0:00:02 > 0:00:07This programme contains scenes of sexual violence, some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting
0:00:07 > 0:00:09and graphic violent scenes.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11And I will name you Kizzy. I think I was selfish
0:00:11 > 0:00:12to have you born into a world like this.
0:00:12 > 0:00:14You trained me well.
0:00:14 > 0:00:16Kizzy!
0:00:16 > 0:00:18CRYING
0:00:18 > 0:00:19Kizzy!
0:00:19 > 0:00:21This is my right!
0:00:21 > 0:00:22Help me!
0:00:22 > 0:00:24I'm going to name you after my daddy...
0:00:24 > 0:00:26George Lea II.
0:00:26 > 0:00:27CROWD CHANT: Chicken George.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29Come on. What you got, boy?
0:00:31 > 0:00:34I got to know a time going to come when I can buy me free.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36I don't see why not, George.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38And I'm going to see you again, my mornin' dove.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40ALL CHEERING
0:00:40 > 0:00:42A name is who you is.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46My daddy took whippings to protect his name.
0:00:46 > 0:00:47You get to making babies,
0:00:47 > 0:00:50Tom would be a fine name for a boy.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52Just bring yourself home safe.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57You win this for me, and I'll set you free.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59I swear.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06That Englishman will call me even if I give you to him...
0:01:06 > 0:01:08- take back to England. - England?!
0:01:08 > 0:01:09Get this nigger off of me!
0:01:09 > 0:01:11Who going to watch my family?
0:01:11 > 0:01:13Tom Lea!
0:01:14 > 0:01:16HE PANTS AND SCREAMS
0:01:40 > 0:01:42£100 on the red.
0:01:42 > 0:01:43£200 on the white.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45£500 on the white.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47I can take some bets.
0:01:47 > 0:01:52- ALEX:- 'Mandinka say, "Everything that enchants also deceives."'
0:01:52 > 0:01:54I'm not sure which is more exotic...
0:01:54 > 0:01:55your bird or your nigger.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58Now, would another £10,000 clarify the issue?
0:01:59 > 0:02:00Done.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02Excellent.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08All right, there he is.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12We're stronger, faster, smarter, prettier.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15Insult to be in the same pit with you and me.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Now, what you going to do about it?
0:02:17 > 0:02:18CHICKEN CLUCKS
0:02:20 > 0:02:21LAUGHTER
0:02:21 > 0:02:22Whoo!
0:02:22 > 0:02:27Ladies and gentlemen, America is a wild and dangerous land.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30One time, I saw a Carolina bobcat
0:02:30 > 0:02:32drag a man high up a hickory tree,
0:02:32 > 0:02:35and two minutes later, his skeleton fell back down.
0:02:35 > 0:02:36Flesh picked clean.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Just raining bones. Clickety-clack.
0:02:38 > 0:02:39I've been chased by savages, painted faces...
0:02:39 > 0:02:42'After he was sent off to settle a gambling debt,
0:02:42 > 0:02:45'Chicken George won nearly every match.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48'The English loved him, and he fell
0:02:48 > 0:02:50'into his old ways, playing to the crowd.'
0:02:50 > 0:02:51Let me tell you now,
0:02:51 > 0:02:54I have wrestled mountain men big as bears.
0:02:54 > 0:02:58They all naked. They man parts covered only by their beards.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00- LAUGHTER - Chicken George!
0:03:00 > 0:03:03ALL: Chicken George!
0:03:03 > 0:03:05You've served me well, George,
0:03:05 > 0:03:07and I want to assure you that when I've earned back
0:03:07 > 0:03:10the money Tom Lea lost to me, I will send you home a free man.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Just wanted to know, sir.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14When would that be?
0:03:14 > 0:03:15Sir, how much longer I got...
0:03:15 > 0:03:17I will tell you when the time is right.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22'By the time Sir Eric set him free,
0:03:22 > 0:03:25'George had been in England for over 20 years...
0:03:25 > 0:03:28'no longer enchanted, no longer deceived.'
0:03:32 > 0:03:33Stand at the gate.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35BABY CRIES
0:03:37 > 0:03:42'Travelling homeward, George felt the past surge around him.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46'He remembered how Kizzy said Kunta Kinte came to visit her,
0:03:46 > 0:03:48'but George was afraid that his vision
0:03:48 > 0:03:50'would mean something different...
0:03:50 > 0:03:53'that his seven children would think of him
0:03:53 > 0:03:55'as little more than another story.
0:03:55 > 0:03:59'Or worse, that they had forgotten him altogether.'
0:04:01 > 0:04:04WOMAN SINGS INDISTINCTLY
0:04:15 > 0:04:16SINGING CONTINUES
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Did you fall?
0:04:21 > 0:04:23I just sit away from the trees,
0:04:23 > 0:04:25feel the light on my face.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27SHE RESUMES SINGING Miss Malizy?
0:04:28 > 0:04:30It's George.
0:04:30 > 0:04:31- George? - Chicken George.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33I'm back from England.
0:04:33 > 0:04:34George?
0:04:36 > 0:04:38Come on now. Let's get you up.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42SHE HUMS
0:04:52 > 0:04:54CREAKING
0:04:59 > 0:05:02SHE CONTINUES HUMMING
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Where is my family?
0:05:05 > 0:05:08I know where your mama is.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17Kizzy got a pain in her side.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19She knew she was dying.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21Mama.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27I'm sorry.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31Mama...
0:05:40 > 0:05:42HE SNIFFLES
0:05:45 > 0:05:47Miss Malizy, I'm going to look around.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50Then I'll come back and take you with me.
0:05:50 > 0:05:51Oh, no, sir. No, no.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54I got a right to be here.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57I worked this ground every day of my life.
0:05:58 > 0:06:03I got a right to be buried by Kizzy.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05Miss Malizy, I got to go look for my family.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07You ask Master Tom?
0:06:08 > 0:06:11Tom Lea's still alive?
0:06:11 > 0:06:13Mm-hmm.
0:06:13 > 0:06:14DOOR CREAKS
0:06:24 > 0:06:26CHICKENS SQUAWK
0:06:34 > 0:06:35GUNSHOT
0:06:35 > 0:06:36GUN COCKS
0:06:38 > 0:06:41I'll shoot you, nigger, right here.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45Let my chickens peck at your cold, black body.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47I know you're here to rob me.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50But I reckon I could kill you first.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53Kill your own baby boy, Massa Tom?
0:06:54 > 0:06:56I know you?
0:06:57 > 0:06:59Sure you do.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01HE GASPS All right.
0:07:03 > 0:07:04George?
0:07:05 > 0:07:07My George?
0:07:10 > 0:07:12You come back for me, George.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18HE SOBS
0:07:24 > 0:07:26You say his name Benjamin Murray,
0:07:26 > 0:07:28Alamance County?
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Murray. Benjamin Murray.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33That's who bought my children?
0:07:33 > 0:07:37He an engineer at the Fayetteville arsenal - that right?
0:07:38 > 0:07:41Needed the money, George.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43How could you leave me?
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Oh, I didn't leave you.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48You sold me to pay a gambling debt,
0:07:48 > 0:07:50just like you sold my children.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54I taught you everything.
0:07:54 > 0:07:55It's all right.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58Got you a life with fancy folk in England.
0:07:58 > 0:07:59What did I get?
0:08:01 > 0:08:03Patricia run off.
0:08:03 > 0:08:04Whore.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07Old niggers can hardly work.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14Who's going to look after me, George?
0:08:14 > 0:08:17Who's going to cook and clean?
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Who's going to obey me?
0:08:19 > 0:08:22You said you'd leave papers for my family,
0:08:22 > 0:08:24so they free.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28You swore that to me as they was dragging me away!
0:08:28 > 0:08:32Said you'd set my wife and all my children free.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34So did you write them papers for my family?
0:08:34 > 0:08:36Where are they?
0:08:36 > 0:08:37HE PANTS
0:08:37 > 0:08:39You a man without honour, Tom Lea.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43You walked your feet out them dirt hills
0:08:43 > 0:08:45but not your filthy soul.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47You and me have the same blood, boy.
0:08:49 > 0:08:50I'm your daddy.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53No, the blood in me from Kizzy, not you...
0:08:53 > 0:08:55blood that kept me strong all these years away.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58What few good things I done, that the blood of my grandaddy.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01And every damn bit of foolishness in me,
0:09:01 > 0:09:03everything weak, everything selfish...
0:09:03 > 0:09:07that's you, Tom Lea, cos that's who you is.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10You ain't smart enough to change yourself.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14And the truth is, your whole damn life...
0:09:16 > 0:09:18..you was a slave too.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21You just never knew it.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32Goddamn you.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37Tom?
0:09:37 > 0:09:38Tom!
0:09:39 > 0:09:41Oh, Tom!
0:09:41 > 0:09:43Mama, what you doing out here? You got to get to work.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45I need you to stop at the Barton farm on your way back.
0:09:45 > 0:09:46See Old Man Augustus.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48He...he sells that special chestnut tea for asthma.
0:09:48 > 0:09:49Mama, I'm not passing that way.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52Besides, Massa Murray knows how many stops I make.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54Son.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56I'll work fast, Mama.
0:09:56 > 0:09:57Bring some back for you.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Hey, now you got to get to work.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02You got a big heart, like your daddy.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05I ain't like my daddy.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07I'll never do nothing foolish to make Massa Murray angry,
0:10:07 > 0:10:09get myself sold away.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16You just get home safe.
0:10:16 > 0:10:17It only takes one crazy redneck,
0:10:17 > 0:10:20and Massa's road papers don't mean nothing.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22Just look after Irene and that baby in her belly.
0:10:22 > 0:10:24Now, get going now.
0:10:24 > 0:10:25CLICKS TONGUE
0:10:25 > 0:10:26Hyah!
0:10:26 > 0:10:30METAL CLANKS
0:10:30 > 0:10:32Business used to come to me in bunches.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35Now with all this war talk, can't keep my shop open.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38It ain't safe to be a coloured free man in Carolina no more.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40Ain't never been safe to be a slave.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42Mm-hmm.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44I hear Mr Murray send a fine blacksmith
0:10:44 > 0:10:45like you all over the state, Tom.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47He pay you a little?
0:10:47 > 0:10:48I need to finish up with you, man.
0:10:50 > 0:10:51Come on out here, boy.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58This boy a runaway. Stay up here mostly.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01I tell folks he's my slave.
0:11:01 > 0:11:02Some freemen keep niggers, too.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04How long you been hiding?
0:11:04 > 0:11:06August be seven whole years.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08Seven years?
0:11:08 > 0:11:11My brother and me ran away from Chatham County.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13He got caught, but they didn't see me.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15I hid in the bushes.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17Saw them patrol boys hang him.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20When I passed by here, Orly let me hide.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22I'm leaving the state soon,
0:11:22 > 0:11:23and this boy ain't got no papers, Tom.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25You got a pass lets you go anywhere.
0:11:25 > 0:11:26Name's Winslow.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31Just get me by the docks at Elizabeth City.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33Going to sneak on a barge going north.
0:11:35 > 0:11:36Can't help.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39Massa Murray knows how long it takes me to make my rounds.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41Got a clock for a heart.
0:11:41 > 0:11:45Besides, I need to earn money for my family, buy them free.
0:11:45 > 0:11:46Can't I be free?
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Whoa, whoa, whoa.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05What's this place?
0:12:05 > 0:12:08Crossing into Duplin County.
0:12:08 > 0:12:09HORSE NEIGHS
0:12:09 > 0:12:12Come on, now.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15You got no papers, and I ain't got
0:12:15 > 0:12:17no way to prove you working with me.
0:12:17 > 0:12:18So best take off now.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20Can't just leave me out here.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22You lucky I took you this far!
0:12:22 > 0:12:24HORSE NEIGHS
0:12:24 > 0:12:25And if they catch you,
0:12:25 > 0:12:28you better not tell nobody my name, understand?
0:12:28 > 0:12:29Come on.
0:12:31 > 0:12:32Get in them trees now!
0:12:34 > 0:12:35Hyah, hyah!
0:12:50 > 0:12:52That's far enough!
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Just stop there!
0:12:55 > 0:12:56If I can just explain.
0:12:56 > 0:12:57That's far enough.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59I see that pistol in your waist.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01You put it down, or I'll swear
0:13:01 > 0:13:03I'll take it from your dead body.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06Toomey, what's all the fuss?
0:13:06 > 0:13:08Nigger has a gun.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12I got a reason to be here.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14If I can just speak to Mr Murray.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16I'm his son.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19First, you need to prove to me you ain't here
0:13:19 > 0:13:20to cause trouble with our niggers.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22Who is it, Frederick?
0:13:22 > 0:13:25We got a smart-mouth nigger came strolling on the farm
0:13:25 > 0:13:29in his fancy clothes like he's paying a social call.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31Got a fancy gun, too.
0:13:33 > 0:13:39For all I know, he's here to provoke an insurrection.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45- Hey, you know that old boy? - Mnh-mnh.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48But he remind me of a man about to die.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50Benjamin, is there trouble?
0:13:50 > 0:13:52Oh, it's nothing to concern yourself with, Charlotte.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55- SHE COUGHS - Matilda, take my wife inside.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57Come inside.
0:13:57 > 0:13:58You need some nice, hot steam, ma'am.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00Mornin' Dove!
0:14:05 > 0:14:07George?
0:14:09 > 0:14:11- FREDERICK:- Tilda, you know this boy?
0:14:11 > 0:14:13That's my George, my husband.
0:14:15 > 0:14:16GUN COCKS
0:14:16 > 0:14:18Take another step, I'll shoot you right here.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22Then you will kill Matilda's husband and a free man.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24Check my pocket.
0:14:24 > 0:14:25You'll see my paper.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35I was manumitted by Sir CE Russell
0:14:35 > 0:14:37of Hampshire, England.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39That's his family seal.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42This is a free nigger.
0:14:42 > 0:14:46So return his property and obey the law.
0:14:46 > 0:14:47Thank you, sir.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54There's your fancy gun, nigger.
0:14:56 > 0:15:00Tilda, if this man is your husband,
0:15:00 > 0:15:04you will see him after the workday is done.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06Until then,
0:15:06 > 0:15:09I will allow him to wait on the road.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14We've been parted a long time, Tilda.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16Few more hours ain't no bother to us.
0:15:26 > 0:15:32# Soon I will be done
0:15:32 > 0:15:34# Trouble of the world... #
0:15:34 > 0:15:38MAN: I want to see a lot less talk and a hell of a lot more work!
0:15:38 > 0:15:44# Trouble of the world
0:15:44 > 0:15:49# Trouble of the world
0:15:50 > 0:15:55# Soon I will be done
0:15:55 > 0:16:00# Trouble of the world
0:16:00 > 0:16:02HORN BLARES
0:16:02 > 0:16:10# Goin' home to live with God
0:16:13 > 0:16:19# No more
0:16:19 > 0:16:24# Weepin' and wailin'
0:16:24 > 0:16:30# No more
0:16:30 > 0:16:35# Weepin' and wailin'
0:16:35 > 0:16:43# With God. #
0:16:51 > 0:16:53All this work, George.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55Am I still pretty?
0:16:57 > 0:17:00I dreamed of you so many years.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02My dreams failed me.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04SHE SIGHS
0:17:04 > 0:17:06You are so much more beautiful
0:17:06 > 0:17:08than I could possibly bring to mind.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12Now let me watch you bein' my wife.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14SHE LAUGHS
0:17:14 > 0:17:15Unless you had enough.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17No.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19I'm just getting started.
0:17:19 > 0:17:20Mm-hmm.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29COCK CROWS
0:17:30 > 0:17:32GOAT BLEATS
0:17:47 > 0:17:50Daddy! I'm Li'l Kizzy.
0:17:50 > 0:17:52SHE CRIES
0:17:55 > 0:17:57Hi, Li'l Kizzy.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59Hi.
0:17:59 > 0:18:00That your little scamp?
0:18:00 > 0:18:03Yeah, that's...that's Uriah.
0:18:03 > 0:18:04I'm... I'm Virgil...sir.
0:18:04 > 0:18:05"Sir"?
0:18:05 > 0:18:07Boy, you my first-born son.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09This is, uh... this is my Lily Su.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11- That's me. - Man and wife?
0:18:11 > 0:18:13Well, Lily Su's man got killed when his wagon tipped,
0:18:13 > 0:18:15but, um, Massa Murray, he promises that...
0:18:15 > 0:18:17that we can get married one day.
0:18:19 > 0:18:20You just as pretty as the sunrise.
0:18:20 > 0:18:24- Almost pretty as me. - LAUGHTER
0:18:24 > 0:18:25Ashford's our family cat.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Can't stay home at night.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29Well, we'll just have to tie a bell to his paw
0:18:29 > 0:18:31so the gals can hear him coming.
0:18:31 > 0:18:32LAUGHTER
0:18:32 > 0:18:34COUGHING
0:18:34 > 0:18:35Oh, you James.
0:18:35 > 0:18:36That's right, Daddy.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39Boy, you was thin-boned as a sparrow when I left.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41Massa let a doctor come by here?
0:18:41 > 0:18:43Massa Frederick won't pay for no doctor.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45Says we need to use our own ways.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47I don't need to see a doctor, Daddy.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49I feel stronger every day.
0:18:49 > 0:18:53And this is Irene, Tom's first baby.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57Got that Cherokee hair.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59You don't seem so high-strung like she say.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01And you don't seem so foolish
0:19:01 > 0:19:05and no-account, like my Tom says.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07LAUGHTER
0:19:07 > 0:19:08Where's Tom?
0:19:08 > 0:19:10Why ain't he standing by you with that big belly?
0:19:10 > 0:19:13Massa Murray says Tom is the best blacksmith in Carolina.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15Rents him out all over the state.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17Helps Massa Murray build his guns.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19Gets paid, too.
0:19:19 > 0:19:20Saving to buy us free.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22A slave never can pay enough.
0:19:24 > 0:19:25Never.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33Where are my other children?
0:19:40 > 0:19:45George Junior, Louis, and Mary got sold off
0:19:45 > 0:19:47a few weeks after we came.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51Massa Murray said he sorry, but he couldn't keep all of us.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54We tried to keep in touch with them, Daddy, but, uh,
0:19:54 > 0:19:56ain't none of them in Carolina no more.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04It's my fault...all of it.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06Now, you listen now.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08I put my trust in false things.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Thought I'd put on a show for the massas, they act kindly.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Thought they money and hurrahs mean respect.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14I was a damn fool.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17I'm going to keep this family together,
0:20:17 > 0:20:19just like my mama Kizzy wanted,
0:20:19 > 0:20:22just like her daddy, Kunta Kinte, before her.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25Now, Daddy been gone a long time.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29That ain't never going to happen again.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34"Mississippi, Florida, Alabama have done
0:20:34 > 0:20:38"their sacred duty to join South Carolina in secession.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40"It is time for North Carolina
0:20:40 > 0:20:42"to stand up and join her brothers."
0:20:42 > 0:20:44They printed your entire letter, darling.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47We'll vote war, and sooner than later.
0:20:47 > 0:20:48Frederick, so many boys will die.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50Lincoln is weak.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53He won't dare send his soldiers so far away from home.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56And if he does, in two weeks, we'll declare victory.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59North Carolina will reward the men that led us to freedom,
0:20:59 > 0:21:01turn to them for leadership for a new country.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03Secession isn't something everyone wants.
0:21:03 > 0:21:06It's too extreme. Common sense can still prevail.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Common sense abandoned this country long ago.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10Why should New York and Boston
0:21:10 > 0:21:12and Philadelphia tell us how to live?
0:21:12 > 0:21:13They don't understand.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16There is no South without slavery.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20Haven't I found my match, Mother?
0:21:20 > 0:21:21Commence firing!
0:21:23 > 0:21:25Cannoneers, cease fire!
0:21:28 > 0:21:29Service the piece.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31Cannoneers, load!
0:21:31 > 0:21:34See, Massa Murray runs test for the army.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36- Advance the round! - Guns and cannons, bullets, too.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38Says if war comes, Southern boys
0:21:38 > 0:21:40- going to need to make their own guns.- Mm-hmm.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43What's your brother Tom going to do with all this?
0:21:43 > 0:21:46See, Massa Murray asks his opinion all the time.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48If something gets made by hammer and fire,
0:21:48 > 0:21:50Tom's the one massa depends on.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52Cannoneers, commence firing.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56HORSE WHINNIES
0:21:56 > 0:21:58Watch out for Frederick, though, Daddy.
0:21:58 > 0:21:59He part cannon hisself.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01Never know when he going off.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04Cannoneers, load!
0:22:04 > 0:22:05Sorry I'm late, massa.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Just got back.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Your father's been anxious to see you.
0:22:09 > 0:22:10My father?
0:22:10 > 0:22:13Chicken George ain't no cock-and-bull story, boy!
0:22:13 > 0:22:16Here's our daddy hisself.
0:22:16 > 0:22:20He's got lots of real good stories to tell, too.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23Got no time for stories.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26Got too much work now.
0:22:26 > 0:22:27- FREDERICK:- Daddy.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30We're getting quite the collection on the farm.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33Every nigger but the Lost Tribe of Israel.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36How long you plan on visiting with us, Chicken George?
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Oh, I ain't visiting.
0:22:38 > 0:22:42I told Mr Murray I'm living here now with my family.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44Mrs Murray relies on Matilda.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47Having your father here has...has brightened her mood.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50That's a great kindness, sir, to be with my children again.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55Cannoneers, commence firing!
0:22:55 > 0:22:57EXPLOSION
0:22:58 > 0:23:00INDISTINCT SHOUTING
0:23:00 > 0:23:02- HORSE WHINNIES - Whoa, whoa, whoa.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04Ho, ho, ho, ho.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06HORSE WHINNIES
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Is everyone all right?
0:23:08 > 0:23:10Breech exploded. What went wrong?
0:23:10 > 0:23:12Need more precision on the ball.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14Ain't truly round.
0:23:14 > 0:23:15How the hell do you know that?
0:23:15 > 0:23:18- By my hands. - Nonsense.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Bamboozle my father.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22You lie to me, I'll string you up by your toes.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Collect the pieces.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27Ashford, get over here and help clean this up.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30Mr Murray think real highly of you, son.
0:23:30 > 0:23:31I keep on his good side.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33Ain't no good side for no slave.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36Any good side dry up faster that rain in a summer field.
0:23:36 > 0:23:37Bet on it.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40Betting is your game, not mine.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44If Massa Murray want to play papa to me, I'm going to let him.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47Do anything to make it easier for my family.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54Ain't every nigger get made the fool by his white daddy.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59WALTZ PLAYS
0:23:59 > 0:24:01INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS
0:24:08 > 0:24:10- There we go. - There she is.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16WOMAN: Bring another plate out here.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26SHE SIGHS You can't slow down?
0:24:26 > 0:24:29Miss Nancy's barkin' orders like she runnin' the farm already.
0:24:29 > 0:24:30She can bark all she want.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33We just got to see if her bite is bad as his.
0:24:33 > 0:24:34Her folks here?
0:24:34 > 0:24:36Both her folks died and left her a place in Raleigh.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39She a book-smart lady.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42Frederick fell for her as easy as a slip on a river rock.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51What's wrong, son?
0:24:51 > 0:24:52Them boys right there...
0:24:52 > 0:24:54They Mr Frederick boyhood friends.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56They ain't even going to let Abe Lincoln
0:24:56 > 0:24:58on a ballot in North Carolina.
0:24:58 > 0:24:59APPLAUSE
0:25:02 > 0:25:04SLOW WALTZ PLAYS
0:25:13 > 0:25:15That's my mama's song.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18Every band in the county plays it now.
0:25:18 > 0:25:22It's changed some but always the same.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24I can hear Mama Kizzy humming it.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28These folks don't know where it come from.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31Well, we do, Mornin' Dove.
0:25:31 > 0:25:32Dance with me.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34George, we ain't allowed.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37Oh, I'm allowed to dance with my wife.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41It's been years, George.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46BOTH CHUCKLE
0:25:54 > 0:25:56Come on, honey. Let's go back in.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01Stop it right now. You shouldn't be around here.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04You know Massa Frederick don't like you around here.
0:26:04 > 0:26:05Boy, why don't you worry more about
0:26:05 > 0:26:07they working your Irene too hard?
0:26:07 > 0:26:10Go ahead, ask Massa Murray to let her rest till the baby come,
0:26:10 > 0:26:12since he looking out for you now like a father.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Or maybe I'll just buy my Irene free
0:26:14 > 0:26:15with all that money you won in England.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17Both of you, stop this.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20I got to get back inside to Miss Charlotte.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22SHE SIGHS
0:26:26 > 0:26:29Every penny I saved to come home to my family.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31Hallelujah!
0:26:31 > 0:26:33Like mama's daddy used to preach.
0:26:33 > 0:26:34The old massa sent me to England.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36I ain't got no choice.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38I was a slave. What else could I do?
0:26:38 > 0:26:41All I ever heard was how you wanted to gamble your way to be free.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43Ain't the truth, Daddy.
0:26:43 > 0:26:44You liked it.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47APPLAUSE
0:26:47 > 0:26:50Ain't no right way to be a slave.
0:26:50 > 0:26:54Only thing they ever going to understand is this right here.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56You old fool!
0:26:56 > 0:26:57You keep flashing that gun around,
0:26:57 > 0:26:59and we'll both be hanged from an oak tree.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13Think I don't want to take my hammer
0:27:13 > 0:27:15and cave in a man's head who spits at my brothers
0:27:15 > 0:27:17or...or insults Mama?
0:27:17 > 0:27:20But what happens next?
0:27:20 > 0:27:23After they kill me or...or sell me?
0:27:23 > 0:27:25Who watches out for the family?
0:27:25 > 0:27:30But that was never you, Daddy, cos you...
0:27:30 > 0:27:32you had to be Chicken George,
0:27:32 > 0:27:35livin' the sportin' life.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45Let me hold your hand.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47You know who holds hands?
0:27:48 > 0:27:51Mandinka warriors from Africa.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54They're the strongest, toughest boys in this whole world.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57You got to teach my baby, too, Daddy.
0:27:57 > 0:28:01Don't you worry. I got lots to teach you about Kunta Kinte.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03HORSE WHINNIES
0:28:03 > 0:28:04As your lawyer, I'd prefer you
0:28:04 > 0:28:07to refrain from shooting Chicken George.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10A trial requires my valuable time, even played as a farce.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12Here's where you say you have a smarter idea.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15- HE CHUCKLES - I have a smarter idea.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18North Carolina law's clear.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21Now, freedom granted to any slave shall be
0:28:21 > 0:28:23upon the expressed condition that he leave the state
0:28:23 > 0:28:26within 90 days and never return.
0:28:26 > 0:28:28How long has he been on your farm?
0:28:28 > 0:28:30Over two months now.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32On the 91st day, you can seize him and sell him.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35Why quibble over days when you can just take him?
0:28:35 > 0:28:37No, no, keep it by the book.
0:28:37 > 0:28:39Old Chicken George will find out
0:28:39 > 0:28:41I'm a bag of nails compared to my father.
0:28:41 > 0:28:42You leaving here tonight.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44I'm right where I should be.
0:28:46 > 0:28:48Is this all the bread you could find?
0:28:48 > 0:28:51Frederick and his friends ate through the pantry like a plague of locusts.
0:28:51 > 0:28:53- Matilda, hold on.- James will drive you to the Durham road.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56And don't go waving these papers talking about you free.
0:28:56 > 0:28:58Might as well throw a stone at a wasp nest.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00Get the small cart ready.
0:29:00 > 0:29:04We won't tell your brothers or your sisters until your daddy is far away.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08I ain't leaving.
0:29:08 > 0:29:10Hey.
0:29:10 > 0:29:13Mr Murray ain't that bad, and as for Frederick...
0:29:13 > 0:29:15And I'm telling you Massa Murray grows older every day.
0:29:15 > 0:29:17Can't control Frederick.
0:29:17 > 0:29:19He is as bad as they come.
0:29:19 > 0:29:21He'll make your life a torment,
0:29:21 > 0:29:23then sell you Mississippi way or kill you.
0:29:23 > 0:29:24I ain't scared of that boy.
0:29:26 > 0:29:28I can't leave you again.
0:29:28 > 0:29:30And I won't.
0:29:30 > 0:29:31No.
0:29:38 > 0:29:42I prayed so hard that you would come back,
0:29:42 > 0:29:44and we'd be free together,
0:29:44 > 0:29:47even after Massa Murray sold the children.
0:29:47 > 0:29:50But if we can't be free together,
0:29:50 > 0:29:52at least you'll be free.
0:29:52 > 0:29:56I know what Mama Kizzy would say.
0:29:56 > 0:29:58Do what your grandfather would do.
0:29:59 > 0:30:02Keep moving north, and don't ever look back.
0:30:06 > 0:30:07Promise me.
0:30:09 > 0:30:11I promise.
0:30:13 > 0:30:14For now, I'll go.
0:30:20 > 0:30:22I don't know how...
0:30:24 > 0:30:26..and I don't know when...
0:30:28 > 0:30:31..but I know I will be back for this.
0:30:38 > 0:30:42And next time, I ain't wavin' no papers to be free.
0:30:42 > 0:30:44Ain't asking no permission from nobody.
0:30:45 > 0:30:50Next time, my Mornin' Dove, I'm coming to take you.
0:30:58 > 0:30:59DOOR CREAKS
0:31:19 > 0:31:21Take it, son.
0:31:29 > 0:31:31I'll make sure he does, Daddy.
0:31:37 > 0:31:39Hyah.
0:31:39 > 0:31:40HORSE NEIGHS
0:31:49 > 0:31:52Maria wants her daddy 'fore he goes to work.
0:31:52 > 0:31:54Oh, my hands are rough as tree bark.
0:31:54 > 0:31:55Talk to her.
0:31:55 > 0:31:57Tell her 'bout Kunta Kinte.
0:31:58 > 0:32:00Where'd you hear that name?
0:32:00 > 0:32:04Chicken George said Kunta Kinte made these for Mama Kizzy.
0:32:04 > 0:32:06Your grandaddy from Africa.
0:32:06 > 0:32:08The one they stole on a ship,
0:32:08 > 0:32:11then cut his foot off so he wouldn't run off.
0:32:11 > 0:32:13Ain't got no time for stories now, Irene. Come on.
0:32:13 > 0:32:16Chicken George said the Africans say special words for a new baby.
0:32:16 > 0:32:18Say stories bigger than Bible stories.
0:32:18 > 0:32:21Irene, when my daddy gets to talking,
0:32:21 > 0:32:24telling stories, it's best stop listening now.
0:32:24 > 0:32:25So, here. Here.
0:32:27 > 0:32:29Right here, sir. Got these special England papers.
0:32:29 > 0:32:32- All right, I got room for two niggers up on top.- I got money. - Show me money and papers.
0:32:32 > 0:32:35- The rest can turn around.- Right here.- Hey, hey, hey, say, boss.
0:32:35 > 0:32:38Say, boss. We free men. We ought to be riding inside this cab.
0:32:38 > 0:32:40No niggers inside.
0:32:40 > 0:32:42Easy, now, son, or ain't none of us gettin' on.
0:32:42 > 0:32:45There's a war startin', old man, sooner than later.
0:32:45 > 0:32:48I need to put some miles between me and here.
0:32:48 > 0:32:49You know there ain't going to be no safe place
0:32:49 > 0:32:51once these crackers start shootin'.
0:32:51 > 0:32:53Hey, watch...watch out, watch out.
0:32:53 > 0:32:55Hey, hey, hey, here, here, here.
0:32:55 > 0:32:56What the hell is this, boy?
0:32:56 > 0:33:00- That says I'm supposed to be inside that carriage. - It's just a slip of old newsprint.
0:33:00 > 0:33:02You. You, up top.
0:33:02 > 0:33:05- We could ride on the back. - That's it. No more room.
0:33:05 > 0:33:07The rest of you have to wait for the next one.
0:33:07 > 0:33:09Well, you handled that real good, didn't you, son?
0:33:09 > 0:33:12Well, joke's on that cracker.
0:33:12 > 0:33:14I can't read a word.
0:33:14 > 0:33:15WHIP CRACKS
0:33:15 > 0:33:16Get on it. Come on.
0:33:16 > 0:33:18HORSE WHINNIES
0:33:18 > 0:33:19Ah, Cyrus.
0:33:19 > 0:33:21Owned by the Brickle farm.
0:33:21 > 0:33:22Virginia.
0:33:22 > 0:33:24Caught me runnin' off into Pennsylvania,
0:33:24 > 0:33:26sent me down to Tennessee.
0:33:26 > 0:33:27I run off twice more.
0:33:27 > 0:33:30George. Chicken George.
0:33:30 > 0:33:31Free man for true.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33It don't seem to be helpin' me much.
0:33:33 > 0:33:36Hmm, well, I tell you what, Chicken George,
0:33:36 > 0:33:38let's say we start walkin' 'fore
0:33:38 > 0:33:40some Johnny Reb try and put us back in chains.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42They say a nigger make his way up to a Union fort,
0:33:42 > 0:33:45he can get a gun and fight.
0:33:45 > 0:33:48So, uh, what you waitin' on, Chicken George?
0:33:58 > 0:34:02If you're moving in with us once we're married, why fuss with this?
0:34:02 > 0:34:04Ostentatious, don't you think, darling?
0:34:04 > 0:34:07I think I agree with whatever you say.
0:34:09 > 0:34:11Too ordinary.
0:34:11 > 0:34:13I can forge anything you want, Miss Nancy.
0:34:13 > 0:34:15Uh, I got all kinds in my wagon.
0:34:15 > 0:34:18Would you like to come choose with me, Frederick?
0:34:18 > 0:34:20I defer to your superior judgment.
0:34:20 > 0:34:22That the right answer?
0:34:22 > 0:34:23Always.
0:34:26 > 0:34:28Signal me if Frederick comes.
0:34:32 > 0:34:34I thought he couldn't hear anything.
0:34:34 > 0:34:37Jerusalem is deaf and mute, but if you face him, he can read lips.
0:34:40 > 0:34:43South Carolina is calling a convention to vote on secession.
0:34:43 > 0:34:46Once they leave the Union, states like North Carolina
0:34:46 > 0:34:48are just going to fall in line like trees in a hurricane.
0:34:48 > 0:34:51- Don't know nothing about that, ma'am.- Yes, you do. You read the newspapers.
0:34:51 > 0:34:54Matilda sneaks them from the kindling. I've seen her.
0:34:54 > 0:34:55Most of your family reads. That is a marvel.
0:34:55 > 0:34:57Ma'am, don't say nothin' more, ma'am.
0:34:57 > 0:34:59Tom...
0:34:59 > 0:35:01I'm a spy for the North.
0:35:01 > 0:35:05I'm here to gather information for Mr Pinkerton in Washington.
0:35:05 > 0:35:07Intelligence, he calls it.
0:35:10 > 0:35:13Mr Murray is aware of the Confederacy's
0:35:13 > 0:35:16plans for weapons and explosives.
0:35:17 > 0:35:20You have a road pass, and he trusts you, Tom.
0:35:20 > 0:35:21Will you help me?
0:35:21 > 0:35:24Nobody going to hurt a fancy lady like you.
0:35:24 > 0:35:27We slaves.
0:35:27 > 0:35:30They'll cut us down like wheat in a field and won't think twice.
0:35:30 > 0:35:32I-I can't. I won't.
0:35:33 > 0:35:35JERUSALEM CLEARS HIS THROAT
0:35:37 > 0:35:39What's taking so long?
0:35:39 > 0:35:41This nigger trying to get money out of you?
0:35:41 > 0:35:44They're like children, always begging for more.
0:35:44 > 0:35:45No, darling.
0:35:45 > 0:35:47But you know us women.
0:35:47 > 0:35:48Beautiful things dazzle us.
0:35:48 > 0:35:50I just need time to decide.
0:35:54 > 0:35:56MAN: Company, attention!
0:36:08 > 0:36:11INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS
0:36:15 > 0:36:17There. Much better.
0:36:18 > 0:36:20A major has to impress his men.
0:36:20 > 0:36:22As long as I impress you.
0:36:26 > 0:36:28Let's be careful, Daddy.
0:36:28 > 0:36:30Gentlemen, uh, this boy Tom's the king of hooves.
0:36:30 > 0:36:34He knows more about a horse's feet than the horse himself.
0:36:34 > 0:36:37I expect you to look after every shoe
0:36:37 > 0:36:40on every horse in our company every night.
0:36:40 > 0:36:41Yes, sir...uh, Major.
0:36:41 > 0:36:45Good shoes make good horses, and good horses win wars.
0:36:45 > 0:36:47Who's really in command of this company, Frederick?
0:36:47 > 0:36:49I report to one commander, boys.
0:36:52 > 0:36:54Now, let's get this company ready for battle.
0:37:01 > 0:37:02GUNFIRE
0:37:10 > 0:37:14You reckon, uh, them Johnny Rebs gave up huntin' us?
0:37:14 > 0:37:15Sure, Chicken George.
0:37:15 > 0:37:18I reckon they changed their mind all about
0:37:18 > 0:37:20niggers going to fight for Abe Lincoln.
0:37:23 > 0:37:26You reckon you're too old for this, Chicken George?
0:37:27 > 0:37:29What's new, boy?
0:37:31 > 0:37:33Man gave me this.
0:37:34 > 0:37:36You ain't got to unfold it. Just give it here.
0:37:36 > 0:37:38I ain't much good with words.
0:37:38 > 0:37:41Well, you know, I got a notion to read, but...
0:37:41 > 0:37:43"Memphis Battery D,
0:37:43 > 0:37:47"2nd United States Light Artillery
0:37:47 > 0:37:49"seeks volunteers of African descent."
0:37:49 > 0:37:51Oh, that's us.
0:37:51 > 0:37:53"Pay...13 a month."
0:37:53 > 0:37:5413 a month?
0:37:54 > 0:37:57I'll fight two wars for 13 a month.
0:37:57 > 0:38:00Man said there was a recruiting office on Knoxville Turnpike.
0:38:00 > 0:38:01TWIGS CRACK
0:38:01 > 0:38:02Shh, shh.
0:38:03 > 0:38:05- Oh!- Go!
0:38:05 > 0:38:07GUNFIRE, BULLETS RICOCHET
0:38:07 > 0:38:08Run, run!
0:38:08 > 0:38:09INDISTINCT SHOUTING
0:38:16 > 0:38:17Go, George.
0:38:20 > 0:38:23GUNFIRE CONTINUES
0:38:30 > 0:38:32HORSE WHINNIES
0:38:33 > 0:38:35- How?- Move!
0:38:37 > 0:38:39Come back here, boy!
0:38:42 > 0:38:44HE GROANS
0:38:44 > 0:38:46HORSE WHINNIES
0:38:53 > 0:38:54Whew.
0:38:54 > 0:38:56HE PANTS
0:38:58 > 0:39:01You going the wrong way, George.
0:39:01 > 0:39:03Chicken George, you going the wrong way.
0:39:03 > 0:39:04What are you doing?
0:39:04 > 0:39:06You ride much, Cyrus?
0:39:06 > 0:39:09Don't trust these tough buggers one bit myself.
0:39:09 > 0:39:10But let's go. Come on.
0:39:10 > 0:39:12- Come on. - Let's find us Memphis Battery.
0:39:12 > 0:39:15CYRUS CLICKS TONGUE
0:39:15 > 0:39:17CRICKETS CHIRP
0:39:25 > 0:39:26MAN: Shut up and keep still!
0:39:30 > 0:39:31CRYING
0:39:31 > 0:39:34- Shut up! WOMAN:- Please, no!
0:39:34 > 0:39:35No! No!
0:39:35 > 0:39:37Get out of here. Now, Tom...
0:39:37 > 0:39:40- Shut up, I said! - Tom...
0:39:40 > 0:39:42- Come on, now. - Help!
0:39:43 > 0:39:44- Irene!- No!
0:39:44 > 0:39:46- That's my wife. Get off me. - No!
0:39:46 > 0:39:49Come on, now. Break his wrists if you have to!
0:39:49 > 0:39:50- No, please! - Hold him down!
0:39:50 > 0:39:52SCREAMING
0:39:52 > 0:39:54I'm not going to hurt her unless you make me.
0:39:54 > 0:39:55- Irene!- Tom!
0:39:55 > 0:39:59You going to wait there and let me and my boys get through with it.
0:39:59 > 0:40:00SCREAMING
0:40:02 > 0:40:04TOM WHIMPERING
0:40:04 > 0:40:06Tom.
0:40:08 > 0:40:10GUN CLICKS
0:40:16 > 0:40:18Just tell me what you want me to do.
0:40:22 > 0:40:24Confederate officer Major John Marrett
0:40:24 > 0:40:27has arrived here on his way to Augusta.
0:40:27 > 0:40:28The South's rushing to build a new arsenal,
0:40:28 > 0:40:30and it must be stopped.
0:40:30 > 0:40:33Nigger doing his job, ma'am?
0:40:33 > 0:40:34Fine, thanks.
0:40:34 > 0:40:36Well, hurry it up, boy.
0:40:42 > 0:40:46The dispatchers he carries have the designs and supply routes.
0:40:47 > 0:40:49What do I do?
0:40:49 > 0:40:51Help us kill him on his way south,
0:40:51 > 0:40:53then we'll take the plans north.
0:40:53 > 0:40:55You're talking. You're a fake?
0:40:55 > 0:40:57Don't get all boiled into a jelly.
0:40:57 > 0:40:59Charles Montpelier.
0:40:59 > 0:41:00Mr Pinkerton asked Charles
0:41:00 > 0:41:03to cross into slave territory to guide me.
0:41:03 > 0:41:05He's putting his life at risk.
0:41:05 > 0:41:07Kill that major...my whole family be at risk, too.
0:41:07 > 0:41:09Only ain't their choice.
0:41:09 > 0:41:11I have a family, too, Tom.
0:41:11 > 0:41:13Wife, four children.
0:41:13 > 0:41:14I miss them every day.
0:41:14 > 0:41:18But the truth is I couldn't live in safety any longer,
0:41:18 > 0:41:22not knowing how my people suffered as slaves.
0:41:22 > 0:41:24How do we stop three riders, Tom?
0:41:24 > 0:41:26Frederick and his troops will be gone,
0:41:26 > 0:41:30and Marrett only has an escort of two men.
0:41:30 > 0:41:32Massa Murray built hand charges
0:41:32 > 0:41:34he copied from a Northern grenade.
0:41:34 > 0:41:36Toss 'em like a rock.
0:41:36 > 0:41:38Stop 'em for sure.
0:41:38 > 0:41:40Can you get them?
0:41:40 > 0:41:41He stores them away from the house.
0:41:41 > 0:41:43All right.
0:41:43 > 0:41:45Once we have the intelligence,
0:41:45 > 0:41:46Nancy will head for Philadelphia,
0:41:46 > 0:41:48and I'm for the Union lines.
0:41:49 > 0:41:52They'll blame us, not you.
0:41:52 > 0:41:54Well, not if they catch me.
0:42:04 > 0:42:06Tom, what you doing?
0:42:06 > 0:42:08Oh, shh.
0:42:09 > 0:42:11Go back to sleep now.
0:42:11 > 0:42:13Why are you up so early?
0:42:13 > 0:42:16Irene, the way to help me... don't ask me anything.
0:42:23 > 0:42:26Chicken George used to say his mama
0:42:26 > 0:42:29used to talk to Kunta Kinte all the time.
0:42:29 > 0:42:33Said the African used to come to her when she was scared.
0:42:33 > 0:42:36Don't know if it's for true, but maybe ain't no difference.
0:42:37 > 0:42:40It's the askin' him to help us makes the difference.
0:42:51 > 0:42:53Throw the grenade and try to kill all of them,
0:42:53 > 0:42:55then we can take the plans off the major's body.
0:42:55 > 0:42:58After that, you double back to the farm.
0:42:58 > 0:43:00Frederick and the Rangers are away,
0:43:00 > 0:43:02so nobody's going to miss you.
0:43:04 > 0:43:06Hey.
0:43:06 > 0:43:08Kneel with me, Tom.
0:43:08 > 0:43:10Come on.
0:43:10 > 0:43:11TOM SIGHS
0:43:14 > 0:43:17When it comes to standing up for a cause, help me, Lord,
0:43:17 > 0:43:21that I remain a candle in the storm,
0:43:21 > 0:43:28and let no evil smother my low, but powerful glow.
0:43:28 > 0:43:29Amen.
0:43:29 > 0:43:30All right.
0:43:30 > 0:43:32Go on. Go on.
0:43:49 > 0:43:50HE SIGHS
0:43:55 > 0:43:57HORSE WHINNIES
0:44:00 > 0:44:04They sent me back with new dispatches for Major Marrett.
0:44:04 > 0:44:05Well, you just missed him, Frederick.
0:44:05 > 0:44:07He's already left for Augusta.
0:44:08 > 0:44:12Well, tell Tilda to fry me up a dozen eggs.
0:44:12 > 0:44:13I'll be back 'fore they're cold.
0:44:13 > 0:44:15We'll catch up to him.
0:44:15 > 0:44:16Be safe.
0:44:29 > 0:44:30HORSE WHINNIES
0:44:33 > 0:44:35GUN COCKS
0:44:51 > 0:44:52HORSES NEIGHING
0:45:06 > 0:45:08HE GRUNTS
0:45:16 > 0:45:18Come on, come on.
0:45:20 > 0:45:22HE GRUNTS
0:45:25 > 0:45:27Go. Go.
0:45:27 > 0:45:28HORSE SNORTS
0:45:30 > 0:45:33- FREDERICK:- It can't be much further. It was over here. This way. Come on.
0:45:42 > 0:45:43Whoa.
0:45:47 > 0:45:49- BRANCH SNAPS - Whoa.
0:46:07 > 0:46:08HE PANTS
0:46:17 > 0:46:22We caught one of the assassins, but there were two.
0:46:22 > 0:46:24The other escaped in the forest.
0:46:24 > 0:46:28I'm sure you'll find the other criminal.
0:46:28 > 0:46:30Yes, we will.
0:46:30 > 0:46:33I'm just thankful that you weren't hurt.
0:46:33 > 0:46:35So am I, my love.
0:46:35 > 0:46:37You're always so thoughtful
0:46:37 > 0:46:39and concerned for me and my family.
0:46:39 > 0:46:41SHE GASPS
0:46:43 > 0:46:45Oh, did I...
0:46:45 > 0:46:48did I mention that you know the one we caught?
0:46:48 > 0:46:50How could that be possible?
0:46:52 > 0:46:53Jerusalem.
0:46:54 > 0:46:56Get up.
0:46:56 > 0:46:57HE GRUNTS
0:46:57 > 0:46:59Get up.
0:47:00 > 0:47:02Did you know he speaks?
0:47:02 > 0:47:05Of course, with a little bit of prompting.
0:47:05 > 0:47:07Perhaps you'll have more success
0:47:07 > 0:47:10encouraging him to reveal his secrets.
0:47:13 > 0:47:15This is unseemly. I'm going back to the house.
0:47:15 > 0:47:17Darling!
0:47:17 > 0:47:20Ask your nigger who is he,
0:47:20 > 0:47:22besides a spy and a murderer?
0:47:24 > 0:47:27Why was he working for you?
0:47:27 > 0:47:29And ask him the names of all of his conspirators,
0:47:29 > 0:47:31everyone who intrigued with him?
0:47:31 > 0:47:33Do this, and I will spare his life.
0:47:36 > 0:47:37Of course...
0:47:37 > 0:47:40we already know you were involved.
0:47:40 > 0:47:41Do you?
0:47:43 > 0:47:46We searched your house,
0:47:46 > 0:47:49found your letters to Mr Pinkerton,
0:47:49 > 0:47:51notes on our troop movements.
0:47:53 > 0:47:55String him up, boys.
0:47:55 > 0:47:56HE GRUNTS
0:47:56 > 0:47:57Wait!
0:47:57 > 0:47:59Wait, wait.
0:47:59 > 0:48:02If I tell you what you want, will you spare him?
0:48:06 > 0:48:09What choice do you have but to try me?
0:48:15 > 0:48:17His name's Charles Montpelier.
0:48:17 > 0:48:19He's a minister, an editor,
0:48:19 > 0:48:21a teacher from Philadelphia...
0:48:23 > 0:48:25..and a dear friend.
0:48:25 > 0:48:26HE SCOFFS
0:48:30 > 0:48:31SHE GASPS
0:48:31 > 0:48:34Why would you do this to me?
0:48:34 > 0:48:38I believe men and women can't be owned like cattle.
0:48:38 > 0:48:40I believe slavery is evil.
0:48:40 > 0:48:43You pray in a church to a loving God,
0:48:43 > 0:48:45but you defend this sin
0:48:45 > 0:48:47against men and women created in His image?
0:48:47 > 0:48:50This is a chance to save your soul.
0:48:50 > 0:48:51- SHE GROANS - Frederick!
0:48:51 > 0:48:52Frederick!
0:48:52 > 0:48:54Frederick, listen to me! Listen to me.
0:48:54 > 0:48:56You send Nancy... you send her to Richmond
0:48:56 > 0:48:58and let the authorities handle this matter.
0:48:58 > 0:49:01The war has confused many honourable people, son.
0:49:01 > 0:49:02Daddy, she is a liar and a traitor.
0:49:02 > 0:49:04Take him. Take him away.
0:49:04 > 0:49:06- Unhand me. - Get up, get up.
0:49:06 > 0:49:08Listen to me, Frederick.
0:49:08 > 0:49:10You do not disobey me, son!
0:49:10 > 0:49:12Enough, Daddy.
0:49:12 > 0:49:14You give me one name...
0:49:14 > 0:49:17just one, and I'll send you to Richmond.
0:49:17 > 0:49:19Who else was involved?
0:49:24 > 0:49:26The intrigue was my own.
0:49:26 > 0:49:28There's no-one else.
0:49:33 > 0:49:34Ride!
0:49:34 > 0:49:36Ride!
0:49:36 > 0:49:37HE GAGS
0:49:37 > 0:49:40No higher. No higher.
0:49:40 > 0:49:42Let this boy take his time.
0:49:54 > 0:49:57You...you love this nigger more than me!
0:49:57 > 0:49:59Frederick, you stop this! You stop this!
0:49:59 > 0:50:02- Get off me! Let her go! Toomey, grab him.- Let her go!- Frederick.
0:50:02 > 0:50:04- Give me that rope. - Listen to your father, Frederick.
0:50:04 > 0:50:06Ballard.
0:50:06 > 0:50:07Anderson, give me another rope.
0:50:07 > 0:50:09That is a direct order.
0:50:09 > 0:50:11No, Frederick, I forbid this!
0:50:11 > 0:50:12Not on my farm!
0:50:12 > 0:50:13Not on my farm!
0:50:13 > 0:50:15Don't you do this, Frederick!
0:50:15 > 0:50:17Don't you do this!
0:50:43 > 0:50:45FIFE AND DRUM MARCH PLAYS
0:50:46 > 0:50:48Keep moving.
0:50:48 > 0:50:50Pick it up in the back.
0:50:53 > 0:50:54Can't hardly feel my feet.
0:50:54 > 0:50:57Think the Major ever going to give his horse a rest?
0:50:57 > 0:51:00Not unless it stands up and beg.
0:51:00 > 0:51:03Captain said Fort Pillow's on real high ground.
0:51:03 > 0:51:04Hard to get at.
0:51:04 > 0:51:06- Should be plenty safe. - Mm-hmm.
0:51:06 > 0:51:08Don't you be no fool, boy.
0:51:08 > 0:51:11Not one of us safe.
0:51:11 > 0:51:14No, not from that nigger-hating Reb Nathan Forrest.
0:51:14 > 0:51:16Heard his head turns full round
0:51:16 > 0:51:18when he sees a nigger in a blue uniform.
0:51:18 > 0:51:19And they say this war about over.
0:51:19 > 0:51:22That's for true. The South's just about broken in two.
0:51:22 > 0:51:24Keep moving. Keep moving, men.
0:51:24 > 0:51:27- Boy, don't you do nothing foolish now.- Stay together.
0:51:27 > 0:51:29Sometimes you got to keep what's in your head quiet, right?
0:51:29 > 0:51:31Yeah, uh-huh. Don't you worry.
0:51:31 > 0:51:33I ain't going to do nothing... nothing foolish at all.
0:51:33 > 0:51:35Whoa.
0:51:35 > 0:51:37Hey, say, when we going to get our side arms
0:51:37 > 0:51:38and rifles so we can fight, Major?
0:51:38 > 0:51:40You have a job, boy, at your battery.
0:51:40 > 0:51:42Keep those cannons barking.
0:51:42 > 0:51:44Do that and make me proud.
0:51:44 > 0:51:46Make you proud. Get me killed by a Reb.
0:51:46 > 0:51:48I decide myself I want to get shot.
0:51:48 > 0:51:50You give me a rifle, and I fight for my own damn freedom.
0:51:50 > 0:51:51- All right, Private. - Hyah!
0:51:51 > 0:51:54Don't mean nothing by it, sir. Just too much sun.
0:51:54 > 0:51:56Makes him loopy.
0:51:56 > 0:51:58Boy, you ever keep your goddamn mouth shut?
0:51:58 > 0:52:01I'm just tryin' to help these white boys win this war is all.
0:52:01 > 0:52:03Get your ass back in line.
0:52:03 > 0:52:04Ah.
0:52:11 > 0:52:14GUNFIRE, INDISTINCT SHOUTING
0:52:14 > 0:52:16Battery, fire!
0:52:26 > 0:52:28Double canister. Load, load!
0:52:33 > 0:52:34SOLDIERS SHOUTING
0:52:36 > 0:52:37Come on!
0:52:42 > 0:52:44Advance the round!
0:52:47 > 0:52:50Move that punch. Them Rebs ain't waiting on you!
0:52:50 > 0:52:51Can't hold them off!
0:52:53 > 0:52:55Battery!
0:52:58 > 0:53:00Can't get an angle on these sons of bitches.
0:53:00 > 0:53:03- It won't go down. - We got to move this gun down!
0:53:05 > 0:53:07That's two degrees! We got to do better!
0:53:07 > 0:53:10Ready! Fire!
0:53:11 > 0:53:15- MAN:- The cannons are overshooting! Advance! Go!
0:53:19 > 0:53:21It's not going to happen! Get down!
0:53:21 > 0:53:22Get down, boys! Come on!
0:53:26 > 0:53:28Get in here! Come on!
0:53:28 > 0:53:29How'd I end up here?
0:53:29 > 0:53:31Man said if I joined the Union boys,
0:53:31 > 0:53:32they'd take me back up North with them.
0:53:32 > 0:53:34When we leave here, you going to be just fine.
0:53:34 > 0:53:36Go wherever you want.
0:53:36 > 0:53:38You leave here, you going to be a free man. You hear me?
0:53:38 > 0:53:40I'm going to blow your brains out, boy!
0:53:40 > 0:53:42Chain you to my mule, nigger!
0:53:42 > 0:53:44Nathan Forrest don't take nigger prisoners!
0:53:44 > 0:53:47- Hear that? - That ain't good news.
0:53:47 > 0:53:49Why aren't you manning your battery?
0:53:49 > 0:53:51No good, sir! Barrel won't suppress enough.
0:53:51 > 0:53:54- We shooting straight over their heads!- Major Booth going to surrender the fort, sir?
0:53:54 > 0:53:57Major Booth's dead, but I'm sure Major Bradford will make the honourable choice.
0:53:57 > 0:54:00The honourable choice would have been to give us rifles.
0:54:00 > 0:54:02We could have ran them Rebs back over that hill.
0:54:07 > 0:54:09Move! Move! Move! We're not safe here!
0:54:09 > 0:54:12- Go! - Get that side arm, George.
0:54:21 > 0:54:22Get down, get down.
0:54:33 > 0:54:35- MAN:- We surrender now. We surrender.
0:54:35 > 0:54:36SOLDIERS SHOUTING
0:54:39 > 0:54:41We surrender.
0:54:43 > 0:54:44Don't shoot.
0:54:44 > 0:54:46INDISTINCT SHOUTING
0:54:50 > 0:54:52We going to surrender now, too?
0:54:52 > 0:54:53INDISTINCT SHOUTING
0:55:01 > 0:55:03You hang on now.
0:55:03 > 0:55:05- Not so sure. - Them white boys giving up.
0:55:05 > 0:55:07- Why can't we, George? - Stay right here.
0:55:07 > 0:55:10- Wait, wait. - I got to go.
0:55:10 > 0:55:11Fool.
0:55:11 > 0:55:12I surrender! I surrender!
0:55:12 > 0:55:14Don't shoot.
0:55:14 > 0:55:15- MAN:- I don't want no more.
0:55:15 > 0:55:17I don't want no more.
0:55:22 > 0:55:25GUNS COCK
0:55:27 > 0:55:29GUNFIRE
0:55:36 > 0:55:40- MAN:- Come on, kill those nigger bastards...
0:55:40 > 0:55:42every last one of them.
0:55:42 > 0:55:44- I'm going to kill them. - You won't get two steps! Move!
0:55:46 > 0:55:49# Oh, how long, how long... #
0:55:49 > 0:55:51George!
0:55:51 > 0:55:54# Before the sun goes down?
0:55:54 > 0:55:57# Oh, how long, how long... #
0:55:57 > 0:55:59No! No! No!
0:55:59 > 0:56:01# Before the sun goes down... #
0:56:01 > 0:56:03Stop! Stop! Stop!
0:56:03 > 0:56:08# I wish I had a title when I was young
0:56:08 > 0:56:12# Before the sun goes down
0:56:12 > 0:56:17# I never woulda had-a this race to run
0:56:17 > 0:56:21# Before the sun goes down
0:56:21 > 0:56:25# Oh, how long, how long
0:56:25 > 0:56:30# Before the sun goes down?
0:56:30 > 0:56:34# Oh, how long, how long
0:56:34 > 0:56:38# Before the sun goes down? #
0:56:51 > 0:56:53They shot them.
0:56:53 > 0:56:55They shot them all... all the coloured boys.
0:56:55 > 0:56:57They was just trying to surrender.
0:56:57 > 0:56:59How you do something like that?
0:56:59 > 0:57:00What kind of men are they?
0:57:00 > 0:57:02Maybe they ain't men.
0:57:02 > 0:57:04Maybe something else.
0:57:04 > 0:57:06Something come out in war.
0:57:09 > 0:57:11You know what you doing, George?
0:57:11 > 0:57:13I got a rough idea.
0:57:13 > 0:57:14No!
0:57:15 > 0:57:18You know, you's a good, old man, Chicken George.
0:57:18 > 0:57:20HE GROANS
0:57:23 > 0:57:25Aah.
0:57:25 > 0:57:29Tell me a story, George, about the African.
0:57:30 > 0:57:33My grandaddy is Kunta Kinte.
0:57:33 > 0:57:35He a Mandinka warrior they stole away
0:57:35 > 0:57:38across the ocean on the Kamby Bolongo.
0:57:38 > 0:57:40Ka-Kamby... Kamby Bolongo.
0:57:40 > 0:57:42That's...that's a big river, like the Mississippi?
0:57:42 > 0:57:44That's right.
0:57:44 > 0:57:46Kunta Kinte could ride and swim.
0:57:46 > 0:57:48Couldn't no man break him.
0:57:53 > 0:57:56I figure I got some new stories now.
0:57:56 > 0:58:00This young boy named Cyrus... can't nobody tell him nothing.
0:58:00 > 0:58:03But the way I see it, that boy saved
0:58:03 > 0:58:07an old man like me in a hard, hard place.
0:58:07 > 0:58:10Wait a minute. Wait. Wait a minute, George.
0:58:10 > 0:58:12Listen, my mama had a prayer
0:58:12 > 0:58:15she used to say to me back when I was sick.
0:58:15 > 0:58:18You know, before they sold me off.
0:58:18 > 0:58:19Now would be the time.
0:58:19 > 0:58:21I know.
0:58:21 > 0:58:25I know, oh, Lord, my flesh may fail,
0:58:25 > 0:58:29but God is the strength of my heart.
0:58:44 > 0:58:46Hey, come see this.
0:58:46 > 0:58:50Get your ass out here and come and see this!
0:58:50 > 0:58:51COWS LOWING
0:58:55 > 0:58:56You know this herd, James?
0:58:56 > 0:58:59Look like Massa Anson's cows, but that's four miles from here.
0:58:59 > 0:59:02Well, why his slaves ain't stop them from wandering?
0:59:02 > 0:59:04I've been up by the big house. Everybody gone.
0:59:04 > 0:59:06- Gone?- All of them.
0:59:06 > 0:59:07Where they gone?
0:59:12 > 0:59:14INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS
0:59:17 > 0:59:19BOY: Mom!
0:59:19 > 0:59:21Hey, hey.
0:59:21 > 0:59:22Hey.
0:59:22 > 0:59:24- General Lee's gone home. - What?
0:59:24 > 0:59:26The war's over for good.
0:59:26 > 0:59:29Overseer can blow his work horn all he wants,
0:59:29 > 0:59:30but we ain't slaves no more.
0:59:30 > 0:59:34- Whoa, whoa, whoa, ain't no more secesh?- Not one more day.
0:59:34 > 0:59:35ALL MURMURING
0:59:35 > 0:59:38I heard it from a white man down at the courthouse.
0:59:38 > 0:59:40He say Robert Lee... he know he done for.
0:59:40 > 0:59:43And so he gave him his horse and his sword,
0:59:43 > 0:59:45but old Ulysses wouldn't take it.
0:59:45 > 0:59:47He just said, "You go on home now.
0:59:47 > 0:59:49"Stop this foolishness."
0:59:50 > 0:59:54So I tell you this war is over, and we ain't slaves!
0:59:54 > 0:59:57CHEERING
0:59:57 > 1:00:00Tom, right now, right here, we free.
1:00:00 > 1:00:02CHEERING CONTINUES
1:00:02 > 1:00:05Mama. Is it true?
1:00:41 > 1:00:46Blessed is this earth cos my people lie beneath it.
1:00:48 > 1:00:51Blessed is the rain because it moistens their faces.
1:00:53 > 1:00:59Blessed is the wind because it carries their names back to us.
1:01:00 > 1:01:01Kunta Kinte.
1:01:04 > 1:01:06Belle.
1:01:07 > 1:01:09Mama Kizzy.
1:01:10 > 1:01:12Miss Malizy.
1:01:13 > 1:01:15Sarah.
1:01:15 > 1:01:21My children, Louis, Mary, and George Junior.
1:01:21 > 1:01:25My daddy, Benjamin Lyon.
1:01:28 > 1:01:30And my husband, George.
1:01:39 > 1:01:41I'm so thankful this war is done.
1:01:43 > 1:01:46Just don't ask me to heft up my skirt and dance.
1:01:48 > 1:01:54I can't measure these days in flags and armies,
1:01:54 > 1:01:57only in the ones that I'm missing.
1:02:08 > 1:02:12Out here working just as hard as before.
1:02:12 > 1:02:14Not a bad idea if you want to eat.
1:02:14 > 1:02:16Didn't know "free" meant hungry.
1:02:19 > 1:02:20We'd like to know where we stand, sir.
1:02:20 > 1:02:22What we supposed to do about food?
1:02:22 > 1:02:25You done locked all the sheds. You moved all the hogs.
1:02:25 > 1:02:28We don't even know where the... where the grain got taken.
1:02:28 > 1:02:30Well, I'm happy to announce that for
1:02:30 > 1:02:33every three acres of my land that you clear and plant,
1:02:33 > 1:02:35I'll pay you one chicken and one hog.
1:02:35 > 1:02:38And you can rent back, uh, farmland
1:02:38 > 1:02:40and your cabins at a fair price.
1:02:40 > 1:02:41A fair price?
1:02:41 > 1:02:43For the massa or the nigger?
1:02:43 > 1:02:45We'll think on it a while.
1:02:45 > 1:02:47Well, be of good cheer.
1:02:47 > 1:02:49Things will improve.
1:02:51 > 1:02:53I thought we won that damn war.
1:03:04 > 1:03:06Who is this coming?
1:03:08 > 1:03:11This the...this the Murray farm?
1:03:11 > 1:03:12Yes, sir.
1:03:12 > 1:03:14Can we help you, friend?
1:03:14 > 1:03:15Can you help me? Maybe you can. Maybe you can't.
1:03:15 > 1:03:18- Well, you need to state your business.- No.
1:03:18 > 1:03:22First, I need you to answer my question.
1:03:24 > 1:03:25And you best get it right.
1:03:25 > 1:03:28Who is Kunta Kinte?
1:03:33 > 1:03:35No more than 20 of us coloured boys
1:03:35 > 1:03:36make it out of Fort Pillow alive.
1:03:36 > 1:03:38Oh, no.
1:03:38 > 1:03:41Ol' Nathan Forrest couldn't kill us fast enough.
1:03:41 > 1:03:45After I got shot, me and George,
1:03:45 > 1:03:49we took to the woods, then to the river.
1:03:49 > 1:03:50Mm-hmm.
1:03:56 > 1:03:59Yeah, you must be Tom.
1:03:59 > 1:04:02He said you had arms as big as cannonballs.
1:04:02 > 1:04:05HE CHUCKLES
1:04:05 > 1:04:08Say you were smarter than Jeff Davis' own engineers.
1:04:08 > 1:04:11He said you were the hunger in his heart.
1:04:11 > 1:04:12He did.
1:04:13 > 1:04:15Mm-hmm.
1:04:15 > 1:04:17HE CHUCKLES
1:04:18 > 1:04:20Yeah.
1:04:20 > 1:04:22Mighty fine food here.
1:04:22 > 1:04:24What happened to my husband?
1:04:24 > 1:04:27Old George, he carried me to the hospital.
1:04:27 > 1:04:29That was long after he cut off my arm here.
1:04:29 > 1:04:31- Grandpa cut off his arm? - Son.
1:04:31 > 1:04:33Yes.
1:04:33 > 1:04:35Yes, he did.
1:04:35 > 1:04:36It's OK.
1:04:36 > 1:04:38Only reason I'm alive now.
1:04:38 > 1:04:40Old George say he was going to walk home.
1:04:40 > 1:04:43Say that's what a Mandinka warrior would do.
1:04:43 > 1:04:45And then a man showed up.
1:04:45 > 1:04:48Reverend Garland, was it? Yeah.
1:04:48 > 1:04:51Reverend Garland said he had a church outside of Sewanee
1:04:51 > 1:04:54kept getting shot at by old, no-good white boys...
1:04:54 > 1:04:56uh, the Bushwhackers.
1:04:56 > 1:04:59Say they was stealin' and killin' niggers left and right.
1:04:59 > 1:05:00Stealin' from white folks, too.
1:05:00 > 1:05:02They was looking for coloured soldiers
1:05:02 > 1:05:05to help them fight back.
1:05:05 > 1:05:09Old George, he was the first to volunteer.
1:05:09 > 1:05:11Ha.
1:05:12 > 1:05:15You sure this boy ain't round the bend?
1:05:15 > 1:05:17I reckoned you'd say that. Reckon I would, too.
1:05:19 > 1:05:22Old George told me to bring this back
1:05:22 > 1:05:23in case he ain't make it.
1:05:25 > 1:05:26There.
1:05:32 > 1:05:36I miss old Chicken George, his Africa stories.
1:05:36 > 1:05:38Yeah.
1:05:45 > 1:05:47Bring him back to me.
1:05:50 > 1:05:53- I'm coming with you, Tom, to find Daddy.- Can't, James.
1:05:53 > 1:05:55You watch over Mama.
1:06:31 > 1:06:33Hey, boy. Hey.
1:06:33 > 1:06:35You know Reverend Garland in Sewanee?
1:06:37 > 1:06:39My daddy called Chicken George.
1:06:39 > 1:06:40Chicken George.
1:06:40 > 1:06:42Did you ever hear of him?
1:06:45 > 1:06:46H-hey.
1:06:50 > 1:06:52Hey.
1:06:52 > 1:06:53Hey!
1:06:53 > 1:06:54Hey, hold up now.
1:07:06 > 1:07:07HORSE WHINNIES
1:07:09 > 1:07:12INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS
1:07:20 > 1:07:22- MAN:- As soon as you load up, move out. Don't wait.
1:07:22 > 1:07:25Them Bushwhackers gone for now. They going to come back.
1:07:25 > 1:07:27Quickly. Let's go.
1:07:27 > 1:07:30Do not stop until we get to Henning, Tennessee.
1:07:33 > 1:07:35I'll meet you all there.
1:07:35 > 1:07:37Godspeed.
1:07:39 > 1:07:41Let's load it up.
1:07:49 > 1:07:50Daddy?
1:07:57 > 1:07:59Daddy, it's Tom.
1:08:07 > 1:08:09It really is you.
1:08:09 > 1:08:11Thought I was having another dream.
1:08:11 > 1:08:13Cyrus said you had a rough go.
1:08:16 > 1:08:17It's time to come home now.
1:08:17 > 1:08:19You need to get on your feet, move out.
1:08:19 > 1:08:21Not safe here.
1:08:21 > 1:08:23I'm not coming with you.
1:08:23 > 1:08:27I'm going home... Carolina...with my son.
1:08:27 > 1:08:29I understand.
1:08:29 > 1:08:32You've done more than enough for us, George,
1:08:32 > 1:08:34chasing off those Bushwhackers.
1:08:34 > 1:08:35You saved our lives.
1:08:37 > 1:08:38The war might be over,
1:08:38 > 1:08:40but some white men ain't never going to let it go...
1:08:40 > 1:08:44ain't never going to accept us being free.
1:08:44 > 1:08:46I do know one thing...
1:08:46 > 1:08:49the Lord don't take no steps backwards.
1:08:49 > 1:08:51And we ain't giving up our freedom.
1:08:51 > 1:08:54Henning...own some land there.
1:08:54 > 1:08:56Going to make it safe for our people.
1:08:56 > 1:08:58God's watching over you.
1:08:58 > 1:09:00- Let's move out. - Get a move on, Daddy.
1:09:00 > 1:09:02Come on, now, boys. We going home.
1:09:05 > 1:09:07How'd you find me, boy?
1:09:07 > 1:09:10A boy brought me to you.
1:09:10 > 1:09:13Dressed in this blue cloth on his body and his head.
1:09:13 > 1:09:15Brought me straight to you.
1:09:15 > 1:09:17- Blue cloth on his head. - Mm-hmm?
1:09:17 > 1:09:19Ain't got no boy like that here.
1:09:21 > 1:09:23Well, hey.
1:09:23 > 1:09:26I thought you might be needing this.
1:09:32 > 1:09:34You're a good boy.
1:09:41 > 1:09:44- GUNSHOT - Come on, Daddy.
1:09:44 > 1:09:45Come on, let's go.
1:09:45 > 1:09:47Hurry up. Come on.
1:09:47 > 1:09:49This way, this way.
1:09:49 > 1:09:50- Come on.- Get over there.
1:09:50 > 1:09:52INDISTINCT SHOUTS
1:09:54 > 1:09:57SUSTAINED GUNFIRE
1:10:03 > 1:10:05- MAN:- Move up, move up!
1:10:07 > 1:10:09Come on, Daddy, let's go!
1:10:09 > 1:10:10Come on. Keep it moving, Daddy.
1:10:10 > 1:10:13GUNFIRE CONTINUES
1:10:13 > 1:10:15Go, go. Get up.
1:10:15 > 1:10:17GROANING
1:10:24 > 1:10:27We make that Union line, them Bushwhackers won't follow us.
1:10:27 > 1:10:28We almost there.
1:10:28 > 1:10:30Just keep moving.
1:10:30 > 1:10:31Run, boy.
1:10:38 > 1:10:41Got Bushwhackers up on the ridge.
1:10:41 > 1:10:43Turn right back. You ain't welcome here.
1:10:43 > 1:10:45What? Y'all heard them shots.
1:10:45 > 1:10:48Got Bushwhackers behind us. Killed some of us already.
1:10:48 > 1:10:49- Come on.- That's not our trouble.
1:10:49 > 1:10:52- Not since President Lincoln got shot dead.- What?
1:10:52 > 1:10:55Some Southern traitor put a bullet in poor old Abe's head.
1:10:55 > 1:10:56Now I'm tired of you people.
1:10:56 > 1:10:58Ain't enough we already fought for you.
1:10:58 > 1:10:59Now, we truly sorry about Mr Lincoln, sir,
1:10:59 > 1:11:02- but we got Bushwhackers... - This is a military camp.
1:11:02 > 1:11:03We don't have stuff for niggers.
1:11:03 > 1:11:05- Get out of here! - Stop.
1:11:05 > 1:11:06This man is Memphis Battery!
1:11:06 > 1:11:08Fought at Fort Pillow!
1:11:08 > 1:11:10Look at his damn uniform!
1:11:10 > 1:11:11A uniform don't make a soldier.
1:11:11 > 1:11:13Not to me.
1:11:13 > 1:11:15We've given our blood for you people.
1:11:15 > 1:11:16Oh, what about our blood?
1:11:16 > 1:11:19What about the blood we gave for this country?
1:11:19 > 1:11:21- For years! - Easy now.
1:11:23 > 1:11:25He got every right to be here!
1:11:25 > 1:11:27INDISTINCT SHOUTING
1:11:28 > 1:11:30Hey, hold on.
1:11:30 > 1:11:32Hold on just one cotton-picking second.
1:11:32 > 1:11:34SHOUTING STOPS
1:11:34 > 1:11:36Y'all...y'all don't know who you got there.
1:11:36 > 1:11:38That right there...
1:11:38 > 1:11:41it's best damn blacksmith in the whole damn Union.
1:11:41 > 1:11:43That's who he is.
1:11:43 > 1:11:46Let me tell you now, that boy...he got rare,
1:11:46 > 1:11:51mystical skills, passed down by Mandinka craftsmen.
1:11:51 > 1:11:54That's on the Kamby Bolongo in Africa.
1:11:54 > 1:11:56One time, I saw him patch a cannon by sitting
1:11:56 > 1:11:59on the muzzle and hammering it as it fired!
1:11:59 > 1:12:01When that hammer broke,
1:12:01 > 1:12:03he just carried on pounding it with his fists!
1:12:03 > 1:12:05Look at him...arms like cannonballs!
1:12:05 > 1:12:08Yes, sir, he can fix a rifle,
1:12:08 > 1:12:11mend a saddle, patch pots and pans.
1:12:11 > 1:12:15That boy can smooth a knot from a twisted axle
1:12:15 > 1:12:17like a pretty girl pull tangles from her hair.
1:12:17 > 1:12:20And y'all want to chase him off? Come on, now.
1:12:20 > 1:12:23You'll be the first soldier boys home sitting up in your own bed,
1:12:23 > 1:12:24eating on your mama's home cooking.
1:12:24 > 1:12:27Who wants to smell Mama's gravy right now? Amen?!
1:12:27 > 1:12:28Amen!
1:12:28 > 1:12:33If that boy can shoe horses, we can use him.
1:12:33 > 1:12:34Let them all in.
1:12:37 > 1:12:39Everybody fall out. Back to work.
1:12:39 > 1:12:40Come on, now.
1:12:40 > 1:12:43Y'all get a little something to eat.
1:12:43 > 1:12:48# I fear, I fear, my mother, dear
1:12:48 > 1:12:53# I fear I've come to harm
1:12:55 > 1:12:58# No more to see her lovely face... #
1:12:58 > 1:13:02Now, I-I could be wrong.
1:13:02 > 1:13:04I got a notion about that boy who brought you to me.
1:13:06 > 1:13:12Suppose you going to tell me he was a Mandinka spirit?
1:13:12 > 1:13:14Nope.
1:13:14 > 1:13:16Going to tell you he was Kunta Kinte hisself,
1:13:16 > 1:13:19same as came to my mama.
1:13:19 > 1:13:22# By the old barn gate
1:13:22 > 1:13:26# My soul will pass you by... #
1:13:38 > 1:13:40I know you ain't over there thinking
1:13:40 > 1:13:42I can't do this by myself, is you?
1:13:42 > 1:13:44No, sir. I think that'd be kind of risky.
1:13:44 > 1:13:45Yes, sir.
1:13:45 > 1:13:47Yes, sir.
1:13:47 > 1:13:49- "A"?- Mm-hmm.
1:13:49 > 1:13:51- "B"?- Yeah.
1:13:51 > 1:13:53"C"?
1:14:14 > 1:14:15Oh.
1:14:20 > 1:14:22Jesus.
1:14:26 > 1:14:28George.
1:14:28 > 1:14:29George!
1:14:34 > 1:14:35George.
1:14:35 > 1:14:37Hey, Tom.
1:14:40 > 1:14:42How you doing?
1:14:42 > 1:14:44George.
1:14:44 > 1:14:46Oh.
1:14:46 > 1:14:48You're a sight for sore eyes.
1:14:53 > 1:14:55Old Chicken George.
1:14:55 > 1:14:57About goddamn time you made it here, old man.
1:14:57 > 1:15:00I'm giving you a chance to learn how to work a field.
1:15:00 > 1:15:02Oh, were you now?
1:15:02 > 1:15:04Stand him. Stand him up right.
1:15:04 > 1:15:06Oh, hang on.
1:15:06 > 1:15:08Ah.
1:15:08 > 1:15:10Oh, that... that was nothing.
1:15:10 > 1:15:11Took out 20 men.
1:15:11 > 1:15:13Neither one of us got a scratch on us.
1:15:13 > 1:15:15LAUGHTER
1:15:17 > 1:15:19Mr Murray, we all leaving.
1:15:19 > 1:15:21Well, surely, we can work out something, Tom.
1:15:21 > 1:15:24A-an extra chicken or two, if...if that helps.
1:15:24 > 1:15:26Thank you, sir, but Henning, Tennessee,
1:15:26 > 1:15:28is going to have shops run by our own people.
1:15:28 > 1:15:31Not that we won't take money from the white folks.
1:15:31 > 1:15:33Money ain't got no colour.
1:15:33 > 1:15:36Tom, I don't know if you'll take my words to heart,
1:15:36 > 1:15:39but I wish you and your family good fortune.
1:15:39 > 1:15:44There was a time when we were working together, I felt...
1:15:47 > 1:15:50Well... Godspeed.
1:15:54 > 1:15:57You niggers ain't going nowhere.
1:15:57 > 1:15:59- Frederick. - You got to pay 'fore you leave.
1:15:59 > 1:16:02Don't have to ask you, Frederick.
1:16:02 > 1:16:04- Talking to your daddy.- I told you I would handle this, Frederick.
1:16:04 > 1:16:06- My daddy's a fool. - Son.
1:16:06 > 1:16:09I want every penny you earned on this farm as a blacksmith.
1:16:09 > 1:16:11Made a lot more money for this farm.
1:16:11 > 1:16:13Goodbye, sir.
1:16:13 > 1:16:14Son, son!
1:16:14 > 1:16:16You think anything's changed
1:16:16 > 1:16:18- cos the war's over? - Frederick, please.
1:16:18 > 1:16:20Them Union boys going to be home soon enough,
1:16:20 > 1:16:24but I'll still be right here, and plenty of men just like me.
1:16:24 > 1:16:26We will redeem this country
1:16:26 > 1:16:28and put you people back where you belong.
1:16:28 > 1:16:29It's just natural law.
1:16:30 > 1:16:34I won't never see a nigger be my equal.
1:16:34 > 1:16:38Don't have no interest in being your equal, Frederick.
1:16:40 > 1:16:43No, no!
1:16:43 > 1:16:44F-Frederick!
1:16:44 > 1:16:46Oh, my God.
1:16:48 > 1:16:50CRYING
1:16:50 > 1:16:52PANTING
1:16:54 > 1:16:57First thing good my daddy ever did for me.
1:17:00 > 1:17:02- Yeah, we're ready. - All right, baby.
1:17:02 > 1:17:03Are you guys ready?
1:17:07 > 1:17:09INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS
1:17:44 > 1:17:45BABY COOS
1:17:49 > 1:17:54Well, Chicken George, I reckon it's time I be moving on.
1:17:55 > 1:17:57I thank you kindly for everything,
1:17:57 > 1:17:59and you... you're all nice folks.
1:17:59 > 1:18:01But after all, you... you's all family.
1:18:03 > 1:18:04And you're not my family.
1:18:07 > 1:18:11We are now, if you want us to be.
1:18:14 > 1:18:15Hmm.
1:18:17 > 1:18:20Well, that doesn't sound so bad, now does it?
1:18:20 > 1:18:22Not bad at all.
1:18:24 > 1:18:26- Can I come in? - Mm-hmm.
1:18:29 > 1:18:31Hey, hey, hey, hey.
1:18:31 > 1:18:33Hey, hey, hey, hey.
1:18:33 > 1:18:36Yeah, she going to be a strong one, just like my mama.
1:18:36 > 1:18:38Mm-hmm.
1:18:38 > 1:18:40You are so beautiful.
1:18:41 > 1:18:44Irene, give me the baby?
1:18:44 > 1:18:45Tom, what's wrong?
1:18:45 > 1:18:47- MATILDA:- It's all right.
1:18:58 > 1:19:00Tom.
1:19:00 > 1:19:01Get back.
1:19:05 > 1:19:07HE BREATHES HEAVILY
1:19:13 > 1:19:15W-what do I do, Daddy?
1:19:18 > 1:19:19Tell me now. What...
1:19:21 > 1:19:25How do they...? How do I...
1:19:25 > 1:19:27give her her name the right way?
1:19:28 > 1:19:30Son, I can't...
1:19:32 > 1:19:34I can't say I know for sure.
1:19:35 > 1:19:38Just talk to her.
1:19:40 > 1:19:42I don't know any Africa words.
1:19:44 > 1:19:47I don't know if this is the right time,
1:19:47 > 1:19:50or I don't know if the sky looks the way it's supposed to be,
1:19:50 > 1:19:52but...
1:19:54 > 1:19:59..I know you my first baby not born a slave.
1:20:01 > 1:20:04First baby nobody can own.
1:20:05 > 1:20:08But that don't mean you don't have to be a warrior.
1:20:08 > 1:20:10Still going to have to fight to stay free.
1:20:11 > 1:20:13Every day.
1:20:15 > 1:20:18Always going to be someone wants to take away your freedom.
1:20:20 > 1:20:23And I can't keep this family together
1:20:23 > 1:20:27if I don't teach you where we come from,
1:20:27 > 1:20:29who we are...
1:20:32 > 1:20:35..if I don't remember who I am.
1:20:39 > 1:20:42So that's why I got to tell you this story...
1:20:42 > 1:20:45so I can be the father I want to be.
1:20:58 > 1:21:02- ALEX:- 'His name was Kunta Kinte,
1:21:02 > 1:21:06'son of Omoro and Binta Kinte from Juffure
1:21:06 > 1:21:10'in the Kingdom of Niumi on the Kamby Bolongo.
1:21:10 > 1:21:12'Flying home from The Gambia,
1:21:12 > 1:21:16'I knew I had to write a book about him.
1:21:16 > 1:21:19'My ancestors would be a symbol for millions of slaves,
1:21:19 > 1:21:23'all of them seeds of American families living today,
1:21:23 > 1:21:27'captured, chained, sailed across the same ocean
1:21:27 > 1:21:30'in ships where untold numbers died.
1:21:30 > 1:21:33'Sold to thousands of plantations,
1:21:33 > 1:21:37'millions of men and women who struggled to survive
1:21:37 > 1:21:40'and fought to be free every day.'
1:23:10 > 1:23:13'The truth can never be known.
1:23:13 > 1:23:15'It can only be told in a story.
1:23:15 > 1:23:19'There once was a boy who was taken from his family
1:23:19 > 1:23:21'and carried halfway around the world.
1:23:21 > 1:23:24'He lived to start a new family.
1:23:24 > 1:23:27'And in his journey, he became a hero for a new nation.
1:23:27 > 1:23:30'I hope my story honours him,
1:23:30 > 1:23:34'brings peace and pride to us all.'
1:23:50 > 1:23:56# Ah-ah-ah ahh ah-ah
1:23:56 > 1:23:58# Ah-ah-ah ah-ah
1:24:00 > 1:24:03# And when the door closes
1:24:03 > 1:24:06# Another one opens
1:24:06 > 1:24:07# I walk through it
1:24:07 > 1:24:11# With my head up
1:24:11 > 1:24:14# At the end of a desert
1:24:14 > 1:24:17# There's always an ocean
1:24:17 > 1:24:20# And when the night fades away
1:24:20 > 1:24:22# The sun comes up
1:24:22 > 1:24:25# New beginning
1:24:25 > 1:24:30# Oh, it's just a new beginning
1:24:30 > 1:24:32# Oh... #