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OVERSEER: All right now.
Y'all fresh niggers.

2
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Y'all gonna be in a cutting gang.

3
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Very simple. I want you to take your knife.

4
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Get in them cane.

5
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Make it sing.

6
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Take the cane out.

7
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Cut my tops.

8
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Clean the shucks off.

9
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Throw it on a pile for the planting gang.

10
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Now, them cane
ain't gonna jump up and bite you.

11
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Don't shy back.

12
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Rush here, boys! Rush here!

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MALE SLAVE: <i>(SINGING) My Lord.</i>

14
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MALES SLAVES:
<i>Sunshine.</i>

15
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<i>My Lord.</i>

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<i>Lord, Lord.</i>

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<i>My ma.</i>

18
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<i>She dead.</i>

19
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<i>My Pa.</i>

20
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<i>He dead.</i>

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<i>My Lord.</i>

22
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<i>Sunshine.</i>

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<i>My Lord.</i>

24
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<i>Sunshine.</i>

25
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<i>Is late.</i>

26
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<i>In high.</i>

27
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<i>In high.</i>

28
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<i>In high.</i>

29
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<i>My Lord.</i>

30
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<i>Sunshine.</i>

31
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<i>My Lord.</i>

32
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<i>Lord, Lord.</i>

33
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<i>My ma.</i>

34
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<i>She dead.</i>

35
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<i>My Pa.</i>

36
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<i>He dead.</i>

37
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<i>My Lord.</i>

38
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<i>Sunshine.</i>

39
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<i>My Lord.</i>

40
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<i>Yes, Sir</i>

41
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<i>(BLOWING OUT CANDLES)</i>

42
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<i>(CHILDREN LAUGHING)</i>

43
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<i>(CUP CLATTERS)</i>

44
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<i>(SLAVES SNORING)</i>

45
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<i>(SIGHING)</i>

46
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<i>(BREATHING HEAVILY)</i>

47
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<i>(GASPING)</i>

48
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<i>(SOBBING)</i>

49
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<i>(TUNING)</i>

50
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<i>(SOLOMON HUMMING)</i>

51
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<i>(PLAYING UPBEAT TUNE)</i>

52
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<i>(MUSIC ENDS)</i>

53
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<i>(CHUCKLING)</i>

54
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<i>(PLAYING OFF-KEY)</i>

55
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All right, all right, all right, all right.

56
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Into bed.

57
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Into bed. Thank you for the music.

58
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- Come on.
- Ouch.

59
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Get in there. Come on.

60
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Give me a kiss.

61
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I love you, Margaret.

62
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I love you, too.

63
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Sleep well.

64
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<i>(BLOWING)</i>I'll take this.

65
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I don't want to
hear any more noise.

66
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<i>(CHILDREN GIGGLING)</i>

67
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<i>(SIGHS)</i>Three weeks and two days.

68
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It is the custom.

69
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I wonder what you will do without me.

70
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I won't stay idle.

71
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Darling, it's good money.

72
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If only I didn't have
to share your cooking with other people.

73
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You don't.

74
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<i>(GRUNTS)</i>

75
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Be good for your mother. Okay, Alonzo?

76
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Can I get a kiss, please? Thank you.

77
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Travel safely.

78
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Stay safely.

79
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Ready?

80
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<i>(DRIVER URGING HORSES)</i>

81
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<i>(CHILDREN LAUGHING)</i>

82
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<i>(BELLS TOLLING)</i>

83
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Mr. MOON: Devil
call his name, there he is now.

84
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Mr. Northup!

85
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I have two gentlemen
whose acquaintance you should make.

86
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Misters Brown
and Hamilton.

87
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Sir.

88
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Mr. Northup, these two gentlemen...

89
00:08:51,365 --> 00:08:53,697
were inquiring about
distinguished individuals...

90
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and I was just this very moment...

91
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saying Solomon Northup
is an expert player on the violin.

92
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He was indeed.

93
00:09:00,407 --> 00:09:01,532
Mr. Moon is being overly gracious.

94
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Well, taking into consideration

95
00:09:03,073 --> 00:09:04,573
his graciousness and your modesty...

96
00:09:04,739 --> 00:09:07,739
may we trouble you
for a moment of your time to converse, Sir?

97
00:09:07,823 --> 00:09:09,073
Of course.

98
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Good day.

99
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SOLOMON: <i>A circus?</i>

100
00:09:12,532 --> 00:09:13,612
That is our usual employee.

101
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The company currently
in the city of Washington.

102
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Circus is too constricting a word...

103
00:09:17,323 --> 00:09:19,739
to describe the talented and Merry
band with which we travel.

104
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It is a spectacle
unlike most have ever witnessed.

105
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Creatures from the darkest Africa

106
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as yet unseen by civilized man.

107
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Acrobats from the Orient...

108
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who contort themselves
in the most confounding manners.

109
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<i>(LAUGHS)</i>And I myself
in Aide of Mr. Brown...

110
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an internationally renowned practitioner

111
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in the art of prestidigitation.

112
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We are on our way thither to rejoin

113
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the company having left for a short time...

114
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to make a small profit from
our own exhibitions.

115
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The reason for our inquiry with Mr. Moon...

116
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Yes. We had just a devil of a time

117
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in procuring music for our entertainments.

118
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Men of true talents are
seemingly in short supply.

119
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Thank you, Sir.

120
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If we could persuade you
to accompany us as far as Washington...

121
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We could give you one dollar
for each day's services...

122
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and three dollars for every night
played at our performances.

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In addition, we would
provide sufficient pay...

124
00:10:01,365 --> 00:10:04,448
for your return here to Saratoga,
two weeks from today.

125
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Welcome to Washington,
Solomon.

126
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<i>(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)</i>

127
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<i>(ALL LAUGHING)</i>

128
00:10:19,448 --> 00:10:21,615
Hamilton, you know too much.

129
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Some say not enough.

130
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Solomon, 43 dollars. All to you.

131
00:10:28,323 --> 00:10:30,282
That is far more
than my wages amount to.

132
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BROWN: It's been a most
profitable week, Sir.

133
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- Cheers.
- Cheers.

134
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Cheers.

135
00:10:39,407 --> 00:10:40,823
Another.

136
00:10:42,490 --> 00:10:47,490
Gentlemen, your generosity
is extraordinary.

137
00:10:47,615 --> 00:10:49,656
And your talents are undeniable.

138
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Mmm. To Solomon.

139
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Cheers.

140
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Cheers.

141
00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:05,448
<i>(CHAINS RATTLING)</i>

142
00:11:14,823 --> 00:11:16,698
<i>(RATTLING CONTINUES)</i>

143
00:11:33,799 --> 00:11:34,798
Ugh!

144
00:11:34,823 --> 00:11:35,822
<i>(GROANING)</i>

145
00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:38,739
It's all right, Solomon.

146
00:11:38,864 --> 00:11:40,198
There's no shame in it.

147
00:11:40,282 --> 00:11:41,574
No shame at all.

148
00:11:51,739 --> 00:11:53,240
<i>(GRUNTING)</i>

149
00:12:03,066 --> 00:12:04,465
<i>(WHISPERS)</i>Hamilton, we must hurry.

150
00:12:04,490 --> 00:12:05,489
<i>(SOLOMON GROANING)</i>

151
00:12:06,407 --> 00:12:07,574
One too many libation.

152
00:12:07,615 --> 00:12:08,240
<i>(SOLOMON COUGHS)</i>

153
00:12:08,365 --> 00:12:08,781
We're halfway there.

154
00:12:08,906 --> 00:12:10,407
<i>(CHAINS RATTLING LOUDLY)</i>

155
00:12:13,574 --> 00:12:14,865
<i>(GRUNTING)</i>

156
00:12:22,698 --> 00:12:23,865
<i>(PANTING)</i>

157
00:12:25,739 --> 00:12:27,198
SOLOMON: <i>So sorry...</i>

158
00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:28,323
<i>(SHUSHING)</i>

159
00:12:28,365 --> 00:12:30,198
We won't hear it. We won't.

160
00:12:30,365 --> 00:12:32,365
Let him sleep, Hamilton.

161
00:12:32,407 --> 00:12:34,865
Mmm. A good night's rest.

162
00:12:35,490 --> 00:12:37,198
And tomorrow...

163
00:12:38,323 --> 00:12:40,532
tomorrow you will feel
as well and refreshed

164
00:12:40,615 --> 00:12:42,865
as if the earth were new again.

165
00:12:43,198 --> 00:12:45,739
<i>(SCOFFS)</i>Hamilton,
there's nothing more we can do for him.

166
00:12:47,615 --> 00:12:48,865
Such is the pity.

167
00:12:49,115 --> 00:12:50,365
<i>(BLOWING)</i>

168
00:12:52,407 --> 00:12:53,532
<i>(GASPING)</i>

169
00:12:56,282 --> 00:12:57,532
<i>(DOOR OPENS)</i>

170
00:12:58,532 --> 00:13:01,407
Well, boy, how do you feel now?

171
00:13:03,698 --> 00:13:07,574
My name... My name is Solomon Northup.

172
00:13:07,698 --> 00:13:11,115
I'm a free man.
A resident of Saratoga, New York.

173
00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:13,739
The residence of
my wife and children who are equally free.

174
00:13:14,073 --> 00:13:15,872
And you have no
right whatsoever to detain me.

175
00:13:16,115 --> 00:13:17,449
You're not any free man.

176
00:13:17,574 --> 00:13:18,781
And I promise you...

177
00:13:19,115 --> 00:13:21,240
I promise you upon my liberation

178
00:13:21,323 --> 00:13:23,490
I will have satisfaction for this wrong.

179
00:13:25,198 --> 00:13:26,574
Resolve this.

180
00:13:27,115 --> 00:13:28,574
Produce your papers.

181
00:13:36,490 --> 00:13:38,323
You're no free man.

182
00:13:38,823 --> 00:13:40,739
And you ain't from Saratoga.

183
00:13:41,365 --> 00:13:43,323
You're from Georgia.

184
00:13:46,657 --> 00:13:48,449
You ain't a free man.

185
00:13:50,282 --> 00:13:54,407
You're nothing but a Georgia runaway.

186
00:13:56,449 --> 00:14:01,115
You're just a runaway nigger...

187
00:14:01,615 --> 00:14:03,490
from Georgia.

188
00:14:19,550 --> 00:14:20,549
<i>(GRUNTS)</i>

189
00:14:20,574 --> 00:14:21,573
<i>(GROANS)</i>

190
00:14:22,073 --> 00:14:23,282
<i>(PANTING)</i>

191
00:14:26,698 --> 00:14:28,073
<i>(GROANING)</i>

192
00:14:34,657 --> 00:14:36,407
You're a slave!

193
00:14:36,990 --> 00:14:39,490
You're a Georgia slave!

194
00:14:39,532 --> 00:14:41,073
<i>(SCREAMING)</i>

195
00:14:43,115 --> 00:14:44,490
<i>(PANTING)</i>

196
00:14:56,365 --> 00:14:58,073
Are you a slave?

197
00:14:59,282 --> 00:15:00,449
No.

198
00:15:03,698 --> 00:15:05,073
<i>(GROANING)</i>

199
00:15:14,990 --> 00:15:16,198
<i>(GRUNTING)</i>

200
00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:18,449
<i>(SOBBING IN PAIN)</i>

201
00:15:26,032 --> 00:15:28,198
<i>(GASPING)</i>

202
00:15:43,966 --> 00:15:44,965
<i>(DOOR CLOSES)</i>

203
00:15:44,990 --> 00:15:45,989
<i>(LOCK CLICKS)</i>

204
00:15:46,365 --> 00:15:48,032
<i>(SOLOMON GROANING)</i>

205
00:15:50,032 --> 00:15:51,948
<i>(CHAINS RATTLING)</i>

206
00:15:58,407 --> 00:15:59,990
SOLOMON: <i>(SOBBING)</i>Help.

207
00:16:01,198 --> 00:16:02,990
Help me.

208
00:16:04,324 --> 00:16:06,115
Help me!

209
00:16:06,657 --> 00:16:09,157
Somebody help me!

210
00:16:09,906 --> 00:16:11,990
Help!

211
00:16:13,657 --> 00:16:15,240
Help!

212
00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:21,490
<i>(DOOR OPENS)</i>

213
00:16:26,990 --> 00:16:29,657
That old thing of yours
is just rags and tatters.

214
00:16:29,990 --> 00:16:32,324
You need something
proper to wear.

215
00:16:35,365 --> 00:16:37,616
Go on, put it on.

216
00:16:57,115 --> 00:16:58,365
There.

217
00:17:01,865 --> 00:17:03,198
That's fine.

218
00:17:03,532 --> 00:17:05,490
That's fine.

219
00:17:07,865 --> 00:17:08,948
Got no gratitude?

220
00:17:14,282 --> 00:17:15,282
No. That's from my wife.

221
00:17:15,407 --> 00:17:17,073
Rags and tatters.

222
00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:19,574
Rags and tatters.

223
00:17:21,823 --> 00:17:23,073
<i>(DOOR CLOSES)</i>

224
00:17:29,574 --> 00:17:31,365
Go on, wash up.

225
00:17:34,282 --> 00:17:36,157
The boy, too.
Get him clean.

226
00:17:38,907 --> 00:17:40,199
Scrub now.

227
00:17:40,324 --> 00:17:42,449
Do you know when
my mama will come?

228
00:17:43,073 --> 00:17:44,073
Hush him up!

229
00:17:44,115 --> 00:17:45,115
Mama! Mama!

230
00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:46,240
Quiet.

231
00:17:46,449 --> 00:17:47,907
- Quiet, please.
- Mama!

232
00:17:48,073 --> 00:17:49,199
Hush him up!

233
00:17:49,324 --> 00:17:52,823
Your mother will come,
I swear she will. But you must be silent.

234
00:17:53,282 --> 00:17:54,907
Be silent.

235
00:18:01,907 --> 00:18:03,282
We need
a sympathetic ear.

236
00:18:03,365 --> 00:18:04,365
<i>(RANDALL HUMMING)</i>

237
00:18:04,407 --> 00:18:06,199
An opportunity to
explain our situation.

238
00:18:06,365 --> 00:18:08,365
Who, in your estimation,
is that sympathetic ear?

239
00:18:08,491 --> 00:18:10,282
The two men
I journeyed with.

240
00:18:10,407 --> 00:18:12,282
I'm certain they're making
enquiries at this very moment.

241
00:18:12,407 --> 00:18:13,925
I'd be just as
certain they're counting

242
00:18:14,032 --> 00:18:15,282
the money paid for
delivering you to this place.

243
00:18:15,407 --> 00:18:18,407
They were not kidnappers,
they were artists. Fellow performers.

244
00:18:18,781 --> 00:18:20,115
You know that?

245
00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,240
You know for certain
who they were?

246
00:18:24,032 --> 00:18:28,115
The reality to come
is us being transported southward.

247
00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:30,324
New Orleans,
if I was to venture.

248
00:18:31,157 --> 00:18:33,407
After we arrive,
we'll be put to market.

249
00:18:33,781 --> 00:18:35,240
And beyond that...

250
00:18:36,199 --> 00:18:38,717
Well, I suppose once in a slave
state, there's only one outcome.

251
00:18:38,823 --> 00:18:39,324
No.

252
00:18:39,491 --> 00:18:41,489
I don't say that
to give you empty agitation, John.

253
00:18:41,491 --> 00:18:43,282
For y'all,
there ain't nothing but that.

254
00:18:43,407 --> 00:18:44,990
But John wasn't
kidnapped.

255
00:18:45,157 --> 00:18:47,449
John's just
being held as debt, that's all.

256
00:18:47,782 --> 00:18:49,740
Master pay his debt
and John be redeemed.

257
00:18:49,823 --> 00:18:51,302
Boy, our masters
will not come for us.

258
00:18:51,324 --> 00:18:53,365
John is sorry for y'all,
but that's how it be.

259
00:18:53,491 --> 00:18:55,407
Where you're going,
you're going without John.

260
00:18:57,449 --> 00:18:58,907
- Randall: Mama!
- Randall!

261
00:19:00,324 --> 00:19:01,491
Mama!

262
00:19:03,324 --> 00:19:05,157
Are you all right?

263
00:19:05,823 --> 00:19:07,157
Are you all right?

264
00:19:09,032 --> 00:19:10,032
Thank you, God.

265
00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:13,239
<i>(DOOR OPENS)</i>

266
00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:14,239
Come on. Get up.

267
00:19:14,407 --> 00:19:16,032
- I said, get up!
- Eliza: No, don't...

268
00:19:16,157 --> 00:19:18,115
I don't want to
hear you talk! Get in the yard.

269
00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:19,239
Not my children!

270
00:19:19,324 --> 00:19:22,782
Ain't no need for all that.
Just taking a little trip, that's all.

271
00:19:23,324 --> 00:19:25,032
Don't want to
frighten the children

272
00:19:25,115 --> 00:19:26,782
over a little
boat ride, do you?

273
00:19:26,948 --> 00:19:28,699
John's master
gonna pay his debt.

274
00:19:28,782 --> 00:19:29,782
Line up!

275
00:19:29,948 --> 00:19:31,107
His master gonna
pay his debt!

276
00:19:31,115 --> 00:19:32,782
<i>(JOHN GROANING)</i>

277
00:19:36,948 --> 00:19:39,699
I don't want to hear a word
out of none of you!

278
00:19:40,699 --> 00:19:41,948
Not a one.

279
00:19:55,074 --> 00:19:56,449
BURCH: All right, come on.

280
00:19:58,074 --> 00:19:59,948
- Move.
- Come on.

281
00:20:01,407 --> 00:20:02,990
Come on, child.
Come on.

282
00:20:03,115 --> 00:20:04,741
Follow your mama.

283
00:20:04,865 --> 00:20:05,865
Come on, boy.

284
00:20:05,907 --> 00:20:06,907
RADBURN: Up these stairs.

285
00:20:06,990 --> 00:20:09,199
BURCH: Get down out
of that wagon. Come on.

286
00:20:09,907 --> 00:20:11,199
Come on. Move it!

287
00:20:11,782 --> 00:20:13,074
Let's go!

288
00:20:13,157 --> 00:20:14,657
Up, up, up the stairs.

289
00:20:15,865 --> 00:20:17,282
Come on, let's go.

290
00:20:21,907 --> 00:20:23,282
Come on, move it!

291
00:20:23,741 --> 00:20:25,240
All right, come on.

292
00:20:27,115 --> 00:20:29,240
RADBURN: Hey, you. Get up.

293
00:20:29,741 --> 00:20:31,282
Sit down, right there.

294
00:20:31,741 --> 00:20:33,074
<i>(BURCH LAUGHING)</i>

295
00:20:33,907 --> 00:20:34,906
Come on.

296
00:20:36,407 --> 00:20:38,115
Right there. Just sit down.

297
00:21:14,366 --> 00:21:16,699
Cheer up and don't be so cast down.

298
00:21:22,032 --> 00:21:23,240
<i>(DOOR SLAMS)</i>

299
00:21:26,658 --> 00:21:30,949
If you want to survive,
do and say as little as possible.

300
00:21:32,199 --> 00:21:36,658
Tell no one who you really are
and tell no one you can read and write.

301
00:21:38,782 --> 00:21:41,741
Unless you want to be a dead nigger.

302
00:21:41,823 --> 00:21:43,115
<i>(DOOR OPENS)</i>

303
00:21:57,199 --> 00:21:58,865
MAN: Now keep your mouth shut.

304
00:22:06,616 --> 00:22:08,532
I say we fight.

305
00:22:09,532 --> 00:22:10,949
The crew is fairly small.

306
00:22:11,732 --> 00:22:14,049
Were it well planned,
I believe they could be strong-armed.

307
00:22:14,074 --> 00:22:15,949
Three can't go against the whole crew.

308
00:22:17,074 --> 00:22:19,074
The rest here are niggers.

309
00:22:19,532 --> 00:22:20,823
Born and bred slaves.

310
00:22:20,949 --> 00:22:23,157
Niggers ain't got no stomach for a fight.

311
00:22:23,282 --> 00:22:24,782
Not a damn one.

312
00:22:24,949 --> 00:22:28,741
All's I know,
if we get where we're traveling...

313
00:22:29,074 --> 00:22:30,616
we'll wish we'd died trying.

314
00:22:30,741 --> 00:22:33,115
Survival's not about certain death,

315
00:22:33,199 --> 00:22:35,782
it's about keeping your head down.

316
00:22:38,782 --> 00:22:41,616
Days ago, I was with my family...

317
00:22:43,074 --> 00:22:44,907
in my home.

318
00:22:46,532 --> 00:22:48,741
Now you tell me all is lost.

319
00:22:50,907 --> 00:22:54,074
"Tell no one who I am."
That's the way to survive?

320
00:22:57,491 --> 00:22:59,491
Well, I don't want to survive.

321
00:23:00,949 --> 00:23:04,032
I want to live.

322
00:24:02,949 --> 00:24:04,199
<i>(LAUGHS)</i>

323
00:24:05,990 --> 00:24:07,199
<i>(STABS)</i>

324
00:24:13,741 --> 00:24:14,824
<i>(SCREAMING)</i>

325
00:24:32,741 --> 00:24:34,491
Better off.

326
00:24:35,449 --> 00:24:36,907
Better than us.

327
00:24:53,865 --> 00:24:55,116
I don't see him.

328
00:24:55,449 --> 00:24:56,448
Clemens!

329
00:24:56,574 --> 00:24:57,990
- Clemens Ray!
- Master.

330
00:24:58,116 --> 00:24:59,491
- Clemens!
- Master Ray, Sir!

331
00:24:59,616 --> 00:25:00,824
Master Ray!

332
00:25:00,949 --> 00:25:02,069
JONUS: Who's in charge here?

333
00:25:02,366 --> 00:25:03,366
I'm the captain!

334
00:25:03,449 --> 00:25:04,616
I'm Mr. Jonus Ray.

335
00:25:04,783 --> 00:25:06,449
My solicitor has
documentation...

336
00:25:06,574 --> 00:25:09,366
verifying the negro
known as Clemens Ray is my property.

337
00:25:09,449 --> 00:25:11,783
I know nothing of
this arrangement.

338
00:25:11,907 --> 00:25:13,707
JONUS: You are ordered to
return that property

339
00:25:13,783 --> 00:25:15,616
immediately or be
charged with thievery.

340
00:25:16,783 --> 00:25:17,949
Free him!

341
00:25:20,907 --> 00:25:21,990
Master.

342
00:25:22,116 --> 00:25:23,949
Master Ray, Sir.

343
00:25:25,491 --> 00:25:26,490
Clemens!

344
00:25:26,616 --> 00:25:27,741
- Clemens!
- CAPTAIN: Get him back!

345
00:25:27,865 --> 00:25:29,366
Clemens!

346
00:25:29,865 --> 00:25:30,907
Clemens!

347
00:25:31,824 --> 00:25:32,823
Clemens!

348
00:26:02,741 --> 00:26:04,616
<i>(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)</i>

349
00:26:37,366 --> 00:26:38,574
<i>(SINGING)</i>

350
00:26:38,865 --> 00:26:40,324
Mr. Parker.

351
00:26:40,366 --> 00:26:43,658
Ah, Mr. Northup. Mrs. Northup.

352
00:26:43,825 --> 00:26:45,865
Solomon, could I interest you
in a new cravat?

353
00:26:45,991 --> 00:26:47,324
Pure silk, by way of the French.

354
00:26:47,449 --> 00:26:49,991
We're in need of
a fresh carryall for my Mrs.'s travels.

355
00:26:50,324 --> 00:26:51,323
Nothing more.

356
00:26:51,324 --> 00:26:52,865
The year has passed already.

357
00:26:52,991 --> 00:26:54,366
Off to work at Sandy Hill again?

358
00:26:54,533 --> 00:26:55,532
I am.

359
00:26:55,533 --> 00:26:56,783
I have just the thing.

360
00:26:56,907 --> 00:26:58,658
Something to suit your style...

361
00:26:58,741 --> 00:27:01,324
and yet sturdy enough
for the 40-mile round trip.

362
00:27:01,449 --> 00:27:02,449
It's beautiful.

363
00:27:02,574 --> 00:27:03,573
At what price?

364
00:27:03,658 --> 00:27:04,657
We will take it.

365
00:27:04,700 --> 00:27:07,825
Children, come see what you
father has just purchased for me.

366
00:27:07,949 --> 00:27:09,533
Mr. Parker: One moment, Sir,
and you'll be assisted.

367
00:27:09,658 --> 00:27:11,449
- Mr. Parker.
- Sir?

368
00:27:11,574 --> 00:27:12,773
If we could discuss the price.

369
00:27:12,865 --> 00:27:14,574
Oh, forgive me, Solomon.
Forgive me, Mrs. Northup.

370
00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:16,741
A customer waits. Welcome, Sir.

371
00:27:16,865 --> 00:27:18,741
SOLOMON: Shop well, Sir,
but mind your wallet.

372
00:27:18,865 --> 00:27:20,658
Mr. Parker: Pay no attention
to this gentleman's nonsense.

373
00:27:20,825 --> 00:27:21,865
Jasper!

374
00:27:23,491 --> 00:27:25,324
My regrets for the intrusion, Sir.

375
00:27:25,616 --> 00:27:27,324
SOLOMON: No intrusion.

376
00:27:30,991 --> 00:27:32,574
Good day, Sir.

377
00:27:32,991 --> 00:27:34,324
Mr. Parker: Good day.

378
00:27:34,449 --> 00:27:35,991
Jasper, out.

379
00:27:44,283 --> 00:27:46,491
Very good. Very good.

380
00:27:46,783 --> 00:27:49,449
Let's see, here. Eliza!

381
00:27:50,700 --> 00:27:52,949
Stand up when you
hear your name. Eliza.

382
00:27:53,907 --> 00:27:54,906
Lethe!

383
00:27:58,283 --> 00:27:59,282
John.

384
00:28:00,616 --> 00:28:01,825
Oren.

385
00:28:03,241 --> 00:28:04,366
Platt.

386
00:28:07,283 --> 00:28:08,324
Platt.

387
00:28:11,449 --> 00:28:12,825
<i>(SIGHS)</i>Stand up.

388
00:28:14,825 --> 00:28:16,324
You fit the description given.

389
00:28:16,449 --> 00:28:17,809
Why didn't you answer when called?

390
00:28:17,865 --> 00:28:19,283
My name is not Platt.

391
00:28:19,449 --> 00:28:20,448
My name...

392
00:28:22,533 --> 00:28:24,241
Your name is Platt.

393
00:28:26,449 --> 00:28:28,575
Captain, get these niggers to my cart.

394
00:28:29,157 --> 00:28:30,907
<i>(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)</i>

395
00:28:41,324 --> 00:28:42,408
Mmm.

396
00:28:48,199 --> 00:28:49,283
<i>(CHUCKLES)</i>

397
00:28:50,658 --> 00:28:51,866
Move.

398
00:28:55,616 --> 00:28:57,374
FREEMAN: I believe I have
something very much

399
00:28:57,408 --> 00:28:58,866
to your liking in the back room.

400
00:28:59,199 --> 00:29:00,783
Follow me, please.

401
00:29:00,907 --> 00:29:03,741
Yes. Now, inspect them at your leisure...

402
00:29:03,866 --> 00:29:08,700
but I ask you to
pay particular regard to young Ezra here.

403
00:29:08,866 --> 00:29:10,241
Incredibly sound limbs.

404
00:29:10,366 --> 00:29:12,449
I have never seen anything
quite like him.

405
00:29:12,575 --> 00:29:15,491
And this marvelous creature.
Can you believe it? Mmm?

406
00:29:15,616 --> 00:29:17,324
She'll make a fine lady's maid.

407
00:29:17,449 --> 00:29:18,575
Madam?<i>(CHUCKLES)</i>

408
00:29:18,866 --> 00:29:20,616
So, inspect at your leisure.

409
00:29:20,741 --> 00:29:23,158
Take your time.
Help yourself to refreshments.

410
00:29:23,283 --> 00:29:26,283
Gentlemen, what catches
your fancy here? Hmm?

411
00:29:26,700 --> 00:29:27,700
This boy? Yes?

412
00:29:27,825 --> 00:29:30,158
Open your mouth. Open wider.

413
00:29:30,283 --> 00:29:32,616
Look in there.
Never been sick a day in his life.

414
00:29:32,741 --> 00:29:34,419
And I call particular attention to Martha.

415
00:29:34,491 --> 00:29:36,825
She is an excellent pastry cook.

416
00:29:37,158 --> 00:29:38,741
Ah, Mr. Ford.

417
00:29:39,283 --> 00:29:41,533
Splendid seeing you, Sir.
What catches your fancy?

418
00:29:41,658 --> 00:29:43,658
This lad? He's very brawny.

419
00:29:43,783 --> 00:29:46,575
How much for the ones Platt and Eliza?

420
00:29:46,658 --> 00:29:48,324
Ah, yes.

421
00:29:48,616 --> 00:29:50,741
A thousand for Platt. Uh... Oh.

422
00:29:50,825 --> 00:29:53,658
This is a nigger of
considerable talent, I assure you.

423
00:29:53,783 --> 00:29:55,533
700 for Eliza.

424
00:29:55,658 --> 00:29:57,450
My fairest price.

425
00:29:57,700 --> 00:29:58,825
Mmm.

426
00:29:59,658 --> 00:30:00,825
You will accept a note?

427
00:30:01,158 --> 00:30:03,616
Please, Sir. Do not divide my family.

428
00:30:03,741 --> 00:30:05,158
Do not take me unless you take my children.

429
00:30:05,324 --> 00:30:06,324
Eliza! Quiet!

430
00:30:06,450 --> 00:30:08,208
You will have the most
faithful slave in me.

431
00:30:08,324 --> 00:30:09,575
The most faithful slave
that has ever lived.

432
00:30:09,700 --> 00:30:10,825
But I beg that you do not separate us.

433
00:30:11,116 --> 00:30:12,158
Your price for the boy?

434
00:30:12,324 --> 00:30:13,533
Eliza! Stop it!

435
00:30:13,658 --> 00:30:14,825
I will give you something to cry about.

436
00:30:15,158 --> 00:30:17,324
Randall, come forward. Come, come, come.

437
00:30:17,450 --> 00:30:19,575
Now, do you see how fit this boy is?

438
00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:21,116
Like ripe fruit.

439
00:30:21,241 --> 00:30:24,158
May I take your stick a moment?
Observe this.

440
00:30:24,283 --> 00:30:26,241
Randall, jump, jump, jump. Run, run, run.

441
00:30:26,366 --> 00:30:28,533
Very good! Higher.

442
00:30:28,658 --> 00:30:29,742
Now, you see this.

443
00:30:30,074 --> 00:30:33,533
It's very likely
he will grow into a fine beast.

444
00:30:34,742 --> 00:30:36,491
600 for the boy.

445
00:30:36,616 --> 00:30:38,283
Fair and final.

446
00:30:38,742 --> 00:30:40,116
Done.

447
00:30:40,241 --> 00:30:42,533
Superb. A moment, please.

448
00:30:42,658 --> 00:30:44,074
Mr. Ford.

449
00:30:44,283 --> 00:30:45,366
- Please.
- Eliza!

450
00:30:45,533 --> 00:30:47,283
How much for the little girl?

451
00:30:47,366 --> 00:30:48,450
Ah...

452
00:30:48,783 --> 00:30:50,116
You have no use for her.

453
00:30:50,241 --> 00:30:51,783
One so young will bring you no profit.

454
00:30:52,116 --> 00:30:54,032
No, no, no. I cannot sell the girl.

455
00:30:54,158 --> 00:30:57,658
No, there's heaps
and piles of money to be made from her.

456
00:30:57,783 --> 00:31:00,241
She's a beauty. One of the regular bloods.

457
00:31:00,366 --> 00:31:03,163
None of your thick-lipped, bullet-heated,
cotton-picking niggers, here.

458
00:31:03,283 --> 00:31:06,032
Her child, man.

459
00:31:06,217 --> 00:31:07,216
Please.

460
00:31:07,241 --> 00:31:09,319
For God's sake,
are you not sentimental in the least?

461
00:31:09,324 --> 00:31:12,074
My sentimentality extends
the length of a coin.

462
00:31:12,241 --> 00:31:13,616
God, please.

463
00:31:14,283 --> 00:31:17,575
Now do you take this lot, Mr. Ford,
or do you pass on them?

464
00:31:17,742 --> 00:31:21,408
Please, please. Please.

465
00:31:21,491 --> 00:31:23,158
I will take the ones Platt and Eliza.

466
00:31:23,283 --> 00:31:24,283
Sold, Eliza and Platt.

467
00:31:24,408 --> 00:31:25,491
I will not go without my children!

468
00:31:25,616 --> 00:31:26,700
Goddamn sniveling wench!

469
00:31:26,977 --> 00:31:28,216
You will not take them from me!

470
00:31:28,241 --> 00:31:29,491
God damn you! Get her out of here, Cape!

471
00:31:29,575 --> 00:31:31,033
<i>(CHILDREN SCREAMING)</i>

472
00:31:31,158 --> 00:31:32,742
Please! No! No!

473
00:31:33,074 --> 00:31:34,575
Get her out of here, God damn it!

474
00:31:34,700 --> 00:31:37,658
Platt, get your fiddle.
Play, play, play something.

475
00:31:37,991 --> 00:31:41,074
I will give you something to cry
about, you goddamned witch!

476
00:31:41,199 --> 00:31:43,324
Get her out of here, Cape! Out, now!

477
00:31:43,533 --> 00:31:45,241
<i>(PLAYING LIVELY TUNE)</i>

478
00:31:45,324 --> 00:31:47,033
CHILDREN: Mama! Mama! Mama!

479
00:31:47,742 --> 00:31:49,700
Yes.

480
00:31:50,033 --> 00:31:52,616
Mr. Ford, a pleasure.

481
00:31:53,033 --> 00:31:54,575
<i>(CHILDREN CONTINUE SCREAMING)</i>

482
00:32:09,325 --> 00:32:11,533
Did you bring all those niggers?

483
00:32:11,658 --> 00:32:14,033
Two of them? You got two?

484
00:32:14,134 --> 00:32:15,133
FORD: Mr. Chapin.

485
00:32:15,158 --> 00:32:16,157
<i>(SOBBING)</i>

486
00:32:16,366 --> 00:32:18,700
MISTRESS FORD: This one's crying.
Why is this one crying?

487
00:32:19,033 --> 00:32:20,533
FORD: Separated from her children.

488
00:32:20,658 --> 00:32:22,199
- Oh, dear.
- It couldn't be helped.

489
00:32:22,366 --> 00:32:23,533
Poor, poor woman.

490
00:32:23,658 --> 00:32:25,033
- Mr. Chapin.
- Yes, Sir.

491
00:32:25,199 --> 00:32:26,638
Tomorrow, you have to take these two

492
00:32:26,700 --> 00:32:28,241
up to the mill and start them working.

493
00:32:28,366 --> 00:32:29,575
For now, make them adequate.

494
00:32:29,700 --> 00:32:31,499
Fix them a meal
and have them rest themselves.

495
00:32:31,617 --> 00:32:32,991
Yes, Sir.

496
00:32:33,907 --> 00:32:35,033
Come on, now.

497
00:32:35,491 --> 00:32:37,658
Come on! Don't dawdle!

498
00:32:38,033 --> 00:32:40,533
Something to eat, and some rest.

499
00:32:40,907 --> 00:32:42,386
Your children will soon be forgotten.

500
00:33:09,658 --> 00:33:11,908
For all of you raw niggers
that don't know...

501
00:33:12,033 --> 00:33:16,325
my name is John Tibeats,
William Ford's Chief carpenter.

502
00:33:16,450 --> 00:33:19,949
You will refer to me as "Master."

503
00:33:20,116 --> 00:33:23,867
Mr. Chapin is the overseer
on this plantation.

504
00:33:23,991 --> 00:33:28,450
You, too, will refer to him as "Master."

505
00:33:29,533 --> 00:33:31,450
So, clap your hands.

506
00:33:35,116 --> 00:33:37,867
Like this. Come on.

507
00:33:38,533 --> 00:33:40,949
Come on, now. Clap your hands.

508
00:33:45,033 --> 00:33:47,283
<i>(SINGING)</i>Nigger run
Nigger flew.

509
00:33:47,450 --> 00:33:49,949
<i>Nigger tore his shirt in two.</i>

510
00:33:50,074 --> 00:33:52,325
<i>Run, run
The pattyroller will get you.</i>

511
00:33:52,450 --> 00:33:54,533
<i>Run, nigger, run
Well, you better get away.</i>

512
00:33:59,158 --> 00:34:01,074
TIBEATS: <i>That's right.
Like you mean it.</i>

513
00:34:02,074 --> 00:34:04,241
<i>(SINGING)</i>Nigger run
Run so fast.

514
00:34:04,325 --> 00:34:06,825
<i>Stove his head in a hornet's nest.</i>

515
00:34:06,909 --> 00:34:08,909
<i>Run, run
The pattyroller will get you.</i>

516
00:34:09,074 --> 00:34:12,074
<i>Run, nigger, run
Well, you better get away.</i>

517
00:34:12,867 --> 00:34:15,074
<i>Run, nigger, run
The pattyroller will get you.</i>

518
00:34:15,241 --> 00:34:17,366
<i>Run, nigger, run
Well, you better get away.</i>

519
00:34:19,366 --> 00:34:21,408
<i>Some folk say a nigger don't steal.</i>

520
00:34:21,533 --> 00:34:23,867
<i>I caught three in my corn field.</i>

521
00:34:23,991 --> 00:34:26,116
<i>One has a bushel
And one has a peck.</i>

522
00:34:26,241 --> 00:34:28,408
<i>One has a rope
It was Hung around his neck.</i>

523
00:34:28,533 --> 00:34:31,074
<i>Run, nigger, run
The pattyroller will get you.</i>

524
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,366
<i>Run, nigger, run
Well, you better get away.</i>

525
00:34:33,491 --> 00:34:35,783
<i>Run, nigger, run
The pattyroller will get you.</i>

526
00:34:35,909 --> 00:34:38,492
<i>Run, nigger, run
Well, you better get away.</i>

527
00:34:38,825 --> 00:34:41,074
<i>Hey, Mr. Pattyroller
Don't catch me.</i>

528
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,450
<i>Catch that nigger behind that tree.</i>

529
00:34:43,783 --> 00:34:46,033
<i>Run, nigger, run
The pattyroller will get you.</i>

530
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,366
<i>Run, nigger, run
Well, you better get away.</i>

531
00:34:48,533 --> 00:34:50,825
<i>Run, nigger, run
The pattyroller will get you.</i>

532
00:34:50,949 --> 00:34:53,116
<i>Run, nigger, run
Well, you better get away.</i>

533
00:34:53,241 --> 00:34:55,366
<i>Run, nigger, run
The pattyroller will get you.</i>

534
00:34:55,533 --> 00:34:57,533
<i>Run, nigger, run
Well, you better get away.</i>

535
00:34:58,116 --> 00:35:00,949
"I am the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac..."

536
00:35:01,074 --> 00:35:03,325
"and the God of Jacob."

537
00:35:03,533 --> 00:35:04,853
<i>(RUN NIGGER RUN
CONTINUES PLAYING)</i>

538
00:35:04,867 --> 00:35:06,305
"And when the multitude heard this,"

539
00:35:06,366 --> 00:35:09,158
"they were astonished at his doctrine."

540
00:35:10,033 --> 00:35:12,949
"And then one of them,
which was a lawyer..."

541
00:35:13,074 --> 00:35:16,283
"asked him a question, tempting him."

542
00:35:38,325 --> 00:35:39,825
<i>(MEN WHOOPING)</i>

543
00:35:46,408 --> 00:35:47,991
<i>(PLAYING RHYTHMIC TUNE)</i>

544
00:35:51,991 --> 00:35:53,949
<i>(WHOOPING CONTINUES)</i>

545
00:36:12,116 --> 00:36:14,366
SOLOMON: <i>The creek is
plenty deep enough to sail.</i>

546
00:36:15,075 --> 00:36:17,116
Even with a boat full of load.

547
00:36:17,283 --> 00:36:18,325
The distance from the work area

548
00:36:18,450 --> 00:36:19,700
to the point on the latter bayou...

549
00:36:19,784 --> 00:36:21,422
is several Miles by water
fewer than land.

550
00:36:21,742 --> 00:36:23,158
It occurs to me that
the expense of transportation

551
00:36:23,283 --> 00:36:24,949
would be materially diminished...

552
00:36:25,075 --> 00:36:26,116
"Materially diminished"?

553
00:36:26,241 --> 00:36:28,200
If we use the waterway.

554
00:36:28,325 --> 00:36:31,116
Are you an engineer, or a nigger?

555
00:36:33,325 --> 00:36:35,949
Are you an engineer, or a nigger?

556
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:38,241
Let the man say his piece.

557
00:36:38,366 --> 00:36:42,075
It's a scheme.
Plenty of engineers have schemed similarly.

558
00:36:42,158 --> 00:36:44,825
The passes are too tight.

559
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,200
I reckon them
at more than 12 feet at their most narrow.

560
00:36:48,325 --> 00:36:49,909
Wide enough for a tub to traverse

561
00:36:50,033 --> 00:36:51,472
if a team of niggers cleared it out.

562
00:36:51,700 --> 00:36:54,325
And you know what
of transport and terraforming?

563
00:36:54,658 --> 00:36:56,336
I labored repairing the Champlain canal...

564
00:36:56,367 --> 00:36:59,867
on the section over which
William van Nortwick was superintendent.

565
00:36:59,991 --> 00:37:02,909
With my earnings, I hired several
efficient hands to assist me...

566
00:37:03,033 --> 00:37:04,241
and entered into contracts for

567
00:37:04,325 --> 00:37:05,742
the transportation of
large rafts of timber...

568
00:37:05,909 --> 00:37:08,283
from Lake Champlain to Troy.

569
00:37:10,909 --> 00:37:14,075
Well, I'll admit
to being impressed even if you won't.

570
00:37:15,158 --> 00:37:17,158
Collect a team.
See what good you can do.

571
00:37:22,784 --> 00:37:24,283
<i>(SLAVES SINGING)</i>

572
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:27,617
You good? Clear it out!

573
00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:28,909
Two, three...

574
00:37:28,991 --> 00:37:30,116
<i>(BOTH GRUNTING)</i>

575
00:37:32,075 --> 00:37:34,909
SLAVES: <i>(SINGING) Too late for me.</i>

576
00:37:35,033 --> 00:37:38,116
<i>I live or die.</i>

577
00:37:38,241 --> 00:37:41,367
<i>Lay down and cry.</i>

578
00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:44,700
<i>Hey, boy
I'm tired.</i>

579
00:37:44,867 --> 00:37:47,950
<i>My Lord
Sometimes.</i>

580
00:37:48,075 --> 00:37:51,241
<i>I'm strong
Yes, Sir.</i>

581
00:37:51,617 --> 00:37:54,950
<i>I'm tall
Yes, Sir</i>

582
00:37:55,742 --> 00:37:57,283
<i>(APPLAUDING)</i>

583
00:38:00,742 --> 00:38:02,867
Platt, you are a Marvel.

584
00:38:03,909 --> 00:38:05,325
<i>(GRUNTING)</i>

585
00:38:10,301 --> 00:38:11,300
What took you so long?

586
00:38:11,325 --> 00:38:12,324
<i>(CHUCKLES)</i>

587
00:38:12,825 --> 00:38:14,867
Thank you, Master Ford.

588
00:38:16,075 --> 00:38:17,659
<i>(ALL CONGRATULATING)</i>

589
00:38:21,659 --> 00:38:22,825
<i>(WHOOPING)</i>

590
00:38:32,325 --> 00:38:33,784
FORD: Platt.

591
00:38:45,116 --> 00:38:46,533
<i>(SIGHS)</i>

592
00:38:52,784 --> 00:38:55,116
My great thanks, Master Ford.

593
00:38:55,283 --> 00:38:57,533
No, my thanks to you.

594
00:38:57,617 --> 00:38:59,909
And it is the least of it.

595
00:39:00,033 --> 00:39:03,200
I hope it brings us both
much Joy over the years.

596
00:39:23,617 --> 00:39:24,784
<i>(STRUMMING)</i>

597
00:39:29,784 --> 00:39:31,033
<i>(SOBBING)</i>

598
00:39:33,909 --> 00:39:35,033
God!

599
00:39:39,742 --> 00:39:41,033
Eliza.

600
00:39:46,116 --> 00:39:47,534
Eliza.

601
00:39:48,116 --> 00:39:49,116
Stop!

602
00:39:49,742 --> 00:39:51,659
Stop your wailing!

603
00:39:53,991 --> 00:39:55,575
If you let yourself be overcome

604
00:39:55,659 --> 00:39:56,991
by sorrow, you will drown in it.

605
00:39:57,116 --> 00:39:58,909
Have you stopped crying
for your children?

606
00:40:00,742 --> 00:40:04,158
You make no sounds, but will you
ever let them go in your heart?

607
00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:10,450
They are as my flesh.

608
00:40:10,575 --> 00:40:12,617
Then who is distressed?

609
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,575
Do I upset the master and the mistress?

610
00:40:15,700 --> 00:40:18,033
Do you care less about my loss
than their well-being?

611
00:40:18,158 --> 00:40:19,575
Master Ford is a decent man.

612
00:40:19,700 --> 00:40:20,867
He is a slaver!

613
00:40:20,951 --> 00:40:21,950
Under the circumstances.

614
00:40:21,992 --> 00:40:23,867
Under the circumstances,
he is a slaver.

615
00:40:24,075 --> 00:40:26,033
But you truckle at his boot.

616
00:40:26,158 --> 00:40:27,867
You luxuriate in his favor.

617
00:40:27,951 --> 00:40:29,742
I survive!

618
00:40:29,867 --> 00:40:31,909
I will not fall into despair!

619
00:40:32,033 --> 00:40:34,033
I will offer up my talents to Master Ford!

620
00:40:34,158 --> 00:40:36,951
I will keep myself hearty
until freedom is opportune!

621
00:40:37,075 --> 00:40:39,158
Ford is your opportunity?

622
00:40:39,867 --> 00:40:42,784
You think he does not know
that you are more than you suggest?

623
00:40:42,909 --> 00:40:44,659
But he does nothing for you.

624
00:40:44,784 --> 00:40:45,909
Nothing.

625
00:40:46,575 --> 00:40:49,826
You are no better than prized livestock.

626
00:40:50,408 --> 00:40:51,742
Call for him. Call!

627
00:40:51,867 --> 00:40:54,033
Tell him of your
previous circumstances,

628
00:40:54,158 --> 00:40:56,492
and see what it earns you, Solomon.

629
00:40:57,867 --> 00:41:00,784
So, you've settled into
your role as Platt, then?

630
00:41:01,659 --> 00:41:02,700
<i>(DISHES CLATTERING)</i>

631
00:41:02,784 --> 00:41:05,909
My back is thick with scars...

632
00:41:05,951 --> 00:41:08,492
for protesting my freedom.

633
00:41:08,617 --> 00:41:09,951
Do not accuse me.

634
00:41:10,826 --> 00:41:14,492
I accuse you of nothing. I cannot accuse.

635
00:41:14,659 --> 00:41:17,534
I have done dishonorable
things to survive...

636
00:41:17,659 --> 00:41:20,659
and for all of them, I have ended up here.

637
00:41:21,075 --> 00:41:24,117
No better than if I stood up for myself.

638
00:41:24,826 --> 00:41:27,033
God, forgive me.

639
00:41:27,158 --> 00:41:29,992
Solomon, let me weep for my children!

640
00:41:31,784 --> 00:41:33,117
<i>(SOBBING)</i>

641
00:41:40,450 --> 00:41:42,492
FORD: <i>"Whosoever, therefore, shall humble</i>

642
00:41:42,617 --> 00:41:44,700
<i>"himself as this little child..."</i>

643
00:41:45,077 --> 00:41:47,115
"the same is the greatest
in the kingdom of heaven."

644
00:41:47,117 --> 00:41:48,992
<i>(ELIZA WAILING)</i>

645
00:41:49,117 --> 00:41:54,117
"And who so shall receive
one such little child in my name..."

646
00:41:54,450 --> 00:41:56,168
I cannot have that
kind of depression about.

647
00:41:56,450 --> 00:41:58,575
"But who so shall offend
one of these little ones..."

648
00:41:58,700 --> 00:42:01,617
"it were better for him that a millstone
were hanged about his neck..."

649
00:42:01,659 --> 00:42:02,784
<i>(SOBBING)</i>

650
00:42:02,826 --> 00:42:06,492
"and he were drowned
in the depth of the sea."

651
00:42:07,575 --> 00:42:08,575
Amen.

652
00:42:08,992 --> 00:42:10,117
ALL: Amen.

653
00:42:22,909 --> 00:42:24,992
Make them boards flush.

654
00:42:25,534 --> 00:42:26,533
They are, Sir.

655
00:42:26,575 --> 00:42:28,575
No, they is no such thing.

656
00:42:29,951 --> 00:42:33,409
They are as smooth to the touch
as a yearling's coat.

657
00:42:35,867 --> 00:42:37,784
Are you calling me a liar, boy?

658
00:42:40,742 --> 00:42:42,992
It's all a matter of perspective, Sir.

659
00:42:43,626 --> 00:42:45,425
From where you stand,
you may see differently,

660
00:42:45,450 --> 00:42:46,951
but the hands are not mistaken.

661
00:42:47,575 --> 00:42:51,784
I simply ask that you use
all your senses before rendering judgment.

662
00:42:53,450 --> 00:42:56,575
Oh, my, you are a brute.

663
00:42:57,993 --> 00:42:59,701
You are a dog.<i>(SHOUTS)</i>

664
00:43:00,367 --> 00:43:02,909
And no better for following instruction!

665
00:43:04,409 --> 00:43:05,450
I do as ordered.

666
00:43:05,534 --> 00:43:06,733
Then you'll be up at daybreak.

667
00:43:06,867 --> 00:43:09,575
You will procure
a keg of nails from Chapin...

668
00:43:09,701 --> 00:43:11,701
and commence to putting on clapboards.

669
00:43:11,867 --> 00:43:13,033
Yes, Sir.

670
00:43:18,534 --> 00:43:20,283
Make them boards flush.

671
00:43:28,993 --> 00:43:31,617
ELIZA: No, please! Please, Sam!

672
00:43:31,742 --> 00:43:33,993
Where am I going? Where am I going, Sam?

673
00:43:34,617 --> 00:43:36,951
Solomon! Solomon!

674
00:43:37,492 --> 00:43:38,826
Solomon!

675
00:43:39,784 --> 00:43:41,492
Solomon!

676
00:43:41,867 --> 00:43:43,367
<i>(SOBBING)</i>

677
00:43:45,242 --> 00:43:47,325
Solomon!

678
00:43:52,659 --> 00:43:55,951
ELIZA: <i>When I say I had
my Master's favor, you understand.</i>

679
00:43:58,659 --> 00:43:59,701
And for nine years...

680
00:43:59,826 --> 00:44:03,742
he blessed me
with every comfort and luxury in life.

681
00:44:03,867 --> 00:44:06,450
Silks and jewels...

682
00:44:06,575 --> 00:44:08,951
and even servants to wait upon us.

683
00:44:11,242 --> 00:44:13,534
Such was our life.

684
00:44:13,659 --> 00:44:16,575
And the life of
this beautiful girl I bore for him.

685
00:44:19,659 --> 00:44:21,784
But Master Berry's daughter...

686
00:44:22,784 --> 00:44:25,659
she always looked at me
with an unkind nature.

687
00:44:26,409 --> 00:44:30,284
And she hated Emily, no matter she
and Emily were flesh of flesh.

688
00:44:33,409 --> 00:44:34,909
As Master Berry's health failed,

689
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:36,701
she gained power of the household...

690
00:44:37,082 --> 00:44:39,801
and eventually, I was brought to the city
under the false pretense...

691
00:44:39,826 --> 00:44:42,659
of our free papers being executed.

692
00:44:46,701 --> 00:44:48,951
My poor children.

693
00:45:11,242 --> 00:45:12,617
<i>(BELL TOLLING)</i>

694
00:45:17,409 --> 00:45:18,701
<i>(HAMMERING)</i>

695
00:45:27,784 --> 00:45:30,659
I thought I told you to commence
to putting on clapboards.

696
00:45:31,742 --> 00:45:34,576
Yes, Master, I'm about it.
These have all been replaced.

697
00:45:35,701 --> 00:45:37,909
And didn't I tell you
to get a keg of nails?

698
00:45:38,242 --> 00:45:39,784
And so, I did.

699
00:45:40,617 --> 00:45:41,868
So, you did.

700
00:45:43,117 --> 00:45:45,701
God damn you.
I thought you knowed something!

701
00:45:45,826 --> 00:45:47,367
I did as instructed.

702
00:45:47,534 --> 00:45:50,701
If there's something wrong,
it's wrong with the instruction.

703
00:45:51,242 --> 00:45:53,325
You black bastard.

704
00:45:53,742 --> 00:45:58,659
You goddamn black bastard.

705
00:45:58,784 --> 00:46:00,826
Strip your clothes.

706
00:46:03,284 --> 00:46:04,409
Strip.

707
00:46:05,409 --> 00:46:06,868
I will not.

708
00:46:11,242 --> 00:46:12,450
<i>(BOTH GRUNTING)</i>

709
00:46:14,742 --> 00:46:15,826
<i>(TIBEATS GROANS)</i>

710
00:46:16,534 --> 00:46:22,534
You will not live
to see another day, nigger!

711
00:46:23,576 --> 00:46:24,659
Help!

712
00:46:24,826 --> 00:46:26,409
<i>(SCREAMING)</i>

713
00:46:30,492 --> 00:46:31,659
Murder!

714
00:46:34,117 --> 00:46:35,117
I'm sorry!

715
00:46:35,617 --> 00:46:37,826
I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

716
00:46:39,075 --> 00:46:40,617
<i>(WHIMPERING)</i>

717
00:46:41,075 --> 00:46:42,492
CHAPIN: What is the matter?

718
00:46:42,826 --> 00:46:44,242
What is the matter?

719
00:46:45,159 --> 00:46:46,492
Master Tibeats wants to whip me

720
00:46:46,576 --> 00:46:48,075
for using the nails you gave me.

721
00:46:48,159 --> 00:46:49,159
<i>(SPITS)</i>

722
00:46:49,784 --> 00:46:52,159
This ain't done by half.

723
00:46:52,492 --> 00:46:54,659
I will have flesh.

724
00:46:54,826 --> 00:46:57,159
And I will have all of it!

725
00:46:57,367 --> 00:46:59,075
<i>(PANTING)</i>

726
00:47:00,701 --> 00:47:01,826
CHAPIN: Do not stir.

727
00:47:02,409 --> 00:47:05,659
Do not leave the plantation.
For, if you run, I cannot protect you.

728
00:47:06,451 --> 00:47:07,659
Stay here.

729
00:47:08,576 --> 00:47:10,034
<i>(PANTING)</i>

730
00:47:45,242 --> 00:47:47,076
<i>(HORSES APPROACHING)</i>

731
00:47:58,409 --> 00:47:59,576
<i>(GROANING)</i>

732
00:48:01,242 --> 00:48:02,701
<i>(CHOKING)</i>

733
00:48:11,159 --> 00:48:15,076
Gentlemen,
whoever moves that nigger is a dead man.

734
00:48:15,492 --> 00:48:16,743
<i>(GASPING)</i>

735
00:48:16,993 --> 00:48:19,743
I am the overseer on this plantation.

736
00:48:20,076 --> 00:48:22,617
William Ford holds
the mortgage on Platt.

737
00:48:23,117 --> 00:48:25,576
If you hang him, he will lose his debt.

738
00:48:26,076 --> 00:48:28,367
You have no claim to his life.

739
00:48:28,951 --> 00:48:30,367
As for you two...

740
00:48:30,534 --> 00:48:33,534
if you have any regard
for your own safety...

741
00:48:33,659 --> 00:48:34,658
I say, be gone!

742
00:48:38,326 --> 00:48:40,200
You got no 'cause!

743
00:48:40,326 --> 00:48:43,659
Platt is mine,
and mine to do with as I please!

744
00:48:43,993 --> 00:48:44,992
If you touch...

745
00:48:45,035 --> 00:48:46,034
<i>(COCKS GUN)</i>

746
00:48:59,451 --> 00:49:00,993
<i>(PANTING)</i>

747
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:13,199
Sam!

748
00:49:13,618 --> 00:49:16,035
Fetch the mule. Get Master Ford.

749
00:49:18,993 --> 00:49:20,993
<i>(CONTINUES PANTING)</i>

750
00:51:00,076 --> 00:51:01,242
<i>(COUGHS)</i>

751
00:51:27,118 --> 00:51:28,284
<i>(CHILDREN LAUGHING)</i>

752
00:51:34,868 --> 00:51:36,951
<i>(GASPING)</i>

753
00:52:03,785 --> 00:52:05,076
<i>(HORSE APPROACHING)</i>

754
00:52:10,785 --> 00:52:12,993
Platt. Poor Platt.

755
00:52:15,284 --> 00:52:16,283
<i>(GRUNTS)</i>

756
00:52:21,118 --> 00:52:22,159
<i>(DOOR CLOSES)</i>

757
00:52:31,201 --> 00:52:32,409
<i>(DOOR OPENS)</i>

758
00:52:42,409 --> 00:52:44,951
I believe Tibeats is
skulking about the premises somewhere.

759
00:52:45,118 --> 00:52:48,284
He wants you dead, and he will have it so.

760
00:52:48,409 --> 00:52:50,785
It's no longer safe for you here.

761
00:52:50,951 --> 00:52:54,785
And I don't believe
you will remain passive if Tibeats attacks.

762
00:52:54,951 --> 00:52:57,951
I have transferred my debt to Edwin Epps.

763
00:52:58,118 --> 00:52:59,117
He will take charge...

764
00:52:59,118 --> 00:53:00,117
<i>(HORSE NEIGHING)</i>

765
00:53:20,743 --> 00:53:22,242
Master Ford.

766
00:53:24,743 --> 00:53:27,368
You must know that I'm not a slave.

767
00:53:27,910 --> 00:53:28,951
I cannot hear that.

768
00:53:29,077 --> 00:53:31,077
Before I came to you, I was a Freeman.

769
00:53:31,159 --> 00:53:33,910
I'm trying to save your life!

770
00:53:35,077 --> 00:53:37,701
And I have a debt to be mindful of.

771
00:53:39,993 --> 00:53:42,035
And that is to Edwin Epps now.

772
00:53:42,159 --> 00:53:44,993
And he is a hard man.
Prides himself on being a nigger breaker.

773
00:53:45,118 --> 00:53:48,159
But truthfully,
I could find no others who would take you.

774
00:53:48,826 --> 00:53:51,242
You've made a reputation of yourself.

775
00:53:52,035 --> 00:53:56,868
Whatever the circumstances,
you are an exceptional nigger, Platt.

776
00:53:58,743 --> 00:54:01,368
But I fear no good will come of it.

777
00:54:24,118 --> 00:54:25,993
"And that servant..."

778
00:54:27,118 --> 00:54:29,701
"which knew his Lord's will..."

779
00:54:31,035 --> 00:54:34,618
Which knew his Lord's will.

780
00:54:38,660 --> 00:54:41,201
"...and prepared not himself..."

781
00:54:42,868 --> 00:54:45,326
Prepared not himself.

782
00:54:49,326 --> 00:54:52,118
"...neither did according to his will..."

783
00:54:54,077 --> 00:54:57,201
"shall be beaten with many stripes."

784
00:54:58,660 --> 00:55:00,035
Do you hear that?

785
00:55:00,785 --> 00:55:02,035
"Stripes."

786
00:55:03,242 --> 00:55:05,326
That nigger that don't obey his Lord...

787
00:55:05,660 --> 00:55:07,701
That's his master, do you see?

788
00:55:08,576 --> 00:55:13,118
That there nigger
shall be beaten with many stripes.

789
00:55:14,826 --> 00:55:18,660
Now, "many" signifies a great many.

790
00:55:19,077 --> 00:55:22,993
40, 100, 150 lashes.

791
00:55:27,618 --> 00:55:29,118
That's scripture.

792
00:55:29,910 --> 00:55:31,618
<i>(WOMAN HUMMING)</i>

793
00:55:32,534 --> 00:55:34,077
<i>(ALL HUMMING)</i>

794
00:55:45,618 --> 00:55:47,035
EDWARD: Pick that cotton.

795
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:48,159
Move along, now.

796
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:49,159
<i>(WHIP CRACKS)</i>

797
00:55:51,284 --> 00:55:54,201
TREACH: Come on, Edward!
Drive them niggers!

798
00:55:54,534 --> 00:55:57,534
Pick that cotton! Move along, now.

799
00:55:58,118 --> 00:56:00,077
TREACH: What are you doing, boy?
Come on!

800
00:56:02,952 --> 00:56:05,077
TREACH: 240 for Bob.

801
00:56:05,618 --> 00:56:07,576
EPPS: What
you got for James?

802
00:56:07,952 --> 00:56:10,035
295 pounds.

803
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:13,243
That's real good, boy. That's real good.

804
00:56:13,910 --> 00:56:15,993
182 for Platt.

805
00:56:17,743 --> 00:56:20,576
How much can even
an average nigger pick a day?

806
00:56:20,743 --> 00:56:21,952
200 pounds.

807
00:56:22,077 --> 00:56:23,993
This nigger ain't even average.

808
00:56:25,826 --> 00:56:28,035
512 pounds for Patsey.

809
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:30,910
512!

810
00:56:31,868 --> 00:56:35,868
You menfolk got no shame
letting Patsey out-pick you.

811
00:56:37,535 --> 00:56:40,952
The day ain't yet come
she swung lower than 500 pounds.

812
00:56:44,243 --> 00:56:46,743
Queen of the fields, she is.

813
00:56:46,868 --> 00:56:47,910
TREACH: 138 pounds...

814
00:56:48,035 --> 00:56:49,868
I ain't done, Treach.

815
00:56:50,618 --> 00:56:54,118
Ain't I owed a minute to
luxuriate on the work Patsey done?

816
00:56:54,743 --> 00:56:55,868
Yes, Sir.

817
00:56:59,993 --> 00:57:01,701
Damn queen.

818
00:57:03,077 --> 00:57:06,035
Born and bred to the field.

819
00:57:07,701 --> 00:57:09,993
A nigger among niggers.

820
00:57:12,035 --> 00:57:14,035
And God gave her to me.

821
00:57:18,201 --> 00:57:21,118
A lesson in the rewards
of righteous living.

822
00:57:23,077 --> 00:57:25,451
All be observant to that.

823
00:57:26,535 --> 00:57:28,493
All!

824
00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:31,785
Now, Treach. Now speak.

825
00:57:32,493 --> 00:57:35,493
138 pounds for Phebe.

826
00:57:36,077 --> 00:57:39,160
Hit 145 yesterday. Pull her out.

827
00:57:40,035 --> 00:57:42,035
206 pounds for George.

828
00:57:42,535 --> 00:57:44,493
How much he pick yesterday?

829
00:57:45,493 --> 00:57:46,910
229.

830
00:57:47,035 --> 00:57:48,160
Get him out.

831
00:57:48,493 --> 00:57:49,827
Come on, get.

832
00:57:51,827 --> 00:57:53,160
Come on.

833
00:57:53,493 --> 00:57:55,119
EPPS: Come on, boy, move!

834
00:58:00,827 --> 00:58:02,035
<i>(WHIP CRACKING)</i>

835
00:58:02,119 --> 00:58:02,785
<i>(MAN GROANING)</i>

836
00:58:02,868 --> 00:58:03,867
<i>(WOMAN GROANING)</i>

837
00:58:15,952 --> 00:58:17,451
<i>(HUMMING)</i>

838
00:59:36,284 --> 00:59:37,535
<i>(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)</i>

839
00:59:37,910 --> 00:59:39,368
<i>(DOOR OPENS)</i>

840
00:59:39,576 --> 00:59:41,368
<i>(SINGING)</i>

841
00:59:43,368 --> 00:59:44,368
Get up!

842
00:59:44,493 --> 00:59:45,827
We dance tonight! Get up!

843
00:59:45,952 --> 00:59:47,535
Get your fiddle, Platt. Get up!

844
00:59:47,702 --> 00:59:49,743
Come on! Get, get, get!

845
00:59:49,868 --> 00:59:51,743
Come on, Platt. Come on!

846
00:59:51,994 --> 00:59:53,535
<i>(UPBEAT FIDDLE MUSIC PLAYING)</i>

847
00:59:53,576 --> 00:59:54,785
<i>(EPPS CLAPPING)</i>

848
01:00:03,535 --> 01:00:06,535
Come on,
where's your merriment? Move your feet!

849
01:00:18,302 --> 01:00:19,301
<i>(GROANS)</i>

850
01:00:19,326 --> 01:00:20,325
<i>(MUSIC STOPS)</i>

851
01:00:20,493 --> 01:00:20,868
MISTRESS EPPS: Sell her.

852
01:00:20,994 --> 01:00:21,618
<i>(PATSEY SOBBING)</i>

853
01:00:21,743 --> 01:00:22,743
EPPS: What's all this?

854
01:00:22,868 --> 01:00:25,493
You will sell the negress.

855
01:00:25,618 --> 01:00:27,410
Sell little Pats?

856
01:00:27,535 --> 01:00:30,326
She pick with more vigor
than any other nigger.

857
01:00:30,594 --> 01:00:31,593
Choose another to go.

858
01:00:31,618 --> 01:00:33,326
No other.

859
01:00:33,451 --> 01:00:34,660
Sell her.

860
01:00:34,994 --> 01:00:36,493
I will not.

861
01:00:37,660 --> 01:00:40,660
You will remove
that black bitch from this property...

862
01:00:40,785 --> 01:00:43,743
or I'll take myself back to Cheneyville.

863
01:00:44,743 --> 01:00:46,326
<i>(SOBBING CONTINUES)</i>

864
01:00:47,493 --> 01:00:49,743
Back to that hog's trough
where I found you?

865
01:00:52,785 --> 01:00:56,618
Do not set yourself up
against Patsey, my dear.

866
01:01:00,618 --> 01:01:02,451
Because I will rid myself of you

867
01:01:02,577 --> 01:01:04,451
well before
I do away with her.

868
01:01:12,785 --> 01:01:13,785
What you looking at?

869
01:01:15,244 --> 01:01:16,785
Damn woman.

870
01:01:17,618 --> 01:01:19,660
I won't have
my mood spoiled.

871
01:01:20,202 --> 01:01:21,868
I will not.

872
01:01:22,678 --> 01:01:23,677
Dance.

873
01:01:23,702 --> 01:01:23,952
<i>(MUSIC RESUMES)</i>

874
01:01:24,302 --> 01:01:25,301
Dance, I says!

875
01:01:25,326 --> 01:01:26,325
<i>(GROANING)</i>

876
01:01:30,618 --> 01:01:32,202
Come on!

877
01:01:32,285 --> 01:01:35,451
Pick it up, Platt.
Play that fiddle, boy.

878
01:01:35,618 --> 01:01:36,618
<i>(EPPS WHOOPING)</i>

879
01:01:45,410 --> 01:01:46,743
<i>(BLOWING)</i>

880
01:02:12,202 --> 01:02:13,244
MISTRESS EPPS: Platt.

881
01:02:15,202 --> 01:02:16,577
Yes, Mistress?

882
01:02:18,577 --> 01:02:21,202
Can you find your
way to Bartholomew's?

883
01:02:21,660 --> 01:02:22,869
I can, ma'am.

884
01:02:23,410 --> 01:02:25,202
This is a list of
goods and sundries.

885
01:02:25,368 --> 01:02:28,244
You will take it
to be filled and return immediately.

886
01:02:28,368 --> 01:02:30,577
Take your tag.

887
01:02:30,702 --> 01:02:32,535
Tell Bartholomew to add it to our debt.

888
01:02:32,702 --> 01:02:33,702
Yes, Mistress.

889
01:02:35,785 --> 01:02:37,869
Where you from, Platt?

890
01:02:40,202 --> 01:02:41,368
I told you.

891
01:02:41,535 --> 01:02:43,326
Tell me again.

892
01:02:43,743 --> 01:02:44,743
Washington.

893
01:02:44,869 --> 01:02:45,869
Who were your master?

894
01:02:46,161 --> 01:02:47,160
Master name a Freeman.

895
01:02:47,202 --> 01:02:48,869
Was he a learned man?

896
01:02:49,702 --> 01:02:51,410
I suppose so.

897
01:02:51,535 --> 01:02:53,119
He learn you to read?

898
01:02:54,869 --> 01:02:57,161
A word, here or there.

899
01:02:57,460 --> 01:02:59,219
But I have no understanding
of the written...

900
01:02:59,244 --> 01:03:01,368
Don't trouble yourself with it.

901
01:03:01,743 --> 01:03:05,326
Same as the rest. Master brought
you here to work, that's all.

902
01:03:06,493 --> 01:03:09,202
Any more will earn you 100 lashes.

903
01:03:56,785 --> 01:03:58,452
<i>(PANTING)</i>

904
01:04:07,744 --> 01:04:09,285
<i>(DOG WHIMPERING)</i>

905
01:04:15,161 --> 01:04:16,160
Come here, boy.

906
01:04:19,161 --> 01:04:20,452
Come on.

907
01:04:36,493 --> 01:04:38,244
Where you going, boy?

908
01:04:38,410 --> 01:04:40,994
On my way to Bartholomew's.

909
01:04:41,119 --> 01:04:43,326
Sent by Mistress Epps.

910
01:04:47,161 --> 01:04:49,119
You best get there, then.

911
01:04:50,202 --> 01:04:51,702
Get there quick.

912
01:05:05,036 --> 01:05:06,326
<i>(MEN CHOKING)</i>

913
01:05:06,368 --> 01:05:07,702
<i>(DOG BARKING)</i>

914
01:05:20,535 --> 01:05:22,286
<i>(SHOPKEEPER MUTTERING)</i>

915
01:05:40,660 --> 01:05:42,161
Any trouble?

916
01:05:42,286 --> 01:05:44,660
No, ma'am. No trouble.

917
01:06:32,493 --> 01:06:34,119
<i>(PANTING)</i>

918
01:06:43,368 --> 01:06:45,119
Platt Epps, good Sunday morning.

919
01:06:45,286 --> 01:06:46,493
Good morning, Master Shaw.

920
01:06:46,619 --> 01:06:49,202
Master sent me to retrieve Patsey.
May I approach?

921
01:06:49,327 --> 01:06:50,493
You may.

922
01:06:52,036 --> 01:06:53,493
<i>(PANTING)</i>

923
01:06:54,994 --> 01:06:56,119
<i>(WOMEN LAUGHING)</i>

924
01:07:01,119 --> 01:07:02,619
Excuse me, Mistress Shaw.

925
01:07:03,161 --> 01:07:04,452
Nigger Platt.

926
01:07:04,577 --> 01:07:06,368
Patsey, Master wishes you to return.

927
01:07:06,493 --> 01:07:08,244
The Sabbath day, I is free to roam.

928
01:07:08,535 --> 01:07:11,327
Master sent me running to fetch you,
said no time should be wasted.

929
01:07:11,493 --> 01:07:13,244
Drink of tea?

930
01:07:13,327 --> 01:07:15,244
Thank you, Mistress, but I don't dare.

931
01:07:15,368 --> 01:07:17,410
Would you know of
Master Epps' consternation...

932
01:07:17,535 --> 01:07:20,827
to be any lessened with your timely return?

933
01:07:21,410 --> 01:07:23,827
Anger's his constant condition.

934
01:07:23,911 --> 01:07:24,910
Sit.

935
01:07:25,327 --> 01:07:27,410
Sit and drink the tea that I offered.

936
01:07:32,452 --> 01:07:34,827
What'n be Epps' concern?

937
01:07:34,869 --> 01:07:36,077
<i>(SIGHS)</i>

938
01:07:36,452 --> 01:07:38,244
I'd rather not say.

939
01:07:38,911 --> 01:07:43,077
Oh, little gossip on the Sabbath be fine.
All things in moderation.

940
01:07:44,911 --> 01:07:46,911
As you are aware...

941
01:07:47,077 --> 01:07:53,036
Master Epps is a man of hard countenance.

942
01:07:53,286 --> 01:07:55,368
You know he has ill feeling
towards your husband.

943
01:07:55,535 --> 01:07:56,911
He do.

944
01:07:57,869 --> 01:07:59,911
Master Epps has somehow
come to believe...

945
01:08:00,036 --> 01:08:04,036
that Master Shaw
is something of a lothario.

946
01:08:05,535 --> 01:08:08,077
A misguided belief, no doubt.

947
01:08:08,203 --> 01:08:09,368
No doubt...

948
01:08:09,494 --> 01:08:11,785
if not born out of truth itself.

949
01:08:13,994 --> 01:08:15,452
I meant no disrespect.

950
01:08:15,994 --> 01:08:17,827
He ain't heard you.

951
01:08:18,119 --> 01:08:20,328
SOLOMON: I meant
no disrespect to you, Mistress.

952
01:08:20,368 --> 01:08:21,911
<i>(LAUGHS)</i>

953
01:08:23,286 --> 01:08:26,952
Got no 'cause to worry
for my sensibilities.

954
01:08:27,785 --> 01:08:32,203
I ain't felt the end
of a lash in more years I can recall.

955
01:08:32,368 --> 01:08:34,368
I ain't worked a field, neither.

956
01:08:35,077 --> 01:08:36,911
Where once I served...

957
01:08:37,036 --> 01:08:39,994
now, I have
others serving me.

958
01:08:40,494 --> 01:08:43,161
The cost to
my current existence...

959
01:08:43,286 --> 01:08:46,368
be Master Shaw
broadcasting his affections...

960
01:08:46,744 --> 01:08:49,368
and me enjoying
the pantomime of his fidelity.

961
01:08:50,952 --> 01:08:55,244
If that what keep me from
cotton picking niggers, that what it be.

962
01:08:55,368 --> 01:08:59,161
A small and reasonable price
to be paid, for sure.

963
01:09:03,744 --> 01:09:06,161
I know what it like to be the object

964
01:09:06,286 --> 01:09:08,952
of Master's predilections
and peculiarities.

965
01:09:10,077 --> 01:09:12,786
A lusty visit in the night...

966
01:09:12,911 --> 01:09:15,244
or a visitation with the whip.

967
01:09:16,744 --> 01:09:18,161
Take comfort, Patsey.

968
01:09:18,368 --> 01:09:20,452
The good Lord will manage Epps.

969
01:09:21,036 --> 01:09:25,452
In His own time,
the good Lord will manage them all.

970
01:09:25,911 --> 01:09:29,119
The curse of the pharaohs
were a poor example...

971
01:09:29,244 --> 01:09:32,161
of what wait for the plantation class.

972
01:09:37,702 --> 01:09:39,244
This is nice.

973
01:09:50,702 --> 01:09:53,119
EPPS: Pats. Patsey!

974
01:09:53,286 --> 01:09:54,994
Do not look in his direction. Continue on.

975
01:09:55,702 --> 01:09:57,244
- Patsey!
- Found her, Master.

976
01:09:57,869 --> 01:10:00,078
And brought her back, just as instructed.

977
01:10:02,744 --> 01:10:04,869
What did you just now tell her?

978
01:10:04,994 --> 01:10:06,744
What did you say to Pats?

979
01:10:07,869 --> 01:10:09,660
No words were spoken,
none of consequence.

980
01:10:11,286 --> 01:10:12,952
You're a liar.

981
01:10:13,244 --> 01:10:15,161
You damn liar.

982
01:10:15,994 --> 01:10:18,244
I saw you talking with her.

983
01:10:19,203 --> 01:10:20,827
Tell me.

984
01:10:22,286 --> 01:10:24,078
I cannot speak of what did not occur.

985
01:10:24,328 --> 01:10:26,119
I'll cut your black throat!

986
01:10:26,244 --> 01:10:27,369
Master!

987
01:10:27,994 --> 01:10:29,328
You come here.

988
01:10:29,746 --> 01:10:31,066
- Master Epps.
- I said come here!

989
01:10:31,078 --> 01:10:32,516
I brought her back, just like you...

990
01:10:33,869 --> 01:10:35,244
- Come here!
- Master!

991
01:10:37,410 --> 01:10:38,410
Master.

992
01:10:41,078 --> 01:10:43,244
I got her, just as instructed.

993
01:10:44,786 --> 01:10:45,786
Master Epps!

994
01:10:46,036 --> 01:10:47,619
You stay away from Pats, boy.

995
01:10:49,244 --> 01:10:50,869
<i>(PIGS SQUEALING)</i>

996
01:10:53,869 --> 01:10:55,119
Master Epps.

997
01:10:56,786 --> 01:10:57,869
<i>(GROANS)</i>

998
01:11:08,203 --> 01:11:09,702
<i>(LAUGHING)</i>

999
01:11:11,161 --> 01:11:12,286
<i>(PANTING)</i>

1000
01:11:15,702 --> 01:11:16,994
<i>(CONTINUES LAUGHING)</i>

1001
01:11:21,911 --> 01:11:23,827
It's the Lord's day.

1002
01:11:25,161 --> 01:11:28,078
Ain't nothing Christian
in us carrying on like this.

1003
01:11:28,619 --> 01:11:30,078
<i>(PANTING)</i>

1004
01:11:35,036 --> 01:11:36,577
I concede to you.

1005
01:11:39,161 --> 01:11:40,577
In the name of valor...

1006
01:11:42,119 --> 01:11:43,286
help your master to his feet.

1007
01:11:48,036 --> 01:11:49,119
I'm gonna kill you!

1008
01:11:49,702 --> 01:11:51,161
MISTRESS EPPS: What's the fuss?

1009
01:11:51,328 --> 01:11:53,036
Master Epps believed Patsey and me

1010
01:11:53,161 --> 01:11:54,869
to be in conversation when we were not.

1011
01:11:54,994 --> 01:11:56,203
I tried to explain, but
it's led to all this.

1012
01:11:56,577 --> 01:11:57,576
What is it?

1013
01:11:57,786 --> 01:12:00,661
You can't remain
the Sabbath without her under your eye?

1014
01:12:00,786 --> 01:12:02,535
You are a no-account bastard.

1015
01:12:02,619 --> 01:12:04,619
A filthy, godless heathen.

1016
01:12:04,744 --> 01:12:07,245
My bed is too holy for you to share.

1017
01:12:07,577 --> 01:12:08,657
What's he been telling you?

1018
01:12:08,786 --> 01:12:10,036
Of your misbegotten ways.

1019
01:12:10,161 --> 01:12:12,161
And he would know what of anything?

1020
01:12:13,286 --> 01:12:15,161
I ain't even spoken with him today.

1021
01:12:15,994 --> 01:12:17,953
You lying nigger, Platt.

1022
01:12:18,619 --> 01:12:19,702
Have I?

1023
01:12:21,994 --> 01:12:23,161
Have I?

1024
01:12:25,827 --> 01:12:28,161
There. There's all the truth he got.

1025
01:12:29,161 --> 01:12:30,577
Damn nigger.

1026
01:13:47,536 --> 01:13:48,577
<i>(GRUNTS)</i>

1027
01:13:56,661 --> 01:13:57,953
<i>(PANTING)</i>

1028
01:14:04,702 --> 01:14:05,828
<i>(GRUNTS)</i>

1029
01:14:09,828 --> 01:14:11,410
<i>(PANTING)</i>

1030
01:14:22,161 --> 01:14:23,536
Patsey.

1031
01:14:29,494 --> 01:14:30,786
<i>(CHOKING)</i>

1032
01:14:41,911 --> 01:14:43,869
<i>(GASPING)</i>

1033
01:15:52,328 --> 01:15:53,744
<i>(UPBEAT FIDDLE MUSIC PLAYING)</i>

1034
01:16:20,286 --> 01:16:22,619
MISTRESS EPPS: A moment
from the dancing.

1035
01:16:23,744 --> 01:16:25,911
Come sample what I baked for y'all.

1036
01:16:26,286 --> 01:16:28,869
MEN: Thank you, Mistress.

1037
01:16:28,911 --> 01:16:29,991
WOMEN: Thank you, Mistress.

1038
01:16:30,036 --> 01:16:32,370
There will be none for you, Patsey.

1039
01:16:33,703 --> 01:16:35,328
You see that?

1040
01:16:35,661 --> 01:16:38,452
You see that look
of insolence she give me?

1041
01:16:39,370 --> 01:16:40,703
I seen nothing but her turn away.

1042
01:16:40,869 --> 01:16:43,036
Are you blind or ignorant?

1043
01:16:43,370 --> 01:16:45,577
It was hot, hateful scorn.

1044
01:16:45,703 --> 01:16:47,786
It filled that black face.

1045
01:16:48,452 --> 01:16:49,731
You tell me you didn't see it...

1046
01:16:49,744 --> 01:16:53,744
it's because you choose not to look,
or are you saying I lie?

1047
01:16:53,869 --> 01:16:56,328
Whatever it was, it passed.

1048
01:16:56,869 --> 01:16:59,661
Is that how you are with the niggers?

1049
01:17:00,328 --> 01:17:03,494
Letting every ill thought
fester inside them?

1050
01:17:04,287 --> 01:17:05,661
Look at them.

1051
01:17:05,744 --> 01:17:07,869
They foul with it.

1052
01:17:08,245 --> 01:17:10,287
They foul with their hate.

1053
01:17:10,869 --> 01:17:14,869
You let it be, it's gonna come
back to us in the dark of night.

1054
01:17:15,245 --> 01:17:16,661
You want that?

1055
01:17:17,412 --> 01:17:19,995
You want them black animals leave us

1056
01:17:20,287 --> 01:17:22,828
gut like pigs in our own sleep?

1057
01:17:23,328 --> 01:17:24,452
Oh...

1058
01:17:24,953 --> 01:17:28,328
You are manless.

1059
01:17:28,494 --> 01:17:30,995
A damn eunuch if there ever was.

1060
01:17:31,661 --> 01:17:33,536
If you won't stand for me, I pray you'd

1061
01:17:33,661 --> 01:17:35,452
at least be a credit to your own kind...

1062
01:17:35,619 --> 01:17:37,744
and beat every foul thought from them.

1063
01:17:46,452 --> 01:17:47,744
<i>(SCREAMING)</i>

1064
01:17:48,287 --> 01:17:49,287
Beat it from them!

1065
01:17:53,828 --> 01:17:55,452
<i>(PATSEY WHIMPERING)</i>

1066
01:18:06,494 --> 01:18:07,493
MISTRESS EPPS: Eat.

1067
01:18:08,578 --> 01:18:10,287
Fill yourselves.

1068
01:18:10,869 --> 01:18:12,287
And then we dance.

1069
01:18:17,494 --> 01:18:19,453
I said, eat.

1070
01:18:24,619 --> 01:18:26,328
<i>(THUNDER RUMBLING)</i>

1071
01:18:34,595 --> 01:18:35,594
Platt.

1072
01:18:35,619 --> 01:18:36,618
<i>(GASPS)</i>

1073
01:18:37,744 --> 01:18:39,245
Platt, you awake?

1074
01:18:42,911 --> 01:18:43,911
I am.

1075
01:18:45,245 --> 01:18:47,412
I have a request.

1076
01:18:47,786 --> 01:18:49,911
An act of kindness.

1077
01:18:53,412 --> 01:18:56,161
I secreted it from the mistress.

1078
01:18:57,595 --> 01:18:58,594
Return it.

1079
01:18:58,619 --> 01:19:00,328
It yours, Platt.

1080
01:19:01,619 --> 01:19:03,328
For what 'cause?

1081
01:19:03,453 --> 01:19:07,578
All I ask, end my life.

1082
01:19:08,744 --> 01:19:12,120
Take my body to the margin of the swamp.

1083
01:19:12,245 --> 01:19:15,245
Take me by the throat,
hold me low in the water...

1084
01:19:15,370 --> 01:19:18,120
until I is still and without life.

1085
01:19:18,578 --> 01:19:20,370
Bury me in a lonely place of dying.

1086
01:19:20,536 --> 01:19:22,370
I will do no such thing.

1087
01:19:23,536 --> 01:19:25,370
The gory detail with which you speak...

1088
01:19:25,494 --> 01:19:27,870
I thought on it long and hard.

1089
01:19:29,370 --> 01:19:31,328
It is melancholia.

1090
01:19:31,786 --> 01:19:33,370
Nothing more.

1091
01:19:34,536 --> 01:19:37,370
How can you fall into such despair?

1092
01:19:37,536 --> 01:19:40,494
How can you not know?

1093
01:19:42,578 --> 01:19:46,578
I ain't got no comfort in this life.

1094
01:19:48,828 --> 01:19:52,828
If I can't buy mercy from you...

1095
01:19:53,162 --> 01:19:55,203
I'll beg it.

1096
01:19:55,328 --> 01:19:56,828
There are others.

1097
01:19:58,078 --> 01:19:59,412
- Beg them.
- I'm begging you.

1098
01:19:59,536 --> 01:20:00,703
Why?

1099
01:20:01,412 --> 01:20:05,287
Why would you consign me to
damnation with such an ungodly request?

1100
01:20:05,412 --> 01:20:07,454
There is God here!

1101
01:20:08,287 --> 01:20:11,619
God is merciful...

1102
01:20:11,744 --> 01:20:14,494
and he forgive merciful acts.

1103
01:20:14,744 --> 01:20:17,328
Won't be no hell for you.

1104
01:20:19,454 --> 01:20:20,619
Do it.

1105
01:20:25,661 --> 01:20:28,661
Do what I ain't
got the strength to do myself.

1106
01:21:08,203 --> 01:21:09,995
EPPS: <i>It's a plague.</i>

1107
01:21:10,995 --> 01:21:12,037
TREACH: <i>It's cotton worm.</i>

1108
01:21:12,162 --> 01:21:14,995
<i>It's a plague. It's damn biblical.</i>

1109
01:21:16,162 --> 01:21:19,037
<i>Two seasons God done
sent a plague to smite me.</i>

1110
01:21:21,412 --> 01:21:24,995
<i>What I done that God hates me so?</i>

1111
01:21:31,078 --> 01:21:33,245
It's that godless lot.

1112
01:21:35,162 --> 01:21:37,037
They brought this on me.

1113
01:21:37,162 --> 01:21:39,412
I bring them God's word and heathens

1114
01:21:39,494 --> 01:21:41,703
they are, they brung me God's scorn.

1115
01:21:45,370 --> 01:21:46,370
Damn!

1116
01:21:47,287 --> 01:21:48,287
Damn you!

1117
01:21:49,578 --> 01:21:51,203
Damn all y'all!

1118
01:22:18,953 --> 01:22:19,953
Judge.

1119
01:22:20,203 --> 01:22:21,619
Mister Epps.

1120
01:22:23,454 --> 01:22:27,287
I am deeply saddened
to hear about your misfortune.

1121
01:22:27,911 --> 01:22:29,995
Your price don't reflect your concern.

1122
01:22:32,037 --> 01:22:33,037
Listen up.

1123
01:22:33,578 --> 01:22:35,495
You're Judge Turner's for the season.

1124
01:22:35,578 --> 01:22:37,454
More, if need be, until my crops return.

1125
01:22:38,245 --> 01:22:40,536
Y'all bring no disrespect to me.

1126
01:22:40,661 --> 01:22:43,578
Don't bring no
biblical plagues to him, you hear?

1127
01:22:43,911 --> 01:22:45,995
Or I'll take it out on your skin.

1128
01:22:46,995 --> 01:22:48,329
Get out.

1129
01:23:39,981 --> 01:23:42,220
Get off the porch.
You ain't supposed to be on the porch.

1130
01:23:42,245 --> 01:23:43,454
Get off the porch.

1131
01:23:50,245 --> 01:23:51,495
Platt, is it?

1132
01:23:52,078 --> 01:23:53,120
Yes, Sir.

1133
01:23:53,245 --> 01:23:56,245
You cultivate cane previously?

1134
01:23:56,870 --> 01:23:57,995
No, Sir, I have not.

1135
01:23:58,120 --> 01:24:00,245
It comes to you quite naturally.

1136
01:24:00,412 --> 01:24:01,412
Are you educated?

1137
01:24:02,078 --> 01:24:05,412
No, Sir. Niggers are hired
to work, not read or write.

1138
01:24:07,287 --> 01:24:08,953
You play the fiddle.

1139
01:24:09,370 --> 01:24:11,245
Yes, Sir. Yes, I do.

1140
01:24:12,495 --> 01:24:14,828
Willard Yarner, a planter up the bayou...

1141
01:24:14,953 --> 01:24:18,245
celebrates his anniversary
in three weeks' time.

1142
01:24:18,329 --> 01:24:20,578
I'll hold out your name to him.

1143
01:24:20,912 --> 01:24:23,329
What you earn is yours to keep.

1144
01:24:24,078 --> 01:24:25,162
Yes, Sir.

1145
01:24:25,828 --> 01:24:27,078
Mind yourself, Platt.

1146
01:25:12,870 --> 01:25:14,496
<i>(SOFT FIDDLE MUSIC PLAYING)</i>

1147
01:25:50,162 --> 01:25:51,828
<i>(MUSIC FADES)</i>

1148
01:26:42,787 --> 01:26:44,912
Whoa!

1149
01:26:51,412 --> 01:26:52,912
Joyous day.

1150
01:26:53,703 --> 01:26:55,703
Joyous day.

1151
01:26:56,245 --> 01:26:58,661
Dark times is behind us.

1152
01:26:58,745 --> 01:27:02,120
Clean living and prayer
done lifted the plague!

1153
01:27:04,037 --> 01:27:07,287
As thick and white as New England snow.

1154
01:27:09,162 --> 01:27:11,745
Now, my niggers is returned to me.

1155
01:27:15,870 --> 01:27:18,703
Heard Judge Turner gave you favor.

1156
01:27:22,703 --> 01:27:27,079
Did you beguile him, Platt,
with your slick nigger ways?

1157
01:27:30,371 --> 01:27:32,620
You won't stand idle, boy.

1158
01:27:32,995 --> 01:27:34,912
Not on my land.

1159
01:27:37,828 --> 01:27:39,371
Much work to do!

1160
01:27:41,703 --> 01:27:44,703
Days of old long since, huh?

1161
01:27:51,662 --> 01:27:53,037
Joyous.

1162
01:27:53,204 --> 01:27:56,620
Joyous, indeed! Whoo!

1163
01:27:58,204 --> 01:28:00,578
Let's go find something
sweet for you. Hmm?

1164
01:28:00,662 --> 01:28:01,787
Mmm-hmm.

1165
01:28:03,263 --> 01:28:04,262
Candy.

1166
01:28:04,287 --> 01:28:05,662
Candy?

1167
01:28:06,662 --> 01:28:08,995
<i>(SINGING)</i>Oh, pick this cotton.

1168
01:28:09,120 --> 01:28:10,119
SLAVES: <i>Pick this cotton.</i>

1169
01:28:10,162 --> 01:28:12,578
<i>Oh, pick this cotton.</i>

1170
01:28:12,703 --> 01:28:14,828
<i>Oh, pick that cotton.</i>

1171
01:28:14,995 --> 01:28:16,745
<i>Man ain't mean, boys.</i>

1172
01:28:16,870 --> 01:28:18,329
SLAVES: <i>Man ain't mean, boys.</i>

1173
01:28:18,662 --> 01:28:20,662
<i>Man ain't mean, boys.</i>

1174
01:28:20,787 --> 01:28:21,828
<i>Man ain't mean.</i>

1175
01:28:21,995 --> 01:28:24,578
<i>Oh, work this cotton.</i>

1176
01:28:24,662 --> 01:28:25,662
<i>Work this cotton.</i>

1177
01:28:25,828 --> 01:28:28,620
<i>Oh, work this cotton.</i>

1178
01:28:28,745 --> 01:28:29,828
<i>Work this cotton.</i>

1179
01:28:29,995 --> 01:28:32,662
<i>Oh, work ain't hard, boys.</i>

1180
01:28:33,037 --> 01:28:34,037
EPPS: <i>George.</i>

1181
01:28:34,162 --> 01:28:35,995
TREACH: <i>180 pounds.</i>

1182
01:28:36,329 --> 01:28:37,787
Patsey.

1183
01:28:37,912 --> 01:28:40,245
520 pounds for Patsey.

1184
01:28:40,579 --> 01:28:43,162
That's my girl.
Don't ever let me down.

1185
01:28:43,620 --> 01:28:44,787
Platt?

1186
01:28:44,954 --> 01:28:47,120
160 pounds.

1187
01:28:48,954 --> 01:28:50,620
Armsby?

1188
01:28:51,120 --> 01:28:53,037
64 pounds.

1189
01:28:57,912 --> 01:28:59,870
A good day's labor
would average 200 pounds.

1190
01:29:00,079 --> 01:29:01,287
Yes, Sir.

1191
01:29:06,037 --> 01:29:08,787
I'm sure in time,
you'll develop as a picker.

1192
01:29:09,120 --> 01:29:11,120
But it takes effort, boy.

1193
01:29:12,787 --> 01:29:14,870
Put some damn effort into it.

1194
01:29:14,995 --> 01:29:15,745
Yes, Sir.

1195
01:29:15,870 --> 01:29:17,954
Take them out, get to whipping.

1196
01:29:23,079 --> 01:29:24,246
<i>(GROANING)</i>

1197
01:29:24,496 --> 01:29:26,496
ARMSBY: It's a tragedy.

1198
01:29:27,579 --> 01:29:29,246
How does such come to pass?

1199
01:29:30,246 --> 01:29:33,579
Working a field
and picking cotton like a lowly hand.

1200
01:29:33,995 --> 01:29:36,496
I'm of a damn sight better station.

1201
01:29:37,579 --> 01:29:39,579
I worked as an overseer, you know.

1202
01:29:39,745 --> 01:29:41,079
I did not know, Sir.

1203
01:29:41,246 --> 01:29:42,828
Not "Sir."

1204
01:29:43,579 --> 01:29:45,246
Just "Armsby."

1205
01:29:46,120 --> 01:29:48,246
I'm not owed
more than any other in the field.

1206
01:29:48,579 --> 01:29:51,579
How did you
arrive at such a place, if I may ask?

1207
01:29:51,912 --> 01:29:54,579
Ask, it's just conversation.

1208
01:29:56,620 --> 01:29:59,579
I became
a little too dependent on the whiskey...

1209
01:29:59,745 --> 01:30:02,120
a little too undependable on the job.

1210
01:30:03,538 --> 01:30:06,079
Now, before you say
I'm just a sorry drunkard...

1211
01:30:06,454 --> 01:30:08,538
let me state my case.

1212
01:30:09,496 --> 01:30:11,538
As reliable employment as overseeing is,

1213
01:30:11,703 --> 01:30:13,745
it is no easy chore on the spirit.

1214
01:30:14,620 --> 01:30:17,454
I say, no man of conscious...

1215
01:30:17,579 --> 01:30:19,954
can take the lash
to another human day in and day out...

1216
01:30:20,079 --> 01:30:22,620
without shredding at his own self.

1217
01:30:23,620 --> 01:30:25,745
Takes him to a place...

1218
01:30:25,870 --> 01:30:30,496
where he either makes
excuses within his mind to be unaffected...

1219
01:30:30,870 --> 01:30:34,162
or he finds some way
to trample his guilty sensations.

1220
01:30:35,079 --> 01:30:36,745
So, I trampled.

1221
01:30:36,870 --> 01:30:38,829
With frequency.

1222
01:30:40,454 --> 01:30:43,538
I gave in to tales of
wealth and prosperity.

1223
01:30:46,703 --> 01:30:51,162
But such profitable outcomes are
reserved for plantation masters.

1224
01:30:51,829 --> 01:30:54,995
It's the lot of the rest of us to serve.

1225
01:30:56,662 --> 01:31:01,995
Now, all I want is
to earn a decent wage and get myself home.

1226
01:31:22,829 --> 01:31:24,496
<i>(DOOR OPENING)</i>

1227
01:31:34,079 --> 01:31:36,371
The proceeds of
my fiddling performances.

1228
01:31:36,995 --> 01:31:41,121
Just a few picayunes,
but all I have in the world.

1229
01:31:41,787 --> 01:31:45,121
I promise them to you
if you will do me the favor I require.

1230
01:31:45,454 --> 01:31:49,538
But I beg you not to
expose me if you cannot grant the request.

1231
01:31:49,954 --> 01:31:51,037
Uh...

1232
01:31:51,787 --> 01:31:53,496
What is it you ask?

1233
01:31:53,620 --> 01:31:55,787
First, your word, Sir.

1234
01:31:56,538 --> 01:31:57,538
On my honor.

1235
01:31:59,620 --> 01:32:01,621
It's a simple enough request.

1236
01:32:02,954 --> 01:32:04,787
I only ask that you deposit a letter

1237
01:32:04,870 --> 01:32:06,662
at the post office in Marksville...

1238
01:32:06,787 --> 01:32:10,329
and that you keep the action
an inviolable secret forever.

1239
01:32:13,496 --> 01:32:15,829
A patron is what I require, Sir.

1240
01:32:22,496 --> 01:32:23,495
I'll do it.

1241
01:32:24,413 --> 01:32:26,787
And I'll accept whatever payment's offered.

1242
01:32:29,579 --> 01:32:32,037
To assist you, I put my own self at risk.

1243
01:32:32,829 --> 01:32:34,745
I will do so...

1244
01:32:34,870 --> 01:32:37,995
but fair compensation is all I ask.

1245
01:32:47,579 --> 01:32:49,579
Draw up your letter.

1246
01:32:49,745 --> 01:32:52,037
We'll meet again in two days?

1247
01:32:53,787 --> 01:32:55,662
In two days.

1248
01:32:58,454 --> 01:32:59,870
Thank you.

1249
01:33:49,662 --> 01:33:50,829
<i>(BLOWING)</i>

1250
01:34:17,454 --> 01:34:19,288
Well, boy...

1251
01:34:19,454 --> 01:34:24,288
I understand
I got a learned nigger that writes letters.

1252
01:34:25,371 --> 01:34:28,454
Tries to get white fellas to mail them.

1253
01:34:33,454 --> 01:34:34,621
<i>(LAUGHS)</i>

1254
01:34:34,704 --> 01:34:37,454
Armsby told me today...

1255
01:34:37,580 --> 01:34:40,204
the devil was among my niggers.

1256
01:34:41,704 --> 01:34:44,662
That I had one that needed watching...

1257
01:34:44,787 --> 01:34:47,288
or he would run away.

1258
01:34:49,288 --> 01:34:51,204
When I asked him why...

1259
01:34:51,912 --> 01:34:55,413
he said you come over to him...

1260
01:34:55,580 --> 01:34:58,454
waked him up in the middle of the night...

1261
01:34:58,580 --> 01:35:01,329
and wanted him to carry a letter...

1262
01:35:02,538 --> 01:35:04,288
to Marksville.

1263
01:35:09,413 --> 01:35:11,704
What do you got to say to that?

1264
01:35:14,580 --> 01:35:16,413
There's no truth to it.

1265
01:35:17,288 --> 01:35:18,745
You say.

1266
01:35:20,413 --> 01:35:23,246
How could I write a letter
without ink or paper?

1267
01:35:24,413 --> 01:35:27,787
Who am I gonna write to?
I got no friends living as I know of.

1268
01:35:28,912 --> 01:35:30,663
That Armsby...

1269
01:35:32,162 --> 01:35:35,580
That Armsby is a lying, drunken fellow.

1270
01:35:37,413 --> 01:35:40,371
Didn't he want you to
hire him as an overseer?

1271
01:35:42,204 --> 01:35:43,745
Well, that's it.

1272
01:35:45,147 --> 01:35:47,346
He wants to make you believe
we're all gonna run away...

1273
01:35:47,371 --> 01:35:49,871
so you'll hire him as an overseer.

1274
01:35:51,371 --> 01:35:53,745
He believes you're a soft soap.

1275
01:35:54,663 --> 01:35:57,204
And he's given to such talk.

1276
01:35:58,121 --> 01:36:01,704
Made this story out of whole cloth...

1277
01:36:02,371 --> 01:36:04,621
because he wants a situation.

1278
01:36:09,871 --> 01:36:12,538
It's all a lie, Master.

1279
01:36:17,871 --> 01:36:19,829
It's all a lie.

1280
01:36:28,163 --> 01:36:30,163
I'll be damned.

1281
01:36:36,163 --> 01:36:38,787
Were he not free and white, Platt.

1282
01:36:40,829 --> 01:36:43,329
Were he not free and white.

1283
01:37:00,079 --> 01:37:01,288
<i>(SOLOMON SIGHS)</i>

1284
01:38:01,163 --> 01:38:03,246
WOMAN: <i>(SINGING) Sun gonna set here.</i>

1285
01:38:03,413 --> 01:38:05,246
SLAVES: <i>Under the Mountain.</i>

1286
01:38:05,371 --> 01:38:07,413
<i>Sun gonna set here.</i>

1287
01:38:07,496 --> 01:38:09,246
<i>Under the Mountain.</i>

1288
01:38:09,413 --> 01:38:11,329
<i>Sun gonna set here.</i>

1289
01:38:11,455 --> 01:38:12,454
<i>Under the Mountain</i>

1290
01:38:12,496 --> 01:38:13,495
<i>(GROANS)</i>

1291
01:38:14,538 --> 01:38:16,079
TREACH: Edward!

1292
01:38:16,246 --> 01:38:17,746
Get him water.

1293
01:38:18,163 --> 01:38:20,079
<i>(SLAVES CONTINUE SINGING)</i>

1294
01:38:25,204 --> 01:38:26,538
Get up!

1295
01:38:27,455 --> 01:38:28,704
Get up!

1296
01:38:35,413 --> 01:38:36,704
Nigger, get up!

1297
01:38:42,996 --> 01:38:45,204
What you looking at, boy?

1298
01:38:46,455 --> 01:38:48,538
Keep picking, boy!

1299
01:39:01,538 --> 01:39:05,163
I just wanna say
something about Uncle Abram.

1300
01:39:09,330 --> 01:39:11,413
He was a good man...

1301
01:39:11,912 --> 01:39:15,079
and he always looked out for
us ever since we were little.

1302
01:39:15,912 --> 01:39:17,413
God love him.

1303
01:39:18,163 --> 01:39:20,622
God bless him.
God keep him.

1304
01:39:21,663 --> 01:39:23,163
Amen.

1305
01:39:38,413 --> 01:39:41,912
<i>(SINGING)</i>Went down to
the River Jordan.

1306
01:39:42,038 --> 01:39:45,163
<i>Where John baptized three.</i>

1307
01:39:45,330 --> 01:39:48,288
<i>When I woke
the devil in hell.</i>

1308
01:39:48,413 --> 01:39:51,288
<i>Said Johnny baptized me.</i>

1309
01:39:51,371 --> 01:39:54,954
<i>I said roll, Jordan, roll.</i>

1310
01:39:55,371 --> 01:39:57,954
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i>

1311
01:39:58,121 --> 01:40:01,121
<i>My soul will
rise in heaven, Lord.</i>

1312
01:40:01,246 --> 01:40:03,871
<i>For the year
when Jordan roll.</i>

1313
01:40:03,996 --> 01:40:07,288
<i>Well, some say
John was a Baptist.</i>

1314
01:40:07,455 --> 01:40:10,121
<i>Some say John was a Jew.</i>

1315
01:40:10,288 --> 01:40:12,538
<i>But I say
John was a preacher</i>

1316
01:40:12,871 --> 01:40:15,871
<i>'Cause my Bible says so too.</i>

1317
01:40:15,954 --> 01:40:19,371
<i>I said roll, Jordan, roll.</i>

1318
01:40:19,496 --> 01:40:22,121
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i>

1319
01:40:22,288 --> 01:40:25,288
<i>My soul will
rise in heaven, Lord.</i>

1320
01:40:25,371 --> 01:40:27,163
<i>For the year
when Jordan roll.</i>

1321
01:40:27,288 --> 01:40:28,580
<i>Hallelujah.</i>

1322
01:40:28,913 --> 01:40:31,496
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i>

1323
01:40:31,829 --> 01:40:34,330
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i>

1324
01:40:34,455 --> 01:40:37,496
<i>My soul will
rise in heaven, Lord.</i>

1325
01:40:37,829 --> 01:40:39,496
<i>For the year
when Jordan roll.</i>

1326
01:40:39,829 --> 01:40:40,996
<i>Hallelujah.</i>

1327
01:40:41,121 --> 01:40:44,079
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i>

1328
01:40:44,246 --> 01:40:46,913
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i>

1329
01:40:47,079 --> 01:40:50,163
<i>My soul will
rise in heaven, Lord.</i>

1330
01:40:50,288 --> 01:40:52,288
<i>For the year
when Jordan roll.</i>

1331
01:40:52,413 --> 01:40:53,913
<i>Everybody say.</i>

1332
01:40:54,038 --> 01:40:56,913
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i>

1333
01:40:57,079 --> 01:40:59,413
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i>

1334
01:40:59,538 --> 01:41:02,496
<i>My soul will
rise in heaven, Lord.</i>

1335
01:41:02,829 --> 01:41:04,580
<i>For the year
when Jordan roll.</i>

1336
01:41:04,913 --> 01:41:05,996
<i>Oh, children.</i>

1337
01:41:06,121 --> 01:41:08,954
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i>

1338
01:41:09,079 --> 01:41:11,413
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i>

1339
01:41:11,538 --> 01:41:14,497
<i>My soul will
rise in heaven, Lord.</i>

1340
01:41:14,829 --> 01:41:16,413
<i>For the year
when Jordan roll.</i>

1341
01:41:16,538 --> 01:41:18,038
<i>Hallelujah.</i>

1342
01:41:18,163 --> 01:41:20,954
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i>

1343
01:41:21,079 --> 01:41:23,497
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i>

1344
01:41:23,829 --> 01:41:26,538
<i>My soul will
rise in heaven, Lord.</i>

1345
01:41:26,871 --> 01:41:29,205
<i>For the year
when Jordan roll.</i>

1346
01:41:49,163 --> 01:41:50,913
BASS: Right to the end.

1347
01:41:59,288 --> 01:42:00,913
Hey, Bass.

1348
01:42:01,829 --> 01:42:03,246
Oh, no, no, no.

1349
01:42:03,371 --> 01:42:05,913
EPPS: No shame in taking
respite from the heat.

1350
01:42:06,038 --> 01:42:07,829
Drink, shade.

1351
01:42:07,996 --> 01:42:10,455
It's ungodly for travelers,
hearty or otherwise.

1352
01:42:10,497 --> 01:42:11,996
<i>(LAUGHING)</i>

1353
01:42:15,497 --> 01:42:16,746
What's funny?

1354
01:42:16,871 --> 01:42:20,455
Epps, I merely mean to
finish the work at hand, as requested.

1355
01:42:20,788 --> 01:42:22,413
And as paid for.

1356
01:42:22,747 --> 01:42:24,371
If something rubs you wrongly...

1357
01:42:24,747 --> 01:42:27,455
I offer you the opportunity to speak on it.

1358
01:42:30,829 --> 01:42:33,330
You ask plainly, so I
will tell you plainly.

1359
01:42:34,121 --> 01:42:38,330
What amused me just then was your
concern for my well-being in this heat...

1360
01:42:38,705 --> 01:42:41,705
when, quite frankly,
the condition of your laborers...

1361
01:42:41,788 --> 01:42:43,027
"The condition of my laborers"?

1362
01:42:43,080 --> 01:42:45,080
BASS: It is horrid. It's all wrong.

1363
01:42:45,205 --> 01:42:46,371
All wrong, Mr. Epps.

1364
01:42:46,705 --> 01:42:48,954
They ain't hired help.

1365
01:42:49,121 --> 01:42:50,121
They're my property.

1366
01:42:50,996 --> 01:42:51,996
You say that with pride.

1367
01:42:52,121 --> 01:42:53,871
I say it as fact.

1368
01:42:55,954 --> 01:42:58,455
If this conversation
concerns what is factual

1369
01:42:58,788 --> 01:43:01,288
and what is not, then it must be said...

1370
01:43:01,455 --> 01:43:04,747
that there is no justice
nor righteousness in their slavery.

1371
01:43:05,413 --> 01:43:07,705
But you do open up an interesting question.

1372
01:43:08,829 --> 01:43:10,268
What right have you to your niggers,

1373
01:43:10,288 --> 01:43:11,788
when you come down to the point?

1374
01:43:12,121 --> 01:43:13,330
- What right?
- Mmm.

1375
01:43:14,038 --> 01:43:16,871
I bought them. I paid for them.

1376
01:43:17,163 --> 01:43:18,954
Of course you did, and the law says

1377
01:43:19,080 --> 01:43:20,913
you have the right to hold a nigger.

1378
01:43:21,038 --> 01:43:22,996
But begging the law's pardon, it lies.

1379
01:43:23,705 --> 01:43:25,747
Suppose they pass a law taking away

1380
01:43:25,829 --> 01:43:27,871
your liberty, making you a slave.

1381
01:43:27,996 --> 01:43:29,080
Suppose.

1382
01:43:29,246 --> 01:43:30,913
That ain't a supposable case.

1383
01:43:31,080 --> 01:43:32,413
Laws change, Epps.

1384
01:43:32,747 --> 01:43:34,788
Universal truths are constant.

1385
01:43:34,913 --> 01:43:37,788
It is a fact, a plain and simple fact...

1386
01:43:37,913 --> 01:43:41,080
that what is true and right
is true and right for all.

1387
01:43:41,246 --> 01:43:43,246
White and black alike.

1388
01:43:44,913 --> 01:43:46,788
You comparing me to a nigger, Bass?

1389
01:43:46,913 --> 01:43:49,871
I'm only asking, in the eyes of God,
what is the difference?

1390
01:43:51,871 --> 01:43:53,590
You might as well ask
what the difference is

1391
01:43:53,663 --> 01:43:55,954
between a white man and a baboon.

1392
01:43:57,121 --> 01:43:59,954
I seen one of them critters in Orleans.

1393
01:44:00,080 --> 01:44:02,372
Know just as much as any nigger I got.

1394
01:44:02,829 --> 01:44:04,330
BASS: Listen, Epps.

1395
01:44:04,664 --> 01:44:06,205
These niggers are human beings.

1396
01:44:06,330 --> 01:44:08,829
If they are allowed to
climb no higher than brute animals...

1397
01:44:08,954 --> 01:44:11,664
you and men like you
will have to answer for it.

1398
01:44:12,705 --> 01:44:14,788
There is an ill, Mr. Epps...

1399
01:44:14,913 --> 01:44:17,246
a fearful ill resting upon this nation.

1400
01:44:17,913 --> 01:44:20,913
And there will be
a day of reckoning yet.

1401
01:44:23,622 --> 01:44:26,121
You like to hear yourself talk, Bass...

1402
01:44:26,246 --> 01:44:28,372
better than any man I know of.

1403
01:44:29,622 --> 01:44:33,121
You'd argue that
black was white, or white, black...

1404
01:44:33,246 --> 01:44:35,664
if anybody would contradict you.

1405
01:44:37,664 --> 01:44:40,955
A fine supposition
if you lived among Yankees in New England.

1406
01:44:41,080 --> 01:44:42,829
But you don't.

1407
01:44:46,163 --> 01:44:48,288
You most assuredly do not.

1408
01:45:08,747 --> 01:45:10,080
<i>(EPPS YELLING)</i>

1409
01:45:12,288 --> 01:45:13,580
<i>(LOUD CLATTERING)</i>

1410
01:45:13,955 --> 01:45:16,246
EPPS: I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!

1411
01:45:18,747 --> 01:45:20,038
Patsey!

1412
01:45:22,038 --> 01:45:23,538
Pats!

1413
01:45:24,121 --> 01:45:25,622
Where is she?

1414
01:45:26,247 --> 01:45:27,788
Where's Pats?

1415
01:45:27,955 --> 01:45:30,163
Where is she, damn it?
Where is she?

1416
01:45:32,121 --> 01:45:35,038
Phebs, where is she?
Where is Patsey? Where is she?

1417
01:45:35,163 --> 01:45:36,622
What you standing there for?

1418
01:45:36,747 --> 01:45:37,788
We know nothing of her, Master.

1419
01:45:37,955 --> 01:45:39,288
- Know nothing of what?
- We know nothing of...

1420
01:45:39,622 --> 01:45:41,955
Of what? Where has she gone?

1421
01:45:42,038 --> 01:45:43,038
She run off, ain't she?

1422
01:45:43,163 --> 01:45:44,163
I don't know, Master.

1423
01:45:44,288 --> 01:45:45,955
- Where is she?
- I don't know, Master.

1424
01:45:46,080 --> 01:45:49,080
You know, you know, you know!

1425
01:45:49,205 --> 01:45:50,204
You know!

1426
01:45:50,247 --> 01:45:51,955
No, I don't!<i>(GROANS)</i>

1427
01:45:52,622 --> 01:45:54,038
<i>(PANTING)</i>

1428
01:45:54,121 --> 01:45:56,121
You miserable black dogs.

1429
01:45:56,288 --> 01:45:58,829
You stand like the deaf and dumb.

1430
01:46:00,622 --> 01:46:01,913
Speak!

1431
01:46:15,580 --> 01:46:16,996
<i>(SOBBING)</i>

1432
01:46:17,080 --> 01:46:18,747
She gone.

1433
01:46:21,080 --> 01:46:23,080
My Pats is gone.

1434
01:46:39,955 --> 01:46:41,913
Run off? Run off, did you?

1435
01:46:42,017 --> 01:46:44,055
- Master Epps...
- You miserable wench. Where you been?

1436
01:46:44,080 --> 01:46:45,622
I been nowhere!

1437
01:46:45,747 --> 01:46:46,830
Lies to
your misdeeds!

1438
01:46:46,955 --> 01:46:48,275
The Sabbath day, Master.
I took me

1439
01:46:48,497 --> 01:46:49,776
a walk to commune with the Lord.

1440
01:46:49,789 --> 01:46:51,038
Bring the Lord
into your deceptions?

1441
01:46:51,163 --> 01:46:52,622
You're coming from
Shaw's plantation.

1442
01:46:52,747 --> 01:46:53,996
- No!
- Master Epps.

1443
01:46:54,622 --> 01:46:55,622
Now, you speak?

1444
01:46:55,747 --> 01:46:57,789
Now that you want
to add to her lies, you find your tongue!

1445
01:46:57,913 --> 01:47:00,163
I went to Master
Shaw's plantation.

1446
01:47:00,205 --> 01:47:01,830
Ah! You admit it.

1447
01:47:02,080 --> 01:47:03,497
Yes, freely.

1448
01:47:03,622 --> 01:47:05,497
And you know why?

1449
01:47:05,622 --> 01:47:08,080
I got this from Mistress Shaw.

1450
01:47:08,705 --> 01:47:12,664
Mistress Epps
won't even grant me no soap to clean with.

1451
01:47:13,121 --> 01:47:16,830
I stink so much,
I make myself gag!

1452
01:47:19,996 --> 01:47:23,205
500 pounds of cotton.

1453
01:47:23,539 --> 01:47:25,497
Day in, day out!

1454
01:47:25,664 --> 01:47:27,497
More than any man here.

1455
01:47:27,664 --> 01:47:29,664
And for that, I will be clean.

1456
01:47:29,830 --> 01:47:31,580
That's all I ask.

1457
01:47:31,705 --> 01:47:34,789
This, here, what I went to Shaw's for.

1458
01:47:36,122 --> 01:47:37,163
Liar.

1459
01:47:37,497 --> 01:47:40,955
The Lord knows that's all!

1460
01:47:41,080 --> 01:47:42,079
You're a liar.

1461
01:47:42,163 --> 01:47:45,664
And you,
blind with your own covetousness!

1462
01:47:46,580 --> 01:47:48,747
I don't lie, Master.

1463
01:47:49,163 --> 01:47:52,497
If you kill me,
I'll stick to that.

1464
01:47:53,163 --> 01:47:54,830
I'll fetch you down.

1465
01:47:55,664 --> 01:47:57,705
I'll learn you
to go to Shaw's.

1466
01:47:58,038 --> 01:47:59,163
Treach.

1467
01:48:01,163 --> 01:48:02,789
Run and fetch some line.

1468
01:48:02,913 --> 01:48:04,038
Edward!

1469
01:48:05,747 --> 01:48:08,705
Strip her. Strike her bare
and lash her to the post.

1470
01:48:13,830 --> 01:48:14,955
<i>(GASPS)</i>

1471
01:48:15,871 --> 01:48:17,372
<i>(SOBBING)</i>

1472
01:48:26,996 --> 01:48:29,122
You done this to yourself, Pats.

1473
01:48:29,372 --> 01:48:30,789
<i>(CONTINUES SOBBING)</i>

1474
01:48:40,871 --> 01:48:41,996
MISTRESS EPPS: Do it.

1475
01:48:47,122 --> 01:48:49,455
Strike the life from her.

1476
01:48:55,622 --> 01:48:56,955
Beat her.

1477
01:48:58,706 --> 01:49:00,871
Give her the whip! Give it all to her!

1478
01:49:02,330 --> 01:49:05,080
Platt, you come here and you beat her now.

1479
01:49:07,622 --> 01:49:08,747
Platt!

1480
01:49:11,580 --> 01:49:12,747
Come here!

1481
01:49:14,580 --> 01:49:16,706
PATSEY: I'd rather it you, Platt!

1482
01:49:17,664 --> 01:49:19,414
You strike her.

1483
01:49:20,330 --> 01:49:21,706
Strike her.

1484
01:49:22,955 --> 01:49:24,706
<i>(PATSEY CONTINUES SOBBING)</i>

1485
01:49:35,789 --> 01:49:37,330
<i>(PATSEY YELLS)</i>

1486
01:49:39,038 --> 01:49:40,497
<i>(PATSEY GROANING)</i>

1487
01:49:43,871 --> 01:49:45,539
He pantomimes.

1488
01:49:46,038 --> 01:49:48,539
There's barely a welt on her.

1489
01:49:48,913 --> 01:49:51,414
That's what your niggers make of you...

1490
01:49:51,539 --> 01:49:53,706
a fool for the taking.

1491
01:49:58,288 --> 01:50:00,664
EPPS: Strike her, Platt.
Strike her!

1492
01:50:01,871 --> 01:50:02,997
<i>(GROANING)</i>

1493
01:50:17,330 --> 01:50:18,706
You will strike her.

1494
01:50:18,831 --> 01:50:20,622
You will strike her until her flesh

1495
01:50:20,706 --> 01:50:22,497
is rent and meat and blood flow equal...

1496
01:50:22,622 --> 01:50:25,414
or I will kill every nigger in my sight.

1497
01:50:25,539 --> 01:50:26,955
You understand me?

1498
01:50:27,289 --> 01:50:29,997
Strike her! Strike her!

1499
01:50:40,622 --> 01:50:41,955
<i>(PATSEY SCREAMS)</i>

1500
01:50:45,247 --> 01:50:46,747
<i>(PATSEY SOBBING)</i>

1501
01:51:07,622 --> 01:51:09,247
<i>(COUGHING)</i>

1502
01:51:13,330 --> 01:51:16,205
EPPS: Until I say no more.
I ain't said nothing!

1503
01:51:25,913 --> 01:51:27,330
Give me the whip!

1504
01:51:28,330 --> 01:51:29,497
Get up!

1505
01:51:33,871 --> 01:51:35,414
<i>(PATSEY SCREAMING)</i>

1506
01:51:48,872 --> 01:51:50,581
Thou devil!

1507
01:51:53,247 --> 01:51:54,664
Sooner or later...

1508
01:51:55,414 --> 01:51:57,872
somewhere in the course of eternal

1509
01:51:58,163 --> 01:52:00,664
justice, thou shalt answer for this sin!

1510
01:52:01,831 --> 01:52:03,414
<i>(PANTING)</i>

1511
01:52:06,163 --> 01:52:09,247
Sin? There is no sin.

1512
01:52:10,581 --> 01:52:13,539
Man does how he pleases
with his property.

1513
01:52:19,205 --> 01:52:22,747
At the moment, Platt,
I'm of great pleasure.

1514
01:52:22,872 --> 01:52:24,747
You be goddamn
careful I don't want to

1515
01:52:24,872 --> 01:52:26,706
come and lighten
my mood no further.

1516
01:52:58,497 --> 01:52:59,664
<i>(GASPS)</i>

1517
01:52:59,831 --> 01:53:01,330
<i>(WHIMPERING)</i>

1518
01:53:06,164 --> 01:53:07,330
<i>(SHOUTS)</i>

1519
01:53:07,831 --> 01:53:09,247
<i>(SOBBING)</i>

1520
01:53:22,581 --> 01:53:24,497
<i>(GASPING IN PAIN)</i>

1521
01:53:35,205 --> 01:53:37,497
<i>(SOBBING)</i>

1522
01:54:44,997 --> 01:54:46,414
Master Bass.

1523
01:54:46,622 --> 01:54:49,997
I want to ask you what part
of the country you come from.

1524
01:54:51,205 --> 01:54:53,080
No part of this land.

1525
01:54:54,122 --> 01:54:56,205
I originate
from Canada.

1526
01:54:57,205 --> 01:54:58,622
Now, guess where that is.

1527
01:54:58,748 --> 01:55:00,664
I know where Canada is.

1528
01:55:01,539 --> 01:55:03,330
I've been there myself.

1529
01:55:08,205 --> 01:55:10,080
Montreal...

1530
01:55:10,205 --> 01:55:13,247
and Kingston and Queenston
and a great many places.

1531
01:55:13,372 --> 01:55:15,247
Well-traveled for a slave.

1532
01:55:15,372 --> 01:55:16,456
How came you here?

1533
01:55:18,497 --> 01:55:20,205
Master Bass...

1534
01:55:22,497 --> 01:55:26,039
if justice had been done,
I never would have been here.

1535
01:55:30,622 --> 01:55:32,080
How's this?

1536
01:55:33,164 --> 01:55:34,205
Tell me all.

1537
01:55:39,539 --> 01:55:41,706
I'm afraid to tell you.

1538
01:55:43,372 --> 01:55:46,456
Every word you speak
is a profound secret.

1539
01:55:54,164 --> 01:55:55,913
Your story...

1540
01:55:56,414 --> 01:55:57,997
it is amazing.

1541
01:55:58,122 --> 01:56:00,122
And in no good way.

1542
01:56:02,205 --> 01:56:03,414
<i>(SIGHS)</i>

1543
01:56:04,914 --> 01:56:08,414
Do you believe, Sir, in
justice, as you said?

1544
01:56:09,539 --> 01:56:11,164
I do.

1545
01:56:11,331 --> 01:56:15,164
That slavery is an evil
that should befall none?

1546
01:56:17,997 --> 01:56:19,664
I believe so.

1547
01:56:19,997 --> 01:56:21,914
If you truly do...

1548
01:56:23,539 --> 01:56:26,539
then I ask, I beg...

1549
01:56:29,289 --> 01:56:32,122
that you write my friends in the north...

1550
01:56:32,414 --> 01:56:35,289
acquainting them of my situation...

1551
01:56:36,539 --> 01:56:40,955
and beseeching them
to forward free papers.

1552
01:56:45,955 --> 01:56:47,497
It would be...

1553
01:56:50,539 --> 01:56:53,414
an unspeakable happiness...

1554
01:56:55,122 --> 01:56:57,164
to see my wife...

1555
01:56:59,539 --> 01:57:01,955
and my family again.

1556
01:57:07,831 --> 01:57:11,164
I traveled this country
for the best part of 20 years...

1557
01:57:11,915 --> 01:57:14,831
and my freedom is everything.

1558
01:57:14,915 --> 01:57:19,247
The fact that I can walk out of here
tomorrow brings me great pleasure.

1559
01:57:21,915 --> 01:57:24,122
My life doesn't mean much to anyone.

1560
01:57:25,372 --> 01:57:29,080
It seems yours might mean
a lot to a whole lot of people.

1561
01:57:30,915 --> 01:57:35,289
But what you ask of me, Sir, scares me.

1562
01:57:37,414 --> 01:57:40,289
And I must say, I am afraid.

1563
01:57:41,414 --> 01:57:43,831
Not just for you, but for me.

1564
01:57:53,039 --> 01:57:55,122
I will write your letter, Sir.

1565
01:57:55,571 --> 01:57:56,931
And if it brings you your freedom,

1566
01:57:56,955 --> 01:57:58,039
it will be more than a pleasure.

1567
01:57:58,206 --> 01:58:00,164
It will have been my duty.

1568
01:58:00,289 --> 01:58:03,247
Now, would you kindly
hand me those shingles?

1569
02:00:37,706 --> 02:00:38,831
SHERIFF: Platt!

1570
02:00:39,164 --> 02:00:41,206
Where's the boy
called Platt?

1571
02:00:44,623 --> 02:00:45,915
Come here, boy.

1572
02:01:08,039 --> 02:01:09,873
Your name is Platt, is it?

1573
02:01:11,706 --> 02:01:12,956
Yes, Sir.

1574
02:01:13,665 --> 02:01:15,122
You know that man?

1575
02:01:32,915 --> 02:01:34,581
Mr. Parker.

1576
02:01:35,081 --> 02:01:36,665
Say again?

1577
02:01:38,706 --> 02:01:40,581
Mr. Parker.

1578
02:01:40,997 --> 02:01:43,665
That man received
a letter compiling many accusations.

1579
02:01:43,831 --> 02:01:45,665
You look me in the eye...

1580
02:01:46,206 --> 02:01:47,957
and on your life,
you answer me truthfully.

1581
02:01:48,081 --> 02:01:49,831
Have you any other name than Platt?

1582
02:01:49,957 --> 02:01:51,957
Solomon Northup is my name.

1583
02:01:52,081 --> 02:01:53,320
EPPS: Sheriff, what's all this?

1584
02:01:53,581 --> 02:01:54,831
It's official business.

1585
02:01:54,997 --> 02:01:56,206
My nigger, my business.

1586
02:01:56,581 --> 02:01:58,039
Your business waits.

1587
02:01:58,164 --> 02:01:59,206
Tell me of your family.

1588
02:01:59,665 --> 02:02:00,997
I have a wife, two children.

1589
02:02:01,122 --> 02:02:02,121
What the hell?

1590
02:02:02,122 --> 02:02:03,957
- SHERIFF: What are your children's names?
- Margaret and Alonzo.

1591
02:02:03,997 --> 02:02:05,289
What was your wife's name
before her marriage?

1592
02:02:05,539 --> 02:02:06,957
Anne Hampton.
I am who I say.

1593
02:02:07,039 --> 02:02:08,039
Where you going, Platt?

1594
02:02:08,957 --> 02:02:10,875
Who authorized you
to interfere with my property?

1595
02:02:10,957 --> 02:02:12,039
My authority.

1596
02:02:12,164 --> 02:02:13,623
Platt, you come
back here. Platt!

1597
02:02:14,206 --> 02:02:15,539
You come
back here, boy.

1598
02:02:16,289 --> 02:02:17,623
Boy.

1599
02:02:19,997 --> 02:02:22,539
You unhand him.
Platt is my nigger!

1600
02:02:22,665 --> 02:02:23,997
He is
Mr. Solomon Northup.

1601
02:02:24,122 --> 02:02:25,121
You say.

1602
02:02:25,164 --> 02:02:27,748
You come here,
unfamiliar to me, and make claims.

1603
02:02:27,873 --> 02:02:29,591
I got no doubts.
The man is Solomon Northup.

1604
02:02:29,665 --> 02:02:31,983
The hell he is!
He's my nigger, and I'll fight you for him!

1605
02:02:32,081 --> 02:02:33,289
As is your right.

1606
02:02:33,623 --> 02:02:35,822
As it will be my pleasure
to bankrupt you in the courts.

1607
02:02:35,915 --> 02:02:38,164
Your decision. Unhand him.

1608
02:02:39,039 --> 02:02:40,599
I know you had some
hand in this, Platt.

1609
02:02:40,623 --> 02:02:41,997
I'm gonna get to
the bottom of it.

1610
02:02:42,122 --> 02:02:43,248
Pay him no mind.

1611
02:02:43,581 --> 02:02:44,941
I paid good money for this nigger.

1612
02:02:44,957 --> 02:02:46,316
Courthouse got papers to prove it!

1613
02:02:46,581 --> 02:02:48,498
And we got papers proving he's free!

1614
02:02:48,581 --> 02:02:50,459
I own you. You belong to me.
You hear me, Platt?

1615
02:02:50,540 --> 02:02:51,581
Unhand him!

1616
02:02:51,748 --> 02:02:53,915
You'll have 200
stripes across your back by sundown!

1617
02:02:54,039 --> 02:02:55,122
Platt!

1618
02:02:55,540 --> 02:02:57,164
EPPS: Get my horse, Treach.

1619
02:03:06,498 --> 02:03:07,665
Get away from him, Pats.

1620
02:03:08,915 --> 02:03:10,748
I'm gonna be seeing you real soon.

1621
02:03:10,915 --> 02:03:12,915
Solomon, we need to make haste.

1622
02:03:14,665 --> 02:03:15,665
No.

1623
02:03:16,122 --> 02:03:17,581
Solomon.

1624
02:04:54,456 --> 02:04:56,581
I'll apologize...

1625
02:04:58,623 --> 02:05:00,623
for my appearance.

1626
02:05:03,123 --> 02:05:04,998
But I have had...

1627
02:05:05,998 --> 02:05:07,957
a difficult time...

1628
02:05:08,957 --> 02:05:11,748
these past several years.

1629
02:05:16,623 --> 02:05:17,915
Margaret.

1630
02:05:23,581 --> 02:05:25,123
Alonzo.

1631
02:05:56,415 --> 02:05:57,998
Who is this?

1632
02:05:59,081 --> 02:06:01,039
He's my husband.

1633
02:06:02,623 --> 02:06:03,748
Husband.

1634
02:06:04,623 --> 02:06:07,915
It is very good to meet you, Sir.

1635
02:06:09,707 --> 02:06:11,873
We have much acquainting to do.

1636
02:06:12,039 --> 02:06:13,498
Yes, Sir.

1637
02:06:14,707 --> 02:06:18,707
And this is
your grandson.

1638
02:06:19,540 --> 02:06:22,707
Solomon Northup Staunton.

1639
02:06:32,873 --> 02:06:34,540
Solomon.

1640
02:06:40,748 --> 02:06:41,957
<i>(SOBBING)</i>Anne...

1641
02:06:44,456 --> 02:06:46,289
forgive me.

1642
02:06:49,748 --> 02:06:53,331
There is nothing to forgive.

1643
02:11:24,290 --> 02:11:27,623
♪ WOMAN: <i>(SINGING) ♪
♪ Went down to the River Jordan.</i> ♪

1644
02:11:27,749 --> 02:11:31,082
♪ <i>Where John baptized three.</i> ♪

1645
02:11:31,248 --> 02:11:34,248
♪ <i>When I woke ♪
♪ the devil in hell.</i> ♪

1646
02:11:34,373 --> 02:11:37,206
♪ <i>Said Johnny baptized me.</i> ♪

1647
02:11:37,331 --> 02:11:40,707
♪ <i>I said roll, Jordan, roll.</i> ♪

1648
02:11:41,248 --> 02:11:43,707
♪ <i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i> ♪

1649
02:11:44,041 --> 02:11:47,041
♪ <i>My soul will ♪
♪ rise in heaven, Lord.</i> ♪

1650
02:11:47,206 --> 02:11:49,623
♪ <i>For the year ♪
♪ when Jordan roll.</i> ♪

1651
02:11:49,957 --> 02:11:53,248
♪ <i>Well, some say ♪
♪ John was a Baptist.</i> ♪

1652
02:11:53,373 --> 02:11:56,041
♪ <i>Some say John was a Jew.</i> ♪

1653
02:11:56,206 --> 02:11:58,498
♪ <i>But I say ♪
♪ John was a preacher</i> ♪

1654
02:11:58,623 --> 02:12:01,582
♪ <i>'Cause my Bible says so too.</i> ♪

1655
02:12:01,957 --> 02:12:05,373
♪ <i>I said roll, Jordan, roll.</i> ♪

1656
02:12:05,457 --> 02:12:08,041
♪ <i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i> ♪

1657
02:12:08,206 --> 02:12:11,206
♪ <i>My soul will ♪
♪ rise in heaven, Lord.</i> ♪

1658
02:12:11,373 --> 02:12:13,123
♪ <i>For the year ♪
♪ when Jordan roll.</i> ♪

1659
02:12:13,248 --> 02:12:14,582
♪ <i>Hallelujah.</i> ♪

1660
02:12:14,707 --> 02:12:17,498
♪ <i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i> ♪

1661
02:12:17,623 --> 02:12:20,332
♪ <i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i> ♪

1662
02:12:20,457 --> 02:12:23,457
♪ <i>My soul will ♪
♪ rise in heaven, Lord.</i> ♪

1663
02:12:23,582 --> 02:12:25,457
♪ <i>For the year ♪
♪ when Jordan roll.</i> ♪

1664
02:12:25,582 --> 02:12:26,957
♪ <i>Oh, roll now.</i> ♪

1665
02:12:27,082 --> 02:12:29,999
♪ <i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i> ♪

1666
02:12:30,165 --> 02:12:32,498
♪ <i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i> ♪

1667
02:12:32,540 --> 02:12:35,624
♪ <i>My soul will ♪
♪ rise in heaven, Lord.</i> ♪

1668
02:12:35,957 --> 02:12:37,540
♪ <i>For the year ♪
♪ when Jordan roll.</i> ♪

1669
02:12:37,624 --> 02:12:39,082
♪ <i>Halleluiah.</i> ♪

1670
02:12:39,165 --> 02:12:42,041
♪ <i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i> ♪

1671
02:12:42,165 --> 02:12:44,540
♪ <i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i> ♪

1672
02:12:44,665 --> 02:12:47,915
♪ <i>My soul will ♪
♪ rise in heaven, Lord.</i> ♪

1673
02:12:47,999 --> 02:12:49,957
♪ <i>For the year ♪
♪ when Jordan roll.</i> ♪

1674
02:12:50,082 --> 02:12:51,165
♪ <i>Everybody say.</i> ♪

1675
02:12:51,332 --> 02:12:54,165
♪ <i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i> ♪

1676
02:12:54,498 --> 02:12:57,165
♪ <i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i> ♪

1677
02:12:57,498 --> 02:13:00,457
♪ <i>My soul will ♪
♪ rise in heaven, Lord.</i> ♪

1678
02:13:00,582 --> 02:13:02,373
♪ <i>For the year ♪
♪ when Jordan roll.</i> ♪

1679
02:13:02,498 --> 02:13:03,999
♪ <i>Oh, children.</i> ♪

1680
02:13:04,082 --> 02:13:06,874
♪ <i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i> ♪

1681
02:13:06,999 --> 02:13:09,415
♪ <i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i> ♪

1682
02:13:09,540 --> 02:13:12,457
♪ <i>My soul will ♪
♪ rise in heaven, Lord.</i> ♪

1683
02:13:12,582 --> 02:13:14,540
♪ <i>For the year ♪
♪ when Jordan roll.</i> ♪

1684
02:13:14,624 --> 02:13:16,123
♪ <i>Halleluiah.</i> ♪

1685
02:13:16,165 --> 02:13:18,373
♪ <i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i> ♪

1686
02:13:19,123 --> 02:13:21,498
♪ <i>Roll, Jordan, roll.</i> ♪

1687
02:13:21,624 --> 02:13:24,874
♪ <i>My soul will ♪
♪ rise in heaven, Lord</i> ♪