"Roots" Part VIII

1 00:00:00,616 --> 00:00:02,818 [theme music] 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:10,074 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 3 00:01:01,620 --> 00:01:03,123 <i>(male narrator)</i> <i>Last on "Roots.."</i> 4 00:01:03,188 --> 00:01:05,291 See what my daddy managed to bring. 5 00:01:05,358 --> 00:01:07,160 A free man. 6 00:01:07,227 --> 00:01:10,363 We got a law here, Mr. Free Man. 7 00:01:12,366 --> 00:01:15,202 If you stay in this state more than 60 days.. 8 00:01:16,772 --> 00:01:19,307 ...you get to be plain nigger again. 9 00:01:20,242 --> 00:01:22,177 And you want me to go? 10 00:01:22,244 --> 00:01:25,581 I'm married to a free man, George Moore. 11 00:01:27,451 --> 00:01:31,588 I ain't about to live with no slave ever again. 12 00:01:31,655 --> 00:01:36,128 Oh, it's the Confederacy! It's war, boys, it's war! 13 00:01:36,194 --> 00:01:38,698 Are we gonna whup them Yankees? 14 00:01:38,764 --> 00:01:41,200 [cheering] 15 00:01:42,468 --> 00:01:43,737 Now look at that rib poking out right there. 16 00:01:43,804 --> 00:01:45,572 - See that rib, Levin? - Mm. 17 00:01:45,639 --> 00:01:48,341 Why don't you just tuck it in for him, Kevin? 18 00:01:50,044 --> 00:01:53,148 He's one of 'em. My friends. 19 00:01:53,214 --> 00:01:57,753 You're the only friends I ever did know in all my life. 20 00:01:57,820 --> 00:01:59,923 'You's like my family.' 21 00:01:59,989 --> 00:02:02,224 Well, I just wanted a kiss. 22 00:02:04,061 --> 00:02:05,763 [sobs] Tom. 23 00:02:07,131 --> 00:02:09,033 Tom. 24 00:02:09,100 --> 00:02:12,236 I do believe you are lookin' for a whippin'. 25 00:02:13,171 --> 00:02:15,174 No. 26 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,777 You ain't gonna do nothin' to me. 27 00:02:20,713 --> 00:02:22,983 'Cause I ain't gonna let you, Jimmy Grant. 28 00:02:23,050 --> 00:02:26,353 Now Captain Brent's brother has been missing for three days. 29 00:02:26,420 --> 00:02:28,589 Any of y'all have seen Jimmy Grant, speak up. 30 00:02:31,226 --> 00:02:34,362 You ain't seen the last of me, nigger. 31 00:02:37,066 --> 00:02:40,269 Hey! Ha! Ha! Ha! 32 00:02:41,470 --> 00:02:43,607 [band music] 33 00:02:47,078 --> 00:02:49,380 <i>(male #1)</i> <i>"To all commanders in the field</i> 34 00:02:49,447 --> 00:02:51,282 <i>"from General Robert E. Lee.</i> 35 00:02:52,718 --> 00:02:55,788 <i>"After four years</i> <i>of ardous service</i> 36 00:02:55,854 --> 00:02:59,659 <i>"marked by unsurpassed</i> <i>courage and fortitude</i> 37 00:02:59,726 --> 00:03:02,963 <i>"the army of Northern Virginia</i> <i>has been compelled to yield</i> 38 00:03:03,030 --> 00:03:05,566 <i>"to overwhelming numbers</i> <i>and resources.</i> 39 00:03:05,633 --> 00:03:07,635 <i>"I need not tell</i> <i>the brave survivors</i> 40 00:03:07,701 --> 00:03:10,304 <i>"of so many hard-fought battles</i> 41 00:03:10,371 --> 00:03:13,608 <i>"who remained steadfast</i> <i>to the last</i> 42 00:03:13,675 --> 00:03:16,212 <i>"that I have consented</i> <i>to this result</i> 43 00:03:16,279 --> 00:03:18,881 <i>"from no mistrust of them</i> 44 00:03:18,948 --> 00:03:22,152 "but feelin' that valor and devotion 45 00:03:22,219 --> 00:03:24,688 "could accomplish nothing that could compensate 46 00:03:24,755 --> 00:03:26,690 "for the loss that must attend 47 00:03:26,758 --> 00:03:29,060 "the continuance of the contest. 48 00:03:29,127 --> 00:03:33,364 '"I determine to avoid the useless sacrifice' 49 00:03:33,431 --> 00:03:36,502 '"of those whose past services' 50 00:03:36,569 --> 00:03:39,172 '"have endeared them to their countrymen.' 51 00:03:39,239 --> 00:03:41,242 '"You will take with you' 52 00:03:41,309 --> 00:03:44,612 '"the satisfaction of proceeds from the consciousness' 53 00:03:44,679 --> 00:03:46,948 '"of duty faithfully performed.' 54 00:03:48,683 --> 00:03:51,420 '"And I earnestly pray that a merciful God' 55 00:03:51,486 --> 00:03:53,689 '"will extend to you' 56 00:03:53,755 --> 00:03:56,025 'His blessing and protection.'" 57 00:03:57,994 --> 00:03:59,462 It's over, folks. 58 00:03:59,529 --> 00:04:02,032 The war's over. 59 00:04:02,099 --> 00:04:04,501 God save the Confederacy. 60 00:04:04,568 --> 00:04:07,706 [instrumental music] 61 00:04:26,961 --> 00:04:30,132 Freedom! Freedom! 62 00:04:30,199 --> 00:04:32,067 We're free! 63 00:04:32,134 --> 00:04:34,371 Freedom! 64 00:04:34,436 --> 00:04:36,273 Freedom! 65 00:04:36,339 --> 00:04:37,874 Free! 66 00:04:37,941 --> 00:04:39,910 We're free! 67 00:04:39,976 --> 00:04:41,245 Freedom! 68 00:04:41,312 --> 00:04:43,247 Freedom! 69 00:04:43,314 --> 00:04:44,283 [laughs] 70 00:04:44,349 --> 00:04:46,184 Hey, we're free! 71 00:04:46,251 --> 00:04:47,451 We're free! 72 00:04:47,518 --> 00:04:49,087 [laughs] 73 00:04:49,154 --> 00:04:51,490 Freedo-o-om! 74 00:04:51,556 --> 00:04:52,892 Who that, Rufus? 75 00:04:52,959 --> 00:04:55,396 Young Lewis from the Harvey's place. 76 00:04:55,461 --> 00:04:56,596 What was he bellowing? 77 00:04:56,663 --> 00:04:59,300 Something 'bout we's free, sounded like. 78 00:04:59,366 --> 00:05:00,434 Free. 79 00:05:00,501 --> 00:05:02,102 [scoffs] 80 00:05:02,170 --> 00:05:03,537 That nigger must be crazy. 81 00:05:03,604 --> 00:05:06,308 Yeah, must be. 82 00:05:06,374 --> 00:05:09,245 Ha, mule! Ha! Ho! 83 00:05:09,312 --> 00:05:10,880 'Ho!' 84 00:05:15,986 --> 00:05:18,822 Lewis, what you standin' around for? 85 00:05:23,895 --> 00:05:25,998 We's free. 86 00:05:26,065 --> 00:05:28,634 - Who say that? - It come over the telegraph! 87 00:05:28,701 --> 00:05:30,437 This, the war is over! 88 00:05:30,502 --> 00:05:32,172 The South, they give up! 89 00:05:32,238 --> 00:05:33,605 Slavery is no more! 90 00:05:33,673 --> 00:05:35,108 What, you be foolin' with me, uh? 91 00:05:35,175 --> 00:05:37,345 Not fooling you about freedom, big brother! 92 00:05:37,411 --> 00:05:38,645 I's here to tell ya. 93 00:05:38,712 --> 00:05:40,848 It is the God's truth! 94 00:05:46,388 --> 00:05:47,923 Free? 95 00:05:48,957 --> 00:05:51,461 [country music] 96 00:05:54,331 --> 00:05:56,266 [all cheering] 97 00:06:19,427 --> 00:06:21,129 - Mama? - Mm-hmm? 98 00:06:21,195 --> 00:06:22,630 Why is you looking so sad? 99 00:06:22,697 --> 00:06:24,565 This supposed to be a celebration. 100 00:06:24,632 --> 00:06:26,735 I guess I'm thinkin' about your daddy. 101 00:06:26,802 --> 00:06:28,271 Wishin' he was here. 102 00:06:29,605 --> 00:06:30,974 Well, don't you fret. 103 00:06:31,041 --> 00:06:32,809 Chicken George be coming back soon enough 104 00:06:32,876 --> 00:06:34,911 now that freedom's come. 105 00:06:36,247 --> 00:06:37,515 Come dance with me. 106 00:06:37,581 --> 00:06:38,816 - Oh! - Come on, mama. 107 00:06:38,883 --> 00:06:40,152 Instead of slaving behind this table. 108 00:06:40,218 --> 00:06:41,853 - Come on, just one dance! - Oh! Oh, no! 109 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,556 - One, one dance, come on. - Don't, don't, I can't! 110 00:06:44,623 --> 00:06:47,393 - Don't, don't. - Come on! 111 00:06:47,460 --> 00:06:48,593 [laughter] 112 00:06:48,661 --> 00:06:51,331 [music continues] 113 00:06:55,803 --> 00:06:58,339 [laughing and cheering] 114 00:07:35,649 --> 00:07:37,184 Well, I.. 115 00:07:37,252 --> 00:07:39,955 I guess I don't have to ask if you've heard the news. 116 00:07:42,958 --> 00:07:46,729 I don't know what it means, what it'll do to people's lives. 117 00:07:46,796 --> 00:07:49,799 Guess no one does right now. 118 00:07:49,866 --> 00:07:52,202 I'll try to hold on to the farm. 119 00:07:52,269 --> 00:07:54,138 Not sure just how. 120 00:07:55,772 --> 00:07:57,976 'You all might wanna go off on your own.' 121 00:08:00,412 --> 00:08:01,779 Y-you can stay here if you want. 122 00:08:01,846 --> 00:08:04,350 It-it's just that I-I-I can't pay anything. 123 00:08:04,416 --> 00:08:07,154 I, everything I have is tied up in this year's crop. 124 00:08:08,755 --> 00:08:11,158 'Maybe you could farm some of the land' 125 00:08:11,224 --> 00:08:14,061 'and then share the crop with me.' 126 00:08:15,631 --> 00:08:18,300 'We all gonna have to think about what we're gonna do.' 127 00:08:20,702 --> 00:08:22,505 I don't.. 128 00:08:22,572 --> 00:08:24,740 I don't know what it means. 129 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,268 [cash register clanks] 130 00:08:48,335 --> 00:08:50,904 Say hello to your mom for me now, Vicky. 131 00:08:52,507 --> 00:08:54,842 Hi, what'll it be, Ed? 132 00:08:54,909 --> 00:08:57,379 Uh, let's see now. Uh, I need, uh-- 133 00:08:57,446 --> 00:09:00,149 Uh, Mr. Brent. 134 00:09:00,216 --> 00:09:02,586 I've been waitin' a long time. 135 00:09:02,652 --> 00:09:05,455 I take care of you when I'm good and ready, now you git. 136 00:09:05,522 --> 00:09:07,791 I was here first. 137 00:09:12,096 --> 00:09:13,998 Now, looky here, you. 138 00:09:14,065 --> 00:09:15,800 You no-account black-- 139 00:09:15,866 --> 00:09:18,036 Uh, i-it's alright, Evan. 140 00:09:18,103 --> 00:09:19,672 I'll drop by a little later. 141 00:09:19,738 --> 00:09:21,773 Hey, no need for that now. Hear? 142 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:23,476 (Ed) 'Later.' 143 00:09:34,289 --> 00:09:36,124 Well. 144 00:09:36,191 --> 00:09:38,527 A loaf of bread and a bag of grits. 145 00:09:44,100 --> 00:09:45,969 Thirty six cents. 146 00:09:57,283 --> 00:09:59,051 Yeah.. 147 00:10:18,173 --> 00:10:21,277 - Hello, Evan. - Senator! 148 00:10:21,344 --> 00:10:24,047 Doggone, it's good to see you! 149 00:10:24,113 --> 00:10:25,915 Just like old times! 150 00:10:25,983 --> 00:10:27,652 Well, I thought you were still in England. 151 00:10:27,719 --> 00:10:29,253 No, I've just returned. 152 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,822 Did you see that? Did you see it? 153 00:10:31,890 --> 00:10:33,124 Senator, you won't believe the way 154 00:10:33,191 --> 00:10:34,560 some of these niggers are carrying on. 155 00:10:34,627 --> 00:10:36,828 Hell, you can't even call 'em niggers anymore. 156 00:10:36,895 --> 00:10:38,397 At least not to their faces. 157 00:10:38,464 --> 00:10:41,233 Uh, I wouldn't fret, Evan. 158 00:10:42,269 --> 00:10:46,808 Let the Negroes have their day. 159 00:10:46,873 --> 00:10:48,209 Oh, what you mean by that? 160 00:10:48,276 --> 00:10:50,578 The same thing as old Uncle Richard 161 00:10:50,646 --> 00:10:52,548 told me when I was a boy. 162 00:10:52,614 --> 00:10:54,283 Old Brer Rabbit 163 00:10:54,350 --> 00:10:57,052 when he can't get through one way 164 00:10:57,119 --> 00:10:59,622 he change his way. 165 00:10:59,689 --> 00:11:02,992 And by and by, he get where he wanna be. 166 00:11:03,059 --> 00:11:06,764 [laughs] I get you now, sir. I get you. 167 00:11:06,832 --> 00:11:08,899 That's right. 168 00:11:08,966 --> 00:11:10,702 We is free at last. 169 00:11:10,769 --> 00:11:12,571 - Yeah! - Yes, indeed. 170 00:11:12,637 --> 00:11:15,408 Alright, we is free at last! 171 00:11:15,475 --> 00:11:17,543 [cheering] 172 00:11:17,610 --> 00:11:19,412 Ain't got no more massas. 173 00:11:19,479 --> 00:11:21,948 Ain't nobody gonna whup us again. 174 00:11:22,014 --> 00:11:25,820 Ain't nobody gonna abuse our womenfolk. 175 00:11:25,919 --> 00:11:27,355 That's right. 176 00:11:27,422 --> 00:11:29,391 Freedom sure taste good, don't it? 177 00:11:29,457 --> 00:11:31,526 [cheering] 178 00:11:33,027 --> 00:11:35,866 Well, maybe it tastes good.. 179 00:11:35,931 --> 00:11:39,202 ...but it sure ain't gonna fill our bellies. 180 00:11:41,505 --> 00:11:44,107 How is we gonna feed our children? 181 00:11:45,343 --> 00:11:47,712 How is we gonna put a roof over our heads? 182 00:11:47,780 --> 00:11:50,783 Now we is free.. 183 00:11:50,849 --> 00:11:52,384 ...what's we gonna do? 184 00:11:53,919 --> 00:11:57,557 I say we go somewhere where the pickings is better. 185 00:11:57,624 --> 00:11:59,359 (all) Yeah, yeah. 186 00:12:01,495 --> 00:12:03,130 Go where? 187 00:12:03,197 --> 00:12:06,535 - Do what? - Well, I.. 188 00:12:06,601 --> 00:12:08,837 I don't know right off. 189 00:12:08,904 --> 00:12:10,205 Must be some place. 190 00:12:10,272 --> 00:12:13,443 You's ignorant, Virgil. Bone ignorant. 191 00:12:13,509 --> 00:12:15,645 - Here now, Tom-- - 'It ain't your fault, Virgil.' 192 00:12:15,711 --> 00:12:17,346 We's all ignorant. 193 00:12:17,413 --> 00:12:20,317 We's just what the massas wanted us to be. 194 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:23,353 Ain't none of us been taught enough 195 00:12:23,420 --> 00:12:26,224 to earn our keep in the white man's world. 196 00:12:27,959 --> 00:12:29,795 'We gonna leave here' 197 00:12:29,862 --> 00:12:33,299 'we better learn how to dofor ourselves first!' 198 00:12:35,367 --> 00:12:37,904 Well, what do you say, Tom? 199 00:12:37,970 --> 00:12:39,841 What you say we do? 200 00:12:39,907 --> 00:12:41,876 I say.. 201 00:12:41,943 --> 00:12:43,978 ...we stays here.. 202 00:12:44,045 --> 00:12:45,213 ...and farms. 203 00:12:45,279 --> 00:12:47,716 Just like we've been doing all our lives. 204 00:12:47,783 --> 00:12:49,318 But not just for Harvey. 205 00:12:49,384 --> 00:12:53,656 It gonna be part <i>our</i> own land for our own selves. 206 00:12:53,723 --> 00:12:55,391 <i>Our</i> dirt we farms! 207 00:12:55,458 --> 00:12:58,462 Now hold on a moment, Tom. 208 00:12:58,529 --> 00:13:01,031 All I knows, all I ever seen in my whole life 209 00:13:01,098 --> 00:13:03,100 is this here plantation 210 00:13:03,167 --> 00:13:05,904 and that little town of company shops. 211 00:13:05,971 --> 00:13:08,406 I wanna see some of the world, Tom. 212 00:13:08,473 --> 00:13:11,878 What the good of freedom if, if you can't go nowhere? 213 00:13:11,944 --> 00:13:13,713 'Course, you can go. 214 00:13:15,214 --> 00:13:18,418 That the whole idea of freedom. 215 00:13:20,153 --> 00:13:23,892 Lewis, you wants to wander for a while. 216 00:13:23,958 --> 00:13:25,360 'Ain't nobody gonna stop you.' 217 00:13:25,426 --> 00:13:27,395 'Same for all of you.' 218 00:13:27,463 --> 00:13:31,166 But maybe we don't <i>have</i> to go! 219 00:13:31,233 --> 00:13:36,139 Maybe now we can find what we wants right here. 220 00:13:36,206 --> 00:13:39,377 I say we gotta give freedom a chance 221 00:13:39,443 --> 00:13:42,647 and here's a good a place to start as any. 222 00:13:44,550 --> 00:13:46,285 ''Sides..' 223 00:13:48,855 --> 00:13:51,291 ...what's our daddy gonna do 224 00:13:51,357 --> 00:13:54,762 when he gets back and we's all gone? 225 00:13:54,828 --> 00:13:56,830 How do we know he come back? 226 00:13:56,897 --> 00:14:00,100 All them years he been gone and ain't no word. 227 00:14:05,373 --> 00:14:08,678 He comin' back 'cause he say he gonna come back. 228 00:14:10,713 --> 00:14:12,583 And your daddy, Chicken George Moore 229 00:14:12,649 --> 00:14:15,018 ain't never said nothin' in his whole life he don't mean. 230 00:14:15,084 --> 00:14:16,687 You hear me, boy? 231 00:14:16,753 --> 00:14:19,189 Just askin', mama. 232 00:14:19,256 --> 00:14:22,560 Now I don't wanna hear no more about leavin' 233 00:14:22,627 --> 00:14:26,265 'cause ain't nobody goin' nowhere till my man come back. 234 00:14:27,633 --> 00:14:30,202 We is a family 235 00:14:30,269 --> 00:14:33,306 and we is gonna stay a family. 236 00:14:37,645 --> 00:14:39,113 [sighs] 237 00:14:52,261 --> 00:14:55,766 Tom, Martha and me, we sure would like to throw our lot in 238 00:14:55,833 --> 00:14:58,502 with you folks. If you want us, of course. 239 00:14:59,771 --> 00:15:00,872 Want you? 240 00:15:02,674 --> 00:15:04,844 You just try getting away, Ol' George 241 00:15:04,910 --> 00:15:07,981 and you'll hear hound dogs baying at your heels 242 00:15:08,048 --> 00:15:09,615 before long. 243 00:15:21,396 --> 00:15:24,199 - Come with me, wife. - Where are we goin'? 244 00:15:24,266 --> 00:15:26,301 I's gonna spark in the moonlight. 245 00:15:27,871 --> 00:15:29,606 Oh, yes, you is! 246 00:15:29,673 --> 00:15:31,042 And that's gonna be some sparkin' 247 00:15:31,108 --> 00:15:32,777 with these two young ones hangin' on our arms. 248 00:15:32,843 --> 00:15:35,312 Don't argue with me, woman. Just come along. 249 00:15:39,918 --> 00:15:43,655 Damned if I'm gonna get my niggers any part of my farm. 250 00:15:43,722 --> 00:15:47,326 Well, that land has been in my family for over a 100 years. 251 00:15:47,393 --> 00:15:50,931 I'd as soon sell out to some carpetbaggers. 252 00:15:50,998 --> 00:15:52,299 I'm with you, Fred. 253 00:15:52,366 --> 00:15:54,601 Them niggers puttin' on enough airs as it is 254 00:15:54,668 --> 00:15:56,671 without makin' them landowner. 255 00:15:56,738 --> 00:16:00,241 They can all own land as far as I'm concerned. 256 00:16:00,308 --> 00:16:03,446 - What you saying, Archie? - Their graves. 257 00:16:03,512 --> 00:16:06,515 They can own them all they want. 258 00:16:06,582 --> 00:16:08,552 (Jackson) 'Now, boys, I respect your sentiments' 259 00:16:08,618 --> 00:16:10,687 but we've gotta be realistic. 260 00:16:10,754 --> 00:16:12,289 Somebody has to work our land 261 00:16:12,355 --> 00:16:15,225 and the niggers are done being slaves. 262 00:16:15,293 --> 00:16:16,694 I don't like breakin' up my holdin' either 263 00:16:16,761 --> 00:16:18,596 but I got no cash to pay wages 264 00:16:18,663 --> 00:16:20,999 so I got to parcel out shares. 265 00:16:21,066 --> 00:16:24,871 I'll never owe nothin' to a black except a whippin'. 266 00:16:24,938 --> 00:16:26,806 And I always pay my debts. 267 00:16:26,873 --> 00:16:29,309 Fred, you are livin' in the past. 268 00:16:29,375 --> 00:16:31,912 You can't just go around whippin' blacks. 269 00:16:31,979 --> 00:16:34,015 The federal authorities ain't gonna allow it. 270 00:16:34,082 --> 00:16:36,051 He's talkin' sense, boys. 271 00:16:36,118 --> 00:16:38,420 There's gonna be a circuit judge through here regular 272 00:16:38,487 --> 00:16:40,655 and the army's here to back him up. 273 00:16:40,722 --> 00:16:42,992 We ought to band together and string up a few of them 274 00:16:43,059 --> 00:16:45,461 just to set a proper example for the rest. 275 00:16:45,528 --> 00:16:47,131 Now you're talkin'. 276 00:16:47,197 --> 00:16:50,501 There's a lot more minus than plus to that notion. 277 00:16:50,567 --> 00:16:52,036 It might sound good, but there-- 278 00:16:52,103 --> 00:16:55,305 I'll tell you about plus and minus here. 279 00:16:55,373 --> 00:16:58,576 Plus is what I come out of the war with. 280 00:16:58,643 --> 00:17:02,748 I come out plus a Yankee miniball in my knee. 281 00:17:02,815 --> 00:17:04,283 Come out plus a limp that I'm gonna have 282 00:17:04,350 --> 00:17:06,553 the rest of my natural days. 283 00:17:08,455 --> 00:17:11,559 And I'm minus my brother, sheriff. 284 00:17:13,262 --> 00:17:15,296 And I'm telling you 285 00:17:15,363 --> 00:17:17,966 no white man killed him. 286 00:17:18,033 --> 00:17:20,869 No white man killed another in the last month of war. 287 00:17:20,937 --> 00:17:22,872 Niggers killed him! 288 00:17:27,644 --> 00:17:30,014 Every step I take 289 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,516 every time my leg twinges on me, I.. 290 00:17:32,583 --> 00:17:35,453 ...I recollect who's responsible for the.. 291 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:37,256 ...for all the pluses and minuses 292 00:17:37,322 --> 00:17:39,591 that I gotta live with now! 293 00:17:39,659 --> 00:17:42,061 Yeah, I recollect who done it to me. 294 00:17:44,131 --> 00:17:45,464 Niggers! 295 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:54,809 Well, gentlemen, I think I'd better leave now. 296 00:17:56,444 --> 00:17:58,581 I'm bound to uphold the law. 297 00:17:58,647 --> 00:18:00,749 Gave my solemn word to do that. 298 00:18:00,816 --> 00:18:02,886 And it seems to me that upholdin' the law 299 00:18:02,953 --> 00:18:05,455 just ain't what this meeting's all about. 300 00:18:05,522 --> 00:18:07,091 Just a minute, sheriff. 301 00:18:08,558 --> 00:18:10,628 I'm goin' with you. 302 00:18:14,465 --> 00:18:16,602 Senator.. 303 00:18:16,668 --> 00:18:18,938 ...these men respect you 304 00:18:19,005 --> 00:18:21,007 'and surely you're not for violence.' 305 00:18:21,074 --> 00:18:23,476 I agree that misdirected violence 306 00:18:23,543 --> 00:18:25,946 is dangerous, Mr. Jackson. 307 00:18:31,585 --> 00:18:33,388 What do you have to say, senator? 308 00:18:33,455 --> 00:18:34,856 We ain't heard from you yet. 309 00:18:34,923 --> 00:18:37,226 Yeah, what do you think we ought to do about it, senator? 310 00:18:37,293 --> 00:18:40,763 It is my intention to acquire property in this county. 311 00:18:40,830 --> 00:18:42,833 'A great deal of property.' 312 00:18:42,900 --> 00:18:44,601 Uh, if it was anybody but you, senator 313 00:18:44,668 --> 00:18:47,338 I'd say out of hand you was plumb crazy! 314 00:18:47,404 --> 00:18:50,074 All the land of Dixie ain't worth a horse's apple 315 00:18:50,141 --> 00:18:51,576 without slaves to work it. 316 00:18:51,643 --> 00:18:55,781 Our niggra, under the misguided new business arrangements 317 00:18:55,848 --> 00:18:59,485 is to receive a share of the crops he works. 318 00:18:59,551 --> 00:19:02,356 And of course, before that profit is paid 319 00:19:02,422 --> 00:19:04,859 his share of costs must be deducted. 320 00:19:04,926 --> 00:19:08,629 'Grains, tools, wagons, mules, horses' feed.' 321 00:19:08,696 --> 00:19:12,401 And somehow he just never manages to catch up on the cost. 322 00:19:12,466 --> 00:19:13,902 Ain't that right? 323 00:19:15,071 --> 00:19:17,472 It doesn't matter who works the land. 324 00:19:17,539 --> 00:19:19,475 'What counts is who owns it.' 325 00:19:19,542 --> 00:19:22,413 Poverty is power. It always has been and always will be. 326 00:19:22,478 --> 00:19:25,683 Whoever controls the land controls the people on it. 327 00:19:25,749 --> 00:19:28,619 I guess you know what you're doin', senator. 328 00:19:28,686 --> 00:19:30,322 Be assured I do, sir. 329 00:19:30,388 --> 00:19:32,590 I am my own Brer Rabbit. 330 00:19:32,657 --> 00:19:34,794 He gonna get where he wanna be. 331 00:19:42,035 --> 00:19:43,503 <i>Tom!</i> 332 00:19:43,570 --> 00:19:46,107 Tom! 333 00:19:46,174 --> 00:19:48,910 Woman, where have you been with that water? 334 00:19:48,977 --> 00:19:52,114 We got some powerful thirsty m.. 335 00:19:52,181 --> 00:19:53,983 - Tom! - Reeny. 336 00:19:55,050 --> 00:19:56,920 [sobbing] 337 00:19:56,987 --> 00:19:58,788 What? What is it? 338 00:19:58,855 --> 00:20:00,424 What? 339 00:20:00,490 --> 00:20:02,726 Rufus just came in from town. 340 00:20:03,728 --> 00:20:05,129 Telegraph say 341 00:20:05,196 --> 00:20:08,166 a white man killed President Lincoln last night. 342 00:20:10,470 --> 00:20:12,671 Shot him in the back of the head. 343 00:20:14,140 --> 00:20:15,775 He's dead, Tom. 344 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:26,654 Still daylight left and work to do. 345 00:20:34,297 --> 00:20:35,965 Did you hear her, Tom? 346 00:20:37,834 --> 00:20:40,670 - Lincoln's dead. - I heard! 347 00:20:41,372 --> 00:20:43,908 I know he's dead! 348 00:20:43,975 --> 00:20:46,144 But it won't be for nothin'! 349 00:20:46,210 --> 00:20:48,814 I won't let his dyin' be for nothin! 350 00:20:49,882 --> 00:20:53,719 ♪ Somebody's callin' my name ♪ 351 00:20:53,786 --> 00:20:58,292 ♪ Whoa whoa whoa ♪ ♪ Hush ♪ 352 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:00,995 ♪ Hush ♪ ♪ Whoa ♪ 353 00:21:01,062 --> 00:21:07,302 ♪ Somebody's callin' my name ♪ 354 00:21:07,369 --> 00:21:13,076 ♪ Hush hush ♪ 355 00:21:13,142 --> 00:21:17,981 ♪ Somebody's callin' my name ♪ 356 00:21:18,048 --> 00:21:23,587 ♪ Oh my Lord oh my Lord ♪ 357 00:21:23,654 --> 00:21:26,825 ♪ What shall I do ♪ 358 00:21:26,891 --> 00:21:29,594 ♪ What shall I do ♪ 359 00:21:29,661 --> 00:21:31,230 ♪ Where you know ♪ 360 00:21:31,297 --> 00:21:37,671 ♪ It sounds like Jesus ♪ 361 00:21:37,737 --> 00:21:42,310 ♪ Somebody's callin' my name ♪ 362 00:21:42,376 --> 00:21:48,617 ♪ Whoa it sounds like Jesus ♪ ♪ It sounds like Jesus ♪ 363 00:21:49,785 --> 00:21:55,658 ♪ Somebody's callin' my name ♪ 364 00:21:55,725 --> 00:22:01,765 ♪ Sounds like Jesus ♪ 365 00:22:01,832 --> 00:22:06,638 ♪ Somebody's callin' my name ♪ 366 00:22:06,705 --> 00:22:11,478 ♪ Whoa ♪ ♪ Hmm ♪♪ 367 00:22:11,545 --> 00:22:13,679 [humming] 368 00:22:27,129 --> 00:22:29,665 (male #2) 'Hiya!' 369 00:22:29,732 --> 00:22:31,834 [dogs barking] 370 00:22:31,902 --> 00:22:34,639 Tom, what is it? 371 00:22:34,704 --> 00:22:36,840 [dogs barking] 372 00:22:39,010 --> 00:22:41,145 [horses galloping] 373 00:22:43,549 --> 00:22:45,884 [men screaming] 374 00:22:47,719 --> 00:22:49,389 [intense music] 375 00:22:49,455 --> 00:22:51,724 Cabins, everybody, quick. 376 00:23:19,991 --> 00:23:22,494 - Tom? - I don't know. 377 00:23:22,561 --> 00:23:25,497 [gunshots] 378 00:23:27,500 --> 00:23:30,036 [screaming continues] 379 00:23:48,626 --> 00:23:50,893 [gunshots] 380 00:24:04,477 --> 00:24:07,013 [music continues] 381 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,167 [gunshot] 382 00:24:25,235 --> 00:24:27,370 You keep out of this, Harvey! 383 00:24:39,017 --> 00:24:40,886 [glass shattering] 384 00:24:43,088 --> 00:24:45,291 [laughing and screaming] 385 00:24:48,729 --> 00:24:51,865 [gunshots] 386 00:25:04,514 --> 00:25:06,450 [fire crackling] 387 00:25:12,790 --> 00:25:14,760 Lewis! Tom! 388 00:25:14,827 --> 00:25:17,028 Come out! Come out! 389 00:25:17,095 --> 00:25:18,897 'Let's get a line out here!' 390 00:25:18,964 --> 00:25:20,700 Get some water on this fire! 391 00:25:20,767 --> 00:25:23,436 Jesse, come on! Come! Everybody! 392 00:25:23,503 --> 00:25:26,506 Hannah, Hannah, the barn's on fire! 393 00:25:26,574 --> 00:25:28,509 [indistinct chatter] 394 00:25:34,683 --> 00:25:37,787 Get another bucket! It's getting bigger! 395 00:25:37,854 --> 00:25:40,623 Hurry before it spreads. 396 00:25:40,690 --> 00:25:42,625 [indistinct chatter] 397 00:26:09,724 --> 00:26:11,592 Free at last. 398 00:26:16,064 --> 00:26:18,000 I don't understand it. 399 00:26:19,201 --> 00:26:21,337 I just don't understand it. 400 00:26:29,513 --> 00:26:32,284 We ain't gonna let 'em get away with this, hear? 401 00:26:32,350 --> 00:26:35,454 We sweated too hard to raise our measly little crops. 402 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,157 Ain't nobody gonna just ride in here when they take a mind 403 00:26:38,224 --> 00:26:40,393 and trample everything we got in this world. 404 00:26:42,228 --> 00:26:44,598 We ought to get us some guns and fight back! 405 00:26:45,732 --> 00:26:47,869 Who we gonna fight? 406 00:26:47,936 --> 00:26:49,471 <i>Damn!</i> 407 00:26:49,537 --> 00:26:51,105 I don't know! 408 00:26:51,172 --> 00:26:52,307 Only thing I know is we can't just 409 00:26:52,373 --> 00:26:53,909 let them get away with this! 410 00:26:53,975 --> 00:26:55,444 White folks ain't gonna let us live here. 411 00:26:55,511 --> 00:26:58,013 - We should get out! - No! 412 00:26:59,215 --> 00:27:01,618 We ain't gonna do no such thing. 413 00:27:01,685 --> 00:27:04,589 We stay 'cause we has a right to stay! 414 00:27:06,223 --> 00:27:07,625 This don't change nothin'. 415 00:27:07,692 --> 00:27:10,094 It just means that there's some few rebs around 416 00:27:10,161 --> 00:27:12,397 still don't know the war's over. 417 00:27:12,464 --> 00:27:14,566 They're not gonna push us off our land. 418 00:27:15,567 --> 00:27:17,337 We is free men! 419 00:27:24,879 --> 00:27:26,113 Besides.. 420 00:27:27,481 --> 00:27:29,317 ...maybe they ain't gonna get away with this. 421 00:27:29,384 --> 00:27:31,386 What do you mean, Tom? 422 00:27:31,453 --> 00:27:33,723 Look here. 423 00:27:33,789 --> 00:27:35,758 (Virgil) 'I don't see nothing except for some old hoof marks.' 424 00:27:35,825 --> 00:27:37,493 That's right. 425 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:38,962 So what's so special about hoof marks? 426 00:27:39,028 --> 00:27:40,162 Nothing. 427 00:27:40,229 --> 00:27:42,299 All hoof marks exactly the same. 428 00:27:42,366 --> 00:27:44,769 But supposin' they weren't? 429 00:27:44,836 --> 00:27:47,839 Supposin' every hoof mark had a little somethin' on it. 430 00:27:47,906 --> 00:27:50,275 Somethin' that set it off from the other. 431 00:27:50,341 --> 00:27:51,510 What you gettin' at, Tom? 432 00:27:51,577 --> 00:27:53,212 I's gettin' at those night riders. 433 00:27:53,279 --> 00:27:55,447 That's what I's gettin' at. 434 00:27:58,718 --> 00:28:00,720 Stands to reason.. 435 00:28:00,788 --> 00:28:03,925 ...these night riders are some of our good neighbors, right? 436 00:28:03,991 --> 00:28:05,726 And it stands to reason that most men 437 00:28:05,793 --> 00:28:08,697 bring their horses to me for showing, right? 438 00:28:08,764 --> 00:28:10,265 Now supposin' 439 00:28:10,332 --> 00:28:14,136 every horse I shoes me from this day on.. 440 00:28:14,202 --> 00:28:17,774 ...I puts a little special mark on it. 441 00:28:17,841 --> 00:28:19,643 Maybe here. 442 00:28:22,813 --> 00:28:24,716 Then we have a way of knowing 443 00:28:24,783 --> 00:28:26,718 what horse the shoe belong to. 444 00:28:29,321 --> 00:28:31,791 And if we know where the shoe fits.. 445 00:28:47,208 --> 00:28:49,110 May I ask why you're selling? 446 00:28:49,177 --> 00:28:51,847 Well, place got run down durin' the war. 447 00:28:51,915 --> 00:28:55,018 I thought I could hang on by passing out shares to the Negros 448 00:28:55,085 --> 00:28:57,687 but night riders took care of that. 449 00:28:57,754 --> 00:28:59,924 And you have no idea who they are? 450 00:28:59,991 --> 00:29:01,459 No, not a clue. 451 00:29:01,525 --> 00:29:04,662 They've been rampaging through the country destroyin' crops. 452 00:29:04,730 --> 00:29:07,432 Scarin' the Negros half out of their wits. 453 00:29:07,499 --> 00:29:10,903 Last week, they, they tore up everything I planted. 454 00:29:10,970 --> 00:29:14,607 I, I just don't have the heart for farmin' anymore, senator. 455 00:29:14,674 --> 00:29:17,745 Well, I'm sorry to hear about your troubles, Samuel. 456 00:29:17,811 --> 00:29:20,014 Very sorry, indeed. 457 00:29:20,081 --> 00:29:22,717 But business is a business. 458 00:29:22,784 --> 00:29:25,387 In anticipation of our discussion 459 00:29:25,453 --> 00:29:27,723 I had this contract drawn up. 460 00:29:36,967 --> 00:29:40,838 Five thousand dollars isn't much for a man's life work, senator. 461 00:29:40,905 --> 00:29:43,474 Well, I couldn't agree with you more.. 462 00:29:44,676 --> 00:29:46,478 '...unhappily.' 463 00:29:46,545 --> 00:29:49,281 That's quite beside the point. 464 00:29:49,348 --> 00:29:52,585 Now you yourself have indicated that the place is.. 465 00:29:52,652 --> 00:29:54,554 ...isn't in the best of condition. 466 00:29:54,621 --> 00:29:58,626 And in all good faith, 5000 is.. 467 00:29:58,693 --> 00:30:00,828 ...is the best I could manage. 468 00:30:02,931 --> 00:30:04,166 Well, you think about it. 469 00:30:04,231 --> 00:30:06,001 I'll understand if you decide to wait 470 00:30:06,069 --> 00:30:07,569 for a more satisfactory offer. 471 00:30:07,636 --> 00:30:09,872 No, no, there won't be any better offers. 472 00:30:09,939 --> 00:30:11,908 We both know that. 473 00:30:11,974 --> 00:30:13,777 I'll accept it. 474 00:30:32,298 --> 00:30:34,868 Good. That's it then. 475 00:30:36,570 --> 00:30:38,639 There's just one other thing, senator. 476 00:30:38,706 --> 00:30:40,708 Uh, my Negros owe me for seed.. 477 00:30:40,775 --> 00:30:42,978 It's a matter of a couple hundred dollars, it.. 478 00:30:43,045 --> 00:30:44,680 They've worked hard for me over the years. 479 00:30:44,747 --> 00:30:46,950 I'd like to wipe the slate clean with him. 480 00:30:47,016 --> 00:30:49,819 Consider it done. Here's my hand on it. 481 00:30:49,886 --> 00:30:52,156 Thank you. 482 00:30:52,223 --> 00:30:54,625 Aren't you done yet, boy? 483 00:30:54,692 --> 00:30:57,695 Yes, sir, Mr. Drake. I's trying, sir. 484 00:31:00,198 --> 00:31:02,434 Gots to fix it just right. 485 00:31:24,026 --> 00:31:26,495 Well, I guess that's about it. Much obliged, boys. 486 00:31:32,236 --> 00:31:33,770 Lila. 487 00:31:35,305 --> 00:31:37,041 It's time, Lila. 488 00:31:39,812 --> 00:31:41,947 Lila? 489 00:31:42,014 --> 00:31:43,882 Oh, Sam, how can we? 490 00:31:43,949 --> 00:31:46,485 - All those years. - I know, honey. 491 00:31:46,552 --> 00:31:48,922 There's nothing we can do about it. 492 00:32:17,088 --> 00:32:19,591 Well, I'm gonna miss this place and you folks. 493 00:32:21,060 --> 00:32:24,130 'Sorry, I had to sell, but I really didn't have much choice.' 494 00:32:26,233 --> 00:32:29,903 'The new owner should be out in a few days to talk to you.' 495 00:32:29,970 --> 00:32:33,574 'Meantime, I suggest you go on putting in new crops.' 496 00:32:36,044 --> 00:32:38,412 I'm sure you'll find Senator Justin a decent man 497 00:32:38,479 --> 00:32:40,649 to work for. 498 00:32:40,716 --> 00:32:42,185 He's agreed to wipe out your debts 499 00:32:42,252 --> 00:32:44,419 so you can start from fresh. 500 00:32:59,939 --> 00:33:02,375 Mrs. Harvey and I wanna thank you 501 00:33:02,441 --> 00:33:05,578 for all of your kindness and your help over the years. 502 00:33:09,149 --> 00:33:11,119 Goodbye and good luck to you. 503 00:33:15,357 --> 00:33:16,858 Goodbye, Mr. Harvey. 504 00:33:18,193 --> 00:33:19,862 Mrs. Harvey. 505 00:33:22,698 --> 00:33:25,035 'Now what's the matter with y'all?' 506 00:33:26,069 --> 00:33:27,604 Where's your manners? 507 00:33:28,906 --> 00:33:31,575 Say goodbye to the Harveys and wish 'em well. 508 00:33:32,877 --> 00:33:35,681 - Bye, Massa Harvey. - Bye, Massa Harvey. 509 00:33:35,747 --> 00:33:38,750 - Bye, Massa Harvey. - Bye, Massa Harvey. 510 00:33:43,489 --> 00:33:46,860 You was better than some, massa. 511 00:33:52,566 --> 00:33:55,203 [instrumental music] 512 00:34:18,331 --> 00:34:20,967 [dramatic music] 513 00:34:34,149 --> 00:34:37,120 Now that we know who he is, I say let's kill him. 514 00:34:38,254 --> 00:34:40,857 - No. - Why not? 515 00:34:40,923 --> 00:34:43,593 I didn't know you were so particular about killin' whites! 516 00:34:46,663 --> 00:34:48,565 There'll be no killing. 517 00:34:48,632 --> 00:34:50,635 We go to the law. 518 00:34:50,702 --> 00:34:52,237 White man's law? 519 00:34:53,506 --> 00:34:55,107 That's right. 520 00:34:56,742 --> 00:34:58,144 I'm sorry I'm late. 521 00:34:58,210 --> 00:35:01,148 I had to help Martha with some chores. 522 00:35:01,214 --> 00:35:02,215 And what we gotta do? 523 00:35:02,282 --> 00:35:04,651 What's that white man doin' in here? 524 00:35:07,055 --> 00:35:08,256 What white man? 525 00:35:08,322 --> 00:35:11,260 There's only one white man in here as I can see! 526 00:35:18,201 --> 00:35:19,869 Ol' George? 527 00:35:19,936 --> 00:35:23,541 When the killing starts, like holds to like. 528 00:35:23,606 --> 00:35:26,545 You've got no call to talk like that. 529 00:35:26,610 --> 00:35:28,679 He can't help that he white! 530 00:35:28,746 --> 00:35:30,648 I don't care! I wants him out! 531 00:35:30,715 --> 00:35:32,184 Oh, you does, does you? 532 00:35:32,250 --> 00:35:34,353 And who is you to be giving orders around here? 533 00:35:34,420 --> 00:35:37,056 I ain't the only one around here that feels that way! 534 00:35:43,797 --> 00:35:46,534 Well, I ain't listening to nobody say a word 535 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:48,403 against Ol' George. 536 00:35:48,470 --> 00:35:51,540 No, Tom, Tom, it's alright. 537 00:35:51,606 --> 00:35:55,177 Alright, I ain't one to tarry where I ain't wanted. 538 00:35:58,115 --> 00:35:59,749 Ol' George? 539 00:36:03,054 --> 00:36:05,356 Now I say we ain't going to no law! 540 00:36:06,824 --> 00:36:10,095 I say we even up our own tally! 541 00:36:10,162 --> 00:36:13,533 Lewis, you best sit down and shut your mouth. 542 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,667 'Cause you said enough for one day. 543 00:36:15,734 --> 00:36:17,237 And you're lucky that mama weren't here 544 00:36:17,303 --> 00:36:19,139 to hear you say that. 545 00:36:22,943 --> 00:36:28,183 I said sit...down, little brother. 546 00:36:35,425 --> 00:36:38,095 I ain't finished with you about Ol' George yet. 547 00:36:42,367 --> 00:36:44,735 We gots to go to the law, don't you see? 548 00:36:46,004 --> 00:36:48,706 Ain't supposed to be no white man's law. 549 00:36:49,807 --> 00:36:52,479 Only supposed to be one law! 550 00:36:52,546 --> 00:36:55,415 - <i>The</i> law! - You daft, Tom? 551 00:36:55,482 --> 00:36:59,487 (Virgil) 'Hmm? You try to set the law on white folks' 552 00:36:59,554 --> 00:37:01,389 they're gonna lynch you, brother. 553 00:37:01,455 --> 00:37:03,491 Maybe, maybe not. 554 00:37:03,559 --> 00:37:06,595 But we got to find out, don't we? 555 00:37:06,662 --> 00:37:08,665 If we don't give the law a chance 556 00:37:08,730 --> 00:37:10,933 freedom ain't worth a damn! 557 00:37:20,711 --> 00:37:23,881 Now who going into town with me to see the sheriff? 558 00:38:04,663 --> 00:38:08,401 You is a plumb stubborn fool! 559 00:38:10,570 --> 00:38:11,771 Damn you! 560 00:38:11,838 --> 00:38:13,940 What are you so all fired up about? 561 00:38:15,242 --> 00:38:17,978 Why you gotta be the one to step forward? 562 00:38:18,045 --> 00:38:20,382 You ain't even oldest! 563 00:38:20,448 --> 00:38:23,451 Why you gotta be the big man every time? 564 00:38:28,691 --> 00:38:32,195 'Cause I wants to look my daddy in the eye when next we meet. 565 00:38:34,131 --> 00:38:37,302 'Cause I want our children growing up in freedom. 566 00:38:39,170 --> 00:38:41,439 'Cause too many suffered to bring us this far. 567 00:38:41,506 --> 00:38:43,509 Now ain't the time to go back. 568 00:38:45,878 --> 00:38:48,481 'Cause somebody got to stand up, Irene. 569 00:38:49,616 --> 00:38:51,217 Is that so? 570 00:38:53,386 --> 00:38:56,290 Well, somebody gotta mind his wife and babies too. 571 00:38:58,326 --> 00:39:01,896 Now who gonna do that after they...shoots you? 572 00:39:01,962 --> 00:39:03,665 - Or hangs you up? - Irene. 573 00:39:03,733 --> 00:39:05,802 Oh! 574 00:39:05,867 --> 00:39:08,071 - Oh, don't go. - Irene. 575 00:39:08,137 --> 00:39:10,073 Irene. 576 00:39:10,139 --> 00:39:12,609 - Oh, please, please. - I've gots to. 577 00:39:15,879 --> 00:39:20,151 Oh, Tom, I'm so scared. 578 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:24,190 Tom. 579 00:39:24,256 --> 00:39:26,592 I don't want 'em to hurt you. 580 00:39:29,195 --> 00:39:31,631 I ain't nothing without you, Tom. 581 00:39:33,735 --> 00:39:36,237 Irene, I's scared too. 582 00:39:37,739 --> 00:39:41,276 But I just can't not go. 583 00:39:49,619 --> 00:39:51,955 I hate you for doing this. 584 00:39:54,358 --> 00:39:56,728 I'd give anything, say anything 585 00:39:56,795 --> 00:39:59,431 do anything to make you stay. 586 00:40:08,475 --> 00:40:11,211 But I is proud of you, Tom Harvey. 587 00:40:13,815 --> 00:40:17,018 Oh, I's terrible proud of you. 588 00:40:33,069 --> 00:40:34,972 - Now. - What? 589 00:40:36,007 --> 00:40:38,943 There's only one thing. 590 00:40:39,010 --> 00:40:41,513 I am going into the company shops with you. 591 00:40:41,580 --> 00:40:42,749 No. You's talking crazy. 592 00:40:42,816 --> 00:40:44,983 - There's no telling what's-- - I am going. 593 00:40:45,050 --> 00:40:48,388 - You is, you is! - Yes, Tom. 594 00:40:57,065 --> 00:40:59,201 You is one fine woman. 595 00:41:01,838 --> 00:41:03,706 That's what you is. 596 00:41:05,642 --> 00:41:07,711 You is one fine woman. 597 00:41:24,297 --> 00:41:26,466 (Biggs) 'Well, well, well.' 598 00:41:28,569 --> 00:41:31,272 You're a one smart man, Tom Harvey. 599 00:41:34,275 --> 00:41:36,745 Fancy you figuring out something like this? 600 00:41:39,949 --> 00:41:42,084 There's no doubt about it. 601 00:41:43,119 --> 00:41:44,955 You got them dead to rights. 602 00:41:45,021 --> 00:41:47,591 You did good coming to be though. 603 00:41:50,628 --> 00:41:52,797 Had you told anybody else about this? 604 00:41:53,965 --> 00:41:55,500 Just my kin. 605 00:41:59,037 --> 00:42:01,340 What you gonna do about it, sheriff? 606 00:42:01,407 --> 00:42:03,477 Well, I'm, I'm gonna get after him, Tom. 607 00:42:04,444 --> 00:42:06,513 But I gotta handle this careful. 608 00:42:06,580 --> 00:42:08,750 I mean, this is, this is not just locking up 609 00:42:08,816 --> 00:42:10,585 some Saturday night drunk. 610 00:42:12,021 --> 00:42:14,155 I gotta-gotta study. 611 00:42:14,222 --> 00:42:16,392 'I got to figure out how to handle this.' 612 00:42:25,670 --> 00:42:28,372 But I...tell you what I want you to do. 613 00:42:29,975 --> 00:42:32,410 Uh, you go on home 614 00:42:32,477 --> 00:42:34,346 '...and just go on about your business.' 615 00:42:34,413 --> 00:42:37,149 It's best that folks don't know you got anything 616 00:42:37,215 --> 00:42:39,117 to do with this just right yet. 617 00:42:39,184 --> 00:42:40,954 Yes, sir. 618 00:42:41,021 --> 00:42:43,089 You take care of it then? 619 00:42:45,158 --> 00:42:47,194 Well, I guess I got to, Tom. 620 00:42:48,329 --> 00:42:50,331 I guess I got to. 621 00:43:05,616 --> 00:43:08,886 - Tom? - I think we done right. 622 00:43:10,488 --> 00:43:13,859 I think the law is the law. 623 00:43:13,926 --> 00:43:15,461 What happened? 624 00:43:15,527 --> 00:43:18,565 Heard me out and he going after them, that's what happened. 625 00:43:20,333 --> 00:43:22,302 What you two doin' here? 626 00:43:24,137 --> 00:43:27,475 Well, you're one crazy fool. 627 00:43:29,077 --> 00:43:30,912 But you still our brother. 628 00:43:30,979 --> 00:43:32,115 You sure? 629 00:43:32,180 --> 00:43:34,549 He going after them, honey. Don't worry. 630 00:43:46,931 --> 00:43:48,265 [knock on door] 631 00:43:49,834 --> 00:43:51,436 Yeah. 632 00:43:56,043 --> 00:43:58,945 - Can I come in? - Sure. 633 00:44:07,689 --> 00:44:09,290 You alright? 634 00:44:12,695 --> 00:44:15,264 Ol' George, I sorry about what happened. 635 00:44:15,330 --> 00:44:17,801 You knows how we feel about you. 636 00:44:17,867 --> 00:44:19,070 Yeah, I guess I do. 637 00:44:19,136 --> 00:44:21,371 After last night, I guess I do. 638 00:44:21,438 --> 00:44:22,606 Don't go on like that. 639 00:44:22,673 --> 00:44:25,844 Lewis got no more sense than a bumblebee 640 00:44:25,911 --> 00:44:29,481 when his blood's up. Don't mean nothin'. 641 00:44:29,548 --> 00:44:31,283 If Lewis didn't mean what he said 642 00:44:31,349 --> 00:44:33,453 then why ain't he here instead of you? 643 00:44:33,519 --> 00:44:34,821 He come around, Martha. 644 00:44:34,887 --> 00:44:37,891 He just needs more time to collect hisself. 645 00:44:40,294 --> 00:44:43,263 Well, Tom, I guess 646 00:44:43,330 --> 00:44:45,867 maybe I need some time too. 647 00:44:45,934 --> 00:44:47,635 Sure, you do. 648 00:45:01,251 --> 00:45:03,788 George. 649 00:45:03,855 --> 00:45:05,289 What? 650 00:45:05,356 --> 00:45:06,992 Maybe we've been here long enough. 651 00:45:08,961 --> 00:45:11,898 Maybe we best be thinking of striking out for ourselves.. 652 00:45:13,432 --> 00:45:15,335 ...while we're still young enough. 653 00:45:18,939 --> 00:45:21,142 Now I'm sure you've all been concerned 654 00:45:21,209 --> 00:45:25,447 about what's going to happen now that Mr. Harvey has left. 655 00:45:25,514 --> 00:45:29,218 Well, let me reassure you that nothing is going to change. 656 00:45:29,284 --> 00:45:32,855 'Mr. Harvey's agreement with you will be honored.' 657 00:45:32,922 --> 00:45:35,092 'You will receive a fair percentage' 658 00:45:35,159 --> 00:45:37,361 of the crops you raise. 659 00:45:37,427 --> 00:45:40,430 Well, what do you say to that? 660 00:45:40,497 --> 00:45:42,700 It's very kind of you, sir. 661 00:45:42,767 --> 00:45:44,869 But if Mr. Brent gonna be in charge 662 00:45:44,936 --> 00:45:47,840 I don't think my people wants to stay on. 663 00:45:52,012 --> 00:45:54,114 Well.. 664 00:45:54,181 --> 00:45:56,016 ...you're free, uh 665 00:45:56,083 --> 00:45:57,919 to go, of course 666 00:45:57,985 --> 00:46:00,388 'just as soon as you pay up your debt.' 667 00:46:01,823 --> 00:46:03,491 What debt? 668 00:46:05,093 --> 00:46:08,298 According to the farm's ledger, you was advanced $235 669 00:46:08,363 --> 00:46:12,368 worth of seed, grain and other supplies against future crops. 670 00:46:12,435 --> 00:46:15,139 But Mr. Harvey said he fixed that. 671 00:46:15,206 --> 00:46:17,141 Told us we was free and clear. 672 00:46:17,208 --> 00:46:19,877 Hmm, that's peculiar. 673 00:46:19,945 --> 00:46:21,947 The agreements are on file at the county clerk's office 674 00:46:22,013 --> 00:46:24,616 and I don't recall seeing that in the deed of sale. 675 00:46:27,787 --> 00:46:30,389 Now you work hard on your share. 676 00:46:30,456 --> 00:46:33,193 It'll reduce your debt considerably. 677 00:46:33,260 --> 00:46:36,630 (Evan) Two hundred and thirty five dollars ain't all that much. 678 00:46:36,697 --> 00:46:38,498 But in the meantime 679 00:46:38,565 --> 00:46:40,535 don't nobody try leaving here. 680 00:46:40,602 --> 00:46:41,836 You see, it's a legal matter. 681 00:46:41,903 --> 00:46:44,439 We can get the sheriff to lock you up. 682 00:46:45,975 --> 00:46:47,576 Senator, sir? 683 00:46:48,611 --> 00:46:51,581 Is this what you wants? 684 00:46:51,648 --> 00:46:55,152 I thought I made it clear, boy. 685 00:46:55,219 --> 00:46:57,555 'Mr. Brent speaks for me.' 686 00:47:01,059 --> 00:47:04,529 Aah, Mr. Johnson, we were wondering 687 00:47:04,596 --> 00:47:07,834 what your plans are now that Mr. Harvey's left. 688 00:47:07,901 --> 00:47:10,036 Well, I ain't got no special p-plans, sir. 689 00:47:10,103 --> 00:47:12,339 I'll just go on working my share, I guess. 690 00:47:12,405 --> 00:47:13,874 I'm afraid that won't do, George. 691 00:47:13,941 --> 00:47:16,043 You see me and the senator, we got certain feelings 692 00:47:16,110 --> 00:47:19,748 about, uh, white folks sharecropping alongside niggers. 693 00:47:19,814 --> 00:47:21,816 Why should a smart young fellow like you 694 00:47:21,883 --> 00:47:23,685 want to work like a common field hand 695 00:47:23,752 --> 00:47:27,523 when there are other opportunities to consider, huh? 696 00:47:27,590 --> 00:47:29,927 (Evan) 'We need somebody to keep his eye on things for us' 697 00:47:29,993 --> 00:47:33,364 'to make sure the work gets done.' 698 00:47:33,430 --> 00:47:35,432 Job's yours if you want it. 699 00:47:35,499 --> 00:47:38,603 Oh, I don't know, Mr. Brent, I ain't much about overseein'. 700 00:47:38,670 --> 00:47:40,605 (Evan) 'I'll pay you a good wage.' 701 00:47:40,672 --> 00:47:42,641 'And if things work out, maybe someday' 702 00:47:42,708 --> 00:47:44,710 'you and your family can, uh' 703 00:47:44,777 --> 00:47:46,413 'move into the main house here, huh?' 704 00:47:46,478 --> 00:47:48,547 'That's fair, ain't it?' 705 00:47:58,559 --> 00:48:01,296 Alright, I'll do it. 706 00:48:01,364 --> 00:48:04,033 Good boy, Georgie, good boy. 707 00:48:04,100 --> 00:48:06,569 Uh, we'll settle the details later. 708 00:48:06,636 --> 00:48:08,037 'Senator?' 709 00:48:08,104 --> 00:48:10,808 I think that's everything for now, Evan. 710 00:48:10,874 --> 00:48:14,745 I'm looking forward to a long and happy association. 711 00:48:14,812 --> 00:48:17,849 You'll find me a fair man to work for 712 00:48:17,916 --> 00:48:20,885 if you're willing to meet me...halfway. 713 00:48:24,824 --> 00:48:27,027 Next time I'm back here, George 714 00:48:27,094 --> 00:48:29,663 I expect to see all these darkies out in the fields 715 00:48:29,730 --> 00:48:31,698 where they belong. 716 00:48:31,765 --> 00:48:34,202 I want you in town reporting to me regular, huh? 717 00:48:40,943 --> 00:48:44,381 I do hope you're gonna behave yourself, boy. 718 00:48:44,447 --> 00:48:46,182 I surely do. 719 00:48:52,690 --> 00:48:53,991 [knock on door] 720 00:48:59,998 --> 00:49:02,368 Oh, howdy, sheriff? Come on in. 721 00:49:02,435 --> 00:49:04,070 Howdy, Evan? 722 00:49:11,513 --> 00:49:14,916 You know, Evan, we've been friends for a long time. 723 00:49:16,251 --> 00:49:17,886 I want you to know that. 724 00:49:19,055 --> 00:49:20,790 Sure, I know that, Charlie. 725 00:49:20,856 --> 00:49:22,325 What's got into you? 726 00:49:22,392 --> 00:49:24,895 And, uh, I'm on your side. 727 00:49:26,430 --> 00:49:28,965 You understand that, don't you? 728 00:49:29,032 --> 00:49:30,902 Sheriff, you been drinking? 729 00:49:30,968 --> 00:49:32,036 [scoffs] 730 00:49:32,103 --> 00:49:35,606 No, I, I don't think I could get drunk tonight. 731 00:49:35,673 --> 00:49:37,843 No? Why? Why can't you get drunk? 732 00:49:39,778 --> 00:49:41,514 'Cause I know who every single one of them 733 00:49:41,580 --> 00:49:43,683 night riders is, Evan. 734 00:49:43,750 --> 00:49:45,985 I got proof. 735 00:49:46,052 --> 00:49:48,355 'Proof I'm gonna turn over to the federal circuit court judge' 736 00:49:48,422 --> 00:49:50,658 'when he comes riding through here next weekend.' 737 00:49:50,724 --> 00:49:53,727 - You got what? - You heard me, Evan. 738 00:49:53,794 --> 00:49:56,765 I got proof. Tom Harvey gave it to me. 739 00:49:56,832 --> 00:49:58,434 'Now I don't want the proof' 740 00:49:58,501 --> 00:49:59,836 'and I don't wanna know what I know' 741 00:49:59,902 --> 00:50:01,838 'but I know it for a real fact.' 742 00:50:01,904 --> 00:50:04,508 Unless somebody does somethin'. 743 00:50:04,575 --> 00:50:06,844 Then I'm sworn to do somethin' that'll make me a hated man 744 00:50:06,910 --> 00:50:09,913 in this county, for the rest of my natural life. 745 00:50:09,980 --> 00:50:12,417 Unless, somebody does something to Tom Harvey 746 00:50:12,484 --> 00:50:14,453 to make him pull back his evidence. 747 00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:17,022 Eh, do something like what? Uh.. 748 00:50:17,089 --> 00:50:19,725 Evan, I'm sick enough as it is. 749 00:50:19,792 --> 00:50:22,229 Had myself for not to go this far. 750 00:50:22,295 --> 00:50:25,799 Now, do I have to lay out the whole plan for you too? 751 00:50:25,866 --> 00:50:29,704 No, no need for that. 752 00:50:29,770 --> 00:50:32,940 You've done enough, sheriff, you've done enough. 753 00:50:43,254 --> 00:50:45,688 Uh, I guess you're just have to see if I can-- 754 00:50:45,755 --> 00:50:47,725 Evan, I don't-I don't wanna know another word. 755 00:50:50,529 --> 00:50:52,130 Now, I'm an officer of the law. 756 00:50:52,197 --> 00:50:55,301 And sometimes an officer of the law, well 757 00:50:55,368 --> 00:50:58,404 he just ain't got no choice in somethings. 758 00:50:58,471 --> 00:51:00,274 You understand what I mean? 759 00:51:00,340 --> 00:51:01,674 Hmm. 760 00:51:03,143 --> 00:51:05,946 Won't nobody misunderstand, sheriff. 761 00:51:06,013 --> 00:51:08,149 I'll see to that. 762 00:51:11,819 --> 00:51:15,891 Well, thank you, Evan, I...much obliged to you. 763 00:51:19,429 --> 00:51:20,797 Goodnight, Evan. 764 00:51:40,820 --> 00:51:42,957 [dramatic music] 765 00:51:49,699 --> 00:51:51,032 Hmm. 766 00:52:10,522 --> 00:52:12,458 [music continues] 767 00:52:20,033 --> 00:52:22,169 [horse neighs] 768 00:52:26,708 --> 00:52:28,410 [dramatic music] 769 00:52:39,189 --> 00:52:40,524 (male #3) Tom Harvey? 770 00:52:45,430 --> 00:52:46,865 We want you, nigger. 771 00:52:51,237 --> 00:52:52,605 Tom. 772 00:52:52,672 --> 00:52:54,006 Tom! 773 00:53:02,550 --> 00:53:04,452 Get yourself, out here, boy. 774 00:53:04,519 --> 00:53:06,921 'Or we gonna burn your kinfolk.' 775 00:53:08,957 --> 00:53:11,827 (Irene) 'No, Tom.' 776 00:53:26,044 --> 00:53:27,379 [horse neighs] 777 00:53:43,431 --> 00:53:44,566 Move! 778 00:53:48,371 --> 00:53:49,505 Now! 779 00:53:54,478 --> 00:53:56,413 [dramatic music] 780 00:54:23,911 --> 00:54:26,047 [music continues] 781 00:54:30,019 --> 00:54:32,489 - George? - There's six of 'em, Martha. 782 00:54:32,556 --> 00:54:33,524 Six. 783 00:54:35,592 --> 00:54:37,361 Anyway, why should I? 784 00:54:37,428 --> 00:54:40,931 Like holds to like, that is what they told me, ain't it? 785 00:54:40,999 --> 00:54:42,333 Ain't it? 786 00:54:48,240 --> 00:54:50,142 Thought you was pretty smart, going to the sheriff 787 00:54:50,209 --> 00:54:51,545 didn't you, boy, huh? 788 00:54:55,783 --> 00:54:58,352 This here is a bad nigger 789 00:54:58,419 --> 00:55:00,288 spend his time talkin' about the law 790 00:55:00,354 --> 00:55:01,824 'instead of doing his work' 791 00:55:01,890 --> 00:55:04,426 paying his debts. 792 00:55:04,493 --> 00:55:08,364 Now, we're gonna teach him how to be a good nigger. 793 00:55:08,431 --> 00:55:11,769 'I expect you all study hard what's gonna happen' 794 00:55:11,836 --> 00:55:13,970 so you won't make any mistakes. 795 00:55:14,037 --> 00:55:16,707 As you ain't never gonna leave here! 796 00:55:16,775 --> 00:55:17,909 'Never!' 797 00:55:17,975 --> 00:55:20,110 Alright, get on with it. 798 00:55:27,687 --> 00:55:29,623 [grunts] 799 00:55:34,595 --> 00:55:36,096 [screams] 800 00:55:36,163 --> 00:55:38,833 Leave it! Will you leave my nigger be? 801 00:55:38,901 --> 00:55:40,335 Johnson, you stay out of this. 802 00:55:40,401 --> 00:55:41,637 This boy's spoilin' for a lesson. 803 00:55:41,704 --> 00:55:42,972 Yeah, what's he done? 804 00:55:43,037 --> 00:55:45,040 He's fixin' to set the law on us. 805 00:55:49,111 --> 00:55:51,114 Alright, well then he's got it comin'. 806 00:55:51,181 --> 00:55:52,984 But you put me in charge here 807 00:55:53,049 --> 00:55:55,553 and nobody whips my niggers but me! 808 00:56:00,659 --> 00:56:01,793 Let him do it. 809 00:56:23,519 --> 00:56:24,820 [screams] 810 00:56:40,339 --> 00:56:42,174 - What you stoppin' for? - It ain't no use. 811 00:56:42,241 --> 00:56:44,945 - He's senseless. - 'That don't matter none.' 812 00:56:45,011 --> 00:56:47,714 He'll remember every stroke when he wakes up.. 813 00:56:47,781 --> 00:56:49,316 ...if he wakes up. 814 00:56:49,382 --> 00:56:50,718 Now, get on with it. 815 00:57:02,865 --> 00:57:05,635 Looks like you have proper work, now, Ol' George. 816 00:57:05,702 --> 00:57:08,338 You make sure you teach him how to be a nigger now. 817 00:57:24,390 --> 00:57:26,526 [George groaning] 818 00:57:37,006 --> 00:57:39,241 God, let him be alive. 819 00:57:39,308 --> 00:57:41,811 Oh, God, let him be alive. 820 00:57:43,278 --> 00:57:45,415 'God...let him be alive.' 821 00:57:57,930 --> 00:58:00,466 Irene, Irene I'm-I'm sorry. 822 00:58:00,533 --> 00:58:02,769 Irene, I was just trying to.. 823 00:58:02,835 --> 00:58:05,438 '...make 'em think I was doin' their job for 'em.' 824 00:58:06,907 --> 00:58:09,110 Well, you ain't got nothing to be sorry about 825 00:58:09,176 --> 00:58:11,680 Ol' George Johnson. 826 00:58:11,746 --> 00:58:14,850 You just saved my man's life. 827 00:58:14,917 --> 00:58:16,619 'You just saved my man's life.' 828 00:58:18,754 --> 00:58:20,356 Sorry, Ol' George. 829 00:58:20,423 --> 00:58:23,360 I was wrong, dead wrong. 830 00:58:27,799 --> 00:58:30,268 - Let's get him inside. - Oh, he's gonna be alright. 831 00:58:31,669 --> 00:58:34,405 - 'He's gonna be alright.' - Easy, easy. 832 00:58:34,473 --> 00:58:37,309 (Irene) 'Help him now...careful.' 833 00:58:37,376 --> 00:58:39,478 - 'Easy.' - Oh, Tom! 834 00:58:44,885 --> 00:58:47,888 What we gonna do? 835 00:58:47,955 --> 00:58:51,193 - What are we going to do? - Ain't nothing we can do. 836 00:58:51,258 --> 00:58:53,729 We ain't gonna never get away from here. 837 00:58:53,795 --> 00:58:55,297 Never! 838 00:58:55,363 --> 00:58:58,701 At least not alive, anyway. 839 00:58:58,768 --> 00:59:00,971 All my fault. 840 00:59:01,038 --> 00:59:04,475 I should've let ya'll go, when you wanted. 841 00:59:04,541 --> 00:59:07,311 - Instead of.. - Now, you just hush, mama. 842 00:59:07,377 --> 00:59:09,748 Don't you go blaming yourself. 843 00:59:09,814 --> 00:59:12,517 We stayed here 'cause we wanted to. 844 00:59:12,584 --> 00:59:15,521 (male #4) 'Tom, what we gonna do?' 845 00:59:23,197 --> 00:59:25,332 Get my boy outa here. 846 00:59:27,635 --> 00:59:29,771 I don't want him to see me like this. 847 00:59:31,974 --> 00:59:33,308 Martha? 848 00:59:40,583 --> 00:59:43,921 - Lewis? - Yeah, Tom? 849 00:59:46,290 --> 00:59:48,359 Take that shovel 850 00:59:48,425 --> 00:59:50,695 and dig up the floor 851 00:59:50,762 --> 00:59:53,232 under Bud's bed. 852 00:59:53,298 --> 00:59:54,834 What you meaning to do that for, Tom? 853 00:59:54,901 --> 00:59:56,035 Do it! 854 00:59:59,572 --> 01:00:02,476 [crickets chirping] 855 01:00:07,448 --> 01:00:09,317 Bud, you mustn't worry about your daddy. 856 01:00:09,384 --> 01:00:11,419 He's gonna be fine. 857 01:00:13,088 --> 01:00:14,857 He's a strong man. 858 01:00:15,524 --> 01:00:18,428 Ain't none stronger. 859 01:00:18,495 --> 01:00:21,866 He'll be up and around in no time, you'll see. 860 01:00:21,933 --> 01:00:24,502 I'mma kill those white men someday. 861 01:00:29,508 --> 01:00:33,246 (Martha) 'Bud, you aren't to talk like that.' 862 01:00:33,313 --> 01:00:36,082 I'm gonna kill 'em! 863 01:00:36,149 --> 01:00:39,787 Bible says it ain't right to kill people, Bud. 864 01:00:39,854 --> 01:00:42,423 Do the Bible say it's right for 'em whip my daddy? 865 01:00:45,392 --> 01:00:46,561 No. 866 01:00:48,096 --> 01:00:50,933 He don't say that neither. 867 01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:52,935 Then I'm bound to get 'em. 868 01:00:57,506 --> 01:00:59,710 Which ones, Bud? 869 01:00:59,776 --> 01:01:01,880 Couldn't see their faces. 870 01:01:01,946 --> 01:01:04,482 I'll find a way to get the ones who done it. 871 01:01:07,219 --> 01:01:09,889 Sup-suppose you make a mistake. 872 01:01:09,955 --> 01:01:11,590 Suppose you hurt some white folks 873 01:01:11,657 --> 01:01:14,493 that ain't done your daddy no harm. 874 01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:16,763 I'lldowhat I gotta do. 875 01:01:19,300 --> 01:01:21,168 [sighs] 876 01:01:21,235 --> 01:01:24,006 Then I guess you might as well start with me, Bud. 877 01:01:25,673 --> 01:01:27,809 I didn't mean you. 878 01:01:29,077 --> 01:01:30,980 Well, I sure am white. 879 01:01:32,447 --> 01:01:34,517 'I'm white as a cotton ball.' 880 01:01:36,186 --> 01:01:38,956 And if you starts hurtin' whites for being white 881 01:01:39,023 --> 01:01:42,327 then sooner or later you'll get round to me and Ol' George. 882 01:01:42,394 --> 01:01:44,029 I don't wanna kill you. 883 01:01:44,095 --> 01:01:46,232 'Well, that's what happens when you starts hurtin' folks' 884 01:01:46,299 --> 01:01:48,000 'for the color of their skin.' 885 01:01:49,035 --> 01:01:50,536 You won't be any better than those men 886 01:01:50,603 --> 01:01:52,372 who hurt your daddy. 887 01:01:52,438 --> 01:01:53,840 I hate 'em. 888 01:01:53,907 --> 01:01:54,908 Hate 'em! 889 01:01:54,975 --> 01:01:58,146 Hate 'em for what they've done. 890 01:01:59,513 --> 01:02:01,916 Not because they is white. 891 01:02:04,485 --> 01:02:06,655 Me and mine is white. 892 01:02:08,023 --> 01:02:10,126 But we love you. 893 01:02:10,193 --> 01:02:12,128 Just like our own. 894 01:02:13,163 --> 01:02:15,333 [instrumental music] 895 01:02:15,399 --> 01:02:17,702 If you let us love you. 896 01:02:21,373 --> 01:02:22,341 [sobbing] 897 01:02:22,407 --> 01:02:24,543 Oh, Bud. 898 01:02:26,446 --> 01:02:28,480 Oh, my poor little Bud. 899 01:02:30,049 --> 01:02:31,985 [music continues] 900 01:02:48,070 --> 01:02:50,673 This here is a Calvary officer's pistol. 901 01:02:53,910 --> 01:02:57,514 'It got J.B. carved in the handle here.' 902 01:02:57,581 --> 01:02:59,451 Lord, God! 903 01:02:59,517 --> 01:03:01,686 Maybe Jimmi Brent's, put it away! 904 01:03:01,753 --> 01:03:03,689 Give it to me. 905 01:03:04,656 --> 01:03:07,626 Husband, what is you thinkin' of? 906 01:03:07,693 --> 01:03:08,895 What if they catch you with that gun 907 01:03:08,962 --> 01:03:11,097 they're gonna kill you sure. 908 01:03:12,233 --> 01:03:14,168 I only knows one thing. 909 01:03:15,669 --> 01:03:18,173 Ain't nobody ever gonna whoop me again. 910 01:03:20,142 --> 01:03:21,109 Ever. 911 01:03:22,244 --> 01:03:24,180 Someone's comin'! 912 01:03:25,248 --> 01:03:27,517 [dog barking] 913 01:03:27,583 --> 01:03:29,752 Blow out the candles. 914 01:03:30,421 --> 01:03:32,588 [horse neighing] 915 01:03:35,692 --> 01:03:37,829 [barking continues] 916 01:03:44,603 --> 01:03:46,739 [footsteps approaching] 917 01:03:49,575 --> 01:03:51,678 Open the door slow 918 01:03:51,745 --> 01:03:53,847 whoever you is. 919 01:03:53,914 --> 01:03:56,851 Or I'll blows you apart. 920 01:04:06,628 --> 01:04:08,499 Now, you don't wanna do that, son. 921 01:04:08,566 --> 01:04:11,634 Uh, not unless you gonna make yourself an orphan child. 922 01:04:11,701 --> 01:04:13,137 [instrumental music] 923 01:04:13,204 --> 01:04:14,338 Daddy. 924 01:04:14,406 --> 01:04:16,341 [laughing] 925 01:04:18,210 --> 01:04:20,178 My man. 926 01:04:20,245 --> 01:04:23,316 - Grandpa! - Chicken George. 927 01:04:23,382 --> 01:04:24,784 Good to see you. 928 01:04:24,851 --> 01:04:26,986 [indistinct chatter] 929 01:04:29,655 --> 01:04:31,792 - What's this? - This is.. 930 01:04:31,859 --> 01:04:34,295 Oh, I got news for you. 931 01:04:34,362 --> 01:04:36,297 [indistinct chatter] 932 01:04:41,871 --> 01:04:45,641 (Mathilda) 'Good thing you come home after dark, George.' 933 01:04:45,708 --> 01:04:47,144 (Chicken George) 'Uh, why you say that?' 934 01:04:47,210 --> 01:04:50,615 'Cause I is old and ugly I might scare you to death 935 01:04:50,680 --> 01:04:52,016 in God's proper light. 936 01:04:52,083 --> 01:04:54,085 [laughs] 937 01:04:54,152 --> 01:04:57,556 I don't see you with my eyes, honey. 938 01:04:57,623 --> 01:05:00,159 I sees you with my heart. 939 01:05:00,225 --> 01:05:01,628 So I is old enough. 940 01:05:01,693 --> 01:05:03,897 Oh, what you talkin' about. 941 01:05:03,963 --> 01:05:06,933 Was a time when you used to look at me with your eyes. 942 01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:08,536 Oh.. 943 01:05:08,602 --> 01:05:11,272 Alright, I'll look at you in the eye, come on. 944 01:05:11,338 --> 01:05:15,243 Come on, I-I say come around here, come here. 945 01:05:20,516 --> 01:05:23,686 You still is beautiful, Tildy. 946 01:05:26,223 --> 01:05:29,326 You're still my beautiful woman. 947 01:05:29,394 --> 01:05:30,628 Oh.. 948 01:05:30,694 --> 01:05:34,299 ...sure, time has left a few tracks in its passing 949 01:05:34,365 --> 01:05:36,435 like it's done me. 950 01:05:36,502 --> 01:05:40,272 But you-but you got a sprinkling of moonbeam in your hair. 951 01:05:40,339 --> 01:05:41,840 [laughs] 952 01:05:43,343 --> 01:05:44,911 And your eyes.. 953 01:05:46,246 --> 01:05:48,748 ...your eyes still have that little girl 954 01:05:48,815 --> 01:05:50,985 snookin' out of 'em. 955 01:05:51,052 --> 01:05:54,822 Feel like a your little girl tonight, George. 956 01:05:55,557 --> 01:05:57,527 Been so long.. 957 01:05:57,594 --> 01:06:00,463 ...just like the very first time. 958 01:06:07,004 --> 01:06:08,072 Mm. 959 01:06:09,608 --> 01:06:11,409 - Tildy. - Hmm? 960 01:06:11,476 --> 01:06:12,911 What's goin' on here? 961 01:06:14,379 --> 01:06:17,916 Tom whipped, and this Evan Brent in charge. 962 01:06:17,984 --> 01:06:19,720 Nothin' that won't keep till morning. 963 01:06:19,785 --> 01:06:22,088 - Yeah, but.. - Hush, now. 964 01:06:23,490 --> 01:06:24,691 Brent and his like done 965 01:06:24,757 --> 01:06:27,060 stole most our lives away. 966 01:06:28,263 --> 01:06:31,399 Let's keep this one night for ourselves. 967 01:06:31,466 --> 01:06:34,336 [whispers] Oh, my sweet, sweet mama. 968 01:06:44,715 --> 01:06:45,683 [rooster crowing] 969 01:06:45,750 --> 01:06:47,518 Yes, indeed. 970 01:06:47,585 --> 01:06:50,988 The family sure owes a lot to these two birds. 971 01:06:51,055 --> 01:06:53,258 With the money they won me 972 01:06:53,325 --> 01:06:55,728 I bought us some land in Tennessee. 973 01:06:55,794 --> 01:06:57,463 Land so rich and black. 974 01:06:57,530 --> 01:07:01,100 You can plant a, a pig's tail and a hog will grow. 975 01:07:01,167 --> 01:07:02,569 [laughs] 976 01:07:02,636 --> 01:07:04,071 Daddy. 977 01:07:04,138 --> 01:07:06,407 Ain't you heard a word we said? 978 01:07:08,075 --> 01:07:09,877 We can'ts go to Tennessee. 979 01:07:09,944 --> 01:07:11,880 'We can'ts go nowhere.' 980 01:07:13,048 --> 01:07:15,318 Oh, you mean Brent's bunch? 981 01:07:15,384 --> 01:07:18,555 Oh, wouldn't worry about that none. 982 01:07:21,258 --> 01:07:24,127 I've been in worse situations in the war. 983 01:07:25,162 --> 01:07:27,031 - 'Daddy.' - Hmm? 984 01:07:27,098 --> 01:07:29,300 (Tom) 'What you gettin' at?' 985 01:07:32,237 --> 01:07:34,406 Alright. 986 01:07:34,473 --> 01:07:37,544 Let's look at it like it was a military operation. 987 01:07:37,610 --> 01:07:38,712 Yeah? 988 01:07:38,778 --> 01:07:41,948 'Here we are surrounded by the enemy.' 989 01:07:42,015 --> 01:07:45,754 Outnumbered, outgunned and half our troops 990 01:07:45,821 --> 01:07:47,489 are women and children. 991 01:07:47,556 --> 01:07:49,257 'Now..' 992 01:07:49,324 --> 01:07:51,360 '...on the face of it, it looks a bit bad.' 993 01:07:51,426 --> 01:07:54,330 'Look like we're in a hopeless position.' 994 01:07:55,765 --> 01:07:58,167 And that's our one strong point. 995 01:08:00,937 --> 01:08:03,842 Don't really sound like no strong point to me, daddy. 996 01:08:03,907 --> 01:08:05,343 The way I figure it. 997 01:08:05,410 --> 01:08:07,278 Uh, Brent and this, uh, senator must be 998 01:08:07,345 --> 01:08:09,615 feelin' mighty smug right until here. 999 01:08:09,682 --> 01:08:12,218 Feel like they got us right where they want us. 1000 01:08:12,284 --> 01:08:15,756 Toeing the line, scared to death. 1001 01:08:15,822 --> 01:08:19,259 Well, from now on.. 1002 01:08:19,326 --> 01:08:22,363 ...we gonna do everything we can do to make sure 1003 01:08:22,430 --> 01:08:25,066 they go right on feelin' that way. 1004 01:08:29,904 --> 01:08:31,073 [men laughing] 1005 01:08:31,140 --> 01:08:32,876 (George) 'Clumsy fool!' 1006 01:08:32,941 --> 01:08:34,644 Here, look after Mrs. Randall. 1007 01:08:34,711 --> 01:08:37,280 I wanna see what's goin' on out there. 1008 01:08:39,149 --> 01:08:40,718 [dog barking] 1009 01:08:40,785 --> 01:08:42,019 (George) 'You dumb black boy' 1010 01:08:42,086 --> 01:08:44,155 'now, can't I trust you to do nothin' right?' 1011 01:08:44,221 --> 01:08:46,892 'I want every grain of that back in the sack.' 1012 01:08:46,957 --> 01:08:48,160 (Tom) 'I's trying, Mr..' 1013 01:08:48,226 --> 01:08:50,563 [indistinct chatter] 1014 01:08:52,465 --> 01:08:54,835 I is trying, Mr. George, I is trying. 1015 01:08:54,902 --> 01:08:57,069 Yeah, but you ain't tryin' harder, look, I don't want 1016 01:08:57,136 --> 01:08:58,739 no sack full of dirt, you do it careful. 1017 01:08:58,806 --> 01:09:01,041 - Yes, sir. - Those darks! 1018 01:09:01,108 --> 01:09:02,309 Oh, yeah, it's bad enough on their slavery 1019 01:09:02,376 --> 01:09:04,646 now they're just downright useless. 1020 01:09:06,448 --> 01:09:07,850 I's done, sir. 1021 01:09:07,917 --> 01:09:10,219 So what you waitin' on, boy? 1022 01:09:10,286 --> 01:09:13,757 Get the rest of the sack out of there! 1023 01:09:13,824 --> 01:09:15,826 Yes, sir. 1024 01:09:15,892 --> 01:09:18,228 Would you move your black backside? 1025 01:09:18,295 --> 01:09:19,697 Move it! Move it! 1026 01:09:24,535 --> 01:09:27,506 - Well, George. - Oh, Mr. Brent. 1027 01:09:27,573 --> 01:09:29,007 I see you've learned a thing or two. 1028 01:09:29,074 --> 01:09:31,411 Well, I wasn't too sure about takin' this job 1029 01:09:31,478 --> 01:09:33,480 overseeing them darkies as you well know. 1030 01:09:33,546 --> 01:09:34,647 But.. 1031 01:09:34,714 --> 01:09:38,151 ...I wanna tell ya, it beats farming all to hell. 1032 01:09:38,219 --> 01:09:39,553 I wanna thank you. 1033 01:09:39,620 --> 01:09:41,455 It's alright, son. 1034 01:09:41,522 --> 01:09:44,960 - Just don't you let up here. - Oh, don't you worry. 1035 01:09:45,026 --> 01:09:47,730 So I keeps on them all the time. 1036 01:09:47,797 --> 01:09:51,133 You'll do, Georgie, You'll do. 1037 01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:54,605 Oh, please, sir. Please. 1038 01:09:58,843 --> 01:10:00,778 We don't want no more trouble. 1039 01:10:02,447 --> 01:10:05,049 If a my man goes up in front of the judge.. 1040 01:10:06,117 --> 01:10:08,487 ...well, they'll kill him sure. 1041 01:10:10,891 --> 01:10:13,560 I got...two little babies, sir. 1042 01:10:15,897 --> 01:10:18,366 Now, what are we gonna do if they kills my man? 1043 01:10:21,970 --> 01:10:24,105 Oh, please, sir. 1044 01:10:25,541 --> 01:10:28,711 You mean, Tom wants to forget this whole thing.. 1045 01:10:31,047 --> 01:10:33,651 ...and drop the charges? 1046 01:10:33,717 --> 01:10:36,220 Oh, sheriff, sir, I swears to God 1047 01:10:36,287 --> 01:10:38,522 you ain't never gonna hear from him again. 1048 01:10:39,858 --> 01:10:41,793 Well, you seem like a good girl. 1049 01:10:43,495 --> 01:10:46,164 So I'm gonna do somethin' that I hadn't ought to do. 1050 01:10:55,242 --> 01:10:57,377 This is your husband's property. 1051 01:10:58,613 --> 01:11:01,449 You do with it what's you wanna do. 1052 01:11:13,864 --> 01:11:15,800 God bless you, sir. 1053 01:11:22,174 --> 01:11:24,476 [dog barking in distance] 1054 01:11:39,461 --> 01:11:42,263 I think that's about everything he asked for. 1055 01:11:44,232 --> 01:11:45,868 Thank you, sir. 1056 01:11:45,935 --> 01:11:47,603 Just a minute there, boy. 1057 01:11:49,439 --> 01:11:51,575 I ain't done with you yet. 1058 01:11:53,778 --> 01:11:54,779 Yes, sir? 1059 01:11:54,846 --> 01:11:57,181 Fetch me a dipper of water, nigger. 1060 01:12:00,686 --> 01:12:02,921 [horse neighs] 1061 01:12:02,988 --> 01:12:04,323 Yes, sir. 1062 01:12:25,982 --> 01:12:27,483 Ah. 1063 01:12:28,786 --> 01:12:31,088 Yeah, I do believe that it's the sweetest water 1064 01:12:31,156 --> 01:12:33,657 I ever tasted. 1065 01:12:33,725 --> 01:12:35,292 Yes, sir. 1066 01:12:35,359 --> 01:12:37,262 Fetch you some more, sir? 1067 01:12:38,030 --> 01:12:39,832 No. 1068 01:12:39,899 --> 01:12:42,268 I'll assure you did appreciate it. 1069 01:12:44,737 --> 01:12:46,640 You shapin' up into a good boy, Tom. 1070 01:12:46,707 --> 01:12:48,208 - Good boy. - Thank you, sir. 1071 01:12:48,275 --> 01:12:50,044 I's tryin', sir. 1072 01:12:50,111 --> 01:12:52,245 Yeah, you can run along now. 1073 01:12:58,721 --> 01:13:01,356 [dog barking] 1074 01:13:05,328 --> 01:13:07,832 [wheels rattling] 1075 01:13:11,736 --> 01:13:13,805 You see that uppity Tom how he fetch me 1076 01:13:13,872 --> 01:13:16,842 a dipper of water, nice and polite? 1077 01:13:16,908 --> 01:13:19,478 - Yes, I did. - Did my heart good. 1078 01:13:19,544 --> 01:13:22,381 And Charlie tells me that Tom's wife was in 1079 01:13:22,448 --> 01:13:25,251 beggin' to have them charges dropped. 1080 01:13:25,318 --> 01:13:28,555 'I think we can rest easy about the Harvey place from now on.' 1081 01:13:28,622 --> 01:13:31,458 Yes...it looks that way. 1082 01:13:31,525 --> 01:13:33,194 Well, is somethin' troubling you, senator? 1083 01:13:33,260 --> 01:13:34,996 Well, it's been my experience 1084 01:13:35,064 --> 01:13:36,564 that one should not depend on 1085 01:13:36,631 --> 01:13:39,802 an unbroken series of fortunate events. 1086 01:13:39,869 --> 01:13:43,140 'All this idyllic behavior is either a concealment' 1087 01:13:43,206 --> 01:13:45,475 of some furtive activity 1088 01:13:45,542 --> 01:13:48,545 or a tribute to Mr. George Johnson's ability 1089 01:13:48,612 --> 01:13:50,748 to work a miracle. 1090 01:13:50,815 --> 01:13:53,051 Uh, Johnson does seem to have things well in hand. 1091 01:13:53,118 --> 01:13:56,388 I do not reject the miracle. 1092 01:13:56,455 --> 01:13:59,291 I simply think it should be put to the test. 1093 01:13:59,358 --> 01:14:01,494 Have you been out to the farm yourself? 1094 01:14:01,561 --> 01:14:03,163 Uh, no, no, no, not recently. 1095 01:14:03,230 --> 01:14:06,967 I, uh, I'm a kinda busy over there, there at the store. 1096 01:14:07,034 --> 01:14:10,839 A little drive out there unannounced.. 1097 01:14:10,906 --> 01:14:13,408 ...might teach us something we oughta know. 1098 01:14:16,245 --> 01:14:17,980 [instrumental music] 1099 01:14:22,152 --> 01:14:23,954 (George) 'Alright, now stop your lollygagging' 1100 01:14:24,021 --> 01:14:25,489 'and put your backs into it, what do you think this is' 1101 01:14:25,556 --> 01:14:26,957 'some kind of a picnic?' 1102 01:14:27,024 --> 01:14:29,393 Tom, now, good God, I got my eye on both of you. 1103 01:14:29,459 --> 01:14:31,029 Now you either put your black backs into it 1104 01:14:31,095 --> 01:14:33,032 or I'll do it for ya! 1105 01:14:40,941 --> 01:14:41,908 Hold. 1106 01:14:44,145 --> 01:14:47,414 Good day, senator. Mr. Brent. 1107 01:14:47,481 --> 01:14:48,449 Hello, young man. 1108 01:14:48,516 --> 01:14:49,584 Just thought we'll drop by 1109 01:14:49,650 --> 01:14:51,987 and see how you gettin' on, George. 1110 01:14:52,054 --> 01:14:53,956 Well, I got to admit. 1111 01:14:54,022 --> 01:14:55,991 Ain't far long with the plantin' as I'd like to be 1112 01:14:56,059 --> 01:14:59,162 but we's still cleaning up some what them nightriders done 1113 01:14:59,229 --> 01:15:00,964 but things is coming along. 1114 01:15:01,030 --> 01:15:02,498 Yeah, it's coming along. 1115 01:15:02,565 --> 01:15:04,101 Massa Johnson. Massa Johnson. 1116 01:15:04,168 --> 01:15:05,269 Yeah, Lewis, what is it now? 1117 01:15:05,336 --> 01:15:06,470 We'd sure we'd like for you to 1118 01:15:06,537 --> 01:15:07,738 come over and take a look at the fence 1119 01:15:07,805 --> 01:15:09,140 we's fixing around the pigsty 1120 01:15:09,207 --> 01:15:10,407 see if it alright. 1121 01:15:10,474 --> 01:15:12,410 Alright, you go in back there, Lewis 1122 01:15:12,477 --> 01:15:14,546 keep workin' and I'll be there directly. 1123 01:15:14,613 --> 01:15:16,349 (Lewis) Yeah. 1124 01:15:16,414 --> 01:15:17,550 Thank you, sir. 1125 01:15:17,617 --> 01:15:19,086 (George) 'Go on, now.' 1126 01:15:21,321 --> 01:15:22,656 The blacks 1127 01:15:22,723 --> 01:15:25,159 they just like the little kiddies 1128 01:15:25,226 --> 01:15:26,761 can't do nothin' on their own. 1129 01:15:26,828 --> 01:15:28,763 [laughing] 1130 01:15:31,733 --> 01:15:35,104 Well, I guess, we ought to get started back to town. 1131 01:15:35,170 --> 01:15:37,673 Seems like Mr. Johnson's got his work in order. 1132 01:15:40,311 --> 01:15:42,612 Be seein' you, George. 1133 01:15:42,679 --> 01:15:44,547 You keep after 'em, now you hear? 1134 01:15:44,615 --> 01:15:47,084 Oh, don't you worry none, Mr. Brent. 1135 01:15:47,152 --> 01:15:48,619 Good day, senator. 1136 01:15:55,594 --> 01:15:57,063 (George) 'Oh, Mr. Brent!' 1137 01:15:57,130 --> 01:15:58,097 'Mr. Brent.' 1138 01:16:00,134 --> 01:16:01,534 - Mr. Brent. - Oh. 1139 01:16:01,601 --> 01:16:03,103 You know, them mules in Mr. Harvey's 1140 01:16:03,170 --> 01:16:05,307 is on their last legs, and they ain't hardly 1141 01:16:05,373 --> 01:16:06,573 'pullin' worth their feed now.' 1142 01:16:06,640 --> 01:16:08,410 It's up to you, of course. 1143 01:16:08,476 --> 01:16:10,413 But if I could have me six young mules 1144 01:16:10,478 --> 01:16:13,149 now, I know, I could plant at least another 100 acres. 1145 01:16:14,550 --> 01:16:16,353 Senator? 1146 01:16:16,420 --> 01:16:19,089 Well, I think Mr. Johnson's enterprise 1147 01:16:19,156 --> 01:16:21,091 ought to be encouraged. 1148 01:16:21,158 --> 01:16:23,560 I'll get 'em out here as soon as I can. 1149 01:16:23,627 --> 01:16:25,530 'Anything else you need?' 1150 01:16:25,596 --> 01:16:27,598 Uh, no, sirs, I think I got everything 1151 01:16:27,665 --> 01:16:29,001 I need right now, sir. 1152 01:16:29,068 --> 01:16:31,036 I'll get them six mules out first thing tomorrow. 1153 01:16:31,103 --> 01:16:32,738 (George) 'I'm much obliged.' 1154 01:16:44,652 --> 01:16:46,587 [whistling] 1155 01:16:46,654 --> 01:16:48,790 [instrumental music] 1156 01:16:58,402 --> 01:17:00,537 [instrumental music] 1157 01:17:02,072 --> 01:17:03,875 Mr. Brent. 1158 01:17:03,942 --> 01:17:05,710 You gotta come out to the farm. 1159 01:17:05,777 --> 01:17:08,114 It's Georgie! He-he.. 1160 01:17:08,180 --> 01:17:09,148 [sobbing] 1161 01:17:09,215 --> 01:17:10,548 Alright, oh, missy, alright. 1162 01:17:10,615 --> 01:17:11,784 I'll.. Just calm down. 1163 01:17:11,851 --> 01:17:13,387 Tell me what happened. 1164 01:17:13,453 --> 01:17:15,856 Ge-Georgie had an accident. 1165 01:17:15,922 --> 01:17:17,924 I think his leg is broke. 1166 01:17:17,991 --> 01:17:19,593 We better go get Doc Farrell. 1167 01:17:19,659 --> 01:17:22,930 No, I-I-I went to the doctor first, he's on his way. 1168 01:17:22,997 --> 01:17:25,367 But my husband want you to come out there. 1169 01:17:25,434 --> 01:17:26,768 He's-he's afraid that darkies 1170 01:17:26,835 --> 01:17:28,737 might take advantage and just run off. 1171 01:17:28,804 --> 01:17:30,773 Oh, Mr. Brent, you gotta come. 1172 01:17:30,839 --> 01:17:32,541 Alright, now, girl, alright now. 1173 01:17:32,608 --> 01:17:34,144 Calm down, everything gonna be alright. 1174 01:17:34,210 --> 01:17:36,447 Now you get back to your husband, huh? 1175 01:17:36,514 --> 01:17:38,648 I'll ride out as soon as I can. 1176 01:17:38,715 --> 01:17:40,184 Get, get, get, you hear. 1177 01:17:44,256 --> 01:17:46,191 [crickets chirping] 1178 01:17:51,898 --> 01:17:54,033 (Martha) 'Over here, Mr. Brent.' 1179 01:18:03,778 --> 01:18:06,082 [clucking] 1180 01:18:08,717 --> 01:18:10,753 How's he doin', doc? 1181 01:18:10,820 --> 01:18:13,323 Oh, he alright, Mr. Brent 1182 01:18:13,390 --> 01:18:14,825 but you ain't. 1183 01:18:14,891 --> 01:18:16,561 What you think you're about, boy? 1184 01:18:16,626 --> 01:18:17,962 Put that gun down. 1185 01:18:18,029 --> 01:18:19,629 We're gettin' out of this county, Mr. Brent 1186 01:18:19,697 --> 01:18:22,434 and we just wanna make sure that you ain't gonna stop us. 1187 01:18:22,501 --> 01:18:23,835 [laughing] 1188 01:18:23,902 --> 01:18:26,338 You been bamboozled, Mr. Brent! 1189 01:18:27,440 --> 01:18:30,210 Oh, you dirty nigger lover! 1190 01:18:30,276 --> 01:18:31,911 Mr. Brent 1191 01:18:31,978 --> 01:18:34,013 it ain't I loves niggers so much 1192 01:18:34,080 --> 01:18:37,852 it's just I don't like you at all. 1193 01:18:37,918 --> 01:18:40,388 You're not as smart as you think, Johnson. 1194 01:18:40,455 --> 01:18:43,859 Oh, no, that ain't the point, Mr. Brent, sir. 1195 01:18:43,925 --> 01:18:46,462 The point is, we ain't as dumb as you think we is. 1196 01:18:46,529 --> 01:18:48,731 'cause if we's that dumb 1197 01:18:48,798 --> 01:18:50,633 that's what does that make you, rat now? 1198 01:18:50,700 --> 01:18:53,003 We're takin' in charge. Now drop that gun. 1199 01:18:58,376 --> 01:18:59,711 You really think I was crazy enough 1200 01:18:59,777 --> 01:19:02,481 to ride out here alone? Huh. 1201 01:19:02,548 --> 01:19:04,917 'I didn't live through no war to walk into an ambush' 1202 01:19:04,984 --> 01:19:07,119 with my eyes wide open. 1203 01:19:09,356 --> 01:19:11,158 Boy.. 1204 01:19:11,224 --> 01:19:15,963 ...if you got any skin left on that black carcass of yours 1205 01:19:16,030 --> 01:19:18,166 you're about to lose it. 1206 01:19:20,202 --> 01:19:22,337 Now, where's the rest of 'em no-account niggers? 1207 01:19:24,806 --> 01:19:27,076 [screaming] 1208 01:19:27,143 --> 01:19:29,279 'Believe I asked you a question.' 1209 01:19:30,680 --> 01:19:32,782 - Do you hear me? - No! No! Please! 1210 01:19:32,849 --> 01:19:34,318 They're in the barn. 1211 01:19:34,385 --> 01:19:36,320 [dramatic music] 1212 01:19:46,032 --> 01:19:46,999 Oh. 1213 01:19:55,610 --> 01:19:57,412 Come on out of there. 1214 01:19:57,478 --> 01:19:58,681 'I know you're in there.' 1215 01:19:58,746 --> 01:19:59,814 'I'll give you a fair warning.' 1216 01:19:59,881 --> 01:20:01,050 It's gonna go hard on you 1217 01:20:01,116 --> 01:20:03,085 if I have to come in and get ya. 1218 01:20:05,355 --> 01:20:06,556 Break that door down. 1219 01:20:06,623 --> 01:20:08,758 [music continues] 1220 01:20:14,765 --> 01:20:16,635 [clucking] 1221 01:20:16,702 --> 01:20:19,204 Hold it right there, boss. 1222 01:20:19,271 --> 01:20:20,372 [chuckles] 1223 01:20:20,439 --> 01:20:22,508 Now. 1224 01:20:22,575 --> 01:20:25,912 I'd, uh, drop them guns 1225 01:20:25,979 --> 01:20:28,114 kinda nice and easy like. 1226 01:20:29,916 --> 01:20:31,785 [laughing] 1227 01:20:31,852 --> 01:20:34,356 Pick up the pop pistols. 1228 01:20:35,756 --> 01:20:36,891 Mm-hmm. 1229 01:20:36,958 --> 01:20:40,061 Now, what if.. 1230 01:20:40,128 --> 01:20:42,164 This is the way my captain, old captain 1231 01:20:42,231 --> 01:20:43,933 used to teach us to think. 1232 01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:47,870 He'd say, "What if the enemy 1233 01:20:47,938 --> 01:20:50,173 "figures out your first plan? 1234 01:20:50,240 --> 01:20:52,644 Tell me what you gonna do, huh?" 1235 01:20:52,710 --> 01:20:53,978 [laughing] 1236 01:20:54,045 --> 01:20:56,649 Get yourself another plan. 1237 01:20:56,715 --> 01:20:58,984 [laughing] 1238 01:20:59,051 --> 01:21:01,120 Who the hell are you? 1239 01:21:01,186 --> 01:21:02,187 Oh. 1240 01:21:03,356 --> 01:21:05,925 I'm the daddy of these boys, Mr. Brent. 1241 01:21:05,992 --> 01:21:07,628 'Uh, don't you remember me?' 1242 01:21:07,695 --> 01:21:10,131 You chased me out of the county once. 1243 01:21:10,197 --> 01:21:13,000 Now, all I wants to do 1244 01:21:13,067 --> 01:21:15,203 is leave to county peaceably. 1245 01:21:17,774 --> 01:21:19,475 Tie 'em up, boys. 1246 01:21:20,743 --> 01:21:22,879 Tom, he all yours now. 1247 01:21:30,588 --> 01:21:32,524 [rooster crowing] 1248 01:21:36,562 --> 01:21:37,530 [grunts] 1249 01:22:03,493 --> 01:22:05,295 How do it feel, Mr. Brent? 1250 01:22:06,364 --> 01:22:09,133 To be tied up like a hog for slaughter.. 1251 01:22:10,434 --> 01:22:13,405 ...waiting for your flesh to turn to jelly? 1252 01:22:15,307 --> 01:22:17,142 What do you feel like, Mr. Brent 1253 01:22:17,209 --> 01:22:19,212 to be on the other side of the lash? 1254 01:22:19,278 --> 01:22:20,913 No, Tom. 1255 01:22:23,116 --> 01:22:25,119 Please. Tom. 1256 01:22:27,622 --> 01:22:28,922 'Tom.' 1257 01:22:38,901 --> 01:22:41,036 [birds chirping] 1258 01:22:48,513 --> 01:22:49,914 [screams] 1259 01:23:05,766 --> 01:23:07,401 [chuckles] 1260 01:23:16,412 --> 01:23:18,347 Time to go. All. 1261 01:23:19,917 --> 01:23:22,051 [rooster crowing] 1262 01:23:28,793 --> 01:23:30,796 (male #3) Get movin'. 1263 01:23:30,863 --> 01:23:33,198 Get the children back there. You all sit down. 1264 01:23:35,167 --> 01:23:36,535 - Maria Jane! - Oh. 1265 01:23:36,602 --> 01:23:38,605 Come on up, Bud. 1266 01:23:38,672 --> 01:23:40,474 Got your young ones, Tom? 1267 01:23:46,214 --> 01:23:49,317 My boy Tom has a good heart 1268 01:23:49,383 --> 01:23:52,688 and, uh, I admire his thinkin'. 1269 01:23:53,857 --> 01:23:57,327 If you bother me or mine 1270 01:23:57,393 --> 01:23:59,362 ever again 1271 01:23:59,429 --> 01:24:00,698 I'll kill you. 1272 01:24:10,943 --> 01:24:12,445 Hold them. 1273 01:24:17,784 --> 01:24:19,920 - Let's go. - No. 1274 01:24:19,987 --> 01:24:22,055 Not yet. 1275 01:24:22,122 --> 01:24:25,326 Mathilda, I know you's sorry to be leavin' 1276 01:24:25,393 --> 01:24:26,794 but we got to get moving. 1277 01:24:26,861 --> 01:24:28,263 I been sittin' here 1278 01:24:28,329 --> 01:24:30,466 tryin' to remember. 1279 01:24:32,002 --> 01:24:34,004 Been livin' here 1280 01:24:34,069 --> 01:24:37,374 maybe 14, 15 years. 1281 01:24:38,208 --> 01:24:39,677 I lost count. 1282 01:24:42,078 --> 01:24:45,349 I helped Irene birth all the grandchildren. 1283 01:24:46,552 --> 01:24:48,487 Seen 'em grow. 1284 01:24:50,023 --> 01:24:53,526 I held her second baby in my arms when she died. 1285 01:24:55,528 --> 01:24:58,164 We buried that sweet lamb at the end of the cabin row 1286 01:24:58,231 --> 01:25:00,367 by the willow. 1287 01:25:01,335 --> 01:25:03,705 'I knows every chink in every' 1288 01:25:03,772 --> 01:25:06,441 'wall the winter wind blow through.' 1289 01:25:08,844 --> 01:25:10,245 I know 1290 01:25:10,312 --> 01:25:13,951 it hard, old woman, leavin'. 1291 01:25:14,017 --> 01:25:15,652 Hard? 1292 01:25:16,620 --> 01:25:18,555 [laughing] 1293 01:25:20,992 --> 01:25:23,127 Chicken George 1294 01:25:23,194 --> 01:25:25,663 you is a foolish old man. 1295 01:25:27,265 --> 01:25:30,736 There ain't nothin' hard about being happy. 1296 01:25:33,440 --> 01:25:37,243 This ain't never been our home. 1297 01:25:37,310 --> 01:25:39,780 Never belong to us, no way! 1298 01:25:41,515 --> 01:25:45,354 This here is Massa Harvey's nigger quarters. 1299 01:25:47,289 --> 01:25:50,158 When we ride out of here 1300 01:25:50,225 --> 01:25:53,097 I ain't never gonna think of it again. 1301 01:25:53,162 --> 01:25:55,298 [both laughing] 1302 01:25:58,168 --> 01:26:00,270 Oh, go on there, mule. 1303 01:26:00,337 --> 01:26:02,474 [indistinct chatter] 1304 01:26:02,540 --> 01:26:04,242 (male #4) Okay, let's move on. 1305 01:26:04,309 --> 01:26:06,812 [cheering] 1306 01:26:06,879 --> 01:26:09,348 - Let's get in on moving. - Hey, Mr. Brent! 1307 01:26:09,415 --> 01:26:11,785 You'll be sure to thank the senator for these new mules. 1308 01:26:11,852 --> 01:26:13,820 We never could've made it without 'em! 1309 01:26:13,887 --> 01:26:16,124 [all laughing] 1310 01:26:16,189 --> 01:26:17,591 [instrumental music] 1311 01:26:17,659 --> 01:26:19,494 (male #5) 'Yippee.' 1312 01:26:20,261 --> 01:26:21,763 Come on, mule.. 1313 01:26:38,883 --> 01:26:41,285 [instrumental music] 1314 01:27:08,484 --> 01:27:10,587 [music continues] 1315 01:27:34,548 --> 01:27:36,517 (George Moore) We's here! 1316 01:27:36,584 --> 01:27:39,054 This here,ourland. 1317 01:27:39,121 --> 01:27:41,224 [laughing] 1318 01:27:41,289 --> 01:27:43,425 Go, go on, mule, go on! 1319 01:27:44,193 --> 01:27:46,462 [laughing] 1320 01:27:46,529 --> 01:27:48,531 (Chicken George) Hold up there. 1321 01:27:50,701 --> 01:27:51,468 Whoa. 1322 01:27:51,535 --> 01:27:53,670 [instrumental music] 1323 01:27:57,041 --> 01:28:00,445 You get down. Easy, honey. Come on. 1324 01:28:00,512 --> 01:28:03,115 [laughing] Here's home. 1325 01:28:03,182 --> 01:28:05,351 Bud. 1326 01:28:05,417 --> 01:28:08,387 The first slave in this family 1327 01:28:08,455 --> 01:28:10,690 was my granddaddy 1328 01:28:10,757 --> 01:28:12,960 Kunta Kinte. 1329 01:28:13,027 --> 01:28:14,862 But he weren't always a slave. 1330 01:28:15,897 --> 01:28:19,201 Before he's a slave he was free man 1331 01:28:19,268 --> 01:28:21,237 in another country. 1332 01:28:21,303 --> 01:28:24,808 A country called Africa. 1333 01:28:24,874 --> 01:28:28,378 But then the slavers, uh, they catch him 1334 01:28:28,444 --> 01:28:31,314 when he went to find some wood 1335 01:28:31,381 --> 01:28:34,219 to make a drum 1336 01:28:34,286 --> 01:28:36,288 and they brung him to America. 1337 01:28:36,353 --> 01:28:39,691 Uh-uh, place called, called Annapolis. 1338 01:28:40,425 --> 01:28:42,829 But Kunta Kinte.. 1339 01:28:42,895 --> 01:28:45,933 ...he never forget where he come from. 1340 01:28:45,999 --> 01:28:48,669 He never forget Africa. 1341 01:28:48,735 --> 01:28:52,106 He never forget the words he spoke as a child. 1342 01:28:53,141 --> 01:28:55,710 <i>How ko,</i> mean a fiddle 1343 01:28:55,777 --> 01:28:58,546 and <i>Kamby Bolongo</i> mean a river. 1344 01:28:58,613 --> 01:29:00,549 'And he never stop fightin' against his chains' 1345 01:29:00,616 --> 01:29:02,585 'tryin' to be free once more.' 1346 01:29:02,651 --> 01:29:05,722 Not even after they cut off half his foot 1347 01:29:05,789 --> 01:29:08,092 to keep him from running away. 1348 01:29:08,159 --> 01:29:10,094 [instrumental music] 1349 01:29:11,562 --> 01:29:13,931 And before he die 1350 01:29:13,998 --> 01:29:18,003 he give that dream of freedom to his daughter. 1351 01:29:20,206 --> 01:29:21,506 Kizzy. 1352 01:29:23,142 --> 01:29:25,312 My mama. 1353 01:29:25,378 --> 01:29:28,315 And before she die 1354 01:29:28,381 --> 01:29:30,517 she give that dream to me. 1355 01:29:31,652 --> 01:29:33,688 And I've tried to keep that dream alive 1356 01:29:33,755 --> 01:29:35,891 in all you children.. 1357 01:29:37,226 --> 01:29:39,161 ...till that day come. 1358 01:29:40,696 --> 01:29:44,268 Hear me, old African.. 1359 01:29:44,334 --> 01:29:46,336 ...the flesh.. 1360 01:29:46,403 --> 01:29:49,207 ...of your flesh.. 1361 01:29:49,274 --> 01:29:52,243 ...has come to freedom. 1362 01:29:52,310 --> 01:29:55,446 You is free at last. 1363 01:29:58,217 --> 01:30:00,653 <i>We</i> is free! 1364 01:30:00,719 --> 01:30:02,856 [instrumental music] 1365 01:30:33,258 --> 01:30:35,194 [music continues] 1366 01:30:58,088 --> 01:31:01,992 <i>(Alex Haley)</i> <i>The family did settle</i> <i>in Henning, Tennessee.</i> 1367 01:31:02,058 --> 01:31:05,262 <i>Mathilda passed away</i> <i>before Chicken George.</i> 1368 01:31:05,329 --> 01:31:07,798 <i>And he enjoyed life</i> <i>among his children</i> 1369 01:31:07,865 --> 01:31:09,633 <i>and his grandchildren</i> 1370 01:31:09,700 --> 01:31:13,872 <i>until he died</i> <i>at the ripe old age of 83.</i> 1371 01:31:13,939 --> 01:31:15,441 <i>The blacksmith, Tom</i> 1372 01:31:15,507 --> 01:31:18,611 <i>and his talented Irene</i> <i>prospered.</i> 1373 01:31:18,678 --> 01:31:20,646 <i>Their youngest daughter Cynthia</i> 1374 01:31:20,713 --> 01:31:23,584 <i>grew up and married</i> <i>a tall quiet black man</i> 1375 01:31:23,650 --> 01:31:25,185 <i>named Will Palmer</i> 1376 01:31:25,253 --> 01:31:28,723 <i>who came to own</i> <i>the town's lumber mill.</i> 1377 01:31:28,790 --> 01:31:31,526 <i>The Palmers had a daughter</i> <i>named Bertha</i> 1378 01:31:31,593 --> 01:31:33,329 <i>who attended Lane College</i> 1379 01:31:33,396 --> 01:31:37,900 <i>where she met and married</i> <i>Simon Alexander Haley.</i> 1380 01:31:37,967 --> 01:31:39,635 <i>In 1921</i> 1381 01:31:39,702 --> 01:31:41,872 <i>the Haleys welcomed a son</i> 1382 01:31:41,938 --> 01:31:44,275 <i>the seventh generation</i> <i>descendant</i> 1383 01:31:44,342 --> 01:31:46,811 of Kunta Kinte. 1384 01:31:46,878 --> 01:31:49,647 That boy was me, Alex Haley. 1385 01:31:49,714 --> 01:31:51,116 And I never forgot those stories 1386 01:31:51,183 --> 01:31:53,986 which my Grandmother Cynthia told me. 1387 01:31:54,053 --> 01:31:57,057 And in 1963, after I had retired 1388 01:31:57,123 --> 01:31:59,826 from a career in the U.S. Coast Guard 1389 01:31:59,893 --> 01:32:01,761 I became obsessed with a desire 1390 01:32:01,828 --> 01:32:04,432 to know more about our family 1391 01:32:04,499 --> 01:32:06,100 more about its history. 1392 01:32:06,168 --> 01:32:07,701 It was a search that would take me 1393 01:32:07,768 --> 01:32:10,506 finally 12 years to complete. 1394 01:32:10,572 --> 01:32:12,007 And those things that I learned 1395 01:32:12,074 --> 01:32:15,078 I wrote in a book called "Roots." 1396 01:32:18,614 --> 01:32:20,583 [theme music] 1397 01:32:50,385 --> 01:32:52,322 [music continues] 1398 01:33:00,397 --> 01:33:02,333 [theme music] 1399 01:33:33,736 --> 01:33:36,206 [music continues] 1400 01:33:37,305 --> 01:34:37,648 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org