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We interrupt this broadcast to bringyou a shocking piece of news
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just in from Memphis, Tennessee.
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Today, April 4, the spiritual leader ofAmerica's Negroes, Martin Luther King,
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winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace, wasshot and wounded by an unknown gunman.
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He is in very grave condition.
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We are awaiting further information,which we will pass on to the public
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as soon as we receive it.
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The assassin's bullet didn'tjust killMartin Luther King.
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It killed a historical era.The war has begun.
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We Negroes have embarked on theviolent phase of our fight for freedom.
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Today we have guns, bombs,dynamite, knives.
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America will be stained red.Corpses will fill the streets.
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Martin Luther King,a slave of the bourgeoisie,
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a useless social element,a public servant,
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an adulator, Washington's bootlicker,a traitor.
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Down with the doubtersand the Evangelists.
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Down with the Uncle Toms.
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It's our turn to get to work now,cutting throats.
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No white throats were cut.
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The shouts of the revolt were nothing,
compared to the police sirens.
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After all, who was that minister
who was killed in Memphis,
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that 30 million Negroes
were supposed to avenge?
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A hero, as Cleaver said, or a swine,
an Uncle Tom, as LeroyJones said?
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Tom.
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Thomas.
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I named him Tom.
Don't you think it's cute?
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Nowadays it's different,
but in the old days
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all house Negroes were called Tom,
then Uncle Tom when they grew old.
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That was how we could tell
the good Negroes,
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the ones who lived in homes,
with their masters,
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from the bad ones, who lived
separately, in the cotton fields.
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Even that nice Negro priest
that they killed, what was his name?
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They called him Uncle Tom, too,
because he was good.
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He didn't go around spurring
those people to revolt against us.
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They're not actually bad,
but none of them are called Tom.
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They can't keep their houses clean,
and they spend all their money on cars,
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which they break immediately
and throw away, like old toys.
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They're just like children.
But that may be a good thing.
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This way they're closer to God.
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You should hear them singing
in the family chapel I gave them.
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They're extraordinary.
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His land extended further
than the horizon--
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He had enormous herds of cattle,
and a house full of slaves.
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When Jesus had finished speaking,
the man asked him:
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''Is there anything that my slaves
can hold against me?
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I feed them. I clothe them. I aid them.
I even gave them a temple to pray in.
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So you see, my generosity is great.''
And Jesus said to him:
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''I will tell you that it is not your
generosity that is great,
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but your pride.
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You love your slaves
because they are slaves,
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and as long as they remain slaves.
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But your power will melt,
like fog in the sun.
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Your riches will be gone.
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And then your slaves will leave
your land and your home,
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and they will ignore you.
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The worst punishment for your pride
will be your loneliness.''
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Our house was so big. 500 slaves
were hardly enough to keep it up.
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Then a little Tom left a candlestick
sitting next to a curtain,
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and the fire burned for three days.
Can you imagine?
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So many things fed that fire.
But this land is still mine.
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This good land of the south,
once white with cotton balls.
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Thank you, Tom.
Do you remember that movie?
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What was it called? Gone--
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Anyway, she took a handful of dirt
and held it to her chest. Like this.
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And all around her, everything
was burned and ravaged by war.
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And the Negroes had become bad.
And she said-- I can't remember.
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Anyway, she said she would farm
the land even without slaves.
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Not cotton, of course.
You'd need Negroes for that.
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It's so hard, under the sun.
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But there are many
other good things here in the south:
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fruits, vegetables.
Our vegetables are so good.
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The salad, the peas.
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Have you ever tasted southern peas?
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...as we can see by reading the pagesof the greatest American Negro poet,
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LeroyJones, whose poem --
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''Land, Land, Land. The Negro will notbe a man until he has his own land.
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Negro, look at the ground. ''
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- Yoo-hoo, I'm ready.
- ''Grab a handful of dirt,
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and shove your nails into the concrete.It's real and it's yours.
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- You just have to want it. ''
- On page 2 1 7, Malcolm X adds.:
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''There's only one people on earththat can slit the white man's throat.
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His population of slaves,the Negroes. ''
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We will now hand the microphone overto the leader of the Black Panthers.
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But that's not all. They reject
integration, they practice violence,
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ideological crime, reverse racism.
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They indoctrinate their children
in exchange for a meal.
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They want to own five states, immediate
freedom for all Negro criminals,
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exemption from military service, and
the freedom to carry machine guns.
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But sometimes we're too quick
to judge.
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Let's take a look
at these strange humans.
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Their intentions are good,
though at times misunderstood.
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These humans practice non-violence,
ideological love,
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free love, the integration of the sexes,
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and a perfect racial confusion
with the Negroes,
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together with whom they propose
to build the America of the future.
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And yet, LeroyJones, today's foremost
representative of Negro-ness says,
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''Embracing the non-violence that young
whites preach about is nothing short of
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diving into the current
of this failed American civilization.
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America is a Sodom.
America is a Gomorrah.
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America is a Babylon.
This is the society in which
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Martin Luther King wanted
the Negroes to get ready to join.
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I'd rather go to hell. But the chance
of becoming citizens of Gomorrah
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is the best thing that whites have
right now to offer the Negroes.
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If you hope for the survival of this
rotten society, of this corrupt order,
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of this falling Rome, ready to cut your
balls off with the edge of a dollar,
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you'll lose. Christ and the effigy
of the dollar are one and the same.
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We Negroes must remember
all that we are seeing now,
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and in the end we must erupt
like a volcano,
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so we can crush, under flowing,
molten lava this herd of pigs
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who have transformed the world
into a giant garbage can.''
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June 1 9, 1 97 0.
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LeroyJones, again: ''The white man's
attitude toward sex is sick.
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The white man makes sex dirty.
The white man is primitive,
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and he has the sexual intelligence
of a cave man.
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The white man is afraid of the Negro
because he knows he's sexually inferior.
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His sexual device is out of order.
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That's why liberal whites
have allowed us
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a certain amount of progress
toward virility,
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and today he's telling us,
'One day we'll let you have balls.
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Until then, keep yourself cool.'
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American whites are taught to be
pederasts in school.
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That's why their faces are weak
and expressionless.
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Their voices, gestures and
mannerisms are those of eunuchs.
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white women are stocky whores,
covered in makeup.
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They don't know what to do
to fire up their impotent males.
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white American women are
the ugliest and most obscene on earth.
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The famous question, 'Would you allow
your daughter to marry a Negro?'
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is outdated.
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Today the question is,
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'Would you allow your son
to marry a white woman?'
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Today the roles are reversed.''
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The Black Panthers say,
''When the people rise up
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to free themselves from slavery,
they must arm themselves with guns.
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If we want to free ourselves of guns,
we must arm ourselves with guns.''
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And now Cleaver:
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''America is defended by sadistic
and bloodthirsty masters.
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The blood, the tears
and suffering of the Negro
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are the foundation on which
America rests.
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We were forced to build it. But
if they force us to, we will destroy it,
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and the result
will be a horrific bloodbath.
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We, too, are bloodthirsty.''
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But the Negroes are also hungry.
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At least that's what it says
on the banner
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that leads the demonstration
at Cape Kennedy
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on the occasion of the first
white men on the moon.
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The demonstration was organized
by Martin Luther King's successor,
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Reverend Abernathy, who says,
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''You, white man, are the cause
of all our woes.
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You tore us away
from Africa, made us slaves,
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kept us in ignorance, exploited us, got
rich, and now you're going to the moon.
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We can't accept that. Stop playing
with your millionaire's toys,
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and pay us the damages you owe us.
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Where are you going, white man,
with your billionaire's toy?
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What are you running away from,
your past?
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What did you do,
that was so bad?
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Why do your
black brothers hate you so?
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It's useless to run away,
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because the past is not behind us,
as Abernathy believes,
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but ahead, traveling toward the stars,
just like Einstein said.
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And the faster
you run, the faster you'll get there.''
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GOODBYE UNCLE TOM
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- Is this a bad time?
- No, please, come in.
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- Who are these people?
- They are Europeans.
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To be exact, they're Italians,
Italian journalists.
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They've come here to the south
to conduct an inquiry, right?
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In inquiry on slavery.
They seem to be quite shocked.
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- What is their religion?
- Catholic, I think.
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- You're Catholic, aren't you?
- Roman Catholic Apostolic.
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They shouldn't be so shocked, then.
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After all, the Pope, who is usually
so generous with his excommunications,
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has never excommunicated
a merchant of black meat.
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Unless he eats it on Fridays.
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- Why are they here, then?
- I think they're slaves, too.
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You know Catholics. They're slaves
of the fascination of sin.
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Or they simply want to protest.
What are we going to do about it?
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These Europeans, after the French
Revolution, do nothing but protest.
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Please, times have changed:
Rousseau, Diderot, Voltaire...
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This is rich, Catholics who read
books written by the devil.
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What would His Holiness say?
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Please! These gentlemen are my guests.
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And following the example
of other friends of mine,
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have given them
free access to the entire house.
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This way they'll see who
the real slaves and masters are.
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No, Senator, please.
No chicken bones.
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They're very dangerous to puppies.
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I had to take two of them to the vet.
It's so annoying.
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Well, since each one of you
is a famous person,
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your frank and authoritative statements
on the subject of slavery
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should be very useful to these
gentlemen.
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I agree,
and I'll be the first.
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It's absolutely true that slavery
cannot be hidden,
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just like a volcano's
eruption or a cancerous affliction
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that erodes a man's face.
I, for one, have freed my slaves,
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but I did so only because they were
stupid, smelly, sad and boring.
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I am an aristocrat, and I believe
in freedom, but not in equality.
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This is my statement.
Signed,John Randolph of Roanoke.
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I'm John Pithiou,
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and I think that slavery
is the natural condition of the poor,
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whether white or black.
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In fact, I consider it ideal,
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because it's synonymous with a full
belly, a guaranteed dwelling,
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medical help and security in old age,
whereas for us it's a status symbol.
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Furthermore, we mustn't forget,
gentlemen,
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that we whites make up only
20%% of the world's population,
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so if one day we gave up our power,
it would be the end of us.
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It will depend solely on us,
and I mean solely on us,
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if a meek slave or a snake in the grass
gets off the slave trader's ship.
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What a stench! What did you bring,
a load of rotten meat?
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What are you talking about?
It's top choice.
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They stink because they eat like pigs,
then they throw up and mess themselves.
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- How long was the trip?
- 94 days.
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Didn't they get air on the bridge?
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Are you crazy, with the sea
full of English ships?
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The times have changed.
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This is contraband merchandise.
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If I get caught with one Negro on board,
I'll be hung.
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And I wouldn't be the first.
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If they spent the entire trip down
there, they must be all rotten.
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No way! On this ship rule
number one is hygiene.
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Hygiene and cleanliness.
If one of them gets really sick,
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I don't wait for him to spread
it to the whole load.
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I throw him overboard and that's that.
I deliver my merchandise in good shape.
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- Are you interested or not?
- How many are there?
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3 27 between males and females.
These are all males. No syphilis.
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Black meat was sold either
by the head or by weight.
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The load was arranged in layers,
and each Negro had a berth
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3 5 by 1 2 inches, in which he was
chained from 45 to 90 days,
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depending on the wind.
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This way,
over the course of two centuries,
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about 50 million slaves were shipped
to the Americas,
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30 million of which did not survive
the journey.
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To keep epidemics at bay, the Negroes
were watered three times a day
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with carbolic acid and sea water.
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The load was always insured.
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But since the insurance paid only
if the Negro died on board,
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if an epidemic broke out, the captain
would rather not take chances,
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and preferred to unload a whole
shipment in the sea, still alive,
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rather than risk unloading a ship
of dying men and women.
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Dysentery depreciated the merchandise,
so in order to keep it from buyers,
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the captain would order the sealing
of''leaky holes'' with a cork
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sealed with tow and tar.
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In November of 1 81 2,
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in a shipment of 41 5 slaves,
the buyer contested 21 6,
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because he realized that
they had been plugged up.
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The captain was Jean Lafitte,
the famous pirate patriot hero
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who sold slaves in Louisiana to raise
money for Karl Marx in Europe.
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- What's that mushy stuff?
- Corn, molasses and fat.
248
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They love it. We have to tie them up
and give them a little at a time,
249
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otherwise they'd choke.
250
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That one doesn't seem to like it.
251
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That one has decided to let himself
starve to death. Pitiful!
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Hey, we need a chisel and hammer
and a funnel over here.
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The remedy was quite frightening,
and served as an example.
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And even if it cost the master
a little damage,
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a Negro minus three or four teeth
was always better than a dead one.
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- Let's say $1 50 a head.
- I said I'll buy them by the pound.
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- The whole shipment for $2 a pound.
- Seven dollars.
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- Three.
- Six.
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- Four.
- All right, but I'm losing money.
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1 20 years later, three or four
generations at the most,
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and some of them have already
forgotten. They are not many.
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Perhaps the equivalent of
a few hundred shipments of slaves.
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Ambassadors, ministers, industrialists,
intellectuals, artists:
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all individual fortunes worth
millions of dollars.
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Deaf to the insults of the priests
of Negro-ness, these Uncle Tom pigs
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have quietly joined the system,
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and followed the great
American dream of success,
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seen as the sporting
victory over life's adversities.
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For the first time, the self-made man
is black, and that's saying a lot,
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if we consider that among his many
misfortunes this is perhaps the worst:
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well-dressed, worldly,
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so well integrated as to appear
lighter skinned than his fellow Negroes,
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a little chubby, due to a residual hunger
that subconsciously still haunts him,
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he is still the same Negro who arrived
on board a ship with LeroyJones,
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Malcolm X,
Cleaver and the Black Panthers.
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Those men are either in Harlem
or in prison, plotting revenge.
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This man is here.
He dances a waltz in a tuxedo,
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and tomorrow will go to work
wearing a double-breasted suit.
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The self-made Negro is proud
of his past misfortunes,
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and the horrors of slavery are his epic.
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This was the most famous slave sorting
and clearing center in Louisiana.
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Even Thomas Ewell wrote about it.
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Let's read some excerpts
from the camp's rules and regulations:
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''It is ordered that at Fort Bastille
all African slaves be quarantined.''
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Page 1 1 6: ''In large iron cages,
slaves with mange and scabies
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will be fumigated
with ailanthus vapors.
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The epileptics will be hung by the feet
288
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so their blood, flowing to the head,
will arrest their convulsions.''
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Reading from page 1 22:
''It is mandatory for all slaves
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to receive an initial bath in a mixture
of water, salt, ash, and soapwort root.''
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Now, reading from page 1 30:
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''The bath will be followed by a greasing
with lard, palm oil and turpentine.
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We remind our employees that 82%%
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of imported slaves is afflicted with
contagious skin diseases,
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and that therefore the law forbids
their trade.
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Using the specially designed slides,
the slaves will be gathered
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for the next phase of their cleansing.
298
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Eggs and lice that may have survived
the previous treatments
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will be exterminated with the total
destruction of their natural habitat.
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The razors must be sharpened
every 200 shavings,
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to avoid damage to the scalps.''
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Cleansed both inside and out,
303
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the Negro was fortified before
the long journey inland
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with a daily ration of a half gallon
of corn meal,
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a pint of beans,
a pound of sweet potatoes,
306
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- a pound of fat --
- Don't go overboard.
307
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They only get a half-pound of fat.
This is not an Italian restaurant.
308
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Besides, we don't need
a defense lawyer.
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Look at them. All they want
is to eat, to eat anything.
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To eat and to fuck, that's all
they want. And they want to survive.
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To survive anything, beatings,
syphilis, cholera, the heat, the cold.
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Their strength lies in their
adaptability.
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Both in heaven and in hell,
they fill their bellies
314
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and spit out dozens of children.
315
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I for one agree with those
who support mandatory castration.
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I don't mean to be cruel,
317
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but if we don't cut off a few million
black balls now,
318
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you can be sure
that in one or two hundred years--
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Dick Gregory, the first Negro
President of the United States!
320
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What makes this candidate for
the White House exceptional
321
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is that his political program does not
include cutting the throats
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of all white Americans.
323
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Perhaps this is why
he wasn't very successful.
324
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The more popular
David Hillyard screamed,
325
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''We'll kill Nixon and all the sons
of bitches that are against us.''
326
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Gregory is more modest. He's content
with his image on the dollar bill,
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and obtaining what the signers
of the Black Manifesto requested:
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300 billion dollars as damages
for the suffering of 3 million slaves.
329
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In the meantime
he's handing out small advances,
330
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and promises that the rest
will be delivered promptly.
331
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The livestock cars that transported
the slaves up north
332
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covered 400 miles in three days
along the left bank of the Mississippi,
333
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all the way up to Natchez or Pittsburgh.
The slave trade was very busy.
334
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It slowed down only in the autumn,
335
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when the trains had to stop
in Baton Rouge,
336
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and the slaves had to proceed on foot
through rain-flooded swamps.
337
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The red flag, which back then was the
symbol of slavery, preceded the convoys.
338
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A tuba, a violin and a trombone
kept up the slaves' morale
339
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when the going was rough.
340
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Neither the slave traders
nor the public, at the time,
341
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considered this trade immoral.
342
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They were comforted in part
by the fact that among their clients
343
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were men such as PresidentJackson
and PresidentJefferson.
344
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Among their colleagues were men such as
David Mitchell, governor of Georgia,
345
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and James Bowie, hero of the Alamo.
346
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Come on. Move it!
347
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Let's have some music!
Make merry! Play!
348
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Come on. Let's have some music!
Be merry. Play for me!
349
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Go free with God.
Go forth, free with God.
350
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Go on, go free with God.
351
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Well then, $300 for the males,
$200 for the females,
352
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and $1 00 for the puppies.
It's all there, right?
353
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In addition to having
illustrious clients,
354
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the traders also had
illustrious suppliers,
355
00:34:36,755 --> 00:34:39,155
like theJesuits
of Saint Inigoe in Maryland.
356
00:34:39,224 --> 00:34:41,920
The Catholic Church had always
ignored slavery,
357
00:34:41,993 --> 00:34:46,657
but when in 1 838 the Pope ordered
that slaves in convents be freed,
358
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theJesuits immediately got rid
of them: they sold them.
359
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When the convoys reached
the sugarcane and cotton mills,
360
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the traders would allow their Negroes a
few days' rest, so they could present them
361
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to their customers in good shape.
The customers were few, but good.
362
00:36:55,126 --> 00:37:01,258
In 1 850, 4 million slaves were owned
by 4,000 planters.
363
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There were only 400 families
who owned more than 1 0 slaves.
364
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Eighty percent of the white population
had never owned slaves.
365
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The dream of possessing a young Negro
woman tormented the lonely dreams
366
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of poor white men, forced to long periods
of abstinence in such a hot land,
367
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where the white
women were few and intractable.
368
00:37:31,329 --> 00:37:33,456
Not bad, eh?
369
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Many of these poor
and restless men were--
370
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Cut it out.
371
00:37:39,771 --> 00:37:41,261
This is my buddy, Buzz.
372
00:37:42,774 --> 00:37:44,469
This is my buddy, Sonny.
373
00:37:45,743 --> 00:37:46,971
This is my buddy,Jake.
374
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- So, are you coming with us?
- Isn't it illegal?
375
00:37:50,848 --> 00:37:54,147
What do you mean? Nothing
is illegal in this fucking country.
376
00:37:56,187 --> 00:37:59,247
You hear that?
He wants money.
377
00:38:15,607 --> 00:38:19,907
Many of these poor white men,
the Crackers, as they were called,
378
00:38:19,978 --> 00:38:22,606
were serving what was called
time-limited slavery,
379
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a period of hard labor,
usually of five years,
380
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to pay off the price of the trip
to America from Europe.
381
00:38:29,621 --> 00:38:32,886
Another group was formed by thieves,
rapists, murderers,
382
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who had been deported to the colonies
from French and English prisons.
383
00:38:36,894 --> 00:38:40,455
Their hatred toward the Negroes
was not just a racial issue.
384
00:38:40,531 --> 00:38:44,433
Negroes were always slaves,
and therefore obliged to work for free,
385
00:38:44,502 --> 00:38:48,734
but also to be the scabs
of the white laborers,
386
00:38:48,806 --> 00:38:53,402
who had to choose between
unemployment and a miserable pay.
387
00:38:53,478 --> 00:38:55,378
Come on, let's go.
388
00:39:00,551 --> 00:39:04,248
Thus, the hatred of the white slave
toward the Negro slave
389
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was appeased through gratuitous
acts of violence,
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perpetrated especially on the women,
who slept alone at night
391
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in the barn with the animals,
and were therefore defenseless.
392
00:41:05,409 --> 00:41:07,172
Oh, go away.
393
00:42:42,974 --> 00:42:45,442
The black puppies not yet ready
for work were like toys,
394
00:42:45,509 --> 00:42:47,841
and as such they were given
to children.
395
00:42:47,912 --> 00:42:51,006
But the black puppies grew up quickly,
and pretty soon they preferred
396
00:42:51,082 --> 00:42:55,576
a new kind of game, that the white
kids often enjoyed watching.
397
00:42:55,653 --> 00:43:00,022
Let's read an excerpt from the diary
of Fanny Kemble, English actress:
398
00:43:00,091 --> 00:43:04,790
''From the early morning the boughs
of the large tree before my window
399
00:43:04,862 --> 00:43:09,060
were full of couples chirping like
blackbirds in love.
400
00:43:09,133 --> 00:43:13,092
I, who was English, and had just
joined my American husband in Georgia,
401
00:43:13,170 --> 00:43:18,130
was amazed that such a puritanical
white society could allow its slaves
402
00:43:18,209 --> 00:43:23,442
to indulge in such depravity
in every corner of the jungle.
403
00:43:23,514 --> 00:43:26,779
Another time, in the rice fields,
404
00:43:26,851 --> 00:43:29,718
I came upon such a carefree,
shameless band of urchins,
405
00:43:29,787 --> 00:43:34,019
who were so busy with their pleasure
that they didn't even notice me.''
406
00:43:35,359 --> 00:43:37,987
But after her marriage to the planter
George Butler,
407
00:43:38,062 --> 00:43:41,793
Fanny Kemble became
a typical southern lady.
408
00:43:41,866 --> 00:43:44,027
I, a typical southern lady?
409
00:43:44,101 --> 00:43:49,164
Have you ever seen a southern lady
ride a horse western style?
410
00:43:50,274 --> 00:43:56,235
Now I'll show you another thing that
a southern lady would never show you.
411
00:43:57,181 --> 00:44:00,480
Look at all the lovebirds!
412
00:44:00,551 --> 00:44:04,180
Look at them
running from the sugarcane field.
413
00:44:05,222 --> 00:44:09,352
The masters themselves encourage them.
414
00:44:10,861 --> 00:44:15,560
Do you know what my husband says?
''Go on, get busy!
415
00:44:16,233 --> 00:44:21,296
The more children you have,
the happier you'll make me.
416
00:44:21,372 --> 00:44:24,205
Do as you please.
417
00:44:24,275 --> 00:44:27,733
I get rich,
and you have a good time.''
418
00:44:28,879 --> 00:44:33,111
In this shop, you don't pay for what
you break, and I pick up the pieces.
419
00:44:47,198 --> 00:44:50,656
Excuse me, ma'am, where is
the church at Turner Bridge?
420
00:44:50,735 --> 00:44:55,001
I don't understand.
I'm German.
421
00:44:55,072 --> 00:45:00,009
- Where is church?
- Three miles down road.
422
00:45:00,077 --> 00:45:05,014
- What's happening here, ma'am?
- Very interesting.
423
00:45:05,082 --> 00:45:10,782
They're cutting the Negro who broke
20 virgins at the Peterson plantation.
424
00:45:11,589 --> 00:45:15,047
- Cutting what?
- Cutting his balls, what else?
425
00:45:16,127 --> 00:45:18,960
He's through fucking.
426
00:45:22,233 --> 00:45:24,292
The pliers! The pliers!
427
00:45:33,144 --> 00:45:35,704
If on the one hand the masters
allowed their slaves
428
00:45:35,780 --> 00:45:37,907
an almost unlimited sexual freedom,
429
00:45:37,982 --> 00:45:42,885
it was also true that he would be
furious if that freedom cost him money.
430
00:45:42,953 --> 00:45:45,979
On every plantation there were always
a number of virgins
431
00:45:46,057 --> 00:45:47,422
destined for the marketplace.
432
00:45:47,491 --> 00:45:51,587
Their virginity had a very definite
value, and if you took it,
433
00:45:51,662 --> 00:45:52,924
you were a thief.
434
00:45:52,997 --> 00:45:55,625
Such thieves
were publicly castrated,
435
00:45:55,699 --> 00:45:58,224
and the castration took place
at the very scene of the crime.
436
00:45:58,302 --> 00:46:01,328
Hewlett, a Louisiana man,
wrote in 1 831 :
437
00:46:01,405 --> 00:46:05,569
''Such an exciting spectacle
was a pleasant interruption
438
00:46:05,643 --> 00:46:07,372
to the boredom of a Sunday afternoon.
439
00:46:07,445 --> 00:46:11,279
Males, females and puppies
enjoyed it from start to finish.
440
00:46:11,348 --> 00:46:14,442
The more the victim screamed,
the more fun they had.''
441
00:46:14,518 --> 00:46:17,009
The master calls for the pliers.
442
00:46:17,088 --> 00:46:21,718
No, not my balls!
443
00:46:23,727 --> 00:46:26,719
Shut up! Take the balls with
your hands and pull.
444
00:46:27,598 --> 00:46:32,331
- Quick, put the balls in the pliers.
- He's pissing! He got me all wet!
445
00:46:32,403 --> 00:46:35,702
Not my balls! No!
446
00:46:35,773 --> 00:46:39,038
- Do you want to go in?
- No, thank you.
447
00:46:40,878 --> 00:46:43,403
- Listen.
- Squeeze!
448
00:46:46,383 --> 00:46:49,841
Did you hear that?
It's done.
449
00:46:50,521 --> 00:46:55,754
- What did they use for the operation?
- Horse pliers.
450
00:46:55,826 --> 00:47:01,492
- It's horrible to make him suffer so.
- No, Negroes never suffer.
451
00:47:17,414 --> 00:47:22,215
That Negroes felt physical and moral
pain less that white men
452
00:47:22,286 --> 00:47:24,277
was a widely held belief.
453
00:47:24,355 --> 00:47:26,152
The scientific writings of that time,
454
00:47:26,223 --> 00:47:29,056
first among them those by
the authoritative Samuel Cartwright,
455
00:47:29,126 --> 00:47:31,060
a professor at
the University of Louisiana,
456
00:47:31,128 --> 00:47:37,260
mention ''poor motor skills, typical of
monkeys and subhuman species in general.''
457
00:47:37,334 --> 00:47:40,531
No one suspected yet that
all the folklore, the excesses,
458
00:47:40,604 --> 00:47:44,131
the collective hysteria don't
Negate the presence of pain.
459
00:47:44,208 --> 00:47:46,005
On the contrary,
they underline its intensity.
460
00:50:15,159 --> 00:50:20,791
At this point I have only to remind you
that God condemned to slavery
461
00:50:20,864 --> 00:50:24,891
the damned line of Canaan
from the time ofJoshua.
462
00:50:24,968 --> 00:50:29,371
God ordered Abraham's descendants
to keep slaves,
463
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:34,673
and he decreed that those slaves
were to be inherited by their children.
464
00:50:35,979 --> 00:50:39,540
God recognized Abraham
as the master of the slaves.
465
00:50:39,616 --> 00:50:41,413
And Jesus ordered
466
00:50:41,485 --> 00:50:46,479
that any who dare object to
or disrupt the institution of slavery
467
00:50:46,557 --> 00:50:52,985
be repudiated as subversive individuals,
whose behavior is --
468
00:50:53,063 --> 00:50:54,223
The Protestant Church,
469
00:50:54,298 --> 00:50:56,698
then even more powerful
than the Catholic Church in America,
470
00:50:56,767 --> 00:51:00,464
approved of and preached
slavery as a divine decree.
471
00:51:00,537 --> 00:51:02,835
The sermons of the most influential
ministers, like this one,
472
00:51:02,906 --> 00:51:08,674
by Reverend Stringfellow of Virginia,
were bound and published in volumes.
473
00:51:08,746 --> 00:51:12,807
The curse in the Old Testament
on the black man, Canaan,
474
00:51:12,883 --> 00:51:15,511
the evil son of Noah,
who had castrated his father,
475
00:51:15,586 --> 00:51:21,525
was falling heavily on his descendants,
who were now reduced to slavery.
476
00:51:21,592 --> 00:51:24,152
The Baptists said, ''Flog them.''
477
00:51:24,228 --> 00:51:26,093
The Presbyterians, ''Deny them rights.''
478
00:51:26,163 --> 00:51:28,427
The Methodists, ''Chain them up.''
479
00:51:28,499 --> 00:51:32,560
While Bishop Polk, the same one
who later became a Confederate general,
480
00:51:32,636 --> 00:51:35,799
beat all records as a slaveholder.
481
00:51:35,873 --> 00:51:41,971
Slavery is thus a divine institution,
ordered and sanctioned by God.
482
00:51:42,045 --> 00:51:46,414
Therefore, with all the authority
granted my by the church,
483
00:51:46,483 --> 00:51:51,546
I, Reverend Stringfellow of the State
of Virginia,
484
00:51:51,622 --> 00:51:53,817
order you to honor slavery
485
00:51:53,891 --> 00:51:58,521
and not to question it on the basis
of false moral grounds.
486
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:14,368
Instead of false moral grounds, Reverend
Stringfellow would have done better
487
00:52:14,445 --> 00:52:19,280
talking about
false economic grounds.
488
00:52:19,349 --> 00:52:22,716
For example, it was false
to think that a slave's labor was free
489
00:52:22,786 --> 00:52:25,721
simply because he wasn't paid.
490
00:52:25,789 --> 00:52:28,758
Let's consider the eternal problem
of domestic servants.
491
00:52:28,826 --> 00:52:31,590
When a master thought he could solve it
492
00:52:31,662 --> 00:52:35,792
by filling his huge house with droves
of Negroes dressed to the nines,
493
00:52:35,866 --> 00:52:39,165
he was solving
a very different problem--
494
00:52:39,236 --> 00:52:44,173
the problem of his prestige in the eyes
of his family and his guests.
495
00:52:48,545 --> 00:52:54,541
Please, come in. But I'm warning you,
I can't give you much of my time.
496
00:52:54,618 --> 00:52:58,054
As you can see, this isn't a house,
it's a madhouse.
497
00:52:58,121 --> 00:53:01,215
- The luggage.
- What luggage? Oh, yes!
498
00:53:01,291 --> 00:53:03,156
Mr. Thackeray's luggage.
499
00:53:03,227 --> 00:53:06,458
Haven't I told you a million times
to get it and bring it downstairs?
500
00:53:06,530 --> 00:53:08,498
Go on, don't waste anymore time.
501
00:53:08,565 --> 00:53:11,500
My God, they're useless!
Hurry up!
502
00:53:12,503 --> 00:53:15,995
I'll have to leave you to your own
devices. Take a look around.
503
00:53:16,073 --> 00:53:19,509
- I'll see you later.
- Where do the sheets go, ma'am?
504
00:53:20,177 --> 00:53:23,578
Come on. Let's hurry it up!
505
00:53:25,782 --> 00:53:27,443
This looks nice.
506
00:53:29,653 --> 00:53:35,057
Always cleaning, cleaning.
My fingers are hurting, ma'am.
507
00:53:35,959 --> 00:53:39,827
Even at night I dream
that I'm still cleaning.
508
00:53:39,897 --> 00:53:43,264
Black slave's always cleaning.
509
00:53:43,333 --> 00:53:47,565
And you keep telling me
I have to clean even better.
510
00:54:22,873 --> 00:54:25,774
Where do we put the sheets, ma'am?
511
00:54:27,377 --> 00:54:33,748
''Where do we put the sheets, ma'am?''
Put them on the bed, you idiots!
512
00:54:39,489 --> 00:54:41,650
The real mistress of the house, though,
was the Mammy.
513
00:54:41,725 --> 00:54:45,593
The house was her kingdom.
The children were her subjects.
514
00:54:45,662 --> 00:54:48,893
She reigned upstairs, over the children
of both masters and slaves alike,
515
00:54:48,966 --> 00:54:51,833
in absolute promiscuity,
because black or white,
516
00:54:51,902 --> 00:54:54,666
all babies have the same color pee.
517
00:54:54,738 --> 00:54:58,367
She was almost always fat, thanks to
her privileges in the kitchen.
518
00:54:58,442 --> 00:55:01,639
She was always mean and arrogant,
and mistreated everyone, black or white.
519
00:55:01,712 --> 00:55:04,977
All this thanks to the immunity
she enjoyed in the domestic setting.
520
00:55:05,048 --> 00:55:06,572
When, for instance, a white man --
521
00:55:12,489 --> 00:55:15,287
- Whom does this one belong to?
- Throw him over there.
522
00:55:15,359 --> 00:55:18,453
When I'm done with your pup,
I'll latch him onto my tit.
523
00:55:18,528 --> 00:55:21,929
Be careful, he's got the runs,
he's messing everywhere.
524
00:55:37,914 --> 00:55:42,510
- I'm freezing, do I have to bathe?
- Get in there and wash up good.
525
00:55:42,586 --> 00:55:44,679
Hey you, pump the water, faster!
526
00:55:56,433 --> 00:56:00,301
- Don't let them play with my dress.
- Get back in there!
527
00:56:00,370 --> 00:56:05,706
Take that dress off. Give me that,
face powder is $5 an ounce!
528
00:56:05,776 --> 00:56:09,769
It's not meant for dirty Negroes
like you. Now get out of here!
529
00:56:10,981 --> 00:56:14,382
- Enough Mammy, I'm clean.
- Let me take a look.
530
00:56:15,085 --> 00:56:18,486
You don't like the water, eh?
You're worse than a Negro.
531
00:56:18,555 --> 00:56:20,682
Not so hard, you're hurting me.
532
00:56:20,757 --> 00:56:23,590
You know those Italian photographers
that are here?
533
00:56:23,660 --> 00:56:26,993
Mammy, I want them to take
my portrait in the pink dress.
534
00:56:27,064 --> 00:56:28,861
Is it cut too low?
535
00:56:28,932 --> 00:56:32,891
Get out of here! You whites
are such bastards.
536
00:56:32,969 --> 00:56:38,965
Scoundrels! You're all scoundrels!
And you, get the fuck away!
537
00:56:41,411 --> 00:56:44,380
The Negro little boyFlew right up into the sky
538
00:56:44,448 --> 00:56:49,579
And you, will you stop plucking
those feathers!
539
00:56:51,855 --> 00:56:57,418
Drinking water! Drinking water!
540
00:56:58,161 --> 00:57:02,222
Thief!. Let me see!
Where is the chicken?
541
00:57:02,299 --> 00:57:04,927
Give me your hat.
542
00:57:05,001 --> 00:57:06,992
Look here! Thief!.
543
00:57:09,606 --> 00:57:14,839
- Cake with cherries.
- Wait!
544
00:57:14,911 --> 00:57:19,405
I keep putting the cherries on,
and I never run out of cherries.
545
00:57:20,984 --> 00:57:24,886
These are onions, not carrots!
Can't you smell them?
546
00:57:25,856 --> 00:57:28,620
The Negro little boyFlew right up into the sky
547
00:57:28,692 --> 00:57:34,426
The almonds, I can't crush them.
I'm going to use a plate.
548
00:57:37,567 --> 00:57:41,594
This is not a kitchen!
It's a huge latrine!
549
00:57:42,272 --> 00:57:45,139
Dirty Negro woman, she's putting
her hands in the mayonnaise.
550
00:57:45,208 --> 00:57:47,870
I'm a clean Negro, and I crack eggs
with my glove on.
551
00:57:47,944 --> 00:57:51,402
The Negro little boyFlew right up into the sky
552
00:57:51,481 --> 00:57:54,541
Get down from there!
553
00:57:54,618 --> 00:57:58,645
The Negro little boyFlew right up into the sky
554
00:58:01,525 --> 00:58:05,188
Pigs! You're worse than pigs!
555
00:58:07,430 --> 00:58:09,330
Pigs are much better.
556
00:58:09,399 --> 00:58:13,233
And all this just to seat
two people at the dinner table!
557
00:58:22,879 --> 00:58:26,713
This is the first image of a historical
carousel called ''Pilgrimage'',
558
00:58:26,783 --> 00:58:28,683
which is celebrated every year
in the spring.
559
00:58:28,752 --> 00:58:31,186
At this time, the old south takes
a trip down memory lane.
560
00:58:31,254 --> 00:58:34,815
For the sake of the carousel,
everything comes out of storage:
561
00:58:34,891 --> 00:58:37,758
from the old granny in a wheelchair
to the few neighborhood Negroes,
562
00:58:37,828 --> 00:58:41,559
who for $1 2 an hour
agree to pose as slaves.
563
00:58:49,072 --> 00:58:53,338
The slaveholders bravely revisit
their sins of yore, like this one,
564
00:58:53,410 --> 00:58:55,139
the first of the day.
565
00:58:55,212 --> 00:58:59,842
They had a slave bring them
their coffee in bed. Incredible.
566
00:59:07,958 --> 00:59:12,292
The 1 9th century feels very far away,
halfway up the ladder of time.
567
00:59:12,362 --> 00:59:16,128
How was it? It depends if you're
looking from the bottom or the top.
568
00:59:16,199 --> 00:59:17,894
From the bottom,
we discover under old drapes
569
00:59:17,968 --> 00:59:20,562
a modern and hypocritical reality.
570
00:59:20,637 --> 00:59:21,501
From above, on the other hand,
571
00:59:21,571 --> 00:59:24,233
we enjoy a stale view
of ancient, innocent customs,
572
00:59:24,307 --> 00:59:28,038
such as chaste girls bathing
with their nightgowns on.
573
00:59:30,547 --> 00:59:35,382
Right next door, we find a walnut stool
used to flog slaves.
574
00:59:35,452 --> 00:59:38,353
It looks more like an antique
than an instrument of torture.
575
00:59:38,421 --> 00:59:41,185
Next to the music box we see
the blond Eveline,
576
00:59:41,258 --> 00:59:44,591
sitting on Uncle Tom's lap
on a rainy evening.
577
00:59:44,661 --> 00:59:49,360
In the dusky sitting room,
the old grandfather clock keeps time.
578
00:59:49,432 --> 00:59:52,924
It makes us feel almost sorry
that General Sherman is at the gates.
579
01:00:14,824 --> 01:00:17,952
Sherman arrived with 30,000
Union troops.
580
01:00:18,028 --> 01:00:21,122
Today, there are 1 00,000 northerners.
581
01:00:21,197 --> 01:00:22,926
A mere hundred years have passed
582
01:00:22,999 --> 01:00:25,627
since the General swept like a fury
down from the north
583
01:00:25,702 --> 01:00:29,604
and tore down these candid temples
to slavery, and already the south
584
01:00:29,673 --> 01:00:34,440
seems to have bounced back to the
original splendor of its dark age.
585
01:00:34,511 --> 01:00:37,309
The pretentious Neoclassical style
of its large houses
586
01:00:37,380 --> 01:00:41,510
shines again over the green parks
as it did in those opulent times,
587
01:00:41,584 --> 01:00:44,178
which were rife with slaves,
cotton, tobacco,
588
01:00:44,254 --> 01:00:47,815
and the coffers of the south
were full of Confederate dollars.
589
01:00:56,132 --> 01:00:59,101
Today the old houses of the south
are national museums,
590
01:00:59,169 --> 01:01:01,034
and their owners are responsible
for their upkeep.
591
01:01:01,104 --> 01:01:04,130
The woman of the house is usually
in charge of protecting the furniture
592
01:01:04,207 --> 01:01:05,799
and the antique rugs.
593
01:01:05,875 --> 01:01:08,571
Stop! You can't come in
with high-heeled shoes.
594
01:01:13,149 --> 01:01:16,448
After a long, grim winter without
northerners in the house,
595
01:01:16,519 --> 01:01:19,579
the old south relives in the spring
its economic boom.
596
01:01:19,656 --> 01:01:22,784
The north today buys cotton
at $1 0 per hundred kilograms.
597
01:01:22,859 --> 01:01:27,262
The south sells its high-quality,
slave-grade cotton at $1 per ball.
598
01:01:27,330 --> 01:01:29,924
Nixon devalues the dollar by 7%%.
599
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:34,835
The south revalues its old Confederate
dollar by 1 07%%, exchanging it equally.
600
01:01:34,904 --> 01:01:36,166
The boom goes on.
601
01:01:36,239 --> 01:01:40,869
Someone found an old column
in the cellar and sliced it up.
602
01:01:40,944 --> 01:01:43,879
Today, the old white south
can be bought by the slice.
603
01:01:43,947 --> 01:01:48,611
$1 0 a slice, and the Negro, posing
as a slave, keeps half of the proceeds.
604
01:01:59,729 --> 01:02:02,220
New York, Fifth Avenue.
It's Easter.
605
01:02:02,298 --> 01:02:05,199
A religious extremist waves a flag
and a Bible.
606
01:02:05,268 --> 01:02:08,237
He yells something to do with Negroes,
but no one can understand him.
607
01:02:08,304 --> 01:02:10,204
On the most bourgeois street in
the world,
608
01:02:10,273 --> 01:02:12,798
they celebrate Easter
with the spring parade,
609
01:02:12,876 --> 01:02:16,277
and spring is the most bourgeois
of the seasons.
610
01:02:17,914 --> 01:02:20,974
Up here, far
from the rotting crowd below,
611
01:02:21,051 --> 01:02:24,418
a chosen few have found
an altar close enough to the sky,
612
01:02:24,487 --> 01:02:27,320
even though it's been sullied
by the arrival of the police.
613
01:02:27,390 --> 01:02:31,952
''We're here,'' they say, ''to declare our
contrition over the sins of the world.''
614
01:02:32,028 --> 01:02:33,825
''Naked?'' The police ask.
615
01:02:33,897 --> 01:02:36,331
''We're not naked, we're undressed.''
616
01:02:36,399 --> 01:02:41,302
Satisfied, they kiss. Today the police
no longer trust the penal code.
617
01:02:41,371 --> 01:02:43,066
A crime looks like a crime.
618
01:02:43,139 --> 01:02:45,630
Then, it turns out that
it's an ideological crime,
619
01:02:45,708 --> 01:02:47,369
and they look like idiots.
620
01:02:47,444 --> 01:02:49,071
Might as well drop the whole thing.
621
01:02:49,145 --> 01:02:52,911
Today, being white, as well as
being shameful, is also a grave sin.
622
01:02:52,982 --> 01:02:56,850
One of the many ways to atone
is to cover smear paint on one's body.
623
01:02:56,920 --> 01:03:00,083
Each smear is a sin,
and each sin has its color.
624
01:03:00,156 --> 01:03:02,249
Red for wars, massacres and the like,
625
01:03:02,325 --> 01:03:05,726
yellow for gold and riches and
all the evils associated with wealth.
626
01:03:05,795 --> 01:03:09,526
Black for racism, Nazism, fascism
and lots of other -isms.
627
01:03:09,599 --> 01:03:13,057
The evil one, meaning the devil,
is white.
628
01:03:13,136 --> 01:03:14,797
The devil's first victim,
629
01:03:14,871 --> 01:03:18,204
according to these penitents who are
ashamed of their white bottoms,
630
01:03:18,274 --> 01:03:21,869
is the Negro, who seems here
to feel slightly out of place.
631
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:26,412
''Abracadabra, I'm going to
exorcise you.''
632
01:03:26,483 --> 01:03:30,180
For centuries the white devil
kept the Negro in hell.
633
01:03:30,253 --> 01:03:32,346
He forced him to squirm
on the ground like a worm.
634
01:03:32,422 --> 01:03:34,822
He imprisoned him, flogged him,
tortured him.
635
01:03:34,891 --> 01:03:37,689
Then he dragged him
in chains through his American ordeal.
636
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:39,091
He chose him over Barabbas.
637
01:03:39,162 --> 01:03:42,290
He betrayed him likeJudas.
He crucified him in Vietnam.
638
01:03:42,365 --> 01:03:44,833
But today it's Easter,
and the Negro is reborn
639
01:03:44,901 --> 01:03:48,098
and ascends to the sky,
to take his place at his father's side,
640
01:03:48,171 --> 01:03:52,130
because the Negro is the son of God,
because God is black.
641
01:03:54,811 --> 01:03:58,747
In fact in Detroit, in the Catholic
Church of the Sacred Heart,
642
01:03:58,815 --> 01:04:02,979
Jesus has been painted black.
Is it antiracism or reverse racism?
643
01:04:03,052 --> 01:04:05,816
Once upon a time they said,
''When God was white,
644
01:04:05,889 --> 01:04:07,720
the Negro was not a man,
645
01:04:07,790 --> 01:04:11,817
because God, who had made man
in his image, was not black.''
646
01:04:11,895 --> 01:04:14,989
That must mean that today,
since God is black, we'll say this,
647
01:04:15,064 --> 01:04:18,056
''God made man in his image,
648
01:04:18,134 --> 01:04:21,900
and since God is no longer white,
the white man is no longer a man.''
649
01:04:21,971 --> 01:04:26,999
The Negro community has flocked
to this church where all the saints,
650
01:04:27,076 --> 01:04:29,237
and even the Virgin Mary are all black.
651
01:04:29,312 --> 01:04:30,904
We can't help but think back
652
01:04:30,980 --> 01:04:35,508
to the famous black Manifesto written
in August, 1 969, and still extant,
653
01:04:35,585 --> 01:04:38,076
in which the Negroes claimed that
the Church owed them
654
01:04:38,154 --> 01:04:40,554
300 billion dollars in damages
for what they'd been put through.
655
01:04:40,623 --> 01:04:43,786
The Lord's Prayer says:
''Forgive us our debts,
656
01:04:43,860 --> 01:04:46,522
as we forgive our debtors.''
657
01:04:46,596 --> 01:04:50,555
So now who will pay, if the father who
forgives trespasses is no longer white,
658
01:04:50,633 --> 01:04:53,067
nor is anyone in his family?
659
01:05:21,497 --> 01:05:23,761
They had only just begun
to hear about it,
660
01:05:23,833 --> 01:05:27,200
but already that white God, who
promised a heaven with no slaves
661
01:05:27,270 --> 01:05:28,897
and no masters, fascinated them.
662
01:05:28,972 --> 01:05:30,303
He seemed to be one of them.
663
01:05:30,373 --> 01:05:33,171
He was humiliated, flogged,
crucified.
664
01:05:33,243 --> 01:05:36,735
And for his whole life he had eaten
out of the same plate as the poor.
665
01:05:39,082 --> 01:05:40,982
Get another plate, son.
666
01:06:45,181 --> 01:06:46,409
Hewlett writes:
667
01:06:46,482 --> 01:06:50,248
''It is tolerated that the slaves
gather when they are free from work
668
01:06:50,320 --> 01:06:53,551
in order to imitate
in their fashion the Christian rituals.
669
01:06:53,623 --> 01:06:57,389
Experience has taught us that the more
a slave is religious,
670
01:06:57,460 --> 01:07:00,020
the calmer, more humble
and resigned he will be.
671
01:07:00,096 --> 01:07:01,927
However, the law prescribes also
672
01:07:01,998 --> 01:07:06,435
that these gatherings will be moderated
and presided over by a white man.''
673
01:07:20,216 --> 01:07:25,415
Of all the tales in the Bible, the flight
from Egypt fascinated them the most.
674
01:07:25,488 --> 01:07:29,356
They were so convinced that the story
related to them personally,
675
01:07:29,425 --> 01:07:32,553
that they would draw it on the walls.
Africa was Palestine,
676
01:07:32,628 --> 01:07:35,256
the ocean was the Red Sea,
the sharks were the Pharaohs,
677
01:07:35,331 --> 01:07:37,595
and the Egyptians were
the white masters.
678
01:07:37,667 --> 01:07:41,228
All those fantastical analogies between
their dark history
679
01:07:41,304 --> 01:07:43,670
and the flight of the chosen people
toward the Promised Land
680
01:07:43,740 --> 01:07:48,143
influenced them so, that they started
running away at a rate of 5,000 a year.
681
01:07:48,211 --> 01:07:50,645
They always ran toward the rivers
and the swamps,
682
01:07:50,713 --> 01:07:52,772
because they had crossed the water
to come here,
683
01:07:52,849 --> 01:07:56,080
and they thought
that freedom lay across the water.
684
01:09:47,430 --> 01:09:50,058
There was always a reward on the head
of a runaway slave.
685
01:09:50,132 --> 01:09:53,295
The reward was not contingent, however,
on the slave being returned alive.
686
01:09:53,369 --> 01:09:55,064
All that were needed were their hands
or their heads.
687
01:09:55,137 --> 01:10:00,336
Thus many hunters, especially in
Florida, specialized in runaway slaves.
688
01:10:00,409 --> 01:10:03,242
The fire of Atlanta destroyed
a daguerreotype
689
01:10:03,312 --> 01:10:06,975
that portrayed a scene like this one.
On the back it bore this inscription:
690
01:10:07,049 --> 01:10:09,574
''A good catch today, 1 87 heads.''
691
01:10:12,989 --> 01:10:18,154
Even Andrew Jackson, the great
president, approved of hunting slaves.
692
01:10:18,227 --> 01:10:20,092
Kenneth Stamp writes:
693
01:10:20,162 --> 01:10:24,758
''One dayJackson promised $50 to whoever
could bring back one of his slaves,
694
01:10:24,834 --> 01:10:29,464
and $1 0 extra for every 1 00 lashes,
up to a maximum of 300.''
695
01:10:29,539 --> 01:10:32,269
None of the 1 4 American presidents
who were slave owners
696
01:10:32,341 --> 01:10:35,367
were ever too kind to the Negroes.
697
01:10:35,444 --> 01:10:39,710
They usually found them dumb,
clumsy, and mostly loud.
698
01:10:39,782 --> 01:10:42,876
Another great president,
Thomas Jefferson, wrote:
699
01:10:42,952 --> 01:10:47,013
''My slaves are such idiots,
that instead of going to bed,
700
01:10:47,089 --> 01:10:51,549
they waste the night away under
my windows, making up dances and songs
701
01:10:51,627 --> 01:10:54,994
which, according to them,
mock their master.''
702
01:11:45,014 --> 01:11:48,506
When a Negro mocked his master,
to useJefferson's phrase,
703
01:11:48,584 --> 01:11:53,544
he tried to wound his pride with
the only weapon he had, the grotesque.
704
01:11:53,623 --> 01:11:56,183
Today he wields that weapon against
his entire civilization,
705
01:11:56,258 --> 01:11:58,818
against his hero, his symbol,
his system.
706
01:11:58,894 --> 01:12:04,025
The white hero is armed, and the sword
is the symbol of his prevarication.
707
01:12:04,100 --> 01:12:05,727
He's lurking, again,
under a friar's tunic,
708
01:12:05,801 --> 01:12:10,261
with threats of damnation,
pale and ugly like the devil.
709
01:12:13,109 --> 01:12:16,977
''We are beautiful,'' says Carmichael,
the leader of the black students.
710
01:12:17,046 --> 01:12:19,276
''We are a splendid race.''
711
01:12:19,348 --> 01:12:22,317
That's all well and good, but this year
there will be two Miss Americas.
712
01:12:22,385 --> 01:12:25,286
A white one, and a black one,
who will be called Boganda,
713
01:12:25,354 --> 01:12:28,187
not because it's a nice name,
but because it's an African name.
714
01:12:28,257 --> 01:12:30,817
Today, everything that's black
has to have that Negro-ness.
715
01:12:30,893 --> 01:12:33,487
Afro, African, anything but American.
716
01:12:33,562 --> 01:12:37,157
''Do you know,'' says Carmichael,
''why the Negroes spoke so badly?''
717
01:12:37,233 --> 01:12:38,928
They were protesting against English.
718
01:12:39,001 --> 01:12:42,266
Protest is an ugly fad word,
like Negro-ness.
719
01:12:42,338 --> 01:12:44,602
Boganda, too,
is an ugly name for a queen.
720
01:12:44,674 --> 01:12:46,904
It sounds more like chains
than like freedom.
721
01:12:49,879 --> 01:12:53,679
''We don't want this white freedom.''
Another slogan from Harlem.
722
01:12:53,749 --> 01:12:56,809
''We want a black freedom,
and five white states,
723
01:12:56,886 --> 01:12:58,786
that the United States must give us.''
724
01:12:58,854 --> 01:13:02,158
They dance like Africans,
dress like Africans, and speak Swahili.
725
01:13:02,158 --> 01:13:04,149
''We repudiate your American language,
726
01:13:04,226 --> 01:13:07,320
which you use to say
that we are savages, beasts, monkeys,
727
01:13:07,396 --> 01:13:09,261
and that our sweat smells bad.''
728
01:13:09,331 --> 01:13:13,199
This was said for the first time
by Professor Cartwright in 1 831 .
729
01:13:16,839 --> 01:13:21,970
Smell this sweat.
Do you think it smells human?
730
01:13:22,044 --> 01:13:24,911
Or does it have a beastly smell?
731
01:13:30,019 --> 01:13:35,321
Well, why does it have a beastly smell?
Because our skin is different.
732
01:13:35,391 --> 01:13:38,292
And it's not because of the color,
that's the last thing.
733
01:13:38,360 --> 01:13:41,352
Our illustrious colleagues
up north know
734
01:13:41,430 --> 01:13:45,161
that in one square centimeter
of this black skin
735
01:13:45,234 --> 01:13:49,933
there are at least
twice the sweat glands than in ours.
736
01:13:50,005 --> 01:13:55,170
You don't need a microscope to observe
that in this limited cranial capacity
737
01:13:55,244 --> 01:13:59,874
there is very little brain: that this
is not hair, but beastly bristles:
738
01:13:59,949 --> 01:14:02,440
this forehead is absurdly low,
739
01:14:02,518 --> 01:14:07,285
these eyes totally lack luster,
and show no flicker of intelligence:
740
01:14:07,356 --> 01:14:12,225
that these monstrous nostrils
resemble those of a monkey:
741
01:14:12,294 --> 01:14:15,422
that these teeth and this jaw,
742
01:14:15,498 --> 01:14:19,025
characteristic of anthropophagus
creatures,
743
01:14:19,101 --> 01:14:25,006
are the indisputable proof
that this is a merely humanoid race,
744
01:14:25,074 --> 01:14:29,875
a race inferior to ours.
745
01:14:30,546 --> 01:14:32,138
A race that is merely
746
01:14:32,214 --> 01:14:37,083
another attempt on nature's part
747
01:14:37,153 --> 01:14:40,316
in its millennial journey
748
01:14:40,389 --> 01:14:45,417
toward its ultimate goal, perfection,
749
01:14:46,328 --> 01:14:49,593
the white race, homo sapiens,
750
01:14:50,566 --> 01:14:53,091
in other words, us.
751
01:14:53,169 --> 01:14:56,366
Excuse me, Professor, are you Jewish?
752
01:14:57,339 --> 01:15:00,035
Yes, of course. Why?
753
01:15:09,251 --> 01:15:12,277
Let's imagine we wanted
to exterminate them.
754
01:15:12,354 --> 01:15:16,688
Fire, gas, deportation?
Oh, no.
755
01:15:16,759 --> 01:15:20,251
It would be enough to refrain
from curing their illnesses.
756
01:15:20,329 --> 01:15:25,266
Remember, a healthy Negro
is a perfect slave.
757
01:15:25,334 --> 01:15:29,566
And an imperfect slave
is a sick Negro.
758
01:15:29,638 --> 01:15:32,163
Sick? With which disease, Professor?
759
01:15:32,241 --> 01:15:37,838
These individuals are afflicted
by a disease called ''draptomania'',
760
01:15:38,547 --> 01:15:40,310
which is an impulse to flee.
761
01:15:40,382 --> 01:15:44,944
It's a nervous disease,
which drives the Negro to flee.
762
01:15:45,020 --> 01:15:48,786
Mind you, not out of a desire
for freedom or a sense of dignity.
763
01:15:48,858 --> 01:15:51,691
Negroes have no such sentiments.
764
01:15:51,760 --> 01:15:56,390
He runs because he is ill.
Oh, here's a perfect case:
765
01:15:56,465 --> 01:15:59,730
in fact, an exemplary case
of that affliction
766
01:15:59,802 --> 01:16:03,761
which we scientists call
African scatopathy.
767
01:16:03,839 --> 01:16:09,038
- Are those muzzles?
- Oh, no! Looks are deceiving.
768
01:16:09,111 --> 01:16:10,806
It's not a muzzle.
769
01:16:10,880 --> 01:16:16,341
It's just an obstacle that stops them
from eating all sorts of garbage,
770
01:16:17,519 --> 01:16:21,353
like dirt and their own excrement.
771
01:16:21,423 --> 01:16:25,382
This may be one of the more repugnant
illnesses found in nature.
772
01:16:25,461 --> 01:16:29,295
I'm sure it's caused by the lack
of some unknown substance.
773
01:16:38,207 --> 01:16:42,974
Look at what extremes they go to.
They have such a fear of work,
774
01:16:43,045 --> 01:16:49,507
and such a desire to do nothing,
that they have tricked their masters.
775
01:16:49,585 --> 01:16:52,247
Look, they're so clever.
776
01:16:54,690 --> 01:16:59,389
They make their legs, arms, feet
or hands drop off,
777
01:16:59,461 --> 01:17:03,420
so they can live of their mutilation.
778
01:17:06,502 --> 01:17:10,165
It seems impossible.
How did they end up like this?
779
01:17:10,239 --> 01:17:12,036
I told you.
780
01:17:12,107 --> 01:17:17,670
To get out of working, they inflicted
some small wound on themselves,
781
01:17:17,746 --> 01:17:20,408
and then gangrene set in,
782
01:17:20,482 --> 01:17:29,083
so the surgeon had to cut off
arms and legs to save their hides.
783
01:17:38,767 --> 01:17:41,258
What are these people doing here?
Aren't they Indians?
784
01:17:41,337 --> 01:17:44,101
Yes, but the Indians are useless.
785
01:17:44,173 --> 01:17:46,004
Between a Negro and an Indian
786
01:17:46,075 --> 01:17:49,841
there's the same difference
as between a dog and a coyote.
787
01:17:49,912 --> 01:17:55,578
You can beat a dog to death,
and he'll go on licking your feet.
788
01:17:55,651 --> 01:18:00,247
If you deprive a coyote of its freedom,
you might as well deprive it of air.
789
01:18:00,322 --> 01:18:03,723
An Indian will never be a slave.
790
01:18:04,460 --> 01:18:08,453
No one has ever succeeded
in having them reproduce in captivity.
791
01:18:08,530 --> 01:18:14,435
They don't eat. They don't speak. They
don't sleep and they don't make love.
792
01:18:16,205 --> 01:18:20,437
Look at these bizarre creatures,
neither men nor beasts.
793
01:18:20,509 --> 01:18:25,071
These black and sick projections
of our humanity,
794
01:18:25,147 --> 01:18:30,779
who suddenly ask us to survive
in this world of ours.
795
01:18:30,853 --> 01:18:34,755
They are as ancient as we are,
and yet up until now
796
01:18:34,823 --> 01:18:37,087
they had never seen a wheel.
797
01:18:37,159 --> 01:18:42,426
But in a world like ours,
rich with centuries of civilization,
798
01:18:42,498 --> 01:18:48,562
what could they ever do,
but bask in the reflection of our glory?
799
01:18:52,808 --> 01:18:56,175
Every year in February,
the white people of Louisiana
800
01:18:56,245 --> 01:18:58,713
hold a carnival
draped in black skin.
801
01:18:58,781 --> 01:19:01,045
Today it feels like the parody
802
01:19:01,116 --> 01:19:06,019
of the privilege enjoyed
for one day a year by all the slaves.
803
01:19:06,088 --> 01:19:09,524
That day, the masters would tolerate
insults and threats.
804
01:19:09,591 --> 01:19:13,960
''Further left than any left,
we'll drive against the current.''
805
01:19:14,029 --> 01:19:17,362
But if Cleaver and Bobby Seale,
founder of the Black Panthers,
806
01:19:17,433 --> 01:19:22,200
had lived 1 50 years ago,
the things they yell out every day now,
807
01:19:22,271 --> 01:19:24,739
they could have said them only
on the day of the carnival.
808
01:19:24,807 --> 01:19:29,744
''You whites, who still today wave
your discriminating and racist flags,
809
01:19:29,812 --> 01:19:31,609
we'll put you all up against a wall!''
810
01:19:31,680 --> 01:19:35,377
But the next day, Cleaver and Seale
would have been sold right here,
811
01:19:35,451 --> 01:19:39,251
in the huge slave market, where the rum
ran like a river in the streets.
812
01:19:39,321 --> 01:19:43,018
Then, when the trumpet would sound
the closing of the market,
813
01:19:43,092 --> 01:19:46,061
and the drunken crowd would be
thrown out of the enclosure,
814
01:19:46,128 --> 01:19:49,461
they would have been locked up like
jailbirds in the shacks of the camp,
815
01:19:49,531 --> 01:19:52,500
so they could spend their last night
with their wives and children.
816
01:19:54,703 --> 01:19:58,230
All this is now in the past,
and is part of history.
817
01:19:58,307 --> 01:20:02,971
Any reference to the people
in these images is purely coincidental.
818
01:20:03,045 --> 01:20:05,172
They happened to be walking by here
while our cameras
819
01:20:05,247 --> 01:20:08,683
were filming the site of the
most famous slave market in the south,
820
01:20:08,750 --> 01:20:13,710
where every year, during the carnival,
20,000 slaves were sold.
821
01:21:49,751 --> 01:21:52,481
400, I said 400 and not a penny less.
822
01:21:52,554 --> 01:21:55,318
- No, 200 is as high as I will go.
- I didn't steal him, you know.
823
01:21:55,390 --> 01:21:57,187
- 300, then.
- No.
824
01:21:57,259 --> 01:21:59,250
You can keep your Negro, then.
825
01:21:59,328 --> 01:22:01,990
New Orleans, February, 1 831 .
826
01:22:02,064 --> 01:22:04,965
The son of the sheriff, Tommy Adley,
827
01:22:05,033 --> 01:22:09,834
draws the winning numbers of the state
lottery at the 27 th slave market.
828
01:22:09,905 --> 01:22:12,533
First prize, a quarter mulatto girl
of 1 5 years.
829
01:22:12,608 --> 01:22:16,339
Second prize, a cook, and third prize,
three fat pigs from Virginia.
830
01:22:17,879 --> 01:22:20,643
Together with the Memphis fair,
the fair in New Orleans
831
01:22:20,716 --> 01:22:22,308
is the most important fair in the south,
832
01:22:22,384 --> 01:22:26,150
with a volume of business of more than
40 million dollars a year.
833
01:22:26,221 --> 01:22:29,019
The merchandise is all homegrown,
834
01:22:29,091 --> 01:22:33,084
and comes from farm consortia
in Florida and in Virginia.
835
01:22:33,161 --> 01:22:34,822
The market is on the upswing.
836
01:22:34,896 --> 01:22:38,195
A typical male, that only six years ago
went for $500,
837
01:22:38,267 --> 01:22:40,963
is now worth $1 ,500 plus taxes.
838
01:22:41,036 --> 01:22:44,096
Colonel Bowie,
who only deals in wholesale pups,
839
01:22:44,172 --> 01:22:48,006
can sell them today at up to $1 5/lb.
840
01:22:48,076 --> 01:22:52,342
This year the most popular races
are Ausa, Mandingo, and Turkana.
841
01:22:52,414 --> 01:22:54,814
The Ausa are more graceful,
but more fragile.
842
01:22:54,883 --> 01:22:57,283
The Mandingo are more sturdy,
but not as intelligent.
843
01:22:57,352 --> 01:23:00,617
The Turkana are of smaller build,
more docile and manageable.
844
01:23:00,689 --> 01:23:03,954
They are the most popular
with the religious institutions.
845
01:23:04,026 --> 01:23:09,020
In 1 863, the French Ursuline nuns alone
had 200 of them.
846
01:23:13,101 --> 01:23:17,697
Of all the ones we saw at the market,
this is the loveliest little angel.
847
01:23:17,773 --> 01:23:20,503
He's really a delightful creature.
848
01:23:21,510 --> 01:23:24,843
What should we do, sister?
849
01:23:24,913 --> 01:23:30,078
It's very tempting, but have you seen
the prices this year?
850
01:23:30,152 --> 01:23:33,644
- He's too expensive.
- But he's such an angel.
851
01:23:33,722 --> 01:23:37,783
And he's healthy and strong.
He could help in the kitchen.
852
01:23:37,859 --> 01:23:42,057
Sister, can you imagine what
the Mother Superior would say?
853
01:23:42,130 --> 01:23:45,327
- She's already bought four this year.
- Oh, sister.
854
01:23:45,400 --> 01:23:51,032
He's not that expensive, at $300.
Let's offer them $200.
855
01:23:53,775 --> 01:23:56,266
He got scared
and lost his mother in the crowd.
856
01:23:56,345 --> 01:23:58,643
They can't even get him
to tell them his name.
857
01:23:58,714 --> 01:24:01,012
He just stands there, quiet, frowning,
858
01:24:01,083 --> 01:24:03,711
but a little calmer,
with so many policemen around,
859
01:24:03,785 --> 01:24:08,245
who seem to protect him from those
large white ghosts, who scared him.
860
01:24:15,630 --> 01:24:17,393
After only one day of power,
861
01:24:17,466 --> 01:24:19,957
the Negro king of the carnival
has lost his throne.
862
01:24:20,035 --> 01:24:22,333
His short time
of privilege has expired.
863
01:24:22,404 --> 01:24:23,894
Now it's the white man's turn.
864
01:24:40,722 --> 01:24:44,453
Right here, in the Carr�, where the
queens of the neighborhood have gathered,
865
01:24:44,526 --> 01:24:47,495
there once stood
two famous houses of ill repute.
866
01:24:47,562 --> 01:24:49,553
The one called The Two Sisters,
867
01:24:49,631 --> 01:24:53,032
and right across the street, the other,
Mr. Roberts'.
868
01:24:53,101 --> 01:24:56,628
Since at the time there
were only two, distinct genders,
869
01:24:56,705 --> 01:25:00,004
anyone could choose what they liked
in either of the two houses,
870
01:25:00,075 --> 01:25:03,067
without the danger of making mistakes.
871
01:25:03,145 --> 01:25:06,876
At the Two Sisters one could find
anything in the ''normal'' variety,
872
01:25:06,948 --> 01:25:08,745
as it was once thought of.
873
01:25:08,817 --> 01:25:13,151
At Mr. Roberts', instead, there was
the best of the ''other'', as it were,
874
01:25:13,221 --> 01:25:16,281
that which today is considered
the ''normal'' variety.
875
01:25:16,358 --> 01:25:21,227
In fact, the two houses
were not competitors at the time.
876
01:25:21,296 --> 01:25:25,289
Both houses got their wares from
the market, two blocks away from here.
877
01:25:25,367 --> 01:25:27,858
All top quality merchandise,
the genuine article,
878
01:25:27,936 --> 01:25:31,770
what we would think of today as
''good old-fashioned wares.''
879
01:25:39,181 --> 01:25:42,947
In the New Orleans market there was
a secret sector, where the merchandise,
880
01:25:43,018 --> 01:25:44,542
before it was put on display,
881
01:25:44,619 --> 01:25:48,350
was prepared and arranged
by gender, age and quality.
882
01:25:48,423 --> 01:25:51,881
The girls chosen
to become ''fancy girls'',
883
01:25:51,960 --> 01:25:55,123
were given over to a man named Buzz,
described by Hewlett
884
01:25:55,197 --> 01:25:59,725
as a repulsive and obese individual,
always filthy with the grease
885
01:25:59,801 --> 01:26:03,237
which he used to oil the fillies
to make their skin softer.
886
01:26:03,305 --> 01:26:07,639
But the keys to the warehouse where
the pieces for real collectors were kept
887
01:26:07,709 --> 01:26:12,043
were jealously guarded by a funny
little midget known as the General.
888
01:26:15,450 --> 01:26:18,442
Only I have these keys.
I'm the master here.
889
01:26:20,555 --> 01:26:23,615
Get inside, you bastards,
or I'll have you flogged.
890
01:26:23,692 --> 01:26:28,061
I'll show you who's in charge here.
I am the General, you hear?
891
01:26:28,129 --> 01:26:33,362
Come on, follow me.
Open up, it's me, the General.
892
01:26:33,435 --> 01:26:35,869
Open up, you sons of bitches!
893
01:26:37,405 --> 01:26:38,565
Hurry up!
894
01:26:39,474 --> 01:26:42,443
Hey, white men, look at
the merchandise I'm in charge of.
895
01:26:42,511 --> 01:26:46,845
The General is the guard of the market.
This is the market's safe.
896
01:26:46,915 --> 01:26:52,717
Look, tens of thousands of dollars.
Top quality whores. All virgins.
897
01:26:52,787 --> 01:26:56,382
You, get to work, dirty Negress.
None of them are all Negro.
898
01:26:56,458 --> 01:27:00,360
They all have at least half human blood
in their veins, like me.
899
01:27:00,428 --> 01:27:02,794
They've all been sold,
and are ready for delivery.
900
01:27:02,864 --> 01:27:05,492
Delivered to your doorstep,
luxuriously packaged.
901
01:27:05,567 --> 01:27:10,027
Hey, white men, you can look,
but don't touch.
902
01:27:10,105 --> 01:27:11,936
You know the rules.
903
01:27:12,007 --> 01:27:14,601
It's forbidden to touch
the merchandise on display.
904
01:27:14,676 --> 01:27:17,008
Only I, the General, can touch.
905
01:27:17,078 --> 01:27:19,376
Do you want to see? Here.
906
01:27:19,447 --> 01:27:22,678
This is Cassandra, a half-caste.
She comes from the Harrison estate.
907
01:27:22,751 --> 01:27:25,345
She's the daughter of Zephira
and the great Meatto.
908
01:27:25,420 --> 01:27:30,380
Artemis, three-quarters human blood,
the firmest tits in the warehouse.
909
01:27:30,458 --> 01:27:34,952
$5,000, payment in cash,
comes with a two-year warranty.
910
01:27:35,030 --> 01:27:38,864
Vintage of 1 848.
Imperial Reserve, white or Ros�,
911
01:27:38,934 --> 01:27:41,630
guaranteed by the consortium.
912
01:27:41,703 --> 01:27:45,230
This is Eva. You like apples, huh?
913
01:27:45,307 --> 01:27:48,799
Go ahead and eat them,
but stay away from any snakes.
914
01:27:49,678 --> 01:27:54,342
You've never seen anything like this.
Who cares if you've never seen it?
915
01:27:54,416 --> 01:27:59,877
That's enough, let's go. I don't have
time to waste. I'm the General.
916
01:27:59,955 --> 01:28:02,423
Open up!
917
01:28:03,124 --> 01:28:07,891
Come on, keep it up.
You clown, dance, move it!
918
01:28:07,963 --> 01:28:09,726
Go on, dance.
919
01:29:09,290 --> 01:29:10,848
No, no, no.
920
01:29:10,925 --> 01:29:14,383
Not like that, not like that, beasts,
Like this!
921
01:29:15,096 --> 01:29:17,860
I'll show you.
922
01:29:17,932 --> 01:29:21,993
Like this, not with your hips.
Move your ass!
923
01:29:33,648 --> 01:29:35,582
Open up, it's me.
924
01:29:36,251 --> 01:29:40,381
Oh, the Europeans. What an honor!
925
01:29:40,455 --> 01:29:43,720
I'm in a state, I'm afraid.
Look at my hands.
926
01:29:43,792 --> 01:29:46,522
Excuse the mess, but you should see
in what state they deliver them.
927
01:29:46,594 --> 01:29:49,586
Come on, take your places.
I go crazy getting them ready.
928
01:29:49,664 --> 01:29:52,098
They're in such demand that they
rip them out of my hands
929
01:29:52,167 --> 01:29:53,099
even before they're ready.
930
01:29:53,168 --> 01:29:55,659
I'm sorry, I don't have much time.
931
01:29:55,737 --> 01:30:00,902
I'm so busy. Come on, show yourselves
off to the gentlemen. Take a look.
932
01:30:00,975 --> 01:30:06,572
Not bad, eh? Try to guess the prices.
$500, $1 ,000, $1 ,500?
933
01:30:07,649 --> 01:30:11,346
No, $3,000, my dear gentlemen.
934
01:30:26,334 --> 01:30:27,824
Hewlett writes:
935
01:30:27,902 --> 01:30:32,930
''Pairs of male twins at a certain point
enjoyed a moment of great popularity,
936
01:30:33,007 --> 01:30:36,238
also because of
an ugly habit that became a fad.
937
01:30:36,311 --> 01:30:38,836
But due to the extreme rarity
of this particular merchandise,
938
01:30:38,913 --> 01:30:42,713
as there were many orders,
there were many tricksters.''
939
01:30:42,784 --> 01:30:45,252
Tricksters? What are you talking about?
940
01:30:45,320 --> 01:30:47,618
This is a reputable establishment,
renowned throughout the south.
941
01:30:47,689 --> 01:30:49,213
Look at this pair, a rarity.
942
01:30:49,290 --> 01:30:52,418
- You faggot!
- Our clients can rest assured.
943
01:30:52,494 --> 01:30:56,157
These are two authentic Kelloggs.
Look, they're signed.
944
01:30:57,398 --> 01:31:00,629
Quiet. Open up, it's me,
the General.
945
01:31:01,603 --> 01:31:05,699
Come in, but no questions.
These should be in a museum.
946
01:31:05,774 --> 01:31:09,801
They're fit for a king.
Base price, $1 5,000.
947
01:31:10,912 --> 01:31:15,372
- What's so special about him?
- He's got three of them!
948
01:31:16,117 --> 01:31:21,851
One, two, three.
Three, three, three!
949
01:31:23,291 --> 01:31:28,923
Three, he has three, three!
950
01:31:36,838 --> 01:31:42,037
This one had six, including one
that broke and is now being repaired.
951
01:31:42,110 --> 01:31:44,408
They were all sold
to six different masters,
952
01:31:44,479 --> 01:31:47,312
and the mother killed herself
out of desperation.
953
01:31:47,382 --> 01:31:50,818
This is the most
important exhibit in the museum.
954
01:31:50,885 --> 01:31:55,015
In the wax museum of New Orleans,
among many statues of slaves in chains
955
01:31:55,089 --> 01:31:58,149
and of evil masters, the group
that today fascinates the tourists
956
01:31:58,226 --> 01:32:02,663
is the group of Madame La Laurie,
the most famous sadist of all time.
957
01:32:02,730 --> 01:32:04,288
We know that she was the wife
of a doctor,
958
01:32:04,365 --> 01:32:07,300
that she was a member
of the Creole high society in Louisiana,
959
01:32:07,368 --> 01:32:09,768
and that she had a good reputation
960
01:32:09,838 --> 01:32:12,932
until the day when the firemen,
who responded to a fire alarm,
961
01:32:13,007 --> 01:32:17,944
they went into the attic and found all
the evidence that enabled Judge Caldwell
962
01:32:18,012 --> 01:32:23,541
a nearly exact reconstruction
of how the respectable lady
963
01:32:23,618 --> 01:32:28,749
and her faithful helper, Caesar,
enjoyed their leisure time.
964
01:32:28,823 --> 01:32:30,017
Come.
965
01:32:32,927 --> 01:32:37,261
Caesar, Caesar, you've done it again.
966
01:32:38,166 --> 01:32:40,066
She died on me.
967
01:32:40,134 --> 01:32:44,662
Caesar, you really go too far.
968
01:32:44,739 --> 01:32:47,435
It's the third girl in a week.
969
01:32:48,977 --> 01:32:52,845
Don't be so upset.
I'll buy you another.
970
01:32:55,183 --> 01:33:00,211
But look at my partner, my dear,
sweet playmate.
971
01:33:00,288 --> 01:33:02,279
The lovely countess.
972
01:33:02,357 --> 01:33:05,326
She knows how to wait,
973
01:33:05,393 --> 01:33:08,885
how to postpone the divine
moment of the first drop of blood.
974
01:33:08,963 --> 01:33:13,400
Pleasure can wait, there's no hurry.
975
01:33:13,468 --> 01:33:14,935
We've given them opium.
976
01:33:15,003 --> 01:33:17,904
And now they're sleeping.
They've been sleeping for centuries.
977
01:33:17,972 --> 01:33:21,806
It's all ours, all we have to do
is reach out.
978
01:33:21,876 --> 01:33:25,710
We can take our pleasure quickly,
consuming it quickly, like Caesar does,
979
01:33:25,780 --> 01:33:28,749
or we can take it a little at a time,
allowing them to survive
980
01:33:28,816 --> 01:33:33,412
over a long, drawn-out, exhausting wait,
981
01:33:34,422 --> 01:33:39,450
tormented by desire, fed by her fear.
982
01:33:45,466 --> 01:33:48,492
What about you?
Aren't you afraid?
983
01:33:53,841 --> 01:33:57,538
No, you're not afraid,
my brave little cock.
984
01:34:00,481 --> 01:34:07,887
But don't worry, fear will come later,
when the pliers will bite you
985
01:34:07,956 --> 01:34:11,653
right there, where you now want me.
986
01:34:11,726 --> 01:34:15,856
In your country, when a Negro
dares to want a white woman,
987
01:34:15,930 --> 01:34:18,194
isn't this what you do to him?
988
01:34:19,801 --> 01:34:23,703
I don't know who you are,
nor where you come from,
989
01:34:25,173 --> 01:34:28,973
but don't you think the time I live in
is marvelous?
990
01:34:29,043 --> 01:34:33,446
All this lovely flesh is mine.
This body is mine.
991
01:34:34,882 --> 01:34:39,216
I can buy 1 0, 1 00, 1 ,000 of them,
if I want to.
992
01:34:39,287 --> 01:34:43,314
Males, females,
little boys, little girls.
993
01:34:43,992 --> 01:34:46,688
I can consume them, corrupt them,
994
01:34:46,761 --> 01:34:50,925
enjoy them, destroy them.
995
01:34:56,270 --> 01:35:01,037
What are you waiting for, idiots?
996
01:35:01,109 --> 01:35:03,100
Come on, help yourselves.
997
01:35:03,177 --> 01:35:07,580
When will you ever have
another chance like this?
998
01:35:08,549 --> 01:35:11,541
In New Orleans such chances
were never lacking.
999
01:35:11,619 --> 01:35:14,588
If a gentleman received an invitation
to visit a friend who lived in the city
1000
01:35:14,655 --> 01:35:17,590
while the wife and children were
on vacation,
1001
01:35:17,658 --> 01:35:20,491
in addition to good food
and clean linen,
1002
01:35:20,561 --> 01:35:23,724
he could expect a comely Negress
to share his bed at night.
1003
01:35:23,798 --> 01:35:26,926
A refusal would insult the host.
1004
01:35:27,001 --> 01:35:29,561
This was just part of the rules
of hospitality,
1005
01:35:29,637 --> 01:35:32,003
for which the Mammy was responsible.
1006
01:35:45,019 --> 01:35:47,510
Get in line.
1007
01:35:48,423 --> 01:35:51,551
You, let me see your hands.
1008
01:35:51,626 --> 01:35:55,187
Your nails are like a pig's nails.
Go on, get washed up!
1009
01:35:56,397 --> 01:35:59,662
You, come here.
Let me smell you.
1010
01:36:01,736 --> 01:36:07,504
You smell like the goats in the barn.
Go, and wash with ashes.
1011
01:36:08,443 --> 01:36:11,776
You, open your mouth
and let me smell your breath.
1012
01:36:13,581 --> 01:36:18,780
You smell of garlic. Chew this,
it'll take away the stench of a hog.
1013
01:36:19,821 --> 01:36:24,952
You're usually clean. You hardly
smell at all. Good filly.
1014
01:36:25,026 --> 01:36:29,588
You, turn around.
You haven't been fucking, have you?
1015
01:36:33,701 --> 01:36:35,760
Spread your legs!
1016
01:36:39,440 --> 01:36:42,307
Sleeping with a black slave
every night was,
1017
01:36:42,376 --> 01:36:44,105
for all the white males of the house
1018
01:36:44,178 --> 01:36:48,308
fathers, sons and guests, a good hygienic
practice, like brushing your teeth.
1019
01:36:48,382 --> 01:36:50,577
As a pretext
they said it was healthy.
1020
01:36:50,651 --> 01:36:54,348
For the sons, it was supposed to be
a remedy for teenage acne.
1021
01:36:54,422 --> 01:36:58,188
And it was good for the husbands,
as the puritanical mores of the times
1022
01:36:58,259 --> 01:37:01,194
limited their access to their wives.
1023
01:37:01,262 --> 01:37:03,059
But, aside from health considerations,
1024
01:37:03,131 --> 01:37:05,292
let's find out how these slave girls
were in bed.
1025
01:37:08,336 --> 01:37:10,167
Just like the first cigar.
1026
01:37:10,238 --> 01:37:12,638
At first there's a horrible stench,
and you feel nauseous.
1027
01:37:12,707 --> 01:37:15,835
But by the third time you're hooked.
1028
01:37:15,910 --> 01:37:18,811
Harder on my back,
you know I like it.
1029
01:37:18,880 --> 01:37:22,008
Her mother was my first cigar.
I smoked her when I was ten.
1030
01:37:22,083 --> 01:37:25,610
I was terrified my father
would catch me in the act.
1031
01:37:25,686 --> 01:37:27,950
But when I realized that my father,
too, smoked,
1032
01:37:28,022 --> 01:37:29,649
well, I stopped being afraid,
and started to enjoy it.
1033
01:37:29,724 --> 01:37:33,820
Perhaps it's that gamy smell they have,
but I like them more than white ones.
1034
01:37:34,795 --> 01:37:38,026
If I can catch one,
I'll try to get her into bed.
1035
01:37:41,936 --> 01:37:44,063
But where will I find a white woman
around here?
1036
01:37:44,138 --> 01:37:46,197
Besides, my father says
it's not worth it.
1037
01:37:46,274 --> 01:37:50,870
They smell too, but like corpses.
He says they're bad for your health.
1038
01:37:51,712 --> 01:37:54,840
He's been bedding Negresses for
7 0 years, and he hasn't missed a beat.
1039
01:37:55,516 --> 01:37:58,178
He likes them big, especially
in the tit department.
1040
01:37:59,020 --> 01:38:01,545
Look at this merchandise.
Not bad, eh?
1041
01:38:01,622 --> 01:38:05,786
If you ignore them, you're playing
right into their hand.
1042
01:38:05,860 --> 01:38:08,761
You destroy them,
one night at a time.
1043
01:38:08,829 --> 01:38:13,289
At my age, it's starting to get
rather trying.
1044
01:38:13,367 --> 01:38:16,928
But with the help of divine
providence, and oysters,
1045
01:38:19,640 --> 01:38:21,505
I can still hold my own.
1046
01:38:27,982 --> 01:38:34,148
Mammy! Mammy!
Where are you, you black whore?
1047
01:38:34,222 --> 01:38:37,385
Where are you, Mammy?
1048
01:38:37,458 --> 01:38:40,325
- I'm coming, I'm coming.
- Mammy!
1049
01:38:40,995 --> 01:38:45,193
What's the matter, master?
Why are you angry?
1050
01:38:45,266 --> 01:38:49,703
You idiot. You have the gall to ask
why I'm angry, you asshole!
1051
01:38:49,770 --> 01:38:52,933
Did you, or did you not rip me off
by sending this idiot to my room?
1052
01:38:53,007 --> 01:38:55,567
Don't talk like that, master.
1053
01:38:55,643 --> 01:38:57,873
I've never ripped anyone off.
1054
01:38:57,945 --> 01:39:03,110
- She looks like a beautiful lover.
- What do I care at my age for beauty?
1055
01:39:03,184 --> 01:39:04,708
This filly is a virgin.
1056
01:39:04,785 --> 01:39:08,312
What do you expect me to do
with a virgin at my age, you idiot?
1057
01:39:08,389 --> 01:39:09,788
Take her back.
1058
01:39:09,857 --> 01:39:14,021
Don't talk like that, master.
Please, don't get mad. Wait.
1059
01:39:14,095 --> 01:39:18,828
I'll send you another filly,
one who's been broken in.
1060
01:39:21,469 --> 01:39:25,462
You should be ashamed of yourself,
you ugly whore.
1061
01:39:25,539 --> 01:39:28,736
When you came here, were you
really a virgin?
1062
01:39:28,809 --> 01:39:32,870
Or is the old man too old
to fuck anymore?
1063
01:39:32,947 --> 01:39:35,142
Are you really a virgin?
1064
01:39:37,485 --> 01:39:40,648
You whore, you whore!
1065
01:39:40,721 --> 01:39:44,521
Come in, child.
Come on in.
1066
01:39:44,592 --> 01:39:49,495
Do you want me, master?
I asked for you. I'm clean.
1067
01:39:49,563 --> 01:39:52,225
- I'm also a virgin.
- What are you saying, child?
1068
01:39:52,900 --> 01:39:55,368
- How old are you?
- I'm thirteen.
1069
01:39:55,436 --> 01:39:59,167
- You're just a child.
- I'm thirteen, Mammy says.
1070
01:39:59,240 --> 01:40:04,439
You mean that here, girls like you--
Where I come from we don't do this.
1071
01:40:04,512 --> 01:40:07,538
- I'm not from here.
- Do you want this first?
1072
01:40:07,615 --> 01:40:10,743
Mammy says that if whites don't play
with the whip first,
1073
01:40:10,818 --> 01:40:13,343
they can't get it up to fuck a woman.
1074
01:40:13,421 --> 01:40:14,353
What are you saying?
1075
01:40:14,422 --> 01:40:16,788
The stranger is the journalist
Malcolm Fawcett,
1076
01:40:16,857 --> 01:40:19,826
and this conversation was excerpted
from his experiences in Louisiana.
1077
01:40:19,894 --> 01:40:23,694
It refers to his first night in Mobile,
in the home of Mr. Charleston,
1078
01:40:23,764 --> 01:40:25,891
a planter,
whose guest he was for a week.
1079
01:40:25,966 --> 01:40:30,096
Please, master, don't send me away.
1080
01:40:30,171 --> 01:40:32,366
- Do me this favor.
- Don't raise your voice.
1081
01:40:32,440 --> 01:40:34,431
Mammy will be angry
if I stay a virgin.
1082
01:40:34,508 --> 01:40:38,205
- Please,join me.
- What do you mean, right here?
1083
01:40:39,046 --> 01:40:43,779
Your bed is so big,
and I am so small.
1084
01:40:43,851 --> 01:40:47,981
If I take my dress off, I don't smell.
1085
01:40:48,055 --> 01:40:52,048
You know, I washed my whole body.
1086
01:40:52,126 --> 01:40:57,723
I don't smell, master.
If you're tired though, for real,
1087
01:40:57,798 --> 01:41:03,031
- I'll let you sleep.
- Sleep. It would be hard now, child.
1088
01:41:03,104 --> 01:41:08,667
It would be too bad, though, master.
I like you.
1089
01:41:08,743 --> 01:41:11,007
''I wanted to dissuade her,''
writes Fawcett,
1090
01:41:11,078 --> 01:41:14,570
''even though, knowing the custom,
I realized I was being rude.
1091
01:41:14,648 --> 01:41:18,846
But when I recommended that she turn
to a young man of her same condition --''
1092
01:41:18,919 --> 01:41:24,915
You mean with a Negro?
No, I don't like Negroes.
1093
01:41:25,426 --> 01:41:31,592
No, Negroes disgust me.
I tried once with a Negro.
1094
01:41:31,665 --> 01:41:36,967
He hurt me so much.
He was so big.
1095
01:41:37,638 --> 01:41:38,662
You know,
1096
01:41:38,739 --> 01:41:44,371
White men
are much smaller, master.
1097
01:41:44,445 --> 01:41:48,905
It's much better
for a beginner like me.
1098
01:41:48,983 --> 01:41:52,680
White men don't smell like Negroes.
1099
01:41:54,522 --> 01:41:59,016
Do me the favor,
1100
01:41:59,093 --> 01:42:03,757
master, please.
1101
01:42:03,831 --> 01:42:07,767
Yes, like that, master.
Yes.
1102
01:42:40,968 --> 01:42:44,699
This awful book from Boston goes on
to spread even more filth. Listen.
1103
01:42:44,772 --> 01:42:48,936
''As for the southern ladies,
their famous virtue
1104
01:42:49,009 --> 01:42:53,036
is greatly devalued by the fact that
they have no choice in the matter.''
1105
01:42:53,113 --> 01:42:56,981
Listen to this.
''How could they not be virtuous,
1106
01:42:57,051 --> 01:43:01,420
since their men would much rather
go with colored girls?''
1107
01:43:01,489 --> 01:43:04,925
- I can't believe it.
- ''The truth is that these women
1108
01:43:04,992 --> 01:43:09,053
can get no satisfaction from either
husbands or potential lovers,
1109
01:43:09,129 --> 01:43:13,395
as these are too often occupied with
the comely slaves on the plantation.''
1110
01:43:13,467 --> 01:43:17,631
The horror! How could someone write
such venomous nonsense?
1111
01:43:17,705 --> 01:43:22,074
It's all shameless political propaganda.
What do they know of the Negroes,
1112
01:43:22,142 --> 01:43:25,270
those pencil pushers from Boston
and Philadelphia?
1113
01:43:25,346 --> 01:43:30,716
Nothing. But envy, prejudice and malice
induce them to try to humiliate us
1114
01:43:30,784 --> 01:43:33,014
in every way possible.
1115
01:43:33,087 --> 01:43:36,989
My God, how could they insult
our husbands like this? Our men?
1116
01:43:37,057 --> 01:43:38,388
It's absolutely disgraceful.
1117
01:43:38,459 --> 01:43:42,623
Goodness, accusing our men
of fornicating with slaves
1118
01:43:42,696 --> 01:43:45,893
is like saying that they're copulating
with animals.
1119
01:43:45,966 --> 01:43:49,902
It's nothing less than
an accusation of sexual aberration.
1120
01:43:49,970 --> 01:43:53,633
The phenomenon of abnormal mating
between whites and Negroes
1121
01:43:53,707 --> 01:43:58,906
has a scientific name: Bestiality.
1122
01:43:58,979 --> 01:44:00,503
- It's disgraceful!
- Lies!
1123
01:44:00,581 --> 01:44:05,109
As if we didn't know all too well where
our husbands take their incontinence!
1124
01:44:05,185 --> 01:44:08,882
Every Friday night --
but what am I saying?
1125
01:44:10,024 --> 01:44:14,393
I'm sorry, my friends, but we shouldn't
speak so clearly in front of them.
1126
01:44:14,461 --> 01:44:17,453
Don't worry, my dear. I've noticed
a tendency among our slaves
1127
01:44:17,531 --> 01:44:21,058
a general tendency to develop
a lighter skin tone.
1128
01:44:21,135 --> 01:44:23,330
As time goes by, they become
lighter and lighter.
1129
01:44:23,404 --> 01:44:28,205
But their mentality, intelligence
and sensitivity are those of animals.
1130
01:44:28,275 --> 01:44:31,733
It's true, each generation
is lighter than the previous one.
1131
01:44:31,812 --> 01:44:35,145
In my house there have been
a few pink Negro babies, even.
1132
01:44:35,215 --> 01:44:37,649
My husband says that this
phenomenon is called --
1133
01:44:37,718 --> 01:44:43,714
Symbiosis. The scientific term
is symbiosis. Your husband is right.
1134
01:44:43,791 --> 01:44:47,522
It's like those creatures that take on
the color of their habitat.
1135
01:44:47,595 --> 01:44:51,031
You're right, dear.
Take Scipio, for example.
1136
01:44:51,098 --> 01:44:53,328
He's left-handed, like my brother.
1137
01:44:53,400 --> 01:44:54,867
Or takeJason, here.
1138
01:44:54,935 --> 01:44:57,836
My husband raised him personally
from when he was a child.
1139
01:44:57,905 --> 01:45:00,965
And now, incredibly, he's almost
as blond as my husband.
1140
01:45:02,142 --> 01:45:04,975
Nature is truly bizarre.
1141
01:45:25,833 --> 01:45:30,361
Here it is, my Negro factory.
You get the general idea down there.
1142
01:45:31,071 --> 01:45:35,030
Business was going downhill.
Cotton and tobacco were in crisis.
1143
01:45:35,109 --> 01:45:40,570
So I got up my courage and transformed
the plantation into a stud farm.
1144
01:45:40,648 --> 01:45:42,582
And I have to say it's worked out well
1145
01:45:42,650 --> 01:45:45,813
because the new law that prohibits
importing Negroes from Africa
1146
01:45:45,886 --> 01:45:48,855
has practically doubled
the price of slaves.
1147
01:45:48,922 --> 01:45:51,049
- And so, after everything--
- Hey, Pa!
1148
01:45:53,060 --> 01:45:55,426
Mr. Wilson's here!
1149
01:45:59,700 --> 01:46:02,430
Hello Mr. Bighorn.
I've brought the Negress.
1150
01:46:02,503 --> 01:46:05,336
Here she is.
Did you count the days well?
1151
01:46:06,407 --> 01:46:10,275
- Are you completely sure she's in heat?
- Of course she's in heat.
1152
01:46:10,344 --> 01:46:12,471
She's perfectly ready for breeding.
1153
01:46:12,546 --> 01:46:15,447
If we give her to the male right away,
he'll certainly go right for her.
1154
01:46:15,516 --> 01:46:16,642
Okay.
1155
01:46:16,717 --> 01:46:18,514
How many days has it been
since the bleeding stopped?
1156
01:46:19,720 --> 01:46:23,679
My wife counted 1 2.
With the trip, that makes 1 3.
1157
01:46:23,757 --> 01:46:27,750
If you let me breed her right away, I'll
be out of your hair within two hours.
1158
01:46:27,828 --> 01:46:29,090
Can I have her, Pa?
1159
01:46:29,163 --> 01:46:31,529
We'll talk about that
after the examination.
1160
01:46:31,598 --> 01:46:33,657
For now, do your homework.
1161
01:46:35,703 --> 01:46:37,568
- Is she healthy?
- Of course.
1162
01:46:37,638 --> 01:46:39,731
- She doesn't have crabs?
- What are you saying?
1163
01:46:39,807 --> 01:46:41,206
We always kept her at home.
1164
01:46:42,943 --> 01:46:45,207
- Oh, so she's a virgin.
- Of course.
1165
01:46:45,279 --> 01:46:46,769
You know that we've been saving her
forJason.
1166
01:46:46,847 --> 01:46:50,908
What?
A virgin for such a stallion?
1167
01:46:51,952 --> 01:46:54,352
He'll rip her innards apart.
1168
01:46:55,155 --> 01:46:58,454
If he does, you can sew her up again.
Don't worry.
1169
01:46:58,525 --> 01:47:01,722
You know I could breed this one
for at least $50.
1170
01:47:01,795 --> 01:47:02,921
And right at home, too.
1171
01:47:02,996 --> 01:47:05,556
If I've made 60 Negroes
and paid 200 for it
1172
01:47:05,632 --> 01:47:08,032
it's because I likeJason's line.
1173
01:47:08,102 --> 01:47:10,434
- Okay.
- Let's go.
1174
01:47:10,504 --> 01:47:13,598
You know full well
you won't find another one like this.
1175
01:47:13,674 --> 01:47:16,939
Well done!
But that's your business.
1176
01:47:17,010 --> 01:47:19,706
Hey stallion!
Hey three-legged stallion!
1177
01:47:19,780 --> 01:47:20,769
Hi General.
1178
01:47:23,450 --> 01:47:25,008
How's your father's arthritis?
1179
01:47:25,085 --> 01:47:28,418
He's been doing much better since
getting Negro compresses on his legs.
1180
01:47:28,489 --> 01:47:30,116
You're right, Mr. Bighorn.
1181
01:47:30,190 --> 01:47:33,353
Strong wine and dark meat
cure arthritis, nice and neat.
1182
01:47:33,427 --> 01:47:34,223
That's right.
1183
01:47:34,294 --> 01:47:37,491
But then I'll find myself with
a whole litter with arthritis.
1184
01:47:37,564 --> 01:47:38,792
Hey Wilson, look there!
1185
01:47:38,866 --> 01:47:40,800
- Where?
- Over there, up ahead, that glass.
1186
01:47:40,868 --> 01:47:41,857
Why?
1187
01:47:41,935 --> 01:47:45,132
Those journalists always want us
to look in that glass.
1188
01:47:46,073 --> 01:47:48,473
Go wait for me in the barn.
I'll be right there.
1189
01:47:48,542 --> 01:47:49,270
Okay.
1190
01:47:49,343 --> 01:47:51,243
First I have to deal with
these gentlemen.
1191
01:47:53,447 --> 01:47:57,315
Bring me some more sugar cane!
1192
01:48:01,822 --> 01:48:05,918
They're almost all vintage '43.
A very good year.
1193
01:48:05,993 --> 01:48:08,985
I only lost 25%%.
1194
01:48:09,062 --> 01:48:13,692
It's usually 40-60%%,
especially from German measles,
1195
01:48:13,767 --> 01:48:16,827
which is nothing when it comes to
human blood, but it wipes them out.
1196
01:48:17,504 --> 01:48:19,301
Why are there so many blondes?
1197
01:48:19,373 --> 01:48:21,432
What you want me to say?
1198
01:48:21,508 --> 01:48:25,103
One or another might be mine.
Lots of them are my brother's.
1199
01:48:25,179 --> 01:48:27,113
Some are from the priest.
1200
01:48:27,181 --> 01:48:30,617
Some are from some guests
who were passing through.
1201
01:48:30,684 --> 01:48:35,018
Okay, enough, don't be greedy.
1202
01:48:41,261 --> 01:48:44,389
These are the breeding females.
1203
01:48:44,464 --> 01:48:47,524
With the new stallions Auze and Mandico
that I bought three years ago,
1204
01:48:47,601 --> 01:48:51,298
I've been successful with 86%% of them.
1205
01:48:51,371 --> 01:48:55,671
With an interval between productions
of less than 60 days.
1206
01:48:55,742 --> 01:48:59,644
Hey, where are you?
Come over here, look at this one!
1207
01:49:00,581 --> 01:49:03,744
The black pearl of the ranch.
Seven sets of twins in six years.
1208
01:49:07,421 --> 01:49:10,413
And I'm sure that this time, too,
there are two inside.
1209
01:49:10,490 --> 01:49:13,425
This heifer alone
is worth a fortune.
1210
01:49:16,063 --> 01:49:19,931
Come in, come on in.
Damn, you're in luck.
1211
01:49:20,000 --> 01:49:22,901
Come inside and see
how a little bastard is born.
1212
01:49:33,747 --> 01:49:35,408
Fine, isn't he?
1213
01:49:35,482 --> 01:49:37,916
He must be six or seven pounds at least.
1214
01:49:37,985 --> 01:49:40,852
You know something? I'm going to
dedicate this one to you guys.
1215
01:49:40,921 --> 01:49:42,821
I'm going to call him ''Macaroni''.
1216
01:49:43,824 --> 01:49:45,382
Bravo, Cleopatra.
Who's the male?
1217
01:49:45,459 --> 01:49:47,927
- Me no know.
- What do mean you don't know?
1218
01:49:47,995 --> 01:49:49,053
Me no know.
1219
01:49:49,129 --> 01:49:51,962
They breed me first with Pluto,
then with four other males.
1220
01:49:52,032 --> 01:49:53,659
Me no know.
1221
01:49:53,734 --> 01:49:57,693
It doesn't matter.
You've done a good job.
1222
01:49:59,539 --> 01:50:02,007
See what respect the master has?
1223
01:50:02,743 --> 01:50:05,678
It's the reward.
One dollar per pup.
1224
01:50:06,380 --> 01:50:07,972
Family tradition.
1225
01:50:10,517 --> 01:50:13,042
Another beloved tradition
among breeders
1226
01:50:13,120 --> 01:50:16,317
is presenting new prized breeds
every year at the big fair in the south
1227
01:50:16,390 --> 01:50:19,484
which, like fine horses,
carry the name of their family.
1228
01:50:19,559 --> 01:50:25,464
The Bighorn breed, celebrated for
the precociousness of its females
1229
01:50:25,532 --> 01:50:27,432
which can be bred
by their 1 0th year
1230
01:50:27,501 --> 01:50:31,301
earned its owner two gold medals
at theJackson fair.
1231
01:50:31,371 --> 01:50:33,566
Hey, bring me Poppea.
1232
01:50:36,510 --> 01:50:38,375
I said Poppea!
1233
01:50:40,247 --> 01:50:41,612
No, you imbeciles.
1234
01:50:41,682 --> 01:50:44,378
That one's pregnant.
Drop her.
1235
01:50:51,525 --> 01:50:53,584
No, that one.
1236
01:50:53,660 --> 01:50:58,529
Here in Louisiana, the breeding ratio
is one male to every five females.
1237
01:50:58,598 --> 01:50:59,622
But in Virginia,
1238
01:50:59,700 --> 01:51:04,228
a great specialist of the time
declares the ideal ratio
1239
01:51:04,304 --> 01:51:06,101
to be one male for eight females.
1240
01:51:06,173 --> 01:51:10,337
In fact, on this basis Virginia produced
more than 6000 Negroes per year.
1241
01:51:10,410 --> 01:51:13,208
It was the Golden Age
in which the great breeding plantations
1242
01:51:13,280 --> 01:51:17,649
such as the famous North Carolina planter
were even quoted on the stock market.
1243
01:51:18,752 --> 01:51:23,621
Now tell me if it doesn't take talent
to invent a breed like this.
1244
01:51:28,362 --> 01:51:32,128
You see, to create a hybrid,
the breeder combines the various races
1245
01:51:32,199 --> 01:51:33,689
as an artist does
with the colors of his palette.
1246
01:51:33,767 --> 01:51:35,928
A little white here,
a little black there
1247
01:51:36,003 --> 01:51:38,563
a pinch of red
and the smidgen of yellow.
1248
01:51:38,638 --> 01:51:41,664
Until something comes forth
that's not black, not white,
1249
01:51:41,742 --> 01:51:43,175
not red, not yellow.
1250
01:51:43,243 --> 01:51:44,642
It's a masterpiece.
1251
01:51:49,383 --> 01:51:51,317
Get him!
1252
01:51:54,354 --> 01:51:55,912
A slave trying to escape.
1253
01:51:55,989 --> 01:51:58,014
No, he's afraid
of the branding.
1254
01:51:58,091 --> 01:52:00,559
It always happens
with the new stallions.
1255
01:52:00,627 --> 01:52:05,121
At the 1 8th birthday,
on the eve of his first services
1256
01:52:05,198 --> 01:52:09,032
the new stallion is branded with fire
with a conventional mark
1257
01:52:09,102 --> 01:52:12,663
that prevents mistakes and confusion
in the breeding registry.
1258
01:52:16,443 --> 01:52:19,173
- Are you ready, Wilson? Can we go?
- I was waiting for you.
1259
01:52:19,246 --> 01:52:21,771
- And the heifer?
- Ready.
1260
01:52:21,848 --> 01:52:23,873
Okay then.
Bring her along.
1261
01:52:24,751 --> 01:52:25,775
Get back!
1262
01:52:26,686 --> 01:52:28,244
Fine, Casanova, fine.
1263
01:52:28,321 --> 01:52:31,688
These stallions!Just let them
catch the scent of a female!
1264
01:52:33,026 --> 01:52:35,893
They have more semen
than four teams of oxen.
1265
01:52:36,963 --> 01:52:40,956
Did you know they offered me
$4500 each?
1266
01:53:01,621 --> 01:53:04,351
Here he is,
our oldest stud.
1267
01:53:04,424 --> 01:53:07,655
Two hundred pounds of muscle
and not a single ounce the fat.
1268
01:53:08,495 --> 01:53:12,090
And this devil's good for at least
20 shots a day.
1269
01:53:13,633 --> 01:53:15,225
With these tanks!
1270
01:53:16,736 --> 01:53:19,136
- Is the heifer ready, Wilson?
- Ready, Mr. Bighorn.
1271
01:53:19,206 --> 01:53:22,403
Okay, then, bring her in.
1272
01:53:24,778 --> 01:53:27,246
Hey, Wilson.
I told you.
1273
01:53:27,314 --> 01:53:30,943
Be careful.
But it's your business.
1274
01:53:31,017 --> 01:53:33,645
Don't you worry.
1275
01:53:33,720 --> 01:53:36,086
I'll take care of it.
1276
01:54:22,269 --> 01:54:25,136
That's enough,Jason.
Stop!
1277
01:54:25,205 --> 01:54:26,763
Get some water.
Quick!
1278
01:55:15,155 --> 01:55:17,521
''Your honor,
my name is Nat Turner.
1279
01:55:17,591 --> 01:55:21,186
I intend to provide you
with a full confession of my crimes.
1280
01:55:30,203 --> 01:55:34,537
On August 21 st, 1 831 ,
5 5 whites were massacred
1281
01:55:34,608 --> 01:55:37,236
as a result of my doing
and that of 7 0 other slaves.
1282
01:55:44,150 --> 01:55:46,744
My deep-seated hatred
of the whites was--''
1283
01:55:48,388 --> 01:55:50,583
''My deep-seated hatred
of the whites was--''
1284
01:55:50,657 --> 01:55:52,591
Damned idiots!
1285
01:55:54,394 --> 01:56:00,333
''Deep-seated hatred came from God,
who ordered me to kill them.''
1286
01:56:00,400 --> 01:56:05,030
Let's see, 1 831 .
1287
01:56:05,105 --> 01:56:09,439
If Cleaver, LeroyJones, Malcolm X,
had lived 1 40 years ago
1288
01:56:09,509 --> 01:56:12,967
they too, like Nat Turner,
would have fallen into hating whites
1289
01:56:13,046 --> 01:56:16,641
men, women, children who were there
by God's orders.
1290
01:56:17,484 --> 01:56:22,080
The slave Cleaver, like the slave Turner,
certainly never would have dared imagine
1291
01:56:22,155 --> 01:56:25,090
that the order would come to them
directly from within.
1292
01:56:28,361 --> 01:56:32,388
''The evening of August 21 st,
we lined up single file in the cornfield.
1293
01:56:32,465 --> 01:56:34,831
We came out
right in front of the Travis house.
1294
01:56:34,901 --> 01:56:38,200
The night before,
God had clearly given me the sign
1295
01:56:38,271 --> 01:56:40,933
that this would be our first target.
1296
01:56:41,007 --> 01:56:43,475
We knew that inside
was the little Travis,
1297
01:56:47,213 --> 01:56:49,113
his wife Sarah,''
1298
01:56:50,417 --> 01:56:54,376
Who knows if the whites in those days
were like those of today?
1299
01:56:54,454 --> 01:56:57,116
Or rather,
who knows if the whites of today
1300
01:56:57,190 --> 01:57:00,455
would have been like those back then
if Nat Turner had never existed?
1301
01:57:04,297 --> 01:57:07,130
Would they have allowed me
to attend their schools,
1302
01:57:07,200 --> 01:57:10,431
to become a doctor,
to earn $2000 a week,
1303
01:57:10,503 --> 01:57:14,667
to have a beautiful house, a wife,
a healthy, well-fed baby?
1304
01:57:17,243 --> 01:57:23,011
''Nelson, Sam,Jack, Hark and I silently
climbed in the living room window.
1305
01:57:23,083 --> 01:57:25,984
Will, who was bringing up the rear,
took a false step
1306
01:57:26,052 --> 01:57:28,179
and tumbled onto the table
that was still set.
1307
01:57:34,461 --> 01:57:37,191
I was afraid old Travis had woken up
1308
01:57:37,263 --> 01:57:40,494
since Will kept making
an infernal racket.
1309
01:57:45,305 --> 01:57:48,672
Instead, old Travis was still asleep
next to his wife
1310
01:57:48,742 --> 01:57:52,303
when Sam and Jack
moved forward on tiptoe.
1311
01:57:52,379 --> 01:57:54,711
His sleep was deep and peaceful
1312
01:57:54,781 --> 01:57:57,716
as evidenced by
that deep, rhythmic snoring
1313
01:57:57,784 --> 01:58:00,378
that I had known since my childhood.
1314
01:58:04,858 --> 01:58:08,589
So Sam and Jack moved forward.
1315
01:58:09,295 --> 01:58:11,991
That old man
who had practically raised me
1316
01:58:12,065 --> 01:58:14,590
and had been
a tolerant and kindly master
1317
01:58:14,667 --> 01:58:18,433
was nevertheless a white man
and, as such, had to die.
1318
01:58:21,374 --> 01:58:26,004
Grandpa Travis, like all whites,
had never dreamed that a slave,
1319
01:58:26,079 --> 01:58:28,547
a meek creature
without courage or dignity
1320
01:58:28,615 --> 01:58:31,140
could ever one day
rebel against a master.
1321
01:58:31,217 --> 01:58:34,516
So it was perhaps only disbelief
1322
01:58:34,587 --> 01:58:39,581
that dominated his mind
still clouded with sleep, when--''
1323
01:59:15,094 --> 01:59:16,083
''We were about--''
1324
01:59:19,032 --> 01:59:22,433
''We were about to leave the house
when Hark, on the run was called--''
1325
01:59:23,303 --> 01:59:26,761
''was called back by the cry
of the children whom we had forgotten.''
1326
01:59:36,282 --> 01:59:38,216
''After the murder of the Travis family
1327
01:59:38,284 --> 01:59:41,219
our second goal was
the extermination of the Reeses.''
1328
01:59:41,888 --> 01:59:43,856
Oh, it's those idiots again.
1329
01:59:43,923 --> 01:59:45,584
''After the murder of the Travis family
1330
01:59:45,658 --> 01:59:47,922
our second goal was
the extermination of the Reeses.
1331
01:59:47,994 --> 01:59:50,394
Reese was a dull-witted, cruel master
1332
01:59:50,463 --> 01:59:52,863
who amused himself
by tormenting his Negroes...
1333
01:59:55,568 --> 01:59:57,468
with every sort of stupid prank.
1334
01:59:57,537 --> 02:00:00,938
His wife and sister-in-law,
two dull-witted, insignificant women
1335
02:00:01,007 --> 02:00:05,239
encouraged those vapid stunts
with little hysterical--''
1336
02:00:06,312 --> 02:00:07,301
Buffoon!
1337
02:00:08,214 --> 02:00:14,210
''With little hysterical, shrill cries
that pierced the ears like daggers.
1338
02:00:15,989 --> 02:00:19,982
It was in front of their house that I
swore to never again disobey God's orders
1339
02:00:20,059 --> 02:00:22,425
and to also spill my share of blood.
1340
02:00:22,495 --> 02:00:23,462
I hated Reese
1341
02:00:23,530 --> 02:00:27,830
and one day he involved me, too,
in one of his humiliating, vulgar pranks.
1342
02:00:27,901 --> 02:00:32,634
I could have refused to rebel.
But how could I, a slave--''
1343
02:00:46,019 --> 02:00:50,718
''I could have refused to rebel.
But how could I, a slave?
1344
02:00:55,261 --> 02:00:58,094
Reese was a dull-witted, cruel master.''
1345
02:02:18,511 --> 02:02:20,809
Nat Turner didn't kill out of hate.
1346
02:02:20,880 --> 02:02:23,713
He killed out of love
between the columns of that big house.
1347
02:02:24,484 --> 02:02:27,180
Who knows why, for us Negroes,
this story never loses its value?
1348
02:02:27,253 --> 02:02:31,747
Well, Nat Turner,
the pious Nat Turner, biblical fanatic
1349
02:02:31,824 --> 02:02:35,089
almost a tutor to little Margaret,
but nevertheless a Negro
1350
02:02:35,161 --> 02:02:40,121
and thus not suspected of desiring that
white girl who hung around him all day,
1351
02:02:47,306 --> 02:02:50,537
who excited him in a thousand ways
without even realizing it.
1352
02:02:50,610 --> 02:02:53,204
Where are you, Nat?
Come here, Nat.
1353
02:02:53,279 --> 02:02:55,247
Here's something new.
1354
02:02:55,314 --> 02:02:56,804
It's beautiful!
1355
02:02:56,883 --> 02:02:58,874
Come on, Nat.
Get me that rose.
1356
02:02:58,951 --> 02:03:01,784
No, no.
Not the silk one!
1357
02:03:01,854 --> 02:03:03,151
The bright one, Nat.
1358
02:03:03,222 --> 02:03:04,917
There, see!
Now here we are, the two of us.
1359
02:03:04,991 --> 02:03:08,927
She and Nat.
Almost in skin contact.
1360
02:03:09,829 --> 02:03:15,131
The wind in that blond hair, that
white neck that he desired so badly.
1361
02:03:17,570 --> 02:03:20,061
''Hey Nat,'' she said to me one day
1362
02:03:20,139 --> 02:03:24,371
as her closeness and her youthful
scent of lavender made me stiff.
1363
02:03:24,444 --> 02:03:29,939
''Nat, why are Negroes
born so wretched?''
1364
02:03:30,016 --> 02:03:34,817
''Why, in this warm spring,
are they only fallen flowers?''
1365
02:03:49,502 --> 02:03:52,232
Let's take a look.
1 40 years later.
1366
02:03:52,305 --> 02:03:55,934
If I were to fall in love
with that white girl.
1367
02:03:56,008 --> 02:03:59,444
In love to the point of not being able
to do any less than what she's doing now.
1368
02:03:59,512 --> 02:04:00,501
To want her.
1369
02:04:00,580 --> 02:04:04,141
But just because I'm a Negro,
like Nat Turner--
1370
02:04:06,052 --> 02:04:08,316
I can just imagine the scene!
1371
02:04:08,387 --> 02:04:10,412
Sir, I'm Dr. Nat Turner.
1372
02:04:10,490 --> 02:04:13,391
I love your daughter
and I intend to marry her.
1373
02:04:32,745 --> 02:04:37,011
Margaret had just returned from
Southampton College for summer vacation
1374
02:04:37,083 --> 02:04:42,020
when we decided that the Whitehead house
would be our next target.
1375
02:04:42,688 --> 02:04:45,418
We advanced,
remaining hidden in the oak forest
1376
02:04:45,491 --> 02:04:47,721
that surrounded the house
on three sides.
1377
02:04:47,794 --> 02:04:50,786
When we saw the father so overjoyed
at the arrival of his daughter...
1378
02:04:57,370 --> 02:05:01,966
and so absorbed in demonstrating
all his joy as to not notice us--
1379
02:05:40,713 --> 02:05:42,305
I was looking for Margaret.
1380
02:05:42,381 --> 02:05:45,817
She was hiding behind
a corner of the house.
1381
02:05:45,885 --> 02:05:48,353
When I finally saw her,
she ran away...
1382
02:05:50,356 --> 02:05:54,258
as light and fast as a deer,
through the cornfield.
1383
02:05:56,996 --> 02:06:00,261
I ran after the glint
of that flowing hair in the sun
1384
02:06:02,268 --> 02:06:05,601
after the gleam
of that face looking back.
1385
02:06:06,973 --> 02:06:09,567
She ran faster than I did.
1386
02:06:09,642 --> 02:06:11,405
But I caught up.
1387
02:06:11,477 --> 02:06:12,967
I must! I must!
1388
02:06:16,082 --> 02:06:17,674
I must kill you!
1389
02:06:21,187 --> 02:06:25,146
Because I love you!
Because you're white!
1390
02:06:27,426 --> 02:06:29,257
White!
1391
02:06:40,840 --> 02:06:44,708
''Your honor,
before condemning me to the gallows
1392
02:06:44,777 --> 02:06:46,642
you asked if I felt remorse.
1393
02:06:48,080 --> 02:06:53,712
Well, completely at peace and tranquil,
I answer you that if I could go back--''
1394
02:08:52,238 --> 02:08:55,207
Peace, peace, peace.
1395
02:08:55,274 --> 02:08:58,004
I'm a Negro like you,an ex-slave like you.
1396
02:08:58,077 --> 02:09:01,012
But today I've dealt with the whites,and I'm speaking with their permission.
1397
02:09:01,080 --> 02:09:03,275
And this is a police car.
1398
02:09:04,116 --> 02:09:07,210
If you think I'm a traitor,then shoot me.
1399
02:09:08,687 --> 02:09:12,145
But first listento what I have to say.
1400
02:09:12,224 --> 02:09:16,217
Slavery was not our disgrace.It is our glory.
1401
02:09:16,295 --> 02:09:18,923
We must not soil it with revenge.
1402
02:09:19,865 --> 02:09:22,925
In every plan that the racist attemptsto search for an alibi
1403
02:09:23,002 --> 02:09:26,165
for his evil consciencetowards the Negro
1404
02:09:26,972 --> 02:09:31,534
all that's necessary is one broken windowto make him feel absolved ofhis guilt.
1405
02:09:32,211 --> 02:09:35,044
When we allow ourselves to bendbefore the white man's hatred
1406
02:09:35,114 --> 02:09:37,139
we're playing his game.
1407
02:09:37,216 --> 02:09:39,616
We're also playing the gameof the white communists
1408
02:09:39,685 --> 02:09:43,212
who want to make use of usto destroy America.
1409
02:09:43,889 --> 02:09:45,379
We don't love America,
1410
02:09:45,458 --> 02:09:48,359
but neither do we want to be usedto destroy it.
1411
02:09:49,361 --> 02:09:53,058
We Negroes must not fall intothe same errors that the whites make.
1412
02:09:53,132 --> 02:09:56,533
We must not respondto their old white racism
1413
02:09:56,602 --> 02:09:58,536
with a new black racism.
1414
02:09:59,538 --> 02:10:02,234
To the recent eventsthat have made us understand,
1415
02:10:02,308 --> 02:10:07,177
we must respondpeace, peace, peace.
1416
02:10:45,718 --> 02:10:49,279
On one side, the north
that wanted to abolish slavery.
1417
02:10:49,355 --> 02:10:51,482
On the other,
the south that wanted to keep it.
1418
02:10:51,557 --> 02:10:56,017
So the war to liberate slaves
cost America one million dead.
1419
02:10:56,095 --> 02:11:00,225
Today, the American public assisting in
the reenactment of the battle of Shiloh
1420
02:11:00,299 --> 02:11:02,096
doesn't root for anyone.
1421
02:11:02,168 --> 02:11:03,692
They enjoy the show.
1422
02:11:03,769 --> 02:11:06,863
Northern and southern combatants
are interchangeable.
1423
02:11:06,939 --> 02:11:08,998
It just depends upon
the color of the uniform.
1424
02:11:09,074 --> 02:11:13,568
The anonymous slavery society
closed the books a hundred years ago.
1425
02:11:13,646 --> 02:11:14,977
And the accounts are balanced.
1426
02:11:15,047 --> 02:11:17,379
For every imported slave,
one American death.
1427
02:11:17,449 --> 02:11:19,178
The wounded don't count.
1428
02:11:19,251 --> 02:11:21,549
Here's one that ended up in bad shape.
1429
02:11:21,620 --> 02:11:24,180
A northern uniform.
So he wanted it this way, right?
1430
02:11:25,191 --> 02:11:27,489
Of course.
Say cheese!
1431
02:11:27,560 --> 02:11:28,891
Today, everyone's smiling,
1432
02:11:28,961 --> 02:11:31,054
dead and wounded,
victor and vanquished.
1433
02:11:31,130 --> 02:11:34,657
It's wonderful to return home
on this splendid day in May
1434
02:11:34,733 --> 02:11:39,227
and to take a nice shower
to wash away all of the dust of the past.
1435
02:13:00,519 --> 02:13:04,148
THIS FI LM IS A DOCUMENTARY.
1436
02:13:04,223 --> 02:13:09,661
THE EVENTS OCCURRED I N HISTORY
AND THE CHARACTERS REALLY EXISTED.
1437
02:14:46,268 --> 02:14:49,169
We interrupt this broadcast to bringyou a shocking piece of news
1438
02:14:49,238 --> 02:14:51,069
just in from Memphis, Tennessee.
1439
02:14:51,140 --> 02:14:55,440
Today, April 4, the spiritual leader ofAmerica's Negroes, Martin Luther King,
1440
02:14:55,511 --> 02:15:00,471
winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace, wasshot and wounded by an unknown gunman.
1441
02:15:00,549 --> 02:15:02,813
He is in very grave condition.
1442
02:15:02,885 --> 02:15:06,321
We are awaiting further information,which we will pass on to the public
1443
02:15:06,388 --> 02:15:08,049
as soon as we receive it.
1444
02:16:23,398 --> 02:16:27,027
The assassin's bullet didn'tjust killMartin Luther King.
1445
02:16:27,102 --> 02:16:30,970
It killed a historical era.The war has begun.
1446
02:16:31,039 --> 02:16:35,135
We Negroes have embarked on theviolent phase of our fight for freedom.
1447
02:16:35,210 --> 02:16:40,170
Today we have guns, bombs,dynamite, knives.
1448
02:16:40,249 --> 02:16:44,276
America will be stained red.Corpses will fill the streets.
1449
02:16:47,556 --> 02:16:50,719
Martin Luther King,a slave of the bourgeoisie,
1450
02:16:50,792 --> 02:16:53,955
a useless social element,a public servant,
1451
02:16:54,029 --> 02:16:57,931
an adulator, Washington's bootlicker,a traitor.
1452
02:16:58,000 --> 02:17:00,628
Down with the doubtersand the Evangelists.
1453
02:17:00,702 --> 02:17:02,192
Down with the Uncle Toms.
1454
02:17:02,271 --> 02:17:05,570
It's our turn to get to work now,cutting throats.
1455
02:17:42,144 --> 02:17:44,704
No white throats were cut.
1456
02:17:44,780 --> 02:17:48,238
The shouts of the revolt were nothing,
compared to the police sirens.
1457
02:17:51,987 --> 02:17:54,717
After all, who was that minister
who was killed in Memphis,
1458
02:17:54,790 --> 02:17:58,282
that 30 million Negroes
were supposed to avenge?
1459
02:17:58,360 --> 02:18:02,990
A hero, as Cleaver said, or a swine,
an Uncle Tom, as LeroyJones said?
1460
02:19:01,490 --> 02:19:03,185
Tom.
1461
02:19:06,128 --> 02:19:07,595
Thomas.
1462
02:19:51,873 --> 02:19:54,933
I named him Tom.
Don't you think it's cute?
1463
02:19:59,281 --> 02:20:01,772
Nowadays it's different,
but in the old days
1464
02:20:01,850 --> 02:20:07,220
all house Negroes were called Tom,
then Uncle Tom when they grew old.
1465
02:20:07,289 --> 02:20:09,257
That was how we could tell
the good Negroes,
1466
02:20:09,324 --> 02:20:11,656
the ones who lived in homes,
with their masters,
1467
02:20:11,727 --> 02:20:15,561
from the bad ones, who lived
separately, in the cotton fields.
1468
02:20:15,630 --> 02:20:19,828
Even that nice Negro priest
that they killed, what was his name?
1469
02:20:19,901 --> 02:20:22,768
They called him Uncle Tom, too,
because he was good.
1470
02:20:22,838 --> 02:20:26,968
He didn't go around spurring
those people to revolt against us.
1471
02:20:27,042 --> 02:20:31,308
They're not actually bad,
but none of them are called Tom.
1472
02:20:31,379 --> 02:20:35,509
They can't keep their houses clean,
and they spend all their money on cars,
1473
02:20:35,584 --> 02:20:38,747
which they break immediately
and throw away, like old toys.
1474
02:20:38,820 --> 02:20:42,347
They're just like children.
But that may be a good thing.
1475
02:20:42,424 --> 02:20:44,790
This way they're closer to God.
1476
02:20:44,860 --> 02:20:48,819
You should hear them singing
in the family chapel I gave them.
1477
02:20:48,897 --> 02:20:50,421
They're extraordinary.
1478
02:20:51,633 --> 02:20:54,864
His land extended further
than the horizon--
1479
02:20:59,908 --> 02:21:03,742
He had enormous herds of cattle,
and a house full of slaves.
1480
02:21:03,812 --> 02:21:07,771
When Jesus had finished speaking,
the man asked him:
1481
02:21:07,849 --> 02:21:12,252
''Is there anything that my slaves
can hold against me?
1482
02:21:12,320 --> 02:21:17,485
I feed them. I clothe them. I aid them.
I even gave them a temple to pray in.
1483
02:21:17,559 --> 02:21:21,928
So you see, my generosity is great.''
And Jesus said to him:
1484
02:21:21,997 --> 02:21:26,661
''I will tell you that it is not your
generosity that is great,
1485
02:21:26,735 --> 02:21:28,032
but your pride.
1486
02:21:28,103 --> 02:21:31,163
You love your slaves
because they are slaves,
1487
02:21:31,239 --> 02:21:33,537
and as long as they remain slaves.
1488
02:21:33,608 --> 02:21:37,339
But your power will melt,
like fog in the sun.
1489
02:21:37,412 --> 02:21:39,880
Your riches will be gone.
1490
02:21:39,948 --> 02:21:43,406
And then your slaves will leave
your land and your home,
1491
02:21:43,485 --> 02:21:45,043
and they will ignore you.
1492
02:21:45,120 --> 02:21:50,387
The worst punishment for your pride
will be your loneliness.''
1493
02:22:16,318 --> 02:22:22,416
Our house was so big. 500 slaves
were hardly enough to keep it up.
1494
02:22:22,490 --> 02:22:26,426
Then a little Tom left a candlestick
sitting next to a curtain,
1495
02:22:26,494 --> 02:22:29,793
and the fire burned for three days.
Can you imagine?
1496
02:22:29,865 --> 02:22:34,825
So many things fed that fire.
But this land is still mine.
1497
02:22:34,903 --> 02:22:40,239
This good land of the south,
once white with cotton balls.
1498
02:22:40,308 --> 02:22:43,471
Thank you, Tom.
Do you remember that movie?
1499
02:22:43,545 --> 02:22:45,410
What was it called? Gone--
1500
02:22:45,480 --> 02:22:50,349
Anyway, she took a handful of dirt
and held it to her chest. Like this.
1501
02:22:51,720 --> 02:22:56,555
And all around her, everything
was burned and ravaged by war.
1502
02:22:56,625 --> 02:23:01,995
And the Negroes had become bad.
And she said-- I can't remember.
1503
02:23:02,063 --> 02:23:06,762
Anyway, she said she would farm
the land even without slaves.
1504
02:23:06,835 --> 02:23:09,736
Not cotton, of course.
You'd need Negroes for that.
1505
02:23:09,804 --> 02:23:12,398
It's so hard, under the sun.
1506
02:23:12,474 --> 02:23:15,068
But there are many
other good things here in the south:
1507
02:23:15,143 --> 02:23:19,170
fruits, vegetables.
Our vegetables are so good.
1508
02:23:19,247 --> 02:23:21,841
The salad, the peas.
1509
02:23:21,917 --> 02:23:24,511
Have you ever tasted southern peas?
1510
02:23:35,697 --> 02:23:39,133
...as we can see by reading the pagesof the greatest American Negro poet,
1511
02:23:39,200 --> 02:23:41,134
LeroyJones, whose poem --
1512
02:23:52,347 --> 02:23:57,649
''Land, Land, Land. The Negro will notbe a man until he has his own land.
1513
02:23:57,719 --> 02:23:59,653
Negro, look at the ground. ''
1514
02:23:59,721 --> 02:24:02,417
- Yoo-hoo, I'm ready.
- ''Grab a handful of dirt,
1515
02:24:02,490 --> 02:24:05,459
and shove your nails into the concrete.It's real and it's yours.
1516
02:24:05,527 --> 02:24:10,624
- You just have to want it. ''
- On page 2 1 7, Malcolm X adds.:
1517
02:24:10,699 --> 02:24:13,793
''There's only one people on earththat can slit the white man's throat.
1518
02:24:13,868 --> 02:24:16,769
His population of slaves,the Negroes. ''
1519
02:24:16,838 --> 02:24:19,500
We will now hand the microphone overto the leader of the Black Panthers.
1520
02:24:36,891 --> 02:24:41,055
But that's not all. They reject
integration, they practice violence,
1521
02:24:41,129 --> 02:24:43,290
ideological crime, reverse racism.
1522
02:24:43,365 --> 02:24:46,857
They indoctrinate their children
in exchange for a meal.
1523
02:24:46,935 --> 02:24:50,996
They want to own five states, immediate
freedom for all Negro criminals,
1524
02:24:51,072 --> 02:24:55,168
exemption from military service, and
the freedom to carry machine guns.
1525
02:25:06,821 --> 02:25:09,984
But sometimes we're too quick
to judge.
1526
02:25:10,058 --> 02:25:12,492
Let's take a look
at these strange humans.
1527
02:25:12,560 --> 02:25:15,654
Their intentions are good,
though at times misunderstood.
1528
02:25:15,730 --> 02:25:18,096
These humans practice non-violence,
ideological love,
1529
02:25:18,166 --> 02:25:20,430
free love, the integration of the sexes,
1530
02:25:20,502 --> 02:25:22,993
and a perfect racial confusion
with the Negroes,
1531
02:25:23,071 --> 02:25:26,768
together with whom they propose
to build the America of the future.
1532
02:25:26,841 --> 02:25:31,244
And yet, LeroyJones, today's foremost
representative of Negro-ness says,
1533
02:25:31,312 --> 02:25:36,272
''Embracing the non-violence that young
whites preach about is nothing short of
1534
02:25:36,351 --> 02:25:38,512
diving into the current
of this failed American civilization.
1535
02:25:38,586 --> 02:25:41,612
America is a Sodom.
America is a Gomorrah.
1536
02:25:41,689 --> 02:25:44,783
America is a Babylon.
This is the society in which
1537
02:25:44,859 --> 02:25:47,453
Martin Luther King wanted
the Negroes to get ready to join.
1538
02:25:47,529 --> 02:25:51,295
I'd rather go to hell. But the chance
of becoming citizens of Gomorrah
1539
02:25:51,366 --> 02:25:54,494
is the best thing that whites have
right now to offer the Negroes.
1540
02:25:54,569 --> 02:25:59,302
If you hope for the survival of this
rotten society, of this corrupt order,
1541
02:25:59,374 --> 02:26:03,640
of this falling Rome, ready to cut your
balls off with the edge of a dollar,
1542
02:26:03,711 --> 02:26:07,579
you'll lose. Christ and the effigy
of the dollar are one and the same.
1543
02:26:07,649 --> 02:26:10,812
We Negroes must remember
all that we are seeing now,
1544
02:26:10,885 --> 02:26:13,445
and in the end we must erupt
like a volcano,
1545
02:26:13,521 --> 02:26:17,753
so we can crush, under flowing,
molten lava this herd of pigs
1546
02:26:17,826 --> 02:26:20,488
who have transformed the world
into a giant garbage can.''
1547
02:26:20,562 --> 02:26:23,861
June 1 9, 1 97 0.
1548
02:26:29,671 --> 02:26:34,233
LeroyJones, again: ''The white man's
attitude toward sex is sick.
1549
02:26:34,309 --> 02:26:37,801
The white man makes sex dirty.
The white man is primitive,
1550
02:26:37,879 --> 02:26:40,746
and he has the sexual intelligence
of a cave man.
1551
02:26:40,815 --> 02:26:44,808
The white man is afraid of the Negro
because he knows he's sexually inferior.
1552
02:26:44,886 --> 02:26:47,286
His sexual device is out of order.
1553
02:26:47,355 --> 02:26:49,823
That's why liberal whites
have allowed us
1554
02:26:49,891 --> 02:26:51,984
a certain amount of progress
toward virility,
1555
02:26:52,060 --> 02:26:55,291
and today he's telling us,
'One day we'll let you have balls.
1556
02:26:55,363 --> 02:26:57,160
Until then, keep yourself cool.'
1557
02:26:57,232 --> 02:27:01,532
American whites are taught to be
pederasts in school.
1558
02:27:01,603 --> 02:27:03,867
That's why their faces are weak
and expressionless.
1559
02:27:03,938 --> 02:27:05,963
Their voices, gestures and
mannerisms are those of eunuchs.
1560
02:27:06,040 --> 02:27:10,204
white women are stocky whores,
covered in makeup.
1561
02:27:10,278 --> 02:27:13,679
They don't know what to do
to fire up their impotent males.
1562
02:27:13,748 --> 02:27:17,878
white American women are
the ugliest and most obscene on earth.
1563
02:27:17,952 --> 02:27:20,978
The famous question, 'Would you allow
your daughter to marry a Negro?'
1564
02:27:21,055 --> 02:27:22,044
is outdated.
1565
02:27:22,123 --> 02:27:23,385
Today the question is,
1566
02:27:23,458 --> 02:27:26,950
'Would you allow your son
to marry a white woman?'
1567
02:27:27,028 --> 02:27:29,690
Today the roles are reversed.''
1568
02:27:43,811 --> 02:27:46,644
The Black Panthers say,
''When the people rise up
1569
02:27:46,714 --> 02:27:49,740
to free themselves from slavery,
they must arm themselves with guns.
1570
02:27:49,817 --> 02:27:53,617
If we want to free ourselves of guns,
we must arm ourselves with guns.''
1571
02:27:53,688 --> 02:27:54,677
And now Cleaver:
1572
02:27:54,756 --> 02:27:58,453
''America is defended by sadistic
and bloodthirsty masters.
1573
02:27:58,526 --> 02:28:01,859
The blood, the tears
and suffering of the Negro
1574
02:28:01,930 --> 02:28:04,091
are the foundation on which
America rests.
1575
02:28:04,165 --> 02:28:08,693
We were forced to build it. But
if they force us to, we will destroy it,
1576
02:28:08,770 --> 02:28:12,103
and the result
will be a horrific bloodbath.
1577
02:28:12,173 --> 02:28:14,141
We, too, are bloodthirsty.''
1578
02:28:19,180 --> 02:28:20,772
But the Negroes are also hungry.
1579
02:28:20,848 --> 02:28:22,873
At least that's what it says
on the banner
1580
02:28:22,951 --> 02:28:24,816
that leads the demonstration
at Cape Kennedy
1581
02:28:24,886 --> 02:28:27,753
on the occasion of the first
white men on the moon.
1582
02:28:27,822 --> 02:28:31,485
The demonstration was organized
by Martin Luther King's successor,
1583
02:28:31,559 --> 02:28:33,584
Reverend Abernathy, who says,
1584
02:28:33,661 --> 02:28:36,824
''You, white man, are the cause
of all our woes.
1585
02:28:36,898 --> 02:28:39,458
You tore us away
from Africa, made us slaves,
1586
02:28:39,534 --> 02:28:44,631
kept us in ignorance, exploited us, got
rich, and now you're going to the moon.
1587
02:28:44,706 --> 02:28:49,405
We can't accept that. Stop playing
with your millionaire's toys,
1588
02:28:49,477 --> 02:28:51,502
and pay us the damages you owe us.
1589
02:29:04,659 --> 02:29:08,117
Where are you going, white man,
with your billionaire's toy?
1590
02:29:08,196 --> 02:29:10,562
What are you running away from,
your past?
1591
02:29:10,632 --> 02:29:12,566
What did you do,
that was so bad?
1592
02:29:12,634 --> 02:29:15,228
Why do your
black brothers hate you so?
1593
02:29:15,303 --> 02:29:16,634
It's useless to run away,
1594
02:29:16,704 --> 02:29:19,366
because the past is not behind us,
as Abernathy believes,
1595
02:29:19,440 --> 02:29:22,307
but ahead, traveling toward the stars,
just like Einstein said.
1596
02:29:22,377 --> 02:29:25,312
And the faster
you run, the faster you'll get there.''
1597
02:29:53,274 --> 02:30:00,510
GOODBYE UNCLE TOM
1598
02:30:28,910 --> 02:30:32,311
- Is this a bad time?
- No, please, come in.
1599
02:30:32,380 --> 02:30:35,577
- Who are these people?
- They are Europeans.
1600
02:30:35,650 --> 02:30:40,952
To be exact, they're Italians,
Italian journalists.
1601
02:30:41,022 --> 02:30:47,120
They've come here to the south
to conduct an inquiry, right?
1602
02:30:47,195 --> 02:30:51,859
In inquiry on slavery.
They seem to be quite shocked.
1603
02:30:51,933 --> 02:30:56,131
- What is their religion?
- Catholic, I think.
1604
02:30:56,204 --> 02:31:00,732
- You're Catholic, aren't you?
- Roman Catholic Apostolic.
1605
02:31:00,808 --> 02:31:03,743
They shouldn't be so shocked, then.
1606
02:31:03,811 --> 02:31:07,440
After all, the Pope, who is usually
so generous with his excommunications,
1607
02:31:07,515 --> 02:31:10,643
has never excommunicated
a merchant of black meat.
1608
02:31:10,718 --> 02:31:13,380
Unless he eats it on Fridays.
1609
02:31:14,188 --> 02:31:19,956
- Why are they here, then?
- I think they're slaves, too.
1610
02:31:20,027 --> 02:31:25,659
You know Catholics. They're slaves
of the fascination of sin.
1611
02:31:25,733 --> 02:31:31,035
Or they simply want to protest.
What are we going to do about it?
1612
02:31:31,105 --> 02:31:35,508
These Europeans, after the French
Revolution, do nothing but protest.
1613
02:31:35,576 --> 02:31:39,808
Please, times have changed:
Rousseau, Diderot, Voltaire...
1614
02:31:39,881 --> 02:31:44,875
This is rich, Catholics who read
books written by the devil.
1615
02:31:44,952 --> 02:31:47,477
What would His Holiness say?
1616
02:31:50,658 --> 02:31:54,116
Please! These gentlemen are my guests.
1617
02:31:54,195 --> 02:31:57,187
And following the example
of other friends of mine,
1618
02:31:57,265 --> 02:32:01,031
have given them
free access to the entire house.
1619
02:32:01,102 --> 02:32:04,435
This way they'll see who
the real slaves and masters are.
1620
02:32:04,505 --> 02:32:08,464
No, Senator, please.
No chicken bones.
1621
02:32:08,543 --> 02:32:10,477
They're very dangerous to puppies.
1622
02:32:10,545 --> 02:32:14,811
I had to take two of them to the vet.
It's so annoying.
1623
02:32:15,583 --> 02:32:22,682
Well, since each one of you
is a famous person,
1624
02:32:22,757 --> 02:32:27,160
your frank and authoritative statements
on the subject of slavery
1625
02:32:27,228 --> 02:32:29,958
should be very useful to these
gentlemen.
1626
02:32:30,665 --> 02:32:33,862
I agree,
and I'll be the first.
1627
02:32:33,935 --> 02:32:36,961
It's absolutely true that slavery
cannot be hidden,
1628
02:32:37,038 --> 02:32:40,804
just like a volcano's
eruption or a cancerous affliction
1629
02:32:40,875 --> 02:32:44,242
that erodes a man's face.
I, for one, have freed my slaves,
1630
02:32:44,312 --> 02:32:49,773
but I did so only because they were
stupid, smelly, sad and boring.
1631
02:32:49,851 --> 02:32:54,550
I am an aristocrat, and I believe
in freedom, but not in equality.
1632
02:32:54,622 --> 02:32:59,685
This is my statement.
Signed,John Randolph of Roanoke.
1633
02:32:59,760 --> 02:33:01,694
I'm John Pithiou,
1634
02:33:01,762 --> 02:33:05,926
and I think that slavery
is the natural condition of the poor,
1635
02:33:06,000 --> 02:33:07,797
whether white or black.
1636
02:33:07,869 --> 02:33:09,928
In fact, I consider it ideal,
1637
02:33:10,004 --> 02:33:13,235
because it's synonymous with a full
belly, a guaranteed dwelling,
1638
02:33:13,307 --> 02:33:17,710
medical help and security in old age,
whereas for us it's a status symbol.
1639
02:33:17,778 --> 02:33:20,872
Furthermore, we mustn't forget,
gentlemen,
1640
02:33:20,948 --> 02:33:25,544
that we whites make up only
20%% of the world's population,
1641
02:33:25,620 --> 02:33:31,058
so if one day we gave up our power,
it would be the end of us.
1642
02:33:31,125 --> 02:33:35,357
It will depend solely on us,
and I mean solely on us,
1643
02:33:35,429 --> 02:33:41,425
if a meek slave or a snake in the grass
gets off the slave trader's ship.
1644
02:33:50,177 --> 02:33:54,238
What a stench! What did you bring,
a load of rotten meat?
1645
02:33:54,315 --> 02:33:57,113
What are you talking about?
It's top choice.
1646
02:33:57,184 --> 02:34:00,847
They stink because they eat like pigs,
then they throw up and mess themselves.
1647
02:34:00,922 --> 02:34:03,652
- How long was the trip?
- 94 days.
1648
02:34:03,724 --> 02:34:06,124
Didn't they get air on the bridge?
1649
02:34:06,193 --> 02:34:09,356
Are you crazy, with the sea
full of English ships?
1650
02:34:09,430 --> 02:34:11,330
The times have changed.
1651
02:34:11,399 --> 02:34:13,458
This is contraband merchandise.
1652
02:34:13,534 --> 02:34:17,937
If I get caught with one Negro on board,
I'll be hung.
1653
02:34:18,005 --> 02:34:19,802
And I wouldn't be the first.
1654
02:34:19,874 --> 02:34:23,002
If they spent the entire trip down
there, they must be all rotten.
1655
02:34:23,077 --> 02:34:27,741
No way! On this ship rule
number one is hygiene.
1656
02:34:27,815 --> 02:34:29,976
Hygiene and cleanliness.
If one of them gets really sick,
1657
02:34:30,051 --> 02:34:32,110
I don't wait for him to spread
it to the whole load.
1658
02:34:32,186 --> 02:34:36,987
I throw him overboard and that's that.
I deliver my merchandise in good shape.
1659
02:34:39,226 --> 02:34:42,423
- Are you interested or not?
- How many are there?
1660
02:34:42,496 --> 02:34:47,399
3 27 between males and females.
These are all males. No syphilis.
1661
02:34:47,468 --> 02:34:51,734
Black meat was sold either
by the head or by weight.
1662
02:34:51,806 --> 02:34:55,674
The load was arranged in layers,
and each Negro had a berth
1663
02:34:55,743 --> 02:35:00,737
3 5 by 1 2 inches, in which he was
chained from 45 to 90 days,
1664
02:35:00,815 --> 02:35:02,180
depending on the wind.
1665
02:35:02,249 --> 02:35:05,047
This way,
over the course of two centuries,
1666
02:35:05,119 --> 02:35:09,146
about 50 million slaves were shipped
to the Americas,
1667
02:35:09,223 --> 02:35:12,488
30 million of which did not survive
the journey.
1668
02:35:12,560 --> 02:35:16,690
To keep epidemics at bay, the Negroes
were watered three times a day
1669
02:35:16,764 --> 02:35:18,629
with carbolic acid and sea water.
1670
02:35:18,699 --> 02:35:20,496
The load was always insured.
1671
02:35:20,568 --> 02:35:24,561
But since the insurance paid only
if the Negro died on board,
1672
02:35:24,639 --> 02:35:28,200
if an epidemic broke out, the captain
would rather not take chances,
1673
02:35:28,275 --> 02:35:30,539
and preferred to unload a whole
shipment in the sea, still alive,
1674
02:35:30,611 --> 02:35:33,478
rather than risk unloading a ship
of dying men and women.
1675
02:35:35,783 --> 02:35:39,844
Dysentery depreciated the merchandise,
so in order to keep it from buyers,
1676
02:35:39,920 --> 02:35:42,582
the captain would order the sealing
of''leaky holes'' with a cork
1677
02:35:42,657 --> 02:35:44,989
sealed with tow and tar.
1678
02:35:45,059 --> 02:35:46,993
In November of 1 81 2,
1679
02:35:47,061 --> 02:35:49,427
in a shipment of 41 5 slaves,
the buyer contested 21 6,
1680
02:35:49,497 --> 02:35:54,127
because he realized that
they had been plugged up.
1681
02:35:54,201 --> 02:35:58,331
The captain was Jean Lafitte,
the famous pirate patriot hero
1682
02:35:58,406 --> 02:36:01,864
who sold slaves in Louisiana to raise
money for Karl Marx in Europe.
1683
02:36:06,147 --> 02:36:08,775
- What's that mushy stuff?
- Corn, molasses and fat.
1684
02:36:08,849 --> 02:36:12,250
They love it. We have to tie them up
and give them a little at a time,
1685
02:36:12,319 --> 02:36:13,752
otherwise they'd choke.
1686
02:36:15,289 --> 02:36:17,018
That one doesn't seem to like it.
1687
02:36:17,091 --> 02:36:22,085
That one has decided to let himself
starve to death. Pitiful!
1688
02:36:22,163 --> 02:36:25,792
Hey, we need a chisel and hammer
and a funnel over here.
1689
02:36:27,868 --> 02:36:31,531
The remedy was quite frightening,
and served as an example.
1690
02:36:31,605 --> 02:36:34,267
And even if it cost the master
a little damage,
1691
02:36:34,341 --> 02:36:38,300
a Negro minus three or four teeth
was always better than a dead one.
1692
02:36:49,023 --> 02:36:53,119
- Let's say $1 50 a head.
- I said I'll buy them by the pound.
1693
02:36:53,194 --> 02:36:55,662
- The whole shipment for $2 a pound.
- Seven dollars.
1694
02:36:55,730 --> 02:36:56,526
- Three.
- Six.
1695
02:36:56,597 --> 02:37:01,057
- Four.
- All right, but I'm losing money.
1696
02:37:46,747 --> 02:37:50,342
1 20 years later, three or four
generations at the most,
1697
02:37:50,417 --> 02:37:53,750
and some of them have already
forgotten. They are not many.
1698
02:37:53,821 --> 02:37:57,120
Perhaps the equivalent of
a few hundred shipments of slaves.
1699
02:37:57,191 --> 02:38:00,024
Ambassadors, ministers, industrialists,
intellectuals, artists:
1700
02:38:00,094 --> 02:38:03,621
all individual fortunes worth
millions of dollars.
1701
02:38:03,697 --> 02:38:08,532
Deaf to the insults of the priests
of Negro-ness, these Uncle Tom pigs
1702
02:38:08,602 --> 02:38:11,366
have quietly joined the system,
1703
02:38:11,438 --> 02:38:14,532
and followed the great
American dream of success,
1704
02:38:14,608 --> 02:38:17,907
seen as the sporting
victory over life's adversities.
1705
02:38:25,920 --> 02:38:31,654
For the first time, the self-made man
is black, and that's saying a lot,
1706
02:38:31,725 --> 02:38:35,923
if we consider that among his many
misfortunes this is perhaps the worst:
1707
02:38:35,996 --> 02:38:38,055
well-dressed, worldly,
1708
02:38:38,132 --> 02:38:41,533
so well integrated as to appear
lighter skinned than his fellow Negroes,
1709
02:38:41,602 --> 02:38:46,164
a little chubby, due to a residual hunger
that subconsciously still haunts him,
1710
02:38:46,240 --> 02:38:49,403
he is still the same Negro who arrived
on board a ship with LeroyJones,
1711
02:38:49,476 --> 02:38:52,274
Malcolm X,
Cleaver and the Black Panthers.
1712
02:38:52,346 --> 02:38:56,214
Those men are either in Harlem
or in prison, plotting revenge.
1713
02:38:56,283 --> 02:38:58,945
This man is here.
He dances a waltz in a tuxedo,
1714
02:38:59,019 --> 02:39:01,749
and tomorrow will go to work
wearing a double-breasted suit.
1715
02:39:01,822 --> 02:39:06,020
The self-made Negro is proud
of his past misfortunes,
1716
02:39:06,093 --> 02:39:10,553
and the horrors of slavery are his epic.
1717
02:39:20,074 --> 02:39:24,807
This was the most famous slave sorting
and clearing center in Louisiana.
1718
02:39:24,879 --> 02:39:26,904
Even Thomas Ewell wrote about it.
1719
02:39:26,981 --> 02:39:30,212
Let's read some excerpts
from the camp's rules and regulations:
1720
02:39:30,284 --> 02:39:35,449
''It is ordered that at Fort Bastille
all African slaves be quarantined.''
1721
02:39:51,238 --> 02:39:56,266
Page 1 1 6: ''In large iron cages,
slaves with mange and scabies
1722
02:39:56,343 --> 02:40:00,279
will be fumigated
with ailanthus vapors.
1723
02:40:05,352 --> 02:40:08,014
The epileptics will be hung by the feet
1724
02:40:08,088 --> 02:40:11,922
so their blood, flowing to the head,
will arrest their convulsions.''
1725
02:40:26,941 --> 02:40:32,004
Reading from page 1 22:
''It is mandatory for all slaves
1726
02:40:32,079 --> 02:40:35,674
to receive an initial bath in a mixture
of water, salt, ash, and soapwort root.''
1727
02:41:16,623 --> 02:41:18,750
Now, reading from page 1 30:
1728
02:41:18,826 --> 02:41:23,388
''The bath will be followed by a greasing
with lard, palm oil and turpentine.
1729
02:41:23,464 --> 02:41:26,092
We remind our employees that 82%%
1730
02:41:26,166 --> 02:41:29,829
of imported slaves is afflicted with
contagious skin diseases,
1731
02:41:29,903 --> 02:41:33,339
and that therefore the law forbids
their trade.
1732
02:41:39,813 --> 02:41:43,044
Using the specially designed slides,
the slaves will be gathered
1733
02:41:43,117 --> 02:41:45,312
for the next phase of their cleansing.
1734
02:42:00,100 --> 02:42:04,093
Eggs and lice that may have survived
the previous treatments
1735
02:42:04,171 --> 02:42:08,870
will be exterminated with the total
destruction of their natural habitat.
1736
02:42:08,942 --> 02:42:12,400
The razors must be sharpened
every 200 shavings,
1737
02:42:12,479 --> 02:42:14,913
to avoid damage to the scalps.''
1738
02:42:22,990 --> 02:42:24,651
Cleansed both inside and out,
1739
02:42:24,725 --> 02:42:28,593
the Negro was fortified before
the long journey inland
1740
02:42:28,662 --> 02:42:32,223
with a daily ration of a half gallon
of corn meal,
1741
02:42:32,299 --> 02:42:35,166
a pint of beans,
a pound of sweet potatoes,
1742
02:42:35,235 --> 02:42:37,999
- a pound of fat --
- Don't go overboard.
1743
02:42:38,072 --> 02:42:42,532
They only get a half-pound of fat.
This is not an Italian restaurant.
1744
02:42:42,609 --> 02:42:45,407
Besides, we don't need
a defense lawyer.
1745
02:43:22,182 --> 02:43:27,176
Look at them. All they want
is to eat, to eat anything.
1746
02:43:27,254 --> 02:43:31,816
To eat and to fuck, that's all
they want. And they want to survive.
1747
02:43:31,892 --> 02:43:37,091
To survive anything, beatings,
syphilis, cholera, the heat, the cold.
1748
02:43:37,164 --> 02:43:39,564
Their strength lies in their
adaptability.
1749
02:43:39,633 --> 02:43:42,830
Both in heaven and in hell,
they fill their bellies
1750
02:43:42,903 --> 02:43:45,133
and spit out dozens of children.
1751
02:43:45,205 --> 02:43:50,609
I for one agree with those
who support mandatory castration.
1752
02:43:50,677 --> 02:43:52,702
I don't mean to be cruel,
1753
02:43:52,779 --> 02:43:58,217
but if we don't cut off a few million
black balls now,
1754
02:43:58,285 --> 02:44:02,654
you can be sure
that in one or two hundred years--
1755
02:44:02,723 --> 02:44:07,217
Dick Gregory, the first Negro
President of the United States!
1756
02:44:07,294 --> 02:44:10,229
What makes this candidate for
the White House exceptional
1757
02:44:10,297 --> 02:44:13,528
is that his political program does not
include cutting the throats
1758
02:44:13,600 --> 02:44:15,090
of all white Americans.
1759
02:44:15,169 --> 02:44:18,468
Perhaps this is why
he wasn't very successful.
1760
02:44:18,539 --> 02:44:21,702
The more popular
David Hillyard screamed,
1761
02:44:21,775 --> 02:44:25,871
''We'll kill Nixon and all the sons
of bitches that are against us.''
1762
02:44:25,946 --> 02:44:29,541
Gregory is more modest. He's content
with his image on the dollar bill,
1763
02:44:29,616 --> 02:44:32,642
and obtaining what the signers
of the Black Manifesto requested:
1764
02:44:32,719 --> 02:44:38,248
300 billion dollars as damages
for the suffering of 3 million slaves.
1765
02:44:38,325 --> 02:44:40,384
In the meantime
he's handing out small advances,
1766
02:44:40,460 --> 02:44:43,327
and promises that the rest
will be delivered promptly.
1767
02:44:56,143 --> 02:44:59,840
The livestock cars that transported
the slaves up north
1768
02:44:59,913 --> 02:45:04,612
covered 400 miles in three days
along the left bank of the Mississippi,
1769
02:45:04,685 --> 02:45:08,416
all the way up to Natchez or Pittsburgh.
The slave trade was very busy.
1770
02:45:08,488 --> 02:45:11,389
It slowed down only in the autumn,
1771
02:45:11,458 --> 02:45:14,291
when the trains had to stop
in Baton Rouge,
1772
02:45:14,361 --> 02:45:18,889
and the slaves had to proceed on foot
through rain-flooded swamps.
1773
02:45:55,736 --> 02:46:00,366
The red flag, which back then was the
symbol of slavery, preceded the convoys.
1774
02:46:00,440 --> 02:46:04,376
A tuba, a violin and a trombone
kept up the slaves' morale
1775
02:46:04,444 --> 02:46:05,775
when the going was rough.
1776
02:46:05,846 --> 02:46:08,110
Neither the slave traders
nor the public, at the time,
1777
02:46:08,181 --> 02:46:10,649
considered this trade immoral.
1778
02:46:10,717 --> 02:46:13,117
They were comforted in part
by the fact that among their clients
1779
02:46:13,186 --> 02:46:16,485
were men such as PresidentJackson
and PresidentJefferson.
1780
02:46:16,556 --> 02:46:19,548
Among their colleagues were men such as
David Mitchell, governor of Georgia,
1781
02:46:19,626 --> 02:46:21,958
and James Bowie, hero of the Alamo.
1782
02:46:22,029 --> 02:46:23,496
Come on. Move it!
1783
02:46:30,871 --> 02:46:35,331
Let's have some music!
Make merry! Play!
1784
02:46:35,409 --> 02:46:39,675
Come on. Let's have some music!
Be merry. Play for me!
1785
02:47:09,209 --> 02:47:15,011
Go free with God.
Go forth, free with God.
1786
02:47:15,682 --> 02:47:18,446
Go on, go free with God.
1787
02:47:27,594 --> 02:47:32,964
Well then, $300 for the males,
$200 for the females,
1788
02:47:33,033 --> 02:47:35,501
and $1 00 for the puppies.
It's all there, right?
1789
02:47:36,370 --> 02:47:38,338
In addition to having
illustrious clients,
1790
02:47:38,405 --> 02:47:40,669
the traders also had
illustrious suppliers,
1791
02:47:40,741 --> 02:47:43,141
like theJesuits
of Saint Inigoe in Maryland.
1792
02:47:43,210 --> 02:47:45,906
The Catholic Church had always
ignored slavery,
1793
02:47:45,979 --> 02:47:50,643
but when in 1 838 the Pope ordered
that slaves in convents be freed,
1794
02:47:50,717 --> 02:47:53,777
theJesuits immediately got rid
of them: they sold them.
1795
02:49:46,466 --> 02:49:50,926
When the convoys reached
the sugarcane and cotton mills,
1796
02:49:51,004 --> 02:49:55,737
the traders would allow their Negroes a
few days' rest, so they could present them
1797
02:49:55,809 --> 02:49:59,040
to their customers in good shape.
The customers were few, but good.
1798
02:49:59,112 --> 02:50:05,244
In 1 850, 4 million slaves were owned
by 4,000 planters.
1799
02:50:05,318 --> 02:50:09,414
There were only 400 families
who owned more than 1 0 slaves.
1800
02:50:09,489 --> 02:50:13,448
Eighty percent of the white population
had never owned slaves.
1801
02:50:13,527 --> 02:50:17,987
The dream of possessing a young Negro
woman tormented the lonely dreams
1802
02:50:18,064 --> 02:50:22,194
of poor white men, forced to long periods
of abstinence in such a hot land,
1803
02:50:22,269 --> 02:50:24,794
where the white
women were few and intractable.
1804
02:50:35,315 --> 02:50:37,442
Not bad, eh?
1805
02:50:38,518 --> 02:50:41,385
Many of these poor
and restless men were--
1806
02:50:41,454 --> 02:50:43,081
Cut it out.
1807
02:50:43,757 --> 02:50:45,247
This is my buddy, Buzz.
1808
02:50:46,760 --> 02:50:48,455
This is my buddy, Sonny.
1809
02:50:49,729 --> 02:50:50,957
This is my buddy,Jake.
1810
02:50:51,898 --> 02:50:54,765
- So, are you coming with us?
- Isn't it illegal?
1811
02:50:54,834 --> 02:50:58,133
What do you mean? Nothing
is illegal in this fucking country.
1812
02:51:00,173 --> 02:51:03,233
You hear that?
He wants money.
1813
02:51:19,593 --> 02:51:23,893
Many of these poor white men,
the Crackers, as they were called,
1814
02:51:23,964 --> 02:51:26,592
were serving what was called
time-limited slavery,
1815
02:51:26,666 --> 02:51:30,124
a period of hard labor,
usually of five years,
1816
02:51:30,203 --> 02:51:33,536
to pay off the price of the trip
to America from Europe.
1817
02:51:33,607 --> 02:51:36,872
Another group was formed by thieves,
rapists, murderers,
1818
02:51:36,943 --> 02:51:40,811
who had been deported to the colonies
from French and English prisons.
1819
02:51:40,880 --> 02:51:44,441
Their hatred toward the Negroes
was not just a racial issue.
1820
02:51:44,517 --> 02:51:48,419
Negroes were always slaves,
and therefore obliged to work for free,
1821
02:51:48,488 --> 02:51:52,720
but also to be the scabs
of the white laborers,
1822
02:51:52,792 --> 02:51:57,388
who had to choose between
unemployment and a miserable pay.
1823
02:51:57,464 --> 02:51:59,364
Come on, let's go.
1824
02:52:04,537 --> 02:52:08,234
Thus, the hatred of the white slave
toward the Negro slave
1825
02:52:08,308 --> 02:52:11,334
was appeased through gratuitous
acts of violence,
1826
02:52:11,411 --> 02:52:13,879
perpetrated especially on the women,
who slept alone at night
1827
02:52:13,947 --> 02:52:16,609
in the barn with the animals,
and were therefore defenseless.
1828
02:54:09,395 --> 02:54:11,158
Oh, go away.
1829
02:55:46,960 --> 02:55:49,428
The black puppies not yet ready
for work were like toys,
1830
02:55:49,495 --> 02:55:51,827
and as such they were given
to children.
1831
02:55:51,898 --> 02:55:54,992
But the black puppies grew up quickly,
and pretty soon they preferred
1832
02:55:55,068 --> 02:55:59,562
a new kind of game, that the white
kids often enjoyed watching.
1833
02:55:59,639 --> 02:56:04,008
Let's read an excerpt from the diary
of Fanny Kemble, English actress:
1834
02:56:04,077 --> 02:56:08,776
''From the early morning the boughs
of the large tree before my window
1835
02:56:08,848 --> 02:56:13,046
were full of couples chirping like
blackbirds in love.
1836
02:56:13,119 --> 02:56:17,078
I, who was English, and had just
joined my American husband in Georgia,
1837
02:56:17,156 --> 02:56:22,116
was amazed that such a puritanical
white society could allow its slaves
1838
02:56:22,195 --> 02:56:27,428
to indulge in such depravity
in every corner of the jungle.
1839
02:56:27,500 --> 02:56:30,765
Another time, in the rice fields,
1840
02:56:30,837 --> 02:56:33,704
I came upon such a carefree,
shameless band of urchins,
1841
02:56:33,773 --> 02:56:38,005
who were so busy with their pleasure
that they didn't even notice me.''
1842
02:56:39,345 --> 02:56:41,973
But after her marriage to the planter
George Butler,
1843
02:56:42,048 --> 02:56:45,779
Fanny Kemble became
a typical southern lady.
1844
02:56:45,852 --> 02:56:48,013
I, a typical southern lady?
1845
02:56:48,087 --> 02:56:53,150
Have you ever seen a southern lady
ride a horse western style?
1846
02:56:54,260 --> 02:57:00,221
Now I'll show you another thing that
a southern lady would never show you.
1847
02:57:01,167 --> 02:57:04,466
Look at all the lovebirds!
1848
02:57:04,537 --> 02:57:08,166
Look at them
running from the sugarcane field.
1849
02:57:09,208 --> 02:57:13,338
The masters themselves encourage them.
1850
02:57:14,847 --> 02:57:19,546
Do you know what my husband says?
''Go on, get busy!
1851
02:57:20,219 --> 02:57:25,282
The more children you have,
the happier you'll make me.
1852
02:57:25,358 --> 02:57:28,191
Do as you please.
1853
02:57:28,261 --> 02:57:31,719
I get rich,
and you have a good time.''
1854
02:57:32,865 --> 02:57:37,097
In this shop, you don't pay for what
you break, and I pick up the pieces.
1855
02:57:51,184 --> 02:57:54,642
Excuse me, ma'am, where is
the church at Turner Bridge?
1856
02:57:54,721 --> 02:57:58,987
I don't understand.
I'm German.
1857
02:57:59,058 --> 02:58:03,995
- Where is church?
- Three miles down road.
1858
02:58:04,063 --> 02:58:09,000
- What's happening here, ma'am?
- Very interesting.
1859
02:58:09,068 --> 02:58:14,768
They're cutting the Negro who broke
20 virgins at the Peterson plantation.
1860
02:58:15,575 --> 02:58:19,033
- Cutting what?
- Cutting his balls, what else?
1861
02:58:20,113 --> 02:58:22,946
He's through fucking.
1862
02:58:26,219 --> 02:58:28,278
The pliers! The pliers!
1863
02:58:37,130 --> 02:58:39,690
If on the one hand the masters
allowed their slaves
1864
02:58:39,766 --> 02:58:41,893
an almost unlimited sexual freedom,
1865
02:58:41,968 --> 02:58:46,871
it was also true that he would be
furious if that freedom cost him money.
1866
02:58:46,939 --> 02:58:49,965
On every plantation there were always
a number of virgins
1867
02:58:50,043 --> 02:58:51,408
destined for the marketplace.
1868
02:58:51,477 --> 02:58:55,573
Their virginity had a very definite
value, and if you took it,
1869
02:58:55,648 --> 02:58:56,910
you were a thief.
1870
02:58:56,983 --> 02:58:59,611
Such thieves
were publicly castrated,
1871
02:58:59,685 --> 02:59:02,210
and the castration took place
at the very scene of the crime.
1872
02:59:02,288 --> 02:59:05,314
Hewlett, a Louisiana man,
wrote in 1 831 :
1873
02:59:05,391 --> 02:59:09,555
''Such an exciting spectacle
was a pleasant interruption
1874
02:59:09,629 --> 02:59:11,358
to the boredom of a Sunday afternoon.
1875
02:59:11,431 --> 02:59:15,265
Males, females and puppies
enjoyed it from start to finish.
1876
02:59:15,334 --> 02:59:18,428
The more the victim screamed,
the more fun they had.''
1877
02:59:18,504 --> 02:59:20,995
The master calls for the pliers.
1878
02:59:21,074 --> 02:59:25,704
No, not my balls!
1879
02:59:27,713 --> 02:59:30,705
Shut up! Take the balls with
your hands and pull.
1880
02:59:31,584 --> 02:59:36,317
- Quick, put the balls in the pliers.
- He's pissing! He got me all wet!
1881
02:59:36,389 --> 02:59:39,688
Not my balls! No!
1882
02:59:39,759 --> 02:59:43,024
- Do you want to go in?
- No, thank you.
1883
02:59:44,864 --> 02:59:47,389
- Listen.
- Squeeze!
1884
02:59:50,369 --> 02:59:53,827
Did you hear that?
It's done.
1885
02:59:54,507 --> 02:59:59,740
- What did they use for the operation?
- Horse pliers.
1886
02:59:59,812 --> 03:00:05,478
- It's horrible to make him suffer so.
- No, Negroes never suffer.
1887
03:00:21,400 --> 03:00:26,201
That Negroes felt physical and moral
pain less that white men
1888
03:00:26,272 --> 03:00:28,263
was a widely held belief.
1889
03:00:28,341 --> 03:00:30,138
The scientific writings of that time,
1890
03:00:30,209 --> 03:00:33,042
first among them those by
the authoritative Samuel Cartwright,
1891
03:00:33,112 --> 03:00:35,046
a professor at
the University of Louisiana,
1892
03:00:35,114 --> 03:00:41,246
mention ''poor motor skills, typical of
monkeys and subhuman species in general.''
1893
03:00:41,320 --> 03:00:44,517
No one suspected yet that
all the folklore, the excesses,
1894
03:00:44,590 --> 03:00:48,117
the collective hysteria don't
Negate the presence of pain.
1895
03:00:48,194 --> 03:00:49,991
On the contrary,
they underline its intensity.
1896
03:03:19,145 --> 03:03:24,777
At this point I have only to remind you
that God condemned to slavery
1897
03:03:24,850 --> 03:03:28,877
the damned line of Canaan
from the time ofJoshua.
1898
03:03:28,954 --> 03:03:33,357
God ordered Abraham's descendants
to keep slaves,
1899
03:03:33,426 --> 03:03:38,659
and he decreed that those slaves
were to be inherited by their children.
1900
03:03:39,965 --> 03:03:43,526
God recognized Abraham
as the master of the slaves.
1901
03:03:43,602 --> 03:03:45,399
And Jesus ordered
1902
03:03:45,471 --> 03:03:50,465
that any who dare object to
or disrupt the institution of slavery
1903
03:03:50,543 --> 03:03:56,971
be repudiated as subversive individuals,
whose behavior is --
1904
03:03:57,049 --> 03:03:58,209
The Protestant Church,
1905
03:03:58,284 --> 03:04:00,684
then even more powerful
than the Catholic Church in America,
1906
03:04:00,753 --> 03:04:04,450
approved of and preached
slavery as a divine decree.
1907
03:04:04,523 --> 03:04:06,821
The sermons of the most influential
ministers, like this one,
1908
03:04:06,892 --> 03:04:12,660
by Reverend Stringfellow of Virginia,
were bound and published in volumes.
1909
03:04:12,732 --> 03:04:16,793
The curse in the Old Testament
on the black man, Canaan,
1910
03:04:16,869 --> 03:04:19,497
the evil son of Noah,
who had castrated his father,
1911
03:04:19,572 --> 03:04:25,511
was falling heavily on his descendants,
who were now reduced to slavery.
1912
03:04:25,578 --> 03:04:28,138
The Baptists said, ''Flog them.''
1913
03:04:28,214 --> 03:04:30,079
The Presbyterians, ''Deny them rights.''
1914
03:04:30,149 --> 03:04:32,413
The Methodists, ''Chain them up.''
1915
03:04:32,485 --> 03:04:36,546
While Bishop Polk, the same one
who later became a Confederate general,
1916
03:04:36,622 --> 03:04:39,785
beat all records as a slaveholder.
1917
03:04:39,859 --> 03:04:45,957
Slavery is thus a divine institution,
ordered and sanctioned by God.
1918
03:04:46,031 --> 03:04:50,400
Therefore, with all the authority
granted my by the church,
1919
03:04:50,469 --> 03:04:55,532
I, Reverend Stringfellow of the State
of Virginia,
1920
03:04:55,608 --> 03:04:57,803
order you to honor slavery
1921
03:04:57,877 --> 03:05:02,507
and not to question it on the basis
of false moral grounds.
1922
03:05:13,826 --> 03:05:18,354
Instead of false moral grounds, Reverend
Stringfellow would have done better
1923
03:05:18,431 --> 03:05:23,266
talking about
false economic grounds.
1924
03:05:23,335 --> 03:05:26,702
For example, it was false
to think that a slave's labor was free
1925
03:05:26,772 --> 03:05:29,707
simply because he wasn't paid.
1926
03:05:29,775 --> 03:05:32,744
Let's consider the eternal problem
of domestic servants.
1927
03:05:32,812 --> 03:05:35,576
When a master thought he could solve it
1928
03:05:35,648 --> 03:05:39,778
by filling his huge house with droves
of Negroes dressed to the nines,
1929
03:05:39,852 --> 03:05:43,151
he was solving
a very different problem--
1930
03:05:43,222 --> 03:05:48,159
the problem of his prestige in the eyes
of his family and his guests.
1931
03:05:52,531 --> 03:05:58,527
Please, come in. But I'm warning you,
I can't give you much of my time.
1932
03:05:58,604 --> 03:06:02,040
As you can see, this isn't a house,
it's a madhouse.
1933
03:06:02,107 --> 03:06:05,201
- The luggage.
- What luggage? Oh, yes!
1934
03:06:05,277 --> 03:06:07,142
Mr. Thackeray's luggage.
1935
03:06:07,213 --> 03:06:10,444
Haven't I told you a million times
to get it and bring it downstairs?
1936
03:06:10,516 --> 03:06:12,484
Go on, don't waste anymore time.
1937
03:06:12,551 --> 03:06:15,486
My God, they're useless!
Hurry up!
1938
03:06:16,489 --> 03:06:19,981
I'll have to leave you to your own
devices. Take a look around.
1939
03:06:20,059 --> 03:06:23,495
- I'll see you later.
- Where do the sheets go, ma'am?
1940
03:06:24,163 --> 03:06:27,564
Come on. Let's hurry it up!
1941
03:06:29,768 --> 03:06:31,429
This looks nice.
1942
03:06:33,639 --> 03:06:39,043
Always cleaning, cleaning.
My fingers are hurting, ma'am.
1943
03:06:39,945 --> 03:06:43,813
Even at night I dream
that I'm still cleaning.
1944
03:06:43,883 --> 03:06:47,250
Black slave's always cleaning.
1945
03:06:47,319 --> 03:06:51,551
And you keep telling me
I have to clean even better.
1946
03:07:26,859 --> 03:07:29,760
Where do we put the sheets, ma'am?
1947
03:07:31,363 --> 03:07:37,734
''Where do we put the sheets, ma'am?''
Put them on the bed, you idiots!
1948
03:07:43,475 --> 03:07:45,636
The real mistress of the house, though,
was the Mammy.
1949
03:07:45,711 --> 03:07:49,579
The house was her kingdom.
The children were her subjects.
1950
03:07:49,648 --> 03:07:52,879
She reigned upstairs, over the children
of both masters and slaves alike,
1951
03:07:52,952 --> 03:07:55,819
in absolute promiscuity,
because black or white,
1952
03:07:55,888 --> 03:07:58,652
all babies have the same color pee.
1953
03:07:58,724 --> 03:08:02,353
She was almost always fat, thanks to
her privileges in the kitchen.
1954
03:08:02,428 --> 03:08:05,625
She was always mean and arrogant,
and mistreated everyone, black or white.
1955
03:08:05,698 --> 03:08:08,963
All this thanks to the immunity
she enjoyed in the domestic setting.
1956
03:08:09,034 --> 03:08:10,558
When, for instance, a white man --
1957
03:08:16,475 --> 03:08:19,273
- Whom does this one belong to?
- Throw him over there.
1958
03:08:19,345 --> 03:08:22,439
When I'm done with your pup,
I'll latch him onto my tit.
1959
03:08:22,514 --> 03:08:25,915
Be careful, he's got the runs,
he's messing everywhere.
1960
03:08:41,900 --> 03:08:46,496
- I'm freezing, do I have to bathe?
- Get in there and wash up good.
1961
03:08:46,572 --> 03:08:48,665
Hey you, pump the water, faster!
1962
03:09:00,419 --> 03:09:04,287
- Don't let them play with my dress.
- Get back in there!
1963
03:09:04,356 --> 03:09:09,692
Take that dress off. Give me that,
face powder is $5 an ounce!
1964
03:09:09,762 --> 03:09:13,755
It's not meant for dirty Negroes
like you. Now get out of here!
1965
03:09:14,967 --> 03:09:18,368
- Enough Mammy, I'm clean.
- Let me take a look.
1966
03:09:19,071 --> 03:09:22,472
You don't like the water, eh?
You're worse than a Negro.
1967
03:09:22,541 --> 03:09:24,668
Not so hard, you're hurting me.
1968
03:09:24,743 --> 03:09:27,576
You know those Italian photographers
that are here?
1969
03:09:27,646 --> 03:09:30,979
Mammy, I want them to take
my portrait in the pink dress.
1970
03:09:31,050 --> 03:09:32,847
Is it cut too low?
1971
03:09:32,918 --> 03:09:36,877
Get out of here! You whites
are such bastards.
1972
03:09:36,955 --> 03:09:42,951
Scoundrels! You're all scoundrels!
And you, get the fuck away!
1973
03:09:45,397 --> 03:09:48,366
The Negro little boyFlew right up into the sky
1974
03:09:48,434 --> 03:09:53,565
And you, will you stop plucking
those feathers!
1975
03:09:55,841 --> 03:10:01,404
Drinking water! Drinking water!
1976
03:10:02,147 --> 03:10:06,208
Thief!. Let me see!
Where is the chicken?
1977
03:10:06,285 --> 03:10:08,913
Give me your hat.
1978
03:10:08,987 --> 03:10:10,978
Look here! Thief!.
1979
03:10:13,592 --> 03:10:18,825
- Cake with cherries.
- Wait!
1980
03:10:18,897 --> 03:10:23,391
I keep putting the cherries on,
and I never run out of cherries.
1981
03:10:24,970 --> 03:10:28,872
These are onions, not carrots!
Can't you smell them?
1982
03:10:29,842 --> 03:10:32,606
The Negro little boyFlew right up into the sky
1983
03:10:32,678 --> 03:10:38,412
The almonds, I can't crush them.
I'm going to use a plate.
1984
03:10:41,553 --> 03:10:45,580
This is not a kitchen!
It's a huge latrine!
1985
03:10:46,258 --> 03:10:49,125
Dirty Negro woman, she's putting
her hands in the mayonnaise.
1986
03:10:49,194 --> 03:10:51,856
I'm a clean Negro, and I crack eggs
with my glove on.
1987
03:10:51,930 --> 03:10:55,388
The Negro little boyFlew right up into the sky
1988
03:10:55,467 --> 03:10:58,527
Get down from there!
1989
03:10:58,604 --> 03:11:02,631
The Negro little boyFlew right up into the sky
1990
03:11:05,511 --> 03:11:09,174
Pigs! You're worse than pigs!
1991
03:11:11,416 --> 03:11:13,316
Pigs are much better.
1992
03:11:13,385 --> 03:11:17,219
And all this just to seat
two people at the dinner table!
1993
03:11:26,865 --> 03:11:30,699
This is the first image of a historical
carousel called ''Pilgrimage'',
1994
03:11:30,769 --> 03:11:32,669
which is celebrated every year
in the spring.
1995
03:11:32,738 --> 03:11:35,172
At this time, the old south takes
a trip down memory lane.
1996
03:11:35,240 --> 03:11:38,801
For the sake of the carousel,
everything comes out of storage:
1997
03:11:38,877 --> 03:11:41,744
from the old granny in a wheelchair
to the few neighborhood Negroes,
1998
03:11:41,814 --> 03:11:45,545
who for $1 2 an hour
agree to pose as slaves.
1999
03:11:53,058 --> 03:11:57,324
The slaveholders bravely revisit
their sins of yore, like this one,
2000
03:11:57,396 --> 03:11:59,125
the first of the day.
2001
03:11:59,198 --> 03:12:03,828
They had a slave bring them
their coffee in bed. Incredible.
2002
03:12:11,944 --> 03:12:16,278
The 1 9th century feels very far away,
halfway up the ladder of time.
2003
03:12:16,348 --> 03:12:20,114
How was it? It depends if you're
looking from the bottom or the top.
2004
03:12:20,185 --> 03:12:21,880
From the bottom,
we discover under old drapes
2005
03:12:21,954 --> 03:12:24,548
a modern and hypocritical reality.
2006
03:12:24,623 --> 03:12:25,487
From above, on the other hand,
2007
03:12:25,557 --> 03:12:28,219
we enjoy a stale view
of ancient, innocent customs,
2008
03:12:28,293 --> 03:12:32,024
such as chaste girls bathing
with their nightgowns on.
2009
03:12:34,533 --> 03:12:39,368
Right next door, we find a walnut stool
used to flog slaves.
2010
03:12:39,438 --> 03:12:42,339
It looks more like an antique
than an instrument of torture.
2011
03:12:42,407 --> 03:12:45,171
Next to the music box we see
the blond Eveline,
2012
03:12:45,244 --> 03:12:48,577
sitting on Uncle Tom's lap
on a rainy evening.
2013
03:12:48,647 --> 03:12:53,346
In the dusky sitting room,
the old grandfather clock keeps time.
2014
03:12:53,418 --> 03:12:56,910
It makes us feel almost sorry
that General Sherman is at the gates.
2015
03:13:18,810 --> 03:13:21,938
Sherman arrived with 30,000
Union troops.
2016
03:13:22,014 --> 03:13:25,108
Today, there are 1 00,000 northerners.
2017
03:13:25,183 --> 03:13:26,912
A mere hundred years have passed
2018
03:13:26,985 --> 03:13:29,613
since the General swept like a fury
down from the north
2019
03:13:29,688 --> 03:13:33,590
and tore down these candid temples
to slavery, and already the south
2020
03:13:33,659 --> 03:13:38,426
seems to have bounced back to the
original splendor of its dark age.
2021
03:13:38,497 --> 03:13:41,295
The pretentious Neoclassical style
of its large houses
2022
03:13:41,366 --> 03:13:45,496
shines again over the green parks
as it did in those opulent times,
2023
03:13:45,570 --> 03:13:48,164
which were rife with slaves,
cotton, tobacco,
2024
03:13:48,240 --> 03:13:51,801
and the coffers of the south
were full of Confederate dollars.
2025
03:14:00,118 --> 03:14:03,087
Today the old houses of the south
are national museums,
2026
03:14:03,155 --> 03:14:05,020
and their owners are responsible
for their upkeep.
2027
03:14:05,090 --> 03:14:08,116
The woman of the house is usually
in charge of protecting the furniture
2028
03:14:08,193 --> 03:14:09,785
and the antique rugs.
2029
03:14:09,861 --> 03:14:12,557
Stop! You can't come in
with high-heeled shoes.
2030
03:14:17,135 --> 03:14:20,434
After a long, grim winter without
northerners in the house,
2031
03:14:20,505 --> 03:14:23,565
the old south relives in the spring
its economic boom.
2032
03:14:23,642 --> 03:14:26,770
The north today buys cotton
at $1 0 per hundred kilograms.
2033
03:14:26,845 --> 03:14:31,248
The south sells its high-quality,
slave-grade cotton at $1 per ball.
2034
03:14:31,316 --> 03:14:33,910
Nixon devalues the dollar by 7%%.
2035
03:14:33,986 --> 03:14:38,821
The south revalues its old Confederate
dollar by 1 07%%, exchanging it equally.
2036
03:14:38,890 --> 03:14:40,152
The boom goes on.
2037
03:14:40,225 --> 03:14:44,855
Someone found an old column
in the cellar and sliced it up.
2038
03:14:44,930 --> 03:14:47,865
Today, the old white south
can be bought by the slice.
2039
03:14:47,933 --> 03:14:52,597
$1 0 a slice, and the Negro, posing
as a slave, keeps half of the proceeds.
2040
03:15:03,715 --> 03:15:06,206
New York, Fifth Avenue.
It's Easter.
2041
03:15:06,284 --> 03:15:09,185
A religious extremist waves a flag
and a Bible.
2042
03:15:09,254 --> 03:15:12,223
He yells something to do with Negroes,
but no one can understand him.
2043
03:15:12,290 --> 03:15:14,190
On the most bourgeois street in
the world,
2044
03:15:14,259 --> 03:15:16,784
they celebrate Easter
with the spring parade,
2045
03:15:16,862 --> 03:15:20,263
and spring is the most bourgeois
of the seasons.
2046
03:15:21,900 --> 03:15:24,960
Up here, far
from the rotting crowd below,
2047
03:15:25,037 --> 03:15:28,404
a chosen few have found
an altar close enough to the sky,
2048
03:15:28,473 --> 03:15:31,306
even though it's been sullied
by the arrival of the police.
2049
03:15:31,376 --> 03:15:35,938
''We're here,'' they say, ''to declare our
contrition over the sins of the world.''
2050
03:15:36,014 --> 03:15:37,811
''Naked?'' The police ask.
2051
03:15:37,883 --> 03:15:40,317
''We're not naked, we're undressed.''
2052
03:15:40,385 --> 03:15:45,288
Satisfied, they kiss. Today the police
no longer trust the penal code.
2053
03:15:45,357 --> 03:15:47,052
A crime looks like a crime.
2054
03:15:47,125 --> 03:15:49,616
Then, it turns out that
it's an ideological crime,
2055
03:15:49,694 --> 03:15:51,355
and they look like idiots.
2056
03:15:51,430 --> 03:15:53,057
Might as well drop the whole thing.
2057
03:15:53,131 --> 03:15:56,897
Today, being white, as well as
being shameful, is also a grave sin.
2058
03:15:56,968 --> 03:16:00,836
One of the many ways to atone
is to cover smear paint on one's body.
2059
03:16:00,906 --> 03:16:04,069
Each smear is a sin,
and each sin has its color.
2060
03:16:04,142 --> 03:16:06,235
Red for wars, massacres and the like,
2061
03:16:06,311 --> 03:16:09,712
yellow for gold and riches and
all the evils associated with wealth.
2062
03:16:09,781 --> 03:16:13,512
Black for racism, Nazism, fascism
and lots of other -isms.
2063
03:16:13,585 --> 03:16:17,043
The evil one, meaning the devil,
is white.
2064
03:16:17,122 --> 03:16:18,783
The devil's first victim,
2065
03:16:18,857 --> 03:16:22,190
according to these penitents who are
ashamed of their white bottoms,
2066
03:16:22,260 --> 03:16:25,855
is the Negro, who seems here
to feel slightly out of place.
2067
03:16:28,066 --> 03:16:30,398
''Abracadabra, I'm going to
exorcise you.''
2068
03:16:30,469 --> 03:16:34,166
For centuries the white devil
kept the Negro in hell.
2069
03:16:34,239 --> 03:16:36,332
He forced him to squirm
on the ground like a worm.
2070
03:16:36,408 --> 03:16:38,808
He imprisoned him, flogged him,
tortured him.
2071
03:16:38,877 --> 03:16:41,675
Then he dragged him
in chains through his American ordeal.
2072
03:16:41,746 --> 03:16:43,077
He chose him over Barabbas.
2073
03:16:43,148 --> 03:16:46,276
He betrayed him likeJudas.
He crucified him in Vietnam.
2074
03:16:46,351 --> 03:16:48,819
But today it's Easter,
and the Negro is reborn
2075
03:16:48,887 --> 03:16:52,084
and ascends to the sky,
to take his place at his father's side,
2076
03:16:52,157 --> 03:16:56,116
because the Negro is the son of God,
because God is black.
2077
03:16:58,797 --> 03:17:02,733
In fact in Detroit, in the Catholic
Church of the Sacred Heart,
2078
03:17:02,801 --> 03:17:06,965
Jesus has been painted black.
Is it antiracism or reverse racism?
2079
03:17:07,038 --> 03:17:09,802
Once upon a time they said,
''When God was white,
2080
03:17:09,875 --> 03:17:11,706
the Negro was not a man,
2081
03:17:11,776 --> 03:17:15,803
because God, who had made man
in his image, was not black.''
2082
03:17:15,881 --> 03:17:18,975
That must mean that today,
since God is black, we'll say this,
2083
03:17:19,050 --> 03:17:22,042
''God made man in his image,
2084
03:17:22,120 --> 03:17:25,886
and since God is no longer white,
the white man is no longer a man.''
2085
03:17:25,957 --> 03:17:30,985
The Negro community has flocked
to this church where all the saints,
2086
03:17:31,062 --> 03:17:33,223
and even the Virgin Mary are all black.
2087
03:17:33,298 --> 03:17:34,890
We can't help but think back
2088
03:17:34,966 --> 03:17:39,494
to the famous black Manifesto written
in August, 1 969, and still extant,
2089
03:17:39,571 --> 03:17:42,062
in which the Negroes claimed that
the Church owed them
2090
03:17:42,140 --> 03:17:44,540
300 billion dollars in damages
for what they'd been put through.
2091
03:17:44,609 --> 03:17:47,772
The Lord's Prayer says:
''Forgive us our debts,
2092
03:17:47,846 --> 03:17:50,508
as we forgive our debtors.''
2093
03:17:50,582 --> 03:17:54,541
So now who will pay, if the father who
forgives trespasses is no longer white,
2094
03:17:54,619 --> 03:17:57,053
nor is anyone in his family?
2095
03:18:25,483 --> 03:18:27,747
They had only just begun
to hear about it,
2096
03:18:27,819 --> 03:18:31,186
but already that white God, who
promised a heaven with no slaves
2097
03:18:31,256 --> 03:18:32,883
and no masters, fascinated them.
2098
03:18:32,958 --> 03:18:34,289
He seemed to be one of them.
2099
03:18:34,359 --> 03:18:37,157
He was humiliated, flogged,
crucified.
2100
03:18:37,229 --> 03:18:40,721
And for his whole life he had eaten
out of the same plate as the poor.
2101
03:18:43,068 --> 03:18:44,968
Get another plate, son.
2102
03:19:49,167 --> 03:19:50,395
Hewlett writes:
2103
03:19:50,468 --> 03:19:54,234
''It is tolerated that the slaves
gather when they are free from work
2104
03:19:54,306 --> 03:19:57,537
in order to imitate
in their fashion the Christian rituals.
2105
03:19:57,609 --> 03:20:01,375
Experience has taught us that the more
a slave is religious,
2106
03:20:01,446 --> 03:20:04,006
the calmer, more humble
and resigned he will be.
2107
03:20:04,082 --> 03:20:05,913
However, the law prescribes also
2108
03:20:05,984 --> 03:20:10,421
that these gatherings will be moderated
and presided over by a white man.''
2109
03:20:24,202 --> 03:20:29,401
Of all the tales in the Bible, the flight
from Egypt fascinated them the most.
2110
03:20:29,474 --> 03:20:33,342
They were so convinced that the story
related to them personally,
2111
03:20:33,411 --> 03:20:36,539
that they would draw it on the walls.
Africa was Palestine,
2112
03:20:36,614 --> 03:20:39,242
the ocean was the Red Sea,
the sharks were the Pharaohs,
2113
03:20:39,317 --> 03:20:41,581
and the Egyptians were
the white masters.
2114
03:20:41,653 --> 03:20:45,214
All those fantastical analogies between
their dark history
2115
03:20:45,290 --> 03:20:47,656
and the flight of the chosen people
toward the Promised Land
2116
03:20:47,726 --> 03:20:52,129
influenced them so, that they started
running away at a rate of 5,000 a year.
2117
03:20:52,197 --> 03:20:54,631
They always ran toward the rivers
and the swamps,
2118
03:20:54,699 --> 03:20:56,758
because they had crossed the water
to come here,
2119
03:20:56,835 --> 03:21:00,066
and they thought
that freedom lay across the water.
2120
03:22:51,416 --> 03:22:54,044
There was always a reward on the head
of a runaway slave.
2121
03:22:54,118 --> 03:22:57,281
The reward was not contingent, however,
on the slave being returned alive.
2122
03:22:57,355 --> 03:22:59,050
All that were needed were their hands
or their heads.
2123
03:22:59,123 --> 03:23:04,322
Thus many hunters, especially in
Florida, specialized in runaway slaves.
2124
03:23:04,395 --> 03:23:07,228
The fire of Atlanta destroyed
a daguerreotype
2125
03:23:07,298 --> 03:23:10,961
that portrayed a scene like this one.
On the back it bore this inscription:
2126
03:23:11,035 --> 03:23:13,560
''A good catch today, 1 87 heads.''
2127
03:23:16,975 --> 03:23:22,140
Even Andrew Jackson, the great
president, approved of hunting slaves.
2128
03:23:22,213 --> 03:23:24,078
Kenneth Stamp writes:
2129
03:23:24,148 --> 03:23:28,744
''One dayJackson promised $50 to whoever
could bring back one of his slaves,
2130
03:23:28,820 --> 03:23:33,450
and $1 0 extra for every 1 00 lashes,
up to a maximum of 300.''
2131
03:23:33,525 --> 03:23:36,255
None of the 1 4 American presidents
who were slave owners
2132
03:23:36,327 --> 03:23:39,353
were ever too kind to the Negroes.
2133
03:23:39,430 --> 03:23:43,696
They usually found them dumb,
clumsy, and mostly loud.
2134
03:23:43,768 --> 03:23:46,862
Another great president,
Thomas Jefferson, wrote:
2135
03:23:46,938 --> 03:23:50,999
''My slaves are such idiots,
that instead of going to bed,
2136
03:23:51,075 --> 03:23:55,535
they waste the night away under
my windows, making up dances and songs
2137
03:23:55,613 --> 03:23:58,980
which, according to them,
mock their master.''
2138
03:24:49,000 --> 03:24:52,492
When a Negro mocked his master,
to useJefferson's phrase,
2139
03:24:52,570 --> 03:24:57,530
he tried to wound his pride with
the only weapon he had, the grotesque.
2140
03:24:57,609 --> 03:25:00,169
Today he wields that weapon against
his entire civilization,
2141
03:25:00,244 --> 03:25:02,804
against his hero, his symbol,
his system.
2142
03:25:02,880 --> 03:25:08,011
The white hero is armed, and the sword
is the symbol of his prevarication.
2143
03:25:08,086 --> 03:25:09,713
He's lurking, again,
under a friar's tunic,
2144
03:25:09,787 --> 03:25:14,247
with threats of damnation,
pale and ugly like the devil.
2145
03:25:17,095 --> 03:25:20,963
''We are beautiful,'' says Carmichael,
the leader of the black students.
2146
03:25:21,032 --> 03:25:23,262
''We are a splendid race.''
2147
03:25:23,334 --> 03:25:26,303
That's all well and good, but this year
there will be two Miss Americas.
2148
03:25:26,371 --> 03:25:29,272
A white one, and a black one,
who will be called Boganda,
2149
03:25:29,340 --> 03:25:32,173
not because it's a nice name,
but because it's an African name.
2150
03:25:32,243 --> 03:25:34,803
Today, everything that's black
has to have that Negro-ness.
2151
03:25:34,879 --> 03:25:37,473
Afro, African, anything but American.
2152
03:25:37,548 --> 03:25:41,143
''Do you know,'' says Carmichael,
''why the Negroes spoke so badly?''
2153
03:25:41,219 --> 03:25:42,914
They were protesting against English.
2154
03:25:42,987 --> 03:25:46,252
Protest is an ugly fad word,
like Negro-ness.
2155
03:25:46,324 --> 03:25:48,588
Boganda, too,
is an ugly name for a queen.
2156
03:25:48,660 --> 03:25:50,890
It sounds more like chains
than like freedom.
2157
03:25:53,865 --> 03:25:57,665
''We don't want this white freedom.''
Another slogan from Harlem.
2158
03:25:57,735 --> 03:26:00,795
''We want a black freedom,
and five white states,
2159
03:26:00,872 --> 03:26:02,772
that the United States must give us.''
2160
03:26:02,840 --> 03:26:06,144
They dance like Africans,
dress like Africans, and speak Swahili.
2161
03:26:06,144 --> 03:26:08,135
''We repudiate your American language,
2162
03:26:08,212 --> 03:26:11,306
which you use to say
that we are savages, beasts, monkeys,
2163
03:26:11,382 --> 03:26:13,247
and that our sweat smells bad.''
2164
03:26:13,317 --> 03:26:17,185
This was said for the first time
by Professor Cartwright in 1 831 .
2165
03:26:20,825 --> 03:26:25,956
Smell this sweat.
Do you think it smells human?
2166
03:26:26,030 --> 03:26:28,897
Or does it have a beastly smell?
2167
03:26:34,005 --> 03:26:39,307
Well, why does it have a beastly smell?
Because our skin is different.
2168
03:26:39,377 --> 03:26:42,278
And it's not because of the color,
that's the last thing.
2169
03:26:42,346 --> 03:26:45,338
Our illustrious colleagues
up north know
2170
03:26:45,416 --> 03:26:49,147
that in one square centimeter
of this black skin
2171
03:26:49,220 --> 03:26:53,919
there are at least
twice the sweat glands than in ours.
2172
03:26:53,991 --> 03:26:59,156
You don't need a microscope to observe
that in this limited cranial capacity
2173
03:26:59,230 --> 03:27:03,860
there is very little brain: that this
is not hair, but beastly bristles:
2174
03:27:03,935 --> 03:27:06,426
this forehead is absurdly low,
2175
03:27:06,504 --> 03:27:11,271
these eyes totally lack luster,
and show no flicker of intelligence:
2176
03:27:11,342 --> 03:27:16,211
that these monstrous nostrils
resemble those of a monkey:
2177
03:27:16,280 --> 03:27:19,408
that these teeth and this jaw,
2178
03:27:19,484 --> 03:27:23,011
characteristic of anthropophagus
creatures,
2179
03:27:23,087 --> 03:27:28,992
are the indisputable proof
that this is a merely humanoid race,
2180
03:27:29,060 --> 03:27:33,861
a race inferior to ours.
2181
03:27:34,532 --> 03:27:36,124
A race that is merely
2182
03:27:36,200 --> 03:27:41,069
another attempt on nature's part
2183
03:27:41,139 --> 03:27:44,302
in its millennial journey
2184
03:27:44,375 --> 03:27:49,403
toward its ultimate goal, perfection,
2185
03:27:50,314 --> 03:27:53,579
the white race, homo sapiens,
2186
03:27:54,552 --> 03:27:57,077
in other words, us.
2187
03:27:57,155 --> 03:28:00,352
Excuse me, Professor, are you Jewish?
2188
03:28:01,325 --> 03:28:04,021
Yes, of course. Why?
2189
03:28:13,237 --> 03:28:16,263
Let's imagine we wanted
to exterminate them.
2190
03:28:16,340 --> 03:28:20,674
Fire, gas, deportation?
Oh, no.
2191
03:28:20,745 --> 03:28:24,237
It would be enough to refrain
from curing their illnesses.
2192
03:28:24,315 --> 03:28:29,252
Remember, a healthy Negro
is a perfect slave.
2193
03:28:29,320 --> 03:28:33,552
And an imperfect slave
is a sick Negro.
2194
03:28:33,624 --> 03:28:36,149
Sick? With which disease, Professor?
2195
03:28:36,227 --> 03:28:41,824
These individuals are afflicted
by a disease called ''draptomania'',
2196
03:28:42,533 --> 03:28:44,296
which is an impulse to flee.
2197
03:28:44,368 --> 03:28:48,930
It's a nervous disease,
which drives the Negro to flee.
2198
03:28:49,006 --> 03:28:52,772
Mind you, not out of a desire
for freedom or a sense of dignity.
2199
03:28:52,844 --> 03:28:55,677
Negroes have no such sentiments.
2200
03:28:55,746 --> 03:29:00,376
He runs because he is ill.
Oh, here's a perfect case:
2201
03:29:00,451 --> 03:29:03,716
in fact, an exemplary case
of that affliction
2202
03:29:03,788 --> 03:29:07,747
which we scientists call
African scatopathy.
2203
03:29:07,825 --> 03:29:13,024
- Are those muzzles?
- Oh, no! Looks are deceiving.
2204
03:29:13,097 --> 03:29:14,792
It's not a muzzle.
2205
03:29:14,866 --> 03:29:20,327
It's just an obstacle that stops them
from eating all sorts of garbage,
2206
03:29:21,505 --> 03:29:25,339
like dirt and their own excrement.
2207
03:29:25,409 --> 03:29:29,368
This may be one of the more repugnant
illnesses found in nature.
2208
03:29:29,447 --> 03:29:33,281
I'm sure it's caused by the lack
of some unknown substance.
2209
03:29:42,193 --> 03:29:46,960
Look at what extremes they go to.
They have such a fear of work,
2210
03:29:47,031 --> 03:29:53,493
and such a desire to do nothing,
that they have tricked their masters.
2211
03:29:53,571 --> 03:29:56,233
Look, they're so clever.
2212
03:29:58,676 --> 03:30:03,375
They make their legs, arms, feet
or hands drop off,
2213
03:30:03,447 --> 03:30:07,406
so they can live of their mutilation.
2214
03:30:10,488 --> 03:30:14,151
It seems impossible.
How did they end up like this?
2215
03:30:14,225 --> 03:30:16,022
I told you.
2216
03:30:16,093 --> 03:30:21,656
To get out of working, they inflicted
some small wound on themselves,
2217
03:30:21,732 --> 03:30:24,394
and then gangrene set in,
2218
03:30:24,468 --> 03:30:33,069
so the surgeon had to cut off
arms and legs to save their hides.
2219
03:30:42,753 --> 03:30:45,244
What are these people doing here?
Aren't they Indians?
2220
03:30:45,323 --> 03:30:48,087
Yes, but the Indians are useless.
2221
03:30:48,159 --> 03:30:49,990
Between a Negro and an Indian
2222
03:30:50,061 --> 03:30:53,827
there's the same difference
as between a dog and a coyote.
2223
03:30:53,898 --> 03:30:59,564
You can beat a dog to death,
and he'll go on licking your feet.
2224
03:30:59,637 --> 03:31:04,233
If you deprive a coyote of its freedom,
you might as well deprive it of air.
2225
03:31:04,308 --> 03:31:07,709
An Indian will never be a slave.
2226
03:31:08,446 --> 03:31:12,439
No one has ever succeeded
in having them reproduce in captivity.
2227
03:31:12,516 --> 03:31:18,421
They don't eat. They don't speak. They
don't sleep and they don't make love.
2228
03:31:20,191 --> 03:31:24,423
Look at these bizarre creatures,
neither men nor beasts.
2229
03:31:24,495 --> 03:31:29,057
These black and sick projections
of our humanity,
2230
03:31:29,133 --> 03:31:34,765
who suddenly ask us to survive
in this world of ours.
2231
03:31:34,839 --> 03:31:38,741
They are as ancient as we are,
and yet up until now
2232
03:31:38,809 --> 03:31:41,073
they had never seen a wheel.
2233
03:31:41,145 --> 03:31:46,412
But in a world like ours,
rich with centuries of civilization,
2234
03:31:46,484 --> 03:31:52,548
what could they ever do,
but bask in the reflection of our glory?
2235
03:31:56,794 --> 03:32:00,161
Every year in February,
the white people of Louisiana
2236
03:32:00,231 --> 03:32:02,699
hold a carnival
draped in black skin.
2237
03:32:02,767 --> 03:32:05,031
Today it feels like the parody
2238
03:32:05,102 --> 03:32:10,005
of the privilege enjoyed
for one day a year by all the slaves.
2239
03:32:10,074 --> 03:32:13,510
That day, the masters would tolerate
insults and threats.
2240
03:32:13,577 --> 03:32:17,946
''Further left than any left,
we'll drive against the current.''
2241
03:32:18,015 --> 03:32:21,348
But if Cleaver and Bobby Seale,
founder of the Black Panthers,
2242
03:32:21,419 --> 03:32:26,186
had lived 1 50 years ago,
the things they yell out every day now,
2243
03:32:26,257 --> 03:32:28,725
they could have said them only
on the day of the carnival.
2244
03:32:28,793 --> 03:32:33,730
''You whites, who still today wave
your discriminating and racist flags,
2245
03:32:33,798 --> 03:32:35,595
we'll put you all up against a wall!''
2246
03:32:35,666 --> 03:32:39,363
But the next day, Cleaver and Seale
would have been sold right here,
2247
03:32:39,437 --> 03:32:43,237
in the huge slave market, where the rum
ran like a river in the streets.
2248
03:32:43,307 --> 03:32:47,004
Then, when the trumpet would sound
the closing of the market,
2249
03:32:47,078 --> 03:32:50,047
and the drunken crowd would be
thrown out of the enclosure,
2250
03:32:50,114 --> 03:32:53,447
they would have been locked up like
jailbirds in the shacks of the camp,
2251
03:32:53,517 --> 03:32:56,486
so they could spend their last night
with their wives and children.
2252
03:32:58,689 --> 03:33:02,216
All this is now in the past,
and is part of history.
2253
03:33:02,293 --> 03:33:06,957
Any reference to the people
in these images is purely coincidental.
2254
03:33:07,031 --> 03:33:09,158
They happened to be walking by here
while our cameras
2255
03:33:09,233 --> 03:33:12,669
were filming the site of the
most famous slave market in the south,
2256
03:33:12,736 --> 03:33:17,696
where every year, during the carnival,
20,000 slaves were sold.
2257
03:34:53,737 --> 03:34:56,467
400, I said 400 and not a penny less.
2258
03:34:56,540 --> 03:34:59,304
- No, 200 is as high as I will go.
- I didn't steal him, you know.
2259
03:34:59,376 --> 03:35:01,173
- 300, then.
- No.
2260
03:35:01,245 --> 03:35:03,236
You can keep your Negro, then.
2261
03:35:03,314 --> 03:35:05,976
New Orleans, February, 1 831 .
2262
03:35:06,050 --> 03:35:08,951
The son of the sheriff, Tommy Adley,
2263
03:35:09,019 --> 03:35:13,820
draws the winning numbers of the state
lottery at the 27 th slave market.
2264
03:35:13,891 --> 03:35:16,519
First prize, a quarter mulatto girl
of 1 5 years.
2265
03:35:16,594 --> 03:35:20,325
Second prize, a cook, and third prize,
three fat pigs from Virginia.
2266
03:35:21,865 --> 03:35:24,629
Together with the Memphis fair,
the fair in New Orleans
2267
03:35:24,702 --> 03:35:26,294
is the most important fair in the south,
2268
03:35:26,370 --> 03:35:30,136
with a volume of business of more than
40 million dollars a year.
2269
03:35:30,207 --> 03:35:33,005
The merchandise is all homegrown,
2270
03:35:33,077 --> 03:35:37,070
and comes from farm consortia
in Florida and in Virginia.
2271
03:35:37,147 --> 03:35:38,808
The market is on the upswing.
2272
03:35:38,882 --> 03:35:42,181
A typical male, that only six years ago
went for $500,
2273
03:35:42,253 --> 03:35:44,949
is now worth $1 ,500 plus taxes.
2274
03:35:45,022 --> 03:35:48,082
Colonel Bowie,
who only deals in wholesale pups,
2275
03:35:48,158 --> 03:35:51,992
can sell them today at up to $1 5/lb.
2276
03:35:52,062 --> 03:35:56,328
This year the most popular races
are Ausa, Mandingo, and Turkana.
2277
03:35:56,400 --> 03:35:58,800
The Ausa are more graceful,
but more fragile.
2278
03:35:58,869 --> 03:36:01,269
The Mandingo are more sturdy,
but not as intelligent.
2279
03:36:01,338 --> 03:36:04,603
The Turkana are of smaller build,
more docile and manageable.
2280
03:36:04,675 --> 03:36:07,940
They are the most popular
with the religious institutions.
2281
03:36:08,012 --> 03:36:13,006
In 1 863, the French Ursuline nuns alone
had 200 of them.
2282
03:36:17,087 --> 03:36:21,683
Of all the ones we saw at the market,
this is the loveliest little angel.
2283
03:36:21,759 --> 03:36:24,489
He's really a delightful creature.
2284
03:36:25,496 --> 03:36:28,829
What should we do, sister?
2285
03:36:28,899 --> 03:36:34,064
It's very tempting, but have you seen
the prices this year?
2286
03:36:34,138 --> 03:36:37,630
- He's too expensive.
- But he's such an angel.
2287
03:36:37,708 --> 03:36:41,769
And he's healthy and strong.
He could help in the kitchen.
2288
03:36:41,845 --> 03:36:46,043
Sister, can you imagine what
the Mother Superior would say?
2289
03:36:46,116 --> 03:36:49,313
- She's already bought four this year.
- Oh, sister.
2290
03:36:49,386 --> 03:36:55,018
He's not that expensive, at $300.
Let's offer them $200.
2291
03:36:57,761 --> 03:37:00,252
He got scared
and lost his mother in the crowd.
2292
03:37:00,331 --> 03:37:02,629
They can't even get him
to tell them his name.
2293
03:37:02,700 --> 03:37:04,998
He just stands there, quiet, frowning,
2294
03:37:05,069 --> 03:37:07,697
but a little calmer,
with so many policemen around,
2295
03:37:07,771 --> 03:37:12,231
who seem to protect him from those
large white ghosts, who scared him.
2296
03:37:19,616 --> 03:37:21,379
After only one day of power,
2297
03:37:21,452 --> 03:37:23,943
the Negro king of the carnival
has lost his throne.
2298
03:37:24,021 --> 03:37:26,319
His short time
of privilege has expired.
2299
03:37:26,390 --> 03:37:27,880
Now it's the white man's turn.
2300
03:37:44,708 --> 03:37:48,439
Right here, in the Carr�, where the
queens of the neighborhood have gathered,
2301
03:37:48,512 --> 03:37:51,481
there once stood
two famous houses of ill repute.
2302
03:37:51,548 --> 03:37:53,539
The one called The Two Sisters,
2303
03:37:53,617 --> 03:37:57,018
and right across the street, the other,
Mr. Roberts'.
2304
03:37:57,087 --> 03:38:00,614
Since at the time there
were only two, distinct genders,
2305
03:38:00,691 --> 03:38:03,990
anyone could choose what they liked
in either of the two houses,
2306
03:38:04,061 --> 03:38:07,053
without the danger of making mistakes.
2307
03:38:07,131 --> 03:38:10,862
At the Two Sisters one could find
anything in the ''normal'' variety,
2308
03:38:10,934 --> 03:38:12,731
as it was once thought of.
2309
03:38:12,803 --> 03:38:17,137
At Mr. Roberts', instead, there was
the best of the ''other'', as it were,
2310
03:38:17,207 --> 03:38:20,267
that which today is considered
the ''normal'' variety.
2311
03:38:20,344 --> 03:38:25,213
In fact, the two houses
were not competitors at the time.
2312
03:38:25,282 --> 03:38:29,275
Both houses got their wares from
the market, two blocks away from here.
2313
03:38:29,353 --> 03:38:31,844
All top quality merchandise,
the genuine article,
2314
03:38:31,922 --> 03:38:35,756
what we would think of today as
''good old-fashioned wares.''
2315
03:38:43,167 --> 03:38:46,933
In the New Orleans market there was
a secret sector, where the merchandise,
2316
03:38:47,004 --> 03:38:48,528
before it was put on display,
2317
03:38:48,605 --> 03:38:52,336
was prepared and arranged
by gender, age and quality.
2318
03:38:52,409 --> 03:38:55,867
The girls chosen
to become ''fancy girls'',
2319
03:38:55,946 --> 03:38:59,109
were given over to a man named Buzz,
described by Hewlett
2320
03:38:59,183 --> 03:39:03,711
as a repulsive and obese individual,
always filthy with the grease
2321
03:39:03,787 --> 03:39:07,223
which he used to oil the fillies
to make their skin softer.
2322
03:39:07,291 --> 03:39:11,625
But the keys to the warehouse where
the pieces for real collectors were kept
2323
03:39:11,695 --> 03:39:16,029
were jealously guarded by a funny
little midget known as the General.
2324
03:39:19,436 --> 03:39:22,428
Only I have these keys.
I'm the master here.
2325
03:39:24,541 --> 03:39:27,601
Get inside, you bastards,
or I'll have you flogged.
2326
03:39:27,678 --> 03:39:32,047
I'll show you who's in charge here.
I am the General, you hear?
2327
03:39:32,115 --> 03:39:37,348
Come on, follow me.
Open up, it's me, the General.
2328
03:39:37,421 --> 03:39:39,855
Open up, you sons of bitches!
2329
03:39:41,391 --> 03:39:42,551
Hurry up!
2330
03:39:43,460 --> 03:39:46,429
Hey, white men, look at
the merchandise I'm in charge of.
2331
03:39:46,497 --> 03:39:50,831
The General is the guard of the market.
This is the market's safe.
2332
03:39:50,901 --> 03:39:56,703
Look, tens of thousands of dollars.
Top quality whores. All virgins.
2333
03:39:56,773 --> 03:40:00,368
You, get to work, dirty Negress.
None of them are all Negro.
2334
03:40:00,444 --> 03:40:04,346
They all have at least half human blood
in their veins, like me.
2335
03:40:04,414 --> 03:40:06,780
They've all been sold,
and are ready for delivery.
2336
03:40:06,850 --> 03:40:09,478
Delivered to your doorstep,
luxuriously packaged.
2337
03:40:09,553 --> 03:40:14,013
Hey, white men, you can look,
but don't touch.
2338
03:40:14,091 --> 03:40:15,922
You know the rules.
2339
03:40:15,993 --> 03:40:18,587
It's forbidden to touch
the merchandise on display.
2340
03:40:18,662 --> 03:40:20,994
Only I, the General, can touch.
2341
03:40:21,064 --> 03:40:23,362
Do you want to see? Here.
2342
03:40:23,433 --> 03:40:26,664
This is Cassandra, a half-caste.
She comes from the Harrison estate.
2343
03:40:26,737 --> 03:40:29,331
She's the daughter of Zephira
and the great Meatto.
2344
03:40:29,406 --> 03:40:34,366
Artemis, three-quarters human blood,
the firmest tits in the warehouse.
2345
03:40:34,444 --> 03:40:38,938
$5,000, payment in cash,
comes with a two-year warranty.
2346
03:40:39,016 --> 03:40:42,850
Vintage of 1 848.
Imperial Reserve, white or Ros�,
2347
03:40:42,920 --> 03:40:45,616
guaranteed by the consortium.
2348
03:40:45,689 --> 03:40:49,216
This is Eva. You like apples, huh?
2349
03:40:49,293 --> 03:40:52,785
Go ahead and eat them,
but stay away from any snakes.
2350
03:40:53,664 --> 03:40:58,328
You've never seen anything like this.
Who cares if you've never seen it?
2351
03:40:58,402 --> 03:41:03,863
That's enough, let's go. I don't have
time to waste. I'm the General.
2352
03:41:03,941 --> 03:41:06,409
Open up!
2353
03:41:07,110 --> 03:41:11,877
Come on, keep it up.
You clown, dance, move it!
2354
03:41:11,949 --> 03:41:13,712
Go on, dance.
2355
03:42:13,276 --> 03:42:14,834
No, no, no.
2356
03:42:14,911 --> 03:42:18,369
Not like that, not like that, beasts,
Like this!
2357
03:42:19,082 --> 03:42:21,846
I'll show you.
2358
03:42:21,918 --> 03:42:25,979
Like this, not with your hips.
Move your ass!
2359
03:42:37,634 --> 03:42:39,568
Open up, it's me.
2360
03:42:40,237 --> 03:42:44,367
Oh, the Europeans. What an honor!
2361
03:42:44,441 --> 03:42:47,706
I'm in a state, I'm afraid.
Look at my hands.
2362
03:42:47,778 --> 03:42:50,508
Excuse the mess, but you should see
in what state they deliver them.
2363
03:42:50,580 --> 03:42:53,572
Come on, take your places.
I go crazy getting them ready.
2364
03:42:53,650 --> 03:42:56,084
They're in such demand that they
rip them out of my hands
2365
03:42:56,153 --> 03:42:57,085
even before they're ready.
2366
03:42:57,154 --> 03:42:59,645
I'm sorry, I don't have much time.
2367
03:42:59,723 --> 03:43:04,888
I'm so busy. Come on, show yourselves
off to the gentlemen. Take a look.
2368
03:43:04,961 --> 03:43:10,558
Not bad, eh? Try to guess the prices.
$500, $1 ,000, $1 ,500?
2369
03:43:11,635 --> 03:43:15,332
No, $3,000, my dear gentlemen.
2370
03:43:30,320 --> 03:43:31,810
Hewlett writes:
2371
03:43:31,888 --> 03:43:36,916
''Pairs of male twins at a certain point
enjoyed a moment of great popularity,
2372
03:43:36,993 --> 03:43:40,224
also because of
an ugly habit that became a fad.
2373
03:43:40,297 --> 03:43:42,822
But due to the extreme rarity
of this particular merchandise,
2374
03:43:42,899 --> 03:43:46,699
as there were many orders,
there were many tricksters.''
2375
03:43:46,770 --> 03:43:49,238
Tricksters? What are you talking about?
2376
03:43:49,306 --> 03:43:51,604
This is a reputable establishment,
renowned throughout the south.
2377
03:43:51,675 --> 03:43:53,199
Look at this pair, a rarity.
2378
03:43:53,276 --> 03:43:56,404
- You faggot!
- Our clients can rest assured.
2379
03:43:56,480 --> 03:44:00,143
These are two authentic Kelloggs.
Look, they're signed.
2380
03:44:01,384 --> 03:44:04,615
Quiet. Open up, it's me,
the General.
2381
03:44:05,589 --> 03:44:09,685
Come in, but no questions.
These should be in a museum.
2382
03:44:09,760 --> 03:44:13,787
They're fit for a king.
Base price, $1 5,000.
2383
03:44:14,898 --> 03:44:19,358
- What's so special about him?
- He's got three of them!
2384
03:44:20,103 --> 03:44:25,837
One, two, three.
Three, three, three!
2385
03:44:27,277 --> 03:44:32,909
Three, he has three, three!
2386
03:44:40,824 --> 03:44:46,023
This one had six, including one
that broke and is now being repaired.
2387
03:44:46,096 --> 03:44:48,394
They were all sold
to six different masters,
2388
03:44:48,465 --> 03:44:51,298
and the mother killed herself
out of desperation.
2389
03:44:51,368 --> 03:44:54,804
This is the most
important exhibit in the museum.
2390
03:44:54,871 --> 03:44:59,001
In the wax museum of New Orleans,
among many statues of slaves in chains
2391
03:44:59,075 --> 03:45:02,135
and of evil masters, the group
that today fascinates the tourists
2392
03:45:02,212 --> 03:45:06,649
is the group of Madame La Laurie,
the most famous sadist of all time.
2393
03:45:06,716 --> 03:45:08,274
We know that she was the wife
of a doctor,
2394
03:45:08,351 --> 03:45:11,286
that she was a member
of the Creole high society in Louisiana,
2395
03:45:11,354 --> 03:45:13,754
and that she had a good reputation
2396
03:45:13,824 --> 03:45:16,918
until the day when the firemen,
who responded to a fire alarm,
2397
03:45:16,993 --> 03:45:21,930
they went into the attic and found all
the evidence that enabled Judge Caldwell
2398
03:45:21,998 --> 03:45:27,527
a nearly exact reconstruction
of how the respectable lady
2399
03:45:27,604 --> 03:45:32,735
and her faithful helper, Caesar,
enjoyed their leisure time.
2400
03:45:32,809 --> 03:45:34,003
Come.
2401
03:45:36,913 --> 03:45:41,247
Caesar, Caesar, you've done it again.
2402
03:45:42,152 --> 03:45:44,052
She died on me.
2403
03:45:44,120 --> 03:45:48,648
Caesar, you really go too far.
2404
03:45:48,725 --> 03:45:51,421
It's the third girl in a week.
2405
03:45:52,963 --> 03:45:56,831
Don't be so upset.
I'll buy you another.
2406
03:45:59,169 --> 03:46:04,197
But look at my partner, my dear,
sweet playmate.
2407
03:46:04,274 --> 03:46:06,265
The lovely countess.
2408
03:46:06,343 --> 03:46:09,312
She knows how to wait,
2409
03:46:09,379 --> 03:46:12,871
how to postpone the divine
moment of the first drop of blood.
2410
03:46:12,949 --> 03:46:17,386
Pleasure can wait, there's no hurry.
2411
03:46:17,454 --> 03:46:18,921
We've given them opium.
2412
03:46:18,989 --> 03:46:21,890
And now they're sleeping.
They've been sleeping for centuries.
2413
03:46:21,958 --> 03:46:25,792
It's all ours, all we have to do
is reach out.
2414
03:46:25,862 --> 03:46:29,696
We can take our pleasure quickly,
consuming it quickly, like Caesar does,
2415
03:46:29,766 --> 03:46:32,735
or we can take it a little at a time,
allowing them to survive
2416
03:46:32,802 --> 03:46:37,398
over a long, drawn-out, exhausting wait,
2417
03:46:38,408 --> 03:46:43,436
tormented by desire, fed by her fear.
2418
03:46:49,452 --> 03:46:52,478
What about you?
Aren't you afraid?
2419
03:46:57,827 --> 03:47:01,524
No, you're not afraid,
my brave little cock.
2420
03:47:04,467 --> 03:47:11,873
But don't worry, fear will come later,
when the pliers will bite you
2421
03:47:11,942 --> 03:47:15,639
right there, where you now want me.
2422
03:47:15,712 --> 03:47:19,842
In your country, when a Negro
dares to want a white woman,
2423
03:47:19,916 --> 03:47:22,180
isn't this what you do to him?
2424
03:47:23,787 --> 03:47:27,689
I don't know who you are,
nor where you come from,
2425
03:47:29,159 --> 03:47:32,959
but don't you think the time I live in
is marvelous?
2426
03:47:33,029 --> 03:47:37,432
All this lovely flesh is mine.
This body is mine.
2427
03:47:38,868 --> 03:47:43,202
I can buy 1 0, 1 00, 1 ,000 of them,
if I want to.
2428
03:47:43,273 --> 03:47:47,300
Males, females,
little boys, little girls.
2429
03:47:47,978 --> 03:47:50,674
I can consume them, corrupt them,
2430
03:47:50,747 --> 03:47:54,911
enjoy them, destroy them.
2431
03:48:00,256 --> 03:48:05,023
What are you waiting for, idiots?
2432
03:48:05,095 --> 03:48:07,086
Come on, help yourselves.
2433
03:48:07,163 --> 03:48:11,566
When will you ever have
another chance like this?
2434
03:48:12,535 --> 03:48:15,527
In New Orleans such chances
were never lacking.
2435
03:48:15,605 --> 03:48:18,574
If a gentleman received an invitation
to visit a friend who lived in the city
2436
03:48:18,641 --> 03:48:21,576
while the wife and children were
on vacation,
2437
03:48:21,644 --> 03:48:24,477
in addition to good food
and clean linen,
2438
03:48:24,547 --> 03:48:27,710
he could expect a comely Negress
to share his bed at night.
2439
03:48:27,784 --> 03:48:30,912
A refusal would insult the host.
2440
03:48:30,987 --> 03:48:33,547
This was just part of the rules
of hospitality,
2441
03:48:33,623 --> 03:48:35,989
for which the Mammy was responsible.
2442
03:48:49,005 --> 03:48:51,496
Get in line.
2443
03:48:52,409 --> 03:48:55,537
You, let me see your hands.
2444
03:48:55,612 --> 03:48:59,173
Your nails are like a pig's nails.
Go on, get washed up!
2445
03:49:00,383 --> 03:49:03,648
You, come here.
Let me smell you.
2446
03:49:05,722 --> 03:49:11,490
You smell like the goats in the barn.
Go, and wash with ashes.
2447
03:49:12,429 --> 03:49:15,762
You, open your mouth
and let me smell your breath.
2448
03:49:17,567 --> 03:49:22,766
You smell of garlic. Chew this,
it'll take away the stench of a hog.
2449
03:49:23,807 --> 03:49:28,938
You're usually clean. You hardly
smell at all. Good filly.
2450
03:49:29,012 --> 03:49:33,574
You, turn around.
You haven't been fucking, have you?
2451
03:49:37,687 --> 03:49:39,746
Spread your legs!
2452
03:49:43,426 --> 03:49:46,293
Sleeping with a black slave
every night was,
2453
03:49:46,362 --> 03:49:48,091
for all the white males of the house
2454
03:49:48,164 --> 03:49:52,294
fathers, sons and guests, a good hygienic
practice, like brushing your teeth.
2455
03:49:52,368 --> 03:49:54,563
As a pretext
they said it was healthy.
2456
03:49:54,637 --> 03:49:58,334
For the sons, it was supposed to be
a remedy for teenage acne.
2457
03:49:58,408 --> 03:50:02,174
And it was good for the husbands,
as the puritanical mores of the times
2458
03:50:02,245 --> 03:50:05,180
limited their access to their wives.
2459
03:50:05,248 --> 03:50:07,045
But, aside from health considerations,
2460
03:50:07,117 --> 03:50:09,278
let's find out how these slave girls
were in bed.
2461
03:50:12,322 --> 03:50:14,153
Just like the first cigar.
2462
03:50:14,224 --> 03:50:16,624
At first there's a horrible stench,
and you feel nauseous.
2463
03:50:16,693 --> 03:50:19,821
But by the third time you're hooked.
2464
03:50:19,896 --> 03:50:22,797
Harder on my back,
you know I like it.
2465
03:50:22,866 --> 03:50:25,994
Her mother was my first cigar.
I smoked her when I was ten.
2466
03:50:26,069 --> 03:50:29,596
I was terrified my father
would catch me in the act.
2467
03:50:29,672 --> 03:50:31,936
But when I realized that my father,
too, smoked,
2468
03:50:32,008 --> 03:50:33,635
well, I stopped being afraid,
and started to enjoy it.
2469
03:50:33,710 --> 03:50:37,806
Perhaps it's that gamy smell they have,
but I like them more than white ones.
2470
03:50:38,781 --> 03:50:42,012
If I can catch one,
I'll try to get her into bed.
2471
03:50:45,922 --> 03:50:48,049
But where will I find a white woman
around here?
2472
03:50:48,124 --> 03:50:50,183
Besides, my father says
it's not worth it.
2473
03:50:50,260 --> 03:50:54,856
They smell too, but like corpses.
He says they're bad for your health.
2474
03:50:55,698 --> 03:50:58,826
He's been bedding Negresses for
7 0 years, and he hasn't missed a beat.
2475
03:50:59,502 --> 03:51:02,164
He likes them big, especially
in the tit department.
2476
03:51:03,006 --> 03:51:05,531
Look at this merchandise.
Not bad, eh?
2477
03:51:05,608 --> 03:51:09,772
If you ignore them, you're playing
right into their hand.
2478
03:51:09,846 --> 03:51:12,747
You destroy them,
one night at a time.
2479
03:51:12,815 --> 03:51:17,275
At my age, it's starting to get
rather trying.
2480
03:51:17,353 --> 03:51:20,914
But with the help of divine
providence, and oysters,
2481
03:51:23,626 --> 03:51:25,491
I can still hold my own.
2482
03:51:31,968 --> 03:51:38,134
Mammy! Mammy!
Where are you, you black whore?
2483
03:51:38,208 --> 03:51:41,371
Where are you, Mammy?
2484
03:51:41,444 --> 03:51:44,311
- I'm coming, I'm coming.
- Mammy!
2485
03:51:44,981 --> 03:51:49,179
What's the matter, master?
Why are you angry?
2486
03:51:49,252 --> 03:51:53,689
You idiot. You have the gall to ask
why I'm angry, you asshole!
2487
03:51:53,756 --> 03:51:56,919
Did you, or did you not rip me off
by sending this idiot to my room?
2488
03:51:56,993 --> 03:51:59,553
Don't talk like that, master.
2489
03:51:59,629 --> 03:52:01,859
I've never ripped anyone off.
2490
03:52:01,931 --> 03:52:07,096
- She looks like a beautiful lover.
- What do I care at my age for beauty?
2491
03:52:07,170 --> 03:52:08,694
This filly is a virgin.
2492
03:52:08,771 --> 03:52:12,298
What do you expect me to do
with a virgin at my age, you idiot?
2493
03:52:12,375 --> 03:52:13,774
Take her back.
2494
03:52:13,843 --> 03:52:18,007
Don't talk like that, master.
Please, don't get mad. Wait.
2495
03:52:18,081 --> 03:52:22,814
I'll send you another filly,
one who's been broken in.
2496
03:52:25,455 --> 03:52:29,448
You should be ashamed of yourself,
you ugly whore.
2497
03:52:29,525 --> 03:52:32,722
When you came here, were you
really a virgin?
2498
03:52:32,795 --> 03:52:36,856
Or is the old man too old
to fuck anymore?
2499
03:52:36,933 --> 03:52:39,128
Are you really a virgin?
2500
03:52:41,471 --> 03:52:44,634
You whore, you whore!
2501
03:52:44,707 --> 03:52:48,507
Come in, child.
Come on in.
2502
03:52:48,578 --> 03:52:53,481
Do you want me, master?
I asked for you. I'm clean.
2503
03:52:53,549 --> 03:52:56,211
- I'm also a virgin.
- What are you saying, child?
2504
03:52:56,886 --> 03:52:59,354
- How old are you?
- I'm thirteen.
2505
03:52:59,422 --> 03:53:03,153
- You're just a child.
- I'm thirteen, Mammy says.
2506
03:53:03,226 --> 03:53:08,425
You mean that here, girls like you--
Where I come from we don't do this.
2507
03:53:08,498 --> 03:53:11,524
- I'm not from here.
- Do you want this first?
2508
03:53:11,601 --> 03:53:14,729
Mammy says that if whites don't play
with the whip first,
2509
03:53:14,804 --> 03:53:17,329
they can't get it up to fuck a woman.
2510
03:53:17,407 --> 03:53:18,339
What are you saying?
2511
03:53:18,408 --> 03:53:20,774
The stranger is the journalist
Malcolm Fawcett,
2512
03:53:20,843 --> 03:53:23,812
and this conversation was excerpted
from his experiences in Louisiana.
2513
03:53:23,880 --> 03:53:27,680
It refers to his first night in Mobile,
in the home of Mr. Charleston,
2514
03:53:27,750 --> 03:53:29,877
a planter,
whose guest he was for a week.
2515
03:53:29,952 --> 03:53:34,082
Please, master, don't send me away.
2516
03:53:34,157 --> 03:53:36,352
- Do me this favor.
- Don't raise your voice.
2517
03:53:36,426 --> 03:53:38,417
Mammy will be angry
if I stay a virgin.
2518
03:53:38,494 --> 03:53:42,191
- Please,join me.
- What do you mean, right here?
2519
03:53:43,032 --> 03:53:47,765
Your bed is so big,
and I am so small.
2520
03:53:47,837 --> 03:53:51,967
If I take my dress off, I don't smell.
2521
03:53:52,041 --> 03:53:56,034
You know, I washed my whole body.
2522
03:53:56,112 --> 03:54:01,709
I don't smell, master.
If you're tired though, for real,
2523
03:54:01,784 --> 03:54:07,017
- I'll let you sleep.
- Sleep. It would be hard now, child.
2524
03:54:07,090 --> 03:54:12,653
It would be too bad, though, master.
I like you.
2525
03:54:12,729 --> 03:54:14,993
''I wanted to dissuade her,''
writes Fawcett,
2526
03:54:15,064 --> 03:54:18,556
''even though, knowing the custom,
I realized I was being rude.
2527
03:54:18,634 --> 03:54:22,832
But when I recommended that she turn
to a young man of her same condition --''
2528
03:54:22,905 --> 03:54:28,901
You mean with a Negro?
No, I don't like Negroes.
2529
03:54:29,412 --> 03:54:35,578
No, Negroes disgust me.
I tried once with a Negro.
2530
03:54:35,651 --> 03:54:40,953
He hurt me so much.
He was so big.
2531
03:54:41,624 --> 03:54:42,648
You know,
2532
03:54:42,725 --> 03:54:48,357
White men
are much smaller, master.
2533
03:54:48,431 --> 03:54:52,891
It's much better
for a beginner like me.
2534
03:54:52,969 --> 03:54:56,666
White men don't smell like Negroes.
2535
03:54:58,508 --> 03:55:03,002
Do me the favor,
2536
03:55:03,079 --> 03:55:07,743
master, please.
2537
03:55:07,817 --> 03:55:11,753
Yes, like that, master.
Yes.
2538
03:55:44,954 --> 03:55:48,685
This awful book from Boston goes on
to spread even more filth. Listen.
2539
03:55:48,758 --> 03:55:52,922
''As for the southern ladies,
their famous virtue
2540
03:55:52,995 --> 03:55:57,022
is greatly devalued by the fact that
they have no choice in the matter.''
2541
03:55:57,099 --> 03:56:00,967
Listen to this.
''How could they not be virtuous,
2542
03:56:01,037 --> 03:56:05,406
since their men would much rather
go with colored girls?''
2543
03:56:05,475 --> 03:56:08,911
- I can't believe it.
- ''The truth is that these women
2544
03:56:08,978 --> 03:56:13,039
can get no satisfaction from either
husbands or potential lovers,
2545
03:56:13,115 --> 03:56:17,381
as these are too often occupied with
the comely slaves on the plantation.''
2546
03:56:17,453 --> 03:56:21,617
The horror! How could someone write
such venomous nonsense?
2547
03:56:21,691 --> 03:56:26,060
It's all shameless political propaganda.
What do they know of the Negroes,
2548
03:56:26,128 --> 03:56:29,256
those pencil pushers from Boston
and Philadelphia?
2549
03:56:29,332 --> 03:56:34,702
Nothing. But envy, prejudice and malice
induce them to try to humiliate us
2550
03:56:34,770 --> 03:56:37,000
in every way possible.
2551
03:56:37,073 --> 03:56:40,975
My God, how could they insult
our husbands like this? Our men?
2552
03:56:41,043 --> 03:56:42,374
It's absolutely disgraceful.
2553
03:56:42,445 --> 03:56:46,609
Goodness, accusing our men
of fornicating with slaves
2554
03:56:46,682 --> 03:56:49,879
is like saying that they're copulating
with animals.
2555
03:56:49,952 --> 03:56:53,888
It's nothing less than
an accusation of sexual aberration.
2556
03:56:53,956 --> 03:56:57,619
The phenomenon of abnormal mating
between whites and Negroes
2557
03:56:57,693 --> 03:57:02,892
has a scientific name: Bestiality.
2558
03:57:02,965 --> 03:57:04,489
- It's disgraceful!
- Lies!
2559
03:57:04,567 --> 03:57:09,095
As if we didn't know all too well where
our husbands take their incontinence!
2560
03:57:09,171 --> 03:57:12,868
Every Friday night --
but what am I saying?
2561
03:57:14,010 --> 03:57:18,379
I'm sorry, my friends, but we shouldn't
speak so clearly in front of them.
2562
03:57:18,447 --> 03:57:21,439
Don't worry, my dear. I've noticed
a tendency among our slaves
2563
03:57:21,517 --> 03:57:25,044
a general tendency to develop
a lighter skin tone.
2564
03:57:25,121 --> 03:57:27,316
As time goes by, they become
lighter and lighter.
2565
03:57:27,390 --> 03:57:32,191
But their mentality, intelligence
and sensitivity are those of animals.
2566
03:57:32,261 --> 03:57:35,719
It's true, each generation
is lighter than the previous one.
2567
03:57:35,798 --> 03:57:39,131
In my house there have been
a few pink Negro babies, even.
2568
03:57:39,201 --> 03:57:41,635
My husband says that this
phenomenon is called --
2569
03:57:41,704 --> 03:57:47,700
Symbiosis. The scientific term
is symbiosis. Your husband is right.
2570
03:57:47,777 --> 03:57:51,508
It's like those creatures that take on
the color of their habitat.
2571
03:57:51,581 --> 03:57:55,017
You're right, dear.
Take Scipio, for example.
2572
03:57:55,084 --> 03:57:57,314
He's left-handed, like my brother.
2573
03:57:57,386 --> 03:57:58,853
Or takeJason, here.
2574
03:57:58,921 --> 03:58:01,822
My husband raised him personally
from when he was a child.
2575
03:58:01,891 --> 03:58:04,951
And now, incredibly, he's almost
as blond as my husband.
2576
03:58:06,128 --> 03:58:08,961
Nature is truly bizarre.
2577
03:58:29,819 --> 03:58:34,347
Here it is, my Negro factory.
You get the general idea down there.
2578
03:58:35,057 --> 03:58:39,016
Business was going downhill.
Cotton and tobacco were in crisis.
2579
03:58:39,095 --> 03:58:44,556
So I got up my courage and transformed
the plantation into a stud farm.
2580
03:58:44,634 --> 03:58:46,568
And I have to say it's worked out well
2581
03:58:46,636 --> 03:58:49,799
because the new law that prohibits
importing Negroes from Africa
2582
03:58:49,872 --> 03:58:52,841
has practically doubled
the price of slaves.
2583
03:58:52,908 --> 03:58:55,035
- And so, after everything--
- Hey, Pa!
2584
03:58:57,046 --> 03:58:59,412
Mr. Wilson's here!
2585
03:59:03,686 --> 03:59:06,416
Hello Mr. Bighorn.
I've brought the Negress.
2586
03:59:06,489 --> 03:59:09,322
Here she is.
Did you count the days well?
2587
03:59:10,393 --> 03:59:14,261
- Are you completely sure she's in heat?
- Of course she's in heat.
2588
03:59:14,330 --> 03:59:16,457
She's perfectly ready for breeding.
2589
03:59:16,532 --> 03:59:19,433
If we give her to the male right away,
he'll certainly go right for her.
2590
03:59:19,502 --> 03:59:20,628
Okay.
2591
03:59:20,703 --> 03:59:22,500
How many days has it been
since the bleeding stopped?
2592
03:59:23,706 --> 03:59:27,665
My wife counted 1 2.
With the trip, that makes 1 3.
2593
03:59:27,743 --> 03:59:31,736
If you let me breed her right away, I'll
be out of your hair within two hours.
2594
03:59:31,814 --> 03:59:33,076
Can I have her, Pa?
2595
03:59:33,149 --> 03:59:35,515
We'll talk about that
after the examination.
2596
03:59:35,584 --> 03:59:37,643
For now, do your homework.
2597
03:59:39,689 --> 03:59:41,554
- Is she healthy?
- Of course.
2598
03:59:41,624 --> 03:59:43,717
- She doesn't have crabs?
- What are you saying?
2599
03:59:43,793 --> 03:59:45,192
We always kept her at home.
2600
03:59:46,929 --> 03:59:49,193
- Oh, so she's a virgin.
- Of course.
2601
03:59:49,265 --> 03:59:50,755
You know that we've been saving her
forJason.
2602
03:59:50,833 --> 03:59:54,894
What?
A virgin for such a stallion?
2603
03:59:55,938 --> 03:59:58,338
He'll rip her innards apart.
2604
03:59:59,141 --> 04:00:02,440
If he does, you can sew her up again.
Don't worry.
2605
04:00:02,511 --> 04:00:05,708
You know I could breed this one
for at least $50.
2606
04:00:05,781 --> 04:00:06,907
And right at home, too.
2607
04:00:06,982 --> 04:00:09,542
If I've made 60 Negroes
and paid 200 for it
2608
04:00:09,618 --> 04:00:12,018
it's because I likeJason's line.
2609
04:00:12,088 --> 04:00:14,420
- Okay.
- Let's go.
2610
04:00:14,490 --> 04:00:17,584
You know full well
you won't find another one like this.
2611
04:00:17,660 --> 04:00:20,925
Well done!
But that's your business.
2612
04:00:20,996 --> 04:00:23,692
Hey stallion!
Hey three-legged stallion!
2613
04:00:23,766 --> 04:00:24,755
Hi General.
2614
04:00:27,436 --> 04:00:28,994
How's your father's arthritis?
2615
04:00:29,071 --> 04:00:32,404
He's been doing much better since
getting Negro compresses on his legs.
2616
04:00:32,475 --> 04:00:34,102
You're right, Mr. Bighorn.
2617
04:00:34,176 --> 04:00:37,339
Strong wine and dark meat
cure arthritis, nice and neat.
2618
04:00:37,413 --> 04:00:38,209
That's right.
2619
04:00:38,280 --> 04:00:41,477
But then I'll find myself with
a whole litter with arthritis.
2620
04:00:41,550 --> 04:00:42,778
Hey Wilson, look there!
2621
04:00:42,852 --> 04:00:44,786
- Where?
- Over there, up ahead, that glass.
2622
04:00:44,854 --> 04:00:45,843
Why?
2623
04:00:45,921 --> 04:00:49,118
Those journalists always want us
to look in that glass.
2624
04:00:50,059 --> 04:00:52,459
Go wait for me in the barn.
I'll be right there.
2625
04:00:52,528 --> 04:00:53,256
Okay.
2626
04:00:53,329 --> 04:00:55,229
First I have to deal with
these gentlemen.
2627
04:00:57,433 --> 04:01:01,301
Bring me some more sugar cane!
2628
04:01:05,808 --> 04:01:09,904
They're almost all vintage '43.
A very good year.
2629
04:01:09,979 --> 04:01:12,971
I only lost 25%%.
2630
04:01:13,048 --> 04:01:17,678
It's usually 40-60%%,
especially from German measles,
2631
04:01:17,753 --> 04:01:20,813
which is nothing when it comes to
human blood, but it wipes them out.
2632
04:01:21,490 --> 04:01:23,287
Why are there so many blondes?
2633
04:01:23,359 --> 04:01:25,418
What you want me to say?
2634
04:01:25,494 --> 04:01:29,089
One or another might be mine.
Lots of them are my brother's.
2635
04:01:29,165 --> 04:01:31,099
Some are from the priest.
2636
04:01:31,167 --> 04:01:34,603
Some are from some guests
who were passing through.
2637
04:01:34,670 --> 04:01:39,004
Okay, enough, don't be greedy.
2638
04:01:45,247 --> 04:01:48,375
These are the breeding females.
2639
04:01:48,450 --> 04:01:51,510
With the new stallions Auze and Mandico
that I bought three years ago,
2640
04:01:51,587 --> 04:01:55,284
I've been successful with 86%% of them.
2641
04:01:55,357 --> 04:01:59,657
With an interval between productions
of less than 60 days.
2642
04:01:59,728 --> 04:02:03,630
Hey, where are you?
Come over here, look at this one!
2643
04:02:04,567 --> 04:02:07,730
The black pearl of the ranch.
Seven sets of twins in six years.
2644
04:02:11,407 --> 04:02:14,399
And I'm sure that this time, too,
there are two inside.
2645
04:02:14,476 --> 04:02:17,411
This heifer alone
is worth a fortune.
2646
04:02:20,049 --> 04:02:23,917
Come in, come on in.
Damn, you're in luck.
2647
04:02:23,986 --> 04:02:26,887
Come inside and see
how a little bastard is born.
2648
04:02:37,733 --> 04:02:39,394
Fine, isn't he?
2649
04:02:39,468 --> 04:02:41,902
He must be six or seven pounds at least.
2650
04:02:41,971 --> 04:02:44,838
You know something? I'm going to
dedicate this one to you guys.
2651
04:02:44,907 --> 04:02:46,807
I'm going to call him ''Macaroni''.
2652
04:02:47,810 --> 04:02:49,368
Bravo, Cleopatra.
Who's the male?
2653
04:02:49,445 --> 04:02:51,913
- Me no know.
- What do mean you don't know?
2654
04:02:51,981 --> 04:02:53,039
Me no know.
2655
04:02:53,115 --> 04:02:55,948
They breed me first with Pluto,
then with four other males.
2656
04:02:56,018 --> 04:02:57,645
Me no know.
2657
04:02:57,720 --> 04:03:01,679
It doesn't matter.
You've done a good job.
2658
04:03:03,525 --> 04:03:05,993
See what respect the master has?
2659
04:03:06,729 --> 04:03:09,664
It's the reward.
One dollar per pup.
2660
04:03:10,366 --> 04:03:11,958
Family tradition.
2661
04:03:14,503 --> 04:03:17,028
Another beloved tradition
among breeders
2662
04:03:17,106 --> 04:03:20,303
is presenting new prized breeds
every year at the big fair in the south
2663
04:03:20,376 --> 04:03:23,470
which, like fine horses,
carry the name of their family.
2664
04:03:23,545 --> 04:03:29,450
The Bighorn breed, celebrated for
the precociousness of its females
2665
04:03:29,518 --> 04:03:31,418
which can be bred
by their 1 0th year
2666
04:03:31,487 --> 04:03:35,287
earned its owner two gold medals
at theJackson fair.
2667
04:03:35,357 --> 04:03:37,552
Hey, bring me Poppea.
2668
04:03:40,496 --> 04:03:42,361
I said Poppea!
2669
04:03:44,233 --> 04:03:45,598
No, you imbeciles.
2670
04:03:45,668 --> 04:03:48,364
That one's pregnant.
Drop her.
2671
04:03:55,511 --> 04:03:57,570
No, that one.
2672
04:03:57,646 --> 04:04:02,515
Here in Louisiana, the breeding ratio
is one male to every five females.
2673
04:04:02,584 --> 04:04:03,608
But in Virginia,
2674
04:04:03,686 --> 04:04:08,214
a great specialist of the time
declares the ideal ratio
2675
04:04:08,290 --> 04:04:10,087
to be one male for eight females.
2676
04:04:10,159 --> 04:04:14,323
In fact, on this basis Virginia produced
more than 6000 Negroes per year.
2677
04:04:14,396 --> 04:04:17,194
It was the Golden Age
in which the great breeding plantations
2678
04:04:17,266 --> 04:04:21,635
such as the famous North Carolina planter
were even quoted on the stock market.
2679
04:04:22,738 --> 04:04:27,607
Now tell me if it doesn't take talent
to invent a breed like this.
2680
04:04:32,348 --> 04:04:36,114
You see, to create a hybrid,
the breeder combines the various races
2681
04:04:36,185 --> 04:04:37,675
as an artist does
with the colors of his palette.
2682
04:04:37,753 --> 04:04:39,914
A little white here,
a little black there
2683
04:04:39,989 --> 04:04:42,549
a pinch of red
and the smidgen of yellow.
2684
04:04:42,624 --> 04:04:45,650
Until something comes forth
that's not black, not white,
2685
04:04:45,728 --> 04:04:47,161
not red, not yellow.
2686
04:04:47,229 --> 04:04:48,628
It's a masterpiece.
2687
04:04:53,369 --> 04:04:55,303
Get him!
2688
04:04:58,340 --> 04:04:59,898
A slave trying to escape.
2689
04:04:59,975 --> 04:05:02,000
No, he's afraid
of the branding.
2690
04:05:02,077 --> 04:05:04,545
It always happens
with the new stallions.
2691
04:05:04,613 --> 04:05:09,107
At the 1 8th birthday,
on the eve of his first services
2692
04:05:09,184 --> 04:05:13,018
the new stallion is branded with fire
with a conventional mark
2693
04:05:13,088 --> 04:05:16,649
that prevents mistakes and confusion
in the breeding registry.
2694
04:05:20,429 --> 04:05:23,159
- Are you ready, Wilson? Can we go?
- I was waiting for you.
2695
04:05:23,232 --> 04:05:25,757
- And the heifer?
- Ready.
2696
04:05:25,834 --> 04:05:27,859
Okay then.
Bring her along.
2697
04:05:28,737 --> 04:05:29,761
Get back!
2698
04:05:30,672 --> 04:05:32,230
Fine, Casanova, fine.
2699
04:05:32,307 --> 04:05:35,674
These stallions!Just let them
catch the scent of a female!
2700
04:05:37,012 --> 04:05:39,879
They have more semen
than four teams of oxen.
2701
04:05:40,949 --> 04:05:44,942
Did you know they offered me
$4500 each?
2702
04:06:05,607 --> 04:06:08,337
Here he is,
our oldest stud.
2703
04:06:08,410 --> 04:06:11,641
Two hundred pounds of muscle
and not a single ounce the fat.
2704
04:06:12,481 --> 04:06:16,076
And this devil's good for at least
20 shots a day.
2705
04:06:17,619 --> 04:06:19,211
With these tanks!
2706
04:06:20,722 --> 04:06:23,122
- Is the heifer ready, Wilson?
- Ready, Mr. Bighorn.
2707
04:06:23,192 --> 04:06:26,389
Okay, then, bring her in.
2708
04:06:28,764 --> 04:06:31,232
Hey, Wilson.
I told you.
2709
04:06:31,300 --> 04:06:34,929
Be careful.
But it's your business.
2710
04:06:35,003 --> 04:06:37,631
Don't you worry.
2711
04:06:37,706 --> 04:06:40,072
I'll take care of it.
2712
04:07:26,255 --> 04:07:29,122
That's enough,Jason.
Stop!
2713
04:07:29,191 --> 04:07:30,749
Get some water.
Quick!
2714
04:08:19,141 --> 04:08:21,507
''Your honor,
my name is Nat Turner.
2715
04:08:21,577 --> 04:08:25,172
I intend to provide you
with a full confession of my crimes.
2716
04:08:34,189 --> 04:08:38,523
On August 21 st, 1 831 ,
5 5 whites were massacred
2717
04:08:38,594 --> 04:08:41,222
as a result of my doing
and that of 7 0 other slaves.
2718
04:08:48,136 --> 04:08:50,730
My deep-seated hatred
of the whites was--''
2719
04:08:52,374 --> 04:08:54,569
''My deep-seated hatred
of the whites was--''
2720
04:08:54,643 --> 04:08:56,577
Damned idiots!
2721
04:08:58,380 --> 04:09:04,319
''Deep-seated hatred came from God,
who ordered me to kill them.''
2722
04:09:04,386 --> 04:09:09,016
Let's see, 1 831 .
2723
04:09:09,091 --> 04:09:13,425
If Cleaver, LeroyJones, Malcolm X,
had lived 1 40 years ago
2724
04:09:13,495 --> 04:09:16,953
they too, like Nat Turner,
would have fallen into hating whites
2725
04:09:17,032 --> 04:09:20,627
men, women, children who were there
by God's orders.
2726
04:09:21,470 --> 04:09:26,066
The slave Cleaver, like the slave Turner,
certainly never would have dared imagine
2727
04:09:26,141 --> 04:09:29,076
that the order would come to them
directly from within.
2728
04:09:32,347 --> 04:09:36,374
''The evening of August 21 st,
we lined up single file in the cornfield.
2729
04:09:36,451 --> 04:09:38,817
We came out
right in front of the Travis house.
2730
04:09:38,887 --> 04:09:42,186
The night before,
God had clearly given me the sign
2731
04:09:42,257 --> 04:09:44,919
that this would be our first target.
2732
04:09:44,993 --> 04:09:47,461
We knew that inside
was the little Travis,
2733
04:09:51,199 --> 04:09:53,099
his wife Sarah,''
2734
04:09:54,403 --> 04:09:58,362
Who knows if the whites in those days
were like those of today?
2735
04:09:58,440 --> 04:10:01,102
Or rather,
who knows if the whites of today
2736
04:10:01,176 --> 04:10:04,441
would have been like those back then
if Nat Turner had never existed?
2737
04:10:08,283 --> 04:10:11,116
Would they have allowed me
to attend their schools,
2738
04:10:11,186 --> 04:10:14,417
to become a doctor,
to earn $2000 a week,
2739
04:10:14,489 --> 04:10:18,653
to have a beautiful house, a wife,
a healthy, well-fed baby?
2740
04:10:21,229 --> 04:10:26,997
''Nelson, Sam,Jack, Hark and I silently
climbed in the living room window.
2741
04:10:27,069 --> 04:10:29,970
Will, who was bringing up the rear,
took a false step
2742
04:10:30,038 --> 04:10:32,165
and tumbled onto the table
that was still set.
2743
04:10:38,447 --> 04:10:41,177
I was afraid old Travis had woken up
2744
04:10:41,249 --> 04:10:44,480
since Will kept making
an infernal racket.
2745
04:10:49,291 --> 04:10:52,658
Instead, old Travis was still asleep
next to his wife
2746
04:10:52,728 --> 04:10:56,289
when Sam and Jack
moved forward on tiptoe.
2747
04:10:56,365 --> 04:10:58,697
His sleep was deep and peaceful
2748
04:10:58,767 --> 04:11:01,702
as evidenced by
that deep, rhythmic snoring
2749
04:11:01,770 --> 04:11:04,364
that I had known since my childhood.
2750
04:11:08,844 --> 04:11:12,575
So Sam and Jack moved forward.
2751
04:11:13,281 --> 04:11:15,977
That old man
who had practically raised me
2752
04:11:16,051 --> 04:11:18,576
and had been
a tolerant and kindly master
2753
04:11:18,653 --> 04:11:22,419
was nevertheless a white man
and, as such, had to die.
2754
04:11:25,360 --> 04:11:29,990
Grandpa Travis, like all whites,
had never dreamed that a slave,
2755
04:11:30,065 --> 04:11:32,533
a meek creature
without courage or dignity
2756
04:11:32,601 --> 04:11:35,126
could ever one day
rebel against a master.
2757
04:11:35,203 --> 04:11:38,502
So it was perhaps only disbelief
2758
04:11:38,573 --> 04:11:43,567
that dominated his mind
still clouded with sleep, when--''
2759
04:12:19,080 --> 04:12:20,069
''We were about--''
2760
04:12:23,018 --> 04:12:26,419
''We were about to leave the house
when Hark, on the run was called--''
2761
04:12:27,289 --> 04:12:30,747
''was called back by the cry
of the children whom we had forgotten.''
2762
04:12:40,268 --> 04:12:42,202
''After the murder of the Travis family
2763
04:12:42,270 --> 04:12:45,205
our second goal was
the extermination of the Reeses.''
2764
04:12:45,874 --> 04:12:47,842
Oh, it's those idiots again.
2765
04:12:47,909 --> 04:12:49,570
''After the murder of the Travis family
2766
04:12:49,644 --> 04:12:51,908
our second goal was
the extermination of the Reeses.
2767
04:12:51,980 --> 04:12:54,380
Reese was a dull-witted, cruel master
2768
04:12:54,449 --> 04:12:56,849
who amused himself
by tormenting his Negroes...
2769
04:12:59,554 --> 04:13:01,454
with every sort of stupid prank.
2770
04:13:01,523 --> 04:13:04,924
His wife and sister-in-law,
two dull-witted, insignificant women
2771
04:13:04,993 --> 04:13:09,225
encouraged those vapid stunts
with little hysterical--''
2772
04:13:10,298 --> 04:13:11,287
Buffoon!
2773
04:13:12,200 --> 04:13:18,196
''With little hysterical, shrill cries
that pierced the ears like daggers.
2774
04:13:19,975 --> 04:13:23,968
It was in front of their house that I
swore to never again disobey God's orders
2775
04:13:24,045 --> 04:13:26,411
and to also spill my share of blood.
2776
04:13:26,481 --> 04:13:27,448
I hated Reese
2777
04:13:27,516 --> 04:13:31,816
and one day he involved me, too,
in one of his humiliating, vulgar pranks.
2778
04:13:31,887 --> 04:13:36,620
I could have refused to rebel.
But how could I, a slave--''
2779
04:13:50,005 --> 04:13:54,704
''I could have refused to rebel.
But how could I, a slave?
2780
04:13:59,247 --> 04:14:02,080
Reese was a dull-witted, cruel master.''
2781
04:15:22,497 --> 04:15:24,795
Nat Turner didn't kill out of hate.
2782
04:15:24,866 --> 04:15:27,699
He killed out of love
between the columns of that big house.
2783
04:15:28,470 --> 04:15:31,166
Who knows why, for us Negroes,
this story never loses its value?
2784
04:15:31,239 --> 04:15:35,733
Well, Nat Turner,
the pious Nat Turner, biblical fanatic
2785
04:15:35,810 --> 04:15:39,075
almost a tutor to little Margaret,
but nevertheless a Negro
2786
04:15:39,147 --> 04:15:44,107
and thus not suspected of desiring that
white girl who hung around him all day,
2787
04:15:51,292 --> 04:15:54,523
who excited him in a thousand ways
without even realizing it.
2788
04:15:54,596 --> 04:15:57,190
Where are you, Nat?
Come here, Nat.
2789
04:15:57,265 --> 04:15:59,233
Here's something new.
2790
04:15:59,300 --> 04:16:00,790
It's beautiful!
2791
04:16:00,869 --> 04:16:02,860
Come on, Nat.
Get me that rose.
2792
04:16:02,937 --> 04:16:05,770
No, no.
Not the silk one!
2793
04:16:05,840 --> 04:16:07,137
The bright one, Nat.
2794
04:16:07,208 --> 04:16:08,903
There, see!
Now here we are, the two of us.
2795
04:16:08,977 --> 04:16:12,913
She and Nat.
Almost in skin contact.
2796
04:16:13,815 --> 04:16:19,117
The wind in that blond hair, that
white neck that he desired so badly.
2797
04:16:21,556 --> 04:16:24,047
''Hey Nat,'' she said to me one day
2798
04:16:24,125 --> 04:16:28,357
as her closeness and her youthful
scent of lavender made me stiff.
2799
04:16:28,430 --> 04:16:33,925
''Nat, why are Negroes
born so wretched?''
2800
04:16:34,002 --> 04:16:38,803
''Why, in this warm spring,
are they only fallen flowers?''
2801
04:16:53,488 --> 04:16:56,218
Let's take a look.
1 40 years later.
2802
04:16:56,291 --> 04:16:59,920
If I were to fall in love
with that white girl.
2803
04:16:59,994 --> 04:17:03,430
In love to the point of not being able
to do any less than what she's doing now.
2804
04:17:03,498 --> 04:17:04,487
To want her.
2805
04:17:04,566 --> 04:17:08,127
But just because I'm a Negro,
like Nat Turner--
2806
04:17:10,038 --> 04:17:12,302
I can just imagine the scene!
2807
04:17:12,373 --> 04:17:14,398
Sir, I'm Dr. Nat Turner.
2808
04:17:14,476 --> 04:17:17,377
I love your daughter
and I intend to marry her.
2809
04:17:36,731 --> 04:17:40,997
Margaret had just returned from
Southampton College for summer vacation
2810
04:17:41,069 --> 04:17:46,006
when we decided that the Whitehead house
would be our next target.
2811
04:17:46,674 --> 04:17:49,404
We advanced,
remaining hidden in the oak forest
2812
04:17:49,477 --> 04:17:51,707
that surrounded the house
on three sides.
2813
04:17:51,780 --> 04:17:54,772
When we saw the father so overjoyed
at the arrival of his daughter...
2814
04:18:01,356 --> 04:18:05,952
and so absorbed in demonstrating
all his joy as to not notice us--
2815
04:18:44,699 --> 04:18:46,291
I was looking for Margaret.
2816
04:18:46,367 --> 04:18:49,803
She was hiding behind
a corner of the house.
2817
04:18:49,871 --> 04:18:52,339
When I finally saw her,
she ran away...
2818
04:18:54,342 --> 04:18:58,244
as light and fast as a deer,
through the cornfield.
2819
04:19:00,982 --> 04:19:04,247
I ran after the glint
of that flowing hair in the sun
2820
04:19:06,254 --> 04:19:09,587
after the gleam
of that face looking back.
2821
04:19:10,959 --> 04:19:13,553
She ran faster than I did.
2822
04:19:13,628 --> 04:19:15,391
But I caught up.
2823
04:19:15,463 --> 04:19:16,953
I must! I must!
2824
04:19:20,068 --> 04:19:21,660
I must kill you!
2825
04:19:25,173 --> 04:19:29,132
Because I love you!
Because you're white!
2826
04:19:31,412 --> 04:19:33,243
White!
2827
04:19:44,826 --> 04:19:48,694
''Your honor,
before condemning me to the gallows
2828
04:19:48,763 --> 04:19:50,628
you asked if I felt remorse.
2829
04:19:52,066 --> 04:19:57,698
Well, completely at peace and tranquil,
I answer you that if I could go back--''
2830
04:21:56,224 --> 04:21:59,193
Peace, peace, peace.
2831
04:21:59,260 --> 04:22:01,990
I'm a Negro like you,an ex-slave like you.
2832
04:22:02,063 --> 04:22:04,998
But today I've dealt with the whites,and I'm speaking with their permission.
2833
04:22:05,066 --> 04:22:07,261
And this is a police car.
2834
04:22:08,102 --> 04:22:11,196
If you think I'm a traitor,then shoot me.
2835
04:22:12,673 --> 04:22:16,131
But first listento what I have to say.
2836
04:22:16,210 --> 04:22:20,203
Slavery was not our disgrace.It is our glory.
2837
04:22:20,281 --> 04:22:22,909
We must not soil it with revenge.
2838
04:22:23,851 --> 04:22:26,911
In every plan that the racist attemptsto search for an alibi
2839
04:22:26,988 --> 04:22:30,151
for his evil consciencetowards the Negro
2840
04:22:30,958 --> 04:22:35,520
all that's necessary is one broken windowto make him feel absolved ofhis guilt.
2841
04:22:36,197 --> 04:22:39,030
When we allow ourselves to bendbefore the white man's hatred
2842
04:22:39,100 --> 04:22:41,125
we're playing his game.
2843
04:22:41,202 --> 04:22:43,602
We're also playing the gameof the white communists
2844
04:22:43,671 --> 04:22:47,198
who want to make use of usto destroy America.
2845
04:22:47,875 --> 04:22:49,365
We don't love America,
2846
04:22:49,444 --> 04:22:52,345
but neither do we want to be usedto destroy it.
2847
04:22:53,347 --> 04:22:57,044
We Negroes must not fall intothe same errors that the whites make.
2848
04:22:57,118 --> 04:23:00,519
We must not respondto their old white racism
2849
04:23:00,588 --> 04:23:02,522
with a new black racism.
2850
04:23:03,524 --> 04:23:06,220
To the recent eventsthat have made us understand,
2851
04:23:06,294 --> 04:23:11,163
we must respondpeace, peace, peace.
2852
04:23:49,704 --> 04:23:53,265
On one side, the north
that wanted to abolish slavery.
2853
04:23:53,341 --> 04:23:55,468
On the other,
the south that wanted to keep it.
2854
04:23:55,543 --> 04:24:00,003
So the war to liberate slaves
cost America one million dead.
2855
04:24:00,081 --> 04:24:04,211
Today, the American public assisting in
the reenactment of the battle of Shiloh
2856
04:24:04,285 --> 04:24:06,082
doesn't root for anyone.
2857
04:24:06,154 --> 04:24:07,678
They enjoy the show.
2858
04:24:07,755 --> 04:24:10,849
Northern and southern combatants
are interchangeable.
2859
04:24:10,925 --> 04:24:12,984
It just depends upon
the color of the uniform.
2860
04:24:13,060 --> 04:24:17,554
The anonymous slavery society
closed the books a hundred years ago.
2861
04:24:17,632 --> 04:24:18,963
And the accounts are balanced.
2862
04:24:19,033 --> 04:24:21,365
For every imported slave,
one American death.
2863
04:24:21,435 --> 04:24:23,164
The wounded don't count.
2864
04:24:23,237 --> 04:24:25,535
Here's one that ended up in bad shape.
2865
04:24:25,606 --> 04:24:28,166
A northern uniform.
So he wanted it this way, right?
2866
04:24:29,177 --> 04:24:31,475
Of course.
Say cheese!
2867
04:24:31,546 --> 04:24:32,877
Today, everyone's smiling,
2868
04:24:32,947 --> 04:24:35,040
dead and wounded,
victor and vanquished.
2869
04:24:35,116 --> 04:24:38,643
It's wonderful to return home
on this splendid day in May
2870
04:24:38,719 --> 04:24:43,213
and to take a nice shower
to wash away all of the dust of the past.
2871
04:26:04,505 --> 04:26:08,134
THIS FI LM IS A DOCUMENTARY.
2872
04:26:08,209 --> 04:26:13,647
THE EVENTS OCCURRED I N HISTORY
AND THE CHARACTERS REALLY EXISTED.
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