1 00:00:01,532 --> 00:00:04,365 (Multicom jingle) 2 00:00:14,191 --> 00:00:19,191 (train chuffing) (bell clanging) 3 00:00:39,030 --> 00:00:41,780 (dramatic music) 4 00:00:57,990 --> 00:01:00,260 - [Crowd] Moses, Moses, Moses, 5 00:01:00,260 --> 00:01:02,510 Moses, Moses, Moses, Moses, 6 00:01:04,493 --> 00:01:06,160 Moses, Moses, Moses. 7 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:14,490 - [Narrator] Harriet Ross Tubman, 8 00:01:15,490 --> 00:01:19,950 former slave, former liberator of slaves. 9 00:01:19,950 --> 00:01:22,170 Former army intelligence officer, 10 00:01:22,170 --> 00:01:25,360 now suffragette, now lecturer, 11 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:30,360 journeying on this dusty, damned segregated train car 12 00:01:30,390 --> 00:01:32,720 that breaks through space and time 13 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:35,300 as rapidly as the light of the moon 14 00:01:35,300 --> 00:01:36,973 when it subdues the darkness. 15 00:01:38,220 --> 00:01:40,833 War is done, the cannons are silent. 16 00:01:42,140 --> 00:01:44,700 Reflections are memories, 17 00:01:44,700 --> 00:01:48,520 now reaching back as far as the Moses time, 18 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:52,103 as far as those early years of midnight. 19 00:01:56,062 --> 00:01:57,361 (woman screams) 20 00:01:57,361 --> 00:02:02,361 - [Tillie] Help, help me, Harriet! (screams) 21 00:02:02,368 --> 00:02:03,826 - Tillie! 22 00:02:03,826 --> 00:02:06,826 (suspenseful music) 23 00:02:09,945 --> 00:02:10,778 - Harriet! 24 00:02:12,328 --> 00:02:14,978 - [McCracken] I got things to do, get her out of here. 25 00:02:14,978 --> 00:02:17,811 (woman screaming) 26 00:02:18,836 --> 00:02:20,986 Come on, get outta here! 27 00:02:20,986 --> 00:02:25,986 (women sobbing) (women screaming) 28 00:02:30,377 --> 00:02:31,210 - You there! 29 00:02:31,210 --> 00:02:33,624 Now you do something with that gal, or she'll go too! 30 00:02:33,624 --> 00:02:37,041 - All right, Robert, get her out of here. 31 00:02:38,901 --> 00:02:41,151 - [Kelly] Harriet, Harriet! 32 00:02:44,578 --> 00:02:48,245 - [Harriet] That's Buck's sister, Aunt Juba. 33 00:02:52,243 --> 00:02:55,673 - You give me a lot to be sorry about, Master Ed. 34 00:03:00,449 --> 00:03:03,282 (Harriet sobbing) 35 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:10,400 - What those two need to be is worked over with my whip. 36 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,773 - Dramatics, Yankee, dramatics. 37 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,723 That's the way slaves act when they can't help themselves. 38 00:03:23,830 --> 00:03:24,663 You'll learn. 39 00:03:27,809 --> 00:03:30,809 (suspenseful music) 40 00:03:32,300 --> 00:03:33,770 - You told me the Holy Spirit 41 00:03:33,770 --> 00:03:36,257 would stay with me all the time, 42 00:03:36,257 --> 00:03:37,803 but they took my sister. 43 00:03:39,310 --> 00:03:41,153 You let them take my sister. 44 00:03:42,940 --> 00:03:45,670 - You talkin' to them voices again, huh? 45 00:03:45,670 --> 00:03:46,860 - [Harriet] Don't you be sneaking up on me 46 00:03:46,860 --> 00:03:49,753 like that no more, Jim. 47 00:03:49,753 --> 00:03:50,743 - Hat, I wasn't teasing you. 48 00:03:50,743 --> 00:03:52,540 Wait a minute, girl. 49 00:03:52,540 --> 00:03:53,930 Hat, I'm sorry. 50 00:03:56,298 --> 00:03:57,131 I'm sorry. 51 00:03:57,131 --> 00:03:59,863 I'm sorry about your sister being sold off, too. 52 00:04:01,610 --> 00:04:03,040 Know what I did when they sold 53 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:04,593 my momma and my daddy away? 54 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:08,440 - What did you do? 55 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:09,423 - I went to Master. 56 00:04:10,891 --> 00:04:14,580 And I said, "Master, now I ain't got no momma 57 00:04:15,557 --> 00:04:18,357 "and I ain't go no daddy, 'cause you done sold them off. 58 00:04:19,867 --> 00:04:22,729 "I wanna let you know I appreciate you for it." 59 00:04:22,729 --> 00:04:24,829 - Why you tell him a fool thing like that? 60 00:04:25,978 --> 00:04:27,450 - Let me finish. 61 00:04:27,450 --> 00:04:29,437 I said, "I appreciate you, Master, 62 00:04:29,437 --> 00:04:31,467 "because I'm gonna show you I got the powers to be 63 00:04:31,467 --> 00:04:33,827 "a man without a momma and a daddy." 64 00:04:34,790 --> 00:04:37,740 - And what did he do to you for sayin' something like that? 65 00:04:39,897 --> 00:04:43,637 - He said, "You better take your powers to the field, boy." 66 00:04:43,637 --> 00:04:45,960 (Harriet and Jim laughing) 67 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:48,810 - You tellin' a tall tale, and you know it, Jim. 68 00:04:48,810 --> 00:04:50,120 - I ain't tell him that out loud, 69 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:51,918 but that's what I had on my mind. 70 00:04:51,918 --> 00:04:54,168 (snickers) 71 00:05:00,916 --> 00:05:04,017 I done made up my mind, Hattie. 72 00:05:04,017 --> 00:05:05,503 I'm gonna make my getaway. 73 00:05:06,925 --> 00:05:08,830 I'm gonna make my getaway, join Nat Turner 74 00:05:08,830 --> 00:05:10,450 and free all the slave folks. 75 00:05:10,450 --> 00:05:11,283 - I'd like to go with ya. 76 00:05:11,283 --> 00:05:15,800 - I'd like to take you along, Hat, but it won't do. 77 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,260 Two runaways always get caught quicker than one. 78 00:05:18,260 --> 00:05:20,653 Will you cover for me as I make my getaway? 79 00:05:22,890 --> 00:05:24,153 - Sure I will, Jim. 80 00:05:25,030 --> 00:05:26,030 Sure I will. 81 00:05:29,690 --> 00:05:31,227 I see you, Shadrack! 82 00:05:33,740 --> 00:05:35,320 - What's he doing here? - That old Shadrack. 83 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:36,818 He's always up to some kind of dirt. 84 00:05:36,818 --> 00:05:39,249 - [Jim] Let's get that devil there. 85 00:05:39,249 --> 00:05:40,790 Go ahead nigger, you run! 86 00:05:40,790 --> 00:05:43,085 (frantic music) 87 00:05:43,085 --> 00:05:44,693 Get him! 88 00:05:44,693 --> 00:05:46,776 - [Harriet] Head him off! 89 00:05:50,129 --> 00:05:54,032 (Shadrack screams) (Harriet and Jim laughing) 90 00:05:54,032 --> 00:05:55,771 - Well, well, that's what you get 91 00:05:55,771 --> 00:05:58,152 for minding somebody else's business, fool. 92 00:05:58,152 --> 00:06:00,120 Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. 93 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:01,836 (laughing) 94 00:06:01,836 --> 00:06:03,255 - Look at him! 95 00:06:03,255 --> 00:06:04,639 Good old Shadrack. 96 00:06:04,639 --> 00:06:05,879 (door slams) 97 00:06:05,879 --> 00:06:08,879 (suspenseful music) 98 00:06:09,849 --> 00:06:11,463 - [McCracken] I know you're here. 99 00:06:11,463 --> 00:06:13,490 Here nigger, nigger, nigger, 100 00:06:13,490 --> 00:06:15,805 nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger. 101 00:06:15,805 --> 00:06:19,347 I know you're here somewhere. (lips smacking) 102 00:06:19,347 --> 00:06:22,056 Come on, where are you? 103 00:06:22,056 --> 00:06:22,889 Ah, yes. 104 00:06:24,859 --> 00:06:26,339 I gotcha! 105 00:06:26,339 --> 00:06:28,846 - [Harriet] Run, Jim, run! 106 00:06:28,846 --> 00:06:31,346 - [McCracken] Come, come here! 107 00:06:35,339 --> 00:06:38,672 Get away from that door, you, come here! 108 00:06:41,836 --> 00:06:44,237 (Harriet screams) 109 00:06:44,237 --> 00:06:46,737 (baby crying) 110 00:06:48,246 --> 00:06:49,707 - Mammy Portia! 111 00:06:49,707 --> 00:06:50,540 - [Portia] Yes, Miss Susan? 112 00:06:50,540 --> 00:06:53,020 - [Susan] Can't you do anything with that baby? 113 00:06:53,020 --> 00:06:55,030 - I done tried everything, Miss Susan. 114 00:06:55,030 --> 00:06:56,240 But he just won't hush up. 115 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:59,385 He's been going on like this ever since Tillie went away. 116 00:06:59,385 --> 00:07:00,787 - Don't you think I know that? 117 00:07:00,787 --> 00:07:03,850 Now I want you to find a way to keep that baby quiet, 118 00:07:03,850 --> 00:07:06,135 Mammy Portia, and I want you to do it quick. 119 00:07:06,135 --> 00:07:07,802 - Yes'm, Miss Susan. 120 00:07:09,756 --> 00:07:11,589 - You Yankee knobhead. 121 00:07:12,927 --> 00:07:14,453 You don't kill slaves. 122 00:07:15,356 --> 00:07:17,320 And you don't beat their heads in. 123 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:20,940 You capture slaves and you punish them. 124 00:07:20,940 --> 00:07:22,440 But you don't do what you did. 125 00:07:23,810 --> 00:07:24,807 - So what now? 126 00:07:24,807 --> 00:07:26,630 - [Edward] You're fired. 127 00:07:26,630 --> 00:07:28,530 Get off of my plantation and stay off. 128 00:07:35,290 --> 00:07:37,873 (somber music) 129 00:07:54,250 --> 00:07:56,033 - God Almighty's in the rain. 130 00:07:57,370 --> 00:07:59,907 God Almighty's in the sun. 131 00:07:59,907 --> 00:08:02,923 The Holy Spirit is here. 132 00:08:38,125 --> 00:08:39,000 - How is she? 133 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,740 - Half dead. 134 00:08:40,740 --> 00:08:43,120 Is this how you treat a slave, Master? 135 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:44,670 - She wouldn't be this way if she hadn't let 136 00:08:44,670 --> 00:08:46,703 that runaway Buck mess with her. 137 00:08:47,790 --> 00:08:49,210 - You were sick badly once 138 00:08:50,222 --> 00:08:53,470 and your friend Doc Thompson couldn't do nothing about it. 139 00:08:53,470 --> 00:08:54,853 So I came when you called. 140 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:59,485 Your life was dangling on a thread and I saved you. 141 00:08:59,485 --> 00:09:02,430 You said you were gonna set me free, and you never did. 142 00:09:02,430 --> 00:09:04,400 You say you'll never break up our family, 143 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:07,120 but you sold off Tillie and now this. 144 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,060 - You've got no right to talk to me that way, slave woman. 145 00:09:10,060 --> 00:09:13,040 I let that gal have her way and I never beat her once. 146 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:15,130 I put Ben in charge of the timber yard. 147 00:09:15,130 --> 00:09:16,900 I been good to y'all. 148 00:09:16,900 --> 00:09:19,530 I had nothin' to do with that gal getting her head banged. 149 00:09:19,530 --> 00:09:23,340 But no matter what I do, or don't do, 150 00:09:23,340 --> 00:09:25,670 I don't have to keep promises to a slave woman 151 00:09:25,670 --> 00:09:28,120 with her black magic auras and roots. 152 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:29,713 - You'll wish you had, Master. 153 00:09:30,963 --> 00:09:32,963 (gasps) 154 00:09:42,670 --> 00:09:43,720 - I let McCracken go. 155 00:09:48,190 --> 00:09:51,107 (Harriet mumbling) 156 00:09:54,967 --> 00:09:58,050 (gentle piano music) 157 00:10:01,331 --> 00:10:02,390 - [Susan] Well? 158 00:10:02,390 --> 00:10:03,223 - Same. 159 00:10:06,362 --> 00:10:08,913 Ooh, I need a drink. 160 00:10:10,294 --> 00:10:12,377 (groans) 161 00:10:14,382 --> 00:10:17,215 She can't move, talk, do anything. 162 00:10:20,090 --> 00:10:22,110 - [Susan] You're just gonna have to sell her, Edward. 163 00:10:22,110 --> 00:10:25,440 - Who the hell's gonna buy a slave in the shape she's in? 164 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:26,613 - Worth a try. 165 00:10:28,186 --> 00:10:29,103 Oh, Edward. 166 00:10:30,087 --> 00:10:32,160 You know once you've put your mind to it, 167 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:34,890 you could talk anybody into anything. 168 00:10:34,890 --> 00:10:36,213 - You really believe that? 169 00:10:36,213 --> 00:10:38,480 - (laughs) You talked me into marrying you, didn't you? 170 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:42,090 - Hell, I love you. (chuckles) 171 00:10:42,090 --> 00:10:43,640 - I know that, Edward. 172 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:45,070 But you also love money. 173 00:10:45,070 --> 00:10:46,343 - Well, there she is. 174 00:10:48,140 --> 00:10:49,133 Name your price. 175 00:10:50,170 --> 00:10:53,050 She'll be one of the best breeders you'll ever own. 176 00:10:53,050 --> 00:10:55,380 You'll be joking with the boys what a fool Edward was 177 00:10:55,380 --> 00:10:56,660 for letting me have a prime gal 178 00:10:56,660 --> 00:10:58,110 like this for almost nothing. 179 00:10:59,046 --> 00:11:00,715 - I don't know, Edward. 180 00:11:00,715 --> 00:11:03,140 She don't look too healthy to me. 181 00:11:03,140 --> 00:11:05,000 Say something, gal. 182 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,250 - Well, she can't say anything, she's asleep. 183 00:11:10,290 --> 00:11:11,123 Wake up, gal. 184 00:11:16,940 --> 00:11:21,940 She was one of the strongest wenches I ever had 185 00:11:22,060 --> 00:11:24,863 before this unfortunate mishap. 186 00:11:26,140 --> 00:11:27,853 She'll be that way again, too. 187 00:11:28,820 --> 00:11:29,653 Your price, sir? 188 00:11:31,870 --> 00:11:34,883 - Nope, no price at all, Edward. 189 00:11:41,970 --> 00:11:42,813 - Damn you. 190 00:11:50,154 --> 00:11:52,904 (dramatic music) 191 00:11:56,660 --> 00:11:58,248 - You still, Lord? 192 00:11:58,248 --> 00:12:00,610 I don't know what it is you say, 193 00:12:00,610 --> 00:12:03,713 just show me a way for Master Ed to be dead, 194 00:12:04,670 --> 00:12:07,133 for Master Ed to be smite down. 195 00:12:08,522 --> 00:12:11,460 (dog barking) 196 00:12:11,460 --> 00:12:13,170 The devil's got him. 197 00:12:13,170 --> 00:12:15,223 He don't know how to be right. 198 00:12:17,700 --> 00:12:20,343 He oughta be dead with his evil ways. 199 00:12:21,380 --> 00:12:23,670 I pray every morning, every day, 200 00:12:23,670 --> 00:12:25,493 every night, that he be gone. 201 00:12:27,770 --> 00:12:28,995 I pray now. 202 00:12:28,995 --> 00:12:31,995 (suspenseful music) 203 00:12:36,945 --> 00:12:39,695 (wind whistling) 204 00:12:41,916 --> 00:12:42,749 You gone? 205 00:12:47,396 --> 00:12:50,977 Did you hear me, Lord? 206 00:12:50,977 --> 00:12:51,810 Did you? 207 00:12:53,636 --> 00:12:54,969 Did you hear me? 208 00:13:25,373 --> 00:13:26,635 - Edward? 209 00:13:26,635 --> 00:13:27,699 (Edward gasping) 210 00:13:27,699 --> 00:13:29,558 Edward, what is wrong with you? 211 00:13:29,558 --> 00:13:31,571 Edward, let me help! 212 00:13:31,571 --> 00:13:33,368 Edward, Edward! 213 00:13:33,368 --> 00:13:34,995 Mammy Portia! 214 00:13:34,995 --> 00:13:36,078 Mammy Portia! 215 00:13:36,919 --> 00:13:37,752 Edward. (crying) 216 00:13:37,752 --> 00:13:38,585 - Oh my lord! 217 00:13:38,585 --> 00:13:39,543 What's the matter with Master Ed? 218 00:13:39,543 --> 00:13:40,376 - Nevermind. 219 00:13:40,376 --> 00:13:41,209 Go to Mr. Caldwell. 220 00:13:41,209 --> 00:13:43,750 Tell him to get Doc Thompson over here right away. 221 00:13:43,750 --> 00:13:45,122 And send me two boys in here to help put 222 00:13:45,122 --> 00:13:46,891 Master Edward to bed. - Yes'm. 223 00:13:46,891 --> 00:13:51,193 - Edward, Edward, I'm trying. (Edward groaning) 224 00:13:51,193 --> 00:13:53,943 (birds chirping) 225 00:14:10,884 --> 00:14:13,717 (Edward wheezing) 226 00:14:37,350 --> 00:14:38,910 - It's that old fever that's been with him 227 00:14:38,910 --> 00:14:42,971 since he was a child and now it's gotten to his heart. 228 00:14:42,971 --> 00:14:43,990 - His heart? 229 00:14:43,990 --> 00:14:46,760 - Yes, and there's nothing we can do now 230 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:49,293 but wait for the fever to go down. 231 00:14:50,790 --> 00:14:54,723 - Well, is, is he gonna die, Doc Thompson? 232 00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:59,100 - I don't know, Susan. 233 00:15:00,780 --> 00:15:02,790 I don't, I really don't know. 234 00:15:04,362 --> 00:15:05,751 (Edward gasping) 235 00:15:05,751 --> 00:15:06,584 - Edward? 236 00:15:07,831 --> 00:15:08,664 Edward. 237 00:15:09,612 --> 00:15:11,850 Edward, Edward, tell me what it is. 238 00:15:11,850 --> 00:15:12,767 What is it? 239 00:15:13,623 --> 00:15:16,733 Edward, I want you to hear so much. 240 00:15:16,733 --> 00:15:17,911 I love you. 241 00:15:17,911 --> 00:15:19,860 I've always loved you. 242 00:15:19,860 --> 00:15:20,693 - Juba. 243 00:15:22,281 --> 00:15:23,114 Juba. 244 00:15:27,383 --> 00:15:29,950 - Mammy Portia, he wants Juba and her potions. 245 00:15:29,950 --> 00:15:31,142 You get her up here right away. 246 00:15:31,142 --> 00:15:32,182 - [Portia] Yes'm. 247 00:15:32,182 --> 00:15:34,932 (Edward gasping) 248 00:15:40,910 --> 00:15:43,080 - No use in sayin' it, Portia. 249 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,370 You want me to bring my herb. 250 00:15:45,370 --> 00:15:46,270 - [Portia] Well, you better hurry, 251 00:15:46,270 --> 00:15:48,760 'cause I don't think he's gonna last long. 252 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:49,883 - I'll be there. 253 00:15:59,364 --> 00:16:02,114 (Edward gasping) 254 00:16:06,612 --> 00:16:09,362 (dramatic music) 255 00:16:27,054 --> 00:16:28,070 - Where is that Juba? 256 00:16:28,070 --> 00:16:30,433 What is taking her so long? 257 00:16:35,780 --> 00:16:38,502 - I'm afraid it won't matter when she gets here, Susan. 258 00:16:38,502 --> 00:16:39,450 He's gone. - No! 259 00:16:39,450 --> 00:16:44,317 No, no, no! (sobbing) 260 00:16:52,170 --> 00:16:53,327 - Lord, I did it. 261 00:16:56,150 --> 00:16:57,800 I wished it and prayed it on him. 262 00:16:59,060 --> 00:17:02,981 Wicked though he was, I had no right to take a life. 263 00:17:02,981 --> 00:17:04,930 Oh, mercy on me, Lord. 264 00:17:04,930 --> 00:17:07,000 Wash my sins away. 265 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,423 Wash the blood from my body. 266 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:13,717 Wash my face with snow and clean the hate away. 267 00:17:13,717 --> 00:17:15,467 Oh, mercy on me Lord. 268 00:17:18,118 --> 00:17:20,785 (ominous music) 269 00:17:22,615 --> 00:17:23,448 Lord? 270 00:17:25,826 --> 00:17:27,159 Did you hear me? 271 00:17:31,764 --> 00:17:33,097 Did you hear me? 272 00:17:35,241 --> 00:17:36,074 Did you? 273 00:17:45,744 --> 00:17:47,744 Wash my sins away. 274 00:17:47,744 --> 00:17:50,104 Wash the blood from my body. 275 00:17:50,104 --> 00:17:54,021 Wash my face with snow and clean the hate away. 276 00:17:59,580 --> 00:18:02,413 (dramatic music) 277 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:19,880 - [Narrator] Running as swiftly as the years of growth 278 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:24,363 came and went, running through time measured by endurance, 279 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,690 unaware of the future that would bear her 280 00:18:28,690 --> 00:18:29,723 the crown of Moses. 281 00:18:43,348 --> 00:18:48,348 (horses snorting) (man grunting) 282 00:18:49,685 --> 00:18:51,045 - [Ben] Harriet! 283 00:18:51,045 --> 00:18:55,295 (Harriet shouting from a distance) 284 00:19:07,477 --> 00:19:08,630 Master Ed sure growed a lot 285 00:19:08,630 --> 00:19:11,053 while he was away at that school. 286 00:19:13,027 --> 00:19:15,610 - Do you think Master Doc's sleeping with Miss Susan, Daddy? 287 00:19:15,610 --> 00:19:16,976 - No. 288 00:19:16,976 --> 00:19:18,830 - How you know? 289 00:19:18,830 --> 00:19:20,800 - Well, she away at Cambridge splitting around 290 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:22,450 with other men most of the time. 291 00:19:22,450 --> 00:19:23,675 Now, if he was sleeping with her, 292 00:19:23,675 --> 00:19:26,376 he wouldn't allow her to do that. 293 00:19:26,376 --> 00:19:27,680 - He's always in the house with her, 294 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:29,256 just like Master Ed was. 295 00:19:29,256 --> 00:19:32,780 - Harriet, Master Doc and Master Ed were good buddies. 296 00:19:32,780 --> 00:19:35,560 That's why he left him to be guardian of this plantation. 297 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:38,320 Now you think old Master Ed woulda left a man 298 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,923 in his house who's gonna be messin' with his wife? 299 00:19:40,923 --> 00:19:42,040 Mm-mm. 300 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:43,950 Now, that's why you leave good buddies 301 00:19:43,950 --> 00:19:45,950 to be guardian, instead of just friends. 302 00:19:48,752 --> 00:19:52,009 - Well, even if he is messin' with her, 303 00:19:52,009 --> 00:19:55,842 Master Ed sure can do nothin', 'cause he dead. 304 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:00,780 - Get on over there and saw up that log, girl. 305 00:20:11,922 --> 00:20:13,461 (Ben laughing) 306 00:20:13,461 --> 00:20:17,611 (men shouting) (horse hooves pounding) 307 00:20:17,611 --> 00:20:19,444 - [Patroller] Hey Doc! 308 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:26,267 - Well, what do you men want? 309 00:20:26,267 --> 00:20:28,180 - Figured we'd come down here 310 00:20:28,180 --> 00:20:30,500 and scare 'em up a bit in a quarter. 311 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:32,900 - You patrollers leave my slaves alone. 312 00:20:32,900 --> 00:20:34,050 They behave themselves 313 00:20:34,050 --> 00:20:36,270 and I don't need you trampling over them. 314 00:20:36,270 --> 00:20:39,199 - Next time, we ain't gonna ask you. 315 00:20:39,199 --> 00:20:40,309 Let's go, hyah! 316 00:20:40,309 --> 00:20:45,309 (men shouting) (dramatic music) 317 00:20:49,549 --> 00:20:51,433 - I don't like those men. 318 00:20:51,433 --> 00:20:52,942 I never did. 319 00:20:52,942 --> 00:20:55,500 - That's what you get for hiring trash like that. 320 00:20:55,500 --> 00:20:57,660 - I never hired 'em. 321 00:20:57,660 --> 00:21:00,390 Your dear departed husband, Edward, 322 00:21:00,390 --> 00:21:03,463 he hired 'em a long time ago and you know that. 323 00:21:05,370 --> 00:21:08,373 Why do you think I resigned from the Planter's Association? 324 00:21:09,223 --> 00:21:11,980 (crickets chirping) 325 00:21:11,980 --> 00:21:13,073 - I do apologize. 326 00:21:14,890 --> 00:21:15,840 I didn't know that. 327 00:21:21,923 --> 00:21:24,440 - [Mama] Ben, look what Hat made for her Mama. 328 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,640 - Well, now, that's a mighty fine lookin' bowl, daughter. 329 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:29,460 Who do you think taught her? 330 00:21:29,460 --> 00:21:30,540 - Thank you, Hat. 331 00:21:30,540 --> 00:21:33,220 - I sure am glad you like it, Mama. 332 00:21:34,407 --> 00:21:36,370 - Can we eat now, y'all? 333 00:21:36,370 --> 00:21:37,960 - [Mama] Come on outta there, Benji. 334 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:38,853 - [Benji] Coming, Mama. 335 00:21:43,650 --> 00:21:45,243 - Now where is that Robert? 336 00:21:48,187 --> 00:21:50,390 Where has you been, boy? 337 00:21:50,390 --> 00:21:52,920 - Well, me and Elvina, we been walking. 338 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:54,750 - Y'all sure spend a heap of time walking 339 00:21:54,750 --> 00:21:56,850 for two who ain't been over the broom yet. 340 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,690 - Well, that's why I brought Elvina here, Mama. 341 00:22:00,690 --> 00:22:03,240 We want Daddy to talk to Master Doc 342 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:04,690 about us and getting married. 343 00:22:06,020 --> 00:22:07,410 - You hear that, Ben? 344 00:22:07,410 --> 00:22:09,990 You better get some kind of permission from Master Doc 345 00:22:09,990 --> 00:22:11,962 before these walks of theirs get this girl's stomach 346 00:22:11,962 --> 00:22:14,869 to lookin' like it's got a watermelon in it. 347 00:22:14,869 --> 00:22:16,803 - Now, she didn't say that for laughing. 348 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:20,210 I'll talk to him about it, Robert. 349 00:22:20,210 --> 00:22:22,840 But until I do, no more of these walks, you hear me? 350 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:24,238 - Yes, sir. 351 00:22:24,238 --> 00:22:25,817 - Elvina? 352 00:22:25,817 --> 00:22:28,678 Why don't you stay and have supper with us? 353 00:22:28,678 --> 00:22:30,595 - Thank you, Daddy Ben. 354 00:22:46,590 --> 00:22:50,508 - [Ben] We thank you Lord for the life you gave us today 355 00:22:50,508 --> 00:22:52,243 and for the food on the table tonight. 356 00:22:53,310 --> 00:22:54,668 Amen. 357 00:22:54,668 --> 00:22:55,751 - [All] Amen. 358 00:23:05,090 --> 00:23:06,030 - Daddy? 359 00:23:06,030 --> 00:23:06,863 - Hmm? 360 00:23:08,698 --> 00:23:11,540 - While you're seein' Master Doc 361 00:23:11,540 --> 00:23:13,110 about Robert and Elvina, 362 00:23:13,110 --> 00:23:14,760 can you ask him something for me? 363 00:23:15,740 --> 00:23:16,960 - About what? 364 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:18,510 - About Master Stewart's place. 365 00:23:20,583 --> 00:23:22,980 I hear he's lookin' for hire outs. 366 00:23:22,980 --> 00:23:25,630 - Ain't you happy workin' in the timber yard with me? 367 00:23:26,618 --> 00:23:27,668 - Course I is, Daddy. 368 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,067 But if I could get myself hired out, 369 00:23:32,252 --> 00:23:35,550 I could go to Bucktown, take in washin', 370 00:23:35,550 --> 00:23:37,043 get some other kinda jobs. 371 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:39,450 Maybe I make enough money one day 372 00:23:39,450 --> 00:23:41,240 to buy us all our freedom. 373 00:23:42,620 --> 00:23:44,530 - Now Harriet, you might as well 374 00:23:44,530 --> 00:23:45,543 throw that notion out your head, 375 00:23:45,543 --> 00:23:47,993 'cause you knows Master Doc ain't gonna allow it. 376 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,633 - We can still try, can't we, Daddy? 377 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:56,823 - (chuckles) Of course we can. 378 00:24:07,850 --> 00:24:09,100 - What happened, Ben? 379 00:24:09,100 --> 00:24:11,890 - She had another one of her fainting spells, Master Doc. 380 00:24:11,890 --> 00:24:13,920 - That's the third time this week. 381 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:14,753 See what I was telling you, Edward? 382 00:24:14,753 --> 00:24:17,100 Now I'm afraid this gal's gonna be more of a burden 383 00:24:17,100 --> 00:24:18,150 than she is an asset. 384 00:24:19,235 --> 00:24:21,870 - Master, does she still wanna work on the Stewart place? 385 00:24:21,870 --> 00:24:23,350 - Does she, Ben? 386 00:24:23,350 --> 00:24:24,810 - Yes, sir. 387 00:24:24,810 --> 00:24:28,500 - Well, then, I suggest we sort of loan her to Mr. Stewart 388 00:24:28,500 --> 00:24:30,293 and that way, she'll be his burden. 389 00:24:31,570 --> 00:24:33,140 - That's a good idea. 390 00:24:33,140 --> 00:24:36,770 Looks like the young master's learning fast, isn't he, Ben? 391 00:24:36,770 --> 00:24:38,303 - Yes, sir, he sure is. 392 00:24:39,430 --> 00:24:40,940 - All right, you have my permission 393 00:24:40,940 --> 00:24:42,460 to send her over to Stewart's place. 394 00:24:42,460 --> 00:24:43,430 But, under the condition that 395 00:24:43,430 --> 00:24:45,490 she hands over to me $1 every week, 396 00:24:45,490 --> 00:24:47,740 and that's whether she earns anything or not. 397 00:24:49,870 --> 00:24:51,820 You understand me, Ben? 398 00:24:51,820 --> 00:24:53,320 - Yes, sir. 399 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,754 Can I take her into the cabin now, sir? 400 00:24:55,754 --> 00:24:57,400 - (sighs) Yes, Ben. 401 00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,010 Come, Edward. 402 00:24:59,010 --> 00:25:00,160 - [Ben] Thank you, sir. 403 00:25:01,125 --> 00:25:03,875 (birds chirping) 404 00:25:05,853 --> 00:25:08,103 (laughing) 405 00:25:18,333 --> 00:25:22,693 - Young master's learning real fast, isn't he, Ben? 406 00:25:22,693 --> 00:25:24,114 - [Ben] Yes, sir! 407 00:25:24,114 --> 00:25:26,781 (both laughing) 408 00:25:28,110 --> 00:25:31,943 ♪ And I'm goin' about my free ♪ 409 00:25:33,820 --> 00:25:35,620 - Think you big stuff, just 'cause you goin' 410 00:25:35,620 --> 00:25:36,970 to work for Master Stewart? 411 00:25:38,430 --> 00:25:40,280 Lori May told me about you yesterday. 412 00:25:41,410 --> 00:25:42,250 - What'd she tell you? 413 00:25:42,250 --> 00:25:44,140 - Said it's true. 414 00:25:44,140 --> 00:25:45,283 You and your daddy didn't wanna take me in 415 00:25:45,283 --> 00:25:47,933 just 'cause I was a cast off. 416 00:25:47,933 --> 00:25:50,224 - Oh, Shadrack, you still got that on your mind? 417 00:25:50,224 --> 00:25:51,600 That was nine long years ago. 418 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,264 It wasn't true then and it ain't true now. 419 00:25:53,264 --> 00:25:54,730 - It is and you know it. 420 00:25:54,730 --> 00:25:56,810 The truth ain't in none of you Ross's. 421 00:25:56,810 --> 00:25:57,933 Think you're something special, 422 00:25:57,933 --> 00:26:00,430 just 'cause your daddy boss the lumber yard. 423 00:26:00,430 --> 00:26:02,970 But you ain't doing nothing but lickin' Master Doc's boots, 424 00:26:02,970 --> 00:26:04,124 just like you done with Master Edward. 425 00:26:04,124 --> 00:26:05,160 - Shadrack, will you leave me be? 426 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:06,750 I'll wrap this stick right around your head. 427 00:26:06,750 --> 00:26:07,583 - [Shadrack] Yeah, well, you just-- 428 00:26:07,583 --> 00:26:09,653 - I said I'll make you pray! 429 00:26:09,653 --> 00:26:14,653 (horse whinnying) (men hollering) 430 00:26:18,496 --> 00:26:21,609 (men laughing) 431 00:26:21,609 --> 00:26:23,526 - Hey, what's going on? 432 00:26:24,841 --> 00:26:25,674 Huh? 433 00:26:25,674 --> 00:26:27,340 Where you going, gal? 434 00:26:27,340 --> 00:26:30,821 - I'm working the field at Master Stewart's place. 435 00:26:30,821 --> 00:26:32,341 - Well, let me see your pass. 436 00:26:32,341 --> 00:26:35,091 (dramatic music) 437 00:26:42,540 --> 00:26:43,373 - All right. 438 00:26:45,410 --> 00:26:46,243 Get on your way. 439 00:26:49,026 --> 00:26:51,272 (men laughing) 440 00:26:51,272 --> 00:26:52,105 Hyah! 441 00:27:06,257 --> 00:27:08,440 - [Stewart] You're my hire out from Thompson? 442 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:09,980 - [Harriet] Yes, sir. 443 00:27:09,980 --> 00:27:11,850 - Well, I don't know why, but for some reason or other, 444 00:27:11,850 --> 00:27:13,063 I thought you were a he. 445 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:16,090 What's your name? 446 00:27:17,070 --> 00:27:18,820 - Harriet Ross, sir. 447 00:27:18,820 --> 00:27:21,853 - Well, Harriet, 448 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,403 the rules here are this. 449 00:27:26,310 --> 00:27:29,160 You work my fields five days a week 450 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,520 and on Saturdays and Sundays, 451 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:33,550 you're free to earn money on your own. 452 00:27:33,550 --> 00:27:35,990 And that money is all yours. 453 00:27:35,990 --> 00:27:38,840 Now, if you have to go to Bucktown to seek work, 454 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:40,583 you must come to me for a pass. 455 00:27:41,950 --> 00:27:44,173 Everything you do must come from me. 456 00:27:45,270 --> 00:27:46,960 I do not allow my overseers to beat 457 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,740 or abuse my slaves without my permission 458 00:27:49,740 --> 00:27:51,220 and I will shoot the first patroller 459 00:27:51,220 --> 00:27:53,420 that sets a foot on this plantation. 460 00:27:53,420 --> 00:27:55,170 You will find that I am a fair man 461 00:27:55,170 --> 00:27:57,470 from a refined stock of southern men and women 462 00:27:58,340 --> 00:27:59,410 and I loathe with a passion 463 00:27:59,410 --> 00:28:01,783 that white trash element amongst us. 464 00:28:04,050 --> 00:28:04,883 Any questions? 465 00:28:06,350 --> 00:28:07,550 - [Harriet] Oh, no, sir. 466 00:28:09,888 --> 00:28:10,738 - You can go now. 467 00:28:11,630 --> 00:28:13,253 Josh will show you to your cabin. 468 00:28:14,090 --> 00:28:16,840 (dramatic music) 469 00:28:25,486 --> 00:28:29,030 - Well, Harriet, since you're a hired out like me, 470 00:28:29,030 --> 00:28:30,700 I can get you a job washing clothes 471 00:28:30,700 --> 00:28:33,203 for a quaker lady in Bucktown. 472 00:28:33,203 --> 00:28:34,410 - You think she would use me? 473 00:28:34,410 --> 00:28:35,707 - Sure she will. 474 00:28:35,707 --> 00:28:38,273 And I hear she help runaway slaves, too. 475 00:28:39,343 --> 00:28:40,643 Girl, what you looking at? 476 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:44,930 - [Harriet] Is that a cabin up yonder? 477 00:28:44,930 --> 00:28:47,850 - Yeah, belongs to Stewart. 478 00:28:47,850 --> 00:28:49,550 Ain't nobody been in it for years. 479 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,335 - Keep goin', Molly. 480 00:28:54,335 --> 00:28:55,982 I'm gonna run and look see. 481 00:28:55,982 --> 00:28:57,282 - [Molly] Girl, what the devil is on your mind? 482 00:28:57,282 --> 00:28:59,433 - [Harriet] Shh, I said walk. 483 00:28:59,433 --> 00:29:02,016 (serene music) 484 00:29:31,778 --> 00:29:33,061 - [Stewart] No, that land is worthless 485 00:29:33,061 --> 00:29:34,960 and it would be a waste of manpower. 486 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,780 - Sir, my daddy taught me all the ways 487 00:29:37,780 --> 00:29:40,523 of making land great for things to grow. 488 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,030 By the way the sun set, 489 00:29:44,030 --> 00:29:47,180 the way the bark grow on the tree, 490 00:29:47,180 --> 00:29:49,957 and how to change the color of the silo. 491 00:29:49,957 --> 00:29:53,400 Master Stewart, I swear by my Lord up in heaven 492 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,657 I can make food grow up outta that land. 493 00:29:57,090 --> 00:29:58,990 - And where would you sell your crops? 494 00:29:58,990 --> 00:30:00,240 - At the Bucktown market. 495 00:30:01,610 --> 00:30:03,210 - Hattie, you know what you are? 496 00:30:05,516 --> 00:30:07,938 - A slave, sir. 497 00:30:07,938 --> 00:30:10,509 I never forgets that. 498 00:30:10,509 --> 00:30:11,423 - A slave, yes. 499 00:30:14,177 --> 00:30:15,010 But you 500 00:30:17,260 --> 00:30:18,553 are a gal with incentive. 501 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:23,472 - I is? 502 00:30:23,472 --> 00:30:25,550 - You bet my bottom dollar, you are. 503 00:30:25,550 --> 00:30:27,533 You got something the Yankee's ain't got. 504 00:30:28,420 --> 00:30:29,253 Incentive. 505 00:30:33,870 --> 00:30:34,703 - But, 506 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,010 do I gets the land, sir? 507 00:30:40,154 --> 00:30:41,683 - Of course. 508 00:30:41,683 --> 00:30:46,633 This'll be our little experiment, this plot of land. 509 00:30:48,874 --> 00:30:49,860 And I'll give you 510 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,070 50% of the crop's market value. 511 00:30:54,070 --> 00:30:55,100 Is that fair? 512 00:30:55,100 --> 00:30:56,550 - Yes. 513 00:30:56,550 --> 00:30:58,506 - You move in that cabin tomorrow 514 00:30:58,506 --> 00:31:00,200 and you tell Joshua to give you 515 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:01,830 a cart and a mule 516 00:31:01,830 --> 00:31:04,463 and whatever tools you need. 517 00:31:06,910 --> 00:31:07,990 Well, get to it! 518 00:31:07,990 --> 00:31:08,823 - Yes, sir! 519 00:31:14,100 --> 00:31:16,120 - [Narrator] Cultivating freedom's garden 520 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:20,240 in the stifling heat of August with its bloodless skies 521 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:21,693 challenges the will. 522 00:31:22,780 --> 00:31:24,680 Snatching at stumps and rocks 523 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,160 on a stretch of God's Earth 524 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,273 that seemingly will not yield. 525 00:31:30,140 --> 00:31:31,850 A pause for breathing is 526 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:34,383 merely a pause for breathing. 527 00:31:36,060 --> 00:31:38,903 For in the end, it must bend. 528 00:31:41,220 --> 00:31:42,053 It will bend. 529 00:31:42,950 --> 00:31:46,201 - I got seer, I got long pants, short pants, 530 00:31:46,201 --> 00:31:48,270 skirt pants, skinny pants. 531 00:31:48,270 --> 00:31:51,410 I got shirts with long arms and short arms, too. 532 00:31:51,410 --> 00:31:54,883 Whoo wee, you ladies is sure lookin' good today. 533 00:31:56,650 --> 00:31:57,810 I got the pants here. 534 00:31:57,810 --> 00:31:59,843 I got the long pants, the short pants, 535 00:31:59,843 --> 00:32:01,330 the fat pants, the skinny pants. 536 00:32:01,330 --> 00:32:02,901 I got a lattice here, ladies. 537 00:32:02,901 --> 00:32:05,250 I got to find some pants 'cause I got screened. 538 00:32:05,250 --> 00:32:07,960 - That old John Tubman, the free negro he is. 539 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:11,450 Think God sent him to this world just to satisfy women. 540 00:32:11,450 --> 00:32:13,540 - Where he get his wares from? 541 00:32:13,540 --> 00:32:15,800 - Sweet talk, that's what he do. 542 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:16,633 - Sweet talk? 543 00:32:16,633 --> 00:32:17,710 - Yeah, child. 544 00:32:17,710 --> 00:32:19,300 He calls these free housemaids 545 00:32:19,300 --> 00:32:20,640 and gets them to give him everything 546 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:21,940 the white folks throw out 547 00:32:21,940 --> 00:32:24,380 and sometimes, he goes right to the white folks themselves 548 00:32:24,380 --> 00:32:26,380 and talk 'em into what he wants. 549 00:32:26,380 --> 00:32:29,820 John Tubman's a sweet talker from way back 550 00:32:29,820 --> 00:32:32,760 and he can out sew and mend clothes 551 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,160 better than any woman anywhere. 552 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,100 Course, I don't like him myself. 553 00:32:37,100 --> 00:32:38,043 - Shoot, why don't you? 554 00:32:38,043 --> 00:32:40,270 - Child, would you trust a man who can 555 00:32:40,270 --> 00:32:44,303 sit down like a woman and sew clothes? (chuckles) 556 00:32:44,303 --> 00:32:46,903 - You never know, Molly. 557 00:32:46,903 --> 00:32:48,153 You never know. 558 00:32:51,300 --> 00:32:52,530 - Hi there, gal. 559 00:32:53,489 --> 00:32:54,822 - What you want? 560 00:32:56,470 --> 00:32:58,413 - I've been watching you off and on. 561 00:32:59,650 --> 00:33:01,551 You know that, don't you? 562 00:33:01,551 --> 00:33:02,803 - Watch here, mister. 563 00:33:02,803 --> 00:33:04,150 I ain't no housemaid 564 00:33:04,150 --> 00:33:06,032 and I sure ain't lookin' for no good time. 565 00:33:06,032 --> 00:33:06,921 Get off, shoo! - I don't mean nothing, 566 00:33:06,921 --> 00:33:08,967 I just thought-- - Get off! 567 00:33:08,967 --> 00:33:10,217 - What's wrong? 568 00:33:19,028 --> 00:33:21,191 You all right, gal? 569 00:33:21,191 --> 00:33:22,024 - Oh, I. 570 00:33:24,497 --> 00:33:26,837 I just got bored with the company, that's all. 571 00:33:26,837 --> 00:33:29,277 Come on, shoo, get on! 572 00:33:29,277 --> 00:33:30,277 Get up shoo! 573 00:33:34,057 --> 00:33:34,890 Get on! 574 00:33:34,890 --> 00:33:35,970 - All right. 575 00:33:35,970 --> 00:33:37,970 I'm going for now. 576 00:33:37,970 --> 00:33:39,030 But I'm telling you something, 577 00:33:39,030 --> 00:33:41,630 we're gonna be friends, whether you likes it or not! 578 00:33:43,870 --> 00:33:46,357 The Bible done told me that. 579 00:33:46,357 --> 00:33:50,106 (bright music) (horse nickering) 580 00:33:50,106 --> 00:33:51,023 - Go, shoo. 581 00:33:52,038 --> 00:33:52,871 Come on. 582 00:33:58,287 --> 00:33:59,370 Get on, shoo! 583 00:34:06,349 --> 00:34:08,932 (somber music) 584 00:34:52,837 --> 00:34:54,363 - How are thee today? 585 00:34:55,344 --> 00:34:58,460 - Oh, just fine, Miss Rodham. 586 00:34:58,460 --> 00:34:59,293 Just fine. 587 00:35:00,180 --> 00:35:02,723 - That is Miss Carlisle they're burying today. 588 00:35:03,916 --> 00:35:06,333 Poor thing, she was so young. 589 00:35:10,956 --> 00:35:11,789 Harriet. 590 00:35:15,207 --> 00:35:17,374 Thee are forgetting again. 591 00:35:18,218 --> 00:35:20,036 Thee do not have to bring the clothes in 592 00:35:20,036 --> 00:35:21,869 through the back door. 593 00:35:51,828 --> 00:35:52,661 - John? 594 00:35:55,017 --> 00:35:55,850 John Tubman? 595 00:35:55,850 --> 00:35:58,267 - Who are you, get away from me! 596 00:35:58,267 --> 00:36:00,100 Go on, get outta here. 597 00:36:15,020 --> 00:36:17,320 - [Molly] Did you hear about John's sister? 598 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:18,740 - [Harriet] Didn't know he had one, Molly. 599 00:36:18,740 --> 00:36:20,980 - Oh, he had one, all right. 600 00:36:20,980 --> 00:36:22,540 But she gone now. 601 00:36:22,540 --> 00:36:23,833 Had her funeral today. 602 00:36:24,730 --> 00:36:26,112 - Was she a white gal, Molly? 603 00:36:26,112 --> 00:36:27,440 - Yeah. 604 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,400 Had the same daddy, but different mommas. 605 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,910 Course old man Carlisle won't own up to none of it. 606 00:36:33,910 --> 00:36:34,920 She and John used to meet 607 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,100 in the colored quarters all the time. 608 00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:39,580 She sure did care for him. 609 00:36:39,580 --> 00:36:41,480 And he wasn't scared to tell nobody 610 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,270 that he was her brother. 611 00:36:43,270 --> 00:36:44,924 He was crazy 'bout her. 612 00:36:44,924 --> 00:36:47,674 (coins jingling) 613 00:36:58,916 --> 00:37:02,156 (knocking on door) 614 00:37:02,156 --> 00:37:03,682 - Who there? 615 00:37:03,682 --> 00:37:06,111 - [John] Tubman here! 616 00:37:06,111 --> 00:37:08,111 - Just a minute, please. 617 00:37:15,462 --> 00:37:19,295 (knocking on door) I'm coming. 618 00:37:22,323 --> 00:37:25,523 - Um, I'm sorry about the way I talked to you that day. 619 00:37:26,580 --> 00:37:28,440 - Oh, that's all right. 620 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,320 Molly told me about your sister. 621 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:31,942 Want some coffee? 622 00:37:31,942 --> 00:37:33,859 - Wouldn't mind at all. 623 00:37:43,022 --> 00:37:44,772 - [Harriet] Sit down. 624 00:37:46,030 --> 00:37:47,713 - They wouldn't even let me see her. 625 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:50,953 - Yeah. 626 00:37:52,550 --> 00:37:53,890 I know about that. 627 00:37:59,260 --> 00:38:01,510 - [John] So how's your planting coming along? 628 00:38:02,580 --> 00:38:05,353 - Oh, it's harvesting time now. 629 00:38:08,688 --> 00:38:10,468 I got so much stuff growing out there, 630 00:38:10,468 --> 00:38:13,350 I don't know how I'm gonna bring it in all by myself. 631 00:38:13,350 --> 00:38:14,300 - Well, what about old Johnny? 632 00:38:14,300 --> 00:38:17,160 I ain't doin' nothin' worthwhile these days. 633 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:17,993 - You? 634 00:38:20,820 --> 00:38:23,060 Even if you knowed something about farm work, 635 00:38:23,060 --> 00:38:25,780 Stewart wouldn't hire you when all he got to do 636 00:38:25,780 --> 00:38:27,423 is send over another slave. 637 00:38:28,530 --> 00:38:31,530 - Well, for one thing, I could take it to the market myself. 638 00:38:32,650 --> 00:38:35,323 And being a free man, 639 00:38:36,380 --> 00:38:38,030 I can get a better price for you. 640 00:38:41,370 --> 00:38:46,370 And I'd be better company than just any old slave man, 641 00:38:46,789 --> 00:38:49,920 don't you think so? 642 00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,730 - Why you wanna help me? 643 00:38:52,730 --> 00:38:53,913 - Don't rightly know. 644 00:38:54,750 --> 00:38:56,910 Except when you keep crowding in 645 00:38:56,910 --> 00:38:58,823 on my man all the time. 646 00:39:05,530 --> 00:39:09,577 - You know a city gal, John Tubman, do your bidding, 647 00:39:10,980 --> 00:39:13,380 so you best leave me alone. 648 00:39:13,380 --> 00:39:15,220 - I ain't got no cause of what I do 649 00:39:15,220 --> 00:39:17,627 anything outta keepin' with you. 650 00:39:17,627 --> 00:39:19,730 It's just that when I lost my sister, 651 00:39:19,730 --> 00:39:22,260 I got so blank. (sighs) 652 00:39:22,260 --> 00:39:24,730 It brought my business down to nothing. 653 00:39:24,730 --> 00:39:26,680 I just thought it would be good for me to help somebody 654 00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:28,780 and have good company while I was helping. 655 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:44,963 - It's my comfort time now. 656 00:39:56,720 --> 00:39:58,163 - [John] Thanks for the coffee. 657 00:40:01,380 --> 00:40:02,213 - John? 658 00:40:04,210 --> 00:40:06,003 Six o'clock my startin' time. 659 00:40:07,443 --> 00:40:10,026 (bright music) 660 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:14,867 - I'll see you before the sun shines. 661 00:41:04,770 --> 00:41:06,920 I guess it's true what folks say about you. 662 00:41:09,199 --> 00:41:11,567 - Seems like folks is always mouthin' about me. 663 00:41:11,567 --> 00:41:12,823 What'd they say? 664 00:41:14,378 --> 00:41:16,640 - That you spend half the night counting them coins 665 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,180 over and over and over again. 666 00:41:20,180 --> 00:41:21,663 - They'll mock all they want. 667 00:41:23,411 --> 00:41:24,853 This is freedom money. 668 00:41:26,378 --> 00:41:29,440 When you get back from market day after tomorrow, 669 00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:31,160 I'm gonna have enough money to buy my freedom 670 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:32,000 from Master Doc. 671 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,530 Ain't nobody mock me then. 672 00:41:34,530 --> 00:41:36,763 - You get your freedom, then what you gonna do? 673 00:41:38,187 --> 00:41:40,090 - Reckon I'll go on workin'. 674 00:41:40,090 --> 00:41:41,910 But I'll be workin' for myself. 675 00:41:41,910 --> 00:41:44,130 - Don't you know nothin' but work? 676 00:41:44,130 --> 00:41:45,937 - I knows how to foretell the weather. 677 00:41:45,937 --> 00:41:47,580 - [John] Mm hmm. (laughs) 678 00:41:47,580 --> 00:41:50,380 Stewart don't know he's got a conjure woman on his land. 679 00:41:51,610 --> 00:41:54,750 - It's something I learnt from my daddy. 680 00:41:54,750 --> 00:41:57,570 And there ain't nothing queery about it neither. 681 00:41:57,570 --> 00:41:59,860 No stranger than that fancy stitchery 682 00:41:59,860 --> 00:42:01,433 you learnt from your daddy. 683 00:42:02,380 --> 00:42:04,983 - Shucks, I didn't learn nary a thing from that fool. 684 00:42:07,260 --> 00:42:09,150 Only reason why I picked up tailoring tricks 685 00:42:09,150 --> 00:42:10,620 'cause I watched him. 686 00:42:10,620 --> 00:42:11,820 Not 'cause he showed me. 687 00:42:13,250 --> 00:42:14,083 - Hmm. 688 00:42:15,300 --> 00:42:17,370 Ain't your daddy taught you about nothing? 689 00:42:17,370 --> 00:42:18,203 - Nah. 690 00:42:19,110 --> 00:42:22,142 He's too busy dreaming about glory land up north. 691 00:42:22,142 --> 00:42:23,797 He ain't thinkin' about nobody but himself. 692 00:42:23,797 --> 00:42:25,593 - Didn't he love your momma? 693 00:42:29,830 --> 00:42:31,300 - When my momma got sick, 694 00:42:31,300 --> 00:42:32,320 he couldn't wait for her to die 695 00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,170 so he could get on his way. 696 00:42:34,170 --> 00:42:36,600 I don't learn nothin' off that fool. 697 00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,270 - You think maybe he knowed old man Carlisle 698 00:42:39,270 --> 00:42:41,090 was your real daddy? 699 00:42:41,090 --> 00:42:42,253 - Dammit, gal! 700 00:42:44,803 --> 00:42:46,773 I don't want talk about things like that. 701 00:42:47,895 --> 00:42:48,895 - I'm sorry. 702 00:42:55,429 --> 00:42:57,870 (John grumbles) 703 00:42:57,870 --> 00:43:00,760 - I ain't got no cause to shout at you like that. 704 00:43:05,420 --> 00:43:06,570 It's just that there's, 705 00:43:07,730 --> 00:43:09,200 some things are so 706 00:43:11,330 --> 00:43:14,280 mean about being colored, 707 00:43:16,490 --> 00:43:18,990 whether you're a slave or not. 708 00:43:26,130 --> 00:43:28,963 I better make it back to town now. 709 00:43:32,709 --> 00:43:35,257 - Have you got your free man's papers on you? 710 00:43:35,257 --> 00:43:37,610 Patrollers ride the road on that. 711 00:43:39,748 --> 00:43:41,069 - See, I told you. 712 00:43:41,069 --> 00:43:43,300 You done started fretting about me already. 713 00:43:44,981 --> 00:43:49,981 (John laughing) (gentle music) 714 00:43:57,232 --> 00:43:59,393 - I got your kale! 715 00:43:59,393 --> 00:44:00,893 I got some onions! 716 00:44:02,332 --> 00:44:04,302 I got your sweet corn! 717 00:44:04,302 --> 00:44:07,320 I got your greens, mustard greens! 718 00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:09,561 I got your yellow flour! 719 00:44:09,561 --> 00:44:12,320 I got your sweet potatoes and I got your onions. 720 00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:14,168 Got your onions. 721 00:44:14,168 --> 00:44:15,835 I got your potatoes! 722 00:44:17,010 --> 00:44:21,443 I got your (John drowned out by cart rattling). 723 00:44:21,443 --> 00:44:22,635 Got onions. 724 00:44:22,635 --> 00:44:23,942 Got good onions here. 725 00:44:23,942 --> 00:44:25,451 Got good plants. 726 00:44:25,451 --> 00:44:28,275 Good produce, come on Mary, come on, boy. 727 00:44:28,275 --> 00:44:29,299 Whoa! 728 00:44:29,299 --> 00:44:32,479 (upbeat music) 729 00:44:32,479 --> 00:44:34,058 What can I do you for? 730 00:44:34,058 --> 00:44:34,971 - The whole load? 731 00:44:34,971 --> 00:44:37,232 - 37, the whole load. 732 00:44:37,232 --> 00:44:38,680 It's good stuff here. 733 00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:39,624 - $28. 734 00:44:39,624 --> 00:44:41,041 - [John] All right, give me $30. 735 00:44:41,041 --> 00:44:44,374 All right, 28, 28's a deal, 28's a deal. 736 00:44:47,064 --> 00:44:48,164 All right, ha! 737 00:44:48,164 --> 00:44:50,194 I got it, I got it! 738 00:44:50,194 --> 00:44:51,027 I got it! 739 00:44:51,027 --> 00:44:53,277 (laughing) 740 00:44:55,504 --> 00:44:56,421 I told you! 741 00:44:57,870 --> 00:44:59,896 I told you, hey! 742 00:44:59,896 --> 00:45:02,646 (dramatic music) 743 00:45:35,056 --> 00:45:37,806 These spells, what are they from? 744 00:45:40,403 --> 00:45:43,050 - I got hit in the head by an overseer 745 00:45:44,097 --> 00:45:45,813 for helping a slave run. 746 00:45:58,270 --> 00:45:59,470 - [John] It's all there. 747 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:04,850 - [Harriet] John? 748 00:46:04,850 --> 00:46:05,683 - Hmm? 749 00:46:07,644 --> 00:46:09,360 - You been free all your life. 750 00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:10,993 You ain't never been a slave. 751 00:46:12,790 --> 00:46:13,860 What's this like? 752 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:16,233 - I don't know. 753 00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,540 I think about it a lot and I... 754 00:46:26,763 --> 00:46:28,653 I thank God I ain't one. 755 00:46:32,943 --> 00:46:34,823 - You like slaves? 756 00:46:34,823 --> 00:46:39,823 - (laughs) I ain't sure about that, either. 757 00:46:40,330 --> 00:46:42,203 But I know I don't like slaveholders. 758 00:46:47,100 --> 00:46:48,123 I like folks. 759 00:46:52,720 --> 00:46:53,970 I like you, Miss Harriet. 760 00:46:55,010 --> 00:46:57,760 (romantic music) 761 00:46:59,802 --> 00:47:03,719 - That's the first time you didn't call me gal. 762 00:47:04,599 --> 00:47:06,432 You called me Harriet. 763 00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:10,834 You called me Miss Harriet. 764 00:47:10,834 --> 00:47:13,584 - Well, I acts foolish sometimes. 765 00:47:17,563 --> 00:47:20,813 - John, you know what I got in my hand? 766 00:47:22,814 --> 00:47:25,454 I got me enough money to buy myself away 767 00:47:25,454 --> 00:47:28,113 from old Doc Thompson. 768 00:47:28,113 --> 00:47:30,530 I got to put this money away! 769 00:47:35,420 --> 00:47:40,350 - Don't you ever think of anything but money and work? 770 00:47:40,350 --> 00:47:42,553 - Money is what buys freedom. 771 00:47:44,191 --> 00:47:46,220 Just think about it, man. 772 00:47:46,220 --> 00:47:49,343 Tomorrow, I'm gonna be a free woman! 773 00:47:52,010 --> 00:47:54,960 I'm gonna get all dressed up in my Sunday clothes, 774 00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,160 go to church meeting with Mama and Daddy, 775 00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:00,280 and then go see old Master Doc. 776 00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,890 $200 gonna be my prize to him. 777 00:48:03,890 --> 00:48:05,781 - Is that all you're worth? 778 00:48:05,781 --> 00:48:07,687 - Of course I'm worth more. 779 00:48:07,687 --> 00:48:10,190 But he always try to sell me at that figure 780 00:48:10,190 --> 00:48:12,740 'cause of my fainting affliction. 781 00:48:12,740 --> 00:48:14,393 He'll take my offer. 782 00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:17,593 He has to. 783 00:48:26,147 --> 00:48:27,397 Won't he, John? 784 00:48:31,307 --> 00:48:34,474 - Sure. (mumbling) 785 00:48:34,474 --> 00:48:36,584 Yeah, he'll take it. 786 00:48:36,584 --> 00:48:37,501 - Oh, John. 787 00:48:39,605 --> 00:48:43,438 I'ma be the gladdest woman in the whole world! 788 00:48:44,576 --> 00:48:49,576 (romantic music) (laughing) 789 00:48:54,043 --> 00:48:56,626 (upbeat music) 790 00:49:08,172 --> 00:49:11,820 - (laughs) The way you look today, Miss Harriet, 791 00:49:11,820 --> 00:49:14,932 Doc Thompson's gotta give you your freedom. 792 00:49:14,932 --> 00:49:17,181 - He ain't givin' me nothing. 793 00:49:17,181 --> 00:49:19,264 I'm buyin', he's sellin'. 794 00:49:20,953 --> 00:49:22,433 (horse whinnying) (people laughing) 795 00:49:22,433 --> 00:49:25,910 - Boy, they must be havin' a some kind of party over there. 796 00:49:25,910 --> 00:49:29,790 - Yeah, Jon Stewart sure likes his Sunday morning party. 797 00:49:29,790 --> 00:49:31,923 He has one just about every other Sunday. 798 00:49:34,550 --> 00:49:36,403 - [John] Wonder who that could be? 799 00:49:37,659 --> 00:49:39,778 - That look like Master Stewart. 800 00:49:39,778 --> 00:49:41,200 And he's headed straight this way. 801 00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:42,760 John, you best be leaving. 802 00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:43,680 - Lots of luck, Miss Harriet. 803 00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:45,550 Just think, the next time I see you, 804 00:49:45,550 --> 00:49:48,193 you'll be a free woman. - Get out, I said! 805 00:49:48,193 --> 00:49:50,627 - Can I have one kiss from you as a slave woman, 806 00:49:50,627 --> 00:49:52,710 then when I see you again 807 00:49:54,980 --> 00:49:56,040 I'll be kissing a free woman. 808 00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:57,950 - I said get on with yourself. 809 00:50:11,081 --> 00:50:14,970 - My, ain't we fancy today? 810 00:50:14,970 --> 00:50:17,510 - Just goin' to church, Master. 811 00:50:17,510 --> 00:50:18,343 - I see. 812 00:50:20,250 --> 00:50:24,307 Well, you have time for that. 813 00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,193 I have a special job to be done. 814 00:50:30,690 --> 00:50:33,509 And you're the only one I can count on to do it properly. 815 00:50:33,509 --> 00:50:34,342 - But Master-- 816 00:50:34,342 --> 00:50:35,780 - Now, gal. 817 00:50:35,780 --> 00:50:36,848 I been too good to you for you 818 00:50:36,848 --> 00:50:38,648 to give me any buts when I need you. 819 00:50:41,250 --> 00:50:42,500 - What kind of job is it? 820 00:50:44,010 --> 00:50:46,610 - I got a wagon of my goods over, late growers, 821 00:50:46,610 --> 00:50:48,813 about a quarter mile from the weighing station. 822 00:50:50,310 --> 00:50:52,904 I have to get them to the station before noon. 823 00:50:52,904 --> 00:50:56,760 - But Master, the weighing station's closed on Sunday. 824 00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:59,540 - Well, realizing how important this is, 825 00:50:59,540 --> 00:51:02,683 they are open today as a special favor to me. 826 00:51:05,875 --> 00:51:07,723 - I guess I better go change clothes then. 827 00:51:07,723 --> 00:51:09,306 - No need for that. 828 00:51:10,995 --> 00:51:13,490 All you have to do is sit up on the wagon, 829 00:51:13,490 --> 00:51:14,705 tell them you're on the move 830 00:51:14,705 --> 00:51:16,183 and you'll be there in no time. 831 00:51:17,814 --> 00:51:20,640 I'll see you there in 10 minutes. 832 00:51:41,557 --> 00:51:46,557 (people chattering) (birds chirping) 833 00:52:03,923 --> 00:52:06,840 (insects chirping) 834 00:52:34,493 --> 00:52:37,410 - [Harriet] Where the mule, Master? 835 00:52:38,981 --> 00:52:41,282 - You mean to tell me that mule's not here? 836 00:52:41,282 --> 00:52:42,115 - No, sir. 837 00:52:43,090 --> 00:52:44,587 - Well, where is he? 838 00:52:45,842 --> 00:52:46,675 Mule? 839 00:52:50,720 --> 00:52:51,553 Mule! 840 00:52:55,140 --> 00:52:55,973 Mule! 841 00:53:00,230 --> 00:53:01,063 I'm sorry. 842 00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:05,790 Foolish mule must've wandered away. 843 00:53:07,290 --> 00:53:09,340 You're just gonna have to do it yourself. 844 00:53:12,270 --> 00:53:13,103 - No, sir. 845 00:53:16,451 --> 00:53:18,051 I can't pull that wagon, Master. 846 00:53:19,776 --> 00:53:21,590 - Oh, sure you can, gal. 847 00:53:21,590 --> 00:53:22,930 - I can't. 848 00:53:22,930 --> 00:53:24,221 - Come on. 849 00:53:24,221 --> 00:53:26,669 Just step in it there. 850 00:53:26,669 --> 00:53:29,641 There, there's nothin' to it. 851 00:53:29,641 --> 00:53:31,619 - I can't. - There's nothin' to it. 852 00:53:31,619 --> 00:53:34,253 - Don't make me. - It's gonna be real easy. 853 00:53:35,100 --> 00:53:37,213 That mule has nothin' on you. 854 00:53:38,051 --> 00:53:38,884 Come on. 855 00:53:38,884 --> 00:53:42,133 You gonna thank me for givin' you this opportunity. 856 00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:45,193 There you are. 857 00:53:53,110 --> 00:53:55,462 Now you just remember what I told you 858 00:53:55,462 --> 00:53:57,129 about the incentive. 859 00:54:01,673 --> 00:54:04,506 (Harriet sobbing) 860 00:54:07,180 --> 00:54:09,180 Now, gal, you don't want me to tell Master Doc 861 00:54:09,180 --> 00:54:12,063 how you been a bad girl, now do you? 862 00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:16,239 (people chattering) 863 00:54:23,545 --> 00:54:26,212 (crowd jeering) 864 00:54:28,634 --> 00:54:30,946 - [Crowd] Come on, now, you can do it, let's go. 865 00:54:30,946 --> 00:54:31,779 Come on! 866 00:54:31,779 --> 00:54:34,529 (dramatic music) 867 00:55:15,528 --> 00:55:17,028 - You can make it! 868 00:56:54,908 --> 00:56:57,491 - My God, what happened to you? 869 00:56:59,137 --> 00:57:01,720 - Nothin', Master Doc. 870 00:57:01,720 --> 00:57:02,553 - I see. 871 00:57:03,756 --> 00:57:07,000 One of Stewart's donkey pageants again. 872 00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:09,723 And you came here to tell me about it? 873 00:57:09,723 --> 00:57:13,926 (Harriet breathing heavily) 874 00:57:13,926 --> 00:57:15,650 - Here, Master. 875 00:57:15,650 --> 00:57:16,926 - What's this for? 876 00:57:16,926 --> 00:57:17,759 - $200. 877 00:57:18,836 --> 00:57:20,769 $200, Master Doc. 878 00:57:20,769 --> 00:57:22,503 $200 to buy my freedom. 879 00:57:25,410 --> 00:57:26,243 - Oh. 880 00:57:27,500 --> 00:57:28,333 Oh no, child. 881 00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:33,450 Here, I wouldn't let you go for $200. 882 00:57:33,450 --> 00:57:35,850 I wouldn't sell you if someone offered me 1,000. 883 00:57:36,977 --> 00:57:37,810 - 1,000? 884 00:57:40,016 --> 00:57:44,096 - Have to be more than that, I'm afraid. 885 00:57:44,096 --> 00:57:48,326 - I thought. (crying) 886 00:57:48,326 --> 00:57:49,743 - [Doc] Hey, gal! 887 00:57:59,198 --> 00:58:02,198 (Harriet screaming) 888 00:58:11,897 --> 00:58:14,647 (dramatic music) 889 00:58:21,422 --> 00:58:24,255 (Harriet sobbing) 890 00:58:34,019 --> 00:58:39,019 (crickets chirping) (somber music) 891 00:58:48,490 --> 00:58:50,657 - Whatever it takes, John. 892 00:58:51,850 --> 00:58:54,170 I got to be free fore I die. 893 00:58:58,781 --> 00:59:01,781 If it takes 2,000, I'm gonna get it. 894 00:59:03,770 --> 00:59:06,470 If I got to go crazy with a rifle in my hand, 895 00:59:06,470 --> 00:59:08,770 I'ma do that, too. 896 00:59:08,770 --> 00:59:10,687 I got to be free, John. 897 00:59:11,788 --> 00:59:13,205 I got to be free. 898 00:59:16,366 --> 00:59:19,366 (people chattering) 899 00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:48,580 - Now, the Lord says a man is a man 900 00:59:48,580 --> 00:59:50,420 and a woman is a woman 901 00:59:50,420 --> 00:59:53,705 and they supposed to live by the words of the Lord 902 00:59:53,705 --> 00:59:57,427 as husband and wife, one without sin. 903 00:59:57,427 --> 00:59:58,873 - [Crowd] Amen. 904 00:59:58,873 --> 01:00:00,773 - Now, you got the ring? 905 01:00:03,710 --> 01:00:05,420 Well, put it on her, boy. 906 01:00:05,420 --> 01:00:06,281 Put it on her! 907 01:00:06,281 --> 01:00:08,531 (laughing) 908 01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:15,597 Now, take your walk. 909 01:00:30,519 --> 01:00:33,297 Now, you is married! (crowd cheering) 910 01:00:33,297 --> 01:00:36,288 (John cheering) 911 01:00:36,288 --> 01:00:38,871 (upbeat music) 912 01:01:30,242 --> 01:01:33,810 - (laughing) Sounds like they're having 913 01:01:33,810 --> 01:01:35,270 the time of their lives. 914 01:01:35,270 --> 01:01:37,170 - They is, ma'am. 915 01:01:37,170 --> 01:01:38,860 - Makes me feel like I wanna run down there 916 01:01:38,860 --> 01:01:40,203 and join 'em myself. 917 01:01:45,484 --> 01:01:47,020 I wonder who the devil was that ever 918 01:01:47,020 --> 01:01:48,867 thought up something like slavery. 919 01:02:06,043 --> 01:02:08,330 - [Narrator] A free man husband, 920 01:02:08,330 --> 01:02:09,513 a slave wife, 921 01:02:10,770 --> 01:02:12,473 a year of communal labor. 922 01:02:13,530 --> 01:02:15,900 A year of parties and good times, 923 01:02:15,900 --> 01:02:18,623 celebrations that the slave had not known before. 924 01:02:20,210 --> 01:02:22,940 Yet, the blight of slavery remains 925 01:02:22,940 --> 01:02:25,703 and monies that must be stored in freedom's purse, 926 01:02:26,704 --> 01:02:28,423 must be stored in freedom's purse. 927 01:02:31,510 --> 01:02:34,177 (John laughing) 928 01:02:47,870 --> 01:02:49,910 And then, as quickly as the passing 929 01:02:49,910 --> 01:02:52,200 of a bondsman's night sweep, 930 01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:56,920 the free man, John, concedes to silence, 931 01:02:56,920 --> 01:03:00,053 to brooding moods, to days of absence. 932 01:03:01,310 --> 01:03:03,060 The good times have all dwindled 933 01:03:04,390 --> 01:03:05,690 as if they had never been. 934 01:03:13,751 --> 01:03:16,418 (John rustling) 935 01:03:24,890 --> 01:03:27,150 - [Harriet] Goin' somewheres, John? 936 01:03:27,150 --> 01:03:29,400 - Goin' up to Cambridge, 937 01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:30,900 get my business started again. 938 01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:36,390 - Find enough white folks' clothes for free, I's guess? 939 01:03:39,100 --> 01:03:40,663 - That's right. 940 01:03:40,663 --> 01:03:44,120 - Just gonna walk off and leave me alone again, huh? 941 01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:46,100 - Harriet, you think you the only one who go problems? 942 01:03:46,100 --> 01:03:47,290 I got my problems, too. 943 01:03:47,290 --> 01:03:49,840 My free man's papers done run out. 944 01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:51,210 - We can pay for that out of the money 945 01:03:51,210 --> 01:03:53,125 we get from the crops this week. 946 01:03:53,125 --> 01:03:53,958 - No! 947 01:03:53,958 --> 01:03:54,830 Kinda man you think I am, 948 01:03:54,830 --> 01:03:56,883 using my wife's money for my problems? 949 01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:09,433 - John. 950 01:04:11,980 --> 01:04:14,830 I can understand you not wanting to take a woman's money, 951 01:04:16,570 --> 01:04:18,390 but ain't no point in you messin' around 952 01:04:18,390 --> 01:04:19,863 up country with throwaways. 953 01:04:21,020 --> 01:04:22,820 Why don't you try to settle down and 954 01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:27,590 get yourself hired out at Stewart place or 955 01:04:29,570 --> 01:04:30,760 somewhere. 956 01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:31,833 - Like a slave? 957 01:04:46,950 --> 01:04:49,167 You be good in the meantime, you hear? 958 01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:01,690 I gotta get a move on. 959 01:05:01,690 --> 01:05:04,973 - Yeah, I gotta get a move on, too. 960 01:05:07,010 --> 01:05:08,093 Back to work. 961 01:05:09,043 --> 01:05:10,626 'Cause I'm a slave. 962 01:05:18,572 --> 01:05:21,155 (somber music) 963 01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:45,893 - [Narrator] Two months alone, but not lonesome. 964 01:05:47,110 --> 01:05:49,947 Just angry, restless. (patrollers hollering) 965 01:05:49,947 --> 01:05:52,780 (dramatic music) 966 01:06:04,707 --> 01:06:06,667 - Master Stewart gonna hear about this! 967 01:06:06,667 --> 01:06:09,167 You don't belong on this land! 968 01:06:19,395 --> 01:06:23,062 (John singing indistinctly) 969 01:06:45,820 --> 01:06:47,483 - Sweet John is home. 970 01:06:51,250 --> 01:06:52,083 I'm home. 971 01:06:53,060 --> 01:06:56,520 Home to be with my baby. - Don't touch me! 972 01:06:57,746 --> 01:07:00,655 - Didn't you hear me, I said sweet John-- 973 01:07:00,655 --> 01:07:01,488 - Don't touch me! 974 01:07:03,706 --> 01:07:05,963 - What do you mean, a man can't touch his own woman? 975 01:07:06,826 --> 01:07:08,095 - No sir. 976 01:07:08,095 --> 01:07:11,080 Not when you go off and leave me alone for months. 977 01:07:11,080 --> 01:07:13,240 Exactly when you feel like, 978 01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:16,780 come back to me smelling of whiskey, 979 01:07:16,780 --> 01:07:19,445 your body stinking with another woman's odor! 980 01:07:19,445 --> 01:07:22,112 (John grunting) 981 01:07:36,455 --> 01:07:38,756 - It wasn't another woman! 982 01:07:38,756 --> 01:07:40,673 I was lookin' for work! 983 01:07:46,416 --> 01:07:49,220 Went to that old lumber mill I used to work at. 984 01:07:49,220 --> 01:07:51,733 I coulda got hired. 985 01:07:53,409 --> 01:07:55,309 When they asked to see my free papers, 986 01:07:56,770 --> 01:07:58,350 I told them I left them here, 987 01:07:58,350 --> 01:08:03,350 'cause I was scared to tell 'em they'd run out. 988 01:08:04,580 --> 01:08:05,830 I went everywhere, I even 989 01:08:07,940 --> 01:08:09,120 tried to get a job 990 01:08:10,190 --> 01:08:12,033 cleaning up outhouses. 991 01:08:13,070 --> 01:08:16,743 Everywhere I went they'd push me back like I was dirty. 992 01:08:18,110 --> 01:08:19,220 I was so scared 993 01:08:24,113 --> 01:08:26,030 I went to a juke joint. 994 01:08:29,600 --> 01:08:33,723 Beg drinks, just to get drunk. 995 01:08:38,377 --> 01:08:40,960 (somber music) 996 01:09:26,731 --> 01:09:27,564 - Hat? 997 01:09:28,740 --> 01:09:31,432 Hat, young Master Ed just died of lung fever. 998 01:09:31,432 --> 01:09:32,265 - He did? 999 01:09:32,265 --> 01:09:33,670 - Yeah, Miss Susan movin' up country 1000 01:09:33,670 --> 01:09:35,710 and Master Doc is selling everybody off. 1001 01:09:35,710 --> 01:09:37,350 - Tell Mama and Daddy I'll be over in a bit. 1002 01:09:37,350 --> 01:09:38,200 - All right, Hat. 1003 01:09:41,662 --> 01:09:44,245 (upbeat music) 1004 01:10:05,433 --> 01:10:07,391 - Hey, fellas, big daddy's back 1005 01:10:07,391 --> 01:10:09,762 and I'm buyin' all the drinks. 1006 01:10:09,762 --> 01:10:10,595 Come on! 1007 01:10:14,331 --> 01:10:17,860 (crickets chirping) 1008 01:10:17,860 --> 01:10:19,473 I just don't understand y'all. 1009 01:10:21,230 --> 01:10:23,500 One white boy croak up in the big house 1010 01:10:23,500 --> 01:10:26,050 the whole quarter comes down with roaming sickness. 1011 01:10:27,080 --> 01:10:28,320 Ain't nobody gonna get sold. 1012 01:10:28,320 --> 01:10:29,660 Doc Thompson ain't about to sell 1013 01:10:29,660 --> 01:10:31,523 prime slaves like your folks. 1014 01:10:32,580 --> 01:10:35,230 - One thing my momma taught me, John Tubman, 1015 01:10:35,230 --> 01:10:36,780 never depend on any man standing 1016 01:10:36,780 --> 01:10:38,290 over your life with a whip. 1017 01:10:38,290 --> 01:10:39,790 Time for us to get outta here. 1018 01:10:41,140 --> 01:10:42,013 - Us get where? 1019 01:10:44,570 --> 01:10:46,390 - You, me, my whole family. 1020 01:10:46,390 --> 01:10:48,100 Escape up north. 1021 01:10:48,100 --> 01:10:49,492 - North my butt. 1022 01:10:49,492 --> 01:10:52,030 It's cold as sin up north. 1023 01:10:52,030 --> 01:10:54,040 Colored folks crammed in the mills, 1024 01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:56,859 towns, houses like rabbits. 1025 01:10:56,859 --> 01:11:01,859 - Lord Jesus. 1026 01:11:02,391 --> 01:11:03,474 Is you blind? 1027 01:11:04,940 --> 01:11:05,857 Look at me! 1028 01:11:08,630 --> 01:11:11,031 I said look at me John Tubman! 1029 01:11:11,031 --> 01:11:12,473 I'm bond. 1030 01:11:12,473 --> 01:11:14,746 I could be sold away from you any day. 1031 01:11:14,746 --> 01:11:16,367 Don't you care? 1032 01:11:16,367 --> 01:11:17,663 Ain't you scared? 1033 01:11:22,262 --> 01:11:23,753 Give me that damn bottle. 1034 01:11:23,753 --> 01:11:27,051 I want you to tell me straight up right now, John Tubman. 1035 01:11:27,051 --> 01:11:29,968 I wanna hear it from you right now. 1036 01:11:34,070 --> 01:11:35,473 - Yeah, I care. 1037 01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:40,620 As soon as I get myself goin', 1038 01:11:41,620 --> 01:11:44,270 we can start saving all over again. 1039 01:11:44,270 --> 01:11:47,250 - We can start saving all over again? 1040 01:11:47,250 --> 01:11:49,233 - I'll buy your freedom myself. 1041 01:11:53,090 --> 01:11:53,923 Dammit, gal, what are you gonna 1042 01:11:53,923 --> 01:11:55,823 drag out that old sack again. 1043 01:11:59,870 --> 01:12:02,220 That's what I was trying to tell you. 1044 01:12:02,220 --> 01:12:03,053 I borrowed it. 1045 01:12:03,053 --> 01:12:04,453 That's what I did, I borrowed. 1046 01:12:10,097 --> 01:12:11,430 - You yellow ... 1047 01:12:13,365 --> 01:12:16,160 All my freedom money gone! 1048 01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:19,034 - What's wrong with a man borrowing from his wife? 1049 01:12:19,034 --> 01:12:21,976 - Not borrowed, John, stolen! 1050 01:12:21,976 --> 01:12:25,143 You stole my freedom to save your own! 1051 01:12:28,437 --> 01:12:31,700 (Harriet sobbing) 1052 01:12:31,700 --> 01:12:34,450 (dramatic music) 1053 01:12:35,580 --> 01:12:36,413 No, John! 1054 01:13:09,407 --> 01:13:10,889 Mama! 1055 01:13:10,889 --> 01:13:11,722 Daddy? 1056 01:13:13,859 --> 01:13:14,692 Mama? 1057 01:13:20,760 --> 01:13:25,760 (patrollers hollering) (horses galloping) 1058 01:13:48,553 --> 01:13:53,553 Aunt Juba? 1059 01:13:54,877 --> 01:13:55,710 Oh God. 1060 01:13:56,637 --> 01:13:58,736 What did they do to you? 1061 01:13:58,736 --> 01:13:59,903 Aunt Juba? 1062 01:13:59,903 --> 01:14:01,400 Say something to me, please. 1063 01:14:01,400 --> 01:14:02,887 Aunt Juba, where they been? 1064 01:14:02,887 --> 01:14:05,068 Say something to me, please say something. 1065 01:14:05,068 --> 01:14:06,568 Aunt Juba, please. 1066 01:14:09,888 --> 01:14:12,638 (Harriet crying) 1067 01:14:17,124 --> 01:14:18,541 - [Benji] Hattie. 1068 01:14:19,628 --> 01:14:23,128 - Benji, look what they done to Aunt Juba. 1069 01:14:28,407 --> 01:14:29,647 Where's Mama and Daddy? 1070 01:14:29,647 --> 01:14:33,009 - They's locked up in the barn behind the big house. 1071 01:14:33,009 --> 01:14:34,710 - I gotta go up after them. 1072 01:14:34,710 --> 01:14:35,820 - You can't, Hat. 1073 01:14:35,820 --> 01:14:38,080 There's patrollers all around. 1074 01:14:38,080 --> 01:14:38,913 - Benji? 1075 01:14:39,750 --> 01:14:40,920 I done made up my mind. 1076 01:14:40,920 --> 01:14:42,070 I'm gonna run off tonight. 1077 01:14:42,070 --> 01:14:43,113 You gotta come, go with me. 1078 01:14:43,113 --> 01:14:45,080 - With Robert and Elvina hired out? 1079 01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:47,129 Somebody's gotta stay with Mom and Dad. 1080 01:14:47,129 --> 01:14:49,190 - Well, I gotta go get 'em, Benji. 1081 01:14:49,190 --> 01:14:51,190 - You can't, Hat, you can't go up there. 1082 01:14:52,930 --> 01:14:54,330 - Tell 'em I'm goin', Benji. 1083 01:14:56,110 --> 01:14:57,623 After I get myself settled up north, 1084 01:14:57,623 --> 01:14:59,960 I'll come back and get y'all, hear? 1085 01:14:59,960 --> 01:15:01,557 Take her inside, Benji. 1086 01:15:06,187 --> 01:15:08,780 And you stay here from the patrollers, you hear me? 1087 01:15:12,569 --> 01:15:13,928 Bye, Benji. 1088 01:15:13,928 --> 01:15:15,511 - [Benji] Bye, Hat. 1089 01:15:17,347 --> 01:15:20,264 (knocking on door) 1090 01:15:22,347 --> 01:15:25,097 - [Miss Rodham] Harriet, come in. 1091 01:15:29,550 --> 01:15:32,467 - I'm sorry to get you up like that, Miss Rodham. 1092 01:15:32,467 --> 01:15:33,340 But I'm-- 1093 01:15:33,340 --> 01:15:35,688 - Are thee fleeing from bondage? 1094 01:15:35,688 --> 01:15:36,521 - Yes'm. 1095 01:15:42,970 --> 01:15:46,300 - The river heads north to the Delaware border, 1096 01:15:46,300 --> 01:15:51,300 where it gets smaller, and then on to the town of Dover. 1097 01:15:51,490 --> 01:15:52,640 Can thee remember that? 1098 01:15:53,835 --> 01:15:54,668 - Yes'm. 1099 01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:58,593 - One must be careful where one knocks, Harriet, 1100 01:16:00,470 --> 01:16:04,060 but thee will find an underground railway station in Dover 1101 01:16:04,060 --> 01:16:05,703 and a ticket to Philadelphia. 1102 01:16:06,950 --> 01:16:08,120 - You mean, they's gonna put me 1103 01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:10,669 on a train that runs under the ground? 1104 01:16:10,669 --> 01:16:11,502 - No. 1105 01:16:12,740 --> 01:16:14,323 It's not a real train. 1106 01:16:15,570 --> 01:16:18,810 The underground railway is people along the way 1107 01:16:18,810 --> 01:16:21,390 will help to clothe thee and feed thee 1108 01:16:21,390 --> 01:16:23,733 and rest at night. 1109 01:16:24,800 --> 01:16:27,463 And show thee the right way to Philadelphia. 1110 01:16:29,340 --> 01:16:30,463 Oh, Harriet. 1111 01:16:32,310 --> 01:16:35,890 This will be thy first underground railway station. 1112 01:16:37,103 --> 01:16:37,936 - Yes'm. 1113 01:16:49,931 --> 01:16:53,400 - And if thee get to the river before dawn, 1114 01:16:53,400 --> 01:16:55,110 thee may be fortunate enough to find 1115 01:16:55,110 --> 01:16:58,180 a boatman there at Reedy Cove. 1116 01:16:58,180 --> 01:17:00,500 He's often there during the night 1117 01:17:00,500 --> 01:17:03,140 and though we do not know who he is, 1118 01:17:03,140 --> 01:17:05,460 we do know that he is a friend. 1119 01:17:05,460 --> 01:17:06,433 You can trust him. 1120 01:17:07,451 --> 01:17:08,980 - Yes'm. 1121 01:17:08,980 --> 01:17:09,813 - Remember, 1122 01:17:11,760 --> 01:17:13,780 thee are journeying from midnight 1123 01:17:13,780 --> 01:17:16,490 through hope to God be praised. 1124 01:17:16,490 --> 01:17:17,870 Remember that. 1125 01:17:17,870 --> 01:17:19,247 - I sure will, Miss Rodham. 1126 01:17:20,222 --> 01:17:21,060 I sure will. 1127 01:17:23,320 --> 01:17:24,502 - God speed. 1128 01:17:24,502 --> 01:17:27,085 (somber music) 1129 01:17:42,959 --> 01:17:47,959 (uplifting music) (birds chirping) 1130 01:19:38,263 --> 01:19:40,590 - Now, this is as far as I go. 1131 01:19:40,590 --> 01:19:41,910 You just stay by the river and you'll be safe. 1132 01:19:41,910 --> 01:19:43,090 - Yes sir. 1133 01:19:43,090 --> 01:19:45,520 Thank you and God bless you sir. 1134 01:20:19,080 --> 01:20:21,260 - [Narrator] Tramping along the edge of the river 1135 01:20:21,260 --> 01:20:23,203 where waters crash by, 1136 01:20:24,130 --> 01:20:26,830 over and around ancient objects of nature 1137 01:20:26,830 --> 01:20:28,883 and their angry thrust upstream. 1138 01:20:30,570 --> 01:20:31,993 Touch the moss on the tree. 1139 01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:37,293 Yes, yes, yes. 1140 01:20:38,490 --> 01:20:40,248 The river flows north. 1141 01:20:40,248 --> 01:20:43,081 (uplifting music) 1142 01:20:57,144 --> 01:20:59,894 (dramatic music) 1143 01:21:12,381 --> 01:21:15,048 (water rushing) 1144 01:21:23,098 --> 01:21:25,931 (horse whinnying) 1145 01:21:33,300 --> 01:21:36,050 (dramatic music) 1146 01:22:18,960 --> 01:22:21,453 One does not drown in this river stream. 1147 01:22:22,950 --> 01:22:24,697 The river is the refuge now. 1148 01:23:20,155 --> 01:23:20,988 - Ah ha! 1149 01:23:22,318 --> 01:23:24,823 I'm always on the lookout, such as you. 1150 01:23:24,823 --> 01:23:26,073 Best come out now. 1151 01:23:27,624 --> 01:23:28,843 And you better be quiet. 1152 01:23:33,336 --> 01:23:34,510 Take it easy! 1153 01:23:34,510 --> 01:23:35,976 Take it easy! 1154 01:23:35,976 --> 01:23:38,032 I'm a free man! 1155 01:23:38,032 --> 01:23:39,950 And this here is my place! 1156 01:23:39,950 --> 01:23:41,850 And I help runaways whenever I's able. 1157 01:23:45,445 --> 01:23:46,862 - I'm sorry, sir. 1158 01:23:47,820 --> 01:23:49,133 - No need to be. 1159 01:23:50,154 --> 01:23:54,740 I come upon a runaway once who was so scared and ornery 1160 01:23:54,740 --> 01:23:56,870 she almost bit my finger off. 1161 01:23:56,870 --> 01:23:59,083 See? (laughs) 1162 01:24:01,850 --> 01:24:05,890 You'll be to Wilmington soon and on wheels. 1163 01:24:05,890 --> 01:24:09,265 That's your last stop before you get to Philadelphia. 1164 01:24:09,265 --> 01:24:10,098 - On a train? 1165 01:24:10,098 --> 01:24:11,660 - Nope. 1166 01:24:11,660 --> 01:24:14,212 Train's ain't safe here momma. 1167 01:24:14,212 --> 01:24:15,879 We're goin' by cart. 1168 01:24:30,583 --> 01:24:33,193 Here, put these on. 1169 01:24:34,726 --> 01:24:36,143 - Thank you, sir. 1170 01:24:40,140 --> 01:24:43,843 - Though there are guards on the road with your poster, 1171 01:24:46,610 --> 01:24:48,960 those men's clothes oughta cover you real good. 1172 01:24:50,184 --> 01:24:52,810 - You mean, they got a wanted poster? 1173 01:24:52,810 --> 01:24:54,350 - Sure enough do now. 1174 01:25:02,600 --> 01:25:04,363 Pull that hat down over that scar. 1175 01:25:07,160 --> 01:25:09,696 You know that's on the poster, too. 1176 01:25:09,696 --> 01:25:11,113 - Thank you, sir. 1177 01:25:12,744 --> 01:25:14,880 Guess I'm all right now? 1178 01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:16,960 - I can still tell you a woman. 1179 01:25:17,894 --> 01:25:20,454 But the guards won't. 1180 01:25:20,454 --> 01:25:21,287 Come on. 1181 01:25:34,965 --> 01:25:37,382 Giddy up, giddy up, giddy up. 1182 01:25:39,765 --> 01:25:41,765 Giddy up, boy, giddy up. 1183 01:25:42,765 --> 01:25:43,598 Ho. 1184 01:25:44,780 --> 01:25:45,763 - Something wrong? 1185 01:25:47,060 --> 01:25:48,563 - Guards up the road. 1186 01:25:50,308 --> 01:25:52,370 - I don't see nothin'. 1187 01:25:52,370 --> 01:25:54,837 - Me neither, but I smell 'em. 1188 01:25:58,380 --> 01:26:00,503 Chew on this and just behave like natural. 1189 01:26:02,913 --> 01:26:04,896 - You mean chew on this tobacco? 1190 01:26:04,896 --> 01:26:06,634 I can't chew on this tobacco. 1191 01:26:06,634 --> 01:26:09,370 It'll make me cough and heave. 1192 01:26:09,370 --> 01:26:11,010 - With them guards up there, 1193 01:26:11,010 --> 01:26:13,240 you better chew, miss runaway, 1194 01:26:13,240 --> 01:26:15,593 and you better not cough or heave. 1195 01:26:17,027 --> 01:26:18,188 Hyah! 1196 01:26:18,188 --> 01:26:19,355 Hyah, come on! 1197 01:26:21,606 --> 01:26:24,523 (thunder crashing) 1198 01:26:32,206 --> 01:26:33,758 Morning, boss. 1199 01:26:33,758 --> 01:26:36,141 - [Harriet] Morning, boss. 1200 01:26:36,141 --> 01:26:39,469 - [Cart Driver] Giddy up here, come on now, giddy up. 1201 01:26:39,469 --> 01:26:42,636 Giddy up, come on, giddy up giddy up. 1202 01:26:44,421 --> 01:26:49,421 (laughing) (Harriet gagging and coughing) 1203 01:26:50,438 --> 01:26:53,855 Mornin' boss. (laughing) 1204 01:26:54,899 --> 01:26:57,899 (suspenseful music) 1205 01:27:37,385 --> 01:27:40,302 (knocking on door) 1206 01:27:44,143 --> 01:27:46,370 - Yes, yes, coming. 1207 01:27:46,370 --> 01:27:47,270 I'll be with thee. 1208 01:27:50,240 --> 01:27:51,073 Yes, boy? 1209 01:27:51,073 --> 01:27:52,057 - Is you Mr. Garrett? 1210 01:27:52,057 --> 01:27:53,307 - [Thomas] Yes. 1211 01:27:55,270 --> 01:27:56,917 - My name Harriet Ross Tubman 1212 01:27:56,917 --> 01:27:59,250 and I'm an escaped slave from Maryland. 1213 01:27:59,250 --> 01:28:00,530 - Harriet? 1214 01:28:00,530 --> 01:28:01,450 What is wrong? 1215 01:28:01,450 --> 01:28:02,815 Was thee followed? 1216 01:28:02,815 --> 01:28:05,017 - There's two men out there. 1217 01:28:05,017 --> 01:28:06,727 - They will do thee no harm. 1218 01:28:06,727 --> 01:28:07,946 They're my brothers. 1219 01:28:07,946 --> 01:28:09,205 Come in. 1220 01:28:09,205 --> 01:28:10,122 One moment. 1221 01:28:14,140 --> 01:28:17,840 Gentlemen, please, won't thee go home now? 1222 01:28:17,840 --> 01:28:19,340 I'm sure I'm most grateful, 1223 01:28:19,340 --> 01:28:21,200 but my supper must be waiting, 1224 01:28:21,200 --> 01:28:23,220 and thy wives, likewise. 1225 01:28:23,220 --> 01:28:24,370 All is well, assuredly. 1226 01:28:27,744 --> 01:28:30,160 (laughs) 1227 01:28:30,160 --> 01:28:32,100 Some of my brothers have been most solicitous 1228 01:28:32,100 --> 01:28:33,760 since my arrest. 1229 01:28:33,760 --> 01:28:36,180 Very kind of them, but sometimes they keep watch 1230 01:28:36,180 --> 01:28:38,840 until the wee hours of the morning. 1231 01:28:38,840 --> 01:28:40,280 Come along with me. 1232 01:28:41,336 --> 01:28:42,669 Come along, now. 1233 01:28:46,960 --> 01:28:48,877 Come on now, don't be afeard. 1234 01:28:50,080 --> 01:28:53,447 Thee needn't be afeard, come along, come along. 1235 01:28:58,223 --> 01:29:00,490 - [Harriet] Everything my daddy taught me 1236 01:29:00,490 --> 01:29:02,467 about the woods and the river 1237 01:29:02,467 --> 01:29:04,183 kept me from getting caught. 1238 01:29:05,750 --> 01:29:07,610 - Yes, great knowledge. 1239 01:29:07,610 --> 01:29:10,967 Many fugitives perish from a lack of such knowledge. 1240 01:29:13,938 --> 01:29:17,747 And what caused thee to first plan to escape from slavery? 1241 01:29:22,080 --> 01:29:23,750 - When I was a little girl, 1242 01:29:24,757 --> 01:29:26,453 voices used to come to me. 1243 01:29:30,200 --> 01:29:32,393 They told me that the Lord willed it. 1244 01:29:33,277 --> 01:29:34,783 - Spiritual voices? 1245 01:29:37,620 --> 01:29:38,453 - Yes, sir. 1246 01:29:43,260 --> 01:29:47,210 - I myself heard voices, when I was but a lad. 1247 01:29:47,210 --> 01:29:48,410 There are those that scoff 1248 01:29:48,410 --> 01:29:51,600 and call such occurrences wicked mysticism, 1249 01:29:51,600 --> 01:29:54,500 but I believe God chooses many devices 1250 01:29:54,500 --> 01:29:57,359 to lead us to the path of righteousness. 1251 01:29:57,359 --> 01:29:58,787 (thunder crashing) 1252 01:29:58,787 --> 01:29:59,704 - Yes, sir. 1253 01:30:04,937 --> 01:30:07,820 - And what kept thy spirit alive 1254 01:30:07,820 --> 01:30:09,020 through the worst of it? 1255 01:30:10,011 --> 01:30:12,594 (solemn music) 1256 01:30:17,452 --> 01:30:19,785 - I reasoned that as a slave 1257 01:30:22,223 --> 01:30:23,556 I had no rights, 1258 01:30:26,730 --> 01:30:30,600 but then I reasoned that I did have the right 1259 01:30:30,600 --> 01:30:32,757 to die or try to go free. 1260 01:30:38,023 --> 01:30:40,856 I was gonna have one or the other. 1261 01:30:42,673 --> 01:30:43,737 - Very well put. 1262 01:30:45,761 --> 01:30:48,801 (thunder cracks) 1263 01:30:48,801 --> 01:30:50,051 Eat child, eat. 1264 01:31:07,191 --> 01:31:09,858 (cart rattling) 1265 01:31:17,602 --> 01:31:18,602 Here we are. 1266 01:31:20,226 --> 01:31:21,893 Cappin' up, Cavalry. 1267 01:31:27,760 --> 01:31:30,210 Well, you's just about on thy way 1268 01:31:30,210 --> 01:31:32,143 to thy new home of freedom, 1269 01:31:33,390 --> 01:31:35,560 across the field to that road. 1270 01:31:35,560 --> 01:31:37,810 The road will lead you to the turnpike. 1271 01:31:37,810 --> 01:31:40,660 The turnpike will take you to Philadelphia. 1272 01:31:40,660 --> 01:31:41,563 Use the map. 1273 01:31:42,920 --> 01:31:45,630 It will lead you to the Lombard Street Church. 1274 01:31:45,630 --> 01:31:47,370 Ask for William Still, 1275 01:31:47,370 --> 01:31:50,083 President of the Anti-Slavery Society. 1276 01:31:51,460 --> 01:31:52,403 God speed. 1277 01:31:54,115 --> 01:31:56,448 - God bless you Mr. Garrett. 1278 01:31:57,582 --> 01:32:00,165 (gentle music) 1279 01:32:04,910 --> 01:32:06,910 - [Narrator] The last road from slavery, 1280 01:32:07,920 --> 01:32:09,593 the first road to freedom. 1281 01:32:13,812 --> 01:32:16,880 (bell ringing) 1282 01:32:16,880 --> 01:32:20,013 Philadelphia, Liberty City, 1283 01:32:21,410 --> 01:32:23,540 Harriet Ross Tubman, 1284 01:32:23,540 --> 01:32:26,063 in gratitude for what she should not be, 1285 01:32:26,990 --> 01:32:28,703 what she does not want to be, 1286 01:32:29,660 --> 01:32:31,353 what she is not going to be, 1287 01:32:32,630 --> 01:32:33,663 praises God. 1288 01:32:35,210 --> 01:32:37,223 She is no longer what she was. 1289 01:32:40,030 --> 01:32:42,830 Philadelphia, full of life, 1290 01:32:42,830 --> 01:32:46,670 laughing and good godly time. 1291 01:32:46,670 --> 01:32:50,350 Like this time she gives to the stalwart abolitionist 1292 01:32:50,350 --> 01:32:53,570 William Still, blessed William Still, 1293 01:32:53,570 --> 01:32:56,650 whose anti-slavery society is The Haven, 1294 01:32:56,650 --> 01:32:59,430 where men and women who were once slaves 1295 01:32:59,430 --> 01:33:00,800 are helped to their new life 1296 01:33:00,800 --> 01:33:03,423 in this baffling world of freedom. 1297 01:33:04,460 --> 01:33:08,063 And as Harriet Ross Tubman carries out her task, 1298 01:33:08,930 --> 01:33:13,213 she recalls all too well what the voices had once said. 1299 01:33:14,180 --> 01:33:17,133 Suffering produces endurance. 1300 01:33:18,380 --> 01:33:21,360 Endurance produces character. 1301 01:33:21,360 --> 01:33:24,130 Character produces faith. 1302 01:33:24,130 --> 01:33:27,893 And faith would not, in the end, disappoint. 1303 01:33:44,840 --> 01:33:46,479 - Hello. 1304 01:33:46,479 --> 01:33:47,560 - You the preacher here? 1305 01:33:47,560 --> 01:33:49,520 - No I'm not, the pastor's away. 1306 01:33:49,520 --> 01:33:50,583 You runaway slaves? 1307 01:33:53,150 --> 01:33:54,500 You want food and clothing? 1308 01:33:58,810 --> 01:33:59,950 Well, then you must be tired. 1309 01:33:59,950 --> 01:34:01,780 Let us show you to our sleeping quarters. 1310 01:34:01,780 --> 01:34:03,343 - He's gone to sleep. 1311 01:34:04,240 --> 01:34:06,583 He's gone to sleep for good. 1312 01:34:09,600 --> 01:34:10,433 - He's dead. 1313 01:34:12,520 --> 01:34:13,953 - He be dead all right. 1314 01:34:16,020 --> 01:34:17,273 - Said he'd be all right. 1315 01:34:18,500 --> 01:34:22,527 Said if he could just get north for one day, 1316 01:34:24,039 --> 01:34:25,217 it'd be all right. 1317 01:34:27,653 --> 01:34:29,286 He'd be just fine. 1318 01:34:29,286 --> 01:34:31,869 (somber music) 1319 01:34:40,160 --> 01:34:41,977 - The death of that old man, 1320 01:34:43,060 --> 01:34:45,800 the gray look in his eyes, 1321 01:34:45,800 --> 01:34:47,433 and the voice that old woman, 1322 01:34:48,390 --> 01:34:51,013 left me with a deep spirit of sadness. 1323 01:34:52,617 --> 01:34:55,210 All I could think of and mull over 1324 01:34:55,210 --> 01:34:58,150 was to have my Mama and Daddy with me. 1325 01:34:58,150 --> 01:35:01,380 To see them released from the evil of bondage. 1326 01:35:02,420 --> 01:35:04,630 I just had to endure it and bring 'em back. 1327 01:35:16,910 --> 01:35:19,337 (dramatic music) 1328 01:35:19,337 --> 01:35:20,740 I can't wait no more. 1329 01:35:20,740 --> 01:35:22,569 - Harriet, you don't seem to understand. 1330 01:35:22,569 --> 01:35:24,270 They're not merely trying to capture you now, 1331 01:35:24,270 --> 01:35:26,100 they're after your life. 1332 01:35:26,100 --> 01:35:27,633 - My life is with God. 1333 01:35:28,490 --> 01:35:30,170 Theirs is with the devil. 1334 01:35:30,170 --> 01:35:32,330 And with God on my side I got to go where he calls me, 1335 01:35:32,330 --> 01:35:33,927 no matter what evil is trying to stop me. 1336 01:35:33,927 --> 01:35:37,290 - Get her mom and daddy back on Doc Thompson's plantation 1337 01:35:37,290 --> 01:35:38,530 and I'll catch your gal for you. 1338 01:35:38,530 --> 01:35:41,890 - My people were gave up to this land. 1339 01:35:43,158 --> 01:35:44,908 Fought for this land. 1340 01:35:46,539 --> 01:35:48,872 Belongs to this land, I say. 1341 01:35:50,448 --> 01:35:51,698 Love this land. 1342 01:35:53,527 --> 01:35:57,769 And it's on this land where we gonna be free! 1343 01:35:57,769 --> 01:36:01,686 - I've waited a long time for this, Miss Moses. 1344 01:36:06,950 --> 01:36:09,533 (gentle music) 1345 01:37:28,977 --> 01:37:31,810 (Multicom jingle)