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slave trader his wife is developing a

dangerous attachment to one of the

slaves he means to sell

the slaves an educated dignified West

African named mahoru

mahoru is one of several slaves Josiah

has brought home so his wife Francis can

teach them English

so they'll fetch a good price when he

sells them to the city's Rich middle

class merchants

Francis comes from the landed

aristocracy and knows nothing about

slavery

she reacts with horror at the cruelties

to which her African pupils are

subjected

her shock develops into sympathy for

them

then into affection especially for

mahoru

it gradually becomes obvious to her

that the man of admirable qualities is

not her slave on her husband Josiah

but the slave mahuru

Josiah's adulthish uneducated money

grubber

the kind of man who spends his wedding

night getting falling down drunk in the

Local Tavern

a man willing to comply with an

important customer's demand that a slave

woman be brought out of the cellar for

an after-dinner rape

a man who breaks the laws of his trade

by packing 600 slaves into a ship built

for only 300.

a woman married to a man like Josiah

might sensibly suspect she's made a

serious mistake in life

watching the enslaved mahuru Francis has

begun to see a gentleman

when our last episode ended she was

asking mahoru to teach her to dance

the lessons have begun

concluding episode

a respectable trade

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thank you

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foreign

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er's Bell how many hats can a woman need

s sister

you'll never get I hope you Crossways

and John Bates watched in Lego mad thing

the hair is loose they say in Matthew

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thank you

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Dr Hadley I did not want to disturb Miss

Cole Dr Hadley's come to attend to Luke

the poor little mites pewterally is this

morning and the wager he's missing his

mother something Dreadful

Ginger and Brandy spread across his

bedding sir that's a cure for the egg

you sir yes thank you cook

oh Moses Mr Scott take the doctor up by

the backstairs

I do apologize

he's going

where is he going

oh

going home

how many of you are there in the house

no there are six five

you can read or take it yes

read that

we meet every Tuesday evening and the

Seven Stars Tavern on the key

try and get away

is it better

he is dead

the little angel of God is so

and date that was taken away from his

mother to leave little piggotten in his

back where they belong

I'm afraid it's a risk you're going to

have to take every little children to

England as slaves

we see the first you've lost

hello

and what did the other one die of

it was a woman

we found her dad one night

towel opened for you

for you well

I must be getting on I shall address my

bill to Cole and Sons it's a commercial

loss is it not

I shall pay I shall pay myself and where

does your money come from Mrs Cole

you to despise me Dr Hadley but you

cannot blame me any more than I blame

myself

how can I dispose you

my University was endowed by a slave

owner

all my patients are Traders this shirt

is made from cotton picked on the

plantations

we all profit from the wreck of Africa

we try to treat the Negroes benignly

here there's nothing benign about these

household Arrangements Mrs skull

I believe that slavery will be ended

soon

cruelty we have learned will poison us

forever

what's he doing here

good morning Miss Cole so it was Luke he

was very serious Mrs Cole has no

authority to send for you please be on

your way at once

special day

do you have any idea how much he charges

for a visit so I am the Mistress of this

house Mistress of your own wits if you

have dealings with him do you know who

he is a scoundrel and a hypocrite

he was six years surging on the slave

ships even some of ours now he peddles

abolitionists clap trap the length and

breadth of Bristol

do you know who puts cotton on his back

yes he told me Sarah Luke is dead

is a man with a barrel

this is the third slave under your

management we've lost

fortunately one has now been recovered

will happen by Nightfall get out of my

sight and you'll get back to your work

too do you never have any work of your

own to get back to how dare you

I should tell Josiah

tell him

boom

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just outside the churchyard I tried to

get the minister to baptize him but he

would not

perhaps you should baptize me

the blessing of the god

I'm sorry

in Africa

there was priests everywhere

some cared for others some for

themselves

they made no difference

but do you know what really matters

what really matters

is that you hold your own God inside you

the priest chatter can make no

difference

my father was a priest in the Holy

in any case you seem to know the Bible

almost as well as he did

as a boy

I used to think it was a talking thing

is to hold it to my ear

I think the Bible can speak

so then you slept with it under your

pillow

I got sweet bead for every verse I know

do you still remember it

I have perfumed my bed

and all of us

come

let us take our full of loves until the

body

let us Solace ourselves with loves

a fair species positive to healed

and with the flattering of her lips

she forced him

and he goeth after her straight away

as the rocks goeth to the slaughter

as a fool to a correction of these

stocks

till the dark Striker through his heart

as a bird

to this day

I always thought that it's for his life

what reward do you want reciting the

health

what reward

and you offered me

I don't think I have anything that you

would like

they have Matthew

downstairs

oh my God

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stand aside Sarah I must see my husband

he's busy let me in this is none of your

business get out of my way

desire I must speak with you I will take

the boy now Mr Cool

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Mr Bates

after all

we don't want him too badly damage do we

but we want him broken sir

you want it Spirit broken for good

in the West Indies with brand is cheap

no Mr Bates our customers don't want him

want him but not in England

take him away clean him up

ah come on boy get him out of here

I went to other blister

entity fields

it was called there

so cold

as death

nothing leave

nothing grew

there was a man in the foot

made us through

he let me stay if I work for him

but I was hungry

so hungry

uh I wanted to be with you

there was nowhere to hide

I think that's cool

thank you

I do not want to say another day like

today

some of it I'd like to see again

Francis are you up there I'm coming

Josiah

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thank you

I shall come to your bed tonight Mrs

Cole

well Josiah please excuse me

a man likes a bit of comfort Mrs Cole

thank you

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ERS of mine since your father's day but

well perhaps you're becoming too fine

and fancy for your own ships

there are bills here for more than 50

pounds please Sarah not at breakfast I

had no idea you were not settling up how

many others are we indebted to

remind you

but I am the holder

hold by our new holding the Hartwell the

hot well it's money down the even it's

costing us a fortune

our business is on the key with our

ships the Hartwell is our future Sarah

it will be a gold mine in the longer

stretch where the rose comes in in the

Autumn we will pay off all that we owe

you've not even seen the books for the

rules where are you hiding them

I have engaged a clock to see to them

it's my work I know you once helped with

the book Sarah

but we have come up in the world

it is not a Woman's Work

and remember

the name of our company is Cole and Sons

now

will excuse us Mrs Cole and myself have

an important engagement today

with the cream of Bristol Society

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not as yet

Steve and Mrs weary

our circle is nearly complete

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a good day to you all

Messiah the hot well seems set fair for

a new golden age

all that glisters may indeed be gold and

certainly the proverb applies to Mrs

Cole today why thank you but truly it

will be the bright and congenial

presence of you all that will most

enchant my aunt and uncle to be sure oh

yes they are on the way through the town

as we speak

I have stationed slaves to greet them at

the city bounds along with flowers and

sweet beets and all that old Alibaba

there and sprinkle them with atar of

roses hey Mrs Cole

yes indeed

Mrs Shaw I must thank you for your notes

respecting Moses but alas I'm afraid

he's still a little untried

there's more to do with him before he

can be released for sale he is certainly

still very pleasing

but I think you're all right

needs me excuse me

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goodness

I wish you

take this to Mr Cole

and

tell him that I won

join him presently certainly Mrs Carl

we have nothing to fear for Mr

Wilberforce and his rabbit they are all

sap and those in you

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what news on the Rialto Josiah

ladies

and gentlemen

sadly

Lord

and Lady Scott will not be able to join

us they

have been detained at White knees

it appears lady Scott is indisposed oh

what a shame

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Kelly domage

uh I

I I have here

a short speech

which I was proposing

I think

it would be best

if I deliver it now

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I was going to begin by

thanking his lordship

oh

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man

no matter

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you are well

yes

I just needed some air that's all

you look like Aladdin

you look like a peeled apricot

I'm sorry but I'm sorry

no

you are like

Aladdin's lamp

made of rock gold

that will do a little better

come back with me

I'm gonna do that in front of everyone

thank God he made me looking forward he

said my aunt was unwell he could have

covered his own then half an hour so is

that too much to ask but no oh no

that's the way of you people isn't it

you're so fine you're so gentle you but

other people's industry other people's

risk it means nothing not pissing away

I'm sure they'll come another time you

can say that because it's easy for you

you can say that because you're his

niece whether he comes or not but he was

supposed to be my friend my partner I

get credit on his name if he gives me

the cut direction from the ball what are

they gonna think

that was kind of like you to bring him

in I was depending on you

this is another Songbird the Blackbird

this is the male

with his yellow beak

this is the female

she is brown

Mary do you feel unwell no

when they mate

female

lays speckled eggs blue and green

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his healing is no good

you are a Healer you do it it is not the

same hair huh I don't know if I can

take your power

and use it

save Mary

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what are you doing

um

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where is Moses today

never mind

blue freshman is cold

explain to her that we have been waiting

some considerable time

they wanted you know

wait

you must look right

both of you

leave us

I'm afraid we must tighten our belts

Brown must be dismissed

I have decided

that Matthew was to be sold

Charles Fairley will take him off our

hands

if anyone can break him

it's a child's world

Josiah husband

please don't send him to that Plantation

for my sake

please

a return

you seek The Challenge and live by me

to satisfy you

yet again

sell it by auction

here in Bristol

how is that madame

does that satisfy you

but solely must be

and soul he will be

yes

cook you are too too good

are you sleeping

no don't worry

I will be back within the hour

we should be drilling

we should be farming battalions we

should be collecting pipes we should be

keeping within the law

s nobody ever gave up power and

Advantage because of us

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all right

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and Dr Hadley

oh oh come in I'd like you to meet a

good friend of mine I'm so glad you

could get away this is Cesar Peters

Edgar long

James McIntyre William Marsh this is

Moses that is my slave name my real name

is

my slave name is The Only Name that I am

blessed with

are you mending no

I've never been to Africa I was born on

that slave plantation in Virginia in

America Caesar printed the pamphlet that

I gave you I fought for the British

against the colonists against George

Washington the champion of Freedom no

less the champion of Liberty for

everybody except his own slaves

the British promised me a passage to

England and a pension when I got here I

got the passage right enough but the

pension never came so I had to work for

a printer in London and now I am a

partner in the business

wait a minute are you a female

my little black men are slaves in

England

there were hundreds of us in every city

thousands in London

some of us run our own businesses we own

our own houses

some of us even mate with the native

women rather successfully

and this is allowed

to come back with me

no

I cannot leave my people there are five

of them in the house some of them are

children

my hero you're among friends now

we are the Bristol Fellowship Society I

vote for every man abolition of the

slave trade and no sugar in your coffee

will you join us

I did not know that such men existed in

Bristol

but everyone's like your Masters there

are many in London in Parliament

that's our gathering of Elders

Parliament that's a place where rich men

make laws to make themselves richer

there's a good man there William

Wilberforce he's forcing Parliament to

end slavery

when we win

you'll be free

but we still need evidence

we need to tell people what it's like on

the slave ships

we must make them understand

you remember

oh

I do not remember it

I live in it

every night

the sound of a baby crying

for a day

a week a monthly cried until he cried no

more and I could do nothing

other cried

she will not give it up

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they tried to drag the baby from the

mother but she would not let go

so they feed the baby

and motherboard

I

could do nothing

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tell me the whole story I'll print it

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I've been to see some abolitionists

they think that slavery would be ended

but Mr Cole will have to set us free

let's not see them that is a lie

the who have you been literally taught

one of them

told me

they will be called tanned for treason

I must swear never to see them again

or what

this is who I'm thinking about can you

not see your safety

I know

I know

is this house

if only we could be free of this house

we will never be free of this house

Mary's fever is broken

I think she may be on the mend

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The Blood Bird

takes a brown bird for

thank you Elizabeth

and good night

both of you

thank you

thank you

number one is this very fine Mandingo

boy

came to England direct from the Gold

Coast one of the coal slaves we've heard

so much about and the very first one to

come to the market at auction now he's a

handsome young buck

who give me 20 guineas to start

come on 20 Guinness 20 again he's there

30 where's 30 who's got 30. third again

he's thank you sir forty forty forty

thank you now what about 50 can I have

50. I am not bidding sir I am here to

give notice that this sale is taking

place entirely outside the law of this

land

the Lord Chancellor of England had said

that as soon as a negro sets foot on

English soil he is to be considered a

free man well the Lord Chancellor can

kiss my Lily white ass

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there is no there is no such ruling

please sir this is a perfectly Fair sale

you will find sales such as this on any

Market Day in any town in England

wearing it is not a fair sale and you

know it I have an application here for a

writ of habeas corpus pertaining to this

Negro which I propose this very hour to

set before the justices unless this lot

is withdrawn forth with you have heard I

take it that Justice Peabody was taken

Gravely ill two days ago and that a new

Chief magistrate has been sworn in it is

our good Mr Shaw here you must have

heard

silence in the court

case dismissed

go give me those 40 guineas 40 40

guineas is there 50 50 50. thank you sir

60 I must have 60 come along 60 over

there thank you 70 do I have 70 70

guineas and he runs on 70 guineas 70

guineas come on 80 guineas I need 80

guineas 80 guineas come on now 70 I want

eighty eighty where's eighty eighty yes

thank you sold to you sir at the back 80

guineas it is to Sir Charles Fairley of

Clearwater Jamaica

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what's the color of this study the size

of the customers yeah business there on

the dance

what was this gonna accompany you

Moses

Mrs Cole wants to walk to Clifton you

must go with her

school and follow at a respectful

distance five pieces

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hmm

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thank you

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I'll take those

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foreign

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foreign

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foreign

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let us take a feel of love until the

morning

let us Solace ourselves

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thank you foreign

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thank you

Sarah

you have no business no insurance for

the rules

before God I tried Sarah

you sailed before I joined the merchant

adventurers I could not get it she had

to sail

she set off in the Middle Passage safely

it could all be well and we hear nothing

until she docks in October and the trade

goods why so much

time

how many

600.

600 slaves

and only storage for three

there is another thing

they are to be soldiers in your calvador

for gold

you're smuggled into the Spanish

it will make our Fortune

we could double or travel our profits

clear our debts at a stroke without

insurance the first blow that gets that

will lose everything should take us down

with her

I had meant to spare you this

this is how fast is this fault it's

always satisfy Francis start paper of

satin gowns a gold trim Bonnets and that

Preposterous house

sick with worry Sarah

do these marks mean

they mean I was in the balowa

kind of priest

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people suppose I could tell into the

future

although

you fought Elvis

this place reminds me of my father's

Parish

at whiteley's

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there can't be many other days like this

they catch us

we both know

my uncle wrote To Me

he thinks you'll make just the right

birthday present for my aunt and Josiah

thinks he will pay everybody odds

not just over there

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why can I not look after my own safety

why can I not think about yours

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what

what where is everyone

I thought you said business was picking

up

a little disappointing today will you

take some of the waters or some

refreshing tea what's going on

it's your job Mr Force I used to bring

in the

the giddy multitude

where is it

there may be a number of circumstances

me well

the subscription rates are a little high

the higher than bath I believe perhaps

we are now two exclusive too fashionable

when Learners cut the rates down

I do not know if that will suffice

we were expecting some very genteel

patrons as you know some persons of

quality are the persons of Commerce are

of course as you know most welcome but

you know some of those have not graced

us much of late and some of the people

here are are so

well ill

it's a spa

they are supposed to be ill yes but but

they are ill in the wrong sort of way

they also dreadfully ill

I don't know if this one will last out

the morning

Mr Wacom The Undertaker suggested that

he wanted to open for business in The

Colonnade

is that it

there is also France of course France

yes the young and fashionable are all

off to Paris for the event more there

you know

liberte egality first of all size

fraternity

we must make some economies here for

excellent thinking starting with you

I want you to pack your bags now I want

you out of here by this afternoon

I

pack my bag

I'll have you know I have had a valet

all my life

I've got to leave the meal then

you are dismissed

how dare you sir

no one

dismisses Nan twitch Forsyth

I have resigned

everyone said you were sold a dead

Canary

once said the venturers were playing you

for a fool

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to Caesar Peters

I have begun to write the history of

Aston

the thoughts of the past now hang Less

on my mind than hopes for the future

our hopes for Wilberforce vote in

Parliament

our hopes for freedom

that you have seen Matthew in London is

a blessing indeed

let us pray the news you bring on

Tuesday next

will save him from our passage to the

plantation

and liberate us all

I do not know how long I can stay well

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well before US Open the debate

he said that they were all guilty of a

great crime he as much as anyone else

and it was time to put them at a right

and nothing

half a dozen left up to speak

and I've spoke in favor of slavery no

they're too cunning for that they said

they weren't sure they said they needed

more evidence

everyone sat down another jumped up to

take his place and the vote

there was no vote

it'll drag it on forever

yep chatter and chattering until the

cause is lost

and he

he'll be in Chains forever

thank you

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stupid people of Bristol are celebrating

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oh

let's go we must go tonight

I'm drunk in the gutter with the rest of

them I expect

the vote is lost the vote to win the

slave trade is lost

it made no difference in any case

there's nowhere for you to go

there are even fewer places for us to go

please stop

please

stop stop

child

I'm sorry

I'm so sorry

why sorry

I do not think it will be our child

I do not think it is possible

possible

the likelihood is greater that it is

Josiah's

and we must pray that it is so

have you told him yet

I can picture his face

you'll make a fine father indeed

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thank you

Come Away With Me Francis

no

you keep saying that but you never say

why I do say why

the baby my health your safety the shame

of my family bye baby it is Josiah's I

know it I'm certain of it and if it is

do you want to see your son grow up to

inherit slaving ships or will you be

proud if he increases the loads and

profits of your family trait

course not and if you're wrong if it is

my child and you have a brown baby an

African baby

what will you do if I'm not here that is

why I shall ask for Dr Hadley because it

is sympathies I thought

take it away and say that the child was

stillborn

and what

it's long in your docks drowned in a

barrel no taken to be cared for

elsewhere

trying to keep us all safe

you will be safe if you go to White

please to be my aunt's birthday present

as we discussed the baby if it is not

desires will be safe in Dr Hadley's care

and I shall be here

this is what you want yes

to send me away

to throw my child into the care of

strangers so you can keep your precious

reputation on the hand it's what I want

you are killing me

you are forcing me away

you can never have loved me

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it's what I want

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Cole had Sons

think of it right here

Cole it sounds

wait till I tell Sarah

what a week of Wonders news

the route of Wilberforce I know this we

must Bend our thoughts to names of

course in addition to Josiah naturally

how does uh

how does Prince William sit with you

Josiah I should like the doctor to

attend to me of course my dear of course

I should like it to be Dr Hadley

very well maybe

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thank you

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I don't know this call wants me to cut

the meat so thin you can read the

Bristol Journal through it

so your old friend today

well enough she is

with her mistress for a few months

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one day you were angry like a bull the

next you are laughing like a dog

you think I haven't seen this before you

think I do not know let him alone I will

not

the air is turning cold

to be that winter again

you say we believe you're saying a good

man who will take us away

when will they come they will come

they will come

after the hot well

more trouble with the pipes

why they have to send for me every damn

time well

what are you doing hiring a horse we

can't go on a Ford in your extravagance

Dr Hadley said I should write to the

Downs the exercise will be very good for

the child

Moses will have hold of the reins he has

very strong hands

are you cross with me today mahuru I'm

never Crossing you Francis

I think this horse may be crossed with

both of us if it reaches the top of the

hill it'll be a miracle

good gracious

what are these amounts for

with wishing

washing

washing the Draper is

every day

oh

what'd you devil

good God

what what's happening

they're drilling on top of the hill sir

what

who's Drilling

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should be the top of the world

I feel as if we could take off and fly

we could fly away from Bristol please do

not speak of that

are you tired

a little

not as tight as that horse though I

don't think it was built for two

do you not enjoy riding with me

holding me tightly

yes

you have a very good seat

thank you it means you ride very well

come on

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what's going on up here

right here how are you excuse me

business

hey

what's going on oh I I wouldn't get too

close if I were you sir Madam it's it's

not quite safe never mind that what is

all this oh this is to be the new hot

well sir we're drilling for water

do you mean

oh it's a brand new project a new Spa

we're drilling down for the hot water

and building a handsome assembly room

what hot water

there's only that well spraying down

below here yeah but that's the one we're

going to tap it

you can't do that

I shall report this to Mr weary and the

merchant Venture as it was

but this is Mr waring's Project sir

owned by the merchant Ventures and leads

to him

surely we've a legal right to the water

they can't just take it

I'm a Trader

I say the ships of the sea

they don't buy the sea

but there is always there

who's done this to you

who's still in our water

it's even worry

be sold me the lease

you'll hand me the money

now he's made it all worthless

first and last he's pluck me like a

little pigeon

would this be about the hot well you are

stating my living from under my nose

you're stealing my water out of my very

pipes we leased you the buildings only

Josiah the spring water alas is the

property of every man it is the property

of God

and use it yourself God don't you well

there may be enough for both of us Jose

we merge adventurers look after our own

you said

well let's see if you can look after

your own now

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we have standards in this city called if

you cannot do business like a gentleman

you cannot do business

repayment of my loan to you of a

thousand Guinness is due at mickelness

secured against your house

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let's see

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take me to our warehouse

wanna go to the weather outside

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thank you

pick him up Johnny

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had fallen in on him he just followed

like a big dog it cannot be mature

do you think I do not know him the boy

who was chanting me on the ship the boy

who wanted to break free and swim home

did you get to speak to him

tried

he did not know me

he did not speak he did not move

D him back

how much longer before we fight before

we fight back against them

it did not help much

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ah

we have our own rules in Jamaica sir

can't run the place without him a few

Frenchy Lovers In The House of Commons

can't stop us still if they blocked the

slave ships we'd have had to get the

breeding rate up that's for sure all

hands of the pumps as good old Josiah

Culvers say

there is something you should know about

our good Mr Cole Sir Charles he has not

been himself of late

um in truth I'm afraid to say he is deep

in debt

he has dug such a hole for himself that

it is beyond even our powers to help him

out oh my God

and with that devilish fine Badger of a

wife of his

I brought one of his over

especially to show me now one of the

worst he was vicious little rat picker a

couple of months of hot sun and hot

metal I can take him anywhere now

doesn't mean me alive

probably just saying

only to find a new monkey Peddler we may

be able to help you there as a child

we can't wait for Parliament we must

send it all the same there'll be another

bill

another battle another battle where the

common man is shot to damnation watch

yourself well well well of the Year our

friends a little black maggots know less

my apologies sir I didn't see you there

I didn't mean

there's meaning this the Good doctor's

little black maggots crawling across

these pages

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you see baits the trade is all but

finished whether you like it or not

or the year after the devil's tide is

going out

and soon there'll be nothing left but

the scum on the key

yellow and stinking

idle and Damned

thank you

when we were on the Francesca together

Hadley

there is a dozen of us making 300 of

them

you needed me

you needed me to keep your safe in

your britches

and now you call me yellow

an idol

and you want your little black Magus to

face their way through the very Timbers

of England

all those years we spent together at

seabates I really should have taught you

to read I'm so sorry

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you'll be sorry hardly damn you

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thank you

the selectively

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but he's not covered on the rolls

where the rose comes in

sales spread

ah it's raining in the final leagues

Laden with gold

smelling a room

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as rich as the Queen of Sheba

I'm rich enough to put all of the

merchant Ventures to fly we should not

rest our hopes on the rose

she's late

there's been no word of her

come back to Queen Square

be more comfortable there oh

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no that's right you'll make my stand

now nothing still have the use of all of

his limbs it's his mind they have stolen

Stuart

yes but the law may not be so generous

on that point

we can always apply for another habeas

corpus rate once he's put onto a ship

pull some builds or whoever talk about

short

which of these laws has ever been

written by a black man

in the meantime

come on

yes

Hey sir you've got to come a card is

tipped over at my record why the lady's

under it come in

just wait there for a second

should I come

um

no

it's not very far

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this way sir

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doctor doctor

I have this most Dreadful hitch

another doctor message

father it isn't it to the mileage

now you're a man has a knife rest into

his heart how long will it take such a

man to quit this Earthly place

now I'm waiting

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five minutes

what would you as a doctor

what was that

full minute

I'd say that was fat

the game is a foot

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now if you should win

I will keep your spoiled in your instead

for reasons which I think are evident

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how did you know to follow me

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I had seen that boy

ah I've seen it

Waits at the auction

the boy

come on

blasted urchins or everything so we

cannot stay here that's the problem

I cannot leave Bristol without the

others look I do not think I can get a

carriage in this hour and we cannot risk

it on foot you of all people have to

help me now

show

let's do it let's do it Caesar

open the door

are you hurt

sandwich stars is an opera

summer baked men have fetched the Rope

the ransack in Bristol looking for you

they've stormed the tap and thinking

they'll find you there without men of

both of the doors and put up their fists

sturdy as the pikemen in Paris

he mustn't be found here you have the

devil's luck that I'm in Bristol tonight

I think I can get you to London

all of us

yes

you have your wish at last

I don't want it like this

do what's best for you and the child

my child Josiah's child

it doesn't matter

as if it were my child

the others are waiting

is there any weight

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because you've always moved

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Charles Fairley drinks their most nights

born and take a walk of two minutes

of the cities of your neck my room I

could stay hidden we cannot risk it sure

we'll try we can't take it by force

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thank you

come

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Joe

you're not silly Bang

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you talk to him

at you

look at Italy

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anybody

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got it

where are you

honey yeah

you bastard

where are ya

Buffet come here

where are you hey

where are you

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come here will you come here

you are

you uh come here you monkey yeah yeah

come here I'll show you this

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thank you

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what did you say to me

I told him son was awake and we must

jump aboard it thank you

so you are manding garden I think not

there was a mandinka man on the

Plantation in Virginia I used to say

that every morning at about five o'clock

that's all the mandinka I know before

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of course

he must have a power

is that the name for it

yes we will make him a flower

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I'll leave that that would be all for

today Mrs spratley

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thank you

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my wife

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he took the others just in time

John baked his man came looking for you

they were making their own lives

we will be free

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I think Josiah is losing his mind

most of the furniture to the warehouse

and he guards it there

like some mad old Mastiff

and Sarah

he stays with him

and cook has been dismissed too

so you're on your own

work

they have engaged her to come in during

the day I should never have gone

but I had to see the other safe out of

Bristol it's more that you should never

have come back

why

don't you come back to London with me

now

why

because you would not be safe I would be

a chain around your neck and the child

would not be safe

and it'll be safe here yes

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the rose at home

we're saved

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all right

where's my ship

where's the rose

oil

I'm sorry

we tried to lighten the load see if we

could save her

through the slaves overboard

some of them

the girl was so strong we had to take

the skiff

it was all we could do to reassure

ourselves

she went down in minutes

cargoto

oh 600.

600 of them

I'm sorry

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I swear it doesn't matter

you can take the daisy then we can even

take Francis

we still have our air still be able to

trade aren't you see even if it's only

bottles of sugars

oh

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she's well enough

but I hit the Josiah was ruined the ship

is lost

Stephen Waring will repossess this house

as soon as Francis has given birth and

she will have to join them at the

warehouse but is she well enough to

travel no

I would not advise it

have you heard from London have they

found root no but

oh wow

Marion Naomi are at school

Mark's helping Caesar in his printing

Works Elizabeth is working as a

housekeeper she and Caesar they

have an understanding and Matthew

he's much improved

but he's yet to find work

and how are you

I sleep with a pistol under my pillow

and another on the counter pin

what do you do out there all day

reading

writing

here tonight it's as though

all the clocks are suspended

when the world without day or night

that end of the beginning

it will be no end

thank you

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wake up wake up it's late

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oh

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my God

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come on

the rat is out of the Trap damn it

I saw him from the window

he thought they would have my stock

yeah they thought they would have him

stop rocking Barrel

oh

you thought they had me straight clean

clean as an empty Hog's head

but I happen by the ears

I have places you know

not even Sarah knows about them

look

they think they know about trade I'll

show them trade I'll have three the East

India Company I'll outrage the mughals

of China

racer

do not tell me about trade

do I know you

I missed the caller

I am the most grateful come

let me show you the seller

who is the call give me your hand

it's been a pleasure to do business with

you

I will send my Footwear without

promising note of 150 guineas before

dinner

I will not detain you

tell you anything sir

sir

the pleasure is mine

pleasure is mine

now there is the astute man of business

here's the man who understand strength

a true plated copper coated Gold Leaf

silver engine of a gentleman sir

no

no

will you take a class of it

take a class of rum in my studies or

I have here

a new Barrel just broached

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thank you

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well he certainly speaks well enough yes

but look at the state of him

how much should I say I'd give coal for

him

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was it by God

well at least he'll have news of Francis

how is she

oh

sit down and rest if you want no it

helps

oh

stop moving

that's normal it's perfectly all right

no it's still it's dead I don't

Know It please don't say such a thing

say it I shall be on my knees praying

for it

oh I don't want to give birth to a slave

trader

oh

enter

you are a most excellent slave Moses

I've written to Francis complimenting

her on you

she will almost be in confinement by now

expect

no

fill my bath

gently gently gently

oh my God

baby

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thank you

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come in

how are you both today very well

the maid has gone to fetch Sarah Cole

I must go to mahuru at whiteley's now

you really should be resting I cannot

stay here

soon as I saw him

he must take the Hulu and him

and me

to London

let me have it

I'm sorry we're leaving

you're made always your wish but that

child's not yours to take hand it over

get out of our way

you fetched a mile along the London Road

Take It Go On

take it

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oh

Stuart no

you know I don't think my brother even

remembers you now much less is famous

Southern air

you're not need me dug in your footsteps

you know far more than that to contend

with now because I always said you

should take your chances in life

now I'm taking mine you're right

you're right

we must all take our chances on this

Earth

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laughs

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I want to stop here now

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oh

God

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a hero

I used to come here as a child

and watch the stars come out

I never dreamed I'd have a child of my

own

beautiful isn't he

is perfect

I knew he'd have the strength for the

journey

his father's strength

rest

and then we will go on to London

I always knew it would be your son

but I wanted you to go away

to be safe

I was so frightened for you and then I

wanted you to come back

smudge

rest

tell me tomorrow

there won't be here tomorrow Francis

tell me about Africa

and I'll sleep a little

you will be well when you reach oil

you were like the planes

and the trees

are the trees

they're wide and Broad

spread a roof of a shade from the hot

sun

and in them are birds

thousands of sweet birds singing

I shall take you to swimming in the

river

where the sand is white

and the water is clear

and the fishes who swim around you and

nibble at your white skin

they will think

that you're Lily

go to Lily

all white

and pink

and sweet

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and then I shall take you to the forest

I shall take you to the forest and we

will sing

and that's

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she had intended to give her uncle a

full account of you

I shall tell Lord Scott that they yeah

maybe he died in Bristol

she'll make sure that she's laid to rest

come on it's Dawn you must go we'll go

The Coachman will take you to see the

Peter's house in London I shall join you

is there a future for me in this land

for me and my son

I don't know

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thank you

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what finally ended slavery in Britain

was not William wilberforce's abolition

movement but the Industrial Revolution

with the rise of the factory system

slavery simply became obsolete

with iron and steam and all those

ingenious new machines the Industrial

Revolution meant there were huge

fortunes to be made in manufacturing

the money produced by the old slave

trade was trifling compared to the

riches to be made from the new factory

system

is the importance of the slave trade

declined Parliament could afford to do

the Humane thing for which Wilberforce

had fought all his life

and abolish it

Wilberforce was a deeply religious man A

Member of Parliament and a good friend

the Prime Minister Pitt

but he didn't live to see British

slavery totally abolished

it wasn't until

1807 20 years after we saw mahuru riding

away with his son

that Parliament outlawed the slave trade

another entire generation passed however

before it abolished slavery itself

throughout the empire

the bill was passed one month after

Wilberforce died

that was in the 1830s

by then mahora would have been an old

man and his son middle aged

still Britain was 30 years ahead of the

United States with abolition

and did it without War

the irony is that while the Industrial

Revolution made abolition possible

the brutality of those early 19th

century factories reduced British

workers to conditions

that were only slightly more Humane than

slavery

for mobile Masterpiece Theater I'm

Russell Baker good night

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