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Previously on The Book of Negroes...
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No more travelling so far to bring
babies into the world. It's not safe.
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(screaming)
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Papa! Mama!
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- I'm Chekura.
- Are you my captor
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- or my brother?
- Aminata, you must live.
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One day, I will go back
home across the big river.
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- Do I hear nine pounds?
- Five pounds sterling.
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Sold!
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Why that man insists on buying these wild
folk straight off the boat is beyond me.
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You'll be safe here, baby.
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♪
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(rooster crowing)
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Just you, Georgia. Meena stays.
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No.
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She goes with me.
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Hurry back.
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He almost saw that reading book
I gave you. I ain't never seen
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an African learn as fast as you,
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but you better not never let no
buckra see how fast your head work.
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Take you down to the
river, drown and kill you.
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I ain't killable.
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(chuckling) Well, you sure was half dead
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when I scooped you up from that yard.
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I'm sure is glad
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you livin' now,
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but don't you never be alone
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with that buckra, you hear me?
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When I told Georgia about Chekura,
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she said that the
fishnet would pull him up.
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The words of Negroes swim
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the rivers all the way from
Savannah to Charles Town.
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If you sent out word for
a person, sooner or later
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an answer would come back in the fishnet.
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- Sixth season coming again.
- When smallpox came,
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it wasn't just babies who
died. Buckra feared the vapors
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in the low country in the
hottest half of the year,
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- called the sixth season.
- Look, I'm trying
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to make you sick so you don't die.
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(crying out in pain)
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I'mma fix you just like
you were my own kin.
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I took it from a man I made sick
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in the same way.
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(whimpering)
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♪
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Chekura...
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Chekura... Chekura!
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(foreign language)
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(door opening)
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You gotta do it, girl.
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- A few pockmarks, but none on your face.
- That's a relief.
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Pockmarks on your face's a good thing.
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- Why is that?
- You need something to ugly you up.
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You're like a flower
now, and that ain't good.
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Piss ain't even mine,
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- but belongs to Master Appleby.
- (Laughing)
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One day, I'mma give him some shit
to go along with it. (Laughing)
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Do you know that Master
Appleby owns your dreams, too?
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- Ain't that right, Aminata?
- He don't own my dreams.
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He don't own a thing about me.
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Girl, you know we love you,
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but you gotta let go of that Africa thing.
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This your home now, we's all you got.
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- Are you done?
- Mm-hmm.
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You fill a good bucket,
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but I've got more than piss to carry.
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- Mm-hmm!
- (Laughing)
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Indigo dye was in a fine powder
on the stems of the leaves.
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We soaked the leaves in a series of vats,
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in a solution of water
and a catalyst such as pee.
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The dye was in the mud
that set along the bottom
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of the vats. Appleby's coming
with a white man with a funny hat
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- on his head.
- Alright, hush now, y'all be still.
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This here
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is Mr. Solomon Lindo.
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A Jew, among other things.
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Now, he has come all the way from London
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to grade my indigo, and Mr.
Lindo might have some questions
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for you all, so don't be shy to speak up.
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Thank you.
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Miss?
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How many inches of sludge
are in the bottom of this vat?
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About three inches.
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And what are you doing?
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Beating the water so
the air moves through it.
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Through it?
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Through it.
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Mr. Appleby,
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you have good people.
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Now, Meena here, she's
only been here a few years
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but she's already perfectly sensible.
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I mean, she makes soap,
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she doctors the pregnant slave women,
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she handles the indigo competently.
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She was wasting away when I
bought her. Got her for a steal.
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We could certainly use a woman like Aminata
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in Charles Town to deliver babies.
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The doctor in town is horrendous.
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How much would you sell her for?
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She's not for sale.
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Alright, Solomon, you and I have
some business to attend to. Ladies.
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Meena, why don't you entertain Mrs. Lindo?
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My husband mentioned he met a very
bright young woman this afternoon.
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Said you spoke the King's English.
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I've watched you all
night, Meena. You observe
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everything. Nothing escapes
your inquisitive gaze.
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I have a question for you.
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_
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You can trust me.
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Yes.
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I can read.
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(footsteps approaching)
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I think that that's a fair
price and I'll hold you to that.
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Meena, you are pure African, right?
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Why don't you do some of that
African talk for the Lindos?
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Hm?
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Go on.
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Very good.
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- Very good.
- Mr. Appleby,
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that lamb was so tender. Thank you.
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- Good evening.
- That was good lamb.
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It was.
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(chuckling softly)
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Meena?
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You're turning into a fine
little wench, aren't you?
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Come here. Come here.
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Come on. Come.
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Ahh...
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I could set you up in a room in the house.
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Would you like that?
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Be much nicer than that
hut you share with Georgia.
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- Come on, Meena.
- I told you, stay in the kitchen!
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Come on.
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I'm almost finished in this kitchen.
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This big mouth African walks in,
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says his name was Chekura.
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Chekura?
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- Where did he go?
- Said your name over and over.
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But where did he go?
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Into the woods behind the cabin.
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Chekura?
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Chekura?
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Chekura!
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(whispering): Aminata.
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- Aminata Diallo.
- (Laughing)
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(laughing)
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I knew you were alive and well somewhere.
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I put your name in the
fishnet so many times,
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but nothing came back.
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Where are you living? Oh!
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What have you seen?
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Two moons ago,
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my old master sold me near Savannah,
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to a plantation on St. Helena Island.
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I put out the word for you in the fishnet.
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I heard word about a...
baby-catching girl from Africa
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- who could speak every language going.
- (Laughing)
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Have you seen Sanu and her child?
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No.
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- I have something for you.
- For me?
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Put it on.
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You do it.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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You look beautiful in it.
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Thank you.
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I have to get back
before they know I'm gone.
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When can you come back?
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At the next moon.
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Chekura...
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Aminata.
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Aminata.
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Master wants to see you.
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You wanted to see me, Master?
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Come on in, Meena.
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You can come a little bit closer, girl.
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Come here.
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Come.
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Who's that boy that's
been sniffing around here?
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Hmm?
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No boy, Master.
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Hm!
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I treat you special, don't I?
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Different than all the others?
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I don't want nothing special.
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Who owns you, hmm?
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I said: who owns you?
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Come here.
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Meena? Meena, come here.
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- No...
- No.
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(muffled cries)
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(yelling) Shh!
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Be a good girl, hmm? Be a good girl.
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(muffled screams)
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Go, girl. Go, go, go.
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- (sobbing softly)
- Aminata?
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Come, now.
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Come on.
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Come on, come on, come on.
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You're gonna be okay.
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You're gonna be okay.
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It's okay.
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Okay, okay.
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Okay, okay, okay.
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It's alright, it's alright. It's alright.
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I'mma clean that man's
filth right out of you.
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- Chekura...
- Men don't need to know everything.
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Sometimes they don't need
to know nothing at all.
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Now drink this up.
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(knocking)
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May I come in?
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My husband is here to grade the indigo.
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Happy Jack mentioned you were ill.
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Doing alright.
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I have something for you, Meena.
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It's a story about a man
called Lemuel Gulliver
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and his travels to all these
strange and different lands.
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Thank you.
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I'll be back to check on you soon, Meena.
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As Georgia helped me heal from what
Robinson Appleby had done to me,
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I came to see that there was no
good way to deal with that man.
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The only way would be to leave him.
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Books offered me solace,
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but they offered much more than that.
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Only by learning about the white man
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could I ever escape and find a way
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back home.
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I love when you say my name.
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Well, then come closer
and I will say it again.
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(laughing)
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How would you like for me to say it?
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Uh... Bamanankan,
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Fulfulde,
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Gullah, English?
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Star...
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(drum music)
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(cheering)
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Appleby didn't let his Negroes marry.
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Some jumped the broom secretly
and others just lived together
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or visited at night. I had
no doubt what my parents
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would wish, and I told Chekura
that I wanted to be married.
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Meena?
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Come on outside.
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Meena, who's the father, hmm? Meena?
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Come.
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Happy Jack, Georgia, you gather
everybody up in front of the big house.
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Jack, you hurry on ahead,
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you get my shaving blade,
scissors and a mirror.
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Georgia, you gather up Meena's clothes.
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I told y'all to run, you gather up!
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You gather... Don't you move, child!
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Now, you're gonna get on your knees, Meena.
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You're gonna get on your knees for me
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- and you're gonna soak your head.
- No.
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- Lean over the barrel!
- No!
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You're gonna do what I say
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- and you're gonna do it now!
- No!
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Or I clean out that hut and
I throw it all in the fire!
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Everything of yours and
everything of Georgia's too!
262
00:18:49,495 --> 00:18:52,163
Her clothes, her pouches, her gourds!
263
00:18:52,197 --> 00:18:56,400
Everything in the fire, you hear me?
264
00:18:56,435 --> 00:18:59,103
You do as I say, child.
265
00:19:01,306 --> 00:19:03,769
Sit that down, Jack! Sit down now!
266
00:19:17,021 --> 00:19:19,823
Your boy get up on
behind you like this, huh?
267
00:19:26,564 --> 00:19:29,099
Oh, this is just... this is just wool!
268
00:19:29,133 --> 00:19:31,101
(laughing)
269
00:19:31,135 --> 00:19:33,236
You say... you say:
270
00:19:33,270 --> 00:19:35,638
"I got wool on my head, not hair".
271
00:19:35,672 --> 00:19:39,876
Say it for me, Meena.
272
00:19:39,910 --> 00:19:42,612
Got wool.
273
00:19:42,646 --> 00:19:44,814
Not hair.
274
00:19:44,848 --> 00:19:47,116
It's just wool,
275
00:19:47,150 --> 00:19:51,487
and ain't even yours,
ever, if I say it ain't.
276
00:19:56,693 --> 00:19:58,995
Okay... here.
277
00:19:59,029 --> 00:20:01,830
See, we've got wool, Meena. We've got wool.
278
00:20:05,701 --> 00:20:08,637
You move your head, Meena,
and I will bleed your scalp.
279
00:20:12,108 --> 00:20:14,243
(whimpering)
280
00:20:14,277 --> 00:20:16,845
You like the way I touch you,
Meena? You like the way I touch you?
281
00:20:19,982 --> 00:20:22,884
(whimpering)
282
00:20:32,061 --> 00:20:33,401
Here you go, take a look.
283
00:20:35,402 --> 00:20:37,145
Look at us, isn't that nice?
284
00:20:43,939 --> 00:20:46,274
they both belong to me.
285
00:21:06,661 --> 00:21:08,962
(screaming in pain)
286
00:21:12,266 --> 00:21:14,601
Alright, alright.
287
00:21:14,635 --> 00:21:17,804
Think of that man of yours. Now push.
288
00:21:17,838 --> 00:21:19,839
(screaming)
289
00:21:21,842 --> 00:21:23,876
(baby crying)
290
00:21:23,911 --> 00:21:26,779
Girl! It's a girl!
291
00:21:26,814 --> 00:21:29,716
(crying)
292
00:21:46,866 --> 00:21:49,101
He knows, child.
293
00:21:49,136 --> 00:21:51,303
He know who the daddy is,
294
00:21:51,338 --> 00:21:53,239
who the daddy may be,
295
00:21:53,273 --> 00:21:55,841
and who the daddy ain't.
296
00:22:11,024 --> 00:22:13,358
My dangerous wife.
297
00:22:13,392 --> 00:22:16,827
Dangerous for you to come back so
long after your daughter was born.
298
00:22:16,862 --> 00:22:18,863
Ah, you're counting the days!
299
00:22:18,897 --> 00:22:20,931
So you love me after all.
300
00:22:23,001 --> 00:22:25,436
Look behind you.
301
00:22:32,944 --> 00:22:35,180
Ahh...
302
00:22:35,614 --> 00:22:37,882
Sorry I took so long.
303
00:22:42,854 --> 00:22:45,489
What is this now?
304
00:22:47,492 --> 00:22:49,893
Hmm?
305
00:22:52,397 --> 00:22:55,432
Lice got in it, I had to cut it.
306
00:22:55,466 --> 00:22:57,934
Lice, huh?
307
00:23:00,271 --> 00:23:05,576
Hair or no hair, you are still the
most handsome woman in Carolina.
308
00:23:06,110 --> 00:23:09,579
- Only in Carolina?
- (Laughing)
309
00:23:09,613 --> 00:23:12,115
What did you name our daughter?
310
00:23:12,149 --> 00:23:14,217
Foolish man.
311
00:23:14,251 --> 00:23:18,254
I was waiting for you.
312
00:23:18,288 --> 00:23:21,224
But... I want to call her...
313
00:23:21,258 --> 00:23:23,892
- May.
- May?
314
00:23:23,927 --> 00:23:25,928
May.
315
00:23:25,962 --> 00:23:29,498
May it is.
316
00:23:29,533 --> 00:23:32,268
Come and see your daughter
as much as you can.
317
00:23:34,271 --> 00:23:36,404
But don't get caught.
318
00:23:36,439 --> 00:23:38,874
And don't get hurt.
319
00:23:59,962 --> 00:24:04,499
(baby crying)
320
00:24:14,076 --> 00:24:16,543
- May!
- (Baby crying)
321
00:24:16,578 --> 00:24:19,313
May! May! May!
322
00:24:19,347 --> 00:24:22,349
May! No! May!!
323
00:24:22,384 --> 00:24:24,418
May! No!!
324
00:24:24,452 --> 00:24:26,953
No! May!!
325
00:24:26,988 --> 00:24:31,091
- May!
- She only fetched five pounds.
326
00:24:31,125 --> 00:24:36,062
(screaming)
327
00:24:36,097 --> 00:24:37,598
May!!
328
00:24:48,589 --> 00:24:51,325
I wasn't gonna let you
die when I scooped you up,
329
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:52,692
skin and bones, out of that yard,
330
00:24:52,693 --> 00:24:54,658
and I'm sure enough not
gonna let you die now.
331
00:24:56,897 --> 00:24:59,599
- I want to die, Georgia.
- I'm not gonna let
332
00:24:59,633 --> 00:25:02,502
that dog of a man kill you.
333
00:25:02,536 --> 00:25:04,637
Get up.
334
00:25:04,672 --> 00:25:06,873
Get. Up.
335
00:25:06,907 --> 00:25:10,142
Get up now.
336
00:25:20,033 --> 00:25:23,536
I sold you to the Jew.
337
00:25:23,570 --> 00:25:27,072
Come on.
338
00:25:27,106 --> 00:25:29,340
Come on. Keep your head up, girl.
339
00:25:43,489 --> 00:25:46,157
You ain't killable.
340
00:26:05,543 --> 00:26:08,045
Do you have other slaves?
341
00:26:10,048 --> 00:26:12,249
No.
342
00:26:12,283 --> 00:26:15,519
My wife and I prefer the term 'servant'.
343
00:26:17,522 --> 00:26:20,424
And you don't have to be
afraid to speak properly.
344
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,728
You want me to talk like you?
345
00:26:24,762 --> 00:26:27,297
Talk like white folks?
346
00:26:27,332 --> 00:26:29,799
English. And I'm not white.
347
00:26:29,834 --> 00:26:32,769
I'm Jewish, and that is very different.
348
00:26:32,803 --> 00:26:35,839
You and I are both outsiders.
349
00:26:42,279 --> 00:26:44,848
Meena, welcome to our home.
350
00:26:44,882 --> 00:26:48,384
Your home is peaceful.
351
00:26:48,418 --> 00:26:52,255
I'm so glad you're here
to help me have the baby.
352
00:26:52,289 --> 00:26:55,358
Don't worry, you'll be fine.
353
00:27:02,098 --> 00:27:04,232
Are you in need of anything?
354
00:27:04,267 --> 00:27:07,502
Another blanket, a larger washbasin?
355
00:27:07,537 --> 00:27:10,172
Mr. Appleby sold my daughter.
356
00:27:10,206 --> 00:27:12,908
I need to find her. Do
you know where she is?
357
00:27:12,942 --> 00:27:15,911
- I have no idea.
- Would Mr. Lindo?
358
00:27:15,945 --> 00:27:18,280
My husband would not appreciate
359
00:27:18,314 --> 00:27:20,115
questions about his business.
360
00:27:20,150 --> 00:27:23,951
It's not business. It's my daughter.
361
00:27:23,986 --> 00:27:27,155
I'll see what I can find out.
362
00:27:36,999 --> 00:27:39,433
(town bustle)
363
00:28:00,988 --> 00:28:03,790
Meena, do you like working
as a servant in the household?
364
00:28:03,825 --> 00:28:05,792
I like it fine, Mr. Lindo.
365
00:28:05,827 --> 00:28:08,329
Good.
366
00:28:08,363 --> 00:28:10,831
You'll work with me here in the
mornings. I'm going to teach you
367
00:28:10,865 --> 00:28:13,266
how to keep my accounts, my books.
368
00:28:13,300 --> 00:28:15,368
You're intelligent.
369
00:28:15,402 --> 00:28:17,437
I want to lift you up.
370
00:28:17,471 --> 00:28:20,640
Do you have religion, Meena?
371
00:28:20,674 --> 00:28:22,843
My father was studying Allah
372
00:28:22,877 --> 00:28:25,011
and I was learning from him.
373
00:28:25,046 --> 00:28:28,514
So you're a Muslim, and I a Jew.
374
00:28:28,549 --> 00:28:30,816
We're not that far apart.
375
00:28:30,851 --> 00:28:34,520
Our religions come from
similar books. In my faith,
376
00:28:34,555 --> 00:28:38,291
it's considered a good thing to
help someone become independent.
377
00:28:38,325 --> 00:28:40,393
That will be all, thank you.
378
00:28:45,832 --> 00:28:48,300
Aminata.
379
00:28:48,334 --> 00:28:52,204
I know where we can go to
inquire about your baby.
380
00:28:52,239 --> 00:28:54,840
Where? Where?
381
00:28:54,875 --> 00:28:56,976
Where?
382
00:29:01,714 --> 00:29:04,849
William King.
383
00:29:04,884 --> 00:29:07,286
He's the biggest slave
trader in Charles Town.
384
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,521
He may know something about your baby.
385
00:29:09,555 --> 00:29:12,324
- You wait here, I won't be a minute.
- No, no, Mrs. Lindo,
386
00:29:12,358 --> 00:29:14,326
I want to go with you.
387
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,327
Alright, come.
388
00:29:16,361 --> 00:29:19,363
To the gentleman in the purple coat.
389
00:29:19,398 --> 00:29:22,100
Eight. Eight.
390
00:29:22,134 --> 00:29:25,636
It was the first time I had seen men
and women at auction in Charles Town.
391
00:29:25,671 --> 00:29:28,239
There was nothing I could do to stop it.
392
00:29:28,274 --> 00:29:30,408
Good afternoon, Mr. King.
393
00:29:30,442 --> 00:29:33,076
Mrs. Lindo?
394
00:29:33,111 --> 00:29:35,579
I was just passing by and I
saw you and it occurred to me
395
00:29:35,614 --> 00:29:38,616
that I haven't seen your Josephine
at our monthly book reading.
396
00:29:38,650 --> 00:29:40,718
- I was wondering if she's well.
- My wife is fine, Mrs. Lindo.
397
00:29:40,752 --> 00:29:43,187
She's away in Georgia visiting her family.
398
00:29:43,221 --> 00:29:44,760
- Good day to you, Mrs. Lindo.
- Mr. King,
399
00:29:44,761 --> 00:29:46,975
do you have a moment for a quick query?
400
00:29:47,292 --> 00:29:49,526
What is it, Mrs. Lindo?
401
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,795
You know Mr. Robinson Appleby.
402
00:29:51,830 --> 00:29:54,832
My husband does business
with him quite frequently.
403
00:29:54,866 --> 00:29:58,335
Well, Mr. Appleby made the
sale of an infant some time ago.
404
00:29:58,369 --> 00:30:00,971
I was wondering if you've heard or know
405
00:30:01,005 --> 00:30:02,973
- where the child may have been sold.
- Does your husband
406
00:30:03,007 --> 00:30:04,942
know you're here, Mrs. Lindo?
407
00:30:04,976 --> 00:30:06,943
Yes, indeed.
408
00:30:06,977 --> 00:30:09,412
We'd heard the child had
quite a calm disposition.
409
00:30:09,447 --> 00:30:11,514
My husband and I are looking for a playmate
410
00:30:11,549 --> 00:30:13,516
for when my own child comes.
411
00:30:13,551 --> 00:30:16,252
I heard of Mr. Appleby selling a baby
412
00:30:16,286 --> 00:30:18,688
to Mr. Frederick Scott, cotton grower.
413
00:30:18,723 --> 00:30:20,790
He grew up on Hilton Head Island.
414
00:30:20,825 --> 00:30:23,326
- Just in passing, mind you.
- Thank you, Mr. King.
415
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,527
Good day to you, Mrs. Lindo.
416
00:30:27,931 --> 00:30:30,867
- I have to get to Hilton Head Island.
- We will, together.
417
00:30:30,901 --> 00:30:33,402
Mr. Lindo cannot know.
418
00:30:46,562 --> 00:30:48,396
This is the Scott plantation.
419
00:30:50,933 --> 00:30:53,368
I will talk to the lady of the house.
420
00:30:53,402 --> 00:30:55,402
No.
421
00:30:55,437 --> 00:30:58,405
I will know if it's my May.
422
00:31:10,752 --> 00:31:13,387
- Afternoon.
- Stay in the yard.
423
00:31:17,258 --> 00:31:20,427
- What do you want?
- My missus...
424
00:31:20,462 --> 00:31:23,497
- Mrs. Lindo and me, we were...
- Lindo?
425
00:31:23,531 --> 00:31:25,866
What would a Jew and a Negro wench
426
00:31:25,900 --> 00:31:28,701
be doing on Hilton Head Island?
427
00:31:28,736 --> 00:31:30,904
Lost.
428
00:31:30,938 --> 00:31:33,539
We done took a wrong turn.
429
00:31:33,574 --> 00:31:36,176
We be looking for Morgan Street.
430
00:31:36,210 --> 00:31:38,912
Morgan Trail's nowhere near
here. It's ten miles back.
431
00:31:38,946 --> 00:31:42,115
My missus, she be with child.
432
00:31:42,149 --> 00:31:45,050
- Would that be your child?
- What business
433
00:31:45,085 --> 00:31:48,388
- is that of yours?
- My mistress done buy the baby for a plantation
434
00:31:48,422 --> 00:31:51,191
- on Lady Island.
- (Baby crying)
435
00:31:51,225 --> 00:31:53,559
Gonna go change the baby.
436
00:31:54,961 --> 00:31:56,962
I told you to stay in the yard.
437
00:31:56,997 --> 00:32:00,665
Matthew, get this nigger off the veranda.
438
00:32:05,671 --> 00:32:08,573
Just where do you think you're going?
439
00:32:08,608 --> 00:32:10,842
Get back here!
440
00:32:13,146 --> 00:32:15,680
Get out of my house!
441
00:32:17,817 --> 00:32:21,920
(baby crying)
442
00:32:40,139 --> 00:32:42,140
Get out.
443
00:32:53,051 --> 00:32:55,753
I'm so sorry, Aminata.
444
00:33:03,227 --> 00:33:05,729
(crying)
445
00:33:07,798 --> 00:33:11,034
- That's your mama, yes.
- It's a boy.
446
00:33:25,215 --> 00:33:27,216
Hello.
447
00:33:37,361 --> 00:33:40,363
In the fall of 1774,
448
00:33:40,397 --> 00:33:45,534
after Mrs. Lindo's baby was born,
a smallpox epidemic took the life
449
00:33:45,568 --> 00:33:47,703
of some two hundred people in Charles Town.
450
00:33:47,737 --> 00:33:51,040
The disease kept people in
a constant state of fear.
451
00:33:51,074 --> 00:33:55,011
(knocking)
452
00:33:58,780 --> 00:34:01,082
Who's there?
453
00:34:01,117 --> 00:34:03,151
It's your husband.
454
00:34:27,843 --> 00:34:29,744
How did you find me?
455
00:34:29,778 --> 00:34:31,746
Through the fishnet.
456
00:34:31,780 --> 00:34:34,549
I asked for the home of Lindo,
457
00:34:34,583 --> 00:34:36,517
the indigo inspector.
458
00:34:38,587 --> 00:34:41,455
- How long can you stay?
- Just one night.
459
00:34:41,489 --> 00:34:45,792
But I might be able to
come back in a month or two.
460
00:34:58,573 --> 00:35:01,608
I have missed you so much it hurts,
461
00:35:01,642 --> 00:35:03,810
but you cannot crawl back into my bed
462
00:35:03,844 --> 00:35:06,546
with the promise that you will
come back in a month or two.
463
00:35:06,581 --> 00:35:09,783
It is not easy to get
free, even for a night.
464
00:35:12,152 --> 00:35:15,555
- I married the man I love.
- And the man you married loves you.
465
00:35:15,590 --> 00:35:18,591
(sighing)
466
00:35:21,228 --> 00:35:24,330
Do you blame me for losing May?
467
00:35:24,364 --> 00:35:27,133
Do you blame me for taking you to the sea?
468
00:35:40,293 --> 00:35:43,028
There were times...
469
00:35:43,063 --> 00:35:45,898
I wanted you so much,
470
00:35:45,932 --> 00:35:48,767
my body screamed.
471
00:35:52,137 --> 00:35:54,472
When I was missing you,
472
00:35:54,507 --> 00:35:57,875
my wife...
473
00:35:57,910 --> 00:36:00,212
I would wait for the thinnest
sliver of the crescent moon
474
00:36:00,246 --> 00:36:02,947
to come out at night...
475
00:36:20,833 --> 00:36:22,900
Who is this man?
476
00:36:29,374 --> 00:36:31,442
This is my husband,
477
00:36:31,476 --> 00:36:33,844
Chekura.
478
00:36:33,878 --> 00:36:36,880
He crossed the ocean
with me from my home land.
479
00:36:36,914 --> 00:36:40,618
I will not tolerate trespassing.
He must leave at once.
480
00:36:40,652 --> 00:36:44,687
- He's my husband.
- He will leave now
481
00:36:44,722 --> 00:36:46,623
or there will be serious trouble.
482
00:36:46,657 --> 00:36:49,459
I am no runaway. I just
came to see my wife.
483
00:36:49,493 --> 00:36:51,628
But I will leave as you ask.
484
00:36:51,662 --> 00:36:54,030
Do not set foot on my property again.
485
00:36:54,065 --> 00:36:56,066
(door slamming)
486
00:37:09,061 --> 00:37:12,230
Solomon told me about the
monthly visits of your husband.
487
00:37:13,764 --> 00:37:16,134
I made him promise me
488
00:37:16,168 --> 00:37:18,969
to leave you in peace with your husband.
489
00:37:19,003 --> 00:37:21,806
Chekura is a good man, Mrs. Lindo.
490
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,208
So is my Solomon.
491
00:37:24,292 --> 00:37:27,327
He's done some things he regrets,
492
00:37:27,362 --> 00:37:30,297
but he has a good heart.
493
00:37:36,237 --> 00:37:38,838
I'm sorry I couldn't help you
494
00:37:38,873 --> 00:37:41,441
find out where your baby was sold.
495
00:37:41,475 --> 00:37:44,677
Oh...
496
00:38:15,875 --> 00:38:19,478
Losing Mrs. Lindo was painful.
497
00:38:19,512 --> 00:38:21,547
I had trusted Mrs. Lindo
498
00:38:21,581 --> 00:38:24,349
more than any other white person.
499
00:38:24,383 --> 00:38:27,385
But I was not allowed to attend the shivah
500
00:38:27,420 --> 00:38:31,356
or speak to any visitors
about how much I had loved her.
501
00:38:33,359 --> 00:38:36,294
I'm sailing to New York City.
502
00:38:36,329 --> 00:38:38,363
Someone must convince the British
503
00:38:38,397 --> 00:38:40,966
to increase the bounty paid for indigo.
504
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,868
I want you to come with me.
505
00:38:53,445 --> 00:38:55,813
I miss her too, Mr. Lindo.
506
00:39:01,286 --> 00:39:03,588
Good night.
507
00:39:03,622 --> 00:39:06,323
Good night.
508
00:39:08,026 --> 00:39:10,527
Our baby was sold in Savannah, Georgia.
509
00:39:13,298 --> 00:39:15,265
How do you know?
510
00:39:15,300 --> 00:39:17,601
Different folks through the fishnet.
511
00:39:20,271 --> 00:39:23,540
Lindo helped Appleby sell our
May to a family in Savannah.
512
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:33,349
- Is she alive? Is our baby alive?
- I don't know.
513
00:39:33,384 --> 00:39:36,452
- There's pox all over Georgia.
- What family?
514
00:39:36,487 --> 00:39:38,755
I don't know, but Lindo set up the sale.
515
00:39:38,789 --> 00:39:42,091
How do you know it was him?
516
00:39:42,126 --> 00:39:44,760
The family had a slave
wet nurse in the house.
517
00:39:44,794 --> 00:39:47,530
When our baby arrived, the wet nurse
sent out word through the fishnet.
518
00:39:47,564 --> 00:39:50,666
She said that Lindo, the indigo inspector,
519
00:39:50,700 --> 00:39:53,236
was with the family when the baby arrived.
520
00:39:53,270 --> 00:39:55,571
He was paid a fee.
521
00:40:05,048 --> 00:40:07,049
What are you doing here?
522
00:40:13,423 --> 00:40:15,990
Have you been going through my papers?
523
00:40:16,025 --> 00:40:19,194
Aminata, I expect an answer when I speak.
524
00:40:19,228 --> 00:40:21,629
I don't owe you anything.
525
00:40:23,732 --> 00:40:26,334
I keep you clothed, I keep you fed.
526
00:40:26,369 --> 00:40:28,970
You live better than any other servant.
527
00:40:29,004 --> 00:40:32,139
You're not to leave the house unless
it is for work at the right time.
528
00:40:32,174 --> 00:40:34,308
So will you now start
529
00:40:34,342 --> 00:40:36,711
calling me slave instead of servant?
530
00:40:43,318 --> 00:40:45,352
You will cook and you will clean
531
00:40:45,387 --> 00:40:47,455
and you'll do as I say!
532
00:40:47,489 --> 00:40:50,624
I will not.
533
00:41:00,569 --> 00:41:03,169
You sold my daughter.
534
00:41:03,204 --> 00:41:06,506
Robinson Appleby sold your baby.
535
00:41:06,540 --> 00:41:10,077
You helped him, and you were paid to do it.
536
00:41:10,111 --> 00:41:12,112
You sold my daughter
537
00:41:12,146 --> 00:41:14,648
to a family in Savannah, Georgia.
538
00:41:16,618 --> 00:41:18,618
Who told you this?
539
00:41:20,087 --> 00:41:23,022
And you call yourself a Hebrew?
540
00:41:27,228 --> 00:41:29,795
I gave your daughter a better life.
541
00:41:29,830 --> 00:41:33,166
I gave you a better life.
542
00:41:35,268 --> 00:41:39,505
Would you rather she spent her
life with Appleby raping her?
543
00:41:39,539 --> 00:41:41,774
I gave her a chance
544
00:41:41,808 --> 00:41:44,276
at a good life, with a good family.
545
00:41:44,310 --> 00:41:47,179
She was to be raised in the house,
not out in the field like some nigger.
546
00:42:03,296 --> 00:42:05,264
Is May alive?
547
00:42:07,298 --> 00:42:09,000
She's dead.
548
00:42:09,035 --> 00:42:12,103
The pox got her, just as it took my wife
549
00:42:12,138 --> 00:42:14,572
and my son.
550
00:42:34,059 --> 00:42:36,727
I know I had a daughter.
551
00:42:40,832 --> 00:42:43,300
And this...
552
00:42:43,334 --> 00:42:46,369
this says you sold her.
553
00:42:58,849 --> 00:43:01,751
(sobbing)
554
00:43:20,752 --> 00:43:25,752
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