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We interrupt this broadcast to bring
you a shocking piece of news
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just in from Memphis, Tennessee.
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Today, April 4 [1968], the spiritual leader of
America's Negroes, Martin Luther King,
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winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace,
was shot 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't just kill
Martin Luther King.
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It killed a historical era.
The war has begun.
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We Negroes have embarked on the
violent 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 doubters
and 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 Leroy Jones 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 pages
of the greatest American Negro poet,
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Leroy Jones, whose poem...
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"Land, Land, Land. The Negro will not
be 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 227, Malcolm X adds:
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"There's only one people on earth
that 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 over
to 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, Leroy Jones, 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 19, 1970.
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Leroy Jones, 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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327 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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35 by 12 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 1812,
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in a shipment of 415 slaves,
the buyer contested 216,
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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.
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They love it. We have to tie them up
and give them a little at a time,
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otherwise they'd choke.
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That one doesn't seem to like it.
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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 $150 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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120 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 Leroy Jones,
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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 116: "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
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so their blood, flowing to the head,
will arrest their convulsions."
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Reading from page 122:
"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 130:
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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.
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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,
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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,
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- a pound of fat...
- Don't go overboard.
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They only get a half-pound of fat.
This is not an Italian restaurant.
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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
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and spit out dozens of children.
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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,
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but if we don't cut off a few million
black balls now,
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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!
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What makes this candidate for
the White House exceptional
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is that his political program does not
include cutting the throats
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of all white Americans.
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Perhaps this is why
he wasn't very successful.
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The more popular
David Hillyard screamed,
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"We'll kill Nixon and all the sons
of bitches that are against us."
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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.
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In the meantime
he's handing out small advances,
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and promises that the rest
will be delivered promptly.
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The livestock cars that transported
the slaves up north
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covered 400 miles in three days
along the left bank of the Mississippi,
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all the way up to Natchez or Pittsburgh.
The slave trade was very busy.
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It slowed down only in the autumn,
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when the trains had to stop
in Baton Rouge,
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and the slaves had to proceed on foot
through rain-flooded swamps.
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The red flag, which back then was the
symbol of slavery, preceded the convoys.
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A tuba, a violin and a trombone
kept up the slaves' morale
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when the going was rough.
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Neither the slave traders
nor the public, at the time,
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considered this trade immoral.
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They were comforted in part
by the fact that among their clients
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were men such as President Jackson
and President Jefferson.
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Among their colleagues were men such as
David Mitchell, governor of Georgia,
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and James Bowie, hero of the Alamo.
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Come on. Move it!
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Let's have some music!
Make merry! Play!
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Come on. Let's have some music!
Be merry. Play for me!
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Go free with God.
Go forth, free with God.
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Go on, go free with God.
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Well then, $300 for the males,
$200 for the females,
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and $100 for the puppies.
It's all there, right?
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In addition to having
illustrious clients,
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the traders also had
illustrious suppliers,
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like the Jesuits
of Saint Inigoe in Maryland.
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The Catholic Church had always
ignored slavery,
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but when in 1838 the Pope ordered
that slaves in convents be freed,
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the Jesuits immediately
got rid of them: they sold them.
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When the convoys reached
the sugarcane and cotton mills,
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the traders would allow their Negroes a
few days' rest, so they could present them
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to their customers in good shape.
The customers were few, but good.
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In 1850, 4 million slaves were owned
by 4,000 planters.
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There were only 400 families
who owned more than 10 slaves.
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Eighty percent of the white population
had never owned slaves.
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The dream of possessing a young Negro
woman tormented the lonely dreams
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of poor white men, forced to long periods
of abstinence in such a hot land,
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where the white
women were few and intractable.
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Not bad, eh?
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Many of these poor
and restless men were...
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Cut it out.
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This is my buddy, Buzz.
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This is my buddy, Sonny.
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This is my buddy, Jake.
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- So, are you coming with us?
- Isn't it illegal?
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00:37:50,568 --> 00:37:53,867
What do you mean? Nothing
is illegal in this fucking country.
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00:37:55,906 --> 00:37:58,966
You hear that?
He wants money.
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Many of these poor white men,
the Crackers, as they were called,
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were serving what was called
time-limited slavery,
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a period of hard labor,
usually of five years,
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to pay off the price of the trip
to America from Europe.
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Another group was formed by thieves,
rapists, murderers,
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who had been deported to the colonies
from French and English prisons.
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Their hatred toward the Negroes
was not just a racial issue.
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Negroes were always slaves,
and therefore obliged to work for free,
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but also to be the scabs
of the white laborers,
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who had to choose between
unemployment and a miserable pay.
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Come on, let's go.
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Thus, the hatred of the white slave
toward the Negro slave
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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
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in the barn with the animals,
and were therefore defenseless.
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Oh, go away.
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The black puppies not yet ready
for work were like toys,
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and as such they were given
to children.
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00:42:47,631 --> 00:42:50,725
But the black puppies grew up quickly,
and pretty soon they preferred
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a new kind of game, that the white
kids often enjoyed watching.
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Let's read an excerpt from the diary
of Fanny Kemble, English actress:
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"From the early morning the boughs
of the large tree before my window
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were full of couples chirping like
blackbirds in love.
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00:43:08,852 --> 00:43:12,811
I, who was English, and had just joined
my American husband in Georgia,
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00:43:12,890 --> 00:43:17,850
was amazed that such a puritanical
white society could allow its slaves
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to indulge in such depravity
in every corner of the jungle.
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00:43:23,233 --> 00:43:26,498
Another time, in the rice fields,
404
00:43:26,570 --> 00:43:29,437
I came upon such a carefree,
shameless band of urchins,
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who were so busy with their pleasure
that they didn't even notice me."
406
00:43:35,079 --> 00:43:37,707
But after her marriage to the planter
George Butler,
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00:43:37,781 --> 00:43:41,512
Fanny Kemble became
a typical southern lady.
408
00:43:41,585 --> 00:43:43,746
I, a typical southern lady?
409
00:43:43,821 --> 00:43:48,884
Have you ever seen a southern lady
ride a horse western style?
410
00:43:49,994 --> 00:43:55,955
Now I'll show you another thing that
a southern lady would never show you.
411
00:43:56,900 --> 00:44:00,199
Look at all the lovebirds!
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00:44:00,270 --> 00:44:03,899
Look at them
running from the sugarcane field.
413
00:44:04,942 --> 00:44:09,072
The masters themselves encourage them.
414
00:44:10,581 --> 00:44:15,280
Do you know what my husband says?
"Go on, get busy!
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The more children you have,
the happier you'll make me.
416
00:44:21,091 --> 00:44:23,924
Do as you please.
417
00:44:23,994 --> 00:44:27,452
I get rich,
and you have a good time."
418
00:44:28,599 --> 00:44:32,831
In this shop, you don't pay for what
you break, and I pick up the pieces.
419
00:44:46,917 --> 00:44:50,375
Excuse me, ma'am, where is
the church at Turner Bridge?
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I don't understand.
I'm German.
421
00:44:54,792 --> 00:44:59,729
- Where is church?
- Three miles down road.
422
00:44:59,797 --> 00:45:04,734
- What's happening here, ma'am?
- Very interesting.
423
00:45:04,802 --> 00:45:10,502
They're cutting the Negro who broke
20 virgins at the Peterson plantation.
424
00:45:11,308 --> 00:45:14,766
- Cutting what?
- Cutting his balls, what else?
425
00:45:15,846 --> 00:45:18,679
He's through fucking.
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00:45:21,952 --> 00:45:24,011
The pliers! The pliers!
427
00:45:32,863 --> 00:45:35,423
If on the one hand the masters
allowed their slaves
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an almost unlimited sexual freedom,
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00:45:37,701 --> 00:45:42,604
it was also true that he would be
furious if that freedom cost him money.
430
00:45:42,673 --> 00:45:45,699
On every plantation there were always
a number of virgins
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00:45:45,776 --> 00:45:47,141
destined for the marketplace.
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00:45:47,211 --> 00:45:51,307
Their virginity had a very definite
value, and if you took it,
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you were a thief.
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00:45:52,716 --> 00:45:55,344
Such thieves
were publicly castrated,
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00:45:55,419 --> 00:45:57,944
and the castration took place
at the very scene of the crime.
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Hewlett, a Louisiana man,
wrote in 1831:
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"Such an exciting spectacle
was a pleasant interruption
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00:46:05,362 --> 00:46:07,091
to the boredom of a Sunday afternoon.
439
00:46:07,164 --> 00:46:10,998
Males, females and puppies
enjoyed it from start to finish.
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00:46:11,068 --> 00:46:14,162
The more the victim screamed,
the more fun they had."
441
00:46:14,238 --> 00:46:16,729
The master calls for the pliers.
442
00:46:16,807 --> 00:46:21,437
No, not my balls!
443
00:46:23,447 --> 00:46:26,439
Shut up! Take the balls with
your hands and pull.
444
00:46:27,317 --> 00:46:32,050
- Quick, put the balls in the pliers.
- He's pissing! He got me all wet!
445
00:46:32,122 --> 00:46:35,421
Not my balls! No!
446
00:46:35,492 --> 00:46:38,757
- Do you want to go in?
- No, thank you.
447
00:46:40,597 --> 00:46:43,122
- Listen.
- Squeeze!
448
00:46:46,103 --> 00:46:49,561
Did you hear that?
It's done.
449
00:46:50,240 --> 00:46:55,473
- What did they use for the operation?
- Horse pliers.
450
00:46:55,546 --> 00:47:01,212
- It's horrible to make him suffer so.
- No, Negroes never suffer.
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00:47:17,134 --> 00:47:21,935
That Negroes felt physical and moral
pain less that white men
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was a widely held belief.
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00:47:24,074 --> 00:47:25,871
The scientific writings of that time,
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00:47:25,943 --> 00:47:28,776
first among them those by
the authoritative Samuel Cartwright,
455
00:47:28,846 --> 00:47:30,780
a professor at
the University of Louisiana,
456
00:47:30,848 --> 00:47:36,980
mention "poor motor skills, typical of
monkeys and subhuman species in general."
457
00:47:37,054 --> 00:47:40,251
No one suspected yet that
all the folklore, the excesses,
458
00:47:40,324 --> 00:47:43,851
the collective hysteria don't
Negate the presence of pain.
459
00:47:43,927 --> 00:47:45,724
On the contrary,
they underline its intensity.
460
00:50:14,878 --> 00:50:20,510
At this point I have only to remind you
that God condemned to slavery
461
00:50:20,584 --> 00:50:24,611
the damned line of Canaan
from the time of Joshua.
462
00:50:24,688 --> 00:50:29,091
God ordered Abraham's descendants
to keep slaves,
463
00:50:29,159 --> 00:50:34,392
and he decreed that those slaves
were to be inherited by their children.
464
00:50:35,699 --> 00:50:39,260
God recognized Abraham
as the master of the slaves.
465
00:50:39,336 --> 00:50:41,133
And Jesus ordered
466
00:50:41,204 --> 00:50:46,198
that any who dare object to
or disrupt the institution of slavery
467
00:50:46,276 --> 00:50:52,704
be repudiated as subversive individuals,
whose behavior is...
468
00:50:52,783 --> 00:50:53,943
The Protestant Church,
469
00:50:54,017 --> 00:50:56,417
then even more powerful
than the Catholic Church in America,
470
00:50:56,486 --> 00:51:00,183
approved of and preached
slavery as a divine decree.
471
00:51:00,257 --> 00:51:02,555
The sermons of the most influential
ministers, like this one,
472
00:51:02,626 --> 00:51:08,394
by Reverend Stringfellow of Virginia,
were bound and published in volumes.
473
00:51:08,465 --> 00:51:12,526
The curse in the Old Testament
on the black man, Canaan,
474
00:51:12,602 --> 00:51:15,230
the evil son of Noah,
who had castrated his father,
475
00:51:15,305 --> 00:51:21,244
was falling heavily on his descendants,
who were now reduced to slavery.
476
00:51:21,311 --> 00:51:23,871
The Baptists said, "Flog them."
477
00:51:23,947 --> 00:51:25,812
The Presbyterians, "Deny them rights."
478
00:51:25,882 --> 00:51:28,146
The Methodists, "Chain them up."
479
00:51:28,218 --> 00:51:32,279
While Bishop Polk, the same one
who later became a Confederate general,
480
00:51:32,355 --> 00:51:35,518
beat all records as a slaveholder.
481
00:51:35,592 --> 00:51:41,690
Slavery is thus a divine institution,
ordered and sanctioned by God.
482
00:51:41,765 --> 00:51:46,134
Therefore, with all the authority
granted me by the church,
483
00:51:46,203 --> 00:51:51,266
I, Reverend Stringfellow of the
State of Virginia,
484
00:51:51,341 --> 00:51:53,536
order you to honor slavery
485
00:51:53,610 --> 00:51:58,240
and not to question it on the basis
of false moral grounds.
486
00:52:09,559 --> 00:52:14,087
Instead of false moral grounds, Reverend
Stringfellow would have done better
487
00:52:14,164 --> 00:52:18,999
talking about
false economic grounds.
488
00:52:19,069 --> 00:52:22,436
For example, it was false
to think that a slave's labor was free
489
00:52:22,506 --> 00:52:25,441
simply because he wasn't paid.
490
00:52:25,509 --> 00:52:28,478
Let's consider the eternal problem
of domestic servants.
491
00:52:28,545 --> 00:52:31,309
When a master thought he could solve it
492
00:52:31,381 --> 00:52:35,511
by filling his huge house with droves
of Negroes dressed to the nines,
493
00:52:35,585 --> 00:52:38,884
he was solving
a very different problem...
494
00:52:38,955 --> 00:52:43,892
the problem of his prestige in the eyes
of his family and his guests.
495
00:52:48,265 --> 00:52:54,261
Please, come in. But I'm warning you,
I can't give you much of my time.
496
00:52:54,337 --> 00:52:57,773
As you can see, this isn't a house,
it's a madhouse.
497
00:52:57,841 --> 00:53:00,935
- The luggage.
- What luggage? Oh, yes!
498
00:53:01,011 --> 00:53:02,876
Mr. Thackeray's luggage.
499
00:53:02,946 --> 00:53:06,177
Haven't I told you a million times
to get it and bring it downstairs?
500
00:53:06,249 --> 00:53:08,217
Go on, don't waste anymore time.
501
00:53:08,285 --> 00:53:11,220
My God, they're useless!
Hurry up!
502
00:53:12,222 --> 00:53:15,714
I'll have to leave you to your own
devices. Take a look around.
503
00:53:15,792 --> 00:53:19,228
- I'll see you later.
- Where do the sheets go, ma'am?
504
00:53:19,896 --> 00:53:23,297
Come on. Let's hurry it up!
505
00:53:25,502 --> 00:53:27,163
This looks nice.
506
00:53:29,372 --> 00:53:34,776
Always cleaning, cleaning.
My fingers are hurting, ma'am.
507
00:53:35,679 --> 00:53:39,547
Even at night I dream
that I'm still cleaning.
508
00:53:39,616 --> 00:53:42,983
Black slave's always cleaning.
509
00:53:43,053 --> 00:53:47,285
And you keep telling me
I have to clean even better.
510
00:54:22,592 --> 00:54:25,493
Where do we put the sheets, ma'am?
511
00:54:27,097 --> 00:54:33,468
"Where do we put the sheets, ma'am?"
Put them on the bed, you idiots!
512
00:54:39,209 --> 00:54:41,370
The real mistress of the house, though,
was the Mammy.
513
00:54:41,444 --> 00:54:45,312
The house was her kingdom.
The children were her subjects.
514
00:54:45,382 --> 00:54:48,613
She reigned upstairs, over the children
of both masters and slaves alike,
515
00:54:48,685 --> 00:54:51,552
in absolute promiscuity,
because black or white,
516
00:54:51,621 --> 00:54:54,385
all babies have the same color pee.
517
00:54:54,457 --> 00:54:58,086
She was almost always fat, thanks to
her privileges in the kitchen.
518
00:54:58,161 --> 00:55:01,358
She was always mean and arrogant,
and mistreated everyone, black or white.
519
00:55:01,431 --> 00:55:04,696
All this thanks to the immunity
she enjoyed in the domestic setting.
520
00:55:04,768 --> 00:55:06,292
When, for instance, a white man...
521
00:55:12,208 --> 00:55:15,006
- Whom does this one belong to?
- Throw him over there.
522
00:55:15,078 --> 00:55:18,172
When I'm done with your pup,
I'll latch him onto my tit.
523
00:55:18,248 --> 00:55:21,649
Be careful, he's got the runs,
he's messing everywhere.
524
00:55:37,634 --> 00:55:42,230
- I'm freezing, do I have to bathe?
- Get in there and wash up good.
525
00:55:42,305 --> 00:55:44,398
Hey you, pump the water, faster!
526
00:55:56,152 --> 00:56:00,020
- Don't let them play with my dress.
- Get back in there!
527
00:56:00,090 --> 00:56:05,426
Take that dress off. Give me that,
face powder is $5 an ounce!
528
00:56:05,495 --> 00:56:09,488
It's not meant for dirty Negroes
like you. Now get out of here!
529
00:56:10,700 --> 00:56:14,101
- Enough Mammy, I'm clean.
- Let me take a look.
530
00:56:14,804 --> 00:56:18,205
You don't like the water, eh?
You're worse than a Negro.
531
00:56:18,274 --> 00:56:20,401
Not so hard, you're hurting me.
532
00:56:20,477 --> 00:56:23,310
You know those Italian photographers
that are here?
533
00:56:23,380 --> 00:56:26,713
Mammy, I want them to take
my portrait in the pink dress.
534
00:56:26,783 --> 00:56:28,580
Is it cut too low?
535
00:56:28,651 --> 00:56:32,610
Get out of here! You whites
are such bastards.
536
00:56:32,689 --> 00:56:38,685
Scoundrels! You're all scoundrels!
And you, get the fuck away!
537
00:56:41,131 --> 00:56:44,100
The Negro little boy
Flew right up into the sky
538
00:56:44,167 --> 00:56:49,298
And you, will you stop plucking
those feathers!
539
00:56:51,574 --> 00:56:57,137
Drinking water! Drinking water!
540
00:56:57,881 --> 00:57:01,942
Thief! Let me see!
Where is the chicken?
541
00:57:02,018 --> 00:57:04,646
Give me your hat.
542
00:57:04,721 --> 00:57:06,712
Look here! Thief!
543
00:57:09,325 --> 00:57:14,558
- Cake with cherries.
- Wait!
544
00:57:14,631 --> 00:57:19,125
I keep putting the cherries on,
and I never run out of cherries.
545
00:57:20,703 --> 00:57:24,605
These are onions, not carrots!
Can't you smell them?
546
00:57:25,575 --> 00:57:28,339
The Negro little boy
Flew right up into the sky
547
00:57:28,411 --> 00:57:34,145
The almonds, I can't crush them.
I'm going to use a plate.
548
00:57:37,287 --> 00:57:41,314
This is not a kitchen!
It's a huge latrine!
549
00:57:41,991 --> 00:57:44,858
Dirty Negro woman, she's putting
her hands in the mayonnaise.
550
00:57:44,928 --> 00:57:47,590
I'm a clean Negro, and I crack eggs
with my glove on.
551
00:57:47,664 --> 00:57:51,122
The Negro little boy
Flew right up into the sky
552
00:57:51,201 --> 00:57:54,261
Get down from there!
553
00:57:54,337 --> 00:57:58,364
The Negro little boy
Flew right up into the sky
554
00:58:01,244 --> 00:58:04,907
Pigs! You're worse than pigs!
555
00:58:07,150 --> 00:58:09,050
Pigs are much better.
556
00:58:09,118 --> 00:58:12,952
And all this just to seat
two people at the dinner table!
557
00:58:22,599 --> 00:58:26,433
This is the first image of a historical
carousel called "Pilgrimage",
558
00:58:26,503 --> 00:58:28,403
which is celebrated every year
in the spring.
559
00:58:28,471 --> 00:58:30,905
At this time, the old south takes
a trip down memory lane.
560
00:58:30,974 --> 00:58:34,535
For the sake of the carousel,
everything comes out of storage:
561
00:58:34,611 --> 00:58:37,478
from the old granny in a wheelchair
to the few neighborhood Negroes,
562
00:58:37,547 --> 00:58:41,278
who for $12 an hour
agree to pose as slaves.
563
00:58:48,791 --> 00:58:53,057
The slaveholders bravely revisit
their sins of yore, like this one,
564
00:58:53,129 --> 00:58:54,858
the first of the day.
565
00:58:54,931 --> 00:58:59,561
They had a slave bring them
their coffee in bed. Incredible.
566
00:59:07,677 --> 00:59:12,011
The 19th century feels very far away,
halfway up the ladder of time.
567
00:59:12,081 --> 00:59:15,847
How was it? It depends if you're
looking from the bottom or the top.
568
00:59:15,919 --> 00:59:17,614
From the bottom,
we discover under old drapes
569
00:59:17,687 --> 00:59:20,281
a modern and hypocritical reality.
570
00:59:20,356 --> 00:59:21,220
From above, on the other hand,
571
00:59:21,291 --> 00:59:23,953
we enjoy a stale view
of ancient, innocent customs,
572
00:59:24,027 --> 00:59:27,758
such as chaste girls bathing
with their nightgowns on.
573
00:59:30,266 --> 00:59:35,101
Right next door, we find a walnut stool
used to flog slaves.
574
00:59:35,171 --> 00:59:38,072
It looks more like an antique
than an instrument of torture.
575
00:59:38,141 --> 00:59:40,905
Next to the music box we see
the blond Eveline,
576
00:59:40,977 --> 00:59:44,310
sitting on Uncle Tom's lap
on a rainy evening.
577
00:59:44,380 --> 00:59:49,079
In the dusky sitting room,
the old grandfather clock keeps time.
578
00:59:49,152 --> 00:59:52,644
It makes us feel almost sorry
that General Sherman is at the gates.
579
01:00:14,544 --> 01:00:17,672
Sherman arrived with 30,000
Union troops.
580
01:00:17,747 --> 01:00:20,841
Today, there are 100,000 northerners.
581
01:00:20,917 --> 01:00:22,646
A mere hundred years have passed
582
01:00:22,719 --> 01:00:25,347
since the General swept like a fury
down from the north
583
01:00:25,421 --> 01:00:29,323
and tore down these candid temples
to slavery, and already the south
584
01:00:29,392 --> 01:00:34,159
seems to have bounced back to the
original splendor of its dark age.
585
01:00:34,230 --> 01:00:37,028
The pretentious Neoclassical style
of its large houses
586
01:00:37,100 --> 01:00:41,230
shines again over the green parks
as it did in those opulent times,
587
01:00:41,304 --> 01:00:43,898
which were rife with slaves,
cotton, tobacco,
588
01:00:43,973 --> 01:00:47,534
and the coffers of the south
were full of Confederate dollars.
589
01:00:55,852 --> 01:00:58,821
Today the old houses of the south
are national museums,
590
01:00:58,888 --> 01:01:00,753
and their owners are responsible
for their upkeep.
591
01:01:00,823 --> 01:01:03,849
The woman of the house is usually
in charge of protecting the furniture
592
01:01:03,926 --> 01:01:05,518
and the antique rugs.
593
01:01:05,595 --> 01:01:08,291
Stop! You can't come in
with high-heeled shoes.
594
01:01:12,869 --> 01:01:16,168
After a long, grim winter without
northerners in the house,
595
01:01:16,239 --> 01:01:19,299
the old south relives in the spring
its economic boom.
596
01:01:19,375 --> 01:01:22,503
The north today buys cotton
at $10 per hundred kilograms.
597
01:01:22,578 --> 01:01:26,981
The south sells its high-quality,
slave-grade cotton at $1 per ball.
598
01:01:27,050 --> 01:01:29,644
Nixon devalues the dollar by 7%.
599
01:01:29,719 --> 01:01:34,554
The south revalues its old Confederate
dollar by 107%, exchanging it equally.
600
01:01:34,624 --> 01:01:35,886
The boom goes on.
601
01:01:35,958 --> 01:01:40,588
Someone found an old column
in the cellar and sliced it up.
602
01:01:40,663 --> 01:01:43,598
Today, the old white south
can be bought by the slice.
603
01:01:43,666 --> 01:01:48,330
$10 a slice, and the Negro, posing
as a slave, keeps half of the proceeds.
604
01:01:59,449 --> 01:02:01,940
New York, Fifth Avenue.
It's Easter.
605
01:02:02,018 --> 01:02:04,919
A religious extremist waves a flag
and a Bible.
606
01:02:04,987 --> 01:02:07,956
He yells something to do with Negroes,
but no one can understand him.
607
01:02:08,024 --> 01:02:09,924
On the most bourgeois street in
the world,
608
01:02:09,992 --> 01:02:12,517
they celebrate Easter
with the spring parade,
609
01:02:12,595 --> 01:02:15,996
and spring is the most bourgeois
of the seasons.
610
01:02:17,633 --> 01:02:20,693
Up here, far from the
rotting crowd below,
611
01:02:20,770 --> 01:02:24,137
a chosen few have found
an altar close enough to the sky,
612
01:02:24,207 --> 01:02:27,040
even though it's been sullied
by the arrival of the police.
613
01:02:27,110 --> 01:02:31,672
"We're here," they say, "to declare our
contrition over the sins of the world."
614
01:02:31,748 --> 01:02:33,545
"Naked?" The police ask.
615
01:02:33,616 --> 01:02:36,050
"We're not naked, we're undressed."
616
01:02:36,119 --> 01:02:41,022
Satisfied, they kiss. Today the police
no longer trust the penal code.
617
01:02:41,090 --> 01:02:42,785
A crime looks like a crime.
618
01:02:42,859 --> 01:02:45,350
Then, it turns out that
it's an ideological crime,
619
01:02:45,428 --> 01:02:47,089
and they look like idiots.
620
01:02:47,163 --> 01:02:48,790
Might as well drop the whole thing.
621
01:02:48,865 --> 01:02:52,631
Today, being white, as well as
being shameful, is also a grave sin.
622
01:02:52,702 --> 01:02:56,570
One of the many ways to atone
is to cover smear paint on one's body.
623
01:02:56,639 --> 01:02:59,802
Each smear is a sin,
and each sin has its color.
624
01:02:59,876 --> 01:03:01,969
Red for wars, massacres and the like,
625
01:03:02,044 --> 01:03:05,445
yellow for gold and riches and
all the evils associated with wealth.
626
01:03:05,515 --> 01:03:09,246
Black for racism, Nazism, fascism
and lots of other -isms.
627
01:03:09,318 --> 01:03:12,776
The evil one, meaning the devil,
is white.
628
01:03:12,855 --> 01:03:14,516
The devil's first victim,
629
01:03:14,590 --> 01:03:17,923
according to these penitents who are
ashamed of their white bottoms,
630
01:03:17,994 --> 01:03:21,589
is the Negro, who seems here
to feel slightly out of place.
631
01:03:23,800 --> 01:03:26,132
"Abracadabra,
I'm going to exorcise you."
632
01:03:26,202 --> 01:03:29,899
For centuries the white devil
kept the Negro in hell.
633
01:03:29,972 --> 01:03:32,065
He forced him to squirm
on the ground like a worm.
634
01:03:32,141 --> 01:03:34,541
He imprisoned him, flogged him,
tortured him.
635
01:03:34,610 --> 01:03:37,408
Then he dragged him
in chains through his American ordeal.
636
01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:38,811
He chose him over Barabbas.
637
01:03:38,881 --> 01:03:42,009
He betrayed him like Judas.
He crucified him in Vietnam.
638
01:03:42,084 --> 01:03:44,552
But today it's Easter,
and the Negro is reborn
639
01:03:44,620 --> 01:03:47,817
and ascends to the sky,
to take his place at his father's side,
640
01:03:47,890 --> 01:03:51,849
because the Negro is the son of God,
because God is black.
641
01:03:54,530 --> 01:03:58,466
In fact in Detroit, in the
Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart,
642
01:03:58,534 --> 01:04:02,698
Jesus has been painted black.
Is it antiracism or reverse racism?
643
01:04:02,772 --> 01:04:05,536
Once upon a time they said,
"When God was white,
644
01:04:05,608 --> 01:04:07,439
the Negro was not a man,
645
01:04:07,510 --> 01:04:11,537
because God, who had made man
in his image, was not black."
646
01:04:11,614 --> 01:04:14,708
That must mean that today,
since God is black, we'll say this,
647
01:04:14,784 --> 01:04:17,776
"God made man in his image,
648
01:04:17,854 --> 01:04:21,620
and since God is no longer white,
the white man is no longer a man."
649
01:04:21,691 --> 01:04:26,719
The Negro community has flocked
to this church where all the saints,
650
01:04:26,796 --> 01:04:28,957
and even the Virgin Mary are all black.
651
01:04:29,031 --> 01:04:30,623
We can't help but think back
652
01:04:30,700 --> 01:04:35,228
to the famous black Manifesto written
in August, 1969, and still extant,
653
01:04:35,304 --> 01:04:37,795
in which the Negroes claimed
that the Church owed them
654
01:04:37,874 --> 01:04:40,274
300 billion dollars in damages
for what they'd been put through.
655
01:04:40,343 --> 01:04:43,506
The Lord's Prayer says:
"Forgive us our debts,
656
01:04:43,579 --> 01:04:46,241
as we forgive our debtors."
657
01:04:46,315 --> 01:04:50,274
So now who will pay, if the father who
forgives trespasses is no longer white,
658
01:04:50,353 --> 01:04:52,787
nor is anyone in his family?
659
01:05:21,217 --> 01:05:23,481
They had only just begun
to hear about it,
660
01:05:23,552 --> 01:05:26,919
but already that white God,
who promised a heaven with no slaves
661
01:05:26,989 --> 01:05:28,616
and no masters, fascinated them.
662
01:05:28,691 --> 01:05:30,022
He seemed to be one of them.
663
01:05:30,092 --> 01:05:32,890
He was humiliated, flogged,
crucified.
664
01:05:32,962 --> 01:05:36,454
And for his whole life he had eaten
out of the same plate as the poor.
665
01:05:38,801 --> 01:05:40,701
Get another plate, son.
666
01:06:44,900 --> 01:06:46,128
Hewlett writes:
667
01:06:46,202 --> 01:06:49,968
"It is tolerated that the slaves
gather when they are free from work
668
01:06:50,039 --> 01:06:53,270
in order to imitate
in their fashion the Christian rituals.
669
01:06:53,342 --> 01:06:57,108
Experience has taught us that the more
a slave is religious,
670
01:06:57,179 --> 01:06:59,739
the calmer, more humble
and resigned he will be.
671
01:06:59,815 --> 01:07:01,646
However, the law prescribes also
672
01:07:01,717 --> 01:07:06,154
that these gatherings will be moderated
and presided over by a white man."
673
01:07:19,935 --> 01:07:25,134
Of all the tales in the Bible, the flight
from Egypt fascinated them the most.
674
01:07:25,207 --> 01:07:29,075
They were so convinced that the story
related to them personally,
675
01:07:29,145 --> 01:07:32,273
that they would draw it on the walls.
Africa was Palestine,
676
01:07:32,348 --> 01:07:34,976
the ocean was the Red Sea,
the sharks were the Pharaohs,
677
01:07:35,051 --> 01:07:37,315
and the Egyptians were
the white masters.
678
01:07:37,386 --> 01:07:40,947
All those fantastical analogies between
their dark history
679
01:07:41,023 --> 01:07:43,389
and the flight of the chosen people
toward the Promised Land
680
01:07:43,459 --> 01:07:47,862
influenced them so, that they started
running away at a rate of 5,000 a year.
681
01:07:47,930 --> 01:07:50,364
They always ran toward the rivers
and the swamps,
682
01:07:50,433 --> 01:07:52,492
because they had crossed the water
to come here,
683
01:07:52,568 --> 01:07:55,799
and they thought
that freedom lay across the water.
684
01:09:47,149 --> 01:09:49,777
There was always a reward on the head
of a runaway slave.
685
01:09:49,852 --> 01:09:53,015
The reward was not contingent, however,
on the slave being returned alive.
686
01:09:53,088 --> 01:09:54,783
All that were needed were their hands
or their heads.
687
01:09:54,857 --> 01:10:00,056
Thus many hunters, especially in
Florida, specialized in runaway slaves.
688
01:10:00,129 --> 01:10:02,962
The fire of Atlanta destroyed
a daguerreotype
689
01:10:03,032 --> 01:10:06,695
that portrayed a scene like this one.
On the back it bore this inscription:
690
01:10:06,769 --> 01:10:09,294
"A good catch today, 187 heads."
691
01:10:12,708 --> 01:10:17,873
Even Andrew Jackson, the great
president, approved of hunting slaves.
692
01:10:17,947 --> 01:10:19,812
Kenneth Stamp writes:
693
01:10:19,882 --> 01:10:24,478
"One day Jackson promised $50 to whoever
could bring back one of his slaves,
694
01:10:24,553 --> 01:10:29,183
and $10 extra for every 100 lashes,
up to a maximum of 300."
695
01:10:29,258 --> 01:10:31,988
None of the 14 American presidents
who were slave owners
696
01:10:32,061 --> 01:10:35,087
were ever too kind to the Negroes.
697
01:10:35,164 --> 01:10:39,430
They usually found them dumb,
clumsy, and mostly loud.
698
01:10:39,501 --> 01:10:42,595
Another great president,
Thomas Jefferson, wrote:
699
01:10:42,671 --> 01:10:46,732
"My slaves are such idiots,
that instead of going to bed,
700
01:10:46,809 --> 01:10:51,269
they waste the night away under
my windows, making up dances and songs
701
01:10:51,347 --> 01:10:54,714
which, according to them,
mock their master."
702
01:11:44,733 --> 01:11:48,225
When a Negro mocked his master,
to use Jefferson's phrase,
703
01:11:48,304 --> 01:11:53,264
he tried to wound his pride with
the only weapon he had, the grotesque.
704
01:11:53,342 --> 01:11:55,902
Today he wields that weapon against
his entire civilization,
705
01:11:55,978 --> 01:11:58,538
against his hero, his symbol,
his system.
706
01:11:58,614 --> 01:12:03,745
The white hero is armed, and the sword
is the symbol of his prevarication.
707
01:12:03,819 --> 01:12:05,446
He's lurking, again,
under a friar's tunic,
708
01:12:05,521 --> 01:12:09,981
with threats of damnation,
pale and ugly like the devil.
709
01:12:12,828 --> 01:12:16,696
"We are beautiful," says Carmichael,
the leader of the black students.
710
01:12:16,765 --> 01:12:18,995
"We are a splendid race."
711
01:12:19,068 --> 01:12:22,037
That's all well and good, but this year
there will be two Miss Americas.
712
01:12:22,104 --> 01:12:25,005
A white one, and a black one,
who will be called Boganda,
713
01:12:25,074 --> 01:12:27,907
not because it's a nice name,
but because it's an African name.
714
01:12:27,976 --> 01:12:30,536
Today, everything that's black
has to have that Negro-ness.
715
01:12:30,612 --> 01:12:33,206
Afro, African, anything but American.
716
01:12:33,282 --> 01:12:36,877
"Do you know," says Carmichael,
"why the Negroes spoke so badly?"
717
01:12:36,952 --> 01:12:38,647
They were protesting against English.
718
01:12:38,721 --> 01:12:41,986
Protest is an ugly fad word,
like Negro-ness.
719
01:12:42,057 --> 01:12:44,321
Boganda, too,
is an ugly name for a queen.
720
01:12:44,393 --> 01:12:46,623
It sounds more like chains
than like freedom.
721
01:12:49,598 --> 01:12:53,398
"We don't want this white freedom."
Another slogan from Harlem.
722
01:12:53,469 --> 01:12:56,529
"We want a black freedom,
and five white states,
723
01:12:56,605 --> 01:12:58,505
that the United States must give us."
724
01:12:58,574 --> 01:13:01,752
They dance like Africans,
dress like Africans, and speak Swahili.
725
01:13:01,877 --> 01:13:03,868
"We repudiate your American language,
726
01:13:03,946 --> 01:13:07,040
which you use to say
that we are savages, beasts, monkeys,
727
01:13:07,116 --> 01:13:08,981
and that our sweat smells bad."
728
01:13:09,051 --> 01:13:12,919
This was said for the first time
by Professor Cartwright in 1831.
729
01:13:16,558 --> 01:13:21,689
Smell this sweat.
Do you think it smells human?
730
01:13:21,764 --> 01:13:24,631
Or does it have a beastly smell?
731
01:13:29,738 --> 01:13:35,040
Well, why does it have a beastly smell?
Because our skin is different.
732
01:13:35,110 --> 01:13:38,011
And it's not because of the color,
that's the last thing.
733
01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:41,072
Our illustrious colleagues
up north know
734
01:13:41,150 --> 01:13:44,881
that in one square centimeter
of this black skin
735
01:13:44,953 --> 01:13:49,652
there are at least
twice the sweat glands than in ours.
736
01:13:49,725 --> 01:13:54,890
You don't need a microscope to observe
that in this limited cranial capacity
737
01:13:54,963 --> 01:13:59,593
there is very little brain; that this
is not hair, but beastly bristles;
738
01:13:59,668 --> 01:14:02,159
this forehead is absurdly low,
739
01:14:02,237 --> 01:14:07,004
these eyes totally lack luster,
and show no flicker of intelligence;
740
01:14:07,075 --> 01:14:11,944
that these monstrous nostrils
resemble those of a monkey;
741
01:14:12,014 --> 01:14:15,142
that these teeth and this jaw,
742
01:14:15,217 --> 01:14:18,744
characteristic of anthropophagus
creatures,
743
01:14:18,821 --> 01:14:24,726
are the indisputable proof
that this is a merely humanoid race,
744
01:14:24,793 --> 01:14:29,594
a race inferior to ours.
745
01:14:30,265 --> 01:14:31,857
A race that is merely
746
01:14:31,934 --> 01:14:36,803
another attempt on nature's part
747
01:14:36,872 --> 01:14:40,035
in its millennial journey
748
01:14:40,108 --> 01:14:45,136
toward its ultimate goal, perfection,
749
01:14:46,048 --> 01:14:49,313
the white race, homo sapiens,
750
01:14:50,285 --> 01:14:52,810
in other words, us.
751
01:14:52,888 --> 01:14:56,085
Excuse me, Professor, are you Jewish?
752
01:14:57,059 --> 01:14:59,755
Yes, of course. Why?
753
01:15:08,971 --> 01:15:11,997
Let's imagine we wanted
to exterminate them.
754
01:15:12,074 --> 01:15:16,408
Fire, gas, deportation?
Oh, no.
755
01:15:16,478 --> 01:15:19,970
It would be enough to refrain
from curing their illnesses.
756
01:15:20,048 --> 01:15:24,985
Remember, a healthy Negro
is a perfect slave.
757
01:15:25,053 --> 01:15:29,285
And an imperfect slave
is a sick Negro.
758
01:15:29,358 --> 01:15:31,883
Sick? With which disease, Professor?
759
01:15:31,960 --> 01:15:37,557
These individuals are afflicted
by a disease called "draptomania",
760
01:15:38,267 --> 01:15:40,030
which is an impulse to flee.
761
01:15:40,102 --> 01:15:44,664
It's a nervous disease,
which drives the Negro to flee.
762
01:15:44,740 --> 01:15:48,506
Mind you, not out of a desire
for freedom or a sense of dignity.
763
01:15:48,577 --> 01:15:51,410
Negroes have no such sentiments.
764
01:15:51,480 --> 01:15:56,110
He runs because he is ill.
Oh, here's a perfect case;
765
01:15:56,184 --> 01:15:59,449
in fact, an exemplary case
of that affliction
766
01:15:59,521 --> 01:16:03,480
which we scientists call
African scatopathy.
767
01:16:03,559 --> 01:16:08,758
- Are those muzzles?
- Oh, no! Looks are deceiving.
768
01:16:08,830 --> 01:16:10,525
It's not a muzzle.
769
01:16:10,599 --> 01:16:16,060
It's just an obstacle that stops them
from eating all sorts of garbage,
770
01:16:17,239 --> 01:16:21,073
like dirt and their own excrement.
771
01:16:21,143 --> 01:16:25,102
This may be one of the more repugnant
illnesses found in nature.
772
01:16:25,180 --> 01:16:29,014
I'm sure it's caused by the lack
of some unknown substance.
773
01:16:37,926 --> 01:16:42,693
Look at what extremes they go to.
They have such a fear of work,
774
01:16:42,764 --> 01:16:49,226
and such a desire to do nothing,
that they have tricked their masters.
775
01:16:49,304 --> 01:16:51,966
Look, they're so clever.
776
01:16:54,409 --> 01:16:59,108
They make their legs, arms, feet
or hands drop off,
777
01:16:59,181 --> 01:17:03,140
so they can live of their mutilation.
778
01:17:06,221 --> 01:17:09,884
It seems impossible.
How did they end up like this?
779
01:17:09,958 --> 01:17:11,755
I told you.
780
01:17:11,827 --> 01:17:17,390
To get out of working, they inflicted
some small wound on themselves,
781
01:17:17,466 --> 01:17:20,128
and then gangrene set in,
782
01:17:20,202 --> 01:17:28,803
so the surgeon had to cut off
arms and legs to save their hides.
783
01:17:38,487 --> 01:17:40,978
What are these people doing here?
Aren't they Indians?
784
01:17:41,056 --> 01:17:43,820
Yes, but the Indians are useless.
785
01:17:43,892 --> 01:17:45,723
Between a Negro and an Indian
786
01:17:45,794 --> 01:17:49,560
there's the same difference
as between a dog and a coyote.
787
01:17:49,631 --> 01:17:55,297
You can beat a dog to death,
and he'll go on licking your feet.
788
01:17:55,370 --> 01:17:59,966
If you deprive a coyote of its freedom,
you might as well deprive it of air.
789
01:18:00,042 --> 01:18:03,443
An Indian will never be a slave.
790
01:18:04,179 --> 01:18:08,172
No one has ever succeeded
in having them reproduce in captivity.
791
01:18:08,250 --> 01:18:14,155
They don't eat. They don't speak. They
don't sleep and they don't make love.
792
01:18:15,924 --> 01:18:20,156
Look at these bizarre creatures,
neither men nor beasts.
793
01:18:20,228 --> 01:18:24,790
These black and sick projections
of our humanity,
794
01:18:24,866 --> 01:18:30,498
who suddenly ask us to survive
in this world of ours.
795
01:18:30,572 --> 01:18:34,474
They are as ancient as we are,
and yet up until now
796
01:18:34,543 --> 01:18:36,807
they had never seen a wheel.
797
01:18:36,878 --> 01:18:42,145
But in a world like ours,
rich with centuries of civilization,
798
01:18:42,217 --> 01:18:48,281
what could they ever do,
but bask in the reflection of our glory?
799
01:18:52,527 --> 01:18:55,894
Every year in February,
the white people of Louisiana
800
01:18:55,964 --> 01:18:58,432
hold a carnival
draped in black skin.
801
01:18:58,500 --> 01:19:00,764
Today it feels like the parody
802
01:19:00,836 --> 01:19:05,739
of the privilege enjoyed
for one day a year by all the slaves.
803
01:19:05,807 --> 01:19:09,243
That day, the masters would tolerate
insults and threats.
804
01:19:09,311 --> 01:19:13,680
"Further left than any left,
we'll drive against the current."
805
01:19:13,749 --> 01:19:17,082
But if Cleaver and Bobby Seale,
founder of the Black Panthers,
806
01:19:17,152 --> 01:19:21,919
had lived 150 years ago,
the things they yell out every day now,
807
01:19:21,990 --> 01:19:24,458
they could have said them only
on the day of the carnival.
808
01:19:24,526 --> 01:19:29,463
"You whites, who still today wave
your discriminating and racist flags,
809
01:19:29,531 --> 01:19:31,328
we'll put you all up against a wall!"
810
01:19:31,399 --> 01:19:35,096
But the next day, Cleaver and Seale
would have been sold right here,
811
01:19:35,170 --> 01:19:38,970
in the huge slave market, where the rum
ran like a river in the streets.
812
01:19:39,040 --> 01:19:42,737
Then, when the trumpet would sound
the closing of the market,
813
01:19:42,811 --> 01:19:45,780
and the drunken crowd would be
thrown out of the enclosure,
814
01:19:45,847 --> 01:19:49,180
they would have been locked up like
jailbirds in the shacks of the camp,
815
01:19:49,251 --> 01:19:52,220
so they could spend their last night
with their wives and children.
816
01:19:54,422 --> 01:19:57,949
All this is now in the past,
and is part of history.
817
01:19:58,026 --> 01:20:02,690
Any reference to the people
in these images is purely coincidental.
818
01:20:02,764 --> 01:20:04,891
They happened to be walking by here
while our cameras
819
01:20:04,966 --> 01:20:08,402
were filming the site of the
most famous slave market in the south,
820
01:20:08,470 --> 01:20:13,430
where every year, during the carnival,
20,000 slaves were sold.
821
01:21:49,471 --> 01:21:52,201
400, I said 400 and not a penny less.
822
01:21:52,274 --> 01:21:55,038
- No, 200 is as high as I will go.
- I didn't steal him, you know.
823
01:21:55,110 --> 01:21:56,907
- 300, then.
- No.
824
01:21:56,978 --> 01:21:58,969
You can keep your Negro, then.
825
01:21:59,047 --> 01:22:01,709
New Orleans, February, 1831.
826
01:22:01,783 --> 01:22:04,684
The son of the sheriff, Tommy Adley,
827
01:22:04,753 --> 01:22:09,554
draws the winning numbers of the state
lottery at the 27th slave market.
828
01:22:09,624 --> 01:22:12,252
First prize,
a quarter mulatto girl of 15 years.
829
01:22:12,327 --> 01:22:16,058
Second prize, a cook, and third prize,
three fat pigs from Virginia.
830
01:22:17,599 --> 01:22:20,363
Together with the Memphis fair,
the fair in New Orleans
831
01:22:20,435 --> 01:22:22,027
is the most important fair in the south,
832
01:22:22,103 --> 01:22:25,869
with a volume of business of more than
40 million dollars a year.
833
01:22:25,941 --> 01:22:28,739
The merchandise is all homegrown,
834
01:22:28,810 --> 01:22:32,803
and comes from farm consortia
in Florida and in Virginia.
835
01:22:32,881 --> 01:22:34,542
The market is on the upswing.
836
01:22:34,616 --> 01:22:37,915
A typical male, that only six years ago
went for $500,
837
01:22:37,986 --> 01:22:40,682
is now worth $1,500 plus taxes.
838
01:22:40,755 --> 01:22:43,815
Colonel Bowie,
who only deals in wholesale pups,
839
01:22:43,892 --> 01:22:47,726
can sell them today at up to $15/lb.
840
01:22:47,796 --> 01:22:52,062
This year the most popular races
are Ausa, Mandingo, and Turkana.
841
01:22:52,133 --> 01:22:54,533
The Ausa are more graceful,
but more fragile.
842
01:22:54,602 --> 01:22:57,002
The Mandingo are more sturdy,
but not as intelligent.
843
01:22:57,072 --> 01:23:00,337
The Turkana are of smaller build,
more docile and manageable.
844
01:23:00,408 --> 01:23:03,673
They are the most popular
with the religious institutions.
845
01:23:03,745 --> 01:23:08,739
In 1863, the French Ursuline nuns alone
had 200 of them.
846
01:23:12,821 --> 01:23:17,417
Of all the ones we saw at the market,
this is the loveliest little angel.
847
01:23:17,492 --> 01:23:20,222
He's really a delightful creature.
848
01:23:21,229 --> 01:23:24,562
What should we do, sister?
849
01:23:24,632 --> 01:23:29,797
It's very tempting, but have you seen
the prices this year?
850
01:23:29,871 --> 01:23:33,363
- He's too expensive.
- But he's such an angel.
851
01:23:33,441 --> 01:23:37,502
And he's healthy and strong.
He could help in the kitchen.
852
01:23:37,579 --> 01:23:41,777
Sister, can you imagine what
the Mother Superior would say?
853
01:23:41,850 --> 01:23:45,047
- She's already bought four this year.
- Oh, sister.
854
01:23:45,120 --> 01:23:50,752
He's not that expensive, at $300.
Let's offer them $200.
855
01:23:53,495 --> 01:23:55,986
He got scared
and lost his mother in the crowd.
856
01:23:56,064 --> 01:23:58,362
They can't even get him
to tell them his name.
857
01:23:58,433 --> 01:24:00,731
He just stands there, quiet, frowning,
858
01:24:00,802 --> 01:24:03,430
but a little calmer,
with so many policemen around,
859
01:24:03,505 --> 01:24:07,965
who seem to protect him from those
large white ghosts, who scared him.
860
01:24:15,350 --> 01:24:17,113
After only one day of power,
861
01:24:17,185 --> 01:24:19,676
the Negro king of the carnival
has lost his throne.
862
01:24:19,754 --> 01:24:22,052
His short time
of privilege has expired.
863
01:24:22,123 --> 01:24:23,613
Now it's the white man's turn.
864
01:24:40,442 --> 01:24:44,173
Right here, in the Carr�, where the
queens of the neighborhood have gathered,
865
01:24:44,245 --> 01:24:47,214
there once stood
two famous houses of ill repute.
866
01:24:47,282 --> 01:24:49,273
The one called The Two Sisters,
867
01:24:49,350 --> 01:24:52,751
and right across the street,
the other, Mr. Roberts'.
868
01:24:52,821 --> 01:24:56,348
Since at the time there
were only two, distinct genders,
869
01:24:56,424 --> 01:24:59,723
anyone could choose what they liked
in either of the two houses,
870
01:24:59,794 --> 01:25:02,786
without the danger of making mistakes.
871
01:25:02,864 --> 01:25:06,595
At the Two Sisters one could find
anything in the "normal" variety,
872
01:25:06,668 --> 01:25:08,465
as it was once thought of.
873
01:25:08,536 --> 01:25:12,870
At Mr. Roberts', instead, there was
the best of the "other", as it were,
874
01:25:12,941 --> 01:25:16,001
that which today is considered
the "normal" variety.
875
01:25:16,077 --> 01:25:20,946
In fact, the two houses
were not competitors at the time.
876
01:25:21,015 --> 01:25:25,008
Both houses got their wares from
the market, two blocks away from here.
877
01:25:25,086 --> 01:25:27,577
All top quality merchandise,
the genuine article,
878
01:25:27,655 --> 01:25:31,489
what we would think of today as
"good old-fashioned wares."
879
01:25:38,900 --> 01:25:42,666
In the New Orleans market there was
a secret sector, where the merchandise,
880
01:25:42,737 --> 01:25:44,261
before it was put on display,
881
01:25:44,339 --> 01:25:48,070
was prepared and arranged
by gender, age and quality.
882
01:25:48,143 --> 01:25:51,601
The girls chosen
to become "fancy girls",
883
01:25:51,679 --> 01:25:54,842
were given over to a man named Buzz,
described by Hewlett
884
01:25:54,916 --> 01:25:59,444
as a repulsive and obese individual,
always filthy with the grease
885
01:25:59,521 --> 01:26:02,957
which he used to oil the fillies
to make their skin softer.
886
01:26:03,024 --> 01:26:07,358
But the keys to the warehouse where
the pieces for real collectors were kept
887
01:26:07,428 --> 01:26:11,762
were jealously guarded by a funny
little midget known as the General.
888
01:26:15,170 --> 01:26:18,162
Only I have these keys.
I'm the master here.
889
01:26:20,275 --> 01:26:23,335
Get inside, you bastards,
or I'll have you flogged.
890
01:26:23,411 --> 01:26:27,780
I'll show you who's in charge here.
I am the General, you hear?
891
01:26:27,849 --> 01:26:33,082
Come on, follow me.
Open up, it's me, the General.
892
01:26:33,154 --> 01:26:35,588
Open up, you sons of bitches!
893
01:26:37,125 --> 01:26:38,285
Hurry up!
894
01:26:39,194 --> 01:26:42,163
Hey, white men, look at
the merchandise I'm in charge of.
895
01:26:42,230 --> 01:26:46,564
The General is the guard of the market.
This is the market's safe.
896
01:26:46,634 --> 01:26:52,436
Look, tens of thousands of dollars.
Top quality whores. All virgins.
897
01:26:52,507 --> 01:26:56,102
You, get to work, dirty Negress.
None of them are all Negro.
898
01:26:56,177 --> 01:27:00,079
They all have at least half human blood
in their veins, like me.
899
01:27:00,148 --> 01:27:02,514
They've all been sold,
and are ready for delivery.
900
01:27:02,584 --> 01:27:05,212
Delivered to your doorstep,
luxuriously packaged.
901
01:27:05,286 --> 01:27:09,746
Hey, white men, you can look,
but don't touch.
902
01:27:09,824 --> 01:27:11,655
You know the rules.
903
01:27:11,726 --> 01:27:14,320
It's forbidden to touch
the merchandise on display.
904
01:27:14,395 --> 01:27:16,727
Only I, the General, can touch.
905
01:27:16,798 --> 01:27:19,096
Do you want to see? Here.
906
01:27:19,167 --> 01:27:22,398
This is Cassandra, a half-caste.
She comes from the Harrison estate.
907
01:27:22,470 --> 01:27:25,064
She's the daughter of Zephira
and the great Meatto.
908
01:27:25,139 --> 01:27:30,099
Artemis, three-quarters human blood,
the firmest tits in the warehouse.
909
01:27:30,178 --> 01:27:34,672
$5,000, payment in cash,
comes with a two-year warranty.
910
01:27:34,749 --> 01:27:38,583
Vintage of 1848.
Imperial Reserve, white or Ros�,
911
01:27:38,653 --> 01:27:41,349
guaranteed by the consortium.
912
01:27:41,422 --> 01:27:44,949
This is Eva. You like apples, huh?
913
01:27:45,026 --> 01:27:48,518
Go ahead and eat them,
but stay away from any snakes.
914
01:27:49,397 --> 01:27:54,061
You've never seen anything like this.
Who cares if you've never seen it?
915
01:27:54,135 --> 01:27:59,596
That's enough, let's go. I don't have
time to waste. I'm the General.
916
01:27:59,674 --> 01:28:02,142
Open up!
917
01:28:02,844 --> 01:28:07,611
Come on, keep it up.
You clown, dance, move it!
918
01:28:07,682 --> 01:28:09,445
Go on, dance.
919
01:29:09,010 --> 01:29:10,568
No, no, no.
920
01:29:10,645 --> 01:29:14,103
Not like that, not like that, beasts,
Like this!
921
01:29:14,816 --> 01:29:17,580
I'll show you.
922
01:29:17,652 --> 01:29:21,713
Like this, not with your hips.
Move your ass!
923
01:29:33,368 --> 01:29:35,302
Open up, it's me.
924
01:29:35,970 --> 01:29:40,100
Oh, the Europeans. What an honor!
925
01:29:40,174 --> 01:29:43,439
I'm in a state, I'm afraid.
Look at my hands.
926
01:29:43,511 --> 01:29:46,241
Excuse the mess, but you should see
in what state they deliver them.
927
01:29:46,314 --> 01:29:49,306
Come on, take your places.
I go crazy getting them ready.
928
01:29:49,384 --> 01:29:51,818
They're in such demand that they
rip them out of my hands
929
01:29:51,886 --> 01:29:52,818
even before they're ready.
930
01:29:52,887 --> 01:29:55,378
I'm sorry, I don't have much time.
931
01:29:55,456 --> 01:30:00,621
I'm so busy. Come on, show yourselves
off to the gentlemen. Take a look.
932
01:30:00,695 --> 01:30:06,292
Not bad, eh? Try to guess the prices.
$500, $1,000, $1,500?
933
01:30:07,368 --> 01:30:11,065
No, $3,000, my dear gentlemen.
934
01:30:26,053 --> 01:30:27,543
Hewlett writes:
935
01:30:27,622 --> 01:30:32,650
"Pairs of male twins at a certain point
enjoyed a moment of great popularity,
936
01:30:32,727 --> 01:30:35,958
also because of
an ugly habit that became a fad.
937
01:30:36,030 --> 01:30:38,555
But due to the extreme rarity
of this particular merchandise,
938
01:30:38,633 --> 01:30:42,433
as there were many orders,
there were many tricksters."
939
01:30:42,503 --> 01:30:44,971
Tricksters? What are you talking about?
940
01:30:45,039 --> 01:30:47,337
This is a reputable establishment,
renowned throughout the south.
941
01:30:47,408 --> 01:30:48,932
Look at this pair, a rarity.
942
01:30:49,010 --> 01:30:52,138
- You faggot!
- Our clients can rest assured.
943
01:30:52,213 --> 01:30:55,876
These are two authentic Kelloggs.
Look, they're signed.
944
01:30:57,118 --> 01:31:00,349
Quiet. Open up, it's me,
the General.
945
01:31:01,322 --> 01:31:05,418
Come in, but no questions.
These should be in a museum.
946
01:31:05,493 --> 01:31:09,520
They're fit for a king.
Base price, $15,000.
947
01:31:10,631 --> 01:31:15,091
- What's so special about him?
- He's got three of them!
948
01:31:15,837 --> 01:31:21,571
One, two, three.
Three, three, three!
949
01:31:23,010 --> 01:31:28,642
Three, he has three, three!
950
01:31:36,557 --> 01:31:41,756
This one had six, including one
that broke and is now being repaired.
951
01:31:41,829 --> 01:31:44,127
They were all sold
to six different masters,
952
01:31:44,198 --> 01:31:47,031
and the mother killed herself
out of desperation.
953
01:31:47,101 --> 01:31:50,537
This is the most
important exhibit in the museum.
954
01:31:50,605 --> 01:31:54,735
In the wax museum of New Orleans,
among many statues of slaves in chains
955
01:31:54,809 --> 01:31:57,869
and of evil masters, the group
that today fascinates the tourists
956
01:31:57,945 --> 01:32:02,382
is the group of Madame La Laurie,
the most famous sadist of all time.
957
01:32:02,450 --> 01:32:04,008
We know that she was the wife
of a doctor,
958
01:32:04,085 --> 01:32:07,020
that she was a member
of the Creole high society in Louisiana,
959
01:32:07,088 --> 01:32:09,488
and that she had a good reputation
960
01:32:09,557 --> 01:32:12,651
until the day when the firemen,
who responded to a fire alarm,
961
01:32:12,727 --> 01:32:17,664
they went into the attic and found all
the evidence that enabled Judge Caldwell
962
01:32:17,732 --> 01:32:23,261
a nearly exact reconstruction
of how the respectable lady
963
01:32:23,337 --> 01:32:28,468
and her faithful helper, Caesar,
enjoyed their leisure time.
964
01:32:28,543 --> 01:32:29,737
Come.
965
01:32:32,647 --> 01:32:36,981
Caesar, Caesar, you've done it again.
966
01:32:37,885 --> 01:32:39,785
She died on me.
967
01:32:39,854 --> 01:32:44,382
Caesar, you really go too far.
968
01:32:44,458 --> 01:32:47,154
It's the third girl in a week.
969
01:32:48,696 --> 01:32:52,564
Don't be so upset.
I'll buy you another.
970
01:32:54,902 --> 01:32:59,930
But look at my partner, my dear,
sweet playmate.
971
01:33:00,007 --> 01:33:01,998
The lovely countess.
972
01:33:02,076 --> 01:33:05,045
She knows how to wait,
973
01:33:05,112 --> 01:33:08,604
how to postpone the divine
moment of the first drop of blood.
974
01:33:08,683 --> 01:33:13,120
Pleasure can wait, there's no hurry.
975
01:33:13,187 --> 01:33:14,654
We've given them opium.
976
01:33:14,722 --> 01:33:17,623
And now they're sleeping.
They've been sleeping for centuries.
977
01:33:17,692 --> 01:33:21,526
It's all ours, all we have to do
is reach out.
978
01:33:21,596 --> 01:33:25,430
We can take our pleasure quickly,
consuming it quickly, like Caesar does,
979
01:33:25,499 --> 01:33:28,468
or we can take it a little at a time,
allowing them to survive
980
01:33:28,536 --> 01:33:33,132
over a long, drawn-out, exhausting wait,
981
01:33:34,141 --> 01:33:39,169
tormented by desire, fed by her fear.
982
01:33:45,186 --> 01:33:48,212
What about you?
Aren't you afraid?
983
01:33:53,561 --> 01:33:57,258
No, you're not afraid,
my brave little cock.
984
01:34:00,201 --> 01:34:07,607
But don't worry, fear will come later,
when the pliers will bite you
985
01:34:07,675 --> 01:34:11,372
right there, where you now want me.
986
01:34:11,445 --> 01:34:15,575
In your country, when a Negro
dares to want a white woman,
987
01:34:15,650 --> 01:34:17,914
isn't this what you do to him?
988
01:34:19,520 --> 01:34:23,422
I don't know who you are,
nor where you come from,
989
01:34:24,892 --> 01:34:28,692
but don't you think the time I live in
is marvelous?
990
01:34:28,763 --> 01:34:33,166
All this lovely flesh is mine.
This body is mine.
991
01:34:34,602 --> 01:34:38,936
I can buy 10, 100, 1,000 of them,
if I want to.
992
01:34:39,006 --> 01:34:43,033
Males, females,
little boys, little girls.
993
01:34:43,711 --> 01:34:46,407
I can consume them, corrupt them,
994
01:34:46,480 --> 01:34:50,644
enjoy them, destroy them.
995
01:34:55,990 --> 01:35:00,757
What are you waiting for, idiots?
996
01:35:00,828 --> 01:35:02,819
Come on, help yourselves.
997
01:35:02,897 --> 01:35:07,300
When will you ever have
another chance like this?
998
01:35:08,269 --> 01:35:11,261
In New Orleans such chances
were never lacking.
999
01:35:11,338 --> 01:35:14,307
If a gentleman received an invitation
to visit a friend who lived in the city
1000
01:35:14,375 --> 01:35:17,310
while the wife and children were
on vacation,
1001
01:35:17,378 --> 01:35:20,211
in addition to good food
and clean linen,
1002
01:35:20,281 --> 01:35:23,444
he could expect a comely Negress
to share his bed at night.
1003
01:35:23,517 --> 01:35:26,645
A refusal would insult the host.
1004
01:35:26,721 --> 01:35:29,281
This was just part of the rules
of hospitality,
1005
01:35:29,356 --> 01:35:31,722
for which the Mammy was responsible.
1006
01:35:44,739 --> 01:35:47,230
Get in line.
1007
01:35:48,142 --> 01:35:51,270
You, let me see your hands.
1008
01:35:51,345 --> 01:35:54,906
Your nails are like a pig's nails.
Go on, get washed up!
1009
01:35:56,117 --> 01:35:59,382
You, come here.
Let me smell you.
1010
01:36:01,455 --> 01:36:07,223
You smell like the goats in the barn.
Go, and wash with ashes.
1011
01:36:08,162 --> 01:36:11,495
You, open your mouth
and let me smell your breath.
1012
01:36:13,300 --> 01:36:18,499
You smell of garlic. Chew this,
it'll take away the stench of a hog.
1013
01:36:19,540 --> 01:36:24,671
You're usually clean. You hardly
smell at all. Good filly.
1014
01:36:24,745 --> 01:36:29,307
You, turn around.
You haven't been fucking, have you?
1015
01:36:33,420 --> 01:36:35,479
Spread your legs!
1016
01:36:39,160 --> 01:36:42,027
Sleeping with a black slave
every night was,
1017
01:36:42,096 --> 01:36:43,825
for all the white males of the house
1018
01:36:43,898 --> 01:36:48,028
fathers, sons and guests, a good hygienic
practice, like brushing your teeth.
1019
01:36:48,102 --> 01:36:50,297
As a pretext
they said it was healthy.
1020
01:36:50,371 --> 01:36:54,068
For the sons, it was supposed to be
a remedy for teenage acne.
1021
01:36:54,141 --> 01:36:57,907
And it was good for the husbands,
as the puritanical mores of the times
1022
01:36:57,978 --> 01:37:00,913
limited their access to their wives.
1023
01:37:00,981 --> 01:37:02,778
But, aside from health considerations,
1024
01:37:02,850 --> 01:37:05,011
let's find out how these slave girls
were in bed.
1025
01:37:08,055 --> 01:37:09,886
Just like the first cigar.
1026
01:37:09,957 --> 01:37:12,357
At first there's a horrible stench,
and you feel nauseous.
1027
01:37:12,426 --> 01:37:15,554
But by the third time you're hooked.
1028
01:37:15,629 --> 01:37:18,530
Harder on my back,
you know I like it.
1029
01:37:18,599 --> 01:37:21,727
Her mother was my first cigar.
I smoked her when I was ten.
1030
01:37:21,802 --> 01:37:25,329
I was terrified my father
would catch me in the act.
1031
01:37:25,406 --> 01:37:27,670
But when I realized that my father,
too, smoked,
1032
01:37:27,741 --> 01:37:29,368
well, I stopped being afraid,
and started to enjoy it.
1033
01:37:29,443 --> 01:37:33,539
Perhaps it's that gamy smell they have,
but I like them more than white ones.
1034
01:37:34,515 --> 01:37:37,746
If I can catch one,
I'll try to get her into bed.
1035
01:37:41,655 --> 01:37:43,782
But where will I find a white woman
around here?
1036
01:37:43,858 --> 01:37:45,917
Besides, my father says
it's not worth it.
1037
01:37:45,993 --> 01:37:50,589
They smell too, but like corpses.
He says they're bad for your health.
1038
01:37:51,432 --> 01:37:54,560
He's been bedding Negresses for
70 years, and he hasn't missed a beat.
1039
01:37:55,236 --> 01:37:57,898
He likes them big,
especially in the tit department.
1040
01:37:58,739 --> 01:38:01,264
Look at this merchandise.
Not bad, eh?
1041
01:38:01,342 --> 01:38:05,506
If you ignore them, you're playing
right into their hand.
1042
01:38:05,579 --> 01:38:08,480
You destroy them,
one night at a time.
1043
01:38:08,549 --> 01:38:13,009
At my age, it's starting to get
rather trying.
1044
01:38:13,087 --> 01:38:16,648
But with the help of divine
providence, and oysters,
1045
01:38:19,360 --> 01:38:21,225
I can still hold my own.
1046
01:38:27,701 --> 01:38:33,867
Mammy! Mammy!
Where are you, you black whore?
1047
01:38:33,941 --> 01:38:37,104
Where are you, Mammy?
1048
01:38:37,177 --> 01:38:40,044
- I'm coming, I'm coming.
- Mammy!
1049
01:38:40,714 --> 01:38:44,912
What's the matter, master?
Why are you angry?
1050
01:38:44,985 --> 01:38:49,422
You idiot. You have the gall to ask
why I'm angry, you asshole!
1051
01:38:49,490 --> 01:38:52,653
Did you, or did you not rip me off
by sending this idiot to my room?
1052
01:38:52,726 --> 01:38:55,286
Don't talk like that, master.
1053
01:38:55,362 --> 01:38:57,592
I've never ripped anyone off.
1054
01:38:57,665 --> 01:39:02,830
- She looks like a beautiful lover.
- What do I care at my age for beauty?
1055
01:39:02,903 --> 01:39:04,427
This filly is a virgin.
1056
01:39:04,505 --> 01:39:08,032
What do you expect me to do
with a virgin at my age, you idiot?
1057
01:39:08,108 --> 01:39:09,507
Take her back.
1058
01:39:09,576 --> 01:39:13,740
Don't talk like that, master.
Please, don't get mad. Wait.
1059
01:39:13,814 --> 01:39:18,547
I'll send you another filly,
one who's been broken in.
1060
01:39:21,188 --> 01:39:25,181
You should be ashamed of yourself,
you ugly whore.
1061
01:39:25,259 --> 01:39:28,456
When you came here,
were you really a virgin?
1062
01:39:28,529 --> 01:39:32,590
Or is the old man too old
to fuck anymore?
1063
01:39:32,666 --> 01:39:34,861
Are you really a virgin?
1064
01:39:37,204 --> 01:39:40,367
You whore, you whore!
1065
01:39:40,441 --> 01:39:44,241
Come in, child.
Come on in.
1066
01:39:44,311 --> 01:39:49,214
Do you want me, master?
I asked for you. I'm clean.
1067
01:39:49,283 --> 01:39:51,945
- I'm also a virgin.
- What are you saying, child?
1068
01:39:52,619 --> 01:39:55,087
- How old are you?
- I'm thirteen.
1069
01:39:55,155 --> 01:39:58,886
- You're just a child.
- I'm thirteen, Mammy says.
1070
01:39:58,959 --> 01:40:04,158
You mean that here, girls like you...
Where I come from we don't do this.
1071
01:40:04,231 --> 01:40:07,257
- I'm not from here.
- Do you want this first?
1072
01:40:07,334 --> 01:40:10,462
Mammy says that if whites don't play
with the whip first,
1073
01:40:10,537 --> 01:40:13,062
they can't get it up to fuck a woman.
1074
01:40:13,140 --> 01:40:14,072
What are you saying?
1075
01:40:14,141 --> 01:40:16,507
The stranger is the journalist
Malcolm Fawcett,
1076
01:40:16,577 --> 01:40:19,546
and this conversation was excerpted
from his experiences in Louisiana.
1077
01:40:19,613 --> 01:40:23,413
It refers to his first night in Mobile,
in the home of Mr. Charleston,
1078
01:40:23,484 --> 01:40:25,611
a planter,
whose guest he was for a week.
1079
01:40:25,686 --> 01:40:29,816
Please, master, don't send me away.
1080
01:40:29,890 --> 01:40:32,085
- Do me this favor.
- Don't raise your voice.
1081
01:40:32,159 --> 01:40:34,150
Mammy will be angry
if I stay a virgin.
1082
01:40:34,228 --> 01:40:37,925
- Please, join me.
- What do you mean, right here?
1083
01:40:38,766 --> 01:40:43,499
Your bed is so big,
and I am so small.
1084
01:40:43,570 --> 01:40:47,700
If I take my dress off, I don't smell.
1085
01:40:47,775 --> 01:40:51,768
You know, I washed my whole body.
1086
01:40:51,845 --> 01:40:57,442
I don't smell, master.
If you're tired though, for real,
1087
01:40:57,518 --> 01:41:02,751
- I'll let you sleep.
- Sleep. It would be hard now, child.
1088
01:41:02,823 --> 01:41:08,386
It would be too bad, though, master.
I like you.
1089
01:41:08,462 --> 01:41:10,726
"I wanted to dissuade her,"
writes Fawcett,
1090
01:41:10,798 --> 01:41:14,290
"even though, knowing the custom,
I realized I was being rude.
1091
01:41:14,368 --> 01:41:18,566
But when I recommended that she turn
to a young man of her same condition..."
1092
01:41:18,639 --> 01:41:24,635
You mean with a Negro?
No, I don't like Negroes.
1093
01:41:25,145 --> 01:41:31,311
No, Negroes disgust me.
I tried once with a Negro.
1094
01:41:31,385 --> 01:41:36,687
He hurt me so much.
He was so big.
1095
01:41:37,357 --> 01:41:38,381
You know,
1096
01:41:38,459 --> 01:41:44,091
White men
are much smaller, master.
1097
01:41:44,164 --> 01:41:48,624
It's much better
for a beginner like me.
1098
01:41:48,702 --> 01:41:52,399
White men don't smell like Negroes.
1099
01:41:54,241 --> 01:41:58,735
Do me the favor,
1100
01:41:58,812 --> 01:42:03,476
master, please.
1101
01:42:03,550 --> 01:42:07,486
Yes, like that, master.
Yes.
1102
01:42:40,687 --> 01:42:44,418
This awful book from Boston goes on
to spread even more filth. Listen.
1103
01:42:44,491 --> 01:42:48,655
"As for the southern ladies,
their famous virtue
1104
01:42:48,729 --> 01:42:52,756
is greatly devalued by the fact that
they have no choice in the matter."
1105
01:42:52,833 --> 01:42:56,701
Listen to this.
"How could they not be virtuous,
1106
01:42:56,770 --> 01:43:01,139
since their men would much rather
go with colored girls?"
1107
01:43:01,208 --> 01:43:04,644
- I can't believe it.
- "The truth is that these women
1108
01:43:04,711 --> 01:43:08,772
can get no satisfaction from either
husbands or potential lovers,
1109
01:43:08,849 --> 01:43:13,115
as these are too often occupied with
the comely slaves on the plantation."
1110
01:43:13,187 --> 01:43:17,351
The horror! How could someone write
such venomous nonsense?
1111
01:43:17,424 --> 01:43:21,793
It's all shameless political propaganda.
What do they know of the Negroes,
1112
01:43:21,862 --> 01:43:24,990
those pencil pushers from Boston
and Philadelphia?
1113
01:43:25,065 --> 01:43:30,435
Nothing. But envy, prejudice and malice
induce them to try to humiliate us
1114
01:43:30,504 --> 01:43:32,734
in every way possible.
1115
01:43:32,806 --> 01:43:36,708
My God, how could they insult
our husbands like this? Our men?
1116
01:43:36,777 --> 01:43:38,108
It's absolutely disgraceful.
1117
01:43:38,178 --> 01:43:42,342
Goodness, accusing our men
of fornicating with slaves
1118
01:43:42,416 --> 01:43:45,613
is like saying that they're copulating
with animals.
1119
01:43:45,686 --> 01:43:49,622
It's nothing less than
an accusation of sexual aberration.
1120
01:43:49,690 --> 01:43:53,353
The phenomenon of abnormal mating
between whites and Negroes
1121
01:43:53,427 --> 01:43:58,626
has a scientific name: Bestiality.
1122
01:43:58,699 --> 01:44:00,223
- It's disgraceful!
- Lies!
1123
01:44:00,300 --> 01:44:04,828
As if we didn't know all too well where
our husbands take their incontinence!
1124
01:44:04,905 --> 01:44:08,602
Every Friday night...
but what am I saying?
1125
01:44:09,743 --> 01:44:14,112
I'm sorry, my friends, but we shouldn't
speak so clearly in front of them.
1126
01:44:14,181 --> 01:44:17,173
Don't worry, my dear. I've noticed
a tendency among our slaves
1127
01:44:17,251 --> 01:44:20,778
a general tendency to develop
a lighter skin tone.
1128
01:44:20,854 --> 01:44:23,049
As time goes by, they become
lighter and lighter.
1129
01:44:23,123 --> 01:44:27,924
But their mentality, intelligence
and sensitivity are those of animals.
1130
01:44:27,995 --> 01:44:31,453
It's true, each generation
is lighter than the previous one.
1131
01:44:31,531 --> 01:44:34,864
In my house there have been
a few pink Negro babies, even.
1132
01:44:34,935 --> 01:44:37,369
My husband says that this
phenomenon is called...
1133
01:44:37,437 --> 01:44:43,433
Symbiosis. The scientific term
is symbiosis. Your husband is right.
1134
01:44:43,510 --> 01:44:47,241
It's like those creatures that take on
the color of their habitat.
1135
01:44:47,314 --> 01:44:50,750
You're right, dear.
Take Scipio, for example.
1136
01:44:50,817 --> 01:44:53,047
He's left-handed, like my brother.
1137
01:44:53,120 --> 01:44:54,587
Or take Jason, here.
1138
01:44:54,655 --> 01:44:57,556
My husband raised him personally
from when he was a child.
1139
01:44:57,624 --> 01:45:00,684
And now, incredibly, he's almost
as blond as my husband.
1140
01:45:01,862 --> 01:45:04,695
Nature is truly bizarre.
1141
01:45:25,552 --> 01:45:30,080
Here it is, my Negro factory.
You get the general idea down there.
1142
01:45:30,791 --> 01:45:34,750
Business was going downhill.
Cotton and tobacco were in crisis.
1143
01:45:34,828 --> 01:45:40,289
So I got up my courage and transformed
the plantation into a stud farm.
1144
01:45:40,367 --> 01:45:42,301
And I have to say it's worked out well
1145
01:45:42,369 --> 01:45:45,532
because the new law that prohibits
importing Negroes from Africa
1146
01:45:45,605 --> 01:45:48,574
has practically doubled
the price of slaves.
1147
01:45:48,642 --> 01:45:50,769
- And so, after everything...
- Hey, Pa!
1148
01:45:52,779 --> 01:45:55,145
Mr. Wilson's here!
1149
01:45:59,419 --> 01:46:02,149
Hello Mr. Bighorn.
I've brought the Negress.
1150
01:46:02,222 --> 01:46:05,055
Here she is.
Did you count the days well?
1151
01:46:06,126 --> 01:46:09,994
- Are you completely sure she's in heat?
- Of course she's in heat.
1152
01:46:10,063 --> 01:46:12,190
She's perfectly ready for breeding.
1153
01:46:12,265 --> 01:46:15,166
If we give her to the male right away,
he'll certainly go right for her.
1154
01:46:15,235 --> 01:46:16,361
Okay.
1155
01:46:16,436 --> 01:46:18,233
How many days has it been
since the bleeding stopped?
1156
01:46:19,439 --> 01:46:23,398
My wife counted 12.
With the trip, that makes 13.
1157
01:46:23,477 --> 01:46:27,470
If you let me breed her right away,
I'll be out of your hair within two hours.
1158
01:46:27,547 --> 01:46:28,809
Can I have her, Pa?
1159
01:46:28,882 --> 01:46:31,248
We'll talk about that
after the examination.
1160
01:46:31,318 --> 01:46:33,377
For now, do your homework.
1161
01:46:35,422 --> 01:46:37,287
- Is she healthy?
- Of course.
1162
01:46:37,357 --> 01:46:39,450
- She doesn't have crabs?
- What are you saying?
1163
01:46:39,526 --> 01:46:40,925
We always kept her at home.
1164
01:46:42,662 --> 01:46:44,926
- Oh, so she's a virgin.
- Of course.
1165
01:46:44,998 --> 01:46:46,488
You know that we've been saving her
for Jason.
1166
01:46:46,566 --> 01:46:50,627
What?
A virgin for such a stallion?
1167
01:46:51,671 --> 01:46:54,071
He'll rip her innards apart.
1168
01:46:54,875 --> 01:46:58,174
If he does, you can sew her up again.
Don't worry.
1169
01:46:58,245 --> 01:47:01,442
You know I could breed this one
for at least $50.
1170
01:47:01,515 --> 01:47:02,641
And right at home, too.
1171
01:47:02,716 --> 01:47:05,276
If I've made 60 Negroes
and paid 200 for it
1172
01:47:05,352 --> 01:47:07,752
it's because I like Jason's line.
1173
01:47:07,821 --> 01:47:10,153
- Okay.
- Let's go.
1174
01:47:10,223 --> 01:47:13,317
You know full well
you won't find another one like this.
1175
01:47:13,393 --> 01:47:16,658
Well done!
But that's your business.
1176
01:47:16,730 --> 01:47:19,426
Hey stallion!
Hey three-legged stallion!
1177
01:47:19,499 --> 01:47:20,488
Hi General.
1178
01:47:23,170 --> 01:47:24,728
How's your father's arthritis?
1179
01:47:24,805 --> 01:47:28,138
He's been doing much better since
getting Negro compresses on his legs.
1180
01:47:28,208 --> 01:47:29,835
You're right, Mr. Bighorn.
1181
01:47:29,910 --> 01:47:33,073
Strong wine and dark meat
cure arthritis, nice and neat.
1182
01:47:33,146 --> 01:47:33,942
That's right.
1183
01:47:34,014 --> 01:47:37,211
But then I'll find myself with
a whole litter with arthritis.
1184
01:47:37,284 --> 01:47:38,512
Hey Wilson, look there!
1185
01:47:38,585 --> 01:47:40,519
- Where?
- Over there, up ahead, that glass.
1186
01:47:40,587 --> 01:47:41,576
Why?
1187
01:47:41,655 --> 01:47:44,852
Those journalists always want us
to look in that glass.
1188
01:47:45,792 --> 01:47:48,192
Go wait for me in the barn.
I'll be right there.
1189
01:47:48,261 --> 01:47:48,989
Okay.
1190
01:47:49,062 --> 01:47:50,962
First I have to deal with
these gentlemen.
1191
01:47:53,166 --> 01:47:57,034
Bring me some more sugar cane!
1192
01:48:01,541 --> 01:48:05,637
They're almost all vintage '43.
A very good year.
1193
01:48:05,712 --> 01:48:08,704
I only lost 25%.
1194
01:48:08,782 --> 01:48:13,412
It's usually 40-60%,
especially from German measles,
1195
01:48:13,487 --> 01:48:16,547
which is nothing when it comes to
human blood, but it wipes them out.
1196
01:48:17,224 --> 01:48:19,021
Why are there so many blondes?
1197
01:48:19,092 --> 01:48:21,151
What you want me to say?
1198
01:48:21,228 --> 01:48:24,823
One or another might be mine.
Lots of them are my brother's.
1199
01:48:24,898 --> 01:48:26,832
Some are from the priest.
1200
01:48:26,900 --> 01:48:30,336
Some are from some guests
who were passing through.
1201
01:48:30,403 --> 01:48:34,737
Okay, enough, don't be greedy.
1202
01:48:40,981 --> 01:48:44,109
These are the breeding females.
1203
01:48:44,184 --> 01:48:47,244
With the new stallions Auze and Mandico
that I bought three years ago,
1204
01:48:47,320 --> 01:48:51,017
I've been successful with 86% of them.
1205
01:48:51,091 --> 01:48:55,391
With an interval between productions
of less than 60 days.
1206
01:48:55,462 --> 01:48:59,364
Hey, where are you?
Come over here, look at this one!
1207
01:49:00,300 --> 01:49:03,463
The black pearl of the ranch.
Seven sets of twins in six years.
1208
01:49:07,140 --> 01:49:10,132
And I'm sure that this time, too,
there are two inside.
1209
01:49:10,210 --> 01:49:13,145
This heifer alone
is worth a fortune.
1210
01:49:15,782 --> 01:49:19,650
Come in, come on in.
Damn, you're in luck.
1211
01:49:19,719 --> 01:49:22,620
Come inside and see
how a little bastard is born.
1212
01:49:33,466 --> 01:49:35,127
Fine, isn't he?
1213
01:49:35,201 --> 01:49:37,635
He must be six or seven pounds at least.
1214
01:49:37,704 --> 01:49:40,571
You know something? I'm going to
dedicate this one to you guys.
1215
01:49:40,640 --> 01:49:42,540
I'm going to call him "Macaroni".
1216
01:49:43,543 --> 01:49:45,101
Bravo, Cleopatra.
Who's the male?
1217
01:49:45,178 --> 01:49:47,646
- Me no know.
- What do mean you don't know?
1218
01:49:47,714 --> 01:49:48,772
Me no know.
1219
01:49:48,848 --> 01:49:51,681
They breed me first with Pluto,
then with four other males.
1220
01:49:51,751 --> 01:49:53,378
Me no know.
1221
01:49:53,453 --> 01:49:57,412
It doesn't matter.
You've done a good job.
1222
01:49:59,259 --> 01:50:01,727
See what respect the master has?
1223
01:50:02,462 --> 01:50:05,397
It's the reward.
One dollar per pup.
1224
01:50:06,099 --> 01:50:07,691
Family tradition.
1225
01:50:10,236 --> 01:50:12,761
Another beloved tradition
among breeders
1226
01:50:12,839 --> 01:50:16,036
is presenting new prized breeds
every year at the big fair in the south
1227
01:50:16,109 --> 01:50:19,203
which, like fine horses,
carry the name of their family.
1228
01:50:19,279 --> 01:50:25,184
The Bighorn breed, celebrated for
the precociousness of its females
1229
01:50:25,251 --> 01:50:27,151
which can be bred
by their 10th year
1230
01:50:27,220 --> 01:50:31,020
earned its owner two gold medals
at the Jackson fair.
1231
01:50:31,091 --> 01:50:33,286
Hey, bring me Poppea.
1232
01:50:36,229 --> 01:50:38,094
I said Poppea!
1233
01:50:39,966 --> 01:50:41,331
No, you imbeciles.
1234
01:50:41,401 --> 01:50:44,097
That one's pregnant.
Drop her.
1235
01:50:51,244 --> 01:50:53,303
No, that one.
1236
01:50:53,380 --> 01:50:58,249
Here in Louisiana, the breeding ratio
is one male to every five females.
1237
01:50:58,318 --> 01:50:59,342
But in Virginia,
1238
01:50:59,419 --> 01:51:03,947
a great specialist of the time
declares the ideal ratio
1239
01:51:04,024 --> 01:51:05,821
to be one male for eight females.
1240
01:51:05,892 --> 01:51:10,056
In fact, on this basis Virginia produced
more than 6000 Negroes per year.
1241
01:51:10,130 --> 01:51:12,928
It was the Golden Age
in which the great breeding plantations
1242
01:51:12,999 --> 01:51:17,368
such as the famous North Carolina planter
were even quoted on the stock market.
1243
01:51:18,471 --> 01:51:23,340
Now tell me if it doesn't take talent
to invent a breed like this.
1244
01:51:28,081 --> 01:51:31,847
You see, to create a hybrid,
the breeder combines the various races
1245
01:51:31,918 --> 01:51:33,408
as an artist does
with the colors of his palette.
1246
01:51:33,486 --> 01:51:35,647
A little white here,
a little black there
1247
01:51:35,722 --> 01:51:38,282
a pinch of red
and the smidgen of yellow.
1248
01:51:38,358 --> 01:51:41,384
Until something comes forth
that's not black, not white,
1249
01:51:41,461 --> 01:51:42,894
not red, not yellow.
1250
01:51:42,962 --> 01:51:44,361
It's a masterpiece.
1251
01:51:49,102 --> 01:51:51,036
Get him!
1252
01:51:54,074 --> 01:51:55,632
A slave trying to escape.
1253
01:51:55,709 --> 01:51:57,734
No, he's afraid of the branding.
1254
01:51:57,811 --> 01:52:00,279
It always happens
with the new stallions.
1255
01:52:00,346 --> 01:52:04,840
At the 18th birthday,
on the eve of his first services
1256
01:52:04,918 --> 01:52:08,752
the new stallion is branded with fire
with a conventional mark
1257
01:52:08,822 --> 01:52:12,383
that prevents mistakes and confusion
in the breeding registry.
1258
01:52:16,162 --> 01:52:18,892
- Are you ready, Wilson? Can we go?
- I was waiting for you.
1259
01:52:18,965 --> 01:52:21,490
- And the heifer?
- Ready.
1260
01:52:21,568 --> 01:52:23,593
Okay then.
Bring her along.
1261
01:52:24,471 --> 01:52:25,495
Get back!
1262
01:52:26,406 --> 01:52:27,964
Fine, Casanova, fine.
1263
01:52:28,041 --> 01:52:31,408
These stallions! Just let them
catch the scent of a female!
1264
01:52:32,746 --> 01:52:35,613
They have more semen
than four teams of oxen.
1265
01:52:36,683 --> 01:52:40,676
Did you know they offered me
$4500 each?
1266
01:53:01,341 --> 01:53:04,071
Here he is,
our oldest stud.
1267
01:53:04,144 --> 01:53:07,375
Two hundred pounds of muscle
and not a single ounce the fat.
1268
01:53:08,214 --> 01:53:11,809
And this devil's good for at least
20 shots a day.
1269
01:53:13,353 --> 01:53:14,945
With these tanks!
1270
01:53:16,456 --> 01:53:18,856
- Is the heifer ready, Wilson?
- Ready, Mr. Bighorn.
1271
01:53:18,925 --> 01:53:22,122
Okay, then, bring her in.
1272
01:53:24,497 --> 01:53:26,965
Hey, Wilson. I told you.
1273
01:53:27,033 --> 01:53:30,662
Be careful.
But it's your business.
1274
01:53:30,737 --> 01:53:33,365
Don't you worry.
1275
01:53:33,439 --> 01:53:35,805
I'll take care of it.
1276
01:54:21,988 --> 01:54:24,855
That's enough, Jason. Stop!
1277
01:54:24,924 --> 01:54:26,482
Get some water. Quick!
1278
01:55:14,874 --> 01:55:17,240
"Your honor,
my name is Nat Turner.
1279
01:55:17,310 --> 01:55:20,905
I intend to provide you
with a full confession of my crimes.
1280
01:55:29,923 --> 01:55:34,257
On August 21st, 1831,
55 whites were massacred
1281
01:55:34,327 --> 01:55:36,955
as a result of my doing
and that of 70 other slaves.
1282
01:55:43,870 --> 01:55:46,464
My deep-seated hatred
of the whites was..."
1283
01:55:48,107 --> 01:55:50,302
"My deep-seated hatred
of the whites was..."
1284
01:55:50,376 --> 01:55:52,310
Damned idiots!
1285
01:55:54,113 --> 01:56:00,052
"Deep-seated hatred came from God,
who ordered me to kill them."
1286
01:56:00,119 --> 01:56:04,749
Let's see, 1831.
1287
01:56:04,824 --> 01:56:09,158
If Cleaver, Leroy Jones, Malcolm X,
had lived 140 years ago
1288
01:56:09,228 --> 01:56:12,686
they too, like Nat Turner,
would have fallen into hating whites
1289
01:56:12,765 --> 01:56:16,360
men, women, children who were there
by God's orders.
1290
01:56:17,203 --> 01:56:21,799
The slave Cleaver, like the slave Turner,
certainly never would have dared imagine
1291
01:56:21,874 --> 01:56:24,809
that the order would come to them
directly from within.
1292
01:56:28,081 --> 01:56:32,108
"The evening of August 21st,
we lined up single file in the cornfield.
1293
01:56:32,185 --> 01:56:34,551
We came out
right in front of the Travis house.
1294
01:56:34,620 --> 01:56:37,919
The night before,
God had clearly given me the sign
1295
01:56:37,991 --> 01:56:40,653
that this would be our first target.
1296
01:56:40,727 --> 01:56:43,195
We knew that inside
was the little Travis,
1297
01:56:46,933 --> 01:56:48,833
his wife Sarah,"
1298
01:56:50,136 --> 01:56:54,095
Who knows if the whites in those days
were like those of today?
1299
01:56:54,173 --> 01:56:56,835
Or rather,
who knows if the whites of today
1300
01:56:56,909 --> 01:57:00,174
would have been like those back then
if Nat Turner had never existed?
1301
01:57:04,017 --> 01:57:06,850
Would they have allowed me
to attend their schools,
1302
01:57:06,919 --> 01:57:10,150
to become a doctor,
to earn $2000 a week,
1303
01:57:10,223 --> 01:57:14,387
to have a beautiful house, a wife,
a healthy, well-fed baby?
1304
01:57:16,963 --> 01:57:22,731
"Nelson, Sam, Jack, Hark and I silently
climbed in the living room window.
1305
01:57:22,802 --> 01:57:25,703
Will, who was bringing up the rear,
took a false step
1306
01:57:25,772 --> 01:57:27,899
and tumbled onto the table
that was still set.
1307
01:57:34,180 --> 01:57:36,910
I was afraid old Travis had woken up
1308
01:57:36,983 --> 01:57:40,214
since Will kept making
an infernal racket.
1309
01:57:45,024 --> 01:57:48,391
Instead, old Travis was still asleep
next to his wife
1310
01:57:48,461 --> 01:57:52,022
when Sam and Jack
moved forward on tiptoe.
1311
01:57:52,098 --> 01:57:54,430
His sleep was deep and peaceful
1312
01:57:54,500 --> 01:57:57,435
as evidenced by
that deep, rhythmic snoring
1313
01:57:57,503 --> 01:58:00,097
that I had known since my childhood.
1314
01:58:04,577 --> 01:58:08,308
So Sam and Jack moved forward.
1315
01:58:09,015 --> 01:58:11,711
That old man
who had practically raised me
1316
01:58:11,784 --> 01:58:14,309
and had been
a tolerant and kindly master
1317
01:58:14,387 --> 01:58:18,153
was nevertheless a white man
and, as such, had to die.
1318
01:58:21,094 --> 01:58:25,724
Grandpa Travis, like all whites,
had never dreamed that a slave,
1319
01:58:25,798 --> 01:58:28,266
a meek creature
without courage or dignity
1320
01:58:28,334 --> 01:58:30,859
could ever one day
rebel against a master.
1321
01:58:30,937 --> 01:58:34,236
So it was perhaps only disbelief
1322
01:58:34,307 --> 01:58:39,301
that dominated his mind
still clouded with sleep, when..."
1323
01:59:14,814 --> 01:59:15,803
"We were about..."
1324
01:59:18,751 --> 01:59:22,152
"We were about to leave the house
when Hark, on the run was called..."
1325
01:59:23,022 --> 01:59:26,480
"was called back by the cry
of the children whom we had forgotten."
1326
01:59:36,002 --> 01:59:37,936
"After the murder of the Travis family
1327
01:59:38,004 --> 01:59:40,939
our second goal was
the extermination of the Reeses."
1328
01:59:41,607 --> 01:59:43,575
Oh, it's those idiots again.
1329
01:59:43,643 --> 01:59:45,304
"After the murder of the Travis family
1330
01:59:45,378 --> 01:59:47,642
our second goal was
the extermination of the Reeses.
1331
01:59:47,713 --> 01:59:50,113
Reese was a dull-witted, cruel master
1332
01:59:50,183 --> 01:59:52,583
who amused himself
by tormenting his Negroes...
1333
01:59:55,288 --> 01:59:57,188
with every sort of stupid prank.
1334
01:59:57,256 --> 02:00:00,657
His wife and sister-in-law,
two dull-witted, insignificant women
1335
02:00:00,726 --> 02:00:04,958
encouraged those vapid stunts
with little hysterical..."
1336
02:00:06,032 --> 02:00:07,021
Buffoon!
1337
02:00:07,934 --> 02:00:13,930
"With little hysterical, shrill cries
that pierced the ears like daggers.
1338
02:00:15,708 --> 02:00:19,701
It was in front of their house that I
swore to never again disobey God's orders
1339
02:00:19,779 --> 02:00:22,145
and to also spill my share of blood.
1340
02:00:22,215 --> 02:00:23,182
I hated Reese
1341
02:00:23,249 --> 02:00:27,549
and one day he involved me, too,
in one of his humiliating, vulgar pranks.
1342
02:00:27,620 --> 02:00:32,353
I could have refused to rebel.
But how could I, a slave..."
1343
02:00:45,738 --> 02:00:50,437
"I could have refused to rebel.
But how could I, a slave?
1344
02:00:54,981 --> 02:00:57,814
Reese was a dull-witted, cruel master."
1345
02:02:18,230 --> 02:02:20,528
Nat Turner didn't kill out of hate.
1346
02:02:20,599 --> 02:02:23,432
He killed out of love
between the columns of that big house.
1347
02:02:24,203 --> 02:02:26,899
Who knows why, for us Negroes,
this story never loses its value?
1348
02:02:26,972 --> 02:02:31,466
Well, Nat Turner,
the pious Nat Turner, biblical fanatic
1349
02:02:31,544 --> 02:02:34,809
almost a tutor to little Margaret,
but nevertheless a Negro
1350
02:02:34,880 --> 02:02:39,840
and thus not suspected of desiring that
white girl who hung around him all day,
1351
02:02:47,026 --> 02:02:50,257
who excited him in a thousand ways
without even realizing it.
1352
02:02:50,329 --> 02:02:52,923
Where are you, Nat?
Come here, Nat.
1353
02:02:52,998 --> 02:02:54,966
Here's something new.
1354
02:02:55,034 --> 02:02:56,524
It's beautiful!
1355
02:02:56,602 --> 02:02:58,593
Come on, Nat.
Get me that rose.
1356
02:02:58,671 --> 02:03:01,504
No, no.
Not the silk one!
1357
02:03:01,574 --> 02:03:02,871
The bright one, Nat.
1358
02:03:02,942 --> 02:03:04,637
There, see!
Now here we are, the two of us.
1359
02:03:04,710 --> 02:03:08,646
She and Nat.
Almost in skin contact.
1360
02:03:09,548 --> 02:03:14,850
The wind in that blond hair, that
white neck that he desired so badly.
1361
02:03:17,289 --> 02:03:19,780
"Hey Nat," she said to me one day
1362
02:03:19,859 --> 02:03:24,091
as her closeness and her youthful
scent of lavender made me stiff.
1363
02:03:24,163 --> 02:03:29,658
"Nat, why are Negroes
born so wretched?"
1364
02:03:29,735 --> 02:03:34,536
"Why, in this warm spring,
are they only fallen flowers?"
1365
02:03:49,221 --> 02:03:51,951
Let's take a look.
140 years later.
1366
02:03:52,024 --> 02:03:55,653
If I were to fall in love
with that white girl.
1367
02:03:55,728 --> 02:03:59,164
In love to the point of not being able
to do any less than what she's doing now.
1368
02:03:59,231 --> 02:04:00,220
To want her.
1369
02:04:00,299 --> 02:04:03,860
But just because I'm a Negro,
like Nat Turner...
1370
02:04:05,771 --> 02:04:08,035
I can just imagine the scene!
1371
02:04:08,107 --> 02:04:10,132
Sir, I'm Dr. Nat Turner.
1372
02:04:10,209 --> 02:04:13,110
I love your daughter
and I intend to marry her.
1373
02:04:32,465 --> 02:04:36,731
Margaret had just returned from
Southampton College for summer vacation
1374
02:04:36,802 --> 02:04:41,739
when we decided that the Whitehead house
would be our next target.
1375
02:04:42,408 --> 02:04:45,138
We advanced,
remaining hidden in the oak forest
1376
02:04:45,211 --> 02:04:47,441
that surrounded the house
on three sides.
1377
02:04:47,513 --> 02:04:50,505
When we saw the father so overjoyed
at the arrival of his daughter...
1378
02:04:57,089 --> 02:05:01,685
and so absorbed in demonstrating
all his joy as to not notice us...
1379
02:05:40,432 --> 02:05:42,024
I was looking for Margaret.
1380
02:05:42,101 --> 02:05:45,537
She was hiding behind
a corner of the house.
1381
02:05:45,604 --> 02:05:48,072
When I finally saw her,
she ran away...
1382
02:05:50,075 --> 02:05:53,977
as light and fast as a deer,
through the cornfield.
1383
02:05:56,715 --> 02:05:59,980
I ran after the glint
of that flowing hair in the sun
1384
02:06:01,987 --> 02:06:05,320
after the gleam
of that face looking back.
1385
02:06:06,692 --> 02:06:09,286
She ran faster than I did.
1386
02:06:09,361 --> 02:06:11,124
But I caught up.
1387
02:06:11,196 --> 02:06:12,686
I must! I must!
1388
02:06:15,801 --> 02:06:17,393
I must kill you!
1389
02:06:20,906 --> 02:06:24,865
Because I love you!
Because you're white!
1390
02:06:27,146 --> 02:06:28,977
White!
1391
02:06:40,559 --> 02:06:44,427
"Your honor,
before condemning me to the gallows
1392
02:06:44,496 --> 02:06:46,361
you asked if I felt remorse.
1393
02:06:47,800 --> 02:06:53,432
Well, completely at peace and tranquil,
I answer you that if I could go back..."
1394
02:08:51,957 --> 02:08:54,926
Peace, peace, peace.
1395
02:08:54,993 --> 02:08:57,723
I'm a Negro like you,
an ex-slave like you.
1396
02:08:57,796 --> 02:09:00,731
But today I've dealt with the whites,
and I'm speaking with their permission.
1397
02:09:00,799 --> 02:09:02,994
And this is a police car.
1398
02:09:03,836 --> 02:09:06,930
If you think I'm a traitor,
then shoot me.
1399
02:09:08,407 --> 02:09:11,865
But first listen
to what I have to say.
1400
02:09:11,944 --> 02:09:15,937
Slavery was not our disgrace.
It is our glory.
1401
02:09:16,014 --> 02:09:18,642
We must not soil it with revenge.
1402
02:09:19,585 --> 02:09:22,645
In every plan that the racist attempts
to search for an alibi
1403
02:09:22,721 --> 02:09:25,884
for his evil conscience
towards the Negro
1404
02:09:26,692 --> 02:09:31,254
all that's necessary is one broken window
to make him feel absolved of his guilt.
1405
02:09:31,930 --> 02:09:34,763
When we allow ourselves to bend
before the white man's hatred
1406
02:09:34,833 --> 02:09:36,858
we're playing his game.
1407
02:09:36,935 --> 02:09:39,335
We're also playing the game
of the white communists
1408
02:09:39,404 --> 02:09:42,931
who want to make use of us
to destroy America.
1409
02:09:43,609 --> 02:09:45,099
We don't love America,
1410
02:09:45,177 --> 02:09:48,078
but neither do we want to be used
to destroy it.
1411
02:09:49,081 --> 02:09:52,778
We Negroes must not fall into
the same errors that the whites make.
1412
02:09:52,851 --> 02:09:56,252
We must not respond
to their old white racism
1413
02:09:56,321 --> 02:09:58,255
with a new black racism.
1414
02:09:59,258 --> 02:10:01,954
To the recent events
that have made us understand,
1415
02:10:02,027 --> 02:10:06,896
we must respond
peace, peace, peace.
1416
02:10:45,437 --> 02:10:48,998
On one side, the north
that wanted to abolish slavery.
1417
02:10:49,074 --> 02:10:51,201
On the other,
the south that wanted to keep it.
1418
02:10:51,276 --> 02:10:55,736
So the war to liberate slaves
cost America one million dead.
1419
02:10:55,814 --> 02:10:59,944
Today, the American public assisting in
the reenactment of the battle of Shiloh
1420
02:11:00,018 --> 02:11:01,815
doesn't root for anyone.
1421
02:11:01,887 --> 02:11:03,411
They enjoy the show.
1422
02:11:03,488 --> 02:11:06,582
Northern and southern combatants
are interchangeable.
1423
02:11:06,658 --> 02:11:08,717
It just depends upon
the color of the uniform.
1424
02:11:08,794 --> 02:11:13,288
The anonymous slavery society
closed the books a hundred years ago.
1425
02:11:13,365 --> 02:11:14,696
And the accounts are balanced.
1426
02:11:14,766 --> 02:11:17,098
For every imported slave,
one American death.
1427
02:11:17,169 --> 02:11:18,898
The wounded don't count.
1428
02:11:18,971 --> 02:11:21,269
Here's one that ended up in bad shape.
1429
02:11:21,340 --> 02:11:23,900
A northern uniform.
So he wanted it this way, right?
1430
02:11:24,910 --> 02:11:27,208
Of course. Say cheese!
1431
02:11:27,279 --> 02:11:28,610
Today, everyone's smiling,
1432
02:11:28,680 --> 02:11:30,773
dead and wounded,
victor and vanquished.
1433
02:11:30,849 --> 02:11:34,376
It's wonderful to return home
on this splendid day in May
1434
02:11:34,453 --> 02:11:38,947
and to take a nice shower
to wash away all of the dust of the past.
1435
02:13:00,238 --> 02:13:03,867
THIS FILM IS A DOCUMENTARY.
1436
02:13:03,942 --> 02:13:09,380
THE EVENTS OCCURRED IN HISTORY
AND THE CHARACTERS REALLY EXISTED.128783
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