sheriff wakes up in a bad mood,

0:26:04 > 0:26:05has a sore tooth.

0:26:05 > 0:26:08Being free takes a watchful eye,

0:26:08 > 0:26:10but I prefer it to the alternative.

0:26:10 > 0:26:12But how'd you get the money?

0:26:12 > 0:26:15Kept my hand in my own pocket, coin by coin.

0:26:15 > 0:26:17Went without a lot of things.

0:26:17 > 0:26:18Kept looking ahead,

0:26:18 > 0:26:19not regretting what got left behind.

0:26:19 > 0:26:23Way you carry yourself, I thought for a minute you was free, too.

0:26:23 > 0:26:27- I got a good Massa. - Good enough to let you buy yourself?

0:26:27 > 0:26:30He is giving you a fine cut of his winnings?

0:26:33 > 0:26:36Think I'll take your good Massa's money today.

0:26:38 > 0:26:40'Course, nobody knows you.

0:26:40 > 0:26:42Might be a skinny purse.

0:26:42 > 0:26:45These boys might need a push to risk their money.

0:26:49 > 0:26:51Gentlemen, a hack fight!

0:26:51 > 0:26:54Birds... 4lb 6.

0:26:54 > 0:26:56Last wagers!

0:26:56 > 0:26:58Whoo!

0:26:58 > 0:27:02The ear of man has not heard nor head has felt

0:27:02 > 0:27:06nor eye has seen a bird such as this.

0:27:06 > 0:27:08CROWD MURMURS

0:27:08 > 0:27:10Wait. Hang on now.

0:27:10 > 0:27:12I mislead you boys.

0:27:12 > 0:27:14This ain't no bird at all.

0:27:14 > 0:27:17This is a creature you ain't never seen...

0:27:17 > 0:27:18half bird, half man,

0:27:18 > 0:27:20half of the forest, half of my own soul.

0:27:20 > 0:27:23- Now, what do y'all think of that? - CHEERING

0:27:23 > 0:27:26I'll take 500, sir.

0:27:26 > 0:27:29- And I'll give it.- All right, all right, all right, all right.

0:27:29 > 0:27:31Now, you are all men of refinement and discretion,

0:27:31 > 0:27:33but why'd y'all come here today?

0:27:33 > 0:27:35For a simple gambling diversion?

0:27:35 > 0:27:39To take a chance against a fine man like my Massa Tom Lea?

0:27:39 > 0:27:40No.

0:27:40 > 0:27:43You crave wonderment, jubilation, revelation!

0:27:43 > 0:27:46Ooh, glory! That's what you came to see!

0:27:46 > 0:27:49This bird, this uncommon, fearsome campaigner leaves

0:27:49 > 0:27:52the barn in victory, you will cry tears

0:27:52 > 0:27:53that you've seen the last of him,

0:27:53 > 0:27:55and you will yearn for more!

0:27:55 > 0:27:58I yearn to win my money back, Chicken George.

0:27:58 > 0:28:01- LAUGHTER - All right.

0:28:01 > 0:28:03CROWD CHANT: Chicken George! Chicken George!

0:28:03 > 0:28:05I like it. Yes, sir!

0:28:05 > 0:28:08CHANTING CONTINUES

0:28:08 > 0:28:11Come on! Put your money on me, boys!

0:28:11 > 0:28:13Bet 1,000?

0:28:13 > 0:28:16If you have faith in your Chicken George.

0:28:16 > 0:28:19Always happy to take your money, Jewett.

0:28:19 > 0:28:23What you got, boy? What you got?

0:28:23 > 0:28:26- MAN:- Place your birds.

0:28:26 > 0:28:29You put on a good show for your Massa, didn't you?

0:28:29 > 0:28:31Come on now, George.

0:28:35 > 0:28:37Step out.

0:28:47 > 0:28:48Pit your cocks!

0:28:54 > 0:28:57ROOSTER SQUAWKS, CRACKING

0:28:57 > 0:29:00INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS

0:29:00 > 0:29:01No hard feelings, right?

0:29:01 > 0:29:03None at all.

0:29:03 > 0:29:04Just make sure some of that pot is yours.

0:29:04 > 0:29:06You staying around these parts?

0:29:06 > 0:29:09For a while, long as it's safe.

0:29:09 > 0:29:10Come by the Easter picnic.

0:29:10 > 0:29:12I want to hear more about what it takes

0:29:12 > 0:29:14to get that paper make you free.

0:29:14 > 0:29:16Now, if you'll excuse me...

0:29:16 > 0:29:17go ask Massa for my cut.

0:29:17 > 0:29:20- MAN:- Pay the man his money.

0:29:20 > 0:29:21Thank you.

0:29:21 > 0:29:24Your Chicken George has skill.

0:29:24 > 0:29:26I had more skill to see it.

0:29:26 > 0:29:27MAN CHUCKLES

0:29:27 > 0:29:29Mr Lea, as one gentlemen to another,

0:29:29 > 0:29:32I'd like to buy the boy from you.

0:29:32 > 0:29:34Buy my George?

0:29:34 > 0:29:36I inquire merely because I understand

0:29:36 > 0:29:37you've acquired debt on your farm

0:29:37 > 0:29:39for equipment, seed, and stock.

0:29:39 > 0:29:41What happened to your nigger?

0:29:41 > 0:29:43I heard he was a good man with the birds.

0:29:43 > 0:29:44Boy forgot his pass

0:29:44 > 0:29:47while travelling to buy gamecocks for me.

0:29:47 > 0:29:48Patrol scared him.

0:29:48 > 0:29:50He ran, and they shot him.

0:29:50 > 0:29:53Sorry for your inconvenience.

0:29:53 > 0:29:56Name your price, but I'd have this boy.

0:29:56 > 0:29:58No.

0:29:58 > 0:30:00Not now. Not never.

0:30:02 > 0:30:04Never is a long time.

0:30:06 > 0:30:07And never to you, sir.

0:30:11 > 0:30:13May I invite you and your lovely wife

0:30:13 > 0:30:16to dine at our table at the Easter picnic?

0:30:18 > 0:30:19You can expect it.

0:30:19 > 0:30:21I look forward to it.

0:30:21 > 0:30:23- Mr Jewett.- Mr Lea.

0:30:23 > 0:30:24Gentlemen.

0:30:27 > 0:30:29- MAN:- Got lucky this time.

0:30:30 > 0:30:32HE LAUGHS

0:30:32 > 0:30:34Here we come, George, just like I said.

0:30:34 > 0:30:35Here we come.

0:30:35 > 0:30:37Look, Massa, some folks saying it's a custom

0:30:37 > 0:30:40to give me a bigger piece of the pot when I win big.

0:30:40 > 0:30:42Did Mingo tell you that?

0:30:42 > 0:30:44Son of a bitch.

0:30:44 > 0:30:46HE SIGHS

0:30:50 > 0:30:51You won me lots of money, sir.

0:30:51 > 0:30:53Thanks, George. You won me plenty today.

0:30:53 > 0:30:56Thank you. Thank you. All right.

0:30:56 > 0:30:59I think I'm gonna save up my money, just like you, Massa.

0:30:59 > 0:31:01You earned it.

0:31:01 > 0:31:03- Thank you.- Mm-hm.

0:31:03 > 0:31:04Thank you, Massa. Thank you.

0:31:04 > 0:31:08Ah, we're winning, George.

0:31:08 > 0:31:10Boy, come on. You ain't got no money.

0:31:11 > 0:31:13Shit.

0:31:22 > 0:31:24I'm gonna do something for you, George.

0:31:24 > 0:31:26I need younger field hands.

0:31:26 > 0:31:30Old Pompey and Malizy gonna be used up sooner than later.

0:31:30 > 0:31:32Old Sarah don't work so hard right now.

0:31:32 > 0:31:34So if that gal's fool enough to jump the broom

0:31:34 > 0:31:37with someone who loves running tail as much as you,

0:31:37 > 0:31:39I'll ride over and talk to MacGregor.

0:31:39 > 0:31:41If he's got as many hands as you say,

0:31:41 > 0:31:43he ought not to miss a field gal.

0:31:43 > 0:31:44Thank you, Massa.

0:31:44 > 0:31:47That's if we come to a decent price.

0:31:47 > 0:31:49Then you can move that gal...

0:31:49 > 0:31:51What's her name?

0:31:51 > 0:31:52Matilda.

0:31:52 > 0:31:54You can build Matilda a cabin at my place.

0:31:54 > 0:31:58Long as you understand your first place is with my birds.

0:31:58 > 0:31:59The way it should be.

0:31:59 > 0:32:01And I expect you to keep her belly full.

0:32:01 > 0:32:05Keep them babies sliding out, increase my stock.

0:32:05 > 0:32:08I'll make my money back, and more.

0:32:10 > 0:32:11Kizzy like this gal?

0:32:11 > 0:32:13I wouldn't want to get on her bad side, if I were you.

0:32:18 > 0:32:20KIZZY CHUCKLES

0:32:20 > 0:32:22All this spinning is making me dizzy.

0:32:22 > 0:32:23One, two, three.

0:32:23 > 0:32:25That's how they do it.

0:32:25 > 0:32:26BOTH LAUGH

0:32:26 > 0:32:28Where you get all this finery?

0:32:28 > 0:32:29Oh, I bought these.

0:32:29 > 0:32:32Massa pays us a little when our birds win.

0:32:32 > 0:32:36Money ain't nothing but a butterfly to you...

0:32:36 > 0:32:37come pretty and go fast.

0:32:37 > 0:32:40You don't need no fancy clothes.

0:32:42 > 0:32:45Mama, you need to meet somebody.

0:32:45 > 0:32:47What you need me to come for?

0:32:47 > 0:32:48She Matilda.

0:32:48 > 0:32:50She hard-headed, but I like her.

0:32:50 > 0:32:51Come on.

0:32:51 > 0:32:53I thought you said tonight was our night.

0:32:53 > 0:32:56You and that girl connived this whole coming together.

0:32:58 > 0:33:01- Matilda.- I'm Matilda, ma'am.

0:33:01 > 0:33:04This my father, Reverend Lyon.

0:33:04 > 0:33:06Your son say you a woman of, uh, faith.

0:33:07 > 0:33:09I am.

0:33:09 > 0:33:11But it ain't your faith.

0:33:11 > 0:33:13I ain't interested in the white man's God.

0:33:13 > 0:33:15My daddy say the only reason our folk is

0:33:15 > 0:33:17is cos it got beat into us.

0:33:17 > 0:33:20- The Lord say that...- Mama, why don't we get our guests something to eat?

0:33:20 > 0:33:21Uh, I ain't offended.

0:33:21 > 0:33:23I know my God's real.

0:33:23 > 0:33:25He love me, and he love you, too.

0:33:25 > 0:33:27Amen. Let's dance, Mama.

0:33:27 > 0:33:28You ever preach from the book of Exodus?

0:33:28 > 0:33:32- Well, yeah.- White preacher don't let no slave preacher man

0:33:32 > 0:33:34talk about the Israelites or Pharaoh, do they?

0:33:34 > 0:33:37No slaves marching across the sea to be free.

0:33:37 > 0:33:40Bet them pages cut right out your Bible.

0:33:40 > 0:33:42Start preaching about Exodus,

0:33:42 > 0:33:44find yourself swinging from a low limb.

0:33:44 > 0:33:47Mama, folks say make the best of a hard situation.

0:33:47 > 0:33:50Maybe that's all folks who believe in God trying to do.

0:33:50 > 0:33:52Have his God make slavery go away,

0:33:52 > 0:33:54I'll meet you in church every Sunday.

0:34:05 > 0:34:07LAUGHTER AND MUSIC

0:34:23 > 0:34:25My daddy like to beat you

0:34:25 > 0:34:27if he hear you playing like that.

0:34:27 > 0:34:30Mama, I make Massa money.

0:34:30 > 0:34:33Truth is, I know the white gamblers

0:34:33 > 0:34:35bet more just to see me.

0:34:35 > 0:34:38All that stuff matter more to him than you.

0:34:38 > 0:34:40It ain't our way.

0:34:40 > 0:34:43I heard about some slaves buying their freedom nowadays.

0:34:43 > 0:34:46More famous I get, more I get a chance to buy my freedom.

0:34:46 > 0:34:48You think you gonna buy your freedom?

0:34:48 > 0:34:50Mine, yours.

0:34:50 > 0:34:53Mama, I want to marry Matilda.

0:34:53 > 0:34:55I can look after all of us.

0:34:55 > 0:34:57Do you love her?

0:34:57 > 0:34:58She a good woman, Mama.

0:34:58 > 0:35:00Different than everybody else.

0:35:00 > 0:35:02She's smart, stubborn, like you.

0:35:04 > 0:35:05She's so pretty.

0:35:05 > 0:35:07Not as pretty as me, but she pretty.

0:35:07 > 0:35:09You can't make no plans depend on Massa.

0:35:11 > 0:35:15You mean so much to me.

0:35:15 > 0:35:18Let me teach you how to read, so you can be your own man.

0:35:18 > 0:35:20I'll always be my own man.

0:35:21 > 0:35:24Only knew one other somebody live his life

0:35:24 > 0:35:26trying to be his own man...

0:35:26 > 0:35:30your grandpapa, Kunta Kinte.

0:35:30 > 0:35:33With them roosters, I can do anything.

0:35:33 > 0:35:36That's how I'm getting free.

0:35:36 > 0:35:38That's how we're all getting free.

0:35:38 > 0:35:40Come on, Mama. They ain't gonna play all night.

0:35:40 > 0:35:41You go.

0:35:41 > 0:35:43I'm gonna stay here,

0:35:43 > 0:35:45spend some time talking with my daddy.

0:35:45 > 0:35:47Mama, you can't...

0:35:47 > 0:35:49You go.

0:36:10 > 0:36:12INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS

0:36:12 > 0:36:15Mrs Shubal, breakfast looks delightful, does it not?

0:36:15 > 0:36:18- MAN:- It's a beautiful day, isn't it?

0:36:18 > 0:36:19My favourite holiday.

0:36:19 > 0:36:21Mr Lea, Miss Patricia.

0:36:21 > 0:36:23Morning, Reverend.

0:36:23 > 0:36:25Your hat, sir?

0:36:35 > 0:36:37George, what are you doing?

0:36:37 > 0:36:41Well, there's Tom Lea and his lovely wife, Patricia.

0:36:41 > 0:36:43Good morning, Mr Lea.

0:36:43 > 0:36:44Good morning, Mr Jewett.

0:36:44 > 0:36:47- Mrs Lea.- Morning.

0:36:47 > 0:36:49- WOMAN:- Good morning, Mrs Lea.

0:36:49 > 0:36:50Morning, Mrs Jewett.

0:36:53 > 0:36:55SHE CHUCKLES

0:36:55 > 0:36:56Please, allow me.

0:36:56 > 0:36:59Oh, thank you, Mr Jewett.

0:36:59 > 0:37:01There you are.

0:37:01 > 0:37:04Now, our table is complete.

0:37:08 > 0:37:13Mama, this is Marcellus, free man I told you about.

0:37:13 > 0:37:16I'm not sure which one of y'all is the bad influence.

0:37:16 > 0:37:20I'm not sure anyone has much sway over your boy.

0:37:20 > 0:37:23Seems like his spark can dazzle anyone.

0:37:25 > 0:37:28Now it's obvious he gets that from you,

0:37:28 > 0:37:29which makes his daddy a lucky man.

0:37:29 > 0:37:31My mama lives alone.

0:37:31 > 0:37:32Just like I like it.

0:37:32 > 0:37:34I'd never have some man bossing me around,

0:37:34 > 0:37:36acting like he my second massa.

0:37:36 > 0:37:41Ma'am, there are two things I'll never understand.

0:37:41 > 0:37:44A man who mistreats a woman who loves him.

0:37:44 > 0:37:46That's one.

0:37:46 > 0:37:49Oh, the other would be a man who can't appreciate

0:37:49 > 0:37:52a woman who knows her own mind.

0:38:00 > 0:38:02I thought you were a free man.

0:38:02 > 0:38:05Who's freely deciding to carry this tray

0:38:05 > 0:38:06for a beautiful woman.

0:38:09 > 0:38:13Anyone can see that Jackson is too boorish to be president.

0:38:13 > 0:38:16He's a warmonger and an adulterer.

0:38:16 > 0:38:21Only ignorant men without land or education would back him.

0:38:21 > 0:38:23Tom.

0:38:23 > 0:38:26I say Old Hickory's gonna be a damn good president.

0:38:26 > 0:38:28He'll protect cotton investors clearing out woods

0:38:28 > 0:38:30in Mississippi and Alabama.

0:38:30 > 0:38:32Yeah, I'll vote Jackson.

0:38:32 > 0:38:34My point proven.

0:38:34 > 0:38:36This country will sink into a cesspool

0:38:36 > 0:38:38if we keep giving lowborn men a vote.

0:38:38 > 0:38:41- WOMAN:- We're going by train to New York to visit my cousin.

0:38:41 > 0:38:44Her husband has a position with new clothiers...

0:38:44 > 0:38:45Mr Lord and Mr Taylor.

0:38:45 > 0:38:48But she warned us that the streets are foul

0:38:48 > 0:38:50with horse droppings and Irish.

0:38:50 > 0:38:53HE CHUCKLES

0:38:54 > 0:38:56What have I ever done to you, sir?

0:38:57 > 0:39:01I pay no attention to you at all...sir.

0:39:01 > 0:39:04I offer conversation and good cheer on a fine holiday.

0:39:04 > 0:39:07And yet you poke, poke, poke me like a damn hog.

0:39:07 > 0:39:10HE LAUGHS

0:39:12 > 0:39:14I demand you tell me why.

0:39:14 > 0:39:15Take your hands off me.

0:39:15 > 0:39:17Let's go. Can't stop these men once they start.

0:39:17 > 0:39:19I have no idea if they're clean.

0:39:19 > 0:39:21Goddamn me.

0:39:21 > 0:39:22On Easter Sunday,

0:39:22 > 0:39:25in front of my wife and these good people.

0:39:27 > 0:39:29SLAMS TABLE Look at me, Byrd!

0:39:29 > 0:39:32I see you clearly, sir,

0:39:32 > 0:39:34exactly as they all see you.

0:39:34 > 0:39:37You bungle your farm till it's near in ruin,

0:39:37 > 0:39:39waste your money on drink and gambling.

0:39:39 > 0:39:40Earn a penny, spend a dollar...

0:39:40 > 0:39:42Oh, that's the Irish. I know them.

0:39:42 > 0:39:44Scrub all you will, sir.

0:39:44 > 0:39:47The dirt is not under your nails, sir.

0:39:47 > 0:39:49It's in your soul.

0:39:49 > 0:39:51And I'd dine with niggers before I'd dine with you.

0:39:52 > 0:39:54GASPS

0:39:54 > 0:39:56Get off of me! Get off me!

0:39:56 > 0:39:59Get your hands off me, you son of a bitch!

0:39:59 > 0:40:01I'll geld you, you bastard.

0:40:01 > 0:40:04You need to come home, Massa!

0:40:04 > 0:40:06I'm worth ten like you.

0:40:06 > 0:40:08You never did a hard day's work in your life.

0:40:08 > 0:40:10Soft hands, like a woman.

0:40:10 > 0:40:12You think your money makes you a man?

0:40:12 > 0:40:14I'm the only real man in this goddamn county.

0:40:14 > 0:40:16Son of a bitch!

0:40:16 > 0:40:18I do not settle my battles with fisticuffs

0:40:18 > 0:40:20like some drunken bog-trotter!

0:40:20 > 0:40:23You settle this however the hell you will.

0:40:23 > 0:40:25For once, act like a gentleman.

0:40:25 > 0:40:28Allow me satisfaction in the field...a duel.

0:40:28 > 0:40:29Face-to-face.

0:40:29 > 0:40:32Whenever and wherever you say.

0:40:32 > 0:40:33HE SPITS

0:40:33 > 0:40:36You bucket of piss!

0:40:36 > 0:40:39You'll stand by me, George. Attend my weapons, be my second.

0:40:39 > 0:40:41You ain't fired a gun in a while, Massa.

0:40:41 > 0:40:45- Let it be. We got...- George, I need you to do this for me.

0:40:45 > 0:40:47I depend on you.

0:40:47 > 0:40:49Yes, Massa.

0:40:49 > 0:40:51Patricia.

0:40:51 > 0:40:52Can't no slave be 'round no white men

0:40:52 > 0:40:54when they get like this.

0:40:54 > 0:40:57Massa Byrd can kill you without thinking.

0:40:57 > 0:40:59And ain't no sheriff gonna do nothing 'bout it.

0:40:59 > 0:41:01Kizzy, he can't say no.

0:41:01 > 0:41:02Yes, he can.

0:41:02 > 0:41:04But he too caught up and concerned

0:41:04 > 0:41:06about that no-count cracker and his birds.

0:41:06 > 0:41:09What you think gonna happen if Massa Tom get killed?

0:41:09 > 0:41:11Think Miss Patricia gonna sell us all together?

0:41:11 > 0:41:13She gonna run off to the woods she came from,

0:41:13 > 0:41:14and we gonna end up on paddle-wheelers

0:41:14 > 0:41:17- for cotton Mississippi. - Why can't you understand?

0:41:17 > 0:41:20You can't risk your life for that man.

0:41:20 > 0:41:22Not for him...for us.

0:41:22 > 0:41:24I need to keep Tom Lea alive for us.

0:41:26 > 0:41:28George.

0:41:28 > 0:41:32Not by chance, not any of this.

0:41:34 > 0:41:36There's the man wants your massa dead.

0:41:40 > 0:41:42Massa Jewett?

0:41:42 > 0:41:44If Tom Lea is killed, he's gonna buy your son.

0:41:44 > 0:41:47Tom Lea made a mistake refusing his offer for George.

0:41:47 > 0:41:50And the thing about rich white men,

0:41:50 > 0:41:52they'll take ten steps at a tilt

0:41:52 > 0:41:54just to take one step straight to what they want.

0:42:03 > 0:42:04THUNDER RUMBLES

0:42:06 > 0:42:08HORSE WHINNIES

0:42:08 > 0:42:10- MINGO:- Whoa.

0:42:18 > 0:42:21You think you doing this for your family.

0:42:21 > 0:42:23But I known you since you was a little boy.

0:42:23 > 0:42:26I know the love you got inside you for Massa.

0:42:26 > 0:42:29You thinking maybe one tiny piece of him inside the same.

0:42:29 > 0:42:31Make you as stupid as he is.

0:42:31 > 0:42:34He ain't never gonna see you for what you truly is

0:42:34 > 0:42:35no matter what you think.

0:42:35 > 0:42:38Pardon me if I don't wish him luck.

0:42:41 > 0:42:42HORSE WHINNIES

0:43:05 > 0:43:07I'll look after him.

0:43:16 > 0:43:18Less likely to string the two of us up,

0:43:18 > 0:43:20but I've been wrong before.

0:43:31 > 0:43:34High card will decide who fires first.

0:43:34 > 0:43:36You will then separate and face each other.

0:43:36 > 0:43:37On my command, you will each

0:43:37 > 0:43:39discharge your pistols in succession.

0:43:39 > 0:43:42If you both remain alive,

0:43:42 > 0:43:45you will proceed with swords until one of you is dead.

0:43:51 > 0:43:53- Five diamonds. - HE CHUCKLES

0:43:57 > 0:43:59Three clubs.

0:43:59 > 0:44:01Mr Lea will shoot first.

0:44:01 > 0:44:04And may God have mercy on your souls.

0:44:06 > 0:44:08HORSE NEIGHS

0:44:15 > 0:44:17This your day.

0:44:18 > 0:44:20Take your time.

0:44:20 > 0:44:22Got to wait till your eyes see clear,

0:44:22 > 0:44:24breathing even.

0:44:24 > 0:44:25You hear me?

0:44:25 > 0:44:27Take your time.

0:44:27 > 0:44:29I know, George.

0:44:29 > 0:44:31I intend to kill him with my first shot.

0:44:33 > 0:44:35HE EXHALES

0:44:49 > 0:44:52You're my only true friend.

0:44:52 > 0:44:54Do this friend a favour.

0:44:54 > 0:44:55Kill that son of a bitch.

0:44:58 > 0:45:00Your first shot, Mr Lea.

0:45:11 > 0:45:13Still shaking, didn't even take aim.

0:45:13 > 0:45:14Mr Byrd.

0:45:14 > 0:45:16- First shot. - PISTOL COCKS

0:45:21 > 0:45:24Goddamn. This can't be.

0:45:25 > 0:45:27Aah! HE GRUNTS

0:45:33 > 0:45:36You do this next shot right, now.

0:45:36 > 0:45:39Take your time. Nice and steady.

0:45:41 > 0:45:43If you niggers interfere, we'll kill you!

0:45:43 > 0:45:45Be sure of that!

0:45:45 > 0:45:48- MAN:- Second shot, Mr Lea.

0:45:50 > 0:45:52PISTOL COCKS

0:46:06 > 0:46:08HE SCREAMS

0:46:12 > 0:46:14Mr Byrd, second shot.

0:46:33 > 0:46:35Aah!

0:46:35 > 0:46:36- MAN:- Gentleman.

0:46:36 > 0:46:38HE SCREAMS

0:46:38 > 0:46:41Gentlemen, do either of you yield?

0:46:43 > 0:46:44No.

0:46:44 > 0:46:45No!

0:46:45 > 0:46:48Mr Lea does not yield!

0:46:48 > 0:46:50Gentlemen, swords.

0:46:52 > 0:46:54Sword.

0:46:54 > 0:46:55- MAN:- Damn it, Byrd, yield.

0:46:55 > 0:46:58He's bleeding hard. Can't let him find his legs.

0:46:58 > 0:46:59Get right at him.

0:46:59 > 0:47:00No! Get away.

0:47:00 > 0:47:02I can't feel my hand, George.

0:47:02 > 0:47:03You take this sword.

0:47:03 > 0:47:05You got to fight hard if you want to stay alive.

0:47:05 > 0:47:07Now get on your damn feet! Get up!

0:47:07 > 0:47:09HE GRUNTS

0:47:09 > 0:47:10Get up!

0:47:10 > 0:47:12Sword! Put it in my hand.

0:47:12 > 0:47:15- Come on!- Got it.

0:47:15 > 0:47:17- Get up! - HE GRUNTS

0:47:23 > 0:47:25Aargh!

0:47:51 > 0:47:53No, no.

0:47:53 > 0:47:54HE GROANS

0:47:55 > 0:47:57Massa, you stay down, you gonna die.

0:47:57 > 0:47:59That what you want?

0:47:59 > 0:48:01- That what you came here for today? - HE GROANS

0:48:03 > 0:48:05Him on his feet, looking down on you?

0:48:05 > 0:48:07The way everybody look down on you?

0:48:07 > 0:48:09He say you dirt.

0:48:09 > 0:48:11That's how we'll bury you if you want,

0:48:11 > 0:48:13deep in the damn dirt!

0:48:13 > 0:48:16Mr Lea, do you yield?

0:48:16 > 0:48:18George, it hurts so bad.

0:48:18 > 0:48:20Oh, you in the pit now, Massa.

0:48:20 > 0:48:22Want to let him jeer you,

0:48:22 > 0:48:23throw you carcass in a dung hole?

0:48:23 > 0:48:25Step back, boy!

0:48:25 > 0:48:27- Rise up high. You the gamecock now. - Get up, George.

0:48:27 > 0:48:31Rise up! Come down on this son of a bitch! Rise up, Tom Lea, come on!

0:48:31 > 0:48:32Come on, show them all!

0:48:33 > 0:48:35Show him, Tom!

0:48:40 > 0:48:42HE SCREAMS

0:48:49 > 0:48:51Aah!

0:48:51 > 0:48:53- No, Massa! - I yield! I yield!

0:48:53 > 0:48:55- I yield.- He yields. Let him be.

0:48:59 > 0:49:00I'm a better man than you.

0:49:02 > 0:49:05He yielded. It's time for mercy.

0:49:10 > 0:49:12All right. I got you, I got you.

0:49:12 > 0:49:15- I got you.- Mr Byrd! Mr Byrd!

0:49:15 > 0:49:17Folks are gonna talk about what you did today.

0:49:17 > 0:49:18All across Carolina, they'll say,

0:49:18 > 0:49:20"Tom Lea is a gentleman."

0:49:20 > 0:49:22HE GASPS

0:49:22 > 0:49:25I was a fine gentleman.

0:49:25 > 0:49:28They're gonna say my name, ain't they? Tom Lea.

0:49:28 > 0:49:30For sure.

0:49:32 > 0:49:34Take me home, George.

0:49:35 > 0:49:37Take me home.

0:49:45 > 0:49:47ROOSTER CROWS

0:50:13 > 0:50:14You over there?

0:50:16 > 0:50:18HE COUGHS

0:50:26 > 0:50:28HE COUGHS

0:50:32 > 0:50:34I'd have bled my soul out on that field.

0:50:36 > 0:50:37You pushed me hard.

0:50:38 > 0:50:40Kept me strong.

0:50:40 > 0:50:43You don't win, what happen to all of us?

0:50:43 > 0:50:45Damn right.

0:50:47 > 0:50:48I want to tell you something.

0:50:52 > 0:50:56I was 11 years old when I hit the road,

0:50:56 > 0:50:59asking for a job.

0:50:59 > 0:51:01I ate scraps.

0:51:02 > 0:51:03Nights I'd chew bark.

0:51:04 > 0:51:07Dry leaves my only blanket.

0:51:07 > 0:51:09Froze my ass.

0:51:09 > 0:51:11HE COUGHS

0:51:11 > 0:51:14The whole lot of you has it a damn lot easier.

0:51:14 > 0:51:17Oh, any man with eyes can see that.

0:51:19 > 0:51:20HE CHUCKLES

0:51:20 > 0:51:22Oh, hell, George.

0:51:22 > 0:51:24I ain't as bad as some.

0:51:26 > 0:51:28What do I always say?

0:51:28 > 0:51:30Make me rich.

0:51:31 > 0:51:32Raise yourself up.

0:51:35 > 0:51:36That's how money works.

0:51:39 > 0:51:43Then I'd like some of that money to start working to get me papers...

0:51:43 > 0:51:45to be free.

0:51:47 > 0:51:48HE GRUNTS

0:51:50 > 0:51:52I intend to work hard.

0:51:52 > 0:51:54Win every cock fight, make you real rich.

0:51:56 > 0:52:00I got to know a time gonna come when I can buy me free.

0:52:04 > 0:52:06I don't see why not, George.

0:52:07 > 0:52:09It's all dollars and cents.

0:52:15 > 0:52:17When the number's right,

0:52:17 > 0:52:20I promise

0:52:20 > 0:52:23I'm gonna write those papers for you.

0:52:26 > 0:52:29Then I'm gonna make you so damn dirty rich,

0:52:29 > 0:52:33gonna need to buy a new wagon just to load the moneybags.

0:52:33 > 0:52:36HE LAUGHS

0:52:36 > 0:52:39Oh, you and me think the same way, George.

0:52:39 > 0:52:42I brought you up right.

0:52:42 > 0:52:44She ought to thank me.

0:52:54 > 0:52:58- ALL:- One, two, three.

0:52:58 > 0:53:00Oh!

0:53:02 > 0:53:05Thank y'all. Thank y'all.

0:53:05 > 0:53:08- MAN:- Congratulations. Bless you.

0:53:09 > 0:53:11Oh.

0:53:14 > 0:53:16LAUGHTER

0:53:18 > 0:53:20I promise to stay by your side for ever.

0:53:20 > 0:53:22I never had a daddy,

0:53:22 > 0:53:25but my baby's gonna have me all the time.

0:53:25 > 0:53:28Nothing ever gonna pull me away from you.

0:53:28 > 0:53:29That's all I want, George.

0:53:32 > 0:53:34May the Lord keep and bless this holy union.

0:53:34 > 0:53:36Hallelujah!

0:53:36 > 0:53:37- ALL:- Hallelujah!

0:53:37 > 0:53:38All right.

0:53:42 > 0:53:44- WOMAN:- Yes, sir.

0:53:44 > 0:53:46It was so nice of Mama Kizzy

0:53:46 > 0:53:48- to lend me her dress for the wedding.- So beautiful.

0:53:48 > 0:53:50THEY LAUGH

0:53:55 > 0:53:57What you know about that?

0:53:57 > 0:54:00You ain't the only one know about African tradition.

0:54:00 > 0:54:02You declaring your intention?

0:54:02 > 0:54:04Expect so.

0:54:05 > 0:54:06SHE LAUGHS

0:54:06 > 0:54:08That make you dizzy?

0:54:08 > 0:54:10No, dance didn't make me dizzy.

0:54:10 > 0:54:13Just feel like I fit right in your arms.

0:54:13 > 0:54:15My arms can go wide.

0:54:15 > 0:54:16They can come tight.

0:54:16 > 0:54:18SHE LAUGHS

0:54:18 > 0:54:20But I do what I can to make the fit work.

0:54:24 > 0:54:26George.

0:54:33 > 0:54:36Why is that man always showing off your boy?

0:54:36 > 0:54:38For better or worse, they got a bond.

0:54:38 > 0:54:41What WE got is a bond.

0:54:41 > 0:54:44What they got, something completely different.

0:54:47 > 0:54:51Glad to see you're feeling better, Massa.

0:54:51 > 0:54:54We can get back on the road, make some money.

0:54:54 > 0:54:57Of course, it's gonna take your first year's salary,

0:54:57 > 0:55:00pay me back for buying that Matilda gal from MacGregor.

0:55:00 > 0:55:03She worth every penny.

0:55:03 > 0:55:06You get to making babies, increase my stock.

0:55:08 > 0:55:10And when a boy comes,

0:55:10 > 0:55:12Tom would be a fine name for a boy.

0:55:12 > 0:55:14Ain't that right, Sarah?

0:55:14 > 0:55:17Strong name, Massa.

0:55:17 > 0:55:19Tom it'll be, Massa.

0:55:20 > 0:55:21If it's a boy.

0:55:21 > 0:55:23- PATRICIA:- George.

0:55:23 > 0:55:26I think you mama's sweet on that boy.

0:55:26 > 0:55:29I ain't never seen mama in a mood like this.

0:55:29 > 0:55:30Wakes up happy.

0:55:30 > 0:55:33She always prettier when she smiles.

0:55:33 > 0:55:35Mm-hm.

0:55:35 > 0:55:36DRUMMING

0:55:39 > 0:55:42You know what they call a free nigger in North Carolina?

0:55:45 > 0:55:46Nigger.

0:55:57 > 0:55:59HE CLEARS THROAT

0:55:59 > 0:56:02Folks sure did miss you at the wedding.

0:56:02 > 0:56:04Smoothest liar I ever met.

0:56:04 > 0:56:06Thank you.

0:56:06 > 0:56:08CHICKENS CLUCK

0:56:08 > 0:56:10ROOSTER CROWS

0:56:10 > 0:56:12Bet your mama gonna be after you

0:56:12 > 0:56:14to hatch some chickens of your own.

0:56:14 > 0:56:17Not if he gonna name the first one Tom.

0:56:17 > 0:56:18Miss Kizzy.

0:56:18 > 0:56:20Congratulations on your happy day.

0:56:20 > 0:56:22It was happy, till I heard my boy

0:56:22 > 0:56:26promised his first-born son gonna carry Massa's name.

0:56:26 > 0:56:28Me and Matilda gonna have lots of babies.

0:56:28 > 0:56:30Plenty of names to go around.

0:56:30 > 0:56:32Maybe even Mingo.

0:56:32 > 0:56:34You can't name no-one in this family after that man.

0:56:37 > 0:56:38Gonna go gather up some wood for my fire.

0:56:40 > 0:56:42I know how to handle Tom Lea, Mama.

0:56:42 > 0:56:44Ain't no handling no massa,

0:56:44 > 0:56:47especially not one like Tom Lea.

0:56:47 > 0:56:49It's just a name, Mama.

0:56:49 > 0:56:51A name is who you is.

0:56:51 > 0:56:54My daddy took whippings night and day

0:56:54 > 0:56:55to protect his name.

0:56:55 > 0:56:57What is it you want from me?

0:56:57 > 0:56:58Wouldn't make no sense to say

0:56:58 > 0:57:00cos I ain't never gonna get it.

0:57:00 > 0:57:03I shouldn't be surprised you act the way you do.

0:57:03 > 0:57:06But don't you ever get no shame, George.

0:57:06 > 0:57:08I'm famous up and down this county.

0:57:08 > 0:57:10I know who I am, and you should, too.

0:57:10 > 0:57:11Only time I knew who you was

0:57:11 > 0:57:13was when I took your yellow ass

0:57:13 > 0:57:15out to the spot where I stood and named you.

0:57:15 > 0:57:17Well, I ain't trying to be

0:57:17 > 0:57:19no beat-down African with half a foot!

0:57:21 > 0:57:24You ain't nowhere near the man my daddy was.

0:57:24 > 0:57:28Some time I look at you, and I see Tom Lea.

0:57:28 > 0:57:31I can't even tell you 'part!

0:57:31 > 0:57:33And it break my heart.

0:57:46 > 0:57:49GOAT BLEATS

0:57:49 > 0:57:51KIZZY HUMS

0:57:54 > 0:57:56It's pretty.

0:57:56 > 0:57:58Came up from Durham way?

0:57:58 > 0:58:00SHE CHUCKLES

0:58:00 > 0:58:02Came from my papa.

0:58:02 > 0:58:05Came from Juffure, from Africa.

0:58:05 > 0:58:08What don't come from Africa, according to you?

0:58:08 > 0:58:09Hey.

0:58:09 > 0:58:11SHE CHUCKLES

0:58:14 > 0:58:17I spent my life in a cabin like this.

0:58:17 > 0:58:20And now that I'm free,

0:58:20 > 0:58:22I'd rather sleep under the stars.

0:58:24 > 0:58:26Kizzy.

0:58:26 > 0:58:29I'm always passing through places,

0:58:29 > 0:58:31so I find it best to speak my mind.

0:58:32 > 0:58:35I want you to come with me.

0:58:35 > 0:58:37What would we do?

0:58:37 > 0:58:38Go north...

0:58:38 > 0:58:42Pennsylvania, Vermont.

0:58:42 > 0:58:44I'm tired of pulling out my papers

0:58:44 > 0:58:46every time some sheriff gets in a mood

0:58:46 > 0:58:49or some cracker don't like my look.

0:58:49 > 0:58:51I like your look.

0:58:59 > 0:59:01Getting free was all my daddy ever wanted.

0:59:01 > 0:59:03But I'd be so far from George.

0:59:03 > 0:59:06Far is free.

0:59:08 > 0:59:11Your boy has his own life now.

0:59:11 > 0:59:13It's time you loved yours.

0:59:15 > 0:59:17FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

0:59:17 > 0:59:18That's Massa Lea.

0:59:26 > 0:59:28Didn't know you were entertaining, Kizzy.

0:59:28 > 0:59:32Now you see, so you can go on home.

0:59:32 > 0:59:34This is my property, boy.

0:59:34 > 0:59:37I own it and everything on it.

0:59:37 > 0:59:39Then turn a profit on what you own.

0:59:39 > 0:59:40I want to buy Kizzy.

0:59:42 > 0:59:43Is that right?

0:59:43 > 0:59:45Mm-hmm.

0:59:45 > 0:59:46I'd have to reckon it.

0:59:46 > 0:59:49Name your price...any number.

0:59:49 > 0:59:51I can pay it.

0:59:51 > 0:59:53Ain't you a businessman?

0:59:53 > 0:59:55HE CHUCKLES

0:59:55 > 0:59:58Well, she's almost past having babies.

0:59:58 > 1:00:00That's in your favour.

1:00:00 > 1:00:02But she's strong as a woman half her age.

1:00:02 > 1:00:04That's in my favour.

1:00:04 > 1:00:06Reads, too, by my good graces.

1:00:06 > 1:00:09Other masters wouldn't have it.

1:00:09 > 1:00:11Cooks, sews, handles the house.

1:00:12 > 1:00:14Understands a man's needs.

1:00:15 > 1:00:172,000.

1:00:17 > 1:00:19- You can't. - HE LAUGHS

1:00:19 > 1:00:21You don't have half it.

1:00:21 > 1:00:24It's everything, but I have it.

1:00:24 > 1:00:27Make her free to leave with me tomorrow,

1:00:27 > 1:00:28and I'll give it to you.

1:00:33 > 1:00:36I think we can come to some kind of agreement.

1:00:51 > 1:00:53SHE HUMS

1:01:03 > 1:01:05HUMMING STOPS

1:01:05 > 1:01:07Something you need, Massa?

1:01:11 > 1:01:13Miss Patricia need something?

1:01:13 > 1:01:15She's sleeping.

1:01:15 > 1:01:17Not that that matters.

1:01:18 > 1:01:20SHE SIGHS

1:01:20 > 1:01:22I'm making sweet rolls for tomorrow.

1:01:22 > 1:01:24Ah. Tomorrow.

1:01:29 > 1:01:31Way of saying goodbye?

1:01:34 > 1:01:36Tell me you want to go.

1:01:36 > 1:01:38He gonna pay you well.

1:01:38 > 1:01:40You expect me to sell you

1:01:40 > 1:01:42to that nigger bastard who looks down on me?!

1:01:42 > 1:01:44Pick that nigger over me?!

1:01:44 > 1:01:45Over George?!

1:01:45 > 1:01:47GLASS SHATTERS

1:01:47 > 1:01:49You have a place here with people who love you,

1:01:49 > 1:01:51and you just want to go somewheres else.

1:01:51 > 1:01:53Please!

1:01:53 > 1:01:55Please, Massa! Don't.

1:01:55 > 1:01:59You ain't never been beat. I don't overwork you.

1:01:59 > 1:02:03I have more right than that free nigger!

1:02:03 > 1:02:05You've been bragging to George

1:02:05 > 1:02:06about how you gonna be leaving me.

1:02:06 > 1:02:08I ain't been bragging.

1:02:08 > 1:02:10You just expect me to let you go?

1:02:11 > 1:02:14I can't go.

1:02:14 > 1:02:15Ungrateful.

1:02:15 > 1:02:18You think I'm just gonna let you go?

1:02:18 > 1:02:19I can't go.

1:02:19 > 1:02:21Ungrateful.

1:02:21 > 1:02:23I ain't leaving! I ain't leaving!

1:02:23 > 1:02:25You think I'd leave my family here with you?

1:02:25 > 1:02:28And the time they start having babies,

1:02:28 > 1:02:31I'd be a thousand miles gone.

1:02:31 > 1:02:35And I see you still they massa,

1:02:35 > 1:02:38I'd die every day.

1:02:38 > 1:02:42But when George and Matilda have children,

1:02:42 > 1:02:45if you ever touch just one,

1:02:45 > 1:02:47I'll kill you.

1:02:47 > 1:02:49And I'll hang for it gladly.

1:02:54 > 1:02:55Now, now, Kizzy.

1:02:56 > 1:02:59They're gonna be my grandchildren, too.

1:03:07 > 1:03:10Now be quick about it.

1:04:10 > 1:04:14If you won't come with me, take this.

1:04:14 > 1:04:17Day might come when you're able to buy yourself free.

1:04:18 > 1:04:21I can't.

1:04:21 > 1:04:23You start a new life.

1:04:23 > 1:04:26Keep travelling north and find some...

1:04:30 > 1:04:32..find somebody else.

1:05:01 > 1:05:03My daddy would have liked you.

1:05:18 > 1:05:19Get up, now.

1:05:19 > 1:05:20HE CLICKS TONGUE

1:05:20 > 1:05:22HOOVES CLOP

1:05:50 > 1:05:52SHE SOBS

1:05:57 > 1:05:59- GEORGE:- Give me that.

1:05:59 > 1:06:00Don't need no help.

1:06:01 > 1:06:05You sure Massa say I should come?

1:06:05 > 1:06:08Long ride, lots to do.

1:06:08 > 1:06:11Greensville County in Virginia.

1:06:11 > 1:06:12A thousand men come for this match.

1:06:12 > 1:06:14Six tents. We taking 20 birds.

1:06:14 > 1:06:1620?

1:06:16 > 1:06:19Told Massa he want that many, he can't do it without Mingo.

1:06:19 > 1:06:21Clear as day to those got eyes.

1:06:22 > 1:06:24To watch the cages.

1:06:24 > 1:06:26Tend the birds.

1:06:28 > 1:06:29Oh.

1:06:30 > 1:06:32You got my feed?

1:06:40 > 1:06:41Just like I told you, boy.

1:06:41 > 1:06:43Birds leave they marks on a man.

1:06:43 > 1:06:47But still so pretty, women cry when I pass by.

1:06:47 > 1:06:49- CHUCKLES - You still a slave, too.

1:06:49 > 1:06:51That may be.

1:06:51 > 1:06:53I've been saving up. Got me a scheme.

1:06:53 > 1:06:54Scheme? Uh-huh.

1:06:54 > 1:06:56Mm-hm.

1:06:56 > 1:06:59I'm gonna buy Matilda, then all my babies free.

1:06:59 > 1:07:02Man saving up money got to pinch every penny.

1:07:02 > 1:07:05Damn hard scheme for the likes of you.

1:07:05 > 1:07:08You toss away money like you feeding it to the hens.

1:07:08 > 1:07:10ROOSTER CLUCKS

1:07:10 > 1:07:12All your bragging and carrying on,

1:07:12 > 1:07:15I know how much time you spend with my birds.

1:07:15 > 1:07:17Folks say birds are stupid.

1:07:17 > 1:07:21Birds know who they can trust, know who love them.

1:07:21 > 1:07:24Folks is mostly fools when it come to knowing that.

1:07:26 > 1:07:30Birds know a man by his touch, by the sweat.

1:07:37 > 1:07:39You a better bird man than me.

1:07:42 > 1:07:45Only cos I had the best damn teacher in Carolina.

1:07:46 > 1:07:48You damn right you did.

1:07:54 > 1:07:57GUNSHOT

1:07:57 > 1:07:58Hyah! Hyah!

1:07:58 > 1:08:00GUNSHOT

1:08:00 > 1:08:03- MAN:- The Prophet's coming! The Prophet's coming!

1:08:03 > 1:08:05He's on his way!

1:08:05 > 1:08:07River of blood is what's speeding him on his way!

1:08:07 > 1:08:08Whoa, you! Hup!

1:08:08 > 1:08:11- MAN:- Got plenty of ammunition?

1:08:11 > 1:08:13DOGS BARK

1:08:13 > 1:08:14Everybody carrying guns.

1:08:14 > 1:08:16TOM: Damn. What the hell is this?

1:08:16 > 1:08:17Where's everybody going?

1:08:17 > 1:08:19Never heard of cancelling no match, rain or shine, Massa.

1:08:19 > 1:08:21GUNSHOT IN DISTANCE

1:08:21 > 1:08:22HORSE NEIGHS

1:08:22 > 1:08:24I don't think we should stay, Massa.

1:08:24 > 1:08:25We just drove four days to Virginia.

1:08:25 > 1:08:27Pretty penny out of pocket, too.

1:08:27 > 1:08:30I need an explanation, or someone's gonna pay me for my trouble.

1:08:30 > 1:08:32Savages! That's all they are, is savages!

1:08:32 > 1:08:33What's going on here?

1:08:33 > 1:08:35Nigger from Sam Turner's farm named Nat

1:08:35 > 1:08:37running loose with hundreds of other niggers.

1:08:37 > 1:08:39I hear thousands.

1:08:39 > 1:08:42Killing men, women, children, any white folks they come upon.

1:08:42 > 1:08:43Whole families dead.

1:08:43 > 1:08:47Babies in their beds, using axes, swords, clubs.

1:08:47 > 1:08:51They beat Margaret Whitehead to death with a fence post.

1:08:51 > 1:08:53Reading the Bible over their bloody bodies,

1:08:53 > 1:08:55calling himself the Prophet.

1:08:55 > 1:08:57He ain't just killing. He's a cannibal.

1:08:57 > 1:09:01Burning up little babies, serving them to his gang to eat.

1:09:01 > 1:09:02Why ain't nobody find him yet?

1:09:02 > 1:09:05Other slaves hiding these killers on farms,

1:09:05 > 1:09:07in barns, cabins... right under our noses.

1:09:07 > 1:09:10I'm warning you boys, murder's spreading everywhere!

1:09:10 > 1:09:14I'm six days from home, and I got five little ones.

1:09:14 > 1:09:15God!

1:09:15 > 1:09:18I'll kill any nigger that gets in my way!

1:09:18 > 1:09:20ROOSTER CLUCKS

1:09:20 > 1:09:22Hey! What y'all doing?

1:09:22 > 1:09:24Don't hurt my birds. Don't hurt my birds.

1:09:24 > 1:09:26You got any guns and knives in this wagon?

1:09:28 > 1:09:29Get away from Massa Lea's birds.

1:09:29 > 1:09:32Mingo! Mingo!

1:09:32 > 1:09:33Hey, boy!

1:09:33 > 1:09:34No, please! Please, Massa!

1:09:34 > 1:09:36Please!

1:09:36 > 1:09:38He a good ol' boy. Good ol' boy, no problem.

1:09:38 > 1:09:40- We with Massa Tom...- Hey!

1:09:43 > 1:09:45These yours?

1:09:45 > 1:09:47Yeah.

1:09:47 > 1:09:49You vouch for them?

1:09:50 > 1:09:52Came with me to fight birds.

1:09:53 > 1:09:56Can't find that devil's prophet.

1:09:56 > 1:09:58- Niggers. - HE SPITS

1:09:58 > 1:10:01Hiding guns and knives any place they can.

1:10:01 > 1:10:04I don't care how long you owned them sons of bitches.

1:10:04 > 1:10:06I wouldn't trust no-one.

1:10:11 > 1:10:14We need a doctor for Mingo, Massa.

1:10:19 > 1:10:21We need to go home now. Patricia's by herself.

1:10:21 > 1:10:23Mama there for Miss Patricia. She be fine.

1:10:23 > 1:10:25You take us home. Now!

1:10:25 > 1:10:26Yes, Massa.

1:10:26 > 1:10:28Yes, Massa.

1:10:28 > 1:10:29Now, come on. I got you.

1:10:29 > 1:10:32You strong. You fine, you hear me?

1:10:32 > 1:10:34- GRUNTS - You fine!

1:10:34 > 1:10:35Hurry up, George!

1:10:35 > 1:10:37- Yes, Massa. - HE GRUNTS

1:10:37 > 1:10:39Come on, let's go!

1:10:39 > 1:10:42That nigger Turner's the devil on earth.

1:10:42 > 1:10:43Mingo's hurt real bad, Massa.

1:10:43 > 1:10:45We've been riding like this for three days.

1:10:45 > 1:10:47You'd never think of rising up with no slaves

1:10:47 > 1:10:49against me and Tricia, would you, George?

1:10:49 > 1:10:51No, Massa. You know me.

1:10:51 > 1:10:54We got to find a doctor somewhere.

1:10:54 > 1:10:57Cos if you did, George, I'd blow your goddamn head off.

1:10:57 > 1:10:59HORSE NEIGHS

1:10:59 > 1:11:01Stop the wagon.

1:11:01 > 1:11:02Ho! Ho!

1:11:02 > 1:11:04Hold up now. Hold up.

1:11:04 > 1:11:05Where y'all coming from?

1:11:05 > 1:11:07Southampton.

1:11:07 > 1:11:09Trying to get home before the Prophet reaches my farm.

1:11:09 > 1:11:12- We got every man with a gun out looking for him.- Uh-huh.

1:11:14 > 1:11:15This your boy?

1:11:17 > 1:11:19Yes, sir.

1:11:19 > 1:11:21Well, you a damn fool if you ain't got him tied up good.

1:11:21 > 1:11:23That Nat Turner's a fever.

1:11:23 > 1:11:26You never know which nigger's gonna catch it.

1:11:34 > 1:11:36Massa, what you doing?

1:11:39 > 1:11:41Chain yourself to the wagon, George.

1:11:43 > 1:11:45Massa, it's me.

1:11:45 > 1:11:46It's George. You trust me.

1:11:46 > 1:11:49Do it, George, or I will shoot you.

1:11:49 > 1:11:50Go on!

1:12:13 > 1:12:15- MAN:- Let 'em through.

1:12:18 > 1:12:20You've known me since I was a child.

1:12:20 > 1:12:22I can trust a child.

1:12:22 > 1:12:24It's when y'all get growed is when you get ideas.

1:12:24 > 1:12:27God help you if anything's happened to Tricia. Hyah!

1:12:27 > 1:12:30HORSE WHINNIES

1:12:30 > 1:12:31Hyah!

1:12:34 > 1:12:36Hyah!

1:12:38 > 1:12:40Hyah!

1:12:40 > 1:12:41Ho!

1:12:45 > 1:12:47What have you niggers done to my farm?

1:12:47 > 1:12:49GUNSHOT

1:12:49 > 1:12:52Tricia! BARKING

1:12:52 > 1:12:55Don't you move, boy. Stay in that wagon.

1:12:55 > 1:12:56Tricia!

1:12:56 > 1:12:57Tom! Tom!

1:12:57 > 1:13:00I come to make sure Miss Patricia's all right.

1:13:00 > 1:13:03SHE SOBS

1:13:03 > 1:13:06Dirty nigger. Dirty bastards!

1:13:07 > 1:13:09Get inside, Tricia.

1:13:09 > 1:13:10Now! Go on!

1:13:10 > 1:13:13- MAN:- Five militiamen came over here looking for slaves.

1:13:13 > 1:13:15They set the cabins on fire.

1:13:15 > 1:13:17Thank God you're back. I was so scared.

1:13:21 > 1:13:23Reverend Lyon, what the hell you doing here?

1:13:23 > 1:13:25This ain't no place to be right now.

1:13:25 > 1:13:27Heard some riders was heading for the Lea farm,

1:13:27 > 1:13:30so I come over to check on Matilda and the family.

1:13:30 > 1:13:32But them white boys came up on... on the cabins so fast.

1:13:32 > 1:13:34I had to hide.

1:13:34 > 1:13:37They burned down everything they could.

1:13:39 > 1:13:42HE CRIES I don't know where Kizzy and Tilda are.

1:13:42 > 1:13:45Guess I talk a lot, but I can't help nobody.

1:13:45 > 1:13:47Look at me, look at me.

1:13:47 > 1:13:49Give me that axe. Give me that axe.

1:13:53 > 1:13:55Hit the wood.

1:14:01 > 1:14:03Gonna find Mama and Matilda.

1:14:03 > 1:14:05I need to find my children, but I'll be back.

1:14:05 > 1:14:07You can watch Mingo till I can find help, all right?

1:14:07 > 1:14:09- I'll stay with him. - All right.

1:14:11 > 1:14:14Promise me you'll hold on, all right?

1:14:14 > 1:14:16You strong like nobody else.

1:14:16 > 1:14:19Watch out for Massa Tom.

1:14:19 > 1:14:22He ain't never gonna see you for who you truly is.

1:14:22 > 1:14:24Hold on.

1:14:24 > 1:14:26I'll be back.

1:14:29 > 1:14:31Take my secret feed.

1:14:31 > 1:14:34I got something for you.

1:14:34 > 1:14:36For your scheme.

1:14:38 > 1:14:39All right.

1:14:39 > 1:14:41All right.

1:14:50 > 1:14:52- PATRICIA:- I see you, George!

1:14:52 > 1:14:54You ain't gonna slit my throat while I sleep!

1:14:54 > 1:14:56I see you!

1:14:56 > 1:14:58Tilda!

1:15:01 > 1:15:03Tilda!

1:15:03 > 1:15:04Matilda, it's me!

1:15:09 > 1:15:11Matilda, it's me!

1:15:17 > 1:15:19Tilda!

1:15:21 > 1:15:22Mama?

1:15:22 > 1:15:23Matilda!

1:15:25 > 1:15:27Mama!

1:15:27 > 1:15:29Matilda, it's me, George!

1:15:44 > 1:15:46Oh, George.

1:15:46 > 1:15:48SHE SIGHS

1:15:48 > 1:15:51I thought you was dead.

1:15:58 > 1:16:00Come see the babies.

1:16:04 > 1:16:07BABY CRIES

1:16:07 > 1:16:08Matilda was scared to death

1:16:08 > 1:16:10she was never gonna see you again.

1:16:10 > 1:16:11Sister Sarah.

1:16:11 > 1:16:13George! Oh, child!

1:16:13 > 1:16:15- MAN: Thank God. - Oh, God.

1:16:15 > 1:16:18- Glad to see you. - Thank God!

1:16:18 > 1:16:19Tilda, come on out.

1:16:21 > 1:16:22Come on.

1:16:25 > 1:16:26WHIMPERING: George.

1:16:26 > 1:16:28- George! George!- Tilda!

1:16:28 > 1:16:29SHE CRIES

1:16:29 > 1:16:31George.

1:16:31 > 1:16:32Oh, George.

1:16:35 > 1:16:38Your mama the only reason we're alive.

1:16:38 > 1:16:40She brought us out here, been catching food for us, too.

1:16:40 > 1:16:42Cabins was on fire.

1:16:42 > 1:16:44I didn't know what happened to you.

1:16:44 > 1:16:45We heard them coming in the night.

1:16:45 > 1:16:48Me and Mama Kizzy went to Miss Patricia with babies,

1:16:48 > 1:16:49but she had locked everything up,

1:16:49 > 1:16:51and we couldn't get in.

1:16:51 > 1:16:54Then the militiamen showed up,

1:16:54 > 1:16:56set fire everywhere.

1:16:56 > 1:17:00Screaming about some man named Turner and an uprising.

1:17:00 > 1:17:02They was hunting us, George.

1:17:02 > 1:17:05We barely made it out here to the woods.

1:17:05 > 1:17:07It's all right now. It's all right now.

1:17:07 > 1:17:08Where my babies?

1:17:08 > 1:17:12BABY CRIES

1:17:12 > 1:17:13It's all right. It's all right.

1:17:13 > 1:17:15I'm home now.

1:17:30 > 1:17:32He's gone.

1:17:35 > 1:17:38Never did talk about hisself.

1:17:38 > 1:17:40Just talked about them birds.

1:17:41 > 1:17:43I don't even know where he was born.

1:17:43 > 1:17:46I don't know if he had one damn person cry for him!

1:17:46 > 1:17:47He had you.

1:17:47 > 1:17:50He had you.

1:17:50 > 1:17:51He had you.

1:17:51 > 1:17:53Let me go.

1:17:57 > 1:17:58You need to be with Matilda now.

1:17:58 > 1:18:00Son of a bitch!

1:18:00 > 1:18:02Too goddamn good to come down here.

1:18:02 > 1:18:04Mingo worked his life away for him.

1:18:04 > 1:18:06That's what that bastard want for all of them...

1:18:06 > 1:18:09- just work till we dead.- George, no.

1:18:09 > 1:18:10You gonna kill Massa Tom?

1:18:10 > 1:18:12That gonna make anything better for us?

1:18:12 > 1:18:16You think I've been ignorant about that man my whole life? Look at me!

1:18:16 > 1:18:19You think I don't know I'm his son?

1:18:19 > 1:18:21I've been drowning that truth in my head

1:18:21 > 1:18:24cos I want so bad for us to be away from here.

1:18:24 > 1:18:27And I ain't never gonna be that.

1:18:27 > 1:18:29We're all gonna be like Mingo.

1:18:29 > 1:18:31And I've been waiting for the right moment

1:18:31 > 1:18:34to give him everything he gave us, and right now I'm gonna kill him.

1:18:34 > 1:18:36No, you can't kill him.

1:18:36 > 1:18:39Cos then they gonna kill you, and that would rip me apart.

1:18:39 > 1:18:42All I know is how to make all this liveable.

1:18:42 > 1:18:44And can't do that no more.

1:18:46 > 1:18:49I almost took my life when you was born.

1:18:49 > 1:18:51And yours, too.

1:18:52 > 1:18:55For a while, I didn't know how to feel nothing.

1:18:55 > 1:18:58Nothing but shame and sorrow.

1:18:59 > 1:19:02And so far away from my mama and daddy,

1:19:02 > 1:19:04but it would have been a terrible sin

1:19:04 > 1:19:06against everything my daddy taught me.

1:19:06 > 1:19:10It seemed like I could hear his voice right here

1:19:10 > 1:19:12stopping me.

1:19:13 > 1:19:18He came to me, and I decided to live.

1:19:18 > 1:19:22You a fine man, George.

1:19:22 > 1:19:24And I ain't told you enough.

1:19:24 > 1:19:29Maybe I was scared you got too much of Massa's blood.

1:19:29 > 1:19:33But you have honoured my father.

1:19:33 > 1:19:37You here to keep this family going, to survive.

1:19:37 > 1:19:41He always said we fight when we need,

1:19:41 > 1:19:45but first, we got to survive.

1:19:45 > 1:19:50Tom Lea whole life gonna be a waste,

1:19:50 > 1:19:52but not yours.

1:19:52 > 1:19:55What keeps me living.

1:19:55 > 1:19:56I love you.

1:19:56 > 1:19:59I love you too much.

1:19:59 > 1:20:02Stay with me.

1:20:02 > 1:20:03Please.

1:20:04 > 1:20:06Live.

1:20:24 > 1:20:27CHICKENS CLUCK

1:20:32 > 1:20:33ROOSTER CROWS

1:20:33 > 1:20:35Oh, uh, Mingo wanted you to have this bucket

1:20:35 > 1:20:37with his secret feed in it.

1:20:37 > 1:20:38Hey, that's too heavy for you.

1:20:38 > 1:20:40Oh, shit.

1:21:16 > 1:21:20SLAVES SINGING

1:21:23 > 1:21:25BABY CRIES

1:21:33 > 1:21:35George, you and Matilda got two girls and two boys,

1:21:35 > 1:21:37and ain't none of them named Tom yet.

1:21:37 > 1:21:39I ain't giving them that man's name. Mama, you said...

1:21:39 > 1:21:41I know what I said,

1:21:41 > 1:21:44and I knew what he'd do if you don't name that boy Tom.

1:21:44 > 1:21:46He'll ride him the rest of his living days.

1:21:46 > 1:21:48Do it, George.

1:21:50 > 1:21:52Name him Tom.

1:21:52 > 1:21:53Tilda.

1:21:53 > 1:21:55Morning Dove, you need to rest.

1:21:55 > 1:21:57And I want you to name him

1:21:57 > 1:22:00the way Mama Kizzy says her daddy taught her.

1:22:00 > 1:22:02The way Kunta Kinte would do it.

1:22:04 > 1:22:07I know I didn't pay it no mind with all our other babies.

1:22:07 > 1:22:11It ain't the way my daddy taught me.

1:22:11 > 1:22:13But I heard Mama Kizzy telling the stories

1:22:13 > 1:22:15to the boys one night.

1:22:15 > 1:22:18Something passed through me, George.

1:22:19 > 1:22:21I don't see how both ways...

1:22:21 > 1:22:25mine and Mama Kizzy's... can't be true.

1:22:25 > 1:22:29And I believe it will protect this baby and all of us.

1:22:33 > 1:22:34I don't know how.

1:22:40 > 1:22:42Moving too fast for me, Mama.

1:22:42 > 1:22:44I ain't hardly trying, George.

1:22:44 > 1:22:48Like I say, them birds a soft kind of work.

1:22:53 > 1:22:54Here.

1:23:00 > 1:23:02How you know it's the right spot?

1:23:02 > 1:23:03I know.

1:23:13 > 1:23:14Look up, little one.

1:23:17 > 1:23:19That's the only thing greater than yourself.

1:23:34 > 1:23:37Gonna be more money at that Charleston jamboree

1:23:37 > 1:23:38than we ever seen,

1:23:38 > 1:23:40and I am gonna win it.

1:23:40 > 1:23:43And turn it to ash in a bonfire of foolishness...

1:23:43 > 1:23:44the way you always do.

1:23:45 > 1:23:48Matilda, after George leaves,

1:23:48 > 1:23:50get the children weaving new grain baskets.

1:23:50 > 1:23:52Ashford and George Jr can start clearing out

1:23:52 > 1:23:55- that stand of walnut trees. - Yes, ma'am.

1:23:55 > 1:23:57How we looking, George?

1:23:57 > 1:23:59We got ten strong killers,

1:23:59 > 1:24:01five young stags hungry for blood.

1:24:01 > 1:24:02I say we be fine,

1:24:02 > 1:24:04long as you listen to me.

1:24:04 > 1:24:07Can't ever talk to me like that, George.

1:24:07 > 1:24:08Goddamn.

1:24:08 > 1:24:10I swear I'll sell your ass in New Orleans.

1:24:10 > 1:24:12And fight your own birds.

1:24:13 > 1:24:15Look, George,

1:24:15 > 1:24:18there's more money to be won in that Charleston jamboree

1:24:18 > 1:24:19than we ever seen,

1:24:20 > 1:24:22and we got to win big.

1:24:22 > 1:24:24That's what we'll do.

1:24:24 > 1:24:28George, you and me used to be best friends.

1:24:28 > 1:24:31Ever since Mingo died,

1:24:31 > 1:24:33I can barely get a word out of you.

1:24:35 > 1:24:37It's a long road to Charleston, Massa Tom.

1:24:40 > 1:24:43I'm gonna go help our boys in the field.

1:24:43 > 1:24:45I'll bring back gifts for everybody,

1:24:45 > 1:24:46my morning dove.

1:24:46 > 1:24:50Just bring yourself home safe.

1:24:57 > 1:24:59Hey, hey, hey.

1:24:59 > 1:25:03You ain't never been gone this long before, George.

1:25:03 > 1:25:06Well, got you to watch over everybody.

1:25:06 > 1:25:08Ain't got no worries.

1:25:10 > 1:25:13And my daddy gonna watch over you.

1:25:13 > 1:25:15Charleston's a long ways away.

1:25:20 > 1:25:22Yes, Mama.

1:25:33 > 1:25:34Hyah!

1:25:46 > 1:25:49INDISTINCT CONVERSATION

1:25:49 > 1:25:51BAND PLAYS

1:25:57 > 1:26:01George, there's more money here than I ever thought could be.

1:26:01 > 1:26:03Where we going, Massa?

1:26:03 > 1:26:05TOM CLEARS THROAT

1:26:05 > 1:26:07Here he is, Jewett.

1:26:07 > 1:26:09Oh, Chicken George.

1:26:09 > 1:26:15Meet my cousin from Hampshire, Sir C Eric Russell.

1:26:15 > 1:26:16Jewett tells me you're a sovereign of avifauna.

1:26:16 > 1:26:19I look forward to testing your prowess against my birds.

1:26:19 > 1:26:21Thank you, sir.

1:26:21 > 1:26:24Tom Lea and I have wanted to settle once and for all

1:26:24 > 1:26:26who's best in our noble sport.

1:26:26 > 1:26:28But it's gonna cost you to find out.

1:26:28 > 1:26:31Mr Lea, while I understand your confidence

1:26:31 > 1:26:32about a bird or two,

1:26:32 > 1:26:35I did not get wealthy by betting small.

1:26:35 > 1:26:38A man who bets a mere thousand here or there

1:26:38 > 1:26:41is a man who won't risk enough to take what he wants.

1:26:41 > 1:26:44Or perhaps Chicken George is only a small-time fighter.

1:26:44 > 1:26:46Oh, you ain't never seen a fighter like me before...

1:26:46 > 1:26:47sir.

1:26:47 > 1:26:4910,000.

1:26:49 > 1:26:50MEN CHUCKLE

1:26:50 > 1:26:51Plus side bets.

1:26:57 > 1:26:58Accepted.

1:26:58 > 1:26:59CHEERING

1:26:59 > 1:27:0210,000 it is.

1:27:02 > 1:27:05And, boys, I'll be open to all offers.

1:27:05 > 1:27:07HE SPITS

1:27:11 > 1:27:12Gentlemen.

1:27:17 > 1:27:19- Feel good about the birds? - Best I ever felt.

1:27:19 > 1:27:21Today's the day, George.

1:27:21 > 1:27:23I'm gonna rise up above every man who ever looked down on me.

1:27:23 > 1:27:2510,000? Massa, you ain't got that much.

1:27:25 > 1:27:28Don't matter how much I got if we win, do it, George?

1:27:28 > 1:27:30Besides, my farm's worth half that much.

1:27:30 > 1:27:32No.

1:27:32 > 1:27:34Can't bet our home.

1:27:34 > 1:27:36Not where my family live.

1:27:42 > 1:27:44You win this for me,

1:27:44 > 1:27:46and I'll set you free.

1:27:46 > 1:27:47I swear.

1:27:49 > 1:27:51Write it.

1:27:51 > 1:27:54Write that paper, right here.

1:27:54 > 1:27:56Be waiting for you when you're done.

1:27:59 > 1:28:01This ain't no dream, George.

1:28:01 > 1:28:02Wide awake as I ever been.

1:28:03 > 1:28:07We're gonna be rich, just like I said.

1:28:15 > 1:28:17Who that Englishman think he is?

1:28:17 > 1:28:19How dare he fight us.

1:28:19 > 1:28:24We faster, smarter, stronger, prettier.

1:28:24 > 1:28:26Insult to be in the same pit with you and me.

1:28:26 > 1:28:29Come on now, you little bastard.

1:28:29 > 1:28:31I gave you blood and sweat.

1:28:31 > 1:28:34Make George a free man today.

1:28:34 > 1:28:37INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS

1:28:39 > 1:28:41George.

1:28:47 > 1:28:49- MAN:- Oyez! Oyez!

1:28:49 > 1:28:52Our final pair of the Charleston Main!

1:28:52 > 1:28:54A heavy match of birds.

1:28:54 > 1:28:566lb 4,

1:28:56 > 1:29:00Sir C Eric Russell of Hampshire, England.

1:29:00 > 1:29:04And Tom Lea of Caswell County, North Carolina.

1:29:04 > 1:29:06CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

1:29:06 > 1:29:11Gentlemen, face your birds!

1:29:11 > 1:29:13Come on now, George!

1:29:15 > 1:29:18ROOSTERS SQUAWK

1:29:20 > 1:29:21Rile 'em up.

1:29:23 > 1:29:25Step out.

1:29:29 > 1:29:31Ready!

1:29:31 > 1:29:33TOM: Come on now, George.

1:29:35 > 1:29:36Pit your cocks!

1:29:41 > 1:29:43- MAN:- Kill him! - Fight him!

1:29:45 > 1:29:47Come on now!

1:29:47 > 1:29:49Come down on him!

1:29:50 > 1:29:52Come on, George.

1:29:58 > 1:30:00Come on! Get him, boy!

1:30:08 > 1:30:10Come on now, Red! Come on, Red!

1:30:17 > 1:30:19- MAN:- The match goes to Tom Lea!

1:30:19 > 1:30:21- Yes!- Yeah!

1:30:21 > 1:30:23Whoo!

1:30:23 > 1:30:26Yeah, boys!

1:30:26 > 1:30:28CHEERING

1:30:38 > 1:30:40Thanks, boys.

1:31:10 > 1:31:12I'm free.

1:31:14 > 1:31:17HE LAUGHS

1:31:17 > 1:31:19I'm free!

1:31:21 > 1:31:24- I'm free! - HE LAUGHS LOUDLY

1:31:30 > 1:31:32Now you get the cock out.

1:31:39 > 1:31:40TOM LAUGHS

1:31:40 > 1:31:42Come on. Get in it.

1:31:42 > 1:31:43Get in, boys.

1:31:43 > 1:31:45Glad y'all made money.

1:31:47 > 1:31:49I know you can read it, George.

1:31:49 > 1:31:52Know Kizzy been teaching you.

1:31:52 > 1:31:54It looks fine.

1:31:54 > 1:31:56It look real fine.

1:31:56 > 1:31:58- SIR ERIC:- Your man has a rare skill.

1:32:00 > 1:32:01Plain to see.

1:32:01 > 1:32:03And yet why do I feel like a marionette,

1:32:03 > 1:32:07my strings pulled by a clever manipulator?

1:32:07 > 1:32:08Did you set me up, Mr Lea?

1:32:08 > 1:32:09GEORGE CHUCKLES

1:32:09 > 1:32:11You challenged me.

1:32:11 > 1:32:15I had the courage to take it, and I had the man to win it.

1:32:15 > 1:32:18Then I assume your courage will permit me

1:32:18 > 1:32:19an opportunity to recoup my losses,

1:32:19 > 1:32:21penny for penny.

1:32:21 > 1:32:23Well, even an Irishman understands fair play.

1:32:23 > 1:32:26Sir Eric is willing to wager another 10,000.

1:32:26 > 1:32:27CROWD MURMURS

1:32:30 > 1:32:33Can your damn English cousin handle 20,000?

1:32:33 > 1:32:34CROWD MURMURS

1:32:37 > 1:32:39I relish the opportunity.

1:32:39 > 1:32:40Done.

1:32:40 > 1:32:42CHEERING

1:32:45 > 1:32:47Come with me, cousin.

1:32:47 > 1:32:48I have something I want to show you.

1:32:50 > 1:32:52Here you are, sir.

1:32:54 > 1:32:56His line has fought for kings.

1:32:56 > 1:32:58He'll have no trouble with an Irishman and a nigger.

1:32:58 > 1:33:01ROOSTER SQUAWKS

1:33:09 > 1:33:10My money's on you.

1:33:10 > 1:33:11My money's on you. You can do it.

1:33:11 > 1:33:12Do it, George.

1:33:12 > 1:33:14Come on, clear the ring!

1:33:25 > 1:33:28- MAN:- Look at the size of that.

1:33:31 > 1:33:34Look at the bird. He's looking well.

1:33:36 > 1:33:38Oyez! Oyez!

1:33:38 > 1:33:40A private hack between Tom Lea

1:33:40 > 1:33:43of Caswell County, North Carolina...

1:33:43 > 1:33:44APPLAUSE

1:33:44 > 1:33:48..and Sir C Eric Russell of Hampshire, England.

1:33:48 > 1:33:50APPLAUSE

1:33:50 > 1:33:52Gentlemen, face your birds!

1:33:52 > 1:33:55CHEERING

1:33:55 > 1:33:58ROOSTERS SQUAWK

1:33:58 > 1:33:59That's it, George.

1:33:59 > 1:34:01Step out!

1:34:01 > 1:34:04- MAN:- Oh, he smells blood, Chicken George! I know it!

1:34:04 > 1:34:07- MAN:- Let's go, Chicken George!

1:34:07 > 1:34:08Gentlemen...

1:34:11 > 1:34:12..pit your cocks!

1:34:12 > 1:34:15Come on! Come on, now!

1:34:24 > 1:34:26Damn it!

1:34:28 > 1:34:30- MAN:- That's it! That's it!

1:34:30 > 1:34:33- Just like that!- Come on, boy!

1:34:33 > 1:34:36Down! Down! Down! Come down hard on him!

1:34:37 > 1:34:40ROOSTER CROWS

1:34:41 > 1:34:44ROOSTER SQUAWKS

1:34:44 > 1:34:45Come on, George!

1:34:45 > 1:34:47Come on!

1:34:48 > 1:34:50Come on.

1:34:53 > 1:34:54Shit!

1:34:59 > 1:35:00Finish him!

1:35:08 > 1:35:10- MAN:- Match to Sir C Eric Russell.

1:35:22 > 1:35:25SOUND FADES OUT

1:35:49 > 1:35:50George.

1:35:52 > 1:35:54I don't know what happened. We need to set up another fight.

1:35:54 > 1:35:59They gamed us, George, like fish at the end of a line.

1:35:59 > 1:36:01I lost everything...

1:36:02 > 1:36:03..every penny.

1:36:06 > 1:36:10Look, George, the farm ain't gonna cover my bets.

1:36:10 > 1:36:12Ain't even gonna cover what I borrowed against it.

1:36:13 > 1:36:15I'm ruined,

1:36:15 > 1:36:18but that English bastard's offering me a way out.

1:36:19 > 1:36:20SIGHS

1:36:20 > 1:36:23Said he never saw a man with a touch for the birds like you.

1:36:23 > 1:36:27Said you was a magician. Used that very word.

1:36:27 > 1:36:29What you saying?

1:36:29 > 1:36:30HE SIGHS

1:36:30 > 1:36:32Not to drag it out,

1:36:32 > 1:36:35that Englishman will call me even if I give you to him...

1:36:35 > 1:36:37take back to England.

1:36:37 > 1:36:38- England?!- Mm-hm.

1:36:38 > 1:36:40Now you ain't making no sense.

1:36:40 > 1:36:43Train his birds and his handlers.

1:36:43 > 1:36:46I don't understand what the hell you saying to me.

1:36:46 > 1:36:48I'm free! That's what we agreed.

1:36:48 > 1:36:50Money was in my hand, George.

1:36:50 > 1:36:52What's worse than being rich for one day?

1:36:52 > 1:36:54You can't tell me to leave my family!

1:36:54 > 1:36:56I ain't going nowhere for you, you understand me?!

1:36:56 > 1:36:58I'm sorry, George.

1:36:58 > 1:37:00I ain't got no other way to survive.

1:37:00 > 1:37:01The time will pass like a summer squall.

1:37:01 > 1:37:04No, you bastard. I am a free man.

1:37:04 > 1:37:07You ain't free, George.

1:37:07 > 1:37:10Not unless I register them papers with the county.

1:37:10 > 1:37:12Now I will tell you something.

1:37:12 > 1:37:15When you come back, I'll have papers

1:37:15 > 1:37:18- for your whole family waiting in a lockbox.- I'm not going!

1:37:18 > 1:37:20I'm tired of explaining it to you!

1:37:20 > 1:37:23I don't have to give no damn explanation to no damn slave!

1:37:23 > 1:37:27Sir Eric's carriage is leaving. Do not resist. Do not waste his time.

1:37:27 > 1:37:29You can't do this! You hear me?!

1:37:29 > 1:37:30I earned it! I'm free!

1:37:30 > 1:37:33You low bastard, Tom Lea!

1:37:33 > 1:37:34You ain't a man!

1:37:34 > 1:37:37You don't love nothing but money and a whisky jug!

1:37:37 > 1:37:39That's all you love!

1:37:39 > 1:37:41- Get this nigger off of me!- Stop him!

1:37:43 > 1:37:45You really are the trash everybody says you is!

1:37:45 > 1:37:49Ain't got no honour and ain't got no pride!

1:37:49 > 1:37:51Not even say goodbye to my family?!

1:37:51 > 1:37:53Matilda?! My children and my mama?!

1:37:53 > 1:37:56You a lying dog, Tom Lea!

1:37:56 > 1:37:57Who gonna watch 'em, Tom?!

1:37:57 > 1:37:59Who gonna watch my family?!

1:37:59 > 1:38:01- Tom Lea! - HE GRUNTS

1:38:10 > 1:38:12HE COUGHS

1:38:20 > 1:38:21HORSE NEIGHS

1:38:51 > 1:38:53HE ROARS