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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,154 --> 00:00:01,710 (Aminata): Previously on The Book of Negroes... 2 00:00:01,757 --> 00:00:03,973 Our navy plans to move all negro loyalists 3 00:00:03,974 --> 00:00:05,780 to Nova Scotia where they will be free. 4 00:00:05,790 --> 00:00:09,060 This is the ledger in which you'll record the names of the negro loyalists; 5 00:00:09,180 --> 00:00:11,264 The Book of Negroes. 6 00:00:11,399 --> 00:00:15,356 Your tickets for The Joseph, boarding November 7 for Annapolis Royal. 7 00:00:15,369 --> 00:00:18,305 Our baby will be born in March in Nova Scotia. 8 00:00:18,339 --> 00:00:22,254 Aminata Diallo, there is a claim against you. We cannot allow you to leave. 9 00:00:22,309 --> 00:00:25,661 - Lindo has made a claim on me! - Please! I am her husband and I go with her. 10 00:00:25,699 --> 00:00:27,544 If you get off this ship, you will board no other. 11 00:00:27,563 --> 00:00:29,478 - I will not leave you. - It's the only way. 12 00:00:29,502 --> 00:00:32,996 (Judge): I have looked over the contract between Mr. Appleby and Mr. Lindo. 13 00:00:33,175 --> 00:00:34,683 Mr. Lindo, you may take your property. 14 00:00:34,702 --> 00:00:35,958 She's not my property. 15 00:00:36,110 --> 00:00:37,869 I wish for Meena to be free. 16 00:00:38,957 --> 00:00:41,992 - synced and corrected by chamallow - - www.addic7ed.com - 17 00:00:57,716 --> 00:01:00,289 (Aminata): I had hoped to sail to Annapolis Royal 18 00:01:00,312 --> 00:01:01,546 in Nova Scotia, 19 00:01:02,239 --> 00:01:04,933 since that was where Chekura's ship had been heading, 20 00:01:05,491 --> 00:01:07,821 but there was only one ship for me to take, 21 00:01:08,135 --> 00:01:09,957 and it was going to Shelburne. 22 00:01:10,619 --> 00:01:12,830 I saw no vast farms, 23 00:01:13,063 --> 00:01:15,005 or signs of cultivation. 24 00:01:15,827 --> 00:01:18,157 Was this the Promised Land? 25 00:01:22,018 --> 00:01:24,081 I buried my thoughts of Chekura, 26 00:01:24,488 --> 00:01:26,911 and set about finding a place to sleep 27 00:01:27,174 --> 00:01:29,384 and food to sustain the little person 28 00:01:29,407 --> 00:01:31,252 growing inside of me. 29 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:41,625 They don't know what's here, 30 00:01:41,997 --> 00:01:43,792 don't know what's waiting for 'em, 31 00:01:44,055 --> 00:01:45,866 they just keep coming. 32 00:01:54,228 --> 00:01:55,584 You look famished. 33 00:01:55,782 --> 00:01:56,456 (Spitting) 34 00:01:56,576 --> 00:01:57,390 Famished? 35 00:01:58,285 --> 00:01:59,394 What's that mean? 36 00:02:00,052 --> 00:02:00,839 Hmm? 37 00:02:01,346 --> 00:02:04,091 There are brave souls in Nova Scotia, 38 00:02:04,641 --> 00:02:06,241 and also many fools. 39 00:02:06,307 --> 00:02:07,470 Calling me a fool? 40 00:02:08,505 --> 00:02:09,552 No, sir. 41 00:02:10,385 --> 00:02:12,540 I'm only here to give my aunt a hand. 42 00:02:13,373 --> 00:02:14,997 We have our own business to mind. 43 00:02:18,676 --> 00:02:20,184 Aw, don't pay them no mind. 44 00:02:20,386 --> 00:02:23,018 Things be uneasy between us free blacks and whites, 45 00:02:23,037 --> 00:02:24,522 but we ain't going nowhere. 46 00:02:24,692 --> 00:02:25,584 (Chuckling) 47 00:02:26,270 --> 00:02:28,084 You don't remember me, do you, Miss Meena? 48 00:02:28,461 --> 00:02:29,630 Can't say I blame you. 49 00:02:30,068 --> 00:02:32,603 You registered me in The Book of Negroes back in Manhattan. 50 00:02:33,778 --> 00:02:34,848 Jason! 51 00:02:35,608 --> 00:02:36,472 Jason... 52 00:02:36,507 --> 00:02:37,964 (both laughing) 53 00:02:38,589 --> 00:02:40,472 I am looking for my husband. 54 00:02:40,670 --> 00:02:42,562 Chekura, Chekura Tiano. 55 00:02:43,088 --> 00:02:44,189 Do you know him? 56 00:02:44,309 --> 00:02:46,767 No, well I know about every coloured man in Birchtown, 57 00:02:46,798 --> 00:02:48,212 but I can't say I know your man. 58 00:02:51,380 --> 00:02:53,539 - Oh, it's so cold here! - You should meet our preacher. 59 00:02:53,605 --> 00:02:56,245 ♪ Nobody knows my problems ♪ 60 00:02:57,144 --> 00:03:00,184 ♪ But my God, yeah ♪ 61 00:03:00,606 --> 00:03:01,917 (Jason): Howdy, sir! 62 00:03:02,165 --> 00:03:04,363 This is Miss Meena, 63 00:03:04,390 --> 00:03:06,170 fresh off the boat from Manhattan. 64 00:03:06,329 --> 00:03:08,530 And this is Daddy Moses. 65 00:03:08,693 --> 00:03:10,189 And now seeing as you are both lettered, 66 00:03:10,201 --> 00:03:12,522 you ought to get on fine, like a house on fire. 67 00:03:13,717 --> 00:03:15,551 My name is Moses Wilkinson. 68 00:03:15,573 --> 00:03:18,428 Some people call me preacher man; others 69 00:03:18,497 --> 00:03:19,893 call me Daddy Moses. 70 00:03:19,943 --> 00:03:23,168 Please say hello to a broken-down old man. 71 00:03:24,235 --> 00:03:27,545 - You're not so old. - Miss Meena here is with child. 72 00:03:27,545 --> 00:03:29,444 She's searching for her husband, uh, 73 00:03:29,486 --> 00:03:31,812 - Chekura is his name. - Yes, Chekura Tiano. 74 00:03:31,839 --> 00:03:32,905 Ah... 75 00:03:33,061 --> 00:03:34,766 Searching but not finding, huh? 76 00:03:35,363 --> 00:03:38,507 - No, no, not yet. - Well, tell me, uh... 77 00:03:39,248 --> 00:03:40,574 Have you been saved? 78 00:03:42,132 --> 00:03:43,800 Well, that depends. 79 00:03:43,954 --> 00:03:45,835 Do you know where I can stay tonight? 80 00:03:45,869 --> 00:03:48,322 Aw, yeah, you can stay over at Birchtown, about 81 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:50,683 3 miles down the way, 82 00:03:50,803 --> 00:03:52,772 at the dog-ass end of the harbour. 83 00:03:53,140 --> 00:03:54,008 Well then, 84 00:03:54,667 --> 00:03:56,194 - I have been saved. - Ha! 85 00:03:56,221 --> 00:03:58,452 (both laughing) 86 00:04:00,472 --> 00:04:02,519 Can feel the storm coming. Here. 87 00:04:03,310 --> 00:04:05,065 - Here you go. - (Aminata): No... 88 00:04:05,081 --> 00:04:06,895 Put that on, you're going to have a baby, now. 89 00:04:07,157 --> 00:04:07,970 Put it on. 90 00:04:09,152 --> 00:04:11,500 - Come on, let's go. - Thank you. 91 00:04:13,163 --> 00:04:17,265 ♪ Nobody knows my troubles ♪ 92 00:04:18,054 --> 00:04:19,891 ♪ But my God ♪ 93 00:04:20,822 --> 00:04:22,880 (bell ringing) 94 00:04:27,492 --> 00:04:29,478 It's good of you to carry Daddy Moses. 95 00:04:29,512 --> 00:04:32,004 Well, me and Daddy Moses, we pulls each other. 96 00:04:33,744 --> 00:04:36,148 - We are travelling peoples. - (Daddy Moses): Yeah. 97 00:04:36,179 --> 00:04:38,659 - (Jason): Mm-hmm. - (Wolf snarling) 98 00:04:42,547 --> 00:04:45,757 (screaming) 99 00:04:48,001 --> 00:04:50,066 (Jason): Go on! Go on, get! 100 00:04:57,889 --> 00:04:58,997 It's Jack Cooke. 101 00:04:59,362 --> 00:05:01,866 - Well, I'll be. He skinny? - Looks like it. 102 00:05:02,455 --> 00:05:04,176 Must have caught his foot in these logs, 103 00:05:04,203 --> 00:05:05,769 snapped his leg while he was hunting. 104 00:05:06,584 --> 00:05:07,905 No one here to help him. 105 00:05:09,894 --> 00:05:11,548 Someone said they saw him stealing. 106 00:05:11,750 --> 00:05:12,750 If the judge convicted him, 107 00:05:12,757 --> 00:05:14,354 would have been the third time. 108 00:05:15,916 --> 00:05:17,624 He was hiding out so he wouldn't get hanged. 109 00:05:18,617 --> 00:05:20,710 You're not taking the coat off a dead man! 110 00:05:21,547 --> 00:05:23,633 No sense leaving a perfectly good coat. 111 00:05:24,846 --> 00:05:25,610 Besides, 112 00:05:26,393 --> 00:05:28,331 it ain't for me, Miss Meena. 113 00:05:28,569 --> 00:05:29,578 It for you. 114 00:05:30,704 --> 00:05:31,942 I can't do that. 115 00:05:32,764 --> 00:05:35,035 - I can't do that! - Miss Meena... 116 00:05:35,458 --> 00:05:37,105 It only getting colder out here. 117 00:05:38,497 --> 00:05:40,362 We can't have you ending up like Jack Cooke. 118 00:05:42,343 --> 00:05:43,269 All right, 119 00:05:44,006 --> 00:05:44,843 all right. 120 00:05:49,699 --> 00:05:51,138 Just the right size. 121 00:05:52,487 --> 00:05:54,053 For you and your baby. 122 00:06:00,503 --> 00:06:01,992 (Daddy Moses): We best be goin'. 123 00:06:19,644 --> 00:06:22,520 (chatting inaudibly) 124 00:06:27,765 --> 00:06:29,424 (mooing) 125 00:06:38,230 --> 00:06:39,955 You have a hard life here. 126 00:06:41,083 --> 00:06:42,429 We do the best we can. 127 00:06:44,964 --> 00:06:45,829 Come on. 128 00:06:57,368 --> 00:06:59,620 My first winter in Nova Scotia, 129 00:06:59,829 --> 00:07:02,225 disease streaked through Birchtown. 130 00:07:03,392 --> 00:07:05,252 Nobody had a thing. 131 00:07:05,863 --> 00:07:08,179 Never a coin was passing among us. 132 00:07:09,145 --> 00:07:12,264 I caught babies some of them died in their first month. 133 00:07:13,377 --> 00:07:16,230 People in Birchtown had no money 134 00:07:16,474 --> 00:07:18,265 or goods to pay for my help, 135 00:07:19,005 --> 00:07:20,897 but they would give me what they could. 136 00:07:24,161 --> 00:07:26,599 _ 137 00:07:45,008 --> 00:07:46,179 (man): Hey, hey! 138 00:07:46,299 --> 00:07:47,264 Thief! 139 00:07:47,574 --> 00:07:48,718 Stop that man! 140 00:07:48,733 --> 00:07:49,966 (Theodore): You, stop right there! 141 00:07:50,869 --> 00:07:52,327 Get back here, boy! 142 00:08:13,069 --> 00:08:14,302 Pardon me. 143 00:08:22,202 --> 00:08:23,438 You dropped these. 144 00:08:23,938 --> 00:08:25,248 You keep them. 145 00:08:32,761 --> 00:08:34,568 (Daddy Moses): We are like the Israelites 146 00:08:35,761 --> 00:08:37,850 who escaped from bondage from Egypt. 147 00:08:38,021 --> 00:08:39,719 - (congregation shouting assent) - And it was Moses himself 148 00:08:39,769 --> 00:08:43,083 who parted the Red Sea so we could make better our escape. 149 00:08:43,254 --> 00:08:45,533 - (congregation): Amen. - But we are not 150 00:08:45,583 --> 00:08:47,692 in the promised land not yet. 151 00:08:48,215 --> 00:08:49,913 We need land! 152 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:52,781 - (congregation): Yes! - Where we can grow our crops and survive. 153 00:08:53,076 --> 00:08:55,146 More than 1,000 of us came here, 154 00:08:55,321 --> 00:08:57,677 and only about a dozen of us have land. 155 00:08:57,797 --> 00:08:59,569 - (congregation): Shame! - The rest of us are so 156 00:08:59,631 --> 00:09:03,918 crammed together that cholera is killing our people. 157 00:09:04,112 --> 00:09:06,232 (Cummings): Well, maybe we ought to show more industry. 158 00:09:07,438 --> 00:09:08,759 Follow the law. 159 00:09:09,104 --> 00:09:10,341 Show sobriety. 160 00:09:11,027 --> 00:09:12,550 - (congregation murmuring angrily) - Hard work. 161 00:09:13,349 --> 00:09:14,802 Maybe then we'll get the land. 162 00:09:16,484 --> 00:09:19,131 (Aminata): I could write to the abolitionists in England. 163 00:09:19,562 --> 00:09:21,562 And wait for an answer that never comes? 164 00:09:21,725 --> 00:09:24,310 I fail to see how her writing the letters 165 00:09:24,330 --> 00:09:26,246 - would hurt this cause. - (Crowd agreeing) 166 00:09:26,267 --> 00:09:28,101 I think it might help, huh? 167 00:09:28,349 --> 00:09:29,608 All in favour? 168 00:09:30,035 --> 00:09:32,209 - (congregation): Oh, yeah! - ... Carried. 169 00:09:32,407 --> 00:09:34,663 Aminata will write letters on behalf 170 00:09:34,709 --> 00:09:36,666 - of the people of Birchtown... - (congregation): Yes! 171 00:09:36,712 --> 00:09:40,131 to every abolitionist known to man! 172 00:09:40,251 --> 00:09:42,561 (cheering) Hallelujah! 173 00:09:42,755 --> 00:09:45,744 I need three white men, strong and sturdy. 174 00:09:46,399 --> 00:09:48,224 10 pence for a day's work. 175 00:09:49,131 --> 00:09:50,503 Move forward. 176 00:09:50,662 --> 00:09:51,725 (man): Right here! 177 00:09:53,248 --> 00:09:54,893 I'll take you two and you. 178 00:09:55,051 --> 00:09:58,182 - (men grumbling) - Now I need 5 black bucks, 179 00:09:58,345 --> 00:09:59,582 5 pence a day, 180 00:09:59,741 --> 00:10:02,094 don't show your face unless you're big and strong! 181 00:10:02,164 --> 00:10:02,846 (man #2): Easy, now! 182 00:10:02,966 --> 00:10:05,670 I'll take you, you, you, you and you. 183 00:10:06,753 --> 00:10:08,408 (Matthew): Why is their fellas getting all the work? 184 00:10:08,439 --> 00:10:10,169 You prepared to work for 5 pence a day? 185 00:10:10,184 --> 00:10:11,952 Hell no, it's pure slavery, isn't it! 186 00:10:12,003 --> 00:10:13,961 Then get out of my way, 'cause I've got a boat to unload! 187 00:10:14,027 --> 00:10:16,531 (Theodore): Knock it off, or I'll throw you both in jail! 188 00:10:16,547 --> 00:10:18,186 I don't care what colour you are! 189 00:10:26,434 --> 00:10:28,059 (man #3): Come on, let's get to work. 190 00:10:36,742 --> 00:10:39,165 You are writing to abolitionists in England. 191 00:10:39,378 --> 00:10:40,932 Do you expect a reply? 192 00:10:43,184 --> 00:10:44,844 How long will it take to print them? 193 00:10:46,469 --> 00:10:48,317 - Who wrote these? - I did. 194 00:10:49,775 --> 00:10:51,248 Don't get your hopes up. 195 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:54,276 Members of parliament only deal in matters of importance. 196 00:10:55,005 --> 00:10:56,439 May I pick them up tomorrow? 197 00:10:56,559 --> 00:10:57,365 Two days. 198 00:10:58,090 --> 00:11:00,276 Awfully well written, if I do say so myself. 199 00:11:05,816 --> 00:11:06,850 My husband. 200 00:11:07,823 --> 00:11:09,556 He died at the siege of Yorktown. 201 00:11:12,180 --> 00:11:14,447 How can I see if a man has arrived by ship? 202 00:11:14,707 --> 00:11:16,960 He was due to arrive at Annapolis Royal. 203 00:11:17,041 --> 00:11:19,614 Well, you might check the British naval records there. 204 00:11:19,824 --> 00:11:22,111 But it'll cost you more than threepence 205 00:11:22,134 --> 00:11:23,719 to travel to Annapolis Royal. 206 00:11:24,886 --> 00:11:25,979 (sighing) 207 00:11:27,103 --> 00:11:28,255 Day after tomorrow? 208 00:11:28,309 --> 00:11:29,204 Yes. 209 00:11:31,902 --> 00:11:32,852 Thank you. 210 00:11:38,433 --> 00:11:40,313 - Hold on. - (Daddy Moses groaning) 211 00:11:43,747 --> 00:11:45,038 Where is everybody? 212 00:11:45,333 --> 00:11:46,834 Oh, they're in Shelburne, 213 00:11:48,020 --> 00:11:49,512 unloading boats. 214 00:11:50,416 --> 00:11:53,184 There's a lot of money to be made unloading boats all day long. 215 00:11:53,579 --> 00:11:54,642 (suddenly moaning) 216 00:11:55,417 --> 00:11:56,847 What is it, child? 217 00:11:56,867 --> 00:11:57,891 My waters... 218 00:11:58,011 --> 00:11:59,360 My waters have broken! 219 00:11:59,414 --> 00:12:02,108 - Oh... - (moaning and gasping) 220 00:12:02,228 --> 00:12:05,078 It's a fine time to pick for what you got today, child! 221 00:12:09,619 --> 00:12:11,813 "Let not your heart be troubled, 222 00:12:12,146 --> 00:12:13,182 nor be afraid." 223 00:12:13,236 --> 00:12:15,251 (groaning and laughing) 224 00:12:15,957 --> 00:12:18,131 The whole time I'm having this baby, you're not going 225 00:12:18,173 --> 00:12:19,817 to carry on like we're in church, are you? 226 00:12:19,821 --> 00:12:22,018 Ah, I suppose not... 227 00:12:22,138 --> 00:12:23,244 Oh, don't worry! 228 00:12:23,569 --> 00:12:25,593 You're as sturdy as a 10-foot tree. 229 00:12:25,620 --> 00:12:27,039 Oh, don't feel like it. 230 00:12:27,686 --> 00:12:29,431 - Don't feel like it... - Say... 231 00:12:30,326 --> 00:12:31,594 Were you married 232 00:12:31,861 --> 00:12:34,524 when that child was seeded up in your belly? 233 00:12:34,966 --> 00:12:37,694 - Yes, I was... I told you. - Uh-huh. 234 00:12:38,214 --> 00:12:39,659 I don't know where he is. 235 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:43,101 I was sure hoping I would see him today. 236 00:12:43,369 --> 00:12:47,020 Well, if he was coming, he would be here already, hmm? 237 00:12:47,140 --> 00:12:48,865 I know men's ways. 238 00:12:49,509 --> 00:12:50,556 He's coming. 239 00:12:50,676 --> 00:12:51,652 You sure about that? 240 00:12:52,489 --> 00:12:53,803 Got to believe in something. 241 00:12:53,822 --> 00:12:54,862 Oh! 242 00:12:55,765 --> 00:12:56,730 Amen. 243 00:12:58,050 --> 00:12:59,850 - Are you blind? - Hmm? 244 00:13:00,901 --> 00:13:02,323 Are you blind? 245 00:13:03,905 --> 00:13:06,518 I can see a little out this eye, but shh! 246 00:13:06,843 --> 00:13:09,119 (both laughing) 247 00:13:10,553 --> 00:13:12,254 - (Aminata gasping in pain) - What? 248 00:13:12,281 --> 00:13:14,014 - I'm ready! - Me too. 249 00:13:14,076 --> 00:13:14,917 ... Come closer. 250 00:13:15,138 --> 00:13:16,421 And do what I say! 251 00:13:16,646 --> 00:13:18,057 Now, reach down 252 00:13:18,177 --> 00:13:19,232 and feel for the head. 253 00:13:19,429 --> 00:13:20,740 - Do you feel it? - Yes. 254 00:13:20,860 --> 00:13:22,252 Now reach for the neck. 255 00:13:23,201 --> 00:13:23,763 Yes... 256 00:13:23,767 --> 00:13:24,799 - Do you feel it? - Yes, yes! 257 00:13:24,839 --> 00:13:26,532 - Is there anything around it? - Uh... 258 00:13:26,799 --> 00:13:27,519 Just the neck. 259 00:13:27,674 --> 00:13:29,961 Aye, just the neck. Good, good... 260 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:33,497 GOOD! Ahh... 261 00:13:33,617 --> 00:13:36,415 - You should have warned me, girl! - (Baby crying) 262 00:13:37,361 --> 00:13:39,668 Bring it to me, bring it to me! 263 00:13:39,699 --> 00:13:40,710 Careful, careful! 264 00:13:40,868 --> 00:13:42,236 Ahh, yes! 265 00:13:42,509 --> 00:13:44,255 Yes, come here! 266 00:13:44,634 --> 00:13:45,778 Ahh, land's sake! 267 00:13:46,246 --> 00:13:48,194 What have you brought into this world? 268 00:13:49,877 --> 00:13:52,169 It's a boy, it's a boy! 269 00:13:54,473 --> 00:13:56,695 I am going to call him Mamadu, 270 00:13:56,736 --> 00:14:00,419 - after my papa. - Mamadu. Ha ha! 271 00:14:04,193 --> 00:14:05,092 Mamadu. 272 00:14:06,014 --> 00:14:07,769 Ha ha! 273 00:14:10,414 --> 00:14:13,785 - ♪ Oh, rock-a my soul ♪ - Everybody sing, now! 274 00:14:13,827 --> 00:14:16,665 ♪ Rock-a my soul in the bosom of Abraham ♪ 275 00:14:16,693 --> 00:14:17,870 Rock my soul! 276 00:14:17,897 --> 00:14:19,665 ♪ Rock-a my soul in the bosom of Abraham ♪ 277 00:14:20,351 --> 00:14:22,956 ♪ Rock-a my soul in the bosom of Abraham ♪ 278 00:14:23,076 --> 00:14:23,909 Amen! 279 00:14:24,029 --> 00:14:26,150 - (coughing) - (Mamadu crying) 280 00:14:29,049 --> 00:14:30,423 He won't stop crying. 281 00:14:32,811 --> 00:14:35,915 That's it, baby, you're burning up! 282 00:14:38,558 --> 00:14:40,016 And so is Mamadu. 283 00:14:40,392 --> 00:14:42,636 Jason, you go back to Shelburne, 284 00:14:42,873 --> 00:14:45,884 ask for Dr. Wharton. Tell him to get right over here. 285 00:14:45,950 --> 00:14:47,585 There's a woman and her baby 286 00:14:48,051 --> 00:14:50,090 and they're sick with cholera. 287 00:14:50,753 --> 00:14:51,727 Hurry up! 288 00:14:57,502 --> 00:14:59,344 I heard there was a sick woman and child? 289 00:15:00,522 --> 00:15:02,611 I'm sorry, Dr. Wharton could not come. 290 00:15:03,170 --> 00:15:04,992 I've nursed soldiers during the war. 291 00:15:05,810 --> 00:15:08,791 There's broth on the stove. I'll leave them with you. 292 00:15:09,586 --> 00:15:12,404 - How long have you been ill? - Three days. 293 00:15:13,207 --> 00:15:14,850 - And the baby? - 5. 294 00:15:15,505 --> 00:15:17,327 How are you feeling now? 295 00:15:18,733 --> 00:15:20,543 I can hold down broth, some, 296 00:15:20,558 --> 00:15:22,004 I can walk a bit now, but 297 00:15:22,422 --> 00:15:23,341 he's not eating. 298 00:15:23,411 --> 00:15:25,027 - OK. - He's not getting better. 299 00:15:25,147 --> 00:15:26,496 I'm going to stay with you. 300 00:15:27,806 --> 00:15:29,593 I'm going to do whatever it takes. 301 00:15:30,426 --> 00:15:31,374 But I'm afraid 302 00:15:32,010 --> 00:15:33,723 there's not much we can do for the baby. 303 00:15:35,359 --> 00:15:38,917 Except we're going to keep him dry and we're going to keep him warm, 304 00:15:39,158 --> 00:15:41,053 and we'll encourage him to feed again. 305 00:15:43,631 --> 00:15:46,026 (crying loudly) 306 00:15:49,984 --> 00:15:53,171 (Mamadu whimpering) 307 00:16:13,973 --> 00:16:16,473 Come on, let me feed you. 308 00:16:17,419 --> 00:16:20,102 Come on, that's right. Eat from Mama. 309 00:16:20,741 --> 00:16:22,723 Come on, try to eat from Mama. 310 00:16:23,835 --> 00:16:25,017 Ah, there... 311 00:16:26,780 --> 00:16:28,788 Eat some. Try to eat from Mama. 312 00:16:29,625 --> 00:16:31,622 Try to eat from Mama, come on! 313 00:16:31,827 --> 00:16:33,381 Try to eat from Mama. 314 00:16:33,726 --> 00:16:34,482 What? 315 00:16:35,245 --> 00:16:36,149 What? 316 00:16:37,095 --> 00:16:37,750 He's gone. 317 00:16:38,401 --> 00:16:39,579 - He's gone. - (Crying) 318 00:16:43,796 --> 00:16:44,711 He's gone. 319 00:16:48,541 --> 00:16:50,099 (gasping) 320 00:16:58,949 --> 00:17:00,822 (sobbing weakly) 321 00:17:23,198 --> 00:17:26,690 My children were like phantom limbs; 322 00:17:27,578 --> 00:17:29,722 lost but still attached to me, 323 00:17:30,594 --> 00:17:32,481 gone but still painful. 324 00:17:33,586 --> 00:17:34,993 I stopped cooking, 325 00:17:35,388 --> 00:17:37,261 working and eating. 326 00:17:38,278 --> 00:17:42,340 For the first time in my life I had no desire to read. 327 00:17:44,318 --> 00:17:46,751 I even stopped thinking about Chekura. 328 00:17:47,386 --> 00:17:49,491 I am in the mood for dying. 329 00:17:50,627 --> 00:17:52,286 You have to live, girl. 330 00:17:54,212 --> 00:17:55,891 (thudding cane on the floor) 331 00:18:07,100 --> 00:18:08,690 You will live. 332 00:18:14,135 --> 00:18:17,570 (animals calling) 333 00:18:21,791 --> 00:18:23,734 (Mamadu): Find your way home, Aminata. 334 00:18:49,647 --> 00:18:51,532 I remember you from last year. 335 00:18:51,652 --> 00:18:54,299 You had letters for abolitionists. 336 00:18:54,919 --> 00:18:56,624 Yes, yes I did. 337 00:18:56,883 --> 00:18:58,030 Did they reply? 338 00:18:59,294 --> 00:19:00,047 No... 339 00:19:01,467 --> 00:19:02,269 Not yet. 340 00:19:04,452 --> 00:19:06,607 I'm actually here on another matter. 341 00:19:07,727 --> 00:19:09,142 I am looking for work. 342 00:19:09,817 --> 00:19:11,037 What about your baby? 343 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:12,592 You were this big last year. 344 00:19:12,999 --> 00:19:14,286 I lost my baby. 345 00:19:16,077 --> 00:19:17,065 Cholera. 346 00:19:17,933 --> 00:19:19,112 Sorry to hear that. 347 00:19:20,205 --> 00:19:22,127 Birchtown is just too crowded. 348 00:19:22,174 --> 00:19:24,674 I've been saying it's all well and good to be hospitable, 349 00:19:24,685 --> 00:19:25,616 but there are limits. 350 00:19:26,201 --> 00:19:28,026 Good for you, carrying on as you are. 351 00:19:28,263 --> 00:19:31,365 Though what is it that you're interested in doing, in terms of work? 352 00:19:31,543 --> 00:19:34,404 I am interested in whatever work is available. 353 00:19:35,307 --> 00:19:37,539 Did you truly write those letters? 354 00:19:37,659 --> 00:19:38,416 Yes, I did. 355 00:19:39,230 --> 00:19:40,981 Spell "conjugate". 356 00:19:41,287 --> 00:19:43,226 C-O-N- 357 00:19:43,412 --> 00:19:45,927 J-U-G-A-T-E. 358 00:19:45,947 --> 00:19:48,799 Are there any particular verbs you would like me to conjugate for you? 359 00:19:50,915 --> 00:19:52,567 You must be one of the good ones. 360 00:19:53,346 --> 00:19:54,970 I can pay tuppence a day. 361 00:19:55,769 --> 00:19:57,102 I hope you learn fast, 362 00:19:57,141 --> 00:19:58,323 I need you to set type. 363 00:19:58,530 --> 00:19:59,759 Can you start tomorrow? 364 00:19:59,995 --> 00:20:01,274 I can start today. 365 00:20:19,768 --> 00:20:21,784 (footsteps approaching) 366 00:20:21,853 --> 00:20:23,264 (Mrs. Witherspoon): Son! 367 00:20:24,721 --> 00:20:26,083 This is Meena Diallo. 368 00:20:26,885 --> 00:20:29,037 Meena is now employed in our shop. 369 00:20:30,087 --> 00:20:31,261 Good afternoon. 370 00:20:34,385 --> 00:20:36,001 Did you find work, son? 371 00:20:52,863 --> 00:20:55,107 (Aminata): It took me three hard weeks of savings 372 00:20:55,154 --> 00:20:58,763 to be able to purchase a ticket to Annapolis Royal 373 00:20:59,267 --> 00:21:01,984 to inquire about Chekura's whereabouts. 374 00:21:02,705 --> 00:21:03,535 Here... 375 00:21:05,756 --> 00:21:07,547 1783... 376 00:21:10,779 --> 00:21:12,709 "Joseph from New York Harbour." 377 00:21:12,829 --> 00:21:15,771 "November, 1783, caught in storm, blown south." 378 00:21:15,891 --> 00:21:19,616 "Damaged, not destroyed. Arrived, Bermuda, 1784, 379 00:21:19,806 --> 00:21:22,972 121 passengers, 8 casualties, 3 unaccounted." 380 00:21:25,171 --> 00:21:27,260 "110 arrived alive." 381 00:21:29,027 --> 00:21:32,241 (both laughing happily) 382 00:21:34,838 --> 00:21:36,489 Where exactly is this Bermuda? 383 00:21:39,467 --> 00:21:40,343 Ma'am, 384 00:21:40,789 --> 00:21:42,901 I need work... desperately. 385 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:44,386 And food even more desperately. 386 00:21:44,402 --> 00:21:46,375 I don't hire black men. 387 00:21:46,410 --> 00:21:48,115 They indenture themselves to me. 388 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:49,231 Do you know what that means? 389 00:21:50,154 --> 00:21:52,041 Ma'am, if I can get some food, I don't really care. 390 00:21:52,316 --> 00:21:54,448 It means I own you for three years. 391 00:21:54,568 --> 00:21:56,463 Yes, I'll give you food and I'll give you a bed 392 00:21:56,471 --> 00:21:57,630 and I'll give you clothes, 393 00:21:57,793 --> 00:21:59,669 but you work for me for no pay. 394 00:21:59,689 --> 00:22:01,135 Is that agreeable to you? 395 00:22:01,604 --> 00:22:03,105 Ma'am, I ain't eaten in 6 days. 396 00:22:03,225 --> 00:22:04,633 Anything is agreeable to me. 397 00:22:06,427 --> 00:22:07,249 Aminata, 398 00:22:08,218 --> 00:22:09,571 write up an indenture agreement 399 00:22:09,595 --> 00:22:11,356 along the lines I just mentioned. 400 00:22:11,849 --> 00:22:13,187 I'll be back shortly. 401 00:22:13,841 --> 00:22:14,734 (mumbling): Thank you... 402 00:22:22,693 --> 00:22:23,512 Don't do it. 403 00:22:24,685 --> 00:22:26,470 It would be just like going back to slavery. 404 00:22:27,459 --> 00:22:28,700 You may never get free. 405 00:22:31,308 --> 00:22:32,473 You go on and, um, 406 00:22:32,632 --> 00:22:34,418 write that letter, just like the lady say. 407 00:22:34,948 --> 00:22:36,513 - Cummings... - Go on, now. 408 00:22:49,483 --> 00:22:52,861 (howling) 409 00:23:01,453 --> 00:23:04,420 - (Matthew): Ah! Good afternoon! - Leave me be! 410 00:23:04,448 --> 00:23:06,615 Oh, why you got to be so unpleasant, girl? Hmm? 411 00:23:06,631 --> 00:23:09,292 What would your mother think of you, harassing a woman? 412 00:23:09,323 --> 00:23:12,382 My mother? I'll tell you what my mother would think... 413 00:23:12,466 --> 00:23:14,630 (Jason): Hey! Let go of Miss Meena! 414 00:23:15,542 --> 00:23:16,465 Stay out of this. 415 00:23:18,081 --> 00:23:18,915 Stay out of it! 416 00:23:19,207 --> 00:23:20,680 Now, you go on peacefully back to town, 417 00:23:20,704 --> 00:23:22,066 nobody has to know about this. 418 00:23:22,186 --> 00:23:23,831 No one wants you in Nova Scotia. 419 00:23:24,879 --> 00:23:25,909 Take our jobs, 420 00:23:26,482 --> 00:23:27,769 take our land, 421 00:23:28,098 --> 00:23:29,246 but no more! 422 00:23:31,016 --> 00:23:33,667 (grunting) 423 00:23:49,733 --> 00:23:50,664 He's dead. 424 00:23:50,909 --> 00:23:52,023 Leave the gun here. 425 00:23:52,471 --> 00:23:54,151 Leave the gun here, nobody saw us. 426 00:24:05,743 --> 00:24:07,929 (Theodore): In the name of tthe law, open up! 427 00:24:09,138 --> 00:24:11,129 Shh! Nobody panic. 428 00:24:11,361 --> 00:24:13,479 (hammering): OPEN UP! 429 00:24:19,626 --> 00:24:20,562 (Daddy Moses): Ah! 430 00:24:20,895 --> 00:24:22,984 Good evening, Theodore. 431 00:24:23,167 --> 00:24:24,574 How's that sweet mother? 432 00:24:24,627 --> 00:24:26,682 - I'm here on the business... - My son is dead! 433 00:24:27,957 --> 00:24:28,654 Oh... 434 00:24:29,894 --> 00:24:31,838 Dead on the road to Birchtown! 435 00:24:33,890 --> 00:24:35,137 Do you know anything about this? 436 00:24:35,181 --> 00:24:36,303 I haven't seen anything. 437 00:24:36,353 --> 00:24:39,289 I have the ear of the entire community and I've heard nothing. 438 00:24:43,891 --> 00:24:45,029 I hired you. 439 00:24:45,472 --> 00:24:47,625 I gave you people a chance. 440 00:24:48,054 --> 00:24:49,022 And now, 441 00:24:50,107 --> 00:24:51,013 my son... 442 00:24:51,133 --> 00:24:52,607 I know one of you did it! 443 00:24:52,626 --> 00:24:55,129 Do any of you know anything about this death? 444 00:24:56,152 --> 00:24:58,487 Death is common in Nova Scotia, Constable. 445 00:24:58,751 --> 00:25:00,204 We all have suffered grief, 446 00:25:00,238 --> 00:25:01,718 we all have suffered loss. 447 00:25:04,553 --> 00:25:06,543 I am sorry for your son, Mrs. Witherspoon. 448 00:25:07,527 --> 00:25:09,213 You no longer work for me. 449 00:25:09,526 --> 00:25:11,253 There will be an investigation. 450 00:25:11,774 --> 00:25:13,271 (Mrs. Witherspoon): I will see to it 451 00:25:13,429 --> 00:25:16,546 that you never find work in Shelburne again. 452 00:25:17,463 --> 00:25:18,508 None of you! 453 00:25:18,542 --> 00:25:19,153 Maria... 454 00:25:19,321 --> 00:25:20,528 Mark my words! 455 00:25:21,098 --> 00:25:22,503 I will have justice. 456 00:25:23,796 --> 00:25:24,363 Come. 457 00:25:24,847 --> 00:25:25,678 Come on, Maria. 458 00:25:25,827 --> 00:25:27,662 (sobbing): I will have justice! 459 00:25:28,939 --> 00:25:30,527 I WILL HAVE JUSTICE! 460 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:33,677 I will have justice... 461 00:25:36,161 --> 00:25:38,087 (door closing) 462 00:25:40,618 --> 00:25:41,244 (Daddy Moses): Boy... 463 00:25:41,483 --> 00:25:43,477 It has been decided 464 00:25:44,153 --> 00:25:45,803 that you disappear for a while, 465 00:25:45,923 --> 00:25:47,499 until it's safe for your return. 466 00:25:48,469 --> 00:25:50,819 Daddy Moses, I ain't never defied you. 467 00:25:51,905 --> 00:25:54,953 But I ain't leaving my home, live all by myself in the woods. 468 00:25:55,205 --> 00:25:56,743 They will hang you, boy. 469 00:25:58,652 --> 00:25:59,686 I ain't leaving. 470 00:26:00,179 --> 00:26:01,503 (Knocking on door) 471 00:26:05,878 --> 00:26:08,736 Miss Meena? Someone here to see you. 472 00:26:11,405 --> 00:26:13,629 You came! 473 00:26:14,405 --> 00:26:16,071 I did. 474 00:26:16,203 --> 00:26:18,339 A certain pestering 475 00:26:18,361 --> 00:26:20,815 woman brought me across the ocean to do the devil's work. 476 00:26:20,845 --> 00:26:23,140 (Aminata laughing) 477 00:26:28,047 --> 00:26:29,258 Sierra Leone. 478 00:26:29,301 --> 00:26:30,930 It is a land on the west coast of Africa. 479 00:26:30,959 --> 00:26:33,292 It is fine and fertile 480 00:26:33,710 --> 00:26:35,176 with plenty of room for you. 481 00:26:35,418 --> 00:26:38,120 Now, the good British men that I represent, 482 00:26:38,150 --> 00:26:40,467 abolitionists every one of them, 483 00:26:40,501 --> 00:26:42,569 have the sanction of parliament 484 00:26:42,603 --> 00:26:45,189 to develop land there for the benefit of the empire. 485 00:26:45,989 --> 00:26:47,624 (Cummings): Are you right crazy? 486 00:26:48,321 --> 00:26:51,113 We have killed ourselves crossing the ocean 487 00:26:51,233 --> 00:26:53,233 so some Africans can eat us in soup? 488 00:26:53,929 --> 00:26:55,849 No one has to go. 489 00:26:55,898 --> 00:26:57,963 If Mr. Shackspear distrusts this offer, 490 00:26:58,005 --> 00:26:59,998 then he's perfectly welcome to stay here. 491 00:27:00,118 --> 00:27:02,075 But we need 1,000 people. 492 00:27:02,089 --> 00:27:03,971 The abolitionists who have commissioned me 493 00:27:03,971 --> 00:27:05,279 to carry out this mission, 494 00:27:05,497 --> 00:27:07,859 will not finance it unless we can establish 495 00:27:07,913 --> 00:27:11,564 a sizeable community of free negroes in the Sierra Leone. 496 00:27:11,734 --> 00:27:13,503 - (murmuring) - (Daddy Moses): Uh... 497 00:27:13,872 --> 00:27:16,247 What would we do there in this 498 00:27:16,266 --> 00:27:18,198 land called Sierra Leone? 499 00:27:18,318 --> 00:27:21,220 All the things that you long to do here. 500 00:27:21,687 --> 00:27:23,219 To have land. 501 00:27:23,710 --> 00:27:25,272 To farm it. 502 00:27:26,127 --> 00:27:27,350 To grow food. 503 00:27:28,355 --> 00:27:31,135 To bring children into the world. 504 00:27:32,474 --> 00:27:33,752 To be free. 505 00:27:34,091 --> 00:27:37,750 With respect, uh, that's what you said in New York City but, uh, 506 00:27:38,525 --> 00:27:40,596 we're here. We have slaveowners 507 00:27:40,602 --> 00:27:43,444 and slave property, and desperate people 508 00:27:43,462 --> 00:27:45,788 indenturing themselves into servitude. 509 00:27:45,964 --> 00:27:48,600 Then I regret profoundly the disappointments 510 00:27:48,634 --> 00:27:50,604 that have shaken you so. 511 00:27:51,517 --> 00:27:53,286 And that's why I've come. 512 00:27:53,516 --> 00:27:55,836 Ms. Diallo 513 00:27:56,308 --> 00:27:58,713 wrote to me 8 letters. 514 00:27:58,979 --> 00:27:59,846 8. 515 00:28:00,045 --> 00:28:03,116 She's also written to every abolitionist known to man, 516 00:28:03,236 --> 00:28:06,084 not to mention, King George III himself! 517 00:28:06,204 --> 00:28:07,549 (all laughing) 518 00:28:07,580 --> 00:28:08,869 It's true. 519 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:10,644 But she prevailed. 520 00:28:10,693 --> 00:28:12,352 Good men of faith 521 00:28:12,770 --> 00:28:14,959 who believe the slave trade to be evil 522 00:28:15,163 --> 00:28:19,269 now wish to create a colony of free negroes in Africa. 523 00:28:19,293 --> 00:28:20,947 Now, with no obligation, 524 00:28:20,989 --> 00:28:22,455 but for curiosity alone, 525 00:28:22,575 --> 00:28:24,610 might I see a show of hands of people 526 00:28:24,629 --> 00:28:26,404 who are sure that they'd like to go. 527 00:28:29,111 --> 00:28:31,358 Well, more of you will become interested. 528 00:28:31,394 --> 00:28:33,310 But let me be totally clear: 529 00:28:33,344 --> 00:28:35,102 you can't join us on this 530 00:28:35,144 --> 00:28:38,760 grand adventure if you are enslaved, indebted 531 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:40,044 or indentured. 532 00:28:42,461 --> 00:28:44,017 I'm interested. 533 00:28:46,815 --> 00:28:48,342 I want to know more. 534 00:28:48,820 --> 00:28:51,227 You've read Gulliver's Travels! 535 00:28:51,262 --> 00:28:53,683 - Many times. - Really? 536 00:28:55,597 --> 00:28:57,267 Oh, I love that word; 537 00:28:57,607 --> 00:29:00,002 - "Lilliputians". Don't you? - (Aminata laughing) 538 00:29:00,122 --> 00:29:03,056 Where on Earth did Swift come up with that one? 539 00:29:03,095 --> 00:29:05,702 They may be small, but they do wreak havoc! 540 00:29:05,741 --> 00:29:07,519 Mm. Sounds rather like the English. 541 00:29:08,857 --> 00:29:11,202 - Come, have some more tea! - I will, thank you. 542 00:29:13,712 --> 00:29:15,335 John Clarkson! 543 00:29:16,207 --> 00:29:17,345 So... 544 00:29:19,904 --> 00:29:21,168 How would you... 545 00:29:21,686 --> 00:29:23,292 ... like to be my assistant? 546 00:29:24,859 --> 00:29:26,168 Your assistant? 547 00:29:26,197 --> 00:29:29,274 I'd need you to take notes and to communicate with the 548 00:29:29,303 --> 00:29:32,966 negro settlers and help me organize the venture. 549 00:29:34,066 --> 00:29:35,607 The job would pay 3 shillings a day, 550 00:29:35,621 --> 00:29:37,322 - plus room and board... - I will do it. 551 00:29:37,807 --> 00:29:39,818 - I will do it. - (Chuckling) 552 00:29:39,938 --> 00:29:42,143 But I can't leave without finding my husband. 553 00:29:42,449 --> 00:29:44,823 He was on a ship from New York to Annapolis Royal. 554 00:29:44,848 --> 00:29:45,714 I went there, 555 00:29:45,889 --> 00:29:48,912 and they said his ship was blown off course to a place called Bermuda. 556 00:29:49,032 --> 00:29:50,904 I'll send word there on your behalf. 557 00:29:51,258 --> 00:29:53,656 And when I'm back in Halifax, I'll see what I can find out. 558 00:29:53,990 --> 00:29:55,223 Thank you. 559 00:30:02,314 --> 00:30:05,978 Although many of the whites seemed to fear our presence in Shelburne, 560 00:30:06,259 --> 00:30:09,772 they were deeply offended when we chose to organize a departure. 561 00:30:10,295 --> 00:30:11,807 In the eyes of the British, 562 00:30:11,927 --> 00:30:14,457 they felt humiliated and judged, 563 00:30:14,733 --> 00:30:18,134 and so even our exodus became unsafe. 564 00:30:18,193 --> 00:30:21,822 Three men beat up a negro cooper for encouraging people to sign up. 565 00:30:21,875 --> 00:30:23,004 All right, men. 566 00:30:23,387 --> 00:30:24,434 Move along. 567 00:30:25,185 --> 00:30:26,323 (Aminata): You don't have to leave if you 568 00:30:26,333 --> 00:30:28,072 - don't want... - Are you deaf? I said move! 569 00:30:35,979 --> 00:30:38,368 (Clarkson): No, you should stay with us. 570 00:30:53,408 --> 00:30:55,365 (Aminata): You wanted to see me, Captain Clarkson? 571 00:30:55,409 --> 00:30:56,252 Yes. 572 00:30:56,319 --> 00:30:58,750 I made that inquiry regarding your husband, 573 00:30:59,614 --> 00:31:00,573 and, um, 574 00:31:01,552 --> 00:31:02,913 I received this letter 575 00:31:04,018 --> 00:31:05,257 from the British Navy. 576 00:31:27,056 --> 00:31:31,553 (murmuring joyfully) 577 00:31:37,198 --> 00:31:38,201 Aminata! 578 00:31:38,627 --> 00:31:40,390 Aminata Diallo! 579 00:31:42,077 --> 00:31:45,774 - Ha ha! - (Aminata shrieking) 580 00:31:50,668 --> 00:31:55,570 Oh! Let me look at you! Let me look at you! 581 00:32:04,441 --> 00:32:07,375 Why must you make me wait so? 582 00:32:08,075 --> 00:32:11,054 Will it ever be thus? 583 00:32:12,349 --> 00:32:14,535 I am not leaving you now. 584 00:32:14,655 --> 00:32:16,589 That is what you said last time. 585 00:32:16,594 --> 00:32:18,605 If a war breaks out, I am not fighting in it. 586 00:32:19,482 --> 00:32:21,297 That's not good enough. 587 00:32:21,914 --> 00:32:23,320 If a plague hits us, 588 00:32:23,945 --> 00:32:26,988 - I'm not dying. - That is still not good enough. 589 00:32:27,555 --> 00:32:29,338 - Huh? - Mm-mm. 590 00:32:30,602 --> 00:32:33,175 If locusts devour every plant, 591 00:32:34,115 --> 00:32:35,711 I will stand by you. 592 00:32:35,745 --> 00:32:37,245 There are no locusts here, 593 00:32:37,429 --> 00:32:38,835 and no plants either. 594 00:32:40,147 --> 00:32:41,483 Well, what is all this? 595 00:32:41,746 --> 00:32:43,585 Moose, wolves, bear... 596 00:32:43,619 --> 00:32:45,612 Every manner of massive wildlife, 597 00:32:45,732 --> 00:32:48,912 but you can barely grow a potato or a carrot or an onion. 598 00:32:48,990 --> 00:32:50,797 Even chickens freeze. 599 00:32:51,122 --> 00:32:52,759 Well, I will stand by you 600 00:32:53,403 --> 00:32:55,676 even amidst chicken icicles. 601 00:32:55,724 --> 00:32:58,833 (laughing) 602 00:33:04,930 --> 00:33:06,340 Where is the baby? 603 00:33:10,482 --> 00:33:11,819 Where is the baby? 604 00:33:16,214 --> 00:33:17,280 Huh? 605 00:33:18,365 --> 00:33:20,722 The baby didn't last two months. 606 00:33:31,026 --> 00:33:32,731 Boy or girl? 607 00:33:34,868 --> 00:33:36,268 Boy. 608 00:33:38,662 --> 00:33:40,372 I named him Mamadu. 609 00:33:43,077 --> 00:33:44,554 After your father? 610 00:33:50,664 --> 00:33:52,064 Aminata... 611 00:33:54,404 --> 00:33:56,470 Each time we are apart, 612 00:33:57,006 --> 00:33:58,731 we lose a piece of ourselves. 613 00:34:01,677 --> 00:34:03,596 Then we must never part. 614 00:34:28,595 --> 00:34:30,349 It was hard being a slave, but 615 00:34:30,756 --> 00:34:32,355 when there's no work, 616 00:34:32,641 --> 00:34:33,751 it's hard to be free. 617 00:34:38,223 --> 00:34:39,485 You will find work. 618 00:34:40,916 --> 00:34:42,607 They say Halifax is growing. 619 00:34:42,879 --> 00:34:44,223 Why don't we go there for work? 620 00:34:44,618 --> 00:34:46,038 I'm not going anywhere. 621 00:34:46,590 --> 00:34:48,165 I'm going to stay right here 622 00:34:48,421 --> 00:34:49,851 and I'm going to help John Clarkson 623 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,618 and we are going to find 1,000 people for that trip if it kills me. 624 00:34:54,241 --> 00:34:56,426 I won't hazard another trip across that ocean. 625 00:34:57,114 --> 00:34:59,599 - It's madness. - You know, you sound like Cummings Shackspear. 626 00:35:02,269 --> 00:35:03,709 He's not so stupid. 627 00:35:10,951 --> 00:35:14,377 It was not easy to leave Nova Scotia for Sierra Leone. 628 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,388 We could not be indentured, indebted or enslaved. 629 00:35:18,635 --> 00:35:22,110 We had to produce a letter attesting to our moral character. 630 00:35:22,735 --> 00:35:24,626 But for those of us who could do so, 631 00:35:25,106 --> 00:35:27,479 it was thrilling to imagine 632 00:35:27,653 --> 00:35:29,327 returning to our homeland. 633 00:35:29,447 --> 00:35:30,614 All right, now 634 00:35:30,638 --> 00:35:32,972 tell us your... your name. 635 00:35:36,650 --> 00:35:38,119 - How old are you? - 18. 636 00:35:38,131 --> 00:35:39,138 18. 637 00:35:39,623 --> 00:35:41,476 You smear the good people of Shelburne 638 00:35:41,484 --> 00:35:43,318 with your letter-writing campaign. 639 00:35:44,194 --> 00:35:46,205 I know what you've been saying about us 640 00:35:46,325 --> 00:35:47,465 to the people of England. 641 00:35:47,585 --> 00:35:48,911 Where were you born? 642 00:35:49,872 --> 00:35:50,969 Good day to you, madam. 643 00:35:52,323 --> 00:35:54,392 I will have justice. 644 00:36:01,407 --> 00:36:03,101 (Daddy Moses): It hasn't been very safe for us here. 645 00:36:03,322 --> 00:36:06,237 Now, Miss Aminata and Captain Clarkson 646 00:36:06,271 --> 00:36:08,993 have been travelling trying to get folks to sign up for this trip, 647 00:36:09,012 --> 00:36:10,633 and I, for one, have decided 648 00:36:10,908 --> 00:36:11,815 to join them. 649 00:36:12,322 --> 00:36:13,962 (woman): I'm with blind Daddy Moses. 650 00:36:13,977 --> 00:36:15,756 I want to die in Africa. 651 00:36:15,787 --> 00:36:17,337 (All laughing) 652 00:36:17,608 --> 00:36:18,887 (Cummings): Well then, you're a fool. 653 00:36:19,349 --> 00:36:20,415 Hush your mouth. 654 00:36:20,535 --> 00:36:22,551 I'm not the one that went and got myself indentured. 655 00:36:22,671 --> 00:36:23,784 You think I like this? 656 00:36:24,241 --> 00:36:25,556 You think I want this? 657 00:36:25,842 --> 00:36:28,285 You all contemplating Africa. Why can't I contemplate? 658 00:36:28,335 --> 00:36:29,300 Cummings... 659 00:36:29,986 --> 00:36:32,289 You only have one year left, then you'll be free. 660 00:36:32,409 --> 00:36:33,763 In a year, it'll be too late. 661 00:36:34,441 --> 00:36:35,798 I mean, you'll all be gone. 662 00:36:36,247 --> 00:36:39,150 Unless something were to happen to the one to whom I'm... indentured. 663 00:36:41,770 --> 00:36:42,894 (Daddy Moses): How many people want to go? 664 00:36:43,014 --> 00:36:45,689 (all): Yeah! (Whooping) 665 00:36:46,236 --> 00:36:48,999 (Mrs. Witherspoon): Just remember how sick we have been all winter. 666 00:36:49,119 --> 00:36:50,914 We have lost so many children. 667 00:36:51,034 --> 00:36:52,216 Overcrowding. 668 00:36:52,228 --> 00:36:53,782 We don't need to live this way. 669 00:36:53,848 --> 00:36:56,565 This is not what our sovereign wanted for us. 670 00:36:56,833 --> 00:36:58,826 I am a fair person. 671 00:36:59,229 --> 00:37:03,373 I hired the negroes. I let them work for me. 672 00:37:03,706 --> 00:37:05,877 But enough is enough. 673 00:37:06,357 --> 00:37:08,679 We have too many of them. 674 00:37:08,799 --> 00:37:10,112 - (crowd murmuring assent) - They should stay 675 00:37:10,133 --> 00:37:12,081 in their own community! 676 00:37:12,494 --> 00:37:15,502 Shelburne is for decent loyalists. 677 00:37:15,854 --> 00:37:18,539 Shelburne is for decent loyalists! 678 00:37:19,153 --> 00:37:21,611 There, there, there's one of them now! 679 00:37:22,301 --> 00:37:25,825 - Taking a good man's job! - That's enough, Maria. 680 00:37:26,418 --> 00:37:28,000 Do not incite these people. 681 00:37:28,038 --> 00:37:29,461 Stay out of this, Theodore! 682 00:37:29,496 --> 00:37:31,333 I order you to clear this area! 683 00:37:31,348 --> 00:37:33,038 Jason, you need to get out of here. 684 00:37:33,345 --> 00:37:35,403 You need to get out of here now, for your own good! 685 00:37:35,484 --> 00:37:37,640 I ain't going nowhere, Miss Meena, I got a job to do. 686 00:37:37,667 --> 00:37:38,368 Jason, please! 687 00:37:38,384 --> 00:37:39,675 CLEAR THE AREA NOW! 688 00:37:39,795 --> 00:37:41,004 GO back to your homes. 689 00:37:42,039 --> 00:37:43,415 Clear the area! 690 00:37:43,659 --> 00:37:45,064 (men shouting) 691 00:37:45,868 --> 00:37:47,337 What you doing, boy? 692 00:37:47,485 --> 00:37:50,985 - What's it look like? - Leave Jason be, he works for me! 693 00:37:51,423 --> 00:37:52,830 And put that pistol down! 694 00:37:53,035 --> 00:37:53,934 Be on your way! 695 00:37:53,954 --> 00:37:55,896 Disperse, gentlemen. Get back to your homes! 696 00:38:03,584 --> 00:38:05,856 - (firing) - (Aminata screaming) 697 00:38:06,197 --> 00:38:07,995 - Jason! - (man #1): Good shot! 698 00:38:08,003 --> 00:38:09,534 (man #2): Are you mad? What are you doing? 699 00:38:10,216 --> 00:38:12,178 (Mrs. Witherspoon): Burn it down! 700 00:38:12,220 --> 00:38:15,166 - Burn Birchtown to the ground! - (All shouting) 701 00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:17,844 (man# 1): Let's go! Let's teach them a lesson! 702 00:38:18,461 --> 00:38:20,321 - (crowd shouting and cheering) - You killed him! 703 00:38:20,340 --> 00:38:22,201 They want blood. We have to hide you. Now! 704 00:38:22,472 --> 00:38:24,461 You killed him, Mrs. Witherspoon! 705 00:38:24,508 --> 00:38:26,422 - Now! - YOU KILLED HIM! 706 00:38:33,496 --> 00:38:35,453 (knocking on door) 707 00:38:39,236 --> 00:38:41,092 - They killed Jason. - No... 708 00:38:41,173 --> 00:38:44,410 - Rioters, they killed him! - Come in. 709 00:38:45,565 --> 00:38:46,906 They are out for blood. 710 00:38:46,972 --> 00:38:48,755 They're on their way to Birchtown. 711 00:38:52,658 --> 00:38:55,880 - I'm going with you. - Stay here and lock the door. 712 00:38:55,950 --> 00:38:57,664 - My husband is there! - Yes, I know. 713 00:38:57,672 --> 00:38:59,533 It's not safe for you out there. Stay here, 714 00:38:59,541 --> 00:39:01,138 and lock the door behind me. 715 00:39:31,410 --> 00:39:33,259 (Mrs. Witherspoon): Put that thing away! Get out! 716 00:39:33,643 --> 00:39:36,201 - (groaning) - (metal clattering) 717 00:39:42,018 --> 00:39:44,517 Cummings Shackspear... 718 00:39:44,810 --> 00:39:46,797 (gasping) 719 00:39:46,917 --> 00:39:49,542 You were born with nothing, 720 00:39:49,776 --> 00:39:52,914 you will die with nothing! 721 00:39:55,901 --> 00:39:59,845 (man): Maria! Hey! You stop right there, boy! 722 00:40:00,905 --> 00:40:03,691 - (Cummings): NO! - (Aminata): CUMMINGS! 723 00:40:03,811 --> 00:40:06,856 - (man): You're dying, boy! - CUMMINGS! 724 00:40:07,529 --> 00:40:09,877 (grunting) 725 00:40:10,300 --> 00:40:12,699 (Cummings choking and gasping) 726 00:40:13,087 --> 00:40:14,820 Come on! 727 00:41:02,353 --> 00:41:03,806 (Aminata): Daddy Moses! 728 00:41:06,456 --> 00:41:07,786 (Daddy Moses): Aminata... 729 00:41:07,820 --> 00:41:10,870 I'm glad you're alive. 730 00:41:14,494 --> 00:41:16,986 They burnt down my church! 731 00:41:18,747 --> 00:41:21,200 We couldn't stop them. 732 00:41:21,615 --> 00:41:23,302 There were too many. 733 00:41:23,336 --> 00:41:25,637 Where is Chekura? 734 00:41:25,671 --> 00:41:27,927 Where is he? 735 00:41:28,574 --> 00:41:30,416 (Clarkson): I haven't seen him. 736 00:41:35,568 --> 00:41:39,429 CHEKURA! Judith, have you seen Chekura? 737 00:41:40,622 --> 00:41:42,789 CHEKURA! 738 00:41:43,915 --> 00:41:46,124 Chekura! 739 00:42:16,234 --> 00:42:18,555 Chekura! 740 00:42:27,532 --> 00:42:29,732 You can't leave me again. 741 00:42:30,723 --> 00:42:33,582 You can't leave me again. 742 00:42:34,171 --> 00:42:36,672 You can't leave me again! 743 00:42:42,364 --> 00:42:44,445 Let's go home. 744 00:42:54,649 --> 00:42:58,255 I had waited for this day for most of my life, 745 00:42:58,375 --> 00:43:01,596 but now that it was happening I could scarcely believe it. 746 00:43:01,856 --> 00:43:04,364 Africa, Africa! 747 00:43:04,809 --> 00:43:06,167 Africa! 52291

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