1 00:01:01,053 --> 00:01:02,964 Last on Roots: 2 00:01:05,173 --> 00:01:06,731 Sold. Your name, sir? 3 00:01:06,933 --> 00:01:10,403 John Reynolds, Spotsylvania County, Virginia. 4 00:01:10,613 --> 00:01:14,731 Your massa give you a new name. Massa say you name Toby. 5 00:01:14,933 --> 00:01:16,491 Kunta! Kunta Kinte! 6 00:01:25,013 --> 00:01:28,688 Hey, Toby! Look what I got from the kitchen. 7 00:01:29,053 --> 00:01:30,281 I got... 8 00:01:38,293 --> 00:01:41,046 Chains ain't right for a nigger, Fiddler. 9 00:01:43,613 --> 00:01:45,490 Kunta never forget you. 10 00:01:45,653 --> 00:01:47,723 Helped Kunta be free. 11 00:02:02,013 --> 00:02:04,607 What it like to be free African? 12 00:02:10,653 --> 00:02:13,929 You're going to learn to answer to your name! 13 00:02:14,413 --> 00:02:17,325 - What's your name? - Kunta Kinte. 14 00:02:20,733 --> 00:02:22,246 What's your name? 15 00:02:23,213 --> 00:02:24,851 My name... 16 00:02:25,853 --> 00:02:27,047 ...is Toby. 17 00:03:26,333 --> 00:03:28,289 Hey, Toby. 18 00:03:30,773 --> 00:03:32,764 Dip of water, Toby? 19 00:03:33,333 --> 00:03:34,448 No. 20 00:03:38,173 --> 00:03:40,050 You sure? 21 00:03:42,813 --> 00:03:44,326 Here. 22 00:03:46,293 --> 00:03:50,206 Well, when you feel the need... 23 00:03:50,573 --> 00:03:52,768 ...you know where to come. 24 00:03:53,413 --> 00:03:57,850 Some things even an African nigger can't do without. 25 00:04:15,533 --> 00:04:16,966 Nigger. 26 00:04:19,253 --> 00:04:22,882 You, nigger. I'm talking to you. 27 00:04:24,813 --> 00:04:26,531 Get somebody... 28 00:04:27,413 --> 00:04:30,132 ...to load the crate on the wagon. 29 00:04:48,213 --> 00:04:50,773 You may be as dumb as hog fat... 30 00:04:50,933 --> 00:04:53,288 ...but you're as strong as an ox. 31 00:04:54,893 --> 00:04:56,326 Nigger. 32 00:04:58,173 --> 00:04:59,572 Keep loading. 33 00:05:29,653 --> 00:05:33,612 You, big buck! There's two more wagons to load. 34 00:05:33,893 --> 00:05:36,930 I want to get started for market before dark. 35 00:05:38,973 --> 00:05:43,888 Oh, Toby. You work very hard for this boss man. 36 00:05:44,093 --> 00:05:45,492 It'll be two days. 37 00:05:45,693 --> 00:05:49,322 I'll bring you back fit, fed and all in one piece. 38 00:05:49,533 --> 00:05:52,650 No, sir. Can't be done. 39 00:05:52,853 --> 00:05:55,651 No one can guarantee he'll be coming back. 40 00:05:56,413 --> 00:05:58,768 He's got runaway blood in him. 41 00:05:58,933 --> 00:06:03,290 I have to use the whip so much, it's a wonder he's got hide left. 42 00:06:04,253 --> 00:06:06,926 Too much spirit for his own good. 43 00:06:07,093 --> 00:06:12,087 - I don't want no trouble. - Toby be good nigger for massa. 44 00:06:13,213 --> 00:06:17,570 Don't send Toby away. Toby be good field hand. Good field hand. 45 00:06:17,773 --> 00:06:19,764 It's all right, Toby. 46 00:06:19,973 --> 00:06:22,931 You be a good field hand, you can stay here. 47 00:06:23,133 --> 00:06:26,205 Toby stay. Toby stay. Toby be good now. 48 00:06:26,413 --> 00:06:28,529 Toby be real good. 49 00:06:30,613 --> 00:06:34,367 - You work real hard now. - Toby be good field hand. 50 00:07:07,253 --> 00:07:10,768 Squire John, this is the finest harvest celebration... 51 00:07:10,933 --> 00:07:12,412 ...in Virginia history. 52 00:07:12,573 --> 00:07:16,851 May well be, Miss Constable. The tobacco crop's the finest ever. 53 00:07:17,013 --> 00:07:19,527 The festivities should be in keeping. 54 00:07:19,733 --> 00:07:22,964 My brother, William, has cause to celebrate. 55 00:07:23,413 --> 00:07:26,291 Cash from this crop will pay what I owe him. 56 00:07:26,453 --> 00:07:30,082 Every last pound, shilling, penny and farthing of it. 57 00:07:30,453 --> 00:07:34,128 And to meet your brother socially is indeed a rare treat. 58 00:07:34,293 --> 00:07:36,682 A young lady has to be not well... 59 00:07:36,893 --> 00:07:40,681 ...to be awarded the pleasure of Dr. Reynolds' company. 60 00:07:40,853 --> 00:07:45,688 If I weren't the only physician in town, I'd have time for society. 61 00:07:45,893 --> 00:07:51,126 I suspect that if Providence hadn't taken my brother's good wife... 62 00:07:51,293 --> 00:07:52,965 ...and make him single... 63 00:07:53,373 --> 00:07:56,843 ...there'd be less illness among the ladies. 64 00:07:57,453 --> 00:08:00,570 Squire Reynolds, you are a caution! 65 00:08:04,893 --> 00:08:09,523 Niggers don't put enough toddy to wet the glass or quench the thirst. 66 00:08:09,733 --> 00:08:13,169 Excuse me, my dear, I'll correct the condition. 67 00:08:13,493 --> 00:08:17,452 I'll join you, John. Anne, Miss Constable. 68 00:08:26,853 --> 00:08:30,892 I didn't want to discuss your debt in front of Miss Constable. 69 00:08:31,093 --> 00:08:36,247 - Family finance ought to be private. - True. True, that's very true. 70 00:08:36,413 --> 00:08:38,643 But since you raised the subject... 71 00:08:38,813 --> 00:08:42,283 ...my practice takes time away from property management. 72 00:08:42,453 --> 00:08:45,525 I need more field hands if I hope for profit. 73 00:08:45,693 --> 00:08:49,891 I have to have cash for that. I need the money you owe me. 74 00:08:51,013 --> 00:08:53,163 Distrustful of your own brother? 75 00:08:53,373 --> 00:08:57,252 Distrustful of the amount you drink and what it does. 76 00:08:57,453 --> 00:09:01,162 So be it. I drink too much and you worry too much. 77 00:09:01,333 --> 00:09:04,689 And we'll both meet our Maker too soon as a result. 78 00:09:05,573 --> 00:09:08,371 I'll be much happier when I arrive. 79 00:09:12,013 --> 00:09:16,848 Ah, Miss Constable. Here you are. 80 00:09:19,573 --> 00:09:21,609 Is Miss Constable your patient? 81 00:09:21,773 --> 00:09:25,083 With the Hippocratic oath and accidents of birth... 82 00:09:25,253 --> 00:09:27,244 ...it's a hectic life I lead. 83 00:09:27,413 --> 00:09:31,964 You mustn't be too harsh on John. Don't forget that he's your brother. 84 00:09:32,173 --> 00:09:36,325 What I mustn't forget is that he's your husband. 85 00:09:45,013 --> 00:09:48,483 Toby? I'm all set to play to the hoedown. 86 00:09:48,693 --> 00:09:50,445 Wanna come hear me? 87 00:09:52,453 --> 00:09:53,772 Toby? 88 00:10:07,213 --> 00:10:08,851 What you doing? 89 00:10:10,053 --> 00:10:11,725 When you gonna quit that? 90 00:10:11,933 --> 00:10:14,766 White folks don't like that kind of praying. 91 00:10:14,933 --> 00:10:19,245 Sooner or later, you gonna have to forget that African stuff. 92 00:10:19,413 --> 00:10:22,132 Make white folks mad and scare niggers. 93 00:10:22,893 --> 00:10:25,532 - Fiddler scared? - Sure, I'm scared. 94 00:10:25,733 --> 00:10:29,442 Scared of snakes and lung fever and white folks. 95 00:10:29,653 --> 00:10:33,487 Hope I ain't being too hard on the snakes and lung fever. 96 00:10:34,053 --> 00:10:38,205 Papa, don't worry. Toby be good nigger for massa. 97 00:10:45,253 --> 00:10:48,529 Sure. That make me laugh, all right. 98 00:10:49,013 --> 00:10:52,688 I figure you got something in your head when you do that. 99 00:10:54,533 --> 00:10:57,206 Hey, what you got in your head? 100 00:11:03,213 --> 00:11:06,569 - What's this? - A safo. 101 00:11:07,413 --> 00:11:08,687 Some kind of charm? 102 00:11:10,093 --> 00:11:14,291 You see this? Rooster feather. This bring Kunta spirit. 103 00:11:14,493 --> 00:11:16,848 Hair from horse make Kunta strong. 104 00:11:17,013 --> 00:11:19,811 Bird bone, that bring me luck. 105 00:11:21,653 --> 00:11:23,405 Why you need all that? 106 00:11:24,533 --> 00:11:28,526 I ask you why you need all this? How come, Toby? 107 00:11:29,333 --> 00:11:32,370 The last wagon going out this afternoon. 108 00:11:32,973 --> 00:11:35,851 They all be drunk. Kunta be free. 109 00:11:36,053 --> 00:11:37,406 No! 110 00:11:39,573 --> 00:11:44,283 When a nigger run off, they be meaner than ever to the rest of us. 111 00:11:44,493 --> 00:11:49,567 - They won't do nothing bad to you. - You gonna try again, huh? 112 00:11:49,973 --> 00:11:54,603 I remember when you got me moved. I slept in the barn in the winter. 113 00:11:54,773 --> 00:11:57,492 That ain't nothing like when they catch you... 114 00:11:57,653 --> 00:12:00,645 - Lf they catch me. - Toby... . 115 00:12:01,453 --> 00:12:05,287 Kunta, there ain't no way to beat the law. 116 00:12:05,493 --> 00:12:07,882 The law gets read in white churches. 117 00:12:08,093 --> 00:12:11,290 Niggers can't carry no guns or sticks. 118 00:12:11,493 --> 00:12:14,803 20 lashes if you get caught with no traveling pass. 119 00:12:15,013 --> 00:12:17,288 - Ten... - Lf you look them in the eye. 120 00:12:17,453 --> 00:12:22,129 30 if you raise your hand to them! You lie, they cut your ears off! 121 00:12:22,333 --> 00:12:24,085 I know the law, Fiddler! 122 00:12:24,293 --> 00:12:28,332 Then you ought to know there ain't no way to beat it! 123 00:12:28,533 --> 00:12:32,321 White folks live by it. And niggers die by it. 124 00:12:38,173 --> 00:12:41,768 Maybe this time I'll make it to the Calvert plantation. 125 00:12:41,933 --> 00:12:46,006 Maybe I will find Fanta. But it don't matter. 126 00:12:46,213 --> 00:12:49,569 Since they take me from my home and bring me here... 127 00:12:49,733 --> 00:12:52,691 ...the only time I be free is when I run away. 128 00:12:55,253 --> 00:12:58,928 Sometime it seem like being alone and being free... 129 00:12:59,093 --> 00:13:01,687 ...is all the same for a slave. 130 00:13:02,333 --> 00:13:04,210 You don't be free. 131 00:13:05,373 --> 00:13:06,601 You be dead. 132 00:13:13,213 --> 00:13:14,965 Then I be free. 133 00:13:18,293 --> 00:13:20,363 Fiddler? Fiddler! 134 00:13:21,653 --> 00:13:24,850 That be Luther. Calling me to the hoedown. 135 00:13:37,493 --> 00:13:39,563 I gonna celebrate the harvest. 136 00:13:39,933 --> 00:13:44,848 I'm gonna play a hoedown like you never heard played before. 137 00:13:45,493 --> 00:13:48,166 Them niggers be stomping and yelling... 138 00:13:48,373 --> 00:13:51,604 ...and laughing and slapping their knees... 139 00:13:51,853 --> 00:13:54,606 ...so ain't nobody gonna see nothing. 140 00:13:56,373 --> 00:13:59,251 Not even them wagons leaving for the market. 141 00:14:02,333 --> 00:14:07,453 But I really be celebrating seeing the last of one dumb African nigger. 142 00:14:14,093 --> 00:14:15,412 Fiddler. 143 00:14:27,733 --> 00:14:29,530 Goodbye, Fiddler. 144 00:14:30,533 --> 00:14:33,001 I hope it be a good goodbye... 145 00:14:33,773 --> 00:14:35,092 ...Kunta. 146 00:14:36,213 --> 00:14:38,204 Hope it be something. 147 00:16:14,733 --> 00:16:18,521 Listen to them. Mr. Reynolds is too soft on niggers. 148 00:16:18,733 --> 00:16:22,282 Enjoying themselves while a white man's got to work. 149 00:16:22,453 --> 00:16:27,402 Doesn't seem right that I gotta drive all night on the worst roads, neither. 150 00:16:27,693 --> 00:16:31,402 Sorry I couldn't let you a nigger to help offload it. 151 00:16:31,733 --> 00:16:34,293 I don't let niggers off the plantation. 152 00:16:34,813 --> 00:16:38,772 This way they don't know which way is east or west. 153 00:16:38,973 --> 00:16:43,649 If I let one go to the tobacco market, he'll know where that is. 154 00:16:43,853 --> 00:16:47,641 Then he'll figure out where someplace else is. 155 00:16:47,813 --> 00:16:51,010 Next thing, he'll know which way to the north. 156 00:16:51,173 --> 00:16:55,371 I understand, but it would've been nice to have a strong buck... 157 00:16:55,573 --> 00:16:57,325 ...to help me offload. 158 00:16:57,693 --> 00:17:00,844 Good evening, sir. Come on, Ted. 159 00:18:43,253 --> 00:18:45,767 George, this is Calvert's plantation. 160 00:18:46,293 --> 00:18:48,523 The end of the next crossing. 161 00:18:49,813 --> 00:18:52,566 I say we owe our rumps a rest. 162 00:19:21,053 --> 00:19:23,328 I want that slave back, Mr. Grill. 163 00:19:23,533 --> 00:19:27,082 Yes, sir, Mr. Reynolds, but how do you want him back? 164 00:19:27,253 --> 00:19:32,168 - Alive is one fee, dead's another. - Frankly, I'd prefer him dead. 165 00:19:32,373 --> 00:19:35,649 Killing a runaway slave is easy enough, squire. 166 00:19:35,853 --> 00:19:38,651 It don't make as good an example. 167 00:19:38,853 --> 00:19:43,005 - Plus you lose your investment. - That's true enough. 168 00:19:43,173 --> 00:19:46,768 He cost me 1 55 pounds. He's worth a lot more now. 169 00:19:46,933 --> 00:19:49,925 You wanna make sure he stays put this time. 170 00:19:50,093 --> 00:19:53,483 Mr. Trumbull's right. You let him get away... 171 00:19:53,693 --> 00:19:57,163 ...and every nigger on your place will be gone. 172 00:20:03,333 --> 00:20:05,403 Do what you have to do. 173 00:20:05,573 --> 00:20:08,007 You'll find me a fair man with money. 174 00:20:08,173 --> 00:20:10,812 Yes, sir. We know what to do. 175 00:20:12,093 --> 00:20:15,802 - Well, we best be underway, squire. - Good day. 176 00:20:22,693 --> 00:20:24,763 You want me to go with them? 177 00:20:25,933 --> 00:20:28,766 Yes, I want you to go with them, Mr. Ames. 178 00:20:28,973 --> 00:20:32,010 But I don't think I'd like you to come back. 179 00:20:32,893 --> 00:20:35,168 - I warned you about Toby. - You did. 180 00:20:35,333 --> 00:20:37,528 - I warned you many times! - Indeed! 181 00:20:37,693 --> 00:20:39,285 You forgot to warn Toby. 182 00:20:39,453 --> 00:20:43,241 It's your job, your responsibility. He made a fool of you. 183 00:20:44,013 --> 00:20:46,163 You be off my property... 184 00:20:46,373 --> 00:20:50,127 ...by nightfall, Mr. Ames. 185 00:21:08,573 --> 00:21:10,928 Ain't nothing a nigger can do... 186 00:21:11,093 --> 00:21:14,608 ...that don't make Massa Calvert's plantation better. 187 00:21:34,373 --> 00:21:36,728 All right now, old fox... 188 00:21:36,933 --> 00:21:38,571 ...or weasel. 189 00:21:39,093 --> 00:21:41,323 Or whatever you is... 190 00:21:41,653 --> 00:21:43,803 ...you better get on out of here. 191 00:21:53,693 --> 00:21:55,126 Here, now... 192 00:21:56,413 --> 00:21:58,768 ...whatever hungry animal you is... 193 00:21:59,773 --> 00:22:02,162 ...you better get out before sunup. 194 00:22:04,213 --> 00:22:06,727 Oh, nigger. Nigger! 195 00:22:07,733 --> 00:22:10,088 This the Calvert plantation? 196 00:22:13,933 --> 00:22:17,209 You got one African girl around here named Fanta? 197 00:22:19,093 --> 00:22:20,526 Her name Maggie. 198 00:22:22,053 --> 00:22:25,170 Now you go to the barn and stay put. 199 00:22:27,293 --> 00:22:28,521 I never seen you. 200 00:22:30,053 --> 00:22:32,487 Remember that when they catch you. 201 00:22:33,493 --> 00:22:35,882 I never seen you. 202 00:22:59,813 --> 00:23:01,644 Fanta, here. 203 00:23:15,933 --> 00:23:17,730 Fanta. 204 00:23:21,893 --> 00:23:23,645 What they do to you? 205 00:23:25,853 --> 00:23:27,525 Everything. 206 00:24:11,533 --> 00:24:14,491 I don't understand that African talk no more. 207 00:24:14,693 --> 00:24:18,766 Say it plain in English so I understand what you're saying. 208 00:24:20,013 --> 00:24:23,164 What you mean, say it plain in English? 209 00:24:23,373 --> 00:24:26,604 I put all that African talk clean out of my head. 210 00:24:26,813 --> 00:24:30,442 I don't talk it. I don't even think it no more. 211 00:24:30,613 --> 00:24:32,410 - Fanta... - No. 212 00:24:32,613 --> 00:24:36,925 Maggie. It's the name they give me. 213 00:24:37,133 --> 00:24:39,647 It's what I go by. Maggie. 214 00:24:41,493 --> 00:24:43,643 What name they give you? 215 00:24:47,413 --> 00:24:48,926 Toby. 216 00:24:49,973 --> 00:24:51,452 Toby. 217 00:24:53,573 --> 00:24:56,406 It's a better name than some I heard about. 218 00:25:00,253 --> 00:25:02,084 Take how we think. 219 00:25:03,213 --> 00:25:05,329 Take how we call each other. 220 00:25:06,133 --> 00:25:07,407 Damn! 221 00:25:07,813 --> 00:25:10,407 The white man don't leave us nothing! 222 00:25:40,853 --> 00:25:46,086 I am young Massa Calvert's bed wench. 223 00:25:47,373 --> 00:25:52,367 Any children come out of me supposed to be his, supposed to be brown. 224 00:25:52,893 --> 00:25:56,329 I can touch you so you feel better... 225 00:25:56,533 --> 00:25:59,923 ...but we can't be with each other like we want. 226 00:26:04,533 --> 00:26:09,288 White man don't even leave us, us. 227 00:26:15,413 --> 00:26:16,892 Fanta. 228 00:26:18,773 --> 00:26:20,206 Fanta. 229 00:26:29,813 --> 00:26:31,132 I want you now. 230 00:26:32,493 --> 00:26:34,085 I need you. 231 00:26:56,933 --> 00:27:02,053 If the sun's on this side, we're heading north. That where freedom be. 232 00:27:02,293 --> 00:27:06,081 Say yes, Fanta. I can't stay here much longer. 233 00:27:06,253 --> 00:27:08,767 - How far? - Don't know. It don't matter. 234 00:27:08,973 --> 00:27:11,533 We just keep going till we reach north. 235 00:27:11,733 --> 00:27:13,530 Please, come with me. 236 00:27:14,613 --> 00:27:19,084 - What you gonna do once you get there? - I'll find a job, make money. 237 00:27:19,253 --> 00:27:23,485 What job you gonna get? What white man's work you know how to do? 238 00:27:24,293 --> 00:27:27,649 They ain't got no tobacco. They ain't got no cotton. 239 00:27:27,853 --> 00:27:31,402 They ain't got nothing up north for a nigger to pick. 240 00:27:31,573 --> 00:27:33,803 Come with me now, Fanta. 241 00:27:33,973 --> 00:27:38,763 Maybe we can get away from this place together. Maybe back to our home. 242 00:27:40,853 --> 00:27:42,844 Been a long time. 243 00:27:43,333 --> 00:27:47,406 My father, Omoro, close to 50 now. 244 00:27:48,453 --> 00:27:53,288 Grandma Nyo Boto, she'll be 68 if she's still living. 245 00:27:54,973 --> 00:27:57,646 My baby brother, finished with manhood... 246 00:27:57,853 --> 00:27:59,286 You talking crazy. 247 00:28:00,413 --> 00:28:01,482 We can make it! 248 00:28:01,653 --> 00:28:04,850 Now I told you! My name is Maggie! 249 00:28:17,493 --> 00:28:20,326 A clear win! 250 00:28:20,613 --> 00:28:24,811 Two legs on you, judge. Or more? 251 00:28:24,973 --> 00:28:27,806 1 0 pounds, that was the wager. Pay up. 252 00:28:28,013 --> 00:28:30,971 Don't want me saying you don't pay your debts. 253 00:28:31,133 --> 00:28:35,968 1 0 pounds, coin of the realm. You'd do as a tax collector, Thomas. 254 00:28:39,653 --> 00:28:43,407 You've no objection to us taking our ease at your trough? 255 00:28:43,573 --> 00:28:45,768 No, no. Drink your fill. 256 00:28:54,893 --> 00:28:58,442 - Looks like you've come a long way. - That we have, sir. 257 00:28:58,613 --> 00:29:02,606 Chasing a runaway. Seen any nigger that might fit the bill? 258 00:29:02,813 --> 00:29:07,091 You know no toubob can make it through the woods like Mandinka! 259 00:29:07,253 --> 00:29:12,088 We stay away from people, we can make it to the north and be free! 260 00:29:12,373 --> 00:29:15,763 - Maybe we can find more runaways... - No! 261 00:29:15,933 --> 00:29:19,084 No, now I'm here! And I'm gonna stay here! 262 00:29:19,253 --> 00:29:21,813 - Stay a slave? - I'm gonna stay alive! 263 00:29:23,493 --> 00:29:27,850 I'm gonna stay warm instead of cold. Fed instead of starved. 264 00:29:28,213 --> 00:29:29,532 I'm gonna stay. 265 00:29:29,693 --> 00:29:32,526 I'll do what they say long as I suck breath. 266 00:29:32,693 --> 00:29:36,049 A dead nigger ain't help nobody. Not a dead nigger! 267 00:29:36,253 --> 00:29:40,485 - You can't mean it... - Hush! I mean it! 268 00:29:41,093 --> 00:29:44,529 I mean every word. Get out of here and leave me be. 269 00:29:44,733 --> 00:29:46,769 It's daylight. Get out! 270 00:29:46,933 --> 00:29:51,006 - Let me talk with you, woman! - Please, no! No! 271 00:29:51,173 --> 00:29:54,006 I don't want to hear it! This is where I is! 272 00:29:54,173 --> 00:29:56,846 This is where I'm gonna stay, long as... 273 00:30:00,573 --> 00:30:03,041 Maggie, who's in there with you? 274 00:30:12,053 --> 00:30:15,568 - You know that nigger? - I never saw him before. 275 00:30:15,773 --> 00:30:17,923 Trumbull, that's him! 276 00:30:57,013 --> 00:30:58,844 Damn nigger! 277 00:32:12,093 --> 00:32:15,768 Oh, you'll live, but fixed so you'll never run again. 278 00:32:27,493 --> 00:32:28,846 Or... . 279 00:32:38,373 --> 00:32:39,772 No! 280 00:32:42,293 --> 00:32:44,727 Well, the lad's made his choice. 281 00:33:11,893 --> 00:33:13,087 Toby. 282 00:33:13,893 --> 00:33:15,246 Toby. 283 00:33:24,413 --> 00:33:26,051 Fanta! 284 00:33:33,493 --> 00:33:34,721 It's delirium. 285 00:33:37,053 --> 00:33:39,521 Fanta. 286 00:33:44,013 --> 00:33:46,846 - That foot is still festered. - Yes, sir. 287 00:33:49,653 --> 00:33:51,564 Slave catchers! 288 00:33:52,773 --> 00:33:56,527 They're worse than animals. Cruel just for the pleasure. 289 00:33:56,693 --> 00:34:01,972 And stupid. One swipe of the ax and they ruin a valuable piece of property. 290 00:34:03,413 --> 00:34:07,088 Well, I never thought this boy would linger for... 291 00:34:07,293 --> 00:34:09,602 - What is it, three weeks? - Yes, sir. 292 00:34:11,093 --> 00:34:16,008 Nothing more to be done, except wait for the fever to break or to kill him. 293 00:34:16,173 --> 00:34:20,610 I'll tend him. I made a poultice. Elderberry leaves and sulfur. 294 00:34:20,813 --> 00:34:22,326 It can't do any harm. 295 00:34:22,533 --> 00:34:27,402 I sent that mulatto girl Genelva to fetch me muslin rags to pack him with. 296 00:34:27,573 --> 00:34:29,245 Fanta. 297 00:34:30,733 --> 00:34:33,122 Luther has to drive me to Janesburg. 298 00:34:33,293 --> 00:34:37,127 Pox and British chain shot are killing the troops. 299 00:34:37,333 --> 00:34:38,812 Mr. Harlan. 300 00:34:40,253 --> 00:34:44,087 If this boy dies before I get back, shroud and bury him. 301 00:34:44,253 --> 00:34:47,484 Get Cassius and Hannibal to start digging a grave. 302 00:34:47,653 --> 00:34:50,690 Lord knows what sickness he has. Understand? 303 00:34:50,893 --> 00:34:53,930 I understand. I'll take care of it. 304 00:35:01,293 --> 00:35:05,206 Slave catchers. Castrating butchers. 305 00:35:07,693 --> 00:35:09,285 What're you doing here? 306 00:35:09,493 --> 00:35:11,131 I was worried about Toby. 307 00:35:11,333 --> 00:35:14,769 We was friends back when we belonged to your brother. 308 00:35:16,533 --> 00:35:19,730 I'm a patient man so I'll tell you one more time. 309 00:35:19,933 --> 00:35:23,767 I own you. You, Toby, Genelva, all of you. 310 00:35:24,053 --> 00:35:27,728 - I thought you'd understand. - Massa, we understand. 311 00:35:27,933 --> 00:35:32,484 A crippled field hand, a mulatto wench and an old fiddle player. 312 00:35:32,693 --> 00:35:36,368 - Fine way my brother paid his debts. - That's the truth. 313 00:35:37,173 --> 00:35:40,802 Mr. Harlan, find something for this mulatto girl to do. 314 00:35:41,053 --> 00:35:43,283 I know Genelva since your brother. 315 00:35:43,453 --> 00:35:47,207 She's no good for the fields. You don't need her inside. 316 00:35:47,373 --> 00:35:49,887 Only thing she's good for is breeding. 317 00:35:51,093 --> 00:35:55,132 Yes. The babies might be worth something. 318 00:35:55,333 --> 00:35:58,370 You'll have no truck with her. You're too old. 319 00:35:58,533 --> 00:36:01,605 We'll find a young buck to breed her with. 320 00:36:02,733 --> 00:36:04,485 Yes, massa. 321 00:36:04,693 --> 00:36:07,571 Bell told you to go fetch. Get to it. 322 00:36:10,693 --> 00:36:14,732 - Luther, we're late for Janesburg. - Massa doctor, Toby? 323 00:36:15,853 --> 00:36:20,688 I've no idea if he'll live. If he dies, he'll have himself to blame. 324 00:36:21,293 --> 00:36:23,887 I don't hold with what they did to him. 325 00:36:24,813 --> 00:36:28,283 But a slave who runs off doesn't warrant any prizes. 326 00:36:28,493 --> 00:36:29,972 Luther. 327 00:36:52,173 --> 00:36:54,050 You ain't gonna die. 328 00:36:54,893 --> 00:36:57,487 Bell ain't gonna let you die. 329 00:37:22,533 --> 00:37:24,649 You alive! 330 00:37:27,413 --> 00:37:29,404 Ain't that fine? 331 00:37:31,093 --> 00:37:34,608 - Slave catchers. - That's right. 332 00:37:35,293 --> 00:37:38,444 We figured they catch you, maybe they kill you. 333 00:37:38,653 --> 00:37:40,132 But you ain't. 334 00:37:43,413 --> 00:37:45,927 But look what they do to me, Fiddler. 335 00:37:47,413 --> 00:37:49,051 Look what they did to me. 336 00:37:52,533 --> 00:37:57,004 What kind of man would do that to another man? What kind? 337 00:38:02,293 --> 00:38:04,887 Why didn't they just kill me? 338 00:38:06,573 --> 00:38:08,689 Why they don't just kill me? 339 00:38:12,093 --> 00:38:14,607 Maybe they did. 340 00:38:15,493 --> 00:38:16,892 Toby. 341 00:38:18,453 --> 00:38:22,810 We at Dr. William now. We belong to him. 342 00:38:23,253 --> 00:38:25,813 We ain't at the squire's no more. 343 00:38:27,533 --> 00:38:28,648 How come? 344 00:38:30,493 --> 00:38:34,452 Massa Reynolds couldn't get his price for the tobacco. 345 00:38:34,613 --> 00:38:38,606 So, you see, the money that he owed to Dr. William... . 346 00:38:39,453 --> 00:38:43,765 We the money he owed. That's how he paid it off. With us. 347 00:38:46,373 --> 00:38:49,683 Tell me now, Fiddler. 348 00:38:49,853 --> 00:38:52,492 What kind of massa this new man? 349 00:38:52,653 --> 00:38:56,362 He's the best, that's what he be. 350 00:38:59,813 --> 00:39:03,169 I been his cook for years. He's a good massa. 351 00:39:03,813 --> 00:39:07,567 She's the one see you through the fever. Almost a month. 352 00:39:07,773 --> 00:39:08,808 I'm Bell. 353 00:39:12,333 --> 00:39:16,611 He figure because he got half a foot, he ain't a whole man. 354 00:39:17,613 --> 00:39:20,252 Well, you can tell your friend, Toby... 355 00:39:20,413 --> 00:39:23,132 ...half a foot don't make a man no less... 356 00:39:23,693 --> 00:39:26,571 ...unless, of course, he want to be. 357 00:39:33,093 --> 00:39:35,971 There's something for him over by the stove. 358 00:39:36,333 --> 00:39:38,483 If he wants to eat from now on... 359 00:39:38,693 --> 00:39:41,810 ...he can walk on over to my kitchen door. 360 00:39:46,893 --> 00:39:48,849 You can't run no more. 361 00:39:49,853 --> 00:39:52,811 You tried. More than most. 362 00:39:55,053 --> 00:39:58,443 You can't run no more. That's all there is to it. 363 00:39:59,293 --> 00:40:01,648 If I can't find a way to run... 364 00:40:04,253 --> 00:40:07,211 ...then I just lay here and die. 365 00:40:10,053 --> 00:40:12,851 I just lay here and die. 366 00:40:39,333 --> 00:40:40,402 These for you. 367 00:41:10,973 --> 00:41:14,090 Massa says I doesn't do no sparking with Luther. 368 00:41:14,293 --> 00:41:16,329 He say we can't even talk. 369 00:41:16,533 --> 00:41:18,888 I heard. Massa means what he says. 370 00:41:19,093 --> 00:41:22,927 He catch you around Luther, you'll be sold quick. 371 00:41:23,093 --> 00:41:26,483 Ain't that way with us, Bell. We loves one another. 372 00:41:27,373 --> 00:41:29,329 Luther's real gentle with me. 373 00:41:29,493 --> 00:41:33,884 He ain't like them young bucks. They just wanna push and shove. 374 00:41:34,733 --> 00:41:38,851 But Luther, he likes me just to talk to. 375 00:41:39,053 --> 00:41:43,410 - Sometimes we just... - Still, massa's got his rules. 376 00:41:44,093 --> 00:41:46,607 We just see to it he don't catch us. 377 00:41:47,253 --> 00:41:49,687 Then you just looking for trouble. 378 00:41:50,293 --> 00:41:53,046 You talk like a woman don't care about men. 379 00:41:53,213 --> 00:41:57,809 Oh, I care, honey. I just haven't found a man I wanted in 1 0 years. 380 00:41:59,093 --> 00:42:00,321 What about Toby? 381 00:42:01,413 --> 00:42:04,291 Oh, Toby, that fool runaway nigger. 382 00:42:04,453 --> 00:42:06,967 What makes you think I care about him? 383 00:42:07,813 --> 00:42:12,603 The way you been fretting whether he live or die. Whether he walk or not. 384 00:42:13,093 --> 00:42:16,642 Ain't acting like a woman don't care nothing for a man. 385 00:42:16,853 --> 00:42:20,402 Maybe it's been so long since you seen a man you wanted... 386 00:42:20,573 --> 00:42:23,690 ...you just done forgot what it feel like. 387 00:42:24,813 --> 00:42:27,771 You're a smart gal, Genelva. 388 00:42:29,853 --> 00:42:33,323 Keep an eye on them loaves. Don't make them burn. 389 00:42:56,173 --> 00:42:58,528 I see you found the crutches. 390 00:43:03,093 --> 00:43:07,006 Here's a pair of massa's old boot. He gave them to me. 391 00:43:08,253 --> 00:43:11,689 I ain't gonna need no boots again. Never. 392 00:43:13,013 --> 00:43:16,483 I stuffed the toe so's the boot'll fit snug. 393 00:43:16,693 --> 00:43:21,050 If it ain't right, I'll pull some stuffing out or put more in. 394 00:43:21,253 --> 00:43:22,606 No! 395 00:43:23,013 --> 00:43:26,926 I seen that ugly stump already! Don't be foolish! 396 00:43:27,093 --> 00:43:30,483 Don't you know nothing? Don't you understand? 397 00:43:30,693 --> 00:43:35,767 I ain't gonna need no boots again, because I ain't gonna walk again! 398 00:43:36,853 --> 00:43:40,562 Well, you throw them out then. Because I ain't gonna. 399 00:43:51,093 --> 00:43:54,927 Fiddler say you come from Africa. Say you always bragging. 400 00:43:57,493 --> 00:44:00,803 Don't brag. Ain't no need to brag. 401 00:44:01,853 --> 00:44:05,209 Fiddler say even when you ain't talking, you proud. 402 00:44:05,413 --> 00:44:08,883 Real proud about being an African. 403 00:44:10,013 --> 00:44:13,642 Yeah, I'm Mandinka. I'm Mandinka fighting man. 404 00:44:19,253 --> 00:44:23,724 You surely are some brave Mandinka fighting man, Toby. 405 00:44:23,893 --> 00:44:26,612 - What you fighting now? - Shut your mouth! 406 00:44:26,813 --> 00:44:31,045 I don't see why I have to do that. I can say anything I want. 407 00:44:31,253 --> 00:44:34,609 And you sure can't do nothing about it, can you? 408 00:44:35,093 --> 00:44:36,924 Fighting man. 409 00:45:47,773 --> 00:45:50,048 I think you gonna make it. 410 00:45:50,253 --> 00:45:53,131 Lord be praised, Toby. You gonna walk! 411 00:45:54,373 --> 00:45:57,490 Woman, I done told you, my name ain't no Toby. 412 00:45:58,133 --> 00:46:01,808 I am Kunta Kinte, son of Omoro and Binta Kinte! 413 00:46:02,373 --> 00:46:05,331 A fighting man from the village of Juffure! 414 00:46:16,693 --> 00:46:19,332 I gonna do better than learn to walk. 415 00:46:19,533 --> 00:46:22,331 I gonna learn to run! 416 00:46:24,773 --> 00:46:26,047 Damn it! 417 00:46:27,093 --> 00:46:29,653 I gonna learn to run. 418 00:47:10,373 --> 00:47:12,091 Genelva. 419 00:47:13,973 --> 00:47:18,091 - What you doing here? - I's come to see you, Toby. 420 00:47:18,253 --> 00:47:22,690 You ain't never talking to no one. Thought you might need coaxing. 421 00:47:22,853 --> 00:47:24,844 Harlan been looking for you. 422 00:47:25,053 --> 00:47:29,968 He looking in the wrong place. He think I'm looking to old Luther. 423 00:47:30,133 --> 00:47:33,682 He don't know nothing about what a gal really wants. 424 00:47:34,173 --> 00:47:36,004 What you talking about? 425 00:47:36,613 --> 00:47:39,685 I ain't talking about nothing, Toby. 426 00:47:39,893 --> 00:47:43,044 I done all the talking I'm gonna do tonight. 427 00:47:43,253 --> 00:47:48,168 See, talking don't do nothing that feels good. 428 00:47:51,613 --> 00:47:53,012 Doing... 429 00:47:54,053 --> 00:47:56,692 ...that's what makes me feel good. 430 00:48:21,413 --> 00:48:22,971 Luther. 431 00:48:23,413 --> 00:48:26,883 I been looking all over for you. What you doing out? 432 00:48:27,093 --> 00:48:29,971 Felt the need. I was in the outback house. 433 00:48:30,413 --> 00:48:32,881 Not with Genelva? Don't you lie to me. 434 00:48:33,093 --> 00:48:36,290 No. She don't care beans about me. 435 00:48:36,493 --> 00:48:38,768 I'm too old, she says. 436 00:48:39,173 --> 00:48:41,846 Toby's got her scratching and howling. 437 00:48:42,453 --> 00:48:43,568 Toby? 438 00:48:51,813 --> 00:48:53,531 Gimp foot and all. 439 00:48:54,653 --> 00:48:57,804 Guess you don't limp in bed, do you? 440 00:48:59,133 --> 00:49:01,328 One thing solved, Genelva. 441 00:49:02,333 --> 00:49:05,245 Good to know I won't have to waste my time... 442 00:49:05,453 --> 00:49:08,729 ...keeping an eye on you and Luther no more. 443 00:49:10,453 --> 00:49:13,286 You get on back to your cabin for now. 444 00:49:13,453 --> 00:49:16,650 I'll ask Dr. Reynolds to see if it's all right... 445 00:49:16,813 --> 00:49:19,885 ...for you and Toby to make the beast. 446 00:49:24,093 --> 00:49:26,482 You're one lucky nigger, Toby. 447 00:49:28,093 --> 00:49:30,163 One lucky nigger. 448 00:50:03,293 --> 00:50:07,684 Here them melons you want. Come noontime, they still be cool. 449 00:50:18,493 --> 00:50:22,122 - You really don't care none? - About what? 450 00:50:22,573 --> 00:50:27,693 Every no-account nigger on this place is snickering and laughing at you. 451 00:50:28,173 --> 00:50:32,052 They say Genelva teased you into horsing into bed with her. 452 00:50:32,213 --> 00:50:37,003 Helping her and Luther to trick Mr. Harlan so they could skip off. 453 00:50:37,813 --> 00:50:41,203 Was you horsing in the bed with her, is that so? 454 00:50:42,053 --> 00:50:43,486 Could be. 455 00:50:44,373 --> 00:50:46,204 You think she pretty? 456 00:50:46,613 --> 00:50:49,525 Oh, I expect she pretty enough, but... 457 00:50:49,733 --> 00:50:52,850 ...me, I likes a different kind of face. 458 00:50:53,013 --> 00:50:54,002 What kind? 459 00:50:56,813 --> 00:50:59,043 Kind of face you got, Bell. 460 00:51:03,173 --> 00:51:05,323 That Mandinka face. 461 00:51:05,893 --> 00:51:07,770 Mandinka? 462 00:51:08,453 --> 00:51:11,172 What you talking about? I ain't no African. 463 00:51:11,573 --> 00:51:13,928 I'm Mandinka. We a proud people. 464 00:51:14,133 --> 00:51:15,646 And I'm American! 465 00:51:15,853 --> 00:51:19,732 I was born here. My mammy and my daddy was born here. 466 00:51:19,933 --> 00:51:22,163 And I ain't no African. 467 00:51:23,653 --> 00:51:25,450 Bad time all around. 468 00:51:25,613 --> 00:51:28,969 Genelva running off. No more sense than a mealyworm. 469 00:51:29,133 --> 00:51:31,727 Luther too. Old fool. 470 00:51:31,893 --> 00:51:36,045 Make massa mighty angry. Got no driver. 471 00:51:36,253 --> 00:51:40,087 Just a bad day. On top of all that, you call me an African. 472 00:51:40,693 --> 00:51:43,253 I won't do it again, Bell. Never! 473 00:51:45,093 --> 00:51:46,572 Toby! 474 00:51:47,413 --> 00:51:48,926 Toby? 475 00:51:50,373 --> 00:51:55,049 You think Toby would be a good driver for me now that Luther's run off? 476 00:51:59,493 --> 00:52:00,528 Please, massa. 477 00:52:00,693 --> 00:52:04,208 It's strange times, Bell. We're fighting the British. 478 00:52:04,893 --> 00:52:06,121 I heard about that. 479 00:52:06,293 --> 00:52:10,650 Nearly two years. Now the British are offering freedom... 480 00:52:10,853 --> 00:52:14,323 ...to slaves who'll join their army and fight. 481 00:52:14,493 --> 00:52:19,613 Toby driving, he'd be gone from the plantation overnight, even for days. 482 00:52:21,293 --> 00:52:24,729 A great temptation for a certain kind of slave. 483 00:52:26,053 --> 00:52:28,044 One with runaway blood. 484 00:52:28,373 --> 00:52:31,922 - You see the connection? - Yes, sir. 485 00:52:32,133 --> 00:52:34,124 Well, that's good. 486 00:52:39,333 --> 00:52:43,406 - It just seems funny, though. - What seems funny? 487 00:52:45,333 --> 00:52:47,847 You trust Luther, and he run off on you. 488 00:52:48,053 --> 00:52:50,931 You don't trust Toby none, and he loves you... 489 00:52:51,093 --> 00:52:54,483 ...better than anybody else on this whole place. 490 00:52:55,373 --> 00:52:58,445 It just seems funny. 491 00:53:00,653 --> 00:53:03,042 Bell, how sure are you? 492 00:53:03,253 --> 00:53:06,882 Oh, I wouldn't be talking, massa, if I wasn't sure... . 493 00:53:14,613 --> 00:53:17,491 Get out. You win, Bell. 494 00:53:17,693 --> 00:53:21,732 But he better not run off. He damn well better not run off. 495 00:53:24,933 --> 00:53:28,721 Driver! Ain't that a bang, now. 496 00:53:31,573 --> 00:53:36,601 - Oh, I expect it's good enough. - You expect? Is that all? 497 00:53:37,573 --> 00:53:41,168 Fiddler, how come Bell talk the doctor into this? 498 00:53:41,373 --> 00:53:44,365 I don't know. Ask Bell. Maybe she like you. 499 00:53:44,533 --> 00:53:47,605 I don't want nobody liking me! 500 00:53:48,213 --> 00:53:50,966 You'll get your wish talking like that. 501 00:53:51,413 --> 00:53:55,326 This is the land of the toubob. I'm Mandinka warrior! 502 00:53:55,533 --> 00:53:59,003 I can't walk with these people and talk with them. 503 00:53:59,213 --> 00:54:01,124 Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord! 504 00:54:05,813 --> 00:54:07,292 Horse. 505 00:54:08,093 --> 00:54:10,448 I hear tell that you ain't a horse. 506 00:54:10,653 --> 00:54:14,282 I hear tell that you think you a mighty crow. 507 00:54:14,493 --> 00:54:16,449 I hear tell that you fly... 508 00:54:16,653 --> 00:54:20,532 ...from here all the way to Annapolis and back again. 509 00:54:21,293 --> 00:54:24,569 Well, horse, you look mighty like a horse to me. 510 00:54:24,773 --> 00:54:27,970 You sure smell mighty like a horse. I'm saying... 511 00:54:28,133 --> 00:54:31,170 ...that you is a horse. 512 00:54:31,373 --> 00:54:34,763 What you think you is don't matter a damn bit. 513 00:54:41,493 --> 00:54:44,963 That Mandinka talk don't matter a damn bit, neither. 514 00:54:45,173 --> 00:54:49,803 You give it up. Let it go. You is a nigger, Toby. 515 00:54:50,453 --> 00:54:53,047 Plain old nigger, is all. 516 00:55:02,013 --> 00:55:04,527 Massa Reynolds is waiting. Let's go. 517 00:55:25,093 --> 00:55:26,651 Well, what? 518 00:55:26,933 --> 00:55:30,005 - You told Bell you could drive? - I can drive. 519 00:55:30,213 --> 00:55:33,011 You better drive this horse fast and quick. 520 00:55:33,213 --> 00:55:36,205 - How come? - Barn door is still closed. 521 00:56:32,293 --> 00:56:34,443 I'll go fetch Master Reynolds. 522 00:56:44,293 --> 00:56:47,171 You look fine way up there like that. 523 00:56:50,773 --> 00:56:53,526 Why, Bell? Why you do this for me? 524 00:56:54,933 --> 00:56:59,370 I see you crippling by the vegetable garden. You don't like that. 525 00:56:59,613 --> 00:57:02,002 You with your runaway blood. 526 00:57:04,053 --> 00:57:07,090 Driving, you'll be all over the country. 527 00:57:07,253 --> 00:57:11,644 You'll get your fill of wandering and won't think about escaping. 528 00:57:12,533 --> 00:57:14,251 You're a good woman, Bell. 529 00:57:16,013 --> 00:57:20,404 I told massa I'd be responsible for you. You wouldn't run off. 530 00:57:21,253 --> 00:57:22,288 You promise? 531 00:57:26,933 --> 00:57:28,366 Africans! 532 00:57:30,973 --> 00:57:32,691 Americans! 533 00:57:43,333 --> 00:57:47,246 - Toby, pull off to the side for a bit. - Yes, sir. 534 00:57:47,413 --> 00:57:49,643 Whoa, boy. Whoa. 535 00:57:53,653 --> 00:57:56,531 - I'm going for a walk. - Yes, sir. 536 00:57:58,133 --> 00:57:59,725 You wait here. 537 00:58:00,213 --> 00:58:04,252 - I'll be back shortly. - Yes, sir. I'll be right here. 538 00:58:44,813 --> 00:58:48,522 - How's little Anne? - She's more like you every day. 539 00:58:48,693 --> 00:58:53,562 - She has your eyes, you know. - No, no. You have my eyes. 540 00:58:57,893 --> 00:59:00,691 Oh, God, you feel so good. 541 00:59:00,853 --> 00:59:04,084 Hold me close. Closer. 542 00:59:08,933 --> 00:59:11,925 - You know what I dreamed last night? - No. 543 00:59:13,053 --> 00:59:15,442 Last night I dreamed... 544 00:59:15,613 --> 00:59:18,446 ...I wanted to be a darkie. 545 00:59:19,253 --> 00:59:21,813 Why on earth would you want to be that? 546 00:59:21,973 --> 00:59:27,093 So an overseer could come fetch me for you. So an overseer could say: 547 00:59:27,453 --> 00:59:32,402 "Here's a comely wench, Dr. William. Do you want her? 548 00:59:33,293 --> 00:59:37,002 If you want her, here she be for you. 549 00:59:37,693 --> 00:59:39,285 Here she be. " 550 00:59:41,613 --> 00:59:43,729 And then I could run away. 551 00:59:45,573 --> 00:59:48,041 But only so you could come after me. 552 00:59:49,013 --> 00:59:50,605 Would you like that? 553 00:59:58,293 --> 01:00:00,932 I never see white folks carry on so. 554 01:00:01,093 --> 01:00:03,653 They're so happy, they can't believe it. 555 01:00:03,853 --> 01:00:06,890 They keep saying, "The British has surrendered. 556 01:00:07,053 --> 01:00:10,125 The war is over. Freedom is won! " 557 01:00:10,933 --> 01:00:14,608 Ain't that just fine, though. White folks be free. 558 01:00:14,773 --> 01:00:17,810 I been tossing at night about their freedom. 559 01:00:19,053 --> 01:00:23,410 Been the mostest thing on my mind. Sure is one happy nigger now. 560 01:00:23,613 --> 01:00:27,208 Don't have to worry about the poor white folks no more. 561 01:00:27,573 --> 01:00:29,165 You funning, Fiddler. 562 01:00:29,813 --> 01:00:33,488 You best not let them catch you doing it. 563 01:00:34,133 --> 01:00:35,851 Mammy Bell? 564 01:00:39,093 --> 01:00:40,731 Missy Anne! 565 01:00:41,093 --> 01:00:42,924 Uncle said I get cookies. 566 01:00:43,133 --> 01:00:47,888 You sure can, honey. Mammy Bell will let you have anything you want. 567 01:01:00,093 --> 01:01:04,211 Little angel. Doctor loves her like she was his own. 568 01:01:04,413 --> 01:01:07,371 Well, maybe she is, the way I heard it. 569 01:01:07,693 --> 01:01:12,721 That's gossip. That ain't the doctor's child. That's John Reynolds' child. 570 01:01:12,933 --> 01:01:16,164 Ain't no proving that kind of foolish talk. 571 01:01:16,373 --> 01:01:18,443 It's just nigger gossip. 572 01:01:20,613 --> 01:01:22,569 I got to drive early. 573 01:01:34,013 --> 01:01:35,969 I like driving. 574 01:01:45,653 --> 01:01:48,770 Everybody's got to get up early, Fiddler. 575 01:01:50,013 --> 01:01:52,083 He was thanking you. 576 01:01:53,853 --> 01:01:58,608 He was just saying why he had to get to bed early. Good night. 577 01:02:07,613 --> 01:02:09,205 Good night, Bell. 578 01:02:32,853 --> 01:02:34,605 Well, what's this? 579 01:02:35,653 --> 01:02:37,166 That's for you. 580 01:02:38,053 --> 01:02:39,611 What's it for? 581 01:02:39,853 --> 01:02:41,809 It's for grinding corn in. 582 01:02:42,973 --> 01:02:45,965 Where's the part to grind the corn with? 583 01:02:46,613 --> 01:02:48,092 Well... . 584 01:02:49,213 --> 01:02:53,001 I thought I'd bring that by your cabin tonight. 585 01:02:56,493 --> 01:03:00,566 Well, I usually eats my supper around about sunset. 586 01:03:03,053 --> 01:03:05,647 I usually cooks way too much. 587 01:03:06,933 --> 01:03:09,686 Then I bring the grinding part by tonight. 588 01:03:22,173 --> 01:03:24,289 I made corn bread. 589 01:03:25,333 --> 01:03:29,212 - I like corn bread. - You like chicken and dumplings? 590 01:03:29,653 --> 01:03:30,927 I do. 591 01:03:31,133 --> 01:03:35,843 And there's a stew made with peanuts and yams with butter. 592 01:03:36,053 --> 01:03:39,329 We had them in Africa. I liked them. 593 01:03:40,613 --> 01:03:44,686 We can eat now if you want to. Or we can sit and talk. 594 01:03:45,653 --> 01:03:47,325 That be fine. 595 01:03:47,573 --> 01:03:51,725 Which one be fine? Eating or talking? 596 01:03:54,133 --> 01:03:56,203 Whatever you wanna do. 597 01:04:18,453 --> 01:04:22,685 Massa just sit in his study and do his papers all day. 598 01:04:33,493 --> 01:04:38,169 They going to the Emmett plantation for the Thanksgiving celebration. 599 01:04:38,373 --> 01:04:43,401 Fiddler say massa's gonna take him to play. You probably drive them. 600 01:04:43,973 --> 01:04:45,645 That's right. 601 01:04:52,173 --> 01:04:53,925 The white folks... 602 01:04:54,613 --> 01:04:58,447 ...gonna choose General George Washington for president. 603 01:04:59,733 --> 01:05:01,325 I heard that. 604 01:05:09,973 --> 01:05:11,804 Corn bread. 605 01:05:13,013 --> 01:05:14,366 What you say? 606 01:05:16,013 --> 01:05:18,766 What you made me to grind the corn with. 607 01:05:19,653 --> 01:05:24,044 First time in 22 years since I been on this plantation... 608 01:05:24,813 --> 01:05:27,566 ...any man ever made something for me. 609 01:05:44,933 --> 01:05:47,128 I made something for you too. 610 01:05:56,933 --> 01:05:58,764 That be fine. 611 01:06:01,573 --> 01:06:03,609 That be right fine. 612 01:06:47,893 --> 01:06:52,523 Ain't seen you after dinner much lately. Turning in early? 613 01:06:54,893 --> 01:06:57,487 Driving's hard work, huh? 614 01:06:57,693 --> 01:07:00,730 Hard. That's right, hard work. 615 01:07:02,813 --> 01:07:05,691 - I found out something last night. - What? 616 01:07:05,853 --> 01:07:10,085 Why Luther cry when him and Genelva got sold to different places. 617 01:07:10,253 --> 01:07:11,811 How come, you think? 618 01:07:12,013 --> 01:07:16,643 Wasn't strong enough. He didn't want to be by himself no more. 619 01:07:16,853 --> 01:07:19,970 - Think a man by himself is strong? - I do. 620 01:07:20,173 --> 01:07:22,368 - Tell you what I think. - What? 621 01:07:22,573 --> 01:07:25,451 I think you the biggest fool I ever saw. 622 01:07:25,653 --> 01:07:27,769 Why, because I wanna be strong? 623 01:07:27,973 --> 01:07:30,533 Nothing makes a white massa happier... 624 01:07:30,733 --> 01:07:33,406 ...than seeing a nigger all by himself. 625 01:07:33,693 --> 01:07:37,766 Ain't no bigger battle he can win than keeping niggers apart. 626 01:07:38,693 --> 01:07:43,767 Strong and stubborn ain't nowhere near the same. Nowhere near. 627 01:07:44,293 --> 01:07:47,808 You giving the white folks the biggest victory ever. 628 01:08:29,773 --> 01:08:32,446 I ain't never gonna be no Christian man. 629 01:08:34,293 --> 01:08:35,567 I know that. 630 01:08:37,053 --> 01:08:41,126 - Won't never eat pig meat. - I know. 631 01:08:43,093 --> 01:08:45,812 I expect sometime I ain't easy to be with. 632 01:08:48,493 --> 01:08:50,449 I know you ain't. 633 01:09:14,613 --> 01:09:17,446 Now, I'm asking y'all here... 634 01:09:17,613 --> 01:09:20,650 ...to pray for this union that God done made. 635 01:09:20,853 --> 01:09:23,925 And pray that they stays together. 636 01:09:24,133 --> 01:09:28,843 And that they don't do nothing, nothing... 637 01:09:29,613 --> 01:09:33,572 ...to get themselves sold away from one another. 638 01:09:33,773 --> 01:09:38,528 And pray that they have good healthy young'uns. 639 01:09:47,973 --> 01:09:50,407 You sure y'all wanna get married? 640 01:09:50,613 --> 01:09:52,331 - I does. - I does. 641 01:09:53,493 --> 01:09:55,404 Then in the eyes of Jesus... 642 01:09:55,573 --> 01:09:59,725 ...jump over the broom into the land of matrimony. 643 01:10:09,093 --> 01:10:13,769 Now that you bought the cow, Toby, you can get all the milk you want! 644 01:11:20,733 --> 01:11:22,166 Toby? 645 01:11:28,053 --> 01:11:32,763 How come you left the wedding? It's yours too. You jumped the broom too. 646 01:11:32,973 --> 01:11:36,010 I was thinking about my village and family... 647 01:11:36,933 --> 01:11:40,164 I'm so happy I don't wanna hear that African talk. 648 01:11:40,333 --> 01:11:44,326 You're not Kunta Kinte. You're Toby. You belong to me. 649 01:11:44,533 --> 01:11:46,842 And I belong to you. 650 01:11:48,733 --> 01:11:51,452 And we both belong to Dr. Reynolds. 651 01:12:09,693 --> 01:12:11,285 - Dr. Reynolds. - Emmett. 652 01:12:11,493 --> 01:12:14,610 - I'm so glad you could come. - My pleasure. 653 01:12:14,773 --> 01:12:17,890 I think you'll find some friends. 654 01:12:24,253 --> 01:12:27,086 Seems like all I done all my life... 655 01:12:27,293 --> 01:12:30,763 ...is wait to jump when the white folks call. 656 01:12:35,813 --> 01:12:39,203 Fiddler? Fiddler, you all right? 657 01:12:42,573 --> 01:12:46,851 Of course not. But it don't matter none. 658 01:12:48,933 --> 01:12:53,484 Know what would happen if I died in the middle of fiddling a hoedown? 659 01:12:53,653 --> 01:12:56,611 The white folks would be mad as all get out... 660 01:12:56,813 --> 01:12:59,771 ...because the fiddling had stopped. 661 01:14:43,133 --> 01:14:46,967 Don't be talking the old ways. It only makes trouble. 662 01:14:47,773 --> 01:14:52,210 - Is you Mandinka? - Mine are the Akan people. 663 01:14:53,973 --> 01:14:57,010 The white folks, they give me the name Pompey. 664 01:14:57,173 --> 01:15:00,085 But my real name is Boteng Bediako. 665 01:15:01,253 --> 01:15:05,212 They calls me Toby. My name is Kunta Kinte. 666 01:15:05,813 --> 01:15:09,010 I heard of a village named Jenay Kinte once. 667 01:15:09,173 --> 01:15:12,529 That's my father's brother. That's his own village! 668 01:15:13,213 --> 01:15:16,330 Never forget those things, Kunta Kinte. 669 01:15:16,853 --> 01:15:21,608 We got to remember the old ways and pass them on to the children. 670 01:15:21,853 --> 01:15:26,131 I feel sorry for blacks born here. They don't know who they is. 671 01:15:26,293 --> 01:15:28,443 They from Africa, yet they ain't. 672 01:15:28,613 --> 01:15:32,128 They from the white folks' land and they ain't. 673 01:15:32,733 --> 01:15:34,610 It seems to me like... 674 01:15:34,773 --> 01:15:38,448 ...there's a tribe of strange new people that is lost. 675 01:15:40,813 --> 01:15:43,247 They got no remembering of old ways... 676 01:15:43,413 --> 01:15:46,246 ...to help them, to tell them who they are. 677 01:15:46,653 --> 01:15:50,726 The most ways I want to be helped is back to my own land. 678 01:15:52,453 --> 01:15:54,364 You talking escape? 679 01:15:55,053 --> 01:15:58,602 But they catch niggers and send them back. 680 01:15:58,773 --> 01:16:03,085 Not if you smart. Not if you got a plan that will get you north... 681 01:16:03,253 --> 01:16:07,246 ...to the people they call Abolitionists. They hides niggers. 682 01:16:07,453 --> 01:16:09,409 And then they makes them free. 683 01:16:09,653 --> 01:16:12,565 And when the time come, I'm heading north. 684 01:16:13,973 --> 01:16:17,966 - You will go alone? - Unless you wants to come with me. 685 01:16:18,933 --> 01:16:22,812 I ain't never wanted nothing more in my life. Nothing! 686 01:16:23,613 --> 01:16:25,649 You listen for the signal. 687 01:16:30,453 --> 01:16:35,368 When you hear that, follow the sound of the drum. Come as quick as you can. 688 01:16:35,653 --> 01:16:38,611 When I hear it, I will come quick as I can. 689 01:16:43,493 --> 01:16:46,485 This drummer, he gonna send a message... 690 01:16:46,813 --> 01:16:48,690 ...by drum. 691 01:16:49,493 --> 01:16:52,530 - We get north, to freedom... - Stop that! 692 01:16:52,773 --> 01:16:54,729 Don't you wanna be free? 693 01:16:54,933 --> 01:16:59,643 Stop all that African talk about drums and all that stuff. 694 01:17:00,053 --> 01:17:04,843 - The drummer said if... - He don't know. I know. 695 01:17:06,813 --> 01:17:10,852 I never tell nobody this before. Not nobody here. 696 01:17:12,093 --> 01:17:14,288 Before I come here... 697 01:17:14,733 --> 01:17:18,772 ...I was on another plantation. You ain't my first man. 698 01:17:21,013 --> 01:17:25,165 The first was when I was just a girl. 699 01:17:26,613 --> 01:17:31,482 We wasn't married Christian. Massa didn't believe in Jesus for niggers. 700 01:17:32,973 --> 01:17:36,727 I loved that man. His name was Ben. 701 01:17:38,613 --> 01:17:41,332 We had two little baby girls. 702 01:17:44,733 --> 01:17:48,487 One night he run off. I helped him. 703 01:17:49,413 --> 01:17:51,768 He was gonna get free. 704 01:17:52,213 --> 01:17:54,886 And then fetch me and the babies. 705 01:17:55,413 --> 01:17:58,246 And we all be free. 706 01:18:01,533 --> 01:18:03,364 But they catched him. 707 01:18:05,013 --> 01:18:09,052 They catched him and they hanged him. 708 01:18:09,253 --> 01:18:11,892 And they sold off my... 709 01:18:13,893 --> 01:18:16,691 They sold off my babies. 710 01:18:19,173 --> 01:18:22,210 Never seen those sweet babies... 711 01:18:23,373 --> 01:18:26,126 ...for the rest of my whole life. 712 01:18:31,213 --> 01:18:35,729 You keep talking about Africa and getting free... 713 01:18:35,893 --> 01:18:38,612 ...and something terrible is gonna happen. 714 01:18:39,253 --> 01:18:44,043 One more terrible thing happen in my life, and I just die. 715 01:18:44,773 --> 01:18:47,810 I just die. 716 01:18:58,413 --> 01:19:00,051 Bell... 717 01:19:01,613 --> 01:19:03,604 ...why you tell me this now? 718 01:19:04,933 --> 01:19:06,286 Why? 719 01:19:58,133 --> 01:19:59,646 Well, Toby... 720 01:20:00,053 --> 01:20:01,805 ...she had a hard time. 721 01:20:02,053 --> 01:20:05,841 Bell's not a young woman. But she's all right. 722 01:20:06,853 --> 01:20:09,890 And you have a beautiful young daughter. 723 01:20:13,933 --> 01:20:16,493 - Go see her now. - Yes, sir. 724 01:20:18,053 --> 01:20:19,691 Oh, Fiddler. 725 01:20:21,093 --> 01:20:22,367 Go on! 726 01:20:26,653 --> 01:20:28,689 Toby, look. 727 01:20:32,053 --> 01:20:33,372 Ain't she pretty? 728 01:20:42,653 --> 01:20:46,282 Got a name for her already. Just the right name. 729 01:20:46,493 --> 01:20:49,929 - We gonna call her Kizzy. - Kizzy? 730 01:20:50,133 --> 01:20:53,205 In Mandinka talk it means, "She stay put. " 731 01:20:53,573 --> 01:20:55,768 She never be took from you. 732 01:21:03,453 --> 01:21:05,409 Just you rest easy. 733 01:21:10,253 --> 01:21:14,212 Massa Reynolds gonna wanna know where we get the name Kizzy. 734 01:21:14,413 --> 01:21:18,122 He gonna wanna know whether it's a Christian name. 735 01:21:18,973 --> 01:21:23,603 I don't know what to tell him. I don't know much about this lying. 736 01:21:23,813 --> 01:21:26,691 It come easy after a time. 737 01:21:28,333 --> 01:21:32,292 Being around white folks make it so. 738 01:21:35,133 --> 01:21:39,046 Say it's a family name. Bell's side. 739 01:21:39,493 --> 01:21:41,563 He believe that, you think? 740 01:21:44,653 --> 01:21:49,124 Pretty, ain't it? Shines like a baby's behind. 741 01:21:59,333 --> 01:22:01,608 Yeah, he'll probably believe it. 742 01:22:02,373 --> 01:22:04,204 Now, hush up. 743 01:22:05,093 --> 01:22:08,688 "Probably. " I can't take no chance on no "probably. " 744 01:22:13,253 --> 01:22:17,166 "Probably" is as good as it gets for a nigger, Kunta. 745 01:22:18,533 --> 01:22:21,093 Now you make your peace with that. 746 01:22:21,813 --> 01:22:23,849 Now if you wants to talk... 747 01:22:24,053 --> 01:22:27,568 ...you go right on ahead and talk. I can hear you. 748 01:22:29,733 --> 01:22:31,724 Gonna play me some music. 749 01:22:33,013 --> 01:22:35,766 Play me a song I wants to hear. 750 01:22:36,853 --> 01:22:41,005 I'm tired of all the time playing white folks' song. 751 01:22:41,173 --> 01:22:44,529 I got my own song to play. 752 01:22:52,493 --> 01:22:54,961 I just got to name her Kizzy. 753 01:22:57,413 --> 01:22:59,290 And when she grow up... 754 01:22:59,493 --> 01:23:02,087 ...I'll tell her what Kizzy really mean. 755 01:23:02,613 --> 01:23:07,164 Tell her about her grandma and her grandpa... 756 01:23:07,373 --> 01:23:10,012 ...and the village back in Africa. 757 01:23:11,053 --> 01:23:13,772 Tell her about her peoples back there... 758 01:23:13,973 --> 01:23:18,603 ...so she know she wasn't born to be no slave in the white folks' land. 759 01:23:18,773 --> 01:23:22,288 Yeah, that's what I'll do, Fiddler. 760 01:23:22,653 --> 01:23:24,530 Fiddler, what you think? 761 01:23:26,933 --> 01:23:28,571 Fiddler? 762 01:23:29,293 --> 01:23:30,806 Fiddler. 763 01:23:54,453 --> 01:23:57,650 Now you know how it feel to be free, Fiddler. 764 01:24:00,693 --> 01:24:03,765 Now you know what I always talking about. 765 01:24:09,133 --> 01:24:13,604 Ain't free a fine way to be, Fiddler? Being free. 766 01:24:14,973 --> 01:24:17,692 Ain't it a fine way to be? 767 01:25:14,213 --> 01:25:15,692 How come? 768 01:25:16,693 --> 01:25:21,005 It's the way I was named. And my father. And his father. 769 01:25:21,173 --> 01:25:23,812 It's the way this child gonna be named. 770 01:25:24,653 --> 01:25:27,884 She got to know about her peoples and their ways. 771 01:25:28,053 --> 01:25:31,682 I the only one that can teach her the Mandinka way. 772 01:25:33,173 --> 01:25:37,132 Proper naming of her, that the first place to start. 773 01:25:37,333 --> 01:25:40,530 Make this child stand strong and tall. 774 01:25:40,693 --> 01:25:42,968 You ain't never give up, is you? 775 01:25:44,093 --> 01:25:46,084 Not for me. Not for nobody. 776 01:25:47,853 --> 01:25:52,768 I love you, Bell. I ain't never love no one the way I love you. 777 01:25:54,173 --> 01:25:56,323 Don't ask me to give this up. 778 01:25:56,533 --> 01:26:01,163 Not unless you really want to hear my answer. Only answer I can give. 779 01:27:16,773 --> 01:27:18,126 Kizzy! 780 01:27:18,293 --> 01:27:22,252 Behold the only thing greater than yourself. 781 01:28:58,533 --> 01:28:59,886 The drums. 782 01:29:00,373 --> 01:29:04,844 What you gonna do? You ain't gonna leave, is you? This is your home. 783 01:29:05,653 --> 01:29:08,087 No, it's not my home. 784 01:29:18,973 --> 01:29:20,964 But this my child. 785 01:29:22,173 --> 01:29:23,891 And we family. 786 01:30:10,173 --> 01:30:13,643 Girl, your name is Kizzy. 787 01:30:14,573 --> 01:30:17,804 From special people, baby Kizzy. Special. 788 01:30:17,973 --> 01:30:21,648 You're gonna be a special kind of woman too. 789 01:30:22,293 --> 01:30:24,761 Your name means "Stay put. " 790 01:30:24,973 --> 01:30:29,046 But it don't mean "Stay a slave. " It won't never mean that! 791 01:30:32,013 --> 01:30:35,005 You is the daughter of Kunta Kinte... 792 01:30:35,213 --> 01:30:40,333 ...of the village of Juffure, on the banks of the river Kamby Bolongo. 793 01:30:41,133 --> 01:30:46,002 His father is the Mandinka warrior, Omoro. His mama is Binta. 794 01:30:46,213 --> 01:30:51,128 The warrior Omoro was the son of the holy man Kairaba Kunta Kinte. 795 01:30:51,333 --> 01:30:55,121 In the time of the 1 7th realm, Father Kunta Kinte. 796 01:31:42,373 --> 01:31:43,362 Subtitles by SDI Media Group 797 01:31:43,533 --> 01:31:44,522 [ENGLISH]