WEBVTT 00:00:10.113 --> 00:01:08.532 ..:: Presented By ZarFilm Website ::.. ‏.:: www.bolboljan.net ::. 00:01:10.113 --> 00:01:12.532 "All right now. Y'all fresh niggers." 00:01:12.699 --> 00:01:14.242 "Y'all gonna be in a cutting gang." 00:01:14.659 --> 00:01:17.453 Very simple. I want you to take your knife. 00:01:17.620 --> 00:01:19.372 Get in them cane. 00:01:20.039 --> 00:01:21.416 Make it sing. 00:01:21.583 --> 00:01:23.459 Take the cane out. 00:01:23.626 --> 00:01:24.919 Cut my tops. 00:01:25.086 --> 00:01:27.213 Clean the shucks off. 00:01:27.589 --> 00:01:31.009 Throw it on a pile for the planting gang. 00:01:31.301 --> 00:01:33.761 Now, them cane ain't gonna jump up and bite you. 00:01:33.928 --> 00:01:34.929 Don't shy back. 00:01:35.096 --> 00:01:36.931 Rush here, boys! Rush here! 00:01:40.643 --> 00:01:41.936 ~~My Lord.~ 00:01:42.103 --> 00:01:43.438 ~Sunshine.~ 00:01:43.605 --> 00:01:44.689 ~~My Lord.~ 00:01:44.856 --> 00:01:46.357 ~Lord, Lord.~ 00:01:46.524 --> 00:01:47.900 ~~My ma.~ 00:01:48.067 --> 00:01:49.360 ~She dead.~ 00:01:49.527 --> 00:01:50.737 ~~My pa.~ 00:01:50.903 --> 00:01:52.196 ~He dead.~ 00:01:52.363 --> 00:01:53.573 ~~My Lord.~ 00:01:53.740 --> 00:01:54.949 ~Sunshine.~ 00:01:55.116 --> 00:01:56.367 ~~My Lord.~ 00:01:56.534 --> 00:01:57.744 ~Sunshine.~ 00:01:57.910 --> 00:01:59.203 ~~Is late.~ 00:01:59.370 --> 00:02:00.747 ~In high.~ 00:02:00.913 --> 00:02:02.081 ~~In high.~ 00:02:02.248 --> 00:02:03.750 ~In high.~ 00:02:03.916 --> 00:02:05.209 ~~My Lord.~ 00:02:05.376 --> 00:02:06.711 ~Sunshine.~ 00:02:06.878 --> 00:02:08.046 ~~My Lord.~ 00:02:08.212 --> 00:02:09.631 ~Lord, Lord.~ 00:02:09.797 --> 00:02:11.049 ~~My ma.~ 00:02:11.215 --> 00:02:12.467 ~She dead.~ 00:02:12.634 --> 00:02:13.885 ~~My pa.~ 00:02:14.052 --> 00:02:15.386 ~He dead.~ 00:02:15.553 --> 00:02:16.804 ~~My Lord.~ 00:02:16.971 --> 00:02:18.306 ~Sunshine.~ 00:02:18.473 --> 00:02:19.807 ~~My Lord.~ 00:02:19.974 --> 00:02:21.225 ~Yes, sir.~ 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:58.000 FarangSiam thanks you. Enjoy! 00:07:08.095 --> 00:07:10.181 All right, all right, all right, all right. 00:07:11.849 --> 00:07:12.892 Into bed. 00:07:13.434 --> 00:07:15.019 Into bed. Thank you for the music. 00:07:15.186 --> 00:07:16.437 - Come on. - Ouch. 00:07:16.604 --> 00:07:18.230 Get in there. Come on. 00:07:19.899 --> 00:07:21.025 Give me a kiss. 00:07:24.737 --> 00:07:25.738 I love you, Margaret. 00:07:26.614 --> 00:07:27.615 I love you, too. 00:07:28.407 --> 00:07:29.867 Sleep well. 00:07:31.786 --> 00:07:33.204 I'll take this. 00:07:35.957 --> 00:07:38.417 I don't want to hear any more noise. 00:07:49.637 --> 00:07:52.056 Three weeks and two days. 00:07:52.223 --> 00:07:54.392 It is the custom. 00:07:54.558 --> 00:07:56.811 I wonder what you will do without me. 00:07:57.645 --> 00:07:59.605 I won't stay idle. 00:08:01.065 --> 00:08:03.234 Darling, it's good money. 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:08.572 If only I didn't have to share your cooking with other people. 00:08:10.074 --> 00:08:11.993 You don't. 00:08:17.331 --> 00:08:19.917 Be good for your mother. Okay, Alonzo? 00:08:21.669 --> 00:08:23.921 Can I get a kiss, please? Thank you. 00:08:24.588 --> 00:08:25.589 Travel safely. 00:08:25.756 --> 00:08:27.174 Stay safely. 00:08:30.594 --> 00:08:31.762 Ready? 00:08:47.319 --> 00:08:48.946 Devil call his name, there he is now. 00:08:49.113 --> 00:08:50.448 Mr. Northup! 00:08:50.614 --> 00:08:53.325 I have two gentlemen whose acquaintance you should make. 00:08:53.492 --> 00:08:55.494 Misters Brown and Hamilton. 00:08:55.661 --> 00:08:56.787 Sir. 00:08:56.954 --> 00:08:58.789 Mr. Northup, these two gentlemen... 00:08:58.956 --> 00:09:01.375 were inquiring about distinguished individuals... 00:09:01.542 --> 00:09:03.210 and I was just this very moment... 00:09:03.377 --> 00:09:06.547 saying Solomon Northup is an expert player on the violin. 00:09:06.714 --> 00:09:07.882 He was indeed. 00:09:07.907 --> 00:09:09.267 Mr. Moon is being overly gracious. 00:09:09.300 --> 00:09:10.676 Well, taking into consideration 00:09:10.801 --> 00:09:12.219 his graciousness and your modesty... 00:09:12.386 --> 00:09:15.389 may we trouble you for a moment of your time to converse, sir? 00:09:15.556 --> 00:09:16.807 Of course. 00:09:17.224 --> 00:09:18.350 Good day. 00:09:18.684 --> 00:09:19.977 A circus? 00:09:20.144 --> 00:09:21.184 That is our usual employee. 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:23.077 The company currently in the city of Washington. 00:09:23.090 --> 00:09:24.800 Circus is too constricting a word... 00:09:24.899 --> 00:09:27.401 to describe the talented and merry band with which we travel. 00:09:27.568 --> 00:09:30.488 It is a spectacle unlike most have ever witnessed. 00:09:30.654 --> 00:09:32.323 Creatures from the darkest Africa 00:09:32.448 --> 00:09:34.075 as yet unseen by civilized man. 00:09:34.366 --> 00:09:35.659 Acrobats from the Orient... 00:09:35.826 --> 00:09:38.788 who contort themselves in the most confounding manners. 00:09:38.871 --> 00:09:40.873 And I myself in aide of Mr. Brown... 00:09:41.040 --> 00:09:42.708 an internationally renowned practitioner 00:09:42.833 --> 00:09:44.543 in the art of prestidigitation. 00:09:44.710 --> 00:09:46.087 We are on our way thither to rejoin 00:09:46.100 --> 00:09:47.810 the company having left for a short time... 00:09:47.820 --> 00:09:49.947 to make a small profit from our own exhibitions. 00:09:50.049 --> 00:09:51.729 The reason for our inquiry with Mr. Moon... 00:09:51.884 --> 00:09:53.636 Yes. We had just a devil of a time 00:09:53.761 --> 00:09:55.513 in procuring music for our entertainments. 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:57.681 Men of true talents are seemingly in short supply. 00:09:57.848 --> 00:09:58.849 Thank you, sir. 00:09:59.016 --> 00:10:01.936 If we could persuade you to accompany us as far as Washington... 00:10:02.103 --> 00:10:04.522 We could give you one dollar for each day's services... 00:10:04.688 --> 00:10:07.088 and three dollars for every night played at our performances. 00:10:07.191 --> 00:10:09.032 In addition, we would provide sufficient pay... 00:10:09.110 --> 00:10:12.196 for your return here to Saratoga, two weeks from today. 00:10:17.368 --> 00:10:19.620 Welcome to Washington, Solomon. 00:10:27.211 --> 00:10:29.421 Hamilton, you know too much. 00:10:29.588 --> 00:10:31.090 Some say not enough. 00:10:31.549 --> 00:10:34.969 Solomon, 43 dollars. All to you. 00:10:36.095 --> 00:10:38.055 That is far more than my wages amount to. 00:10:38.222 --> 00:10:39.765 It's been a most profitable week, sir. 00:10:39.974 --> 00:10:41.225 - Cheers. - Cheers. 00:10:41.392 --> 00:10:42.601 Cheers. 00:10:47.231 --> 00:10:48.732 Another. 00:10:50.276 --> 00:10:55.281 Gentlemen, your generosity is extraordinary. 00:10:55.447 --> 00:10:57.491 And your talents are undeniable. 00:10:57.658 --> 00:10:58.701 Mmm. To Solomon. 00:10:58.868 --> 00:10:59.994 Cheers. 00:11:00.161 --> 00:11:01.370 Cheers. 00:11:41.869 --> 00:11:43.621 Ugh! 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:46.665 It's all right, Solomon. 00:11:46.832 --> 00:11:47.958 There's no shame in it. 00:11:48.125 --> 00:11:49.543 No shame at all. 00:12:11.398 --> 00:12:13.518 Hamilton, we must hurry. 00:12:14.276 --> 00:12:15.402 One too many libation. 00:12:15.486 --> 00:12:16.779 We're halfway there. 00:12:33.754 --> 00:12:35.047 So sorry... 00:12:36.298 --> 00:12:38.133 We won't hear it. We won't. 00:12:38.300 --> 00:12:40.261 Let him sleep, Hamilton. 00:12:40.344 --> 00:12:42.888 Mmm. A good night's rest. 00:12:43.430 --> 00:12:45.140 And tomorrow... 00:12:46.225 --> 00:12:48.519 tomorrow you will feel as well and refreshed 00:12:48.644 --> 00:12:50.896 as if the earth were new again. 00:12:51.063 --> 00:12:53.816 Hamilton, there's nothing more we can do for him. 00:12:55.609 --> 00:12:56.944 Such is the pity. 00:13:06.453 --> 00:13:09.331 Well, boy, how do you feel now? 00:13:11.667 --> 00:13:15.587 My name... My name is Solomon Northup. 00:13:15.754 --> 00:13:19.008 I'm a free man. A resident of Saratoga, New York. 00:13:19.174 --> 00:13:21.802 The residence of my wife and children who are equally free. 00:13:21.969 --> 00:13:23.846 And you have no right whatsoever to detain me. 00:13:24.013 --> 00:13:25.389 You're not any free man. 00:13:25.556 --> 00:13:26.849 And I promise you... 00:13:27.016 --> 00:13:29.184 I promise you upon my liberation 00:13:29.310 --> 00:13:31.478 I will have satisfaction for this wrong. 00:13:33.147 --> 00:13:34.606 Resolve this. 00:13:35.024 --> 00:13:36.567 Produce your papers. 00:13:44.491 --> 00:13:46.243 You're no free man. 00:13:46.910 --> 00:13:48.829 And you ain't from Saratoga. 00:13:49.371 --> 00:13:51.248 You're from Georgia. 00:13:54.752 --> 00:13:56.503 You ain't a free man. 00:13:58.339 --> 00:14:02.384 You're nothing but a Georgia runaway. 00:14:04.470 --> 00:14:09.099 You're just a runaway nigger... 00:14:09.641 --> 00:14:11.518 from Georgia. 00:14:42.800 --> 00:14:44.468 You're a slave! 00:14:44.968 --> 00:14:47.554 You're a Georgia slave! 00:15:04.363 --> 00:15:06.031 Are you a slave? 00:15:07.324 --> 00:15:08.492 No. 00:16:06.550 --> 00:16:08.051 Help. 00:16:09.303 --> 00:16:11.013 Help me. 00:16:12.389 --> 00:16:14.183 "Help me!" 00:16:14.850 --> 00:16:17.227 "Somebody help me!" 00:16:17.936 --> 00:16:20.063 "Help!" 00:16:21.857 --> 00:16:23.358 "Help!" 00:16:35.078 --> 00:16:37.873 That old thing of yours is just rags and tatters. 00:16:38.040 --> 00:16:40.501 You need something proper to wear. 00:16:43.587 --> 00:16:45.881 Go on, put it on. 00:17:05.234 --> 00:17:06.568 There. 00:17:09.905 --> 00:17:11.323 That's fine. 00:17:11.782 --> 00:17:13.700 That's fine. 00:17:15.953 --> 00:17:17.479 - Got no gratitude? - Thank you. 00:17:22.501 --> 00:17:23.502 No. That's from my wife. 00:17:23.669 --> 00:17:25.212 Rags and tatters. 00:17:25.462 --> 00:17:27.881 Rags and tatters. 00:17:37.891 --> 00:17:39.643 Go on, wash up. 00:17:42.521 --> 00:17:44.356 The boy, too. Get him clean. 00:17:47.025 --> 00:17:48.402 Scrub now. 00:17:48.569 --> 00:17:50.737 Do you know when my mama will come? 00:17:51.238 --> 00:17:52.239 "Hush him up!" 00:17:52.322 --> 00:17:53.323 Mama! Mama! 00:17:53.490 --> 00:17:54.491 Quiet. 00:17:54.783 --> 00:17:56.118 - Quiet, please. - Mama! 00:17:56.285 --> 00:17:57.411 "Hush him up!" 00:17:57.578 --> 00:18:00.956 Your mother will come, I swear she will. But you must be silent. 00:18:01.540 --> 00:18:03.000 Be silent. 00:18:10.090 --> 00:18:11.550 We need a sympathetic ear. 00:18:12.718 --> 00:18:14.469 An opportunity to explain our situation. 00:18:14.636 --> 00:18:16.638 Who, in your estimation, is that sympathetic ear? 00:18:16.805 --> 00:18:18.515 The two men I journeyed with. 00:18:18.530 --> 00:18:20.741 I'm certain they're making enquiries at this very moment. 00:18:20.750 --> 00:18:22.276 I'd be just as certain they're counting 00:18:22.290 --> 00:18:24.159 the money paid for delivering you to this place. 00:18:24.170 --> 00:18:26.815 They were not kidnappers, they were artists. Fellow performers. 00:18:26.898 --> 00:18:28.358 You know that? 00:18:28.525 --> 00:18:30.527 You know for certain who they were? 00:18:32.195 --> 00:18:36.366 The reality to come is us being transported southward. 00:18:36.533 --> 00:18:38.619 New Orleans, if I was to venture. 00:18:39.369 --> 00:18:41.747 After we arrive, we'll be put to market. 00:18:41.913 --> 00:18:43.540 And beyond that... 00:18:44.416 --> 00:18:46.936 Well, I suppose once in a slave state, there's only one outcome. 00:18:47.044 --> 00:18:47.844 No. 00:18:47.878 --> 00:18:49.878 I don't say that to give you empty agitation, John. 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:51.632 For y'all, there ain't nothing but that. 00:18:51.798 --> 00:18:53.258 But John wasn't kidnapped. 00:18:53.425 --> 00:18:55.844 John's just being held as debt, that's all. 00:18:56.011 --> 00:18:57.929 Master pay his debt and John be redeemed. 00:18:58.096 --> 00:18:59.576 Boy, our masters will not come for us. 00:18:59.723 --> 00:19:01.725 John is sorry for y'all, but that's how it be. 00:19:01.892 --> 00:19:03.727 Where you're going, you're going without John. 00:19:05.771 --> 00:19:07.105 - Mama! - Randall! 00:19:08.607 --> 00:19:09.858 Mama! 00:19:11.610 --> 00:19:13.403 Are you all right? 00:19:14.029 --> 00:19:15.447 Are you all right? 00:19:17.282 --> 00:19:18.700 Thank you, God. 00:19:20.535 --> 00:19:22.412 Come on. Get up. 00:19:22.746 --> 00:19:24.289 - I said, get up! - No, don't... 00:19:24.456 --> 00:19:26.375 I don't want to hear you talk! Get in the yard. 00:19:26.541 --> 00:19:27.584 Not my children! 00:19:27.751 --> 00:19:31.088 Ain't no need for all that. Just taking a little trip, that's all. 00:19:31.755 --> 00:19:33.340 Don't want to frighten the children 00:19:33.465 --> 00:19:35.092 over a little boat ride, do you? 00:19:35.258 --> 00:19:36.927 John's master gonna pay his debt. 00:19:37.094 --> 00:19:38.095 Line up! 00:19:38.220 --> 00:19:39.380 His master gonna pay his debt! 00:19:45.268 --> 00:19:47.938 I don't want to hear a word out of none of you! 00:19:48.939 --> 00:19:50.273 Not a one. 00:20:03.412 --> 00:20:04.871 "All right, come on." 00:20:06.415 --> 00:20:08.291 "Move. Come on." 00:20:09.876 --> 00:20:11.378 "Come on, child. Come on." 00:20:11.545 --> 00:20:13.046 "Follow your mama." 00:20:13.213 --> 00:20:14.214 "Come on, boy." 00:20:14.297 --> 00:20:15.298 "Up these stairs." 00:20:15.382 --> 00:20:17.634 "Get down out of that wagon. Come on." 00:20:18.260 --> 00:20:19.636 "Come on. Move it!" 00:20:20.137 --> 00:20:21.471 "Let's go!" 00:20:21.638 --> 00:20:22.973 "Up, Up, up the stairs." 00:20:24.224 --> 00:20:25.767 "Come on, let's go." 00:20:30.272 --> 00:20:31.773 "Come on, move it!" 00:20:32.065 --> 00:20:33.692 "All right, come on." 00:20:35.569 --> 00:20:37.738 "Hey, you. Get up." 00:20:38.071 --> 00:20:39.823 "Sit down, right there." 00:20:42.325 --> 00:20:43.160 "Come on." 00:20:44.911 --> 00:20:46.580 "Right there. Just sit down." 00:21:22.866 --> 00:21:25.076 Cheer up and don't be so cast down. 00:21:35.128 --> 00:21:39.424 If you want to survive, do and say as little as possible. 00:21:40.759 --> 00:21:45.138 Tell no one who you really are and tell no one you can read and write. 00:21:47.224 --> 00:21:50.185 Unless you want to be a dead nigger. 00:22:05.742 --> 00:22:07.327 "Now keep your mouth shut." 00:22:15.085 --> 00:22:16.920 I say we fight. 00:22:17.921 --> 00:22:19.422 The crew is fairly small. 00:22:20.257 --> 00:22:22.577 Were it well planned, I believe they could be strong-armed. 00:22:22.634 --> 00:22:24.511 Three can't go against the whole crew. 00:22:25.637 --> 00:22:27.639 The rest here are niggers. 00:22:27.973 --> 00:22:29.349 Born and bred slaves. 00:22:29.516 --> 00:22:31.768 Niggers ain't got no stomach for a fight. 00:22:31.935 --> 00:22:33.270 Not a damn one. 00:22:33.436 --> 00:22:37.232 All's I know, if we get where we're traveling... 00:22:37.649 --> 00:22:39.067 we'll wish we'd died trying. 00:22:39.234 --> 00:22:41.695 Survival's not about certain death, 00:22:41.820 --> 00:22:44.322 it's about keeping your head down. 00:22:47.284 --> 00:22:50.120 Days ago, I was with my family... 00:22:51.663 --> 00:22:53.456 in my home. 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:57.335 Now you tell me all is lost. 00:22:59.462 --> 00:23:02.674 «Tell no one who I am.» That's the way to survive? 00:23:05.927 --> 00:23:07.971 Well, I don't want to survive. 00:23:09.514 --> 00:23:12.642 I want to live. 00:24:41.398 --> 00:24:43.066 Better off. 00:24:44.025 --> 00:24:45.568 Better than us. 00:25:02.585 --> 00:25:03.837 I don't see him. 00:25:04.004 --> 00:25:04.813 Clemens! 00:25:05.171 --> 00:25:06.715 - Clemens Ray! - Master. 00:25:06.881 --> 00:25:08.091 - Clemens! - Master Ray, sir! 00:25:08.258 --> 00:25:09.509 Master Ray! 00:25:09.676 --> 00:25:10.797 Who's in charge here? 00:25:10.927 --> 00:25:11.928 I'm the captain! 00:25:12.095 --> 00:25:13.263 I'm Mr. Jonus Ray. 00:25:13.430 --> 00:25:15.015 My solicitor has documentation... 00:25:15.181 --> 00:25:17.934 verifying the negro known as Clemens Ray is my property. 00:25:18.101 --> 00:25:20.437 I know nothing of this arrangement. 00:25:20.603 --> 00:25:22.404 You are ordered to return that property 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:24.232 immediately or be charged with thievery. 00:25:25.442 --> 00:25:26.693 Free him! 00:25:29.612 --> 00:25:30.739 Master. 00:25:30.905 --> 00:25:32.699 Master Ray, sir. 00:25:34.117 --> 00:25:35.076 Clemens! 00:25:35.243 --> 00:25:36.443 - Clemens! - Get him back! 00:25:36.578 --> 00:25:37.954 "Clemens!" 00:25:38.621 --> 00:25:39.622 "Clemens!" 00:25:40.540 --> 00:25:41.374 Clemens! 00:26:47.690 --> 00:26:49.025 Mr. Parker. 00:26:49.109 --> 00:26:52.403 Ah, Mr. Northup. Mrs. Northup. 00:26:52.654 --> 00:26:54.697 Solomon, could I interest you in a new cravat? 00:26:54.864 --> 00:26:56.104 Pure silk, by way of the French. 00:26:56.199 --> 00:26:58.868 We're in need of a fresh carryall for my Mrs.'s travels. 00:26:59.035 --> 00:26:59.869 Nothing more. 00:27:00.036 --> 00:27:01.704 The year has passed already. 00:27:01.871 --> 00:27:03.111 Off to work at Sandy Hill again? 00:27:03.206 --> 00:27:04.040 I am. 00:27:04.207 --> 00:27:05.542 I have just the thing. 00:27:05.708 --> 00:27:07.377 Something to suit your style... 00:27:07.544 --> 00:27:10.004 and yet sturdy enough for the 40-mile round trip. 00:27:10.171 --> 00:27:11.172 It's beautiful. 00:27:11.339 --> 00:27:12.257 At what price? 00:27:12.382 --> 00:27:13.341 We will take it. 00:27:13.508 --> 00:27:16.636 Children, come see what your father has just purchased for me. 00:27:16.803 --> 00:27:18.342 One moment, sir, and you'll be assisted. 00:27:18.471 --> 00:27:20.181 - Mr. Parker. - Sir? 00:27:20.348 --> 00:27:21.558 If we could discuss the price. 00:27:21.570 --> 00:27:23.531 Oh, forgive me, Solomon. Forgive me, Mrs. Northup. 00:27:23.540 --> 00:27:25.584 A customer waits. Welcome, sir. 00:27:25.728 --> 00:27:27.564 Shop well, sir, but mind your wallet. 00:27:27.730 --> 00:27:29.482 Pay no attention to this gentleman's nonsense. 00:27:29.649 --> 00:27:30.733 Jasper! 00:27:32.235 --> 00:27:34.028 My regrets for the intrusion, sir. 00:27:34.404 --> 00:27:36.072 No intrusion. 00:27:39.909 --> 00:27:41.369 Good day, sir. 00:27:41.870 --> 00:27:43.037 Good day. 00:27:43.204 --> 00:27:44.914 Jasper, out. 00:27:53.089 --> 00:27:55.341 Very good. Very good. 00:27:55.717 --> 00:27:58.261 Let's see, here. Eliza! 00:27:59.596 --> 00:28:01.890 Stand up when you hear your name. Eliza. 00:28:02.765 --> 00:28:03.600 Lethe! 00:28:07.020 --> 00:28:07.820 John. 00:28:09.439 --> 00:28:10.690 Oren. 00:28:11.941 --> 00:28:13.109 Platt. 00:28:16.029 --> 00:28:17.113 Platt. 00:28:20.241 --> 00:28:21.743 Stand up. 00:28:23.703 --> 00:28:25.121 You fit the description given. 00:28:25.288 --> 00:28:26.623 Why didn't you answer when called? 00:28:26.789 --> 00:28:28.041 My name is not Platt. 00:28:28.208 --> 00:28:29.042 My name... 00:28:31.377 --> 00:28:33.087 Your name is Platt. 00:28:35.298 --> 00:28:37.467 Captain, get these niggers to my cart. 00:28:50.146 --> 00:28:51.314 Mmm. 00:28:59.614 --> 00:29:00.823 Move. 00:29:04.494 --> 00:29:06.079 I believe I have something very much 00:29:06.204 --> 00:29:07.789 to your liking in the back room. 00:29:07.956 --> 00:29:09.666 Follow me, please. 00:29:09.832 --> 00:29:12.669 Yes. Now, inspect them at your leisure... 00:29:12.835 --> 00:29:17.674 but I ask you to pay particular regard to young Ezra here. 00:29:17.840 --> 00:29:19.092 Incredibly sound limbs. 00:29:19.259 --> 00:29:21.344 I have never seen anything quite like him. 00:29:21.511 --> 00:29:24.347 And this marvelous creature. Can you believe it? Mmm? 00:29:24.514 --> 00:29:26.182 She'll make a fine lady's maid. 00:29:26.349 --> 00:29:27.517 Madam? 00:29:27.850 --> 00:29:29.519 So, inspect at your leisure. 00:29:29.686 --> 00:29:31.980 Take your time. Help yourself to refreshments. 00:29:32.146 --> 00:29:35.149 Gentlemen, what catches your fancy here? Hmm? 00:29:35.650 --> 00:29:36.651 This boy? Yes? 00:29:36.818 --> 00:29:38.987 Open your mouth. Open wider. 00:29:39.153 --> 00:29:41.531 Look in there. Never been sick a day in his life. 00:29:41.698 --> 00:29:43.338 And I call particular attention to Martha. 00:29:43.366 --> 00:29:45.827 She is an excellent pastry cook. 00:29:45.994 --> 00:29:47.704 Ah, Mr. Ford. 00:29:48.162 --> 00:29:50.456 Splendid seeing you, sir. What catches your fancy? 00:29:50.623 --> 00:29:52.667 This lad? He's very brawny. 00:29:52.834 --> 00:29:55.586 How much for the ones Platt and Eliza? 00:29:55.670 --> 00:29:57.213 Ah, yes. 00:29:57.630 --> 00:29:59.799 A thousand for Platt. Uh... Oh. 00:29:59.882 --> 00:30:02.677 This is a nigger of considerable talent, I assure you. 00:30:02.844 --> 00:30:04.554 700 for Eliza. 00:30:04.721 --> 00:30:06.389 My fairest price. 00:30:06.723 --> 00:30:07.890 Mmm. 00:30:08.725 --> 00:30:09.892 You will accept a note? 00:30:10.059 --> 00:30:12.645 Please, sir. Do not divide my family. 00:30:12.660 --> 00:30:14.345 Do not take me unless you take my children. 00:30:14.360 --> 00:30:15.361 Eliza! Quiet! 00:30:15.398 --> 00:30:17.118 You will have the most faithful slave in me. 00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:18.828 The most faithful slave that has ever lived. 00:30:18.830 --> 00:30:20.349 But I beg that you do not separate us. 00:30:20.355 --> 00:30:21.397 Your price for the boy? 00:30:21.410 --> 00:30:22.645 Eliza! Stop it! 00:30:22.670 --> 00:30:24.171 I will give you something to cry about. 00:30:24.180 --> 00:30:26.349 Randall, come forward. Come, come, come. 00:30:26.409 --> 00:30:28.619 Now, do you see how fit this boy is? 00:30:28.786 --> 00:30:30.038 Like ripe fruit. 00:30:30.204 --> 00:30:33.082 May I take your stick a moment? Observe this. 00:30:33.249 --> 00:30:35.251 Randall, jump, jump, jump. Run, run, run. 00:30:35.418 --> 00:30:37.587 Very good! Higher. 00:30:37.754 --> 00:30:38.880 Now, you see this. 00:30:39.047 --> 00:30:42.633 It's very likely he will grow into a fine beast. 00:30:43.885 --> 00:30:45.595 600 for the boy. 00:30:45.762 --> 00:30:47.263 Fair and final. 00:30:47.889 --> 00:30:49.098 Done. 00:30:49.265 --> 00:30:51.601 Superb. A moment, please. 00:30:51.768 --> 00:30:53.061 Mr. Ford. 00:30:53.269 --> 00:30:54.437 Please. Eliza! 00:30:54.604 --> 00:30:56.356 How much for the little girl? 00:30:56.439 --> 00:30:57.523 Ah... 00:30:57.940 --> 00:30:59.108 You have no use for her. 00:30:59.275 --> 00:31:00.943 One so young will bring you no profit. 00:31:01.110 --> 00:31:02.945 No, no, no. I cannot sell the girl. 00:31:03.112 --> 00:31:06.741 No, there's heaps and piles of money to be made from her. 00:31:06.908 --> 00:31:09.202 She's a beauty. One of the regular bloods. 00:31:09.369 --> 00:31:12.169 None of your thick-lipped, bullet-heated, cotton-picking niggers, here. 00:31:12.288 --> 00:31:14.957 Her child, man. 00:31:15.375 --> 00:31:16.175 Please. 00:31:16.292 --> 00:31:18.372 For God's sake, are you not sentimental in the least? 00:31:18.378 --> 00:31:21.130 My sentimentality extends the length of a coin. 00:31:21.297 --> 00:31:22.799 God, please. 00:31:23.341 --> 00:31:26.719 Now do you take this lot, Mr. Ford, or do you pass on them? 00:31:26.886 --> 00:31:30.473 Please, please. Please. 00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:32.183 I will take the ones Platt and Eliza. 00:31:32.350 --> 00:31:33.351 Sold, Eliza and Platt. 00:31:33.418 --> 00:31:34.736 I will not go without my children! 00:31:34.769 --> 00:31:35.853 Goddamn sniveling Wench! 00:31:36.020 --> 00:31:37.220 You will not take them from me! 00:31:37.313 --> 00:31:40.024 God damn you! Get her out of here, Cape! 00:31:40.191 --> 00:31:41.901 Please! No! No! 00:31:42.068 --> 00:31:43.694 Get her out of here, god damn it! 00:31:43.861 --> 00:31:46.823 Platt, get your fiddle. Play, play, play something. 00:31:46.989 --> 00:31:50.076 I will give you something to cry about, you goddamned witch! 00:31:50.243 --> 00:31:52.412 Get her out of here, Cape! Out, now! 00:31:52.662 --> 00:31:56.040 Mama! Mama! Mama! 00:31:56.916 --> 00:31:58.960 Yes. 00:31:59.127 --> 00:32:01.838 Mr. Ford, a pleasure. 00:32:18.396 --> 00:32:20.690 Did you bring all those niggers? 00:32:20.857 --> 00:32:23.109 Two of them? You got two? 00:32:23.526 --> 00:32:24.819 Mr. Chapin. 00:32:25.445 --> 00:32:27.905 This one's crying. Why is this one crying? 00:32:28.072 --> 00:32:29.699 Separated from her children. 00:32:29.866 --> 00:32:31.284 - Oh, dear. - It couldn't be helped. 00:32:31.451 --> 00:32:32.702 Poor, poor woman. 00:32:32.869 --> 00:32:34.120 - Mr. Chapin. - Yes, sir. 00:32:34.287 --> 00:32:35.746 Tomorrow, you have to take these two 00:32:35.872 --> 00:32:37.373 up to the mill and start them working. 00:32:37.540 --> 00:32:38.749 For now, make them adequate. 00:32:38.916 --> 00:32:40.717 Fix them a meal and have them rest themselves. 00:32:40.877 --> 00:32:42.044 Yes, sir. 00:32:42.962 --> 00:32:44.172 Come on, now. 00:32:44.714 --> 00:32:46.883 Come on! Don't dawdle! 00:32:47.175 --> 00:32:49.802 Something to eat, and some rest. 00:32:49.969 --> 00:32:51.409 Your children will soon be forgotten. 00:33:18.873 --> 00:33:21.000 For all of you raw niggers that don't know... 00:33:21.167 --> 00:33:25.546 my name is John Tibeats, William Ford's chief carpenter. 00:33:25.713 --> 00:33:29.091 You will refer to me as «Master». 00:33:29.258 --> 00:33:32.970 Mr. Chapin is the overseer on this plantation. 00:33:33.137 --> 00:33:37.683 You, too, will refer to him as «Master». 00:33:38.809 --> 00:33:40.728 So, clap your hands. 00:33:44.273 --> 00:33:46.984 Like this. Come on. 00:33:47.818 --> 00:33:50.112 Come on, now. Clap your hands. 00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:56.536 ~~Nigger run, nigger flew.~ 00:33:56.702 --> 00:33:59.080 ~~Nigger tore his shirt in two.~ 00:33:59.247 --> 00:34:01.582 ~~Run, run, the pattyroller will get you.~ 00:34:01.749 --> 00:34:03.793 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~well, you better get away.~ 00:34:08.339 --> 00:34:10.216 "That's right. Like you mean it." 00:34:11.259 --> 00:34:13.427 ~~Nigger run, run so fast.~ 00:34:13.594 --> 00:34:15.930 ~~Stove his head in a hornet's nest.~ 00:34:16.097 --> 00:34:18.057 ~~Run, run, the pattyroller will get you.~ 00:34:18.224 --> 00:34:21.227 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~well, you better get away.~ 00:34:21.978 --> 00:34:24.313 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~the pattyroller will get you.~ 00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:26.649 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~well, you better get away.~ 00:34:28.651 --> 00:34:30.653 ~~Some folk say a nigger don't steal.~ 00:34:30.820 --> 00:34:32.989 ~~I caught three in my corn field.~ 00:34:33.155 --> 00:34:35.324 ~~One has a bushel and one has a peck.~ 00:34:35.491 --> 00:34:37.660 ~~One has a rope, ~ ~~it was hung around his neck.~ 00:34:37.827 --> 00:34:40.246 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~the pattyroller will get you.~ 00:34:40.413 --> 00:34:42.665 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~well, you better get away.~ 00:34:42.832 --> 00:34:45.001 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~the pattyroller will get you.~ 00:34:45.167 --> 00:34:47.837 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~well, you better get away.~ 00:34:48.004 --> 00:34:50.339 ~~Hey, Mr. Pattyroller, don't catch me.~ 00:34:50.506 --> 00:34:52.842 ~~Catch that nigger behind that tree.~ 00:34:53.009 --> 00:34:55.344 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~the pattyroller will get you.~ 00:34:55.511 --> 00:34:57.722 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~well, you better get away.~ 00:34:57.888 --> 00:35:00.016 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~the pattyroller will get you.~ 00:35:00.182 --> 00:35:02.351 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~well, you better get away.~ 00:35:02.518 --> 00:35:04.687 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~the pattyroller will get you.~ 00:35:04.854 --> 00:35:06.856 ~~Run, nigger, run well, ~ ~~you better get away.~ 00:35:07.356 --> 00:35:10.151 «I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac...» 00:35:10.318 --> 00:35:12.612 «and the God of Jacob.» 00:35:14.030 --> 00:35:15.531 «And when the multitude heard this,» 00:35:15.698 --> 00:35:18.367 «they were astonished at his doctrine.» 00:35:19.201 --> 00:35:22.163 «And then one of them, which was a lawyer...» 00:35:22.330 --> 00:35:25.541 «asked him a question, tempting him.» 00:36:21.472 --> 00:36:23.766 "The creek is plenty deep enough to sail." 00:36:24.392 --> 00:36:26.477 Even with a boat full of load. 00:36:26.644 --> 00:36:27.844 The distance from the work area 00:36:27.854 --> 00:36:29.273 to the point on the latter bayou... 00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:30.990 is several miles by water fewer than land. 00:36:30.999 --> 00:36:32.935 It occurs to me that the expense of transportation 00:36:32.950 --> 00:36:34.335 would be materially diminished... 00:36:34.402 --> 00:36:35.444 «Materially diminished?» 00:36:35.611 --> 00:36:37.571 If we use the waterway. 00:36:37.738 --> 00:36:40.491 Are you an engineer, or a nigger? 00:36:42.785 --> 00:36:45.287 Are you an engineer, or a nigger? 00:36:46.580 --> 00:36:47.623 Let the man says his piece. 00:36:47.790 --> 00:36:51.460 It's a scheme. Plenty of engineers have schemed similarly. 00:36:51.627 --> 00:36:54.171 The passes are too tight. 00:36:54.630 --> 00:36:57.633 I reckon them at more than 12 feet at their most narrow. 00:36:57.800 --> 00:36:59.301 Wide enough for a tub to traverse 00:36:59.427 --> 00:37:00.845 if a team of niggers cleared it out. 00:37:01.011 --> 00:37:03.764 And you know what of transport and terraforming? 00:37:03.931 --> 00:37:05.641 I labored repairing the Champlain canal... 00:37:05.808 --> 00:37:09.145 on the section over which William van Nortwick was superintendent. 00:37:09.311 --> 00:37:12.189 With my earnings, I hired several efficient hands to assist me... 00:37:12.356 --> 00:37:13.649 and entered into contracts for 00:37:13.660 --> 00:37:15.487 the transportation of large rafts of timber... 00:37:15.490 --> 00:37:17.951 from Lake Champlain to Troy. 00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:23.492 Well, I'll admit to being impressed even if you won't. 00:37:24.535 --> 00:37:26.579 Collect a team. See what good you can do. 00:37:35.671 --> 00:37:36.922 "- You good? - Clear it out!" 00:37:37.089 --> 00:37:38.299 Two, three... 00:37:41.510 --> 00:37:44.346 ~- Too late ~ ~- for me. ~ 00:37:44.513 --> 00:37:47.558 ~~- I live ~ ~- or die. ~ 00:37:47.725 --> 00:37:50.853 ~~- Lay down ~ ~- and cry. ~ 00:37:51.020 --> 00:37:54.106 ~~- Hey, boy, ~ ~- I'm tired. ~ 00:37:54.273 --> 00:37:57.359 ~~- My lord. ~ ~- Sometimes. ~ 00:37:57.526 --> 00:38:00.780 ~~- I'm strong ~ ~- Yes, sir. ~ 00:38:00.946 --> 00:38:04.325 ~~- I'm tall ~ ~- Yes, sir ~ 00:38:04.490 --> 00:38:07.490 ~~- My lord. ~ ~- Sometimes. ~ 00:38:10.080 --> 00:38:12.291 Platt, you are a marvel. 00:38:19.965 --> 00:38:21.675 What took you so long? 00:38:22.259 --> 00:38:24.303 Thank you, Master Ford. 00:38:41.862 --> 00:38:43.197 Platt. 00:39:02.258 --> 00:39:04.635 My great thanks, Master Ford. 00:39:04.802 --> 00:39:06.887 No, my thanks to you. 00:39:07.054 --> 00:39:09.348 And it is the least of it. 00:39:09.515 --> 00:39:12.768 I hope it brings us both much joy over the years. 00:39:43.465 --> 00:39:44.633 God! 00:39:49.221 --> 00:39:50.639 Eliza. 00:39:55.728 --> 00:39:56.979 Eliza. 00:39:57.730 --> 00:39:58.731 Stop! 00:39:59.273 --> 00:40:01.150 Stop your wailing! 00:40:03.611 --> 00:40:05.029 If you let yourself be overcome 00:40:05.154 --> 00:40:06.614 by sorrow, you will drown in it. 00:40:06.780 --> 00:40:08.490 Have you stopped crying for your children? 00:40:10.326 --> 00:40:13.829 You make no sounds, but will you ever let them go in your heart? 00:40:18.250 --> 00:40:20.002 They are as my flesh. 00:40:20.169 --> 00:40:22.171 Then who is distressed? 00:40:22.922 --> 00:40:25.174 Do I upset the master and the mistress? 00:40:25.341 --> 00:40:27.676 Do you care less about my loss than their well-being? 00:40:27.843 --> 00:40:29.178 Master Ford is a decent man. 00:40:29.345 --> 00:40:30.471 He is a slaver! 00:40:30.638 --> 00:40:31.598 Under the circumstances. 00:40:31.680 --> 00:40:33.474 Under the circumstances, he is a slaver. 00:40:33.807 --> 00:40:35.684 But you truckle at his boot. 00:40:35.851 --> 00:40:37.478 You luxuriate in his favor. 00:40:37.645 --> 00:40:39.355 I survive! 00:40:39.521 --> 00:40:41.565 I will not fall into despair! 00:40:41.732 --> 00:40:43.692 I will offer up my talents to Master Ford! 00:40:43.859 --> 00:40:46.654 I will keep myself hearty until freedom is opportune! 00:40:46.820 --> 00:40:48.864 Ford is your opportunity? 00:40:49.531 --> 00:40:52.409 You think he does not know that you are more than you suggest? 00:40:52.576 --> 00:40:54.244 But he does nothing for you. 00:40:54.411 --> 00:40:55.579 Nothing. 00:40:56.205 --> 00:40:59.500 You are no better than prized livestock. 00:41:00.042 --> 00:41:01.418 Call for him. Call! 00:41:01.585 --> 00:41:03.712 Tell him of your previous circumstances, 00:41:03.879 --> 00:41:06.048 and see what it earns you, Solomon. 00:41:07.549 --> 00:41:10.386 So, you've settled into your role as Platt, then? 00:41:12.388 --> 00:41:15.557 My back is thick with scars... 00:41:15.641 --> 00:41:18.060 for protesting my freedom. 00:41:18.227 --> 00:41:19.645 Do not accuse me. 00:41:20.479 --> 00:41:24.066 I accuse you of nothing. I cannot accuse. 00:41:24.233 --> 00:41:27.152 I have done dishonorable things to survive... 00:41:27.319 --> 00:41:30.322 and for all of them, I have ended up here. 00:41:30.823 --> 00:41:33.867 No better than if I stood up for myself. 00:41:34.493 --> 00:41:36.745 God, forgive me. 00:41:36.912 --> 00:41:39.707 Solomon, let me weep for my children! 00:41:50.092 --> 00:41:52.177 «Whosoever, therefore, shall humble» 00:41:52.302 --> 00:41:54.430 «himself as this little child...» 00:41:54.930 --> 00:41:58.767 «the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.» 00:41:58.934 --> 00:42:03.856 «And who so shall receive one such little child in my name...» 00:42:04.023 --> 00:42:05.858 I cannot have that kind of depression about. 00:42:06.025 --> 00:42:08.193 «But who so shall offend one of these little ones...» 00:42:08.360 --> 00:42:11.196 «it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck...» 00:42:12.531 --> 00:42:16.118 «and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.» 00:42:17.202 --> 00:42:18.203 Amen. 00:42:18.746 --> 00:42:19.913 "Amen." 00:42:32.718 --> 00:42:34.803 Make them boards flush. 00:42:35.220 --> 00:42:36.138 They are, sir. 00:42:36.305 --> 00:42:38.307 No, they is no such thing. 00:42:39.808 --> 00:42:43.062 They are as smooth to the touch as a yearling's coat. 00:42:45.647 --> 00:42:47.566 Are you calling me a liar, boy? 00:42:50.486 --> 00:42:52.821 It's all a matter of perspective, sir. 00:42:53.389 --> 00:42:55.124 From where you stand, you may see differently, 00:42:55.157 --> 00:42:56.784 but the hands are not mistaken. 00:42:57.326 --> 00:43:01.580 I simply ask that you use all your senses before rendering judgment. 00:43:03.123 --> 00:43:06.335 Oh, my, you are a brute. 00:43:07.836 --> 00:43:09.421 You are a dog. 00:43:10.089 --> 00:43:12.758 And no better for following instruction! 00:43:14.134 --> 00:43:15.135 I do as ordered. 00:43:15.219 --> 00:43:16.386 Then you'll be up at daybreak. 00:43:16.678 --> 00:43:19.348 You will procure a keg of nails from Chapin... 00:43:19.515 --> 00:43:21.517 and commence to putting on clapboards. 00:43:21.683 --> 00:43:22.851 Yes, sir. 00:43:28.315 --> 00:43:29.983 Make them boards flush. 00:43:38.867 --> 00:43:41.370 "No, please! Please, Sam!" 00:43:41.537 --> 00:43:43.872 "Where am I going? Where am I going, Sam?" 00:43:44.373 --> 00:43:46.875 "Solomon! Solomon!" 00:43:47.292 --> 00:43:48.710 "Solomon!" 00:43:49.670 --> 00:43:51.338 "Solomon!" 00:43:55.008 --> 00:43:57.052 "Solomon!" 00:44:02.474 --> 00:44:05.811 "When I say I had my Master's favor, you understand." 00:44:08.397 --> 00:44:09.523 And for nine years... 00:44:09.690 --> 00:44:13.569 he blessed me with every comfort and luxury in life. 00:44:13.735 --> 00:44:16.196 Silks and jewels... 00:44:16.363 --> 00:44:18.824 and even servants to wait upon us. 00:44:20.909 --> 00:44:23.328 Such was our life. 00:44:23.495 --> 00:44:26.373 And the life of this beautiful girl I bore for him. 00:44:29.543 --> 00:44:31.712 But Master Berry's daughter... 00:44:32.671 --> 00:44:35.549 she always looked at me with an unkind nature. 00:44:36.216 --> 00:44:40.053 And she hated Emily, no matter she and Emily were flesh of flesh. 00:44:43.223 --> 00:44:44.850 As Master Berry's health failed, 00:44:44.975 --> 00:44:46.602 she gained power of the household... 00:44:47.069 --> 00:44:49.738 and eventually, I was brought to the city under the false pretense... 00:44:49.771 --> 00:44:52.566 of our free papers being executed. 00:44:56.612 --> 00:44:58.906 My poor children. 00:45:37.736 --> 00:45:40.614 I thought I told you to commence to putting on clapboards. 00:45:41.657 --> 00:45:44.493 Yes, Master, I'm about it. These have all been replaced. 00:45:45.661 --> 00:45:47.913 And didn't I tell you to get a keg of nails? 00:45:48.080 --> 00:45:49.748 And so, I did. 00:45:50.582 --> 00:45:51.917 So, you did. 00:45:53.001 --> 00:45:55.671 God damn you. I thought you knowed something! 00:45:55.837 --> 00:45:57.339 I did as instructed. 00:45:57.506 --> 00:46:00.717 If there's something wrong, it's wrong with the instruction. 00:46:01.176 --> 00:46:03.178 You black bastard. 00:46:03.720 --> 00:46:08.600 You goddamn black bastard. 00:46:08.767 --> 00:46:10.811 Strip your clothes. 00:46:13.146 --> 00:46:14.314 Strip. 00:46:15.315 --> 00:46:16.858 I will not. 00:46:26.410 --> 00:46:32.541 You will not live to see another day, nigger! 00:46:33.583 --> 00:46:34.668 Help! 00:46:40.465 --> 00:46:41.717 Murder! 00:46:44.011 --> 00:46:45.012 I'm sorry! 00:46:45.637 --> 00:46:47.889 I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! 00:46:50.934 --> 00:46:52.519 What is the matter? 00:46:52.894 --> 00:46:54.187 What is the matter? 00:46:55.063 --> 00:46:56.440 Master Tibeats wants to whip me 00:46:56.565 --> 00:46:57.983 for using the nails you gave me. 00:46:59.860 --> 00:47:01.987 This ain't done by half. 00:47:02.446 --> 00:47:04.656 I will have flesh. 00:47:04.823 --> 00:47:07.075 And I will have all of it! 00:47:10.746 --> 00:47:11.830 Do not stir. 00:47:12.331 --> 00:47:15.709 Do not leave the plantation. If you run, I cannot protect you. 00:47:16.460 --> 00:47:17.753 Stay here. 00:48:21.149 --> 00:48:25.070 Gentlemen, whoever moves that nigger is a dead man. 00:48:26.947 --> 00:48:29.866 I am the overseer on this plantation. 00:48:30.033 --> 00:48:32.744 William Ford holds the mortgage on Platt. 00:48:33.120 --> 00:48:35.664 If you hang him, he will lose his debt. 00:48:36.081 --> 00:48:38.500 You have no claim to his life. 00:48:38.959 --> 00:48:40.502 As for you two... 00:48:40.669 --> 00:48:43.672 if you have any regard for your own safety... 00:48:43.839 --> 00:48:44.798 I say, be gone! 00:48:48.385 --> 00:48:50.220 You got no cause! 00:48:50.387 --> 00:48:53.849 Platt is mine, and mine to do with as I please! 00:48:54.015 --> 00:48:55.934 If you touch... 00:49:22.294 --> 00:49:23.094 "Sam!" 00:49:23.795 --> 00:49:26.089 "Fetch the mule. Get Master Ford." 00:52:21.014 --> 00:52:23.266 Platt. Poor Platt. 00:52:52.879 --> 00:52:55.340 I believe Tibeats is skulking about the premises somewhere. 00:52:55.507 --> 00:52:58.718 He wants you dead, and he will have it so. 00:52:58.885 --> 00:53:01.096 It's no longer safe for you here. 00:53:01.262 --> 00:53:05.058 And I don't believe you will remain passive if Tibeats attacks. 00:53:05.225 --> 00:53:08.269 I have transferred my debt to Edwin Epps. 00:53:08.436 --> 00:53:10.355 He will take charge... 00:53:31.042 --> 00:53:32.711 Master Ford. 00:53:35.088 --> 00:53:37.841 You must know that I'm not a slave. 00:53:38.299 --> 00:53:39.342 I cannot hear that. 00:53:39.509 --> 00:53:41.469 Before I came to you, I was a freeman. 00:53:41.636 --> 00:53:44.305 I'm trying to save your life! 00:53:45.473 --> 00:53:48.017 And I have a debt to be mindful of. 00:53:50.395 --> 00:53:52.439 And that is to Edwin Epps now. 00:53:52.605 --> 00:53:55.400 And he is a hard man. Prides himself on being a nigger breaker. 00:53:55.567 --> 00:53:58.611 But truthfully, I could find no others who would take you. 00:53:59.195 --> 00:54:01.698 You've made a reputation of yourself. 00:54:02.365 --> 00:54:07.162 Whatever the circumstances, you are an exceptional nigger, Platt. 00:54:09.080 --> 00:54:11.875 But I fear no good will come of it. 00:54:34.606 --> 00:54:36.399 «And that servant...» 00:54:37.567 --> 00:54:40.111 «which knew his lord's will...» 00:54:41.529 --> 00:54:44.949 Which knew his lord's will. 00:54:49.037 --> 00:54:51.706 «...and prepared not himself...» 00:54:53.374 --> 00:54:55.877 Prepared not himself. 00:54:59.923 --> 00:55:02.592 «...neither did according to his will...» 00:55:04.552 --> 00:55:07.722 «shall be beaten with many stripes.» 00:55:09.057 --> 00:55:10.517 Do you hear that? 00:55:11.184 --> 00:55:12.519 Stripes. 00:55:13.770 --> 00:55:15.897 That nigger that don't obey his lord... 00:55:16.064 --> 00:55:18.107 That's his master, do you see? 00:55:18.942 --> 00:55:23.613 That there nigger shall be beaten with many stripes. 00:55:25.240 --> 00:55:29.035 Now, «many» signifies a great many. 00:55:29.577 --> 00:55:33.414 40, 100, 150 lashes. 00:55:38.086 --> 00:55:39.671 That's scripture. 00:55:56.062 --> 00:55:57.605 "Pick that cotton." 00:55:57.772 --> 00:55:59.691 "Move along, now." 00:56:01.943 --> 00:56:04.779 "Come on, Edward! Drive them niggers!" 00:56:04.946 --> 00:56:07.949 "Pick that cotton! Move along, now." 00:56:08.658 --> 00:56:10.618 "What are you doing, boy? Come on!" 00:56:13.454 --> 00:56:15.665 240 for Bob. 00:56:16.124 --> 00:56:18.084 What you got for James? 00:56:18.501 --> 00:56:20.628 295 pounds. 00:56:20.795 --> 00:56:23.840 That's real good, boy. That's real good. 00:56:24.465 --> 00:56:26.593 182 for Platt. 00:56:28.219 --> 00:56:31.097 How much can even an average nigger pick a day? 00:56:31.264 --> 00:56:32.515 200 pounds. 00:56:32.682 --> 00:56:34.559 This nigger ain't even average. 00:56:36.352 --> 00:56:38.646 512 pounds for Patsey. 00:56:38.813 --> 00:56:41.482 512! 00:56:42.400 --> 00:56:46.404 You menfolk got no shame letting Patsey out-pick you. 00:56:47.989 --> 00:56:51.534 The day ain't yet come she swung lower than 500 pounds. 00:56:54.871 --> 00:56:57.332 Queen of the fields, she is. 00:56:57.498 --> 00:56:58.541 "138 pounds..." 00:56:58.708 --> 00:57:00.460 I ain't done, Treach. 00:57:01.169 --> 00:57:04.756 Ain't I owed a minute to luxuriate on the work Patsey done? 00:57:05.298 --> 00:57:06.466 "Yes, sir." 00:57:10.595 --> 00:57:12.180 Damn queen. 00:57:13.681 --> 00:57:16.684 Born and bred to the field. 00:57:18.227 --> 00:57:20.605 A nigger among niggers. 00:57:22.690 --> 00:57:24.692 And God gave her to me. 00:57:28.863 --> 00:57:31.783 A lesson in the rewards of righteous living. 00:57:33.743 --> 00:57:35.954 All be observant to that. 00:57:37.080 --> 00:57:39.040 All! 00:57:39.874 --> 00:57:42.377 Now, Treach. Now speak. 00:57:43.086 --> 00:57:46.089 138 pounds for Phebe. 00:57:46.798 --> 00:57:49.884 Hit 145 yesterday. Pull her out. 00:57:50.718 --> 00:57:52.720 206 pounds for George. 00:57:53.137 --> 00:57:55.056 How much he pick yesterday? 00:57:56.099 --> 00:57:57.558 "229." 00:57:57.725 --> 00:57:58.893 Get him out. 00:57:59.060 --> 00:58:00.478 Come on, get. 00:58:02.397 --> 00:58:03.815 "Come on." 00:58:03.982 --> 00:58:05.775 "Come on, boy, move!" 00:59:54.050 --> 00:59:55.009 Get up! 00:59:55.176 --> 00:59:56.636 We dance tonight! Get up! 00:59:56.803 --> 00:59:58.304 Get your fiddle, Platt. Get up! 00:59:58.471 --> 01:00:00.515 Come on! Get, get, get! 01:00:00.681 --> 01:00:02.517 Come on, Platt. Come on! 01:00:14.320 --> 01:00:17.323 Come on, where's your merriment? Move your feet! 01:00:31.295 --> 01:00:32.421 "Sell her." 01:00:32.588 --> 01:00:33.589 "What's all this?" 01:00:33.756 --> 01:00:36.259 You will sell the negress. 01:00:36.425 --> 01:00:38.219 Sell little Pats? 01:00:38.386 --> 01:00:41.097 She picks with more vigor than any other nigger. 01:00:41.556 --> 01:00:42.396 Choose another to go. 01:00:42.431 --> 01:00:44.058 No other. 01:00:44.225 --> 01:00:45.560 Sell her. 01:00:45.935 --> 01:00:47.311 I will not. 01:00:48.563 --> 01:00:51.524 You will remove that black bitch from this property... 01:00:51.691 --> 01:00:54.610 or I'll take myself back to Cheneyville. 01:00:58.364 --> 01:01:00.658 Back to that hog's trough where I found you? 01:01:03.619 --> 01:01:07.498 Do not set yourself up against Patsey, my dear. 01:01:11.460 --> 01:01:13.254 Because I will rid myself of you 01:01:13.421 --> 01:01:15.256 well before I do away with her. 01:01:23.681 --> 01:01:24.724 What you looking at? 01:01:26.017 --> 01:01:27.685 Damn woman. 01:01:28.477 --> 01:01:30.563 I won't have my mood spoiled. 01:01:30.980 --> 01:01:32.815 I will not. 01:01:34.192 --> 01:01:35.032 Dance. 01:01:35.276 --> 01:01:36.903 Dance, I said! 01:01:41.449 --> 01:01:42.950 Come on! 01:01:43.117 --> 01:01:46.454 Pick it up, Platt. Play that fiddle, boy. 01:02:22.990 --> 01:02:24.116 "Platt." 01:02:25.993 --> 01:02:27.453 Yes, Mistress? 01:02:29.497 --> 01:02:32.041 "Can you find your way to Bartholomew's?" 01:02:32.667 --> 01:02:33.918 I can, ma'am. 01:02:34.335 --> 01:02:36.087 This is a list of goods and sundries. 01:02:36.254 --> 01:02:39.173 You will take it to be filled and return immediately. 01:02:39.340 --> 01:02:41.550 Take your tag. 01:02:41.717 --> 01:02:43.511 Tell Bartholomew to add it to our debt. 01:02:43.678 --> 01:02:44.679 Yes, Mistress. 01:02:46.847 --> 01:02:48.933 Where you from, Platt? 01:02:51.060 --> 01:02:52.311 I told you. 01:02:52.478 --> 01:02:54.230 Tell me again. 01:02:54.772 --> 01:02:55.773 Washington. 01:02:55.940 --> 01:02:56.899 Who were your master? 01:02:57.024 --> 01:02:57.984 Master name a Freeman. 01:02:58.150 --> 01:02:59.902 Was he a learned man? 01:03:00.736 --> 01:03:02.321 I suppose so. 01:03:02.488 --> 01:03:03.906 He learn you to read? 01:03:05.866 --> 01:03:07.994 A word, here or there. 01:03:08.377 --> 01:03:10.088 But I have no understanding of the written... 01:03:10.121 --> 01:03:12.331 Don't trouble yourself with it. 01:03:12.790 --> 01:03:16.294 Same as the rest. Master brought you here to work, that's all. 01:03:17.461 --> 01:03:20.131 Any more will earn you 100 lashes. 01:04:26.113 --> 01:04:27.114 Come here, boy. 01:04:30.117 --> 01:04:31.452 Come on. 01:04:47.635 --> 01:04:49.303 Where you going, boy? 01:04:49.470 --> 01:04:51.972 On my way to Bartholomew's. 01:04:52.139 --> 01:04:54.392 Sent by Mistress Epps. 01:04:58.187 --> 01:05:00.147 You best get there, then. 01:05:01.232 --> 01:05:02.817 Get there quick. 01:05:51.866 --> 01:05:53.200 Any trouble? 01:05:53.367 --> 01:05:55.870 No, ma'am. No trouble. 01:06:54.595 --> 01:06:56.305 Platt Epps, good Sunday morning. 01:06:56.472 --> 01:06:57.765 Good morning, Master Shaw. 01:06:57.932 --> 01:07:00.392 Master sent me to retrieve Patsey. May I approach? 01:07:00.559 --> 01:07:01.769 You may. 01:07:12.238 --> 01:07:13.864 Excuse me, Mistress Shaw. 01:07:14.281 --> 01:07:15.616 Nigger Platt. 01:07:15.783 --> 01:07:17.576 Patsey, Master wishes you to return. 01:07:17.743 --> 01:07:19.370 The Sabbath day, I is free to roam. 01:07:19.787 --> 01:07:22.540 Master sent me running to fetch you, said no time should be wasted. 01:07:22.790 --> 01:07:24.416 Drink of tea? 01:07:24.583 --> 01:07:26.460 Thank you, Mistress, but I don't dare. 01:07:26.627 --> 01:07:28.629 Would you know of Master Epps's consternation... 01:07:28.796 --> 01:07:31.966 to be any lessened with your timely return? 01:07:32.633 --> 01:07:34.927 Anger's his constant condition. 01:07:35.094 --> 01:07:35.894 Sit. 01:07:36.595 --> 01:07:38.639 Sit and drink the tea that I offered. 01:07:43.769 --> 01:07:45.896 What'n be Epps's concern? 01:07:47.773 --> 01:07:49.483 I'd rather not say. 01:07:50.067 --> 01:07:54.321 Oh, little gossip on the Sabbath be fine. All things in moderation. 01:07:56.073 --> 01:07:58.117 As you are aware... 01:07:58.284 --> 01:08:04.164 Master Epps is a man of hard countenance. 01:08:04.498 --> 01:08:06.667 You know he has ill feeling towards your husband. 01:08:06.834 --> 01:08:08.085 He do. 01:08:09.003 --> 01:08:11.088 Master Epps has somehow come to believe... 01:08:11.255 --> 01:08:15.259 that Master Shaw is something of a Lothario. 01:08:16.844 --> 01:08:19.305 A misguided belief, no doubt. 01:08:19.471 --> 01:08:20.639 No doubt... 01:08:20.806 --> 01:08:22.933 if not born out of truth itself. 01:08:25.185 --> 01:08:26.770 I meant no disrespect. 01:08:27.187 --> 01:08:28.981 He ain't heard you. 01:08:29.356 --> 01:08:31.609 I meant no disrespect to you, Mistress. 01:08:34.570 --> 01:08:38.157 Got no cause to worry for my sensibilities. 01:08:38.907 --> 01:08:43.495 I ain't felt the end of a lash in more years I can recall. 01:08:43.662 --> 01:08:45.748 I ain't worked a field, neither. 01:08:46.373 --> 01:08:48.167 Where once I served... 01:08:48.334 --> 01:08:51.253 now, I have others serving me. 01:08:51.879 --> 01:08:54.465 The cost to my current existence... 01:08:54.632 --> 01:08:57.760 be Master Shaw broadcasting his affection... 01:08:57.926 --> 01:09:00.763 and me enjoying the pantomime of his fidelity. 01:09:02.139 --> 01:09:06.560 If that what keep me from cotton picking niggers, that what it be. 01:09:06.727 --> 01:09:10.439 A small and reasonable price to be paid, for sure. 01:09:14.902 --> 01:09:17.446 I know what it like to be the object 01:09:17.571 --> 01:09:20.157 of Master's predilections and peculiarities. 01:09:21.325 --> 01:09:23.952 A lusty visit in the night... 01:09:24.119 --> 01:09:26.580 or a visitation with the whip. 01:09:27.956 --> 01:09:29.500 Take comfort, Patsey. 01:09:29.750 --> 01:09:31.877 The good Lord will manage Epps. 01:09:32.336 --> 01:09:36.882 In His own time, the good Lord will manage them all. 01:09:37.174 --> 01:09:40.427 The curse of the pharaohs were a poor example... 01:09:40.594 --> 01:09:43.514 of what wait for the plantation class. 01:09:48.936 --> 01:09:50.604 This is nice. 01:10:01.949 --> 01:10:04.493 "Pats. Patsey!" 01:10:04.660 --> 01:10:06.328 Do not look in his direction. Continue on. 01:10:06.954 --> 01:10:08.706 "- Patsey!" - Found her, Master. 01:10:09.206 --> 01:10:11.500 And brought her back, just as instructed. 01:10:14.086 --> 01:10:16.213 What did you just now tell her? 01:10:16.380 --> 01:10:18.048 What did you say to Pats? 01:10:19.216 --> 01:10:20.968 No words were spoken, none of consequence. 01:10:22.761 --> 01:10:24.346 You're a liar. 01:10:24.680 --> 01:10:26.640 You damn liar. 01:10:27.391 --> 01:10:29.685 I saw you talking with her. 01:10:30.644 --> 01:10:32.187 Tell me. 01:10:33.814 --> 01:10:35.524 I cannot speak of what did not occur. 01:10:35.816 --> 01:10:37.568 I'll cut your black throat! 01:10:37.735 --> 01:10:38.861 Master! 01:10:39.403 --> 01:10:40.821 You come here. 01:10:41.096 --> 01:10:42.456 - Master Epps. - I said come here! 01:10:42.489 --> 01:10:43.889 I brought her back, just like you... 01:10:45.242 --> 01:10:46.702 - Come here! - Master! 01:10:48.912 --> 01:10:49.913 Master. 01:10:52.583 --> 01:10:54.835 I got her, just as instructed. 01:10:56.211 --> 01:10:57.212 Master Epps! 01:10:57.504 --> 01:10:59.006 You stay away from Pats, boy. 01:11:05.220 --> 01:11:06.555 Master Epps. 01:11:33.373 --> 01:11:35.250 It's the Lord's day. 01:11:36.710 --> 01:11:39.588 Ain't nothing Christian in us carrying on like this. 01:11:46.553 --> 01:11:48.013 I concede to you. 01:11:50.724 --> 01:11:52.017 In the name of valor... 01:11:53.685 --> 01:11:54.895 help your master to his feet. 01:11:59.566 --> 01:12:00.692 I'm gonna kill you! 01:12:01.193 --> 01:12:02.694 What's the fuss? 01:12:02.861 --> 01:12:04.530 Master Epps believed Patsey and me 01:12:04.655 --> 01:12:06.323 to be in conversation when we were not. 01:12:06.340 --> 01:12:08.125 I tried to explain, but it's led to all this. 01:12:08.140 --> 01:12:08.974 What is it? 01:12:09.201 --> 01:12:12.037 You can't remain the Sabbath without her under your eye? 01:12:12.204 --> 01:12:13.956 You are a no-account bastard. 01:12:14.039 --> 01:12:16.041 A filthy, godless heathen. 01:12:16.208 --> 01:12:18.836 My bed is too holy for you to share. 01:12:19.002 --> 01:12:20.087 What's he been telling you? 01:12:20.254 --> 01:12:21.588 Of your misbegotten ways. 01:12:21.755 --> 01:12:23.757 And he would know what of anything? 01:12:24.883 --> 01:12:26.760 I ain't even spoken with him today. 01:12:27.553 --> 01:12:29.429 You lying nigger, Platt. 01:12:30.097 --> 01:12:31.181 Have I? 01:12:33.559 --> 01:12:34.768 Have I? 01:12:37.354 --> 01:12:39.773 There. There's all the truth he got. 01:12:40.774 --> 01:12:42.025 Damn nigger. 01:14:33.887 --> 01:14:35.138 Patsey. 01:16:31.922 --> 01:16:34.341 "A moment from the dancing." 01:16:35.509 --> 01:16:37.761 Come sample what I baked for y'all. 01:16:37.928 --> 01:16:40.680 Thank you, Mistress. 01:16:40.764 --> 01:16:41.845 Thank you, Mistress. 01:16:41.890 --> 01:16:44.017 There will be none for you, Patsey. 01:16:45.519 --> 01:16:47.020 You see that? 01:16:47.395 --> 01:16:50.190 You see that look of insolence she give me? 01:16:51.024 --> 01:16:52.526 I seen nothing but her turn away. 01:16:52.692 --> 01:16:54.903 Are you blind or ignorant? 01:16:55.070 --> 01:16:57.364 It was hot, hateful scorn. 01:16:57.531 --> 01:16:59.616 It filled that black face. 01:17:00.200 --> 01:17:01.440 You tell me you didn't see it... 01:17:01.535 --> 01:17:05.539 it's because you choose not to look, or are you saying I lie? 01:17:05.705 --> 01:17:08.041 Whatever it was, it passed. 01:17:08.708 --> 01:17:11.461 Is that how you are with the niggers? 01:17:12.045 --> 01:17:15.215 Letting every ill thought fester inside them? 01:17:15.966 --> 01:17:17.384 Look at them. 01:17:17.551 --> 01:17:19.719 They foul with it. 01:17:19.886 --> 01:17:21.972 They foul with their hate. 01:17:22.722 --> 01:17:26.726 You let it be, it's gonna come back to us in the dark of night. 01:17:26.893 --> 01:17:28.436 You want that? 01:17:29.146 --> 01:17:31.857 You want them black animals leave us 01:17:31.982 --> 01:17:34.651 gut like pigs in our own sleep? 01:17:35.068 --> 01:17:36.194 Oh... 01:17:36.820 --> 01:17:40.073 You are manless. 01:17:40.240 --> 01:17:42.909 A damn eunuch if there ever was. 01:17:43.493 --> 01:17:45.328 If you won't stand for me, I pray you'd 01:17:45.453 --> 01:17:47.247 at least be a credit to your own kind... 01:17:47.414 --> 01:17:49.624 and beat every foul thought from them. 01:18:00.093 --> 01:18:01.094 Beat it from them! 01:18:18.278 --> 01:18:19.112 Eat. 01:18:20.363 --> 01:18:21.990 Fill yourselves. 01:18:22.782 --> 01:18:24.034 And then we dance. 01:18:29.331 --> 01:18:31.708 I said, eat. 01:18:46.973 --> 01:18:47.974 "Platt." 01:18:49.643 --> 01:18:51.061 Platt, you awake? 01:18:54.856 --> 01:18:55.899 I am. 01:18:57.067 --> 01:18:59.236 I have a request. 01:18:59.736 --> 01:19:01.905 An act of kindness. 01:19:05.158 --> 01:19:07.869 I secreted it from the mistress. 01:19:09.579 --> 01:19:10.379 Return it. 01:19:10.497 --> 01:19:12.165 It yours, Platt. 01:19:13.500 --> 01:19:15.168 For what cause? 01:19:15.335 --> 01:19:19.506 All I ask, end my life. 01:19:20.715 --> 01:19:23.927 Take my body to the margin of the swamp. 01:19:24.094 --> 01:19:27.097 Take me by the throat, hold me low in the water... 01:19:27.264 --> 01:19:29.933 until I is still and without life. 01:19:30.517 --> 01:19:32.269 Bury me in a lonely place of dying. 01:19:32.435 --> 01:19:34.229 I will do no such thing. 01:19:35.438 --> 01:19:37.190 The gory detail with which you speak... 01:19:37.357 --> 01:19:39.859 I thought on it long and hard. 01:19:41.236 --> 01:19:43.196 It is melancholia. 01:19:43.780 --> 01:19:45.282 Nothing more. 01:19:46.449 --> 01:19:49.244 How can you fall into such despair? 01:19:49.411 --> 01:19:52.455 How can you not know? 01:19:54.582 --> 01:19:58.545 I ain't got no comfort in this life. 01:20:00.880 --> 01:20:04.884 If I can't buy mercy from you... 01:20:05.051 --> 01:20:07.137 I'll beg it. 01:20:07.304 --> 01:20:08.888 There are others. 01:20:09.931 --> 01:20:11.391 - Beg them. - I'm begging you. 01:20:11.558 --> 01:20:12.726 Why? 01:20:13.393 --> 01:20:17.230 Why would you consign me to damnation with such an ungodly request? 01:20:17.397 --> 01:20:19.399 There is God here! 01:20:20.233 --> 01:20:23.653 God is merciful... 01:20:23.820 --> 01:20:26.448 and he forgive merciful acts. 01:20:26.823 --> 01:20:29.326 Won't be no hell for you. 01:20:31.411 --> 01:20:32.662 Do it. 01:20:37.751 --> 01:20:40.795 Do what I ain't got the strength to do myself. 01:21:20.210 --> 01:21:21.961 "It's a plague." 01:21:22.962 --> 01:21:24.005 "It's cotton worm." 01:21:24.172 --> 01:21:26.966 "It's a plague. It's damn biblical." 01:21:28.176 --> 01:21:31.012 "Two seasons God done sent a plague to smite me." 01:21:33.473 --> 01:21:36.976 "What I done that God hates me so?" 01:21:43.149 --> 01:21:45.318 It's that godless lot. 01:21:47.195 --> 01:21:49.030 They brought this on me. 01:21:49.197 --> 01:21:51.491 I bring them God's word and heathens 01:21:51.616 --> 01:21:53.868 they are, they bring me God's scorn. 01:21:57.539 --> 01:21:58.540 "Damn!" 01:21:59.416 --> 01:22:00.417 "Damn you!" 01:22:01.835 --> 01:22:03.211 "Damn all y'all!" 01:22:30.989 --> 01:22:31.990 Judge. 01:22:32.282 --> 01:22:33.825 Mister Epps. 01:22:35.618 --> 01:22:39.414 I am deeply saddened to hear about your misfortune. 01:22:39.998 --> 01:22:42.083 Your price don't reflect your concern. 01:22:44.169 --> 01:22:45.170 Listen up. 01:22:45.837 --> 01:22:47.714 You're Judge Turner's for the season. 01:22:47.839 --> 01:22:49.674 More, if need be, until my crops return. 01:22:50.383 --> 01:22:52.760 Y'all bring no disrespect to me. 01:22:52.927 --> 01:22:55.847 Don't bring no biblical plagues to him, you hear? 01:22:56.014 --> 01:22:58.099 Or I'll take it out on your skin. 01:22:59.100 --> 01:23:00.518 Get out. 01:23:52.245 --> 01:23:54.414 Get off the porch. You ain't supposed to be on the porch. 01:23:54.447 --> 01:23:55.740 Get off the porch. 01:24:02.455 --> 01:24:03.790 Platt, is it? 01:24:04.290 --> 01:24:05.291 Yes, sir. 01:24:05.458 --> 01:24:08.461 You cultivate cane previously? 01:24:08.962 --> 01:24:10.129 No, sir, I have not. 01:24:10.296 --> 01:24:12.465 It comes to you quite naturally. 01:24:12.632 --> 01:24:13.633 Are you educated? 01:24:14.300 --> 01:24:17.679 No, sir. Niggers are hired to work, not read or write. 01:24:19.514 --> 01:24:21.140 You play the fiddle. 01:24:21.641 --> 01:24:23.434 Yes, sir. Yes, I do. 01:24:24.811 --> 01:24:26.980 Willard Yarner, a planter up the bayou... 01:24:27.146 --> 01:24:30.441 celebrates his anniversary in three weeks' time. 01:24:30.608 --> 01:24:32.860 I'll hold out your name to him. 01:24:33.027 --> 01:24:35.613 What you earn is yours to keep. 01:24:36.281 --> 01:24:37.365 Yes, sir. 01:24:37.991 --> 01:24:39.284 Mind yourself, Platt. 01:26:55.128 --> 01:26:57.255 Whoa! 01:27:03.845 --> 01:27:05.179 Joyous day. 01:27:05.972 --> 01:27:07.974 Joyous day. 01:27:08.641 --> 01:27:10.893 Dark times is behind us. 01:27:11.060 --> 01:27:14.480 Clean living and prayer done lifted the plague! 01:27:16.357 --> 01:27:19.736 As thick and white as New England snow. 01:27:21.571 --> 01:27:24.073 Now, my niggers is returned to me. 01:27:28.161 --> 01:27:31.080 Heard Judge Turner gave you favor. 01:27:35.084 --> 01:27:39.505 Did you beguile him, Platt, with your slick nigger ways? 01:27:42.842 --> 01:27:44.927 You won't stand idle, boy. 01:27:45.386 --> 01:27:47.346 Not on my land. 01:27:50.183 --> 01:27:51.893 Much work to do! 01:27:54.020 --> 01:27:57.023 Days of old long since, huh? 01:28:03.946 --> 01:28:05.448 Joyous. 01:28:05.615 --> 01:28:08.910 Joyous, indeed! Whoo! 01:28:10.661 --> 01:28:12.914 Let's go find something sweet for you. Hmm? 01:28:12.997 --> 01:28:14.165 Mmm-hmm. 01:28:15.833 --> 01:28:16.633 Candy. 01:28:16.793 --> 01:28:18.002 Candy? 01:28:19.045 --> 01:28:21.422 ~~Oh, pick this cotton.~ 01:28:21.589 --> 01:28:22.589 ~Pick this cotton.~ 01:28:22.632 --> 01:28:24.926 ~~Oh, pick this cotton.~ 01:28:25.092 --> 01:28:27.220 ~Oh, pick that cotton.~ 01:28:27.386 --> 01:28:29.138 ~~Man ain't mean, boys.~ 01:28:29.305 --> 01:28:30.848 ~Man ain't mean, boys.~ 01:28:31.015 --> 01:28:33.017 ~~Man ain't mean, boys.~ 01:28:33.184 --> 01:28:34.268 ~Man ain't mean.~ 01:28:34.435 --> 01:28:36.896 ~~Oh, work this cotton.~ 01:28:37.063 --> 01:28:38.064 ~Work this cotton.~ 01:28:38.231 --> 01:28:40.983 ~~Oh, work this cotton.~ 01:28:41.150 --> 01:28:42.276 ~Work this cotton.~ 01:28:42.443 --> 01:28:45.029 ~~Oh, work ain't hard, boys.~ 01:28:45.530 --> 01:28:46.531 "George." 01:28:46.697 --> 01:28:48.449 "180 pounds." 01:28:48.866 --> 01:28:50.201 Patsey. 01:28:50.368 --> 01:28:52.787 520 pounds for Patsey. 01:28:52.954 --> 01:28:55.748 That's my girl. Don't ever let me down. 01:28:56.082 --> 01:28:57.291 Platt? 01:28:57.458 --> 01:28:59.710 160 pounds. 01:29:01.462 --> 01:29:03.047 Armsby? 01:29:03.589 --> 01:29:05.508 64 pounds. 01:29:10.346 --> 01:29:12.306 A good day's labor would average 200 pounds. 01:29:12.598 --> 01:29:13.850 Yes, sir. 01:29:18.521 --> 01:29:21.232 I'm sure in time, you'll develop as a picker. 01:29:21.649 --> 01:29:23.651 But it takes effort, boy. 01:29:25.194 --> 01:29:27.321 Put some damn effort into it. 01:29:27.488 --> 01:29:28.288 Yes, sir. 01:29:28.322 --> 01:29:30.408 Take them out, get to whipping. 01:29:36.914 --> 01:29:38.958 "It's a tragedy." 01:29:40.084 --> 01:29:41.836 How does such come to pass? 01:29:42.837 --> 01:29:46.048 Working a field and picking cotton like a lowly hand. 01:29:46.591 --> 01:29:48.968 I'm of a damn sight better station. 01:29:50.011 --> 01:29:52.096 I worked as an overseer, you know. 01:29:52.263 --> 01:29:53.681 I did not know, sir. 01:29:53.848 --> 01:29:55.349 Not «sir». 01:29:56.017 --> 01:29:57.852 Just «Armsby». 01:29:58.728 --> 01:30:00.897 I'm not owed more than any other in the field. 01:30:01.063 --> 01:30:04.025 How did you arrive at such a place, if I may ask? 01:30:04.442 --> 01:30:07.028 Ask, it's just conversation. 01:30:09.155 --> 01:30:12.116 I became a little too dependent on the whiskey... 01:30:12.283 --> 01:30:14.744 a little too undependable on the job. 01:30:15.995 --> 01:30:18.789 Now, before you say I'm just a sorry drunkard... 01:30:18.956 --> 01:30:21.083 let me state my case. 01:30:22.001 --> 01:30:24.128 As reliable employment as overseeing is, 01:30:24.253 --> 01:30:26.339 it is no easy chore on the spirit. 01:30:27.173 --> 01:30:30.009 I say, no man of conscious... 01:30:30.176 --> 01:30:32.637 can take the lash to another human day in and day out... 01:30:32.803 --> 01:30:35.181 without shredding at his own self. 01:30:36.182 --> 01:30:38.351 Takes him to a place... 01:30:38.517 --> 01:30:43.022 where he either makes excuses within his mind to be unaffected... 01:30:43.522 --> 01:30:46.859 or he finds some way to trample his guilty sensations. 01:30:47.777 --> 01:30:49.362 So, I trampled. 01:30:49.528 --> 01:30:51.447 With frequency. 01:30:52.990 --> 01:30:56.118 I gave in to tales of wealth and prosperity. 01:30:59.372 --> 01:31:03.876 But such profitable outcomes are reserved for plantation masters. 01:31:04.502 --> 01:31:07.672 It's the lot of the rest of us to serve. 01:31:09.298 --> 01:31:14.679 Now, all I want is to earn a decent wage and get myself home. 01:31:46.877 --> 01:31:48.963 The proceeds of my fiddling performances. 01:31:49.797 --> 01:31:53.926 Just a few picayunes, but all I have in the world. 01:31:54.552 --> 01:31:57.930 I promise them to you if you will do me the favor I require. 01:31:58.097 --> 01:32:02.143 But I beg you not to expose me if you cannot grant the request. 01:32:02.685 --> 01:32:03.769 Uh... 01:32:04.478 --> 01:32:06.105 What is it you ask? 01:32:06.272 --> 01:32:08.441 First, your word, sir. 01:32:09.150 --> 01:32:10.151 On my honor. 01:32:12.278 --> 01:32:14.280 It's a simple enough request. 01:32:15.656 --> 01:32:17.450 I only ask that you deposit a letter 01:32:17.575 --> 01:32:19.326 at the post office in Marksville... 01:32:19.493 --> 01:32:22.955 and that you keep the action an inviolable secret forever. 01:32:26.167 --> 01:32:28.627 A patron is what I require, sir. 01:32:35.176 --> 01:32:36.010 I'll do it. 01:32:37.136 --> 01:32:39.555 And I'll accept whatever payment's offered. 01:32:42.308 --> 01:32:44.852 To assist you, I put my own self at risk. 01:32:45.644 --> 01:32:47.480 I will do so... 01:32:47.646 --> 01:32:50.816 but fair compensation is all I ask. 01:33:00.326 --> 01:33:02.244 Draw up your letter. 01:33:02.411 --> 01:33:04.872 We'll meet again in two days? 01:33:06.582 --> 01:33:08.375 In two days. 01:33:11.170 --> 01:33:12.671 Thank you. 01:34:30.291 --> 01:34:32.084 Well, boy... 01:34:32.251 --> 01:34:37.089 I understand I got a learned nigger that writes letters. 01:34:38.174 --> 01:34:41.260 Tries to get white fellas to mail them. 01:34:47.600 --> 01:34:50.269 Armsby told me today... 01:34:50.436 --> 01:34:52.938 the devil was among my niggers. 01:34:54.607 --> 01:34:57.568 That I had one that needed watching... 01:34:57.735 --> 01:35:00.070 or he would run away. 01:35:02.031 --> 01:35:03.908 When I asked him why... 01:35:04.783 --> 01:35:08.287 he said you come over to him... 01:35:08.454 --> 01:35:11.290 waked him up in the middle of the night... 01:35:11.457 --> 01:35:14.126 and wanted him to carry a letter... 01:35:15.377 --> 01:35:17.129 to Marksville. 01:35:22.218 --> 01:35:24.637 What do you got to say to that? 01:35:27.431 --> 01:35:29.225 There's no truth to it. 01:35:30.142 --> 01:35:31.644 You say. 01:35:33.312 --> 01:35:36.106 How could I write a letter without ink or paper? 01:35:37.274 --> 01:35:40.778 Who am I gonna write to? I got no friends living as I know of. 01:35:41.904 --> 01:35:43.572 That Armsby... 01:35:44.990 --> 01:35:48.494 That Armsby is a lying, drunken fellow. 01:35:50.329 --> 01:35:53.249 Didn't he want you to hire him as an overseer? 01:35:55.125 --> 01:35:56.752 Well, that's it. 01:35:58.128 --> 01:36:00.329 He wants to make you believe we're all gonna run away... 01:36:00.339 --> 01:36:02.841 so you'll hire him as an overseer. 01:36:04.260 --> 01:36:06.720 He believes you're a soft soap. 01:36:07.596 --> 01:36:10.057 And he's given to such talk. 01:36:10.891 --> 01:36:14.687 Made this story out of whole cloth... 01:36:15.229 --> 01:36:17.564 because he wants a situation. 01:36:22.861 --> 01:36:25.406 It's all a lie, Master. 01:36:30.869 --> 01:36:32.871 It's all a lie. 01:36:41.046 --> 01:36:43.048 I'll be damned. 01:36:49.096 --> 01:36:51.849 Were he not free and white, Platt. 01:36:53.892 --> 01:36:56.270 Were he not free and white. 01:38:14.181 --> 01:38:16.266 ~~Sun gonna set here. ~ 01:38:16.433 --> 01:38:18.185 ~Under the mountain.~ 01:38:18.352 --> 01:38:20.396 ~~Sun gonna set here.~ 01:38:20.562 --> 01:38:22.272 ~Under the mountain.~ 01:38:22.439 --> 01:38:24.316 ~~Sun gonna set here.~ 01:38:24.483 --> 01:38:26.443 ~Under the mountain~ 01:38:27.611 --> 01:38:29.071 "Edward!" 01:38:29.238 --> 01:38:30.864 "Get him water." 01:38:38.205 --> 01:38:39.665 Get up! 01:38:40.582 --> 01:38:41.834 Get up! 01:38:48.507 --> 01:38:49.883 Nigger, get up! 01:38:56.014 --> 01:38:58.267 "What you looking at, boy?" 01:38:59.560 --> 01:39:01.687 "Keep picking, boy!" 01:39:14.616 --> 01:39:18.203 I just wanna say something about Uncle Abram. 01:39:22.458 --> 01:39:24.543 He was a good man... 01:39:24.877 --> 01:39:28.130 "and he always looked out for us ever since we were little." 01:39:28.922 --> 01:39:30.549 "God love him." 01:39:31.216 --> 01:39:33.802 "God bless him. God keep him." 01:39:34.887 --> 01:39:36.263 Amen. 01:39:51.570 --> 01:39:54.948 ~~Went down to the River Jordan.~ 01:39:55.115 --> 01:39:58.285 ~~Where John baptized three.~ 01:39:58.452 --> 01:40:01.455 ~~When I woke the devil in hell.~ 01:40:01.622 --> 01:40:04.416 ~~Said Johnny baptized me.~ 01:40:04.583 --> 01:40:08.086 ~~I said roll, Jordan, roll.~ 01:40:08.587 --> 01:40:11.089 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 01:40:11.256 --> 01:40:14.259 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 01:40:14.426 --> 01:40:16.970 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 01:40:17.137 --> 01:40:20.516 ~~Well, some say John was a Baptist.~ 01:40:20.682 --> 01:40:23.268 ~~Some say John was a Jew.~ 01:40:23.435 --> 01:40:25.812 ~~But I say John was a preacher~ 01:40:25.979 --> 01:40:28.941 ~~'Cause my Bible says so too.~ 01:40:29.107 --> 01:40:32.611 ~~I said roll, Jordan, roll.~ 01:40:32.778 --> 01:40:35.280 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 01:40:35.447 --> 01:40:38.450 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 01:40:38.617 --> 01:40:40.369 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 01:40:40.536 --> 01:40:41.954 ~~Hallelujah.~ 01:40:42.120 --> 01:40:44.831 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 01:40:44.998 --> 01:40:47.626 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 01:40:47.793 --> 01:40:50.837 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 01:40:51.004 --> 01:40:52.839 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 01:40:53.006 --> 01:40:54.216 ~~Hallelujah.~ 01:40:54.383 --> 01:40:57.302 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 01:40:57.469 --> 01:41:00.138 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 01:41:00.305 --> 01:41:03.350 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 01:41:03.517 --> 01:41:05.519 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 01:41:05.686 --> 01:41:07.020 ~~Everybody say.~ 01:41:07.187 --> 01:41:10.065 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 01:41:10.232 --> 01:41:12.651 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 01:41:12.818 --> 01:41:15.821 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 01:41:15.988 --> 01:41:17.864 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 01:41:18.031 --> 01:41:19.157 ~~Oh, children.~ 01:41:19.324 --> 01:41:22.160 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 01:41:22.327 --> 01:41:24.746 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 01:41:24.913 --> 01:41:27.833 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 01:41:28.000 --> 01:41:29.751 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 01:41:29.918 --> 01:41:31.253 ~~Hallelujah.~ 01:41:31.420 --> 01:41:34.172 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 01:41:34.339 --> 01:41:36.842 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 01:41:37.009 --> 01:41:39.886 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 01:41:40.053 --> 01:41:42.514 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 01:42:02.367 --> 01:42:04.119 "Right to the end." 01:42:12.628 --> 01:42:14.171 Hey, Bass. 01:42:15.088 --> 01:42:16.548 Oh, no, no, no. 01:42:16.715 --> 01:42:19.176 No shame in taking respite from the heat. 01:42:19.343 --> 01:42:21.053 Drink, shade. 01:42:21.219 --> 01:42:23.805 It's ungodly for travelers, hearty or otherwise. 01:42:28.894 --> 01:42:29.978 What's funny? 01:42:30.145 --> 01:42:33.857 Epps, I merely mean to finish the work at hand, as requested. 01:42:34.024 --> 01:42:35.817 And as paid for. 01:42:35.984 --> 01:42:37.778 If something rubs you wrongly... 01:42:37.944 --> 01:42:40.864 I offer you the opportunity to speak on it. 01:42:44.117 --> 01:42:46.745 You ask plainly, so I will tell you plainly. 01:42:47.537 --> 01:42:51.750 What amused me just then was your concern for my well-being in this heat... 01:42:52.000 --> 01:42:54.961 when, quite frankly, the condition of your laborers... 01:42:55.128 --> 01:42:56.328 «The condition of my laborers?» 01:42:56.421 --> 01:42:58.423 "It is horrid. It's all wrong." 01:42:58.590 --> 01:42:59.841 "All wrong, Mr. Epps." 01:43:00.008 --> 01:43:02.260 They ain't hired help. 01:43:02.427 --> 01:43:03.470 They're my property. 01:43:04.304 --> 01:43:05.305 You say that with pride. 01:43:05.472 --> 01:43:07.140 I say it as fact. 01:43:09.226 --> 01:43:11.895 If this conversation concerns what is factual 01:43:12.020 --> 01:43:14.690 and what is not, then it must be said... 01:43:14.856 --> 01:43:17.984 that there is no justice nor righteousness in their slavery. 01:43:18.819 --> 01:43:20.946 But you do open up an interesting question. 01:43:22.114 --> 01:43:23.532 What right have you to your niggers, 01:43:23.657 --> 01:43:25.033 when you come down to the point? 01:43:25.450 --> 01:43:26.743 - What right? - Mmm. 01:43:27.369 --> 01:43:30.205 I bought them. I paid for them. 01:43:30.580 --> 01:43:32.332 Of course you did, and the law says 01:43:32.457 --> 01:43:34.251 you have the right to hold a nigger. 01:43:34.418 --> 01:43:36.378 But begging the law's pardon, it lies. 01:43:37.003 --> 01:43:39.047 Suppose they pass a law taking away 01:43:39.172 --> 01:43:41.216 your liberty, making you a slave. 01:43:41.383 --> 01:43:42.509 Suppose. 01:43:42.676 --> 01:43:44.302 That ain't a supposable case. 01:43:44.469 --> 01:43:45.887 Laws change, Epps. 01:43:46.054 --> 01:43:48.140 Universal truths are constant. 01:43:48.306 --> 01:43:51.143 It is a fact, a plain and simple fact... 01:43:51.309 --> 01:43:54.521 that what is true and right is true and right for all. 01:43:54.688 --> 01:43:56.690 White and black alike. 01:43:58.316 --> 01:44:00.152 You comparing me to a nigger, Bass? 01:44:00.318 --> 01:44:03.155 I'm only asking, in the eyes of God, what is the difference? 01:44:05.157 --> 01:44:06.877 You might as well ask what the difference is 01:44:06.950 --> 01:44:09.327 between a white man and a baboon. 01:44:10.537 --> 01:44:13.331 I seen one of them critters in Orleans. 01:44:13.498 --> 01:44:15.876 Know just as much as any nigger I got. 01:44:16.168 --> 01:44:17.836 "Listen, Epps." 01:44:18.003 --> 01:44:19.671 "These niggers are human beings." 01:44:19.838 --> 01:44:22.198 "If they are allowed to climb no higher than brute animals..." 01:44:22.340 --> 01:44:25.010 "you and men like you will have to answer for it." 01:44:26.011 --> 01:44:28.180 There is an ill, Mr. Epps... 01:44:28.346 --> 01:44:30.724 a fearful ill resting upon this nation. 01:44:31.349 --> 01:44:34.352 And there will be a day of reckoning yet. 01:44:36.938 --> 01:44:39.608 You like to hear yourself talk, Bass... 01:44:39.775 --> 01:44:41.860 better than any man I know of. 01:44:42.944 --> 01:44:46.615 You'd argue that black was white, or white, black... 01:44:46.782 --> 01:44:49.034 if anybody would contradict you. 01:44:51.036 --> 01:44:54.414 A fine supposition if you lived among Yankees in New-England. 01:44:54.581 --> 01:44:56.249 But you don't. 01:44:59.711 --> 01:45:01.880 You most assuredly do not. 01:45:27.405 --> 01:45:29.783 "I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!" 01:45:32.160 --> 01:45:33.578 "Patsey!" 01:45:35.580 --> 01:45:36.957 "Pats!" 01:45:37.666 --> 01:45:39.084 "Where is she?" 01:45:39.835 --> 01:45:41.253 "Where's Pats?" 01:45:41.419 --> 01:45:43.755 "Where is she, damn it? Where is she?" 01:45:45.715 --> 01:45:48.593 Phebs, where is she? Where is Patsey? Where is she? 01:45:48.760 --> 01:45:50.053 What you standing there for? 01:45:50.220 --> 01:45:51.420 We know nothing of her, Master. 01:45:51.430 --> 01:45:53.082 Know nothing of what? We know nothing of... 01:45:53.100 --> 01:45:55.477 Of what? Where has she gone? 01:45:55.600 --> 01:45:56.601 She run off, ain't she? 01:45:56.768 --> 01:45:57.769 I don't know, Master. 01:45:57.936 --> 01:45:59.479 - Where is she? - I don't know, Master. 01:45:59.646 --> 01:46:02.607 You know, you know, you know! 01:46:02.774 --> 01:46:03.608 You know! 01:46:03.775 --> 01:46:05.443 No, I don't! 01:46:07.612 --> 01:46:09.656 You miserable black dogs. 01:46:09.823 --> 01:46:12.284 You stand like the deaf and dumb. 01:46:14.077 --> 01:46:15.453 Speak! 01:46:30.635 --> 01:46:32.304 She gone. 01:46:34.681 --> 01:46:36.641 My Pats is gone. 01:46:53.533 --> 01:46:55.493 Run off? Run off, did you? 01:46:55.660 --> 01:46:57.660 Master Epps... You miserable wench. Where you been? 01:46:57.787 --> 01:46:59.164 I been nowhere! 01:46:59.331 --> 01:47:00.415 Lies to your misdeeds! 01:47:00.582 --> 01:47:01.903 The Sabbath day, Master. I took me 01:47:01.958 --> 01:47:03.198 a walk to commune with the Lord. 01:47:03.335 --> 01:47:04.735 Bring the Lord into your deceptions? 01:47:04.794 --> 01:47:06.234 You're coming from Shaw's plantation. 01:47:06.296 --> 01:47:07.589 - No! - Master Epps. 01:47:08.131 --> 01:47:09.132 Now, you speak? 01:47:09.199 --> 01:47:11.476 Now that you want to add to her lies, you find your tongue! 01:47:11.509 --> 01:47:13.762 I went to Master Shaw's plantation. 01:47:13.845 --> 01:47:15.347 Ah! You admit it. 01:47:15.680 --> 01:47:16.973 Yes, freely. 01:47:17.140 --> 01:47:18.975 And you know why? 01:47:19.142 --> 01:47:21.686 I got this from Mistress Shaw. 01:47:22.187 --> 01:47:26.191 Mistress Epps won't even grant me no soap to clean with. 01:47:26.775 --> 01:47:30.362 I stink so much, I make myself gag! 01:47:33.615 --> 01:47:36.868 500 pounds of cotton. 01:47:37.035 --> 01:47:39.037 Day in, day out! 01:47:39.204 --> 01:47:41.039 More than any man here. 01:47:41.206 --> 01:47:43.291 And for that, I will be clean. 01:47:43.458 --> 01:47:45.168 That's all I ask. 01:47:45.335 --> 01:47:48.380 This, here, what I went to Shaw's for. 01:47:49.839 --> 01:47:50.882 Liar. 01:47:51.049 --> 01:47:54.636 The Lord knows that's all! 01:47:54.803 --> 01:47:55.720 You're a liar. 01:47:55.887 --> 01:47:59.307 And you, blind with your own covetousness! 01:48:00.183 --> 01:48:02.310 I don't lie, Master. 01:48:02.811 --> 01:48:06.064 If you kill me, I'll stick to that. 01:48:06.815 --> 01:48:08.400 I'll fetch you down. 01:48:09.234 --> 01:48:11.277 I'll learn you to go to Shaw's. 01:48:11.736 --> 01:48:12.821 Treach. 01:48:14.864 --> 01:48:16.366 Run and fetch some line. 01:48:16.533 --> 01:48:17.701 Edward! 01:48:19.327 --> 01:48:22.330 Strip her. Strike her bare and lash her to the post. 01:48:40.765 --> 01:48:42.851 You done this to yourself, Pats. 01:48:54.612 --> 01:48:55.780 "Do it." 01:49:00.869 --> 01:49:03.079 "Strike the life from her." 01:49:09.294 --> 01:49:10.712 Beat her. 01:49:12.338 --> 01:49:14.591 Give her the whip! Give it all to her! 01:49:15.884 --> 01:49:18.845 Platt, you come here and you beat her now. 01:49:21.306 --> 01:49:22.390 Platt! 01:49:25.185 --> 01:49:26.436 Come here! 01:49:28.188 --> 01:49:30.356 "I'd rather it you, Platt!" 01:49:31.316 --> 01:49:33.068 You strike her. 01:49:33.943 --> 01:49:35.361 Strike her. 01:49:57.675 --> 01:49:59.260 He pantomimes. 01:49:59.886 --> 01:50:02.305 There's barely a welt on her. 01:50:02.764 --> 01:50:05.141 That's what your niggers make of you... 01:50:05.308 --> 01:50:07.477 a fool for the taking. 01:50:11.981 --> 01:50:14.400 "Strike her, Platt. Strike her!" 01:50:31.126 --> 01:50:32.544 You will strike her. 01:50:32.710 --> 01:50:34.420 You will strike her until her flesh 01:50:34.546 --> 01:50:36.256 is rent and meat and blood flow equal... 01:50:36.422 --> 01:50:39.217 or I will kill every nigger in my sight. 01:50:39.384 --> 01:50:40.885 You understand me? 01:50:41.052 --> 01:50:43.888 Strike her! Strike her! 01:51:27.140 --> 01:51:29.934 "Until I say no more. I ain't said nothing!" 01:51:39.861 --> 01:51:41.154 Give me the whip! 01:51:42.155 --> 01:51:43.364 Get up! 01:52:02.800 --> 01:52:04.469 Thou devil! 01:52:07.013 --> 01:52:08.556 Sooner or later... 01:52:09.224 --> 01:52:11.809 somewhere in the course of eternal 01:52:11.976 --> 01:52:14.562 justice, thou shalt answer for this sin! 01:52:19.984 --> 01:52:23.029 Sin? There is no sin. 01:52:24.489 --> 01:52:27.408 Man does how he pleases with his property. 01:52:33.039 --> 01:52:36.751 At the moment, Platt, I'm of great pleasure. 01:52:36.918 --> 01:52:38.753 You be goddamn careful I don't want to 01:52:38.878 --> 01:52:40.672 come and lighten my mood no further. 01:54:58.976 --> 01:55:00.478 Master Bass. 01:55:00.770 --> 01:55:03.940 I want to ask you what part of the country you come from. 01:55:05.149 --> 01:55:07.026 No part of this land. 01:55:08.111 --> 01:55:10.154 I originate from Canada. 01:55:11.155 --> 01:55:12.698 Now, guess where that is. 01:55:12.865 --> 01:55:14.784 I know where Canada is. 01:55:15.618 --> 01:55:17.370 I've been there myself. 01:55:22.291 --> 01:55:24.127 Montreal... 01:55:24.293 --> 01:55:27.338 and Kingston and Queenston and a great many places. 01:55:27.505 --> 01:55:29.340 Well-traveled for a slave. 01:55:29.507 --> 01:55:30.550 How came you here? 01:55:32.635 --> 01:55:34.303 Master Bass... 01:55:36.639 --> 01:55:40.017 if justice had been done, I never would have been here. 01:55:44.814 --> 01:55:46.149 How's this? 01:55:47.191 --> 01:55:48.234 Tell me all. 01:55:53.698 --> 01:55:55.867 I'm afraid to tell you. 01:55:57.535 --> 01:56:00.663 Every word you speak is a profound secret. 01:56:08.212 --> 01:56:09.881 Your story... 01:56:10.548 --> 01:56:12.008 it is amazing. 01:56:12.175 --> 01:56:14.177 And in no good way. 01:56:18.931 --> 01:56:22.560 Do you believe, sir, in justice, as you said? 01:56:23.728 --> 01:56:25.271 I do. 01:56:25.438 --> 01:56:29.233 That slavery is an evil that should befall none? 01:56:32.069 --> 01:56:33.863 I believe so. 01:56:34.030 --> 01:56:35.948 If you truly do... 01:56:37.742 --> 01:56:40.786 then I ask, I beg... 01:56:43.456 --> 01:56:46.250 that you write my friends in the north... 01:56:46.626 --> 01:56:49.420 acquainting them of my situation... 01:56:50.796 --> 01:56:55.092 and beseeching them to forward free papers. 01:57:00.097 --> 01:57:01.766 It would be... 01:57:04.769 --> 01:57:07.605 an unspeakable happiness... 01:57:09.232 --> 01:57:11.275 to see my wife... 01:57:13.778 --> 01:57:16.072 and my family again. 01:57:21.953 --> 01:57:25.331 I traveled this country for the best part of 20 years... 01:57:25.998 --> 01:57:28.918 and my freedom is everything. 01:57:29.085 --> 01:57:33.422 The fact that I can walk out of here tomorrow brings me great pleasure. 01:57:36.050 --> 01:57:38.302 My life doesn't mean much to anyone. 01:57:39.637 --> 01:57:43.307 It seems yours might mean a lot to a whole lot of people. 01:57:45.059 --> 01:57:49.522 But what you ask of me, sir, scares me. 01:57:51.691 --> 01:57:54.527 And I must say, lam afraid. 01:57:55.653 --> 01:57:57.989 Not just for you, but for me. 01:58:07.164 --> 01:58:09.333 I will write your letter, sir. 01:58:09.775 --> 01:58:11.094 And if it brings you your freedom, 01:58:11.127 --> 01:58:12.367 it will be more than a pleasure. 01:58:12.378 --> 01:58:14.338 It will have been my duty. 01:58:14.505 --> 01:58:17.508 Now, would you kindly hand me those shingles? 02:00:52.079 --> 02:00:53.247 "Platt!" 02:00:53.664 --> 02:00:55.708 "Where's the boy called Platt?" 02:00:59.003 --> 02:01:00.379 Come here, boy. 02:01:22.526 --> 02:01:24.278 "Your name is Platt, is it?" 02:01:26.071 --> 02:01:27.364 Yes, sir. 02:01:28.032 --> 02:01:29.575 "You know that man?" 02:01:47.384 --> 02:01:48.969 Mr. Parker. 02:01:49.637 --> 02:01:51.138 "Say again?" 02:01:53.182 --> 02:01:55.017 Mr. Parker. 02:01:55.476 --> 02:01:58.145 "That man received a letter compiling many accusations." 02:01:58.312 --> 02:02:00.147 You look me in the eye... 02:02:00.815 --> 02:02:02.495 and on your life, you answer me truthfully. 02:02:02.566 --> 02:02:04.235 "Have you any other name than Platt?" 02:02:04.401 --> 02:02:06.403 Solomon Northup is my name. 02:02:06.570 --> 02:02:07.770 "Sheriff, what's all this?" 02:02:07.905 --> 02:02:09.281 It's official business. 02:02:09.448 --> 02:02:10.741 "My nigger, my business." 02:02:10.908 --> 02:02:12.535 Your business waits. 02:02:12.701 --> 02:02:13.786 Tell me of your family. 02:02:14.119 --> 02:02:15.538 I have a wife, two children. 02:02:15.704 --> 02:02:16.580 What the hell? 02:02:16.590 --> 02:02:18.793 "- What are your children's names?" - Margaret and Alonzo. 02:02:18.800 --> 02:02:20.643 "What was your wife's name before her marriage?" 02:02:20.650 --> 02:02:21.851 Anne Hampton. I am who I say. 02:02:21.860 --> 02:02:22.861 Where you going, Platt? 02:02:23.462 --> 02:02:25.382 Who authorized you to interfere with my property? 02:02:25.506 --> 02:02:26.590 My authority. 02:02:26.757 --> 02:02:28.092 Platt, you come back here. Platt! 02:02:28.801 --> 02:02:29.927 You come back here, boy. 02:02:30.928 --> 02:02:32.096 Boy. 02:02:34.557 --> 02:02:36.976 - You unhand him. - Platt is my nigger! 02:02:37.142 --> 02:02:38.561 He is Mr. Solomon Northup. 02:02:38.727 --> 02:02:39.603 You say. 02:02:39.770 --> 02:02:42.231 You come here, unfamiliar to me, and make claims. 02:02:42.398 --> 02:02:44.118 I get no doubts. The man is Solomon Northup. 02:02:44.149 --> 02:02:46.485 The hell he is! He's my nigger, and I'll fight you for him! 02:02:46.652 --> 02:02:47.945 As is your right. 02:02:48.112 --> 02:02:50.313 As it will be my pleasure to bankrupt you in the courts. 02:02:50.447 --> 02:02:52.783 Your decision. Unhand him. 02:02:53.517 --> 02:02:55.127 I know you had some hand in this, Platt. 02:02:55.160 --> 02:02:56.620 I'm gonna get to the bottom of it. 02:02:56.787 --> 02:02:57.913 Pay him no mind. 02:02:58.080 --> 02:02:59.456 I paid good money for this nigger. 02:02:59.582 --> 02:03:00.958 Courthouse got papers to prove it! 02:03:01.125 --> 02:03:02.918 And we got papers proving he's free! 02:03:03.085 --> 02:03:04.893 I own you. You belong to me. You hear me, Platt? 02:03:04.962 --> 02:03:06.088 Unhand him! 02:03:06.255 --> 02:03:08.465 You'll have 200 stripes across your back by sundown! 02:03:08.632 --> 02:03:09.758 Platt! 02:03:09.967 --> 02:03:11.802 "Get my horse, Treach." 02:03:20.936 --> 02:03:22.146 Get away from him, Pats. 02:03:23.480 --> 02:03:25.316 I'm gonna be seeing you real soon. 02:03:25.482 --> 02:03:27.443 Solomon, we need to make haste. 02:03:29.153 --> 02:03:30.154 No. 02:03:30.738 --> 02:03:32.072 Solomon. 02:05:09.003 --> 02:05:11.171 I'll apologize... 02:05:13.257 --> 02:05:15.259 for my appearance. 02:05:17.845 --> 02:05:19.763 But I have had... 02:05:20.723 --> 02:05:22.683 a difficult time... 02:05:23.684 --> 02:05:26.395 these past several years. 02:05:31.275 --> 02:05:32.609 Margaret. 02:05:38.198 --> 02:05:39.908 Alonzo. 02:06:11.065 --> 02:06:12.775 Who is this? 02:06:13.817 --> 02:06:15.819 He's my husband. 02:06:17.321 --> 02:06:18.489 Husband. 02:06:19.323 --> 02:06:22.659 It is very good to meet you, sir. 02:06:24.453 --> 02:06:26.663 We have much acquainting to do. 02:06:26.830 --> 02:06:28.165 Yes, sir. 02:06:29.416 --> 02:06:33.462 And this is your grandson. 02:06:34.296 --> 02:06:37.466 Solomon Northup Staunton. 02:06:47.684 --> 02:06:49.269 Solomon. 02:06:55.526 --> 02:06:56.819 Anne... 02:06:59.196 --> 02:07:00.989 forgive me. 02:07:04.535 --> 02:07:08.038 There is nothing to forgive. 02:11:39.351 --> 02:11:42.771 ~~Went down to the River Jordan.~ 02:11:42.938 --> 02:11:46.108 ~~Where John baptized three.~ 02:11:46.274 --> 02:11:49.277 ~~When I woke the devil in hell.~ 02:11:49.444 --> 02:11:52.239 ~~Said Johnny baptized me.~ 02:11:52.406 --> 02:11:55.867 ~~I said roll, Jordan, roll.~ 02:11:56.368 --> 02:11:58.912 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 02:11:59.079 --> 02:12:02.040 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 02:12:02.207 --> 02:12:04.793 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 02:12:04.960 --> 02:12:08.338 ~~Well, some say John was a Baptist.~ 02:12:08.505 --> 02:12:11.091 ~~Some say John was a Jew.~ 02:12:11.258 --> 02:12:13.635 ~~But I say John was a preacher~ 02:12:13.802 --> 02:12:16.763 ~~'Cause my Bible says so too.~ 02:12:16.930 --> 02:12:20.434 ~~I said roll, Jordan, roll.~ 02:12:20.600 --> 02:12:23.103 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 02:12:23.270 --> 02:12:26.273 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 02:12:26.440 --> 02:12:28.191 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 02:12:28.358 --> 02:12:29.734 ~~Hallelujah.~ 02:12:29.901 --> 02:12:32.654 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 02:12:32.821 --> 02:12:35.407 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 02:12:35.574 --> 02:12:38.660 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 02:12:38.827 --> 02:12:40.662 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 02:12:40.829 --> 02:12:42.038 ~~Oh, roll now.~ 02:12:42.205 --> 02:12:45.125 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 02:12:45.292 --> 02:12:47.711 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 02:12:47.794 --> 02:12:50.881 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 02:12:51.047 --> 02:12:52.799 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 02:12:52.883 --> 02:12:54.217 ~~Halleluiah.~ 02:12:54.301 --> 02:12:57.179 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 02:12:57.345 --> 02:12:59.764 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 02:12:59.931 --> 02:13:02.893 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 02:13:03.059 --> 02:13:04.978 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 02:13:05.145 --> 02:13:06.271 ~~Everybody say.~ 02:13:06.438 --> 02:13:09.232 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 02:13:09.649 --> 02:13:12.235 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 02:13:12.694 --> 02:13:15.614 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 02:13:15.780 --> 02:13:17.532 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 02:13:17.699 --> 02:13:19.034 ~~Oh, children.~ 02:13:19.201 --> 02:13:21.953 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 02:13:22.120 --> 02:13:24.623 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 02:13:24.789 --> 02:13:27.667 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 02:13:27.834 --> 02:13:29.794 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 02:13:29.878 --> 02:13:31.254 ~~Halleluiah.~ 02:13:31.338 --> 02:13:33.590 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 02:13:34.257 --> 02:13:36.760 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 02:13:36.927 --> 02:13:39.930 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 02:13:40.013 --> 02:13:42.140 ~For the year when Jordan roll~ 02:13:44.013 --> 02:13:59.140 Telegram Channel and Instagram Page .:: @bollbolljan_com ::.