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We interrupt this broadcast to bring
you a shocking piece of news

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Just in from Memphis, Tennessee.

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Today, April 4, the spiritual leader of
America's Negroes, Martin Luther King,

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winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace, was
shot and wounded by an unknown gunman.

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He is in very grave condition.

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We are awaiting further information,
which we will pass on to the public

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as soon as we receive it.

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The assassin's bullet didn't just kill
Martin Luther King.

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It killed a historical era.
The war has begun.

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We Negroes have embarked on the
violent phase of our fight for freedom.

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Today we have guns, bombs,
dynamite, knives.

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America will be stained red,
Corpses will fill the streets.

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Martin Luther King,
a slave of the bourgeoisie,

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a useless social element,
a public servant,

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an adulator, Washington's bootlicker,
a traitor.

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Down with the doubters
and the Evangelists.

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Down with the Uncle Toms.

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It's our turn to get to work now,
cutting throats.

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No white throats were cut.

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The shouts of the revolt were nothing,
compared to the police sirens.

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After all, who was that minister
who was killed in Memphis,

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that 30 million Negroes
were supposed to avenge?

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A hero, as Cleaver said, or a swine,
an Uncle Tom, as Leroy Jones said?

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Tom.

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Thomas.

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I named him Tom.
Don't you think it's cute?

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Nowadays it's different,
but in the old days

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all house Negroes were called Tom,
then Uncle Tom when they grew old.

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That was how we could tell
the good Negroes,

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the ones who lived in homes,
with their masters,

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from the bad ones, who lived
separately, in the cotton fields.

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Even that nice Negro priest
that they killed, what was his name?

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They called him Uncle Tom, too,
because he was good.

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He didn't go around spurring
those people to revolt against us.

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They're not actually bad,
but none of them are called Tom.

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They can't keep their houses clean,
and they spend all their money on cars,

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which they break immediately
and throw away, like old toys.

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They're just like children.
But that may be a good thing.

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This way they're closer to God.

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You should hear them singing
in the family chapel I gave them.

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They're extraordinary.

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His land extended further
than the horizon--

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He had enormous herds of cattle,
and a house full of slaves.

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When Jesus had finished speaking,
the man asked him:

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"Is there anything that my slaves
can hold against me?

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I feed them. I clothe them. I aid them.
I even gave them a temple to pray in.

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So you see, my generosity is great."
And Jesus said to him:

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"I will tell you that it is not your
generosity that is great,

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but your pride.

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You love your slaves
because they are slaves,

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and as long as they remain slaves.

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But your power will melt,
like fog in the sun.

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Your riches will be gone.

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And then your slaves will leave
your land and your home,

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and they will ignore you.

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The worst punishment for your pride
will be your loneliness."

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Our house was so big. 500 slaves
were hardly enough to keep it up.

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Then a little Tom left a candlestick
sitting next to a curtain,

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and the fire burned for three days.
Can you imagine?

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So many things fed that fire.
But this land is still mine.

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This good land of the south,
once white with cotton balls.

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Thank you, Tom.
Do you remember that movie?

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What was it called? Gone--

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Anyway, she took a handful of dirt
and held it to her chest. Like this.

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And all around her, everything
was burned and ravaged by war.

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And the Negroes had become bad.
And she said-- I can't remember.

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Anyway, she said she would farm
the land even without slaves.

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Not cotton, of course.
You'd need Negroes for that.

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It's so hard, under the sun.

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But there are many
other good things here in the south:

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fruits, vegetables.
Our vegetables are so good.

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The salad, the peas.

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Have you ever tasted southern peas?

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...ds we can see by reading the pages
of the greatest American Negro poet,

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Leroy Jones, whose poem --

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"Land, Land, Land. The Negro will not
be a man until he has his own land.

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Negro, look at the ground."

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- Yoo-hoo, I'm ready.
- "Grab a handful of dirt,

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and shove your nails into the concrete.
It's real and it's yours.

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- You just have to want it."
- On page 217, Malcolm X adds:

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"There's only one people on earth
that can slit the white man's throat.

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His population of slaves,
the Negroes."

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We will now hand the microphone over
to the leader of the Black Panthers.

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But that's not all. They reject
integration, they practice violence,

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ideological crime, reverse racism.

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They indoctrinate their children
in exchange for a meal.

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They want to own five states, immediate
freedom for all Negro criminals,

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exemption from military service, and
the freedom to carry machine guns.

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But sometimes we're too quick
to judge.

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Let's take a look
at these strange humans.

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Their intentions are good,
though at times misunderstood.

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These humans practice non-violence,
ideological love,

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free love, the integration of the sexes,

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and a perfect racial confusion
with the Negroes,

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together with whom they propose
to build the America of the future.

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And yet, Leroy Jones, today's foremost
representative of Negro-ness says,

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"Embracing the non-violence that young
whites preach about is nothing short of

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diving into the current
of this failed American civilization.

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America is a Sodom.
America is a Gomorrah.

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America is a Babylon.
This is the society in which

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Martin Luther King wanted
the Negroes to get ready to join.

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I'd rather go to hell. But the chance
of becoming citizens of Gomorrah

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is the best thing that whites have
right now to offer the Negroes.

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If you hope for the survival of this
rotten society, of this corrupt order,

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of this falling Rome, ready to cut your
balls off with the edge of a dollar,

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you'll lose. Christ and the effigy
of the dollar are one and the same.

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We Negroes must remember
all that we are seeing now,

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and in the end we must erupt
like a volcano,

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so we can crush, under flowing,
molten lava this herd of pigs

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who have transformed the world
into a giant garbage can."

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June 19, 1970.

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Leroy Jones, again: "The white man's
attitude toward sex is sick.

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The white man makes sex dirty.
The white man is primitive,

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and he has the sexual intelligence
of a cave man.

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The white man is afraid of the Negro
because he knows he's sexually inferior.

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His sexual device is out of order.

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That's why liberal whites
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a certain amount of progress
toward virility,

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and today he's telling us,
"One day we'll let you have balls.

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Until then, keep yourself cool.'

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American whites are taught to be
pederasts in school.

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That's why their faces are weak
and expressionless.

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Their voices, gestures and
mannerisms are those of eunuchs.

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white women are stocky whores,
covered in makeup.

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They don't know what to do
to fire up their impotent males.

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white American women are
the ugliest and most obscene on earth.

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The famous question, "Would you allow
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is outdated.

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Today the question is,

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"Would you allow your son
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Today the roles are reversed."

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The Black Panthers say,
"When the people rise up

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to free themselves from slavery,
they must arm themselves with guns.

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If we want to free ourselves of guns,
we must arm ourselves with guns."

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And now Cleaver:

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"America is defended by sadistic
and bloodthirsty masters.

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The blood, the tears
and suffering of the Negro

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are the foundation on which
America rests.

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We were forced to build it. But
if they force us to, we will destroy it,

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and the result
will be a horrific bloodbath.

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We, t00, are bloodthirsty."

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But the Negroes are also hungry.

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At least that's what it says
on the banner

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that leads the demonstration
at Cape Kennedy

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on the occasion of the first
white men on the moon.

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The demonstration was organized
by Martin Luther King's successor,

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Reverend Abernathy, who says,

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"You, white man, are the cause
of all our woes.

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You tore us away
from Africa, made us slaves,

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kept us in ignorance, exploited us, got
rich, and now you're going to the moon.

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We can't accept that. Stop playing
with your millionaire's toys,

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and pay us the damages you owe us.

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Where are you going, white man,
with your billionaire's toy?

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What are you running away from,
your past?

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What did you do,
that was so bad?

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Why do your
black brothers hate you so?

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It's useless to run away,

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because the past is not behind us,
as Abernathy believes,

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but ahead, traveling toward the stars,
just like Einstein said.

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And the faster
you run, the faster you'll get there."

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GOODBYE UNCLE TOM

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- Is this a bad time?
- No, please, come in.

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- Who are these people?
- They are Europeans.

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To be exact, they're Italians,
Italian journalists.

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They've come here to the south
to conduct an inquiry, right?

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In inquiry on slavery.
They seem to be quite shocked.

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- What is their religion?
- Catholic, I think.

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- You're Catholic, aren't you?
- Roman Catholic Apostolic.

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They shouldn't be so shocked, then.

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After all, the Pope, who is usually
so generous with his excommunications,

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has never excommunicated
a merchant of black meat.

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Unless he eats it on Fridays.

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- Why are they here, then?
- I think they're slaves, too.

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You know Catholics. They're slaves
of the fascination of sin.

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Or they simply want to protest.
What are we going to do about it?

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These Europeans, after the French
Revolution, do nothing but protest.

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Please, times have changed:
Rousseau, Diderot, Voltaire...

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This is rich, Catholics who read
books written by the devil.

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What would His Holiness say?

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Please! These gentlemen are my guests.

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And following the example
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have given them
free access to the entire house.

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This way they'll see who
the real slaves and masters are.

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No, Senator, please.
No chicken bones.

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They're very dangerous to puppies.

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I had to take two of them to the vet.
It's so annoying.

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Well, since each one of you
is a famous person,

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your frank and authoritative statements
on the subject of slavery

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should be very useful to these
gentlemen.

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I agree,
and I'll be the first.

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It's absolutely true that slavery
cannot be hidden,

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just like a volcano's
eruption or a cancerous affliction

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that erodes a man's face.
I, for one, have freed my slaves,

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but I did so only because they were
stupid, smelly, sad and boring.

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I am an aristocrat, and I believe
in freedom, but not in equality.

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This is my statement.
Signed, John Randolph of Roanoke.

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I'm John Pithiou,

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and I think that slavery
is the natural condition of the poor,

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whether white or black.

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In fact, I consider it ideal,

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because it's synonymous with a full
belly, a guaranteed dwelling,

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medical help and security in old age,
whereas for us it's a status symbol.

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Furthermore, we mustn't forget,
gentlemen,

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that we whites make up only
20% of the world's population,

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so if one day we gave up our power,
it would be the end of us.

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It will depend solely on us,
and I mean solely on us,

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if a meek slave or a snake in the grass
gets off the slave trader's ship.

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What a stench! What did you bring,
a load of rotten meat?

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What are you talking about?
It's top choice.

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They stink because they eat like pigs,
then they throw up and mess themselves.

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- How long was the trip?
- 94 days.

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Didn't they get air on the bridge?

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Are you crazy, with the sea
full of English ships?

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The times have changed.

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This is contraband merchandise.

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If get caught with one Negro on board,
I'll be hung.

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And I wouldn't be the first.

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If they spent the entire trip down
there, they must be all rotten.

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No way! On this ship rule
number one is hygiene.

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Hygiene and cleanliness.
If one of them gets really sick,

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I don't wait for him to spread
it to the whole load.

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I throw him overboard and that's that.
I deliver my merchandise in good shape.

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- Are you interested or not?
- How many are there?

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327 between males and females.
These are all males. No syphilis.

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Black meat was sold either
by the head or by weight.

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The load was arranged in layers,
and each Negro had a berth

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35 by 12 inches, in which he was
chained from 45 to 90 days,

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depending on the wind.

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This way,
over the course of two centuries,

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about 50 million slaves were shipped
to the Americas,

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30 million of which did not survive
the journey.

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To keep epidemics at bay, the Negroes
were watered three times a day

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with carbolic acid and sea water.

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The load was always insured.

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But since the insurance paid only
if the Negro died on board,

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if an epidemic broke out, the captain
would rather not take chances,

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and preferred to unload a whole
shipment in the sea, still alive,

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rather than risk unloading a ship
of dying men and women.

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Dysentery depreciated the merchandise,
so in order to keep it from buyers,

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the captain would order the sealing
of "leaky holes" with a cork

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sealed with tow and tar.

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In November of 1812,

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in a shipment of 415 slaves,
the buyer contested 2186,

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because he realized that
they had been plugged up.

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The captain was Jean Lafitte,
the famous pirate patriot hero

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who sold slaves in Louisiana to raise
money for Karl Marx in Europe.

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- What's that mushy stuff?
- Corn, molasses and fat.

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They love it. We have to tie them up
and give them alittle at a time,

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otherwise they'd choke.

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That one doesn't seem to like it.

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That one has decided to let himself
starve to death. Pitiful!

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Hey, we need a chisel and hammer
and a funnel over here.

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The remedy was quite frightening,
and served as an example.

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And even if it cost the master
a little damage,

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a Negro minus three or four teeth
was always better than a dead one.

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- Let's say $150 a head.
- Isaid I'll buy them by the pound.

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- The whole shipment for $2 a pound.
- Seven dollars.

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- Three.
- Six.

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- Four.
- All right, but I'm losing money.

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120 years later, three or four
generations at the most,

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and some of them have already
forgotten. They are not many.

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Perhaps the equivalent of
a few hundred shipments of slaves.

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Ambassadors, ministers, industrialists,
intellectuals, artists;

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all individual fortunes worth
millions of dollars.

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Deaf to the insults of the priests
of Negro-ness, these Uncle Tom pigs

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have quietly joined the system,

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and followed the great
American dream of success,

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seen as the sporting
victory over life's adversities.

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For the first time, the self-made man
is black, and that's saying a lot,

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if we consider that among his many
misfortunes this is perhaps the worst:

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well-dressed, worldly,

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so well integrated as to appear
lighter skinned than his fellow Negroes,

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a little chubby, due to a residual hunger
that subconsciously still haunts him,

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he is still the same Negro who arrived
on board a ship with Leroy Jones,

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Malcolm X,
Cleaver and the Black Panthers.

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Those men are either in Harlem
or in prison, plotting revenge.

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This man is here.
He dances a waltz in a tuxedo,

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and tomorrow will go to work
wearing a double-breasted suit.

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The self-made Negro is proud
of his past misfortunes,

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and the horrors of slavery are his epic.

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This was the most famous slave sorting
and clearing center in Louisiana.

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Even Thomas Ewell wrote about it.

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Let's read some excerpts
from the camp's rules and regulations:

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"Itis ordered that at Fort Bastille
all African slaves be quarantined."

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Page 116: "In large iron cages,
slaves with mange and scabies

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will be fumigated
with ailanthus vapors.

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The epileptics will be hung by the feet

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so their blood, flowing to the head,
will arrest their convulsions."

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Reading from page 122:
"It is mandatory for all slaves

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to receive an initial bath in a mixture
of water, salt, ash, and soapwort root."

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Now, reading from page 130:

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"The bath will be followed by a greasing
with lard, palm oil and turpentine.

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We remind our employees that 82%

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of imported slaves is afflicted with
contagious skin diseases,

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and that therefore the law forbids
their trade.

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Using the specially designed slides,
the slaves will be gathered

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for the next phase of their cleansing.

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Eggs and lice that may have survived
the previous treatments

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will be exterminated with the total
destruction of their natural habitat.

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The razors must be sharpened
every 200 shavings,

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to avoid damage to the scalps."

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Cleansed both inside and out,

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the Negro was fortified before
the long journey inland

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with a daily ration of a half gallon
of corn meal,

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a pint of beans,
a pound of sweet potatoes,

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- a pound of fat --
- Don't go overboard.

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They only get a half-pound of fat.
This is not an Italian restaurant.

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Besides, we don't need
a defense lawyer.

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Look at them. All they want
is to eat, to eat anything.

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To eat and to fuck, that's all
they want. And they want to survive.

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To survive anything, beatings,
syphilis, cholera, the heat, the cold.

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Their strength lies in their
adaptability.

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Both in heaven and in hell,
they fill their bellies

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and spit out dozens of children.

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I for one agree with those
who support mandatory castration.

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I don't mean to be cruel,

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but if we don't cut off a few million
black balls now,

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you can be sure
that in one or two hundred years—

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Dick Gregory, the first Negro
President of the United States!

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What makes this candidate for
the White House exceptional

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is that his political program does not
include cutting the throats

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of all white Americans.

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Perhaps this is why
he wasn't very successful.

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The more popular
David Hillyard screamed,

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"We'll kill Nixon and all the sons
of bitches that are against us."

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Gregory is more modest. He's content
with his image on the dollar bill,

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and obtaining what the signers
of the Black Manifesto requested:

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300 billion dollars as damages
for the suffering of 3 million slaves.

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In the meantime
he's handing out small advances,

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and promises that the rest
will be delivered promptly.

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The livestock cars that transported
the slaves up north

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covered 400 miles in three days
along the left bank of the Mississippi,

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all the way up to Natchez or Pittsburgh.
The slave trade was very busy.

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It slowed down only in the autumn,

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when the trains had to stop
in Baton Rouge,

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and the slaves had to proceed on foot
through rain-flooded swamps.

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The red flag, which back then was the
symbol of slavery, preceded the convoys.

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A tuba, a violin and a trombone
kept up the slaves' morale

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when the going was rough.

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Neither the slave traders
nor the public, at the time,

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considered this trade immoral.

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They were comforted in part
by the fact that among their clients

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were men such as President Jackson
and President Jefferson.

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Among their colleagues were men such as
David Mitchell, governor of Georgia,

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and James Bowie, hero of the Alamo.

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Come on. Move it!

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00:33:26,610 --> 00:33:31,070
Let's have some music!
Make merry! Play!

348
00:33:31,147 --> 00:33:35,414
Come on. Let's have some music!
Be merry. Play for me!

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Go free with God.
Go forth, free with God.

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Go on, go free with God.

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Well then, $300 for the males,
$200 for the females,

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and $100 for the puppies.
It's all there, right?

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In addition to having
illustrious clients,

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the traders also had
illustrious suppliers,

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like the Jesuits
of Saint Inigoe in Maryland.

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The Catholic Church had always
ignored slavery,

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but when in 1838 the Pope ordered
that slaves in convents be freed,

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the Jesuits immediately got rid
of them: they sold them.

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When the convoys reached
the sugarcane and cotton mills,

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the traders would allow their Negroes a
few days' rest, so they could present them

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to their customers in good shape.
The customers were few, but good.

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In 1850, 4 million slaves were owned
by 4,000 planters.

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There were only 400 families
who owned more than 10 slaves.

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Eighty percent of the white population
had never owned slaves.

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The dream of possessing a young Negro
woman tormented the lonely dreams

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of poor white men, forced to long periods
of abstinence in such a hot land,

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where the white
women were few and intractable.

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Not bad, eh?

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00:37:34,257 --> 00:37:37,124
Many of these poor
and restless men were--

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Cut it out.

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00:37:39,496 --> 00:37:40,986
This is my buddy, Buzz.

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00:37:42,499 --> 00:37:44,194
This is my buddy, Sonny.

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This is my buddy, Jake.

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- So, are you coming with us?
- lsn'titillegal?

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00:37:50,573 --> 00:37:53,873
What do you mean? Nothing
is illegal in this fucking country.

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00:37:55,912 --> 00:37:58,973
You hear that?
He wants money.

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00:38:15,331 --> 00:38:19,632
Many of these poor white men,
the Crackers, as they were called,

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were serving what was called
time-limited slavery,

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a period of hard labor,
usually of five years,

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to pay off the price of the trip
to America from Europe.

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Another group was formed by thieves,
rapists, murderers,

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who had been deported to the colonies
from French and English prisons.

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Their hatred toward the Negroes
was not just a racial issue.

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Negroes were always slaves,
and therefore obliged to work for free,

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but also to be the scabs
of the white laborers,

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00:38:48,531 --> 00:38:53,128
who had to choose between
unemployment and a miserable pay.

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Come on, let's go.

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00:39:00,276 --> 00:39:03,974
Thus, the hatred of the white slave
toward the Negro slave

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was appeased through gratuitous
acts of violence,

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perpetrated especially on the women,
who slept alone at night

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in the barn with the animals,
and were therefore defenseless.

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Oh, go away.

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00:42:42,698 --> 00:42:45,167
The black puppies not yet ready
for work were like toys,

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00:42:45,234 --> 00:42:47,566
and as such they were given
to children.

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00:42:47,637 --> 00:42:50,732
But the black puppies grew up quickly,
and pretty soon they preferred

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00:42:50,807 --> 00:42:55,301
anew kind of game, that the white
kids often enjoyed watching.

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Let's read an excerpt from the diary
of Fanny Kemble, English actress:

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"From the early morning the boughs
of the large tree before my window

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were full of couples chirping like
blackbirds in love.

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00:43:08,858 --> 00:43:12,817
I, who was English, and had just
joined my American husband in Georgia,

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00:43:12,895 --> 00:43:17,856
was amazed that such a puritanical
white society could allow its slaves

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00:43:17,934 --> 00:43:23,168
to indulge in such depravity
in every corner of the jungle.

403
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:26,504
Another time, in the rice fields,

404
00:43:26,576 --> 00:43:29,443
I came upon such a carefree,
shameless band of urchins,

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00:43:29,512 --> 00:43:33,745
who were so busy with their pleasure
that they didn't even notice me."

406
00:43:35,084 --> 00:43:37,712
But after her marriage to the planter
George Butler,

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00:43:37,787 --> 00:43:41,519
Fanny Kemble became
a typical southern lady.

408
00:43:41,591 --> 00:43:43,753
I, a typical southern lady?

409
00:43:43,826 --> 00:43:48,889
Have you ever seen a southern lady
ride a horse western style?

410
00:43:49,999 --> 00:43:55,961
Now I'll show you another thing that
a southern lady would never show you.

411
00:43:56,906 --> 00:44:00,206
Look at all the lovebirds!

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00:44:00,276 --> 00:44:03,906
Look at them
running from the sugarcane field.

413
00:44:04,947 --> 00:44:09,077
The masters themselves encourage them.

414
00:44:10,586 --> 00:44:15,285
Do you know what my husband says?
"Go on, get busy!

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00:44:15,958 --> 00:44:21,021
The more children you have,
the happier you'll make me.

416
00:44:21,097 --> 00:44:23,930
Do as you please.

417
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,459
I getrich,
and you have a good time."

418
00:44:28,604 --> 00:44:32,837
In this shop, you don't pay for what
you break, and I pick up the pieces.

419
00:44:46,923 --> 00:44:50,382
Excuse me, ma'am, where is
the church at Turner Bridge?

420
00:44:50,459 --> 00:44:54,726
I don't understand.
I'm German.

421
00:44:54,797 --> 00:44:59,735
- Where is church?
- Three miles down road.

422
00:44:59,802 --> 00:45:04,740
- What's happening here, ma'am?
- Very interesting.

423
00:45:04,807 --> 00:45:10,507
They're cutting the Negro who broke
20 virgins at the Peterson plantation.

424
00:45:11,314 --> 00:45:14,773
- Cutting what?
- Cutting his balls, what else?

425
00:45:15,851 --> 00:45:18,684
He's through fucking.

426
00:45:21,958 --> 00:45:24,017
The pliers! The pliers!

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00:45:32,868 --> 00:45:35,428
If on the one hand the masters
allowed their slaves

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00:45:35,504 --> 00:45:37,632
an almost unlimited sexual freedom,

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00:45:37,707 --> 00:45:42,611
it was also true that he would be
furious if that freedom cost him money.

430
00:45:42,678 --> 00:45:45,704
On every plantation there were always
a number of virgins

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00:45:45,781 --> 00:45:47,146
destined for the marketplace.

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00:45:47,216 --> 00:45:51,312
Their virginity had a very definite
value, and if you took it,

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00:45:51,387 --> 00:45:52,650
you were a thief.

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00:45:52,722 --> 00:45:55,350
Such thieves
were publicly castrated,

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00:45:55,424 --> 00:45:57,950
and the castration took place
at the very scene of the crime.

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00:45:58,027 --> 00:46:01,053
Hewlett, a Louisiana man,
wrote in 1831:

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00:46:01,130 --> 00:46:05,294
"Such an exciting spectacle
was a pleasant interruption

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00:46:05,368 --> 00:46:07,097
to the boredom of a Sunday afternoon.

439
00:46:07,169 --> 00:46:11,003
Males, females and puppies
enjoyed it from start to finish.

440
00:46:11,073 --> 00:46:14,168
The more the victim screamed,
the more fun they had."

441
00:46:14,243 --> 00:46:16,735
The master calls for the pliers.

442
00:46:16,812 --> 00:46:21,443
No, not my balls!

443
00:46:23,452 --> 00:46:26,444
Shut up! Take the balls with
your hands and pull.

444
00:46:27,323 --> 00:46:32,056
- Quick, put the balls in the pliers.
- He's pissing! He got me all wet!

445
00:46:32,128 --> 00:46:35,428
Not my balls! No!

446
00:46:35,498 --> 00:46:38,763
- Doyouwant to goin?
- No, thank you.

447
00:46:40,603 --> 00:46:43,129
- Listen.
- Squeeze!

448
00:46:46,108 --> 00:46:49,567
Did you hear that?
It's done.

449
00:46:50,246 --> 00:46:55,480
- What did they use for the operation?
- Horse pliers.

450
00:46:55,551 --> 00:47:01,217
- It's horrible to make him suffer so.
- No, Negroes never suffer.

451
00:47:17,139 --> 00:47:21,940
That Negroes felt physical and moral
pain less that white men

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00:47:22,011 --> 00:47:24,002
was a widely held belief.

453
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:25,878
The scientific writings of that time,

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00:47:25,948 --> 00:47:28,781
first among them those by
the authoritative Samuel Cartwright,

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00:47:28,851 --> 00:47:30,785
a professor at
the University of Louisiana,

456
00:47:30,853 --> 00:47:36,986
mention "poor motor skills, typical of
monkeys and subhuman species in general."

457
00:47:37,059 --> 00:47:40,256
No one suspected yet that
all the folklore, the excesses,

458
00:47:40,329 --> 00:47:43,856
the collective hysteria don't
Negate the presence of pain.

459
00:47:43,933 --> 00:47:45,731
On the contrary,
they underline its intensity.

460
00:50:14,884 --> 00:50:20,516
At this point I have only to remind you
that God condemned to slavery

461
00:50:20,589 --> 00:50:24,617
the damned line of Canaan
from the time of Joshua.

462
00:50:24,693 --> 00:50:29,096
God ordered Abraham's descendants
to keep slaves,

463
00:50:29,164 --> 00:50:34,398
and he decreed that those slaves
were to be inherited by their children.

464
00:50:35,704 --> 00:50:39,265
God recognized Abraham
as the master of the slaves.

465
00:50:39,341 --> 00:50:41,139
And Jesus ordered

466
00:50:41,210 --> 00:50:46,205
that any who dare object to
or disrupt the institution of slavery

467
00:50:46,282 --> 00:50:52,710
be repudiated as subversive individuals,
whose behavior is --

468
00:50:52,788 --> 00:50:53,949
The Protestant Church,

469
00:50:54,023 --> 00:50:56,424
then even more powerful
than the Catholic Church in America,

470
00:50:56,492 --> 00:51:00,190
approved of and preached
slavery as a divine decree.

471
00:51:00,262 --> 00:51:02,560
The sermons of the most influential
ministers, like this one,

472
00:51:02,631 --> 00:51:08,400
by Reverend Stringfellow of Virginia,
were bound and published in volumes.

473
00:51:08,470 --> 00:51:12,532
The curse in the Old Testament
on the black man, Canaan,

474
00:51:12,608 --> 00:51:15,236
the evil son of Noah,
who had castrated his father,

475
00:51:15,311 --> 00:51:21,250
was falling heavily on his descendants,
who were now reduced to slavery.

476
00:51:21,317 --> 00:51:23,877
The Baptists said, "Flog them."

477
00:51:23,953 --> 00:51:25,819
The Presbyterians, "Deny them rights."

478
00:51:25,888 --> 00:51:28,152
The Methodists, "Chain them up."

479
00:51:28,223 --> 00:51:32,285
While Bishop Polk, the same one
who later became a Confederate general,

480
00:51:32,361 --> 00:51:35,524
beat all records as a slaveholder.

481
00:51:35,598 --> 00:51:41,696
Slavery is thus a divine institution,
ordered and sanctioned by God.

482
00:51:41,770 --> 00:51:46,139
Therefore, with all the authority
granted my by the church,

483
00:51:46,208 --> 00:51:51,271
I, Reverend Stringfellow of the State
of Virginia,

484
00:51:51,347 --> 00:51:53,543
order you to honor slavery

485
00:51:53,616 --> 00:51:58,247
and not to question it on the basis
of false moral grounds.

486
00:52:09,565 --> 00:52:14,093
Instead of false moral grounds, Reverend
Stringfellow would have done better

487
00:52:14,169 --> 00:52:19,005
talking about
false economic grounds.

488
00:52:19,074 --> 00:52:22,442
For example, it was false
to think that a slave's labor was free

489
00:52:22,511 --> 00:52:25,446
simply because he wasn't paid.

490
00:52:25,514 --> 00:52:28,484
Let's consider the eternal problem
of domestic servants.

491
00:52:28,550 --> 00:52:31,315
When a master thought he could solve it

492
00:52:31,387 --> 00:52:35,517
by filling his huge house with droves
of Negroes dressed to the nines,

493
00:52:35,591 --> 00:52:38,891
he was solving
a very different problem--

494
00:52:38,961 --> 00:52:43,899
the problem of his prestige in the eyes
of his family and his guests.

495
00:52:48,270 --> 00:52:54,266
Please, come in. But I'm warning you,
I can't give you much of my time.

496
00:52:54,343 --> 00:52:57,779
As you can see, this isn't a house,
it's a madhouse.

497
00:52:57,846 --> 00:53:00,941
- The luggage.
- What luggage? Oh, yes!

498
00:53:01,016 --> 00:53:02,882
Mr. Thackeray's luggage.

499
00:53:02,951 --> 00:53:06,182
Haven't I told you a million times
to get it and bring it downstairs?

500
00:53:06,255 --> 00:53:08,223
Go on, don't waste anymore time.

501
00:53:08,290 --> 00:53:11,225
My God, they're useless!
Hurry up!

502
00:53:12,227 --> 00:53:15,720
I'll have to leave you to your own
devices. Take a look around.

503
00:53:15,798 --> 00:53:19,234
- I'll see you later.
- Where do the sheets go, ma'am?

504
00:53:19,902 --> 00:53:23,304
Come on. Let's hurry it up!

505
00:53:25,507 --> 00:53:27,168
This looks nice.

506
00:53:29,378 --> 00:53:34,782
Always cleaning, cleaning.
My fingers are hurting, ma'am.

507
00:53:35,684 --> 00:53:39,552
Even at night I dream
that I'm still cleaning.

508
00:53:39,621 --> 00:53:42,989
Black slave's always cleaning.

509
00:53:43,058 --> 00:53:47,291
And you keep telling me
I have to clean even better.

510
00:54:22,598 --> 00:54:25,499
Where do we put the sheets, ma'am?

511
00:54:27,102 --> 00:54:33,474
"Where do we put the sheets, ma'am?"
Put them on the bed, you idiots!

512
00:54:39,214 --> 00:54:41,376
The real mistress of the house, though,
was the Mammy.

513
00:54:41,450 --> 00:54:45,318
The house was her kingdom.
The children were her subjects.

514
00:54:45,387 --> 00:54:48,618
She reigned upstairs, over the children
of both masters and slaves alike,

515
00:54:48,690 --> 00:54:51,557
in absolute promiscuity,
because black or white,

516
00:54:51,627 --> 00:54:54,392
all babies have the same color pee.

517
00:54:54,463 --> 00:54:58,093
She was almost always fat, thanks to
her privileges in the kitchen.

518
00:54:58,167 --> 00:55:01,364
She was always mean and arrogant,
and mistreated everyone, black or white.

519
00:55:01,436 --> 00:55:04,701
All this thanks to the immunity
she enjoyed in the domestic setting.

520
00:55:04,773 --> 00:55:06,298
When, for instance, a white man --

521
00:55:12,214 --> 00:55:15,013
- Whom does this one belong to?
- Throw him over there.

522
00:55:15,083 --> 00:55:18,178
When I'm done with your pup,
I'll latch him onto my tit.

523
00:55:18,253 --> 00:55:21,655
Be careful, he's got the runs,
he's messing everywhere.

524
00:55:37,639 --> 00:55:42,236
- I'm freezing, do I have to bathe?
- Get in there and wash up good.

525
00:55:42,311 --> 00:55:44,405
Hey you, pump the water, faster!

526
00:55:56,158 --> 00:56:00,026
- Don't let them play with my dress.
- Get back in there!

527
00:56:00,095 --> 00:56:05,431
Take that dress off. Give me that,
face powder is $5 an ounce!

528
00:56:05,500 --> 00:56:09,494
It's not meant for dirty Negroes
like you. Now get out of here!

529
00:56:10,706 --> 00:56:14,108
- Enough Mammy, I'm clean.
- Let me take a look.

530
00:56:14,810 --> 00:56:18,212
You don't like the water, eh?
You're worse than a Negro.

531
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:20,408
Not so hard, you're hurting me.

532
00:56:20,482 --> 00:56:23,315
You know those Italian photographers
that are here?

533
00:56:23,385 --> 00:56:26,719
Mammy, I want them to take
my portrait in the pink dress.

534
00:56:26,788 --> 00:56:28,586
Is it cut too low?

535
00:56:28,657 --> 00:56:32,616
Get out of here! You whites
are such bastards.

536
00:56:32,694 --> 00:56:38,690
Scoundrels! You're all scoundrels!
And you, get the fuck away!

537
00:56:41,136 --> 00:56:44,106
The Negro little boy
Flew right up into the sky

538
00:56:44,172 --> 00:56:49,303
And you, will you stop plucking
those feathers!

539
00:56:51,580 --> 00:56:57,144
Drinking water! Drinking water!

540
00:56:57,886 --> 00:57:01,948
Thiefl Let me see!
Where is the chicken?

541
00:57:02,024 --> 00:57:04,652
Give me your hat.

542
00:57:04,726 --> 00:57:06,717
Look here! Thief!

543
00:57:09,331 --> 00:57:14,565
- Cake with cherries.
- Wait!

544
00:57:14,636 --> 00:57:19,130
I keep putting the cherries on,
and I never run out of cherries.

545
00:57:20,709 --> 00:57:24,612
These are onions, not carrots!
Can't you smell them?

546
00:57:25,580 --> 00:57:28,345
The Negro little boy
Flew right up into the sky

547
00:57:28,417 --> 00:57:34,151
The almonds, I can't crush them.
I'm going to use a plate.

548
00:57:37,292 --> 00:57:41,320
This is not a kitchen!
It's a huge latrine!

549
00:57:41,997 --> 00:57:44,864
Dirty Negro woman, she's putting
her hands in the mayonnaise.

550
00:57:44,933 --> 00:57:47,595
I'm a clean Negro, and I crack eggs
with my glove on.

551
00:57:47,669 --> 00:57:51,128
The Negro little boy
Flew right up into the sky

552
00:57:51,206 --> 00:57:54,267
Get down from there!

553
00:57:54,343 --> 00:57:58,371
The Negro little boy
Flew right up into the sky

554
00:58:01,249 --> 00:58:04,913
Pigs! You're worse than pigs!

555
00:58:07,155 --> 00:58:09,055
Pigs are much better.

556
00:58:09,124 --> 00:58:12,958
And all this just to seat
two people at the dinner table!

557
00:58:22,604 --> 00:58:26,438
This is the first image of a historical
carousel called "Pilgrimage",

558
00:58:26,508 --> 00:58:28,408
which is celebrated every year
in the spring.

559
00:58:28,477 --> 00:58:30,912
At this time, the old south takes
a trip down memory lane.

560
00:58:30,979 --> 00:58:34,540
For the sake of the carousel,
everything comes out of storage:

561
00:58:34,616 --> 00:58:37,483
from the old granny in a wheelchair
to the few neighborhood Negroes,

562
00:58:37,552 --> 00:58:41,284
who for $12 an hour
agree to pose as slaves.

563
00:58:48,797 --> 00:58:53,064
The slaveholders bravely revisit
their sins of yore, like this one,

564
00:58:53,135 --> 00:58:54,864
the first of the day.

565
00:58:54,936 --> 00:58:59,567
They had a slave bring them
their coffee in bed. Incredible.

566
00:59:07,682 --> 00:59:12,017
The 19th century feels very far away,
halfway up the ladder of time.

567
00:59:12,087 --> 00:59:15,853
How was it? It depends if you're
looking from the bottom or the top.

568
00:59:15,924 --> 00:59:17,619
From the bottom,
we discover under old drapes

569
00:59:17,692 --> 00:59:20,286
a modern and hypocritical reality.

570
00:59:20,362 --> 00:59:21,227
From above, on the other hand,

571
00:59:21,296 --> 00:59:23,958
we enjoy a stale view
of ancient, innocent customs,

572
00:59:24,032 --> 00:59:27,764
such as chaste girls bathing
with their nightgowns on.

573
00:59:30,272 --> 00:59:35,108
Right next door, we find a walnut stool
used to flog slaves.

574
00:59:35,177 --> 00:59:38,078
It looks more like an antique
than an instrument of torture.

575
00:59:38,146 --> 00:59:40,911
Next to the music box we see
the blond Eveline,

576
00:59:40,982 --> 00:59:44,316
sitting on Uncle Tom's lap
on a rainy evening.

577
00:59:44,386 --> 00:59:49,085
In the dusky sitting room,
the old grandfather clock keeps time.

578
00:59:49,157 --> 00:59:52,650
It makes us feel almost sorry
that General Sherman is at the gates.

579
01:00:14,549 --> 01:00:17,678
Sherman arrived with 30,000
Union troops.

580
01:00:17,752 --> 01:00:20,847
Today, there are 100,000 northerners.

581
01:00:20,922 --> 01:00:22,651
A mere hundred years have passed

582
01:00:22,724 --> 01:00:25,352
since the General swept like a fury
down from the north

583
01:00:25,427 --> 01:00:29,330
and tore down these candid temples
to slavery, and already the south

584
01:00:29,397 --> 01:00:34,164
seems to have bounced back to the
original splendor of its dark age.

585
01:00:34,236 --> 01:00:37,035
The pretentious Neoclassical style
of its large houses

586
01:00:37,105 --> 01:00:41,235
shines again over the green parks
as it did in those opulent times,

587
01:00:41,309 --> 01:00:43,903
which were rife with slaves,
cotton, tobacco,

588
01:00:43,979 --> 01:00:47,540
and the coffers of the south
were full of Confederate dollars.

589
01:00:55,857 --> 01:00:58,827
Today the old houses of the south
are national museums,

590
01:00:58,894 --> 01:01:00,760
and their owners are responsible
for their upkeep.

591
01:01:00,829 --> 01:01:03,855
The woman of the house is usually
in charge of protecting the furniture

592
01:01:03,932 --> 01:01:05,525
and the antique rugs.

593
01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:08,297
Stop! You can't come in
with high-heeled shoes.

594
01:01:12,874 --> 01:01:16,174
After along, grim winter without
northerners in the house,

595
01:01:16,244 --> 01:01:19,305
the old south relives in the spring
its economic boom.

596
01:01:19,381 --> 01:01:22,510
The north today buys cotton
at $10 per hundred kilograms.

597
01:01:22,584 --> 01:01:26,987
The south sells its high-quality,
slave-grade cotton at $1 per ball.

598
01:01:27,055 --> 01:01:29,649
Nixon devalues the dollar by 7%.

599
01:01:29,724 --> 01:01:34,560
The south revalues its old Confederate
dollar by 107%, exchanging it equally.

600
01:01:34,629 --> 01:01:35,892
The boom goes on.

601
01:01:35,964 --> 01:01:40,595
Someone found an old column
in the cellar and sliced it up.

602
01:01:40,669 --> 01:01:43,604
Today, the old white south
can be bought by the slice.

603
01:01:43,672 --> 01:01:48,337
$10 alice, and the Negro, posing
as a slave, keeps half of the proceeds.

604
01:01:59,454 --> 01:02:01,946
New York, Fifth Avenue.
It's Easter.

605
01:02:02,023 --> 01:02:04,924
A religious extremist waves a flag
and a Bible.

606
01:02:04,993 --> 01:02:07,963
He yells something to do with Negroes,
but no one can understand him.

607
01:02:08,029 --> 01:02:09,929
On the most bourgeois street in
the world,

608
01:02:09,998 --> 01:02:12,524
they celebrate Easter
with the spring parade,

609
01:02:12,601 --> 01:02:16,003
and spring is the most bourgeois
of the seasons.

610
01:02:17,639 --> 01:02:20,700
Up here, far
from the rotting crowd below,

611
01:02:20,775 --> 01:02:24,143
a chosen few have found
an altar close enough to the sky,

612
01:02:24,212 --> 01:02:27,045
even though it's been sullied
by the arrival of the police.

613
01:02:27,115 --> 01:02:31,677
"We're here," they say, "to declare our
contrition over the sins of the world."

614
01:02:31,753 --> 01:02:33,551
"Naked?" The police ask.

615
01:02:33,622 --> 01:02:36,057
"We're not naked, we're undressed."

616
01:02:36,124 --> 01:02:41,028
Satisfied, they kiss. Today the police
no longer trust the penal code.

617
01:02:41,096 --> 01:02:42,791
A crime looks like a crime.

618
01:02:42,864 --> 01:02:45,356
Then, it turns out that
it's an ideological crime,

619
01:02:45,433 --> 01:02:47,094
and they look like idiots.

620
01:02:47,168 --> 01:02:48,795
Might as well drop the whole thing.

621
01:02:48,870 --> 01:02:52,636
Today, being white, as well as
being shameful, is also a grave sin.

622
01:02:52,707 --> 01:02:56,575
One of the many ways to atone
is to cover smear paint on one's body.

623
01:02:56,645 --> 01:02:59,808
Each smear is asin,
and each sin has its color.

624
01:02:59,881 --> 01:03:01,975
Red for wars, massacres and the like,

625
01:03:02,050 --> 01:03:05,452
yellow for gold and riches and
all the evils associated with wealth.

626
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:09,252
Black for racism, Nazism, fascism
and lots of other -isms.

627
01:03:09,324 --> 01:03:12,783
The evil one, meaning the devil,
is white.

628
01:03:12,861 --> 01:03:14,522
The devil's first victim,

629
01:03:14,596 --> 01:03:17,930
according to these penitents who are
ashamed of their white bottoms,

630
01:03:17,999 --> 01:03:21,594
is the Negro, who seems here
to feel slightly out of place.

631
01:03:23,805 --> 01:03:26,137
"Abracadabra, I'm going to
exorcise you."

632
01:03:26,207 --> 01:03:29,905
For centuries the white devil
kept the Negro in hell.

633
01:03:29,978 --> 01:03:32,072
He forced him to squirm
on the ground like a worm.

634
01:03:32,147 --> 01:03:34,548
He imprisoned him, flogged him,
tortured him.

635
01:03:34,616 --> 01:03:37,415
Then he dragged him
in chains through his American ordeal.

636
01:03:37,485 --> 01:03:38,816
He chose him over Barabbas.

637
01:03:38,887 --> 01:03:42,016
He betrayed him like Judas.
He crucified him in Vietnam.

638
01:03:42,090 --> 01:03:44,559
But today it's Easter,
and the Negro is reborn

639
01:03:44,626 --> 01:03:47,823
and ascends to the sky,
to take his place at his father's side,

640
01:03:47,896 --> 01:03:51,855
because the Negro is the son of God,
because God is black.

641
01:03:54,536 --> 01:03:58,473
In fact in Detroit, in the Catholic
Church of the Sacred Heart,

642
01:03:58,540 --> 01:04:02,704
Jesus has been painted black.
Is it antiracism or reverse racism?

643
01:04:02,777 --> 01:04:05,542
Once upon a time they said,
"When God was white,

644
01:04:05,613 --> 01:04:07,445
the Negro was not a man,

645
01:04:07,515 --> 01:04:11,543
because God, who had made man
in his image, was not black."

646
01:04:11,619 --> 01:04:14,714
That must mean that today,
since God is black, we'll say this,

647
01:04:14,789 --> 01:04:17,781
"God made man in his image,

648
01:04:17,859 --> 01:04:21,625
and since God is no longer white,
the white man is no longer a man."

649
01:04:21,696 --> 01:04:26,725
The Negro community has flocked
to this church where all the saints,

650
01:04:26,801 --> 01:04:28,963
and even the Virgin Mary are all black.

651
01:04:29,037 --> 01:04:30,630
We can't help but think back

652
01:04:30,705 --> 01:04:35,233
to the famous black Manifesto written
in August, 1969, and still extant,

653
01:04:35,310 --> 01:04:37,802
in which the Negroes claimed that
the Church owed them

654
01:04:37,879 --> 01:04:40,280
300 billion dollars in damages
for what they'd been put through.

655
01:04:40,348 --> 01:04:43,511
The Lord's Prayer says:
"Forgive us our debts,

656
01:04:43,585 --> 01:04:46,247
as we forgive our debtors."

657
01:04:46,321 --> 01:04:50,280
So now who will pay, if the father who
forgives trespasses is no longer white,

658
01:04:50,358 --> 01:04:52,793
nor is anyone in his family?

659
01:05:21,222 --> 01:05:23,486
They had only just begun
to hear about it,

660
01:05:23,558 --> 01:05:26,926
but already that white God, who
promised a heaven with no slaves

661
01:05:26,995 --> 01:05:28,622
and no masters, fascinated them.

662
01:05:28,696 --> 01:05:30,027
He seemed to be one of them.

663
01:05:30,098 --> 01:05:32,897
He was humiliated, flogged,
crucified.

664
01:05:32,967 --> 01:05:36,460
And for his whole life he had eaten
out of the same plate as the poor.

665
01:05:38,807 --> 01:05:40,707
Get another plate, son.

666
01:06:44,906 --> 01:06:46,135
Hewlett writes:

667
01:06:46,207 --> 01:06:49,973
"It is tolerated that the slaves
gather when they are free from work

668
01:06:50,044 --> 01:06:53,275
in order to imitate
in their fashion the Christian rituals.

669
01:06:53,348 --> 01:06:57,114
Experience has taught us that the more
aslave is religious,

670
01:06:57,185 --> 01:06:59,745
the calmer, more humble
and resigned he will be.

671
01:06:59,821 --> 01:07:01,653
However, the law prescribes also

672
01:07:01,723 --> 01:07:06,160
that these gatherings will be moderated
and presided over by a white man."

673
01:07:19,941 --> 01:07:25,141
Of all the tales in the Bible, the flight
from Egypt fascinated them the most.

674
01:07:25,213 --> 01:07:29,081
They were so convinced that the story
related to them personally,

675
01:07:29,150 --> 01:07:32,279
that they would draw it on the walls.
Africa was Palestine,

676
01:07:32,353 --> 01:07:34,981
the ocean was the Red Sea,
the sharks were the Pharaohs,

677
01:07:35,056 --> 01:07:37,320
and the Egyptians were
the white masters.

678
01:07:37,392 --> 01:07:40,953
All those fantastical analogies between
their dark history

679
01:07:41,029 --> 01:07:43,396
and the flight of the chosen people
toward the Promised Land

680
01:07:43,464 --> 01:07:47,867
influenced them so, that they started
running away at a rate of 5,000 a year.

681
01:07:47,936 --> 01:07:50,371
They always ran toward the rivers
and the swamps,

682
01:07:50,438 --> 01:07:52,497
because they had crossed the water
to come here,

683
01:07:52,574 --> 01:07:55,805
and they thought
that freedom lay across the water.

684
01:09:47,155 --> 01:09:49,783
There was always a reward on the head
of a runaway slave.

685
01:09:49,857 --> 01:09:53,020
The reward was not contingent, however,
on the slave being returned alive.

686
01:09:53,094 --> 01:09:54,789
All that were needed were their hands
or their heads.

687
01:09:54,862 --> 01:10:00,062
Thus many hunters, especially in
Florida, specialized in runaway slaves.

688
01:10:00,134 --> 01:10:02,967
The fire of Atlanta destroyed
a daguerreotype

689
01:10:03,037 --> 01:10:06,701
that portrayed a scene like this one.
On the back it bore this inscription:

690
01:10:06,774 --> 01:10:09,300
"A good catch today, 187 heads."

691
01:10:12,714 --> 01:10:17,880
Even Andrew Jackson, the great
president, approved of hunting slaves.

692
01:10:17,952 --> 01:10:19,818
Kenneth Stamp writes:

693
01:10:19,887 --> 01:10:24,484
"One day Jackson promised $50 to whoever
could bring back one of his slaves,

694
01:10:24,559 --> 01:10:29,190
and $10 extra for every 100 lashes,
up to a maximum of 300."

695
01:10:29,263 --> 01:10:31,994
None of the 14 American presidents
who were slave owners

696
01:10:32,066 --> 01:10:35,092
were ever too kind to the Negroes.

697
01:10:35,169 --> 01:10:39,436
They usually found them dumb,
clumsy, and mostly loud.

698
01:10:39,507 --> 01:10:42,602
Another great president,
Thomas Jefferson, wrote:

699
01:10:42,677 --> 01:10:46,739
"My slaves are such idiots,
that instead of going to bed,

700
01:10:46,814 --> 01:10:51,274
they waste the night away under
my windows, making up dances and songs

701
01:10:51,352 --> 01:10:54,720
which, according to them,
mock their master."

702
01:11:44,739 --> 01:11:48,232
When a Negro mocked his master,
to use Jefferson's phrase,

703
01:11:48,309 --> 01:11:53,270
he tried to wound his pride with
the only weapon he had, the grotesque.

704
01:11:53,347 --> 01:11:55,907
Today he wields that weapon against
his entire civilization,

705
01:11:55,983 --> 01:11:58,543
against his hero, his symbol,
his system.

706
01:11:58,619 --> 01:12:03,750
The white hero is armed, and the sword
is the symbol of his prevarication.

707
01:12:03,825 --> 01:12:05,452
He's lurking, again,
under a friar's tunic,

708
01:12:05,526 --> 01:12:09,986
with threats of damnation,
pale and ugly like the devil.

709
01:12:12,834 --> 01:12:16,702
"We are beautiful," says Carmichael,
the leader of the black students.

710
01:12:16,771 --> 01:12:19,001
"We are a splendid race."

711
01:12:19,073 --> 01:12:22,043
That's all well and good, but this year
there will be two Miss Americas.

712
01:12:22,109 --> 01:12:25,010
A white one, and a black one,
who will be called Boganda,

713
01:12:25,079 --> 01:12:27,912
not because it's a nice name,
but because it's an African name.

714
01:12:27,982 --> 01:12:30,542
Today, everything that's black
has to have that Negro-ness.

715
01:12:30,618 --> 01:12:33,212
Afro, African, anything but American.

716
01:12:33,287 --> 01:12:36,882
"Do you know," says Carmichael,
"why the Negroes spoke so badly?"

717
01:12:36,958 --> 01:12:38,653
They were protesting against English.

718
01:12:38,726 --> 01:12:41,991
Protest is an ugly fad word,
like Negro-ness.

719
01:12:42,063 --> 01:12:44,327
Boganda, too,
is an ugly name for a queen.

720
01:12:44,398 --> 01:12:46,628
It sounds more like chains
than like freedom.

721
01:12:49,604 --> 01:12:53,404
"We don't want this white freedom."
Another slogan from Harlem.

722
01:12:53,474 --> 01:12:56,535
"We want a black freedom,
and five white states,

723
01:12:56,611 --> 01:12:58,511
that the United States must give us."

724
01:12:58,579 --> 01:13:01,883
They dance like Africans,
dress like Africans, and speak Swahili.

725
01:13:01,883 --> 01:13:03,874
"We repudiate your American language,

726
01:13:03,951 --> 01:13:07,046
which you use to say
that we are savages, beasts, monkeys,

727
01:13:07,121 --> 01:13:08,987
and that our sweat smells bad."

728
01:13:09,056 --> 01:13:12,924
This was said for the first time
by Professor Cartwright in 1831.

729
01:13:16,564 --> 01:13:21,695
Smell this sweat.
Do you think it smells human?

730
01:13:21,769 --> 01:13:24,636
Or does it have a beastly smell?

731
01:13:29,744 --> 01:13:35,046
Well, why does it have a beastly smell?
Because our skin is different.

732
01:13:35,116 --> 01:13:38,017
And it's not because of the color,
that's the last thing.

733
01:13:38,085 --> 01:13:41,077
Our illustrious colleagues
up north know

734
01:13:41,155 --> 01:13:44,887
that in one square centimeter
of this black skin

735
01:13:44,959 --> 01:13:49,658
there are at least
twice the sweat glands than in ours.

736
01:13:49,730 --> 01:13:54,896
You don't need a microscope to observe
that in this limited cranial capacity

737
01:13:54,969 --> 01:13:59,600
there is very little brain; that this
is not hair, but beastly bristles;

738
01:13:59,674 --> 01:14:02,166
this forehead is absurdly low,

739
01:14:02,243 --> 01:14:07,010
these eyes totally lack luster,
and show no flicker of intelligence;

740
01:14:07,081 --> 01:14:11,951
that these monstrous nostrils
resemble those of a monkey;

741
01:14:12,019 --> 01:14:15,148
that these teeth and this jaw,

742
01:14:15,222 --> 01:14:18,749
characteristic of anthropophagus
creatures,

743
01:14:18,826 --> 01:14:24,731
are the indisputable proof
that this is a merely humanoid race,

744
01:14:24,799 --> 01:14:29,600
a race inferior to ours.

745
01:14:30,271 --> 01:14:31,864
A race that is merely

746
01:14:31,939 --> 01:14:36,809
another attempt on nature's part

747
01:14:36,877 --> 01:14:40,040
in its millennial journey

748
01:14:40,114 --> 01:14:45,143
toward its ultimate goal, perfection,

749
01:14:46,053 --> 01:14:49,318
the white race, homo sapiens,

750
01:14:50,291 --> 01:14:52,817
in other words, us.

751
01:14:52,893 --> 01:14:56,090
Excuse me, Professor, are you Jewish?

752
01:14:57,064 --> 01:14:59,761
Yes, of course. Why?

753
01:15:08,976 --> 01:15:12,002
Let's imagine we wanted
to exterminate them.

754
01:15:12,079 --> 01:15:16,414
Fire, gas, deportation?
Oh, no.

755
01:15:16,484 --> 01:15:19,977
It would be enough to refrain
from curing their illnesses.

756
01:15:20,054 --> 01:15:24,992
Remember, a healthy Negro
is a perfect slave.

757
01:15:25,059 --> 01:15:29,292
And an imperfect slave
is a sick Negro.

758
01:15:29,363 --> 01:15:31,889
Sick? With which disease, Professor?

759
01:15:31,966 --> 01:15:37,564
These individuals are afflicted
by a disease called "draptomania",

760
01:15:38,272 --> 01:15:40,036
which is an impulse to flee.

761
01:15:40,107 --> 01:15:44,669
It's a nervous disease,
which drives the Negro to flee.

762
01:15:44,745 --> 01:15:48,511
Mind you, not out of a desire
for freedom or a sense of dignity.

763
01:15:48,582 --> 01:15:51,415
Negroes have no such sentiments.

764
01:15:51,485 --> 01:15:56,116
He runs because he is ill.
Oh, here's a perfect case;

765
01:15:56,190 --> 01:15:59,455
in fact, an exemplary case
of that affliction

766
01:15:59,527 --> 01:16:03,486
which we scientists call
African scatopathy.

767
01:16:03,564 --> 01:16:08,764
- Are those muzzles?
- Oh, no! Looks are deceiving.

768
01:16:08,836 --> 01:16:10,531
It's not a muzzle.

769
01:16:10,604 --> 01:16:16,065
It's just an obstacle that stops them
from eating all sorts of garbage,

770
01:16:17,244 --> 01:16:21,078
like dirt and their own excrement.

771
01:16:21,148 --> 01:16:25,107
This may be one of the more repugnant
illnesses found in nature.

772
01:16:25,186 --> 01:16:29,020
I'm sure it's caused by the lack
of some unknown substance.

773
01:16:37,932 --> 01:16:42,699
Look at what extremes they go to.
They have such a fear of work,

774
01:16:42,770 --> 01:16:49,233
and such a desire to do nothing,
that they have tricked their masters.

775
01:16:49,310 --> 01:16:51,972
Look, they're so clever.

776
01:16:54,415 --> 01:16:59,114
They make their legs, arms, feet
or hands drop off,

777
01:16:59,186 --> 01:17:03,145
so they can live of their mutilation.

778
01:17:06,227 --> 01:17:09,891
It seems impossible.
How did they end up like this?

779
01:17:09,964 --> 01:17:11,762
I told you.

780
01:17:11,832 --> 01:17:17,396
To get out of working, they inflicted
some small wound on themselves,

781
01:17:17,471 --> 01:17:20,133
and then gangrene set in,

782
01:17:20,207 --> 01:17:28,809
so the surgeon had to cut off
arms and legs to save their hides.

783
01:17:38,492 --> 01:17:40,984
What are these people doing here?
Aren't they Indians?

784
01:17:41,061 --> 01:17:43,826
Yes, but the Indians are useless.

785
01:17:43,898 --> 01:17:45,730
Between a Negro and an Indian

786
01:17:45,799 --> 01:17:49,565
there's the same difference
as between a dog and a coyote.

787
01:17:49,637 --> 01:17:55,303
You can beat a dog to death,
and he'll go on licking your feet.

788
01:17:55,376 --> 01:17:59,973
If you deprive a coyote of its freedom,
you might as well deprive it of air.

789
01:18:00,047 --> 01:18:03,449
An Indian will never be a slave.

790
01:18:04,185 --> 01:18:08,179
No one has ever succeeded
in having them reproduce in captivity.

791
01:18:08,255 --> 01:18:14,160
They don't eat. They don't speak. They
don't sleep and they don't make love.

792
01:18:15,930 --> 01:18:20,163
Look at these bizarre creatures,
neither men nor beasts.

793
01:18:20,234 --> 01:18:24,796
These black and sick projections
of our humanity,

794
01:18:24,872 --> 01:18:30,504
who suddenly ask us to survive
in this world of ours.

795
01:18:30,578 --> 01:18:34,481
They are as ancient as we are,
and yet up until now

796
01:18:34,548 --> 01:18:36,812
they had never seen a wheel.

797
01:18:36,884 --> 01:18:42,152
But in a world like ours,
rich with centuries of civilization,

798
01:18:42,223 --> 01:18:48,287
what could they ever do,
but bask in the reflection of our glory?

799
01:18:52,533 --> 01:18:55,901
Every year in February,
the white people of Louisiana

800
01:18:55,970 --> 01:18:58,439
hold a carnival
draped in black skin.

801
01:18:58,505 --> 01:19:00,769
Today it feels like the parody

802
01:19:00,841 --> 01:19:05,745
of the privilege enjoyed
for one day a year by all the slaves.

803
01:19:05,813 --> 01:19:09,249
That day, the masters would tolerate
insults and threats.

804
01:19:09,316 --> 01:19:13,685
"Further left than any left,
we'll drive against the current."

805
01:19:13,754 --> 01:19:17,088
But if Cleaver and Bobby Seale,
founder of the Black Panthers,

806
01:19:17,157 --> 01:19:21,924
had lived 150 years ago,
the things they yell out every day now,

807
01:19:21,996 --> 01:19:24,465
they could have said them only
on the day of the carnival.

808
01:19:24,531 --> 01:19:29,469
"You whites, who still today wave
your discriminating and racist flags,

809
01:19:29,536 --> 01:19:31,334
we'll put you all up against a wall!"

810
01:19:31,405 --> 01:19:35,103
But the next day, Cleaver and Seale
would have been sold right here,

811
01:19:35,175 --> 01:19:38,975
in the huge slave market, where the rum
ran like a river in the streets.

812
01:19:39,046 --> 01:19:42,744
Then, when the trumpet would sound
the closing of the market,

813
01:19:42,816 --> 01:19:45,786
and the drunken crowd would be
thrown out of the enclosure,

814
01:19:45,853 --> 01:19:49,187
they would have been locked up like
jailbirds in the shacks of the camp,

815
01:19:49,256 --> 01:19:52,226
so they could spend their last night
with their wives and children.

816
01:19:54,428 --> 01:19:57,955
All this is now in the past,
and is part of history.

817
01:19:58,032 --> 01:20:02,697
Any reference to the people
in these images is purely coincidental.

818
01:20:02,770 --> 01:20:04,898
They happened to be walking by here
while our cameras

819
01:20:04,972 --> 01:20:08,408
were filming the site of the
most famous slave market in the south,

820
01:20:08,475 --> 01:20:13,436
where every year, during the carnival,
20,000 slaves were sold.

821
01:21:49,476 --> 01:21:52,207
400, I said 400 and not a penny less.

822
01:21:52,279 --> 01:21:55,044
- No, 200 is as high as I will go.
- I didn't steal him, you know.

823
01:21:55,115 --> 01:21:56,913
- 300, then.
- No.

824
01:21:56,984 --> 01:21:58,975
You can keep your Negro, then.

825
01:21:59,052 --> 01:22:01,714
New Orleans, February, 1831.

826
01:22:01,789 --> 01:22:04,690
The son of the sheriff, Tommy Adley,

827
01:22:04,758 --> 01:22:09,559
draws the winning numbers of the state
lottery at the 27th slave market.

828
01:22:09,630 --> 01:22:12,258
First prize, a quarter mulatto girl
of 15 years.

829
01:22:12,332 --> 01:22:16,064
Second prize, a cook, and third prize,
three fat pigs from Virginia.

830
01:22:17,604 --> 01:22:20,369
Together with the Memphis fair,
the fair in New Orleans

831
01:22:20,441 --> 01:22:22,034
is the most important fair in the south,

832
01:22:22,109 --> 01:22:25,875
with a volume of business of more than
40 million dollars a year.

833
01:22:25,946 --> 01:22:28,745
The merchandise is all homegrown,

834
01:22:28,816 --> 01:22:32,810
and comes from farm consortia
in Florida and in Virginia.

835
01:22:32,886 --> 01:22:34,547
The market is on the upswing.

836
01:22:34,621 --> 01:22:37,921
A typical male, that only six years ago
went for $500,

837
01:22:37,991 --> 01:22:40,688
is now worth $1,500 plus taxes.

838
01:22:40,761 --> 01:22:43,822
Colonel Bowie,
who only deals in wholesale pups,

839
01:22:43,897 --> 01:22:47,731
can sell them today at up to $15/1b.

840
01:22:47,801 --> 01:22:52,068
This year the most popular races
are Ausa, Mandingo, and Turkana.

841
01:22:52,139 --> 01:22:54,540
The Ausa are more graceful,
but more fragile.

842
01:22:54,608 --> 01:22:57,009
The Mandingo are more sturdy,
but not as intelligent.

843
01:22:57,077 --> 01:23:00,342
The Turkana are of smaller build,
more docile and manageable.

844
01:23:00,414 --> 01:23:03,679
They are the most popular
with the religious institutions.

845
01:23:03,750 --> 01:23:08,745
In 1863, the French Ursuline nuns alone
had 200 of them.

846
01:23:12,826 --> 01:23:17,423
Of all the ones we saw at the market,
this is the loveliest little angel.

847
01:23:17,498 --> 01:23:20,229
He's really a delightful creature.

848
01:23:21,235 --> 01:23:24,569
What should we do, sister?

849
01:23:24,638 --> 01:23:29,804
It's very tempting, but have you seen
the prices this year?

850
01:23:29,877 --> 01:23:33,370
- He's too expensive.
- But he's such an angel.

851
01:23:33,447 --> 01:23:37,509
And he's healthy and strong.
He could help in the kitchen.

852
01:23:37,584 --> 01:23:41,782
Sister, can you imagine what
the Mother Superior would say?

853
01:23:41,855 --> 01:23:45,052
- She's already bought four this year.
- Oh, sister.

854
01:23:45,125 --> 01:23:50,757
He's not that expensive, at $300.
Let's offer them $200.

855
01:23:53,500 --> 01:23:55,992
He got scared
and lost his mother in the crowd.

856
01:23:56,069 --> 01:23:58,367
They can't even get him
to tell them his name.

857
01:23:58,438 --> 01:24:00,736
He just stands there, quiet, frowning,

858
01:24:00,807 --> 01:24:03,435
but a little calmer,
with so many policemen around,

859
01:24:03,510 --> 01:24:07,970
who seem to protect him from those
large white ghosts, who scared him.

860
01:24:15,355 --> 01:24:17,119
After only one day of power,

861
01:24:17,190 --> 01:24:19,682
the Negro king of the carnival
has lost his throne.

862
01:24:19,760 --> 01:24:22,058
His short time
of privilege has expired.

863
01:24:22,129 --> 01:24:23,619
Now it's the white man's turn.

864
01:24:40,447 --> 01:24:44,179
Right here, in the Carré, where the
queens of the neighborhood have gathered,

865
01:24:44,251 --> 01:24:47,221
there once stood
two famous houses of ill repute.

866
01:24:47,287 --> 01:24:49,278
The one called The Two Sisters,

867
01:24:49,356 --> 01:24:52,758
and right across the street, the other,
Mr. Roberts'.

868
01:24:52,826 --> 01:24:56,353
Since at the time there
were only two, distinct genders,

869
01:24:56,430 --> 01:24:59,730
anyone could choose what they liked
in either of the two houses,

870
01:24:59,800 --> 01:25:02,792
without the danger of making mistakes.

871
01:25:02,869 --> 01:25:06,601
At the Two Sisters one could find
anything in the "normal" variety,

872
01:25:06,673 --> 01:25:08,471
as it was once thought of.

873
01:25:08,542 --> 01:25:12,877
At Mr. Roberts', instead, there was
the best of the "other", as it were,

874
01:25:12,946 --> 01:25:16,007
that which today is considered
the "normal" variety.

875
01:25:16,083 --> 01:25:20,953
In fact, the two houses
were not competitors at the time.

876
01:25:21,021 --> 01:25:25,015
Both houses got their wares from
the market, two blocks away from here.

877
01:25:25,092 --> 01:25:27,584
All top quality merchandise,
the genuine article,

878
01:25:27,661 --> 01:25:31,495
what we would think of today as
"good old-fashioned wares."

879
01:25:38,905 --> 01:25:42,671
In the New Orleans market there was
a secret sector, where the merchandise,

880
01:25:42,743 --> 01:25:44,268
before it was put on display,

881
01:25:44,344 --> 01:25:48,076
was prepared and arranged
by gender, age and quality.

882
01:25:48,148 --> 01:25:51,607
The girls chosen
to become "fancy girls",

883
01:25:51,685 --> 01:25:54,848
were given over to a man named Buzz,
described by Hewlett

884
01:25:54,921 --> 01:25:59,449
as a repulsive and obese individual,
always filthy with the grease

885
01:25:59,526 --> 01:26:02,962
which he used to oil the fillies
to make their skin softer.

886
01:26:03,030 --> 01:26:07,365
But the keys to the warehouse where
the pieces for real collectors were kept

887
01:26:07,434 --> 01:26:11,769
were jealously guarded by a funny
little midget known as the General.

888
01:26:15,175 --> 01:26:18,167
Only I have these keys.
I'm the master here.

889
01:26:20,280 --> 01:26:23,341
Get inside, you bastards,
or I'll have you flogged.

890
01:26:23,417 --> 01:26:27,786
I'll show you who's in charge here.
I am the General, you hear?

891
01:26:27,854 --> 01:26:33,088
Come on, follow me.
Open up, it's me, the General.

892
01:26:33,160 --> 01:26:35,595
Open up, you sons of bitches!

893
01:26:37,130 --> 01:26:38,291
Hurry up!

894
01:26:39,199 --> 01:26:42,169
Hey, white men, look at
the merchandise I'm in charge of.

895
01:26:42,235 --> 01:26:46,570
The General is the guard of the market.
This is the market's safe.

896
01:26:46,640 --> 01:26:52,443
Look, tens of thousands of dollars.
Top quality whores. All virgins.

897
01:26:52,512 --> 01:26:56,107
You, get to work, dirty Negress.
None of them are all Negro.

898
01:26:56,183 --> 01:27:00,086
They all have at least half human blood
in their veins, like me.

899
01:27:00,153 --> 01:27:02,520
They've all been sold,
and are ready for delivery.

900
01:27:02,589 --> 01:27:05,217
Delivered to your doorstep,
luxuriously packaged.

901
01:27:05,292 --> 01:27:09,752
Hey, white men, you can look,
but don't touch.

902
01:27:09,830 --> 01:27:11,662
You know the rules.

903
01:27:11,732 --> 01:27:14,326
It's forbidden to touch
the merchandise on display.

904
01:27:14,401 --> 01:27:16,733
Only I, the General, can touch.

905
01:27:16,803 --> 01:27:19,101
Do you want to see? Here.

906
01:27:19,172 --> 01:27:22,403
This is Cassandra, a half-caste.
She comes from the Harrison estate.

907
01:27:22,476 --> 01:27:25,070
She's the daughter of Zephira
and the great Meatto.

908
01:27:25,145 --> 01:27:30,106
Artemis, three-quarters human blood,
the firmest tits in the warehouse.

909
01:27:30,183 --> 01:27:34,677
$5,000, payment in cash,
comes with a two-year warranty.

910
01:27:34,755 --> 01:27:38,589
Vintage of 1848.
Imperial Reserve, white or Rosé,

911
01:27:38,658 --> 01:27:41,355
guaranteed by the consortium.

912
01:27:41,428 --> 01:27:44,955
This is Eva. You like apples, huh?

913
01:27:45,031 --> 01:27:48,524
Go ahead and eat them,
but stay away from any snakes.

914
01:27:49,402 --> 01:27:54,067
You've never seen anything like this.
Who cares if you've never seen it?

915
01:27:54,141 --> 01:27:59,602
That's enough, let's go. I don't have
time to waste. I'm the General.

916
01:27:59,679 --> 01:28:02,148
Open up!

917
01:28:02,849 --> 01:28:07,616
Come on, keep it up.
You clown, dance, move it!

918
01:28:07,687 --> 01:28:09,451
Go on, dance.

919
01:29:09,015 --> 01:29:10,574
No, no, no.

920
01:29:10,650 --> 01:29:14,109
Not like that, not like that, beasts,
Like this!

921
01:29:14,821 --> 01:29:17,586
I'll show you.

922
01:29:17,657 --> 01:29:21,719
Like this, not with your hips.
Move your ass!

923
01:29:33,373 --> 01:29:35,307
Open up, it's me.

924
01:29:35,976 --> 01:29:40,106
Oh, the Europeans. What an honor!

925
01:29:40,180 --> 01:29:43,445
I'm in a state, I'm afraid.
Look at my hands.

926
01:29:43,516 --> 01:29:46,247
Excuse the mess, but you should see
in what state they deliver them.

927
01:29:46,319 --> 01:29:49,311
Come on, take your places.
I go crazy getting them ready.

928
01:29:49,389 --> 01:29:51,824
They're in such demand that they
rip them out of my hands

929
01:29:51,892 --> 01:29:52,825
even before they're ready.

930
01:29:52,893 --> 01:29:55,385
I'm sorry, I don't have much time.

931
01:29:55,462 --> 01:30:00,628
I'm so busy. Come on, show yourselves
off to the gentlemen. Take a look.

932
01:30:00,700 --> 01:30:06,298
Not bad, eh? Try to guess the prices.
$500, $1,000, $1,500?

933
01:30:07,374 --> 01:30:11,072
No, $3,000, my dear gentlemen.

934
01:30:26,059 --> 01:30:27,549
Hewlett writes:

935
01:30:27,627 --> 01:30:32,656
"Pairs of male twins at a certain point
enjoyed a moment of great popularity,

936
01:30:32,732 --> 01:30:35,963
also because of
an ugly habit that became a fad.

937
01:30:36,036 --> 01:30:38,562
But due to the extreme rarity
of this particular merchandise,

938
01:30:38,638 --> 01:30:42,438
as there were many orders,
there were many tricksters."

939
01:30:42,509 --> 01:30:44,978
Tricksters? What are you talking about?

940
01:30:45,045 --> 01:30:47,343
This is a reputable establishment,
renowned throughout the south.

941
01:30:47,414 --> 01:30:48,939
Look at this pair, a rarity.

942
01:30:49,015 --> 01:30:52,144
- You faggot!
- Our clients can rest assured.

943
01:30:52,218 --> 01:30:55,882
These are two authentic Kelloggs.
Look, they're signed.

944
01:30:57,123 --> 01:31:00,354
Quiet. Open up, it's me,
the General.

945
01:31:01,328 --> 01:31:05,424
Come in, but no questions.
These should be in a museum.

946
01:31:05,498 --> 01:31:09,526
They're fit for a king.
Base price, $15,000.

947
01:31:10,637 --> 01:31:15,097
- What's so special about him?
- He's got three of them!

948
01:31:15,842 --> 01:31:21,576
One, two, three.
Three, three, three!

949
01:31:23,016 --> 01:31:28,648
Three, he has three, three!

950
01:31:36,563 --> 01:31:41,763
This one had six, including one
that broke and is now being repaired.

951
01:31:41,835 --> 01:31:44,133
They were all sold
to six different masters,

952
01:31:44,204 --> 01:31:47,037
and the mother killed herself
out of desperation.

953
01:31:47,107 --> 01:31:50,543
This is the most
important exhibit in the museum.

954
01:31:50,610 --> 01:31:54,740
In the wax museum of New Orleans,
among many statues of slaves in chains

955
01:31:54,814 --> 01:31:57,875
and of evil masters, the group
that today fascinates the tourists

956
01:31:57,951 --> 01:32:02,388
is the group of Madame La Laurie,
the most famous sadist of all time.

957
01:32:02,455 --> 01:32:04,014
We know that she was the wife
of a doctor,

958
01:32:04,090 --> 01:32:07,025
that she was a member
of the Creole high society in Louisiana,

959
01:32:07,093 --> 01:32:09,494
and that she had a good reputation

960
01:32:09,562 --> 01:32:12,657
until the day when the firemen,
who responded to a fire alarm,

961
01:32:12,732 --> 01:32:17,670
they went into the attic and found all
the evidence that enabled Judge Caldwell

962
01:32:17,737 --> 01:32:23,267
a nearly exact reconstruction
of how the respectable lady

963
01:32:23,343 --> 01:32:28,474
and her faithful helper, Caesar,
enjoyed their leisure time.

964
01:32:28,548 --> 01:32:29,743
Come.

965
01:32:32,652 --> 01:32:36,987
Caesar, Caesar, you've done it again.

966
01:32:37,891 --> 01:32:39,791
She died on me.

967
01:32:39,859 --> 01:32:44,387
Caesar, you really go too far.

968
01:32:44,464 --> 01:32:47,161
It's the third girl in a week.

969
01:32:48,701 --> 01:32:52,569
Don't be so upset.
I'll buy you another.

970
01:32:54,908 --> 01:32:59,937
But look at my partner, my dear,
sweet playmate.

971
01:33:00,013 --> 01:33:02,004
The lovely countess.

972
01:33:02,082 --> 01:33:05,052
She knows how to wait,

973
01:33:05,118 --> 01:33:08,611
how to postpone the divine
moment of the first drop of blood.

974
01:33:08,688 --> 01:33:13,125
Pleasure can wait, there's no hurry.

975
01:33:13,193 --> 01:33:14,661
We've given them opium.

976
01:33:14,727 --> 01:33:17,628
And now they're sleeping.
They've been sleeping for centuries.

977
01:33:17,697 --> 01:33:21,531
It's all ours, all we have to do
is reach out.

978
01:33:21,601 --> 01:33:25,435
We can take our pleasure quickly,
consuming it quickly, like Caesar does,

979
01:33:25,505 --> 01:33:28,475
or we can take it a little at a time,
allowing them to survive

980
01:33:28,541 --> 01:33:33,138
over a long, drawn-out, exhausting wait,

981
01:33:34,147 --> 01:33:39,176
tormented by desire, fed by her fear.

982
01:33:45,191 --> 01:33:48,217
What about you?
Aren't you afraid?

983
01:33:53,566 --> 01:33:57,264
No, you're not afraid,
my brave little cock.

984
01:34:00,206 --> 01:34:07,613
But don't worry, fear will come later,
when the pliers will bite you

985
01:34:07,680 --> 01:34:11,378
right there, where you now want me.

986
01:34:11,451 --> 01:34:15,581
In your country, when a Negro
dares to want a white woman,

987
01:34:15,655 --> 01:34:17,919
isn't this what you do to him?

988
01:34:19,526 --> 01:34:23,429
I don't know who you are,
nor where you come from,

989
01:34:24,898 --> 01:34:28,698
but don't you think the time I live in
is marvelous?

990
01:34:28,768 --> 01:34:33,171
All this lovely flesh is mine.
This body is mine.

991
01:34:34,607 --> 01:34:38,942
I can buy 10, 100, 1,000 of them,
ifl want to.

992
01:34:39,012 --> 01:34:43,040
Males, females,
little boys, little girls.

993
01:34:43,716 --> 01:34:46,413
I can consume them, corrupt them,

994
01:34:46,486 --> 01:34:50,650
enjoy them, destroy them.

995
01:34:55,995 --> 01:35:00,762
What are you waiting for, idiots?

996
01:35:00,833 --> 01:35:02,824
Come on, help yourselves.

997
01:35:02,902 --> 01:35:07,305
When will you ever have
another chance like this?

998
01:35:08,274 --> 01:35:11,266
In New Orleans such chances
were never lacking.

999
01:35:11,344 --> 01:35:14,314
If a gentleman received an invitation
to visit a friend who lived in the city

1000
01:35:14,380 --> 01:35:17,315
while the wife and children were
on vacation,

1001
01:35:17,383 --> 01:35:20,216
in addition to good food
and clean linen,

1002
01:35:20,286 --> 01:35:23,449
he could expect a comely Negress
to share his bed at night.

1003
01:35:23,523 --> 01:35:26,652
A refusal would insult the host.

1004
01:35:26,726 --> 01:35:29,286
This was just part of the rules
of hospitality,

1005
01:35:29,362 --> 01:35:31,729
for which the Mammy was responsible.

1006
01:35:44,744 --> 01:35:47,236
Get inline.

1007
01:35:48,147 --> 01:35:51,276
You, let me see your hands.

1008
01:35:51,351 --> 01:35:54,912
Your nails are like a pig's nails.
Go on, get washed up!

1009
01:35:56,122 --> 01:35:59,387
You, come here.
Let me smell you.

1010
01:36:01,461 --> 01:36:07,230
You smell like the goats in the barn.
Go, and wash with ashes.

1011
01:36:08,167 --> 01:36:11,501
You, open your mouth
and let me smell your breath.

1012
01:36:13,306 --> 01:36:18,506
You smell of garlic. Chew this,
it'll take away the stench of a hog.

1013
01:36:19,545 --> 01:36:24,676
You're usually clean. You hardly
smell at all. Good filly.

1014
01:36:24,751 --> 01:36:29,313
You, turn around.
You haven't been fucking, have you?

1015
01:36:33,426 --> 01:36:35,485
Spread your legs!

1016
01:36:39,165 --> 01:36:42,032
Sleeping with a black slave
every night was,

1017
01:36:42,101 --> 01:36:43,830
for all the white males of the house

1018
01:36:43,903 --> 01:36:48,033
fathers, sons and guests, a good hygienic
practice, like brushing your teeth.

1019
01:36:48,107 --> 01:36:50,303
As a pretext
they said it was healthy.

1020
01:36:50,376 --> 01:36:54,074
For the sons, it was supposed to be
a remedy for teenage acne.

1021
01:36:54,147 --> 01:36:57,913
And it was good for the husbands,
as the puritanical mores of the times

1022
01:36:57,984 --> 01:37:00,919
limited their access to their wives.

1023
01:37:00,987 --> 01:37:02,785
But, aside from health considerations,

1024
01:37:02,855 --> 01:37:05,017
let's find out how these slave girls
were in bed.

1025
01:37:08,061 --> 01:37:09,893
Just like the first cigar.

1026
01:37:09,962 --> 01:37:12,363
At first theres a horrible stench,
and you feel nauseous.

1027
01:37:12,432 --> 01:37:15,561
But by the third time you're hooked.

1028
01:37:15,635 --> 01:37:18,536
Harder on my back,
you know I like it.

1029
01:37:18,604 --> 01:37:21,733
Her mother was my first cigar.
I smoked her when I was ten.

1030
01:37:21,808 --> 01:37:25,335
I was terrified my father
would catch me in the act.

1031
01:37:25,411 --> 01:37:27,675
But when I realized that my father,
too, smoked,

1032
01:37:27,747 --> 01:37:29,374
well, I stopped being afraid,
and started to enjoy it.

1033
01:37:29,449 --> 01:37:33,545
Perhaps it's that gamy smell they have,
but I like them more than white ones.

1034
01:37:34,520 --> 01:37:37,751
If I can catch one,
I'll try to get her into bed.

1035
01:37:41,661 --> 01:37:43,789
But where will I find a white woman
around here?

1036
01:37:43,863 --> 01:37:45,922
Besides, my father says
it's not worth it.

1037
01:37:45,998 --> 01:37:50,595
They smell too, but like corpses.
He says they're bad for your health.

1038
01:37:51,437 --> 01:37:54,566
He's been bedding Negresses for
70 years, and he hasn't missed a beat.

1039
01:37:55,241 --> 01:37:57,903
He likes them big, especially
in the tit department.

1040
01:37:58,745 --> 01:38:01,271
Look at this merchandise.
Not bad, eh?

1041
01:38:01,347 --> 01:38:05,511
If you ignore them, you're playing
right into their hand.

1042
01:38:05,585 --> 01:38:08,486
You destroy them,
one night at a time.

1043
01:38:08,554 --> 01:38:13,014
At my age, it's starting to get
rather trying.

1044
01:38:13,092 --> 01:38:16,653
But with the help of divine
providence, and oysters,

1045
01:38:19,365 --> 01:38:21,231
I can still hold my own.

1046
01:38:27,707 --> 01:38:33,874
Mammy! Mammy!
Where are you, you black whore?

1047
01:38:33,946 --> 01:38:37,109
Where are you, Mammy?

1048
01:38:37,183 --> 01:38:40,050
- I'm coming, I'm coming.
- Mammy!

1049
01:38:40,720 --> 01:38:44,918
What's the matter, master?
Why are you angry?

1050
01:38:44,991 --> 01:38:49,428
You idiot. You have the gall to ask
why I'm angry, you asshole!

1051
01:38:49,495 --> 01:38:52,658
Did you, or did you not rip me off
by sending this idiot to my room?

1052
01:38:52,732 --> 01:38:55,292
Don't talk like that, master.

1053
01:38:55,368 --> 01:38:57,598
I've never ripped anyone off.

1054
01:38:57,670 --> 01:39:02,836
- She looks like a beautiful lover.
- What do I care at my age for beauty?

1055
01:39:02,909 --> 01:39:04,434
This filly is a virgin.

1056
01:39:04,510 --> 01:39:08,037
What do you expect me to do
with a virgin at my age, you idiot?

1057
01:39:08,114 --> 01:39:09,513
Take her back.

1058
01:39:09,582 --> 01:39:13,746
Don't talk like that, master.
Please, don't get mad. Wait.

1059
01:39:13,820 --> 01:39:18,553
I'll send you another filly,
one who's been broken in.

1060
01:39:21,194 --> 01:39:25,188
You should be ashamed of yourself,
you ugly whore.

1061
01:39:25,264 --> 01:39:28,461
When you came here, were you
really a virgin?

1062
01:39:28,534 --> 01:39:32,596
Or is the old man too old
to fuck anymore?

1063
01:39:32,672 --> 01:39:34,868
Are you really a virgin?

1064
01:39:37,210 --> 01:39:40,373
You whore, you whore!

1065
01:39:40,446 --> 01:39:44,246
Comeiin, child.
Comeonin.

1066
01:39:44,317 --> 01:39:49,221
Do you want me, master?
I asked for you. I'm clean.

1067
01:39:49,288 --> 01:39:51,950
- I'm also a virgin.
- What are you saying, child?

1068
01:39:52,625 --> 01:39:55,094
- How old are you?
- I'm thirteen.

1069
01:39:55,161 --> 01:39:58,893
- You're just a child.
- I'm thirteen, Mammy says.

1070
01:39:58,965 --> 01:40:04,165
You mean that here, girls like you—
Where I come from we don't do this.

1071
01:40:04,237 --> 01:40:07,263
- I'm not from here.
- Do you want this first?

1072
01:40:07,340 --> 01:40:10,469
Mammy says that if whites don't play
with the whip first,

1073
01:40:10,543 --> 01:40:13,069
they can't get it up to fuck a woman.

1074
01:40:13,145 --> 01:40:14,078
What are you saying?

1075
01:40:14,146 --> 01:40:16,513
The stranger is the journalist
Malcolm Fawcett,

1076
01:40:16,582 --> 01:40:19,552
and this conversation was excerpted
from his experiences in Louisiana.

1077
01:40:19,619 --> 01:40:23,419
It refers to his first night in Mobile,
in the home of Mr. Charleston,

1078
01:40:23,489 --> 01:40:25,617
a planter,
whose guest he was for a week.

1079
01:40:25,691 --> 01:40:29,821
Please, master, don't send me away.

1080
01:40:29,896 --> 01:40:32,092
- Do me this favor.
- Don't raise your voice.

1081
01:40:32,164 --> 01:40:34,155
Mammy will be angry
if I stay a virgin.

1082
01:40:34,233 --> 01:40:37,931
- Please, join me.
- What do you mean, right here?

1083
01:40:38,771 --> 01:40:43,504
Your bed is so big,
and I am so small.

1084
01:40:43,576 --> 01:40:47,706
If I take my dress off, I don't smell.

1085
01:40:47,780 --> 01:40:51,774
You know, I washed my whole body.

1086
01:40:51,851 --> 01:40:57,449
I don't smell, master.
If you're tired though, for real,

1087
01:40:57,523 --> 01:41:02,757
- I'll let you sleep.
- Sleep. It would be hard now, child.

1088
01:41:02,828 --> 01:41:08,392
It would be too bad, though, master.
I like you.

1089
01:41:08,467 --> 01:41:10,731
"I wanted to dissuade her,"
writes Fawcett,

1090
01:41:10,803 --> 01:41:14,296
"even though, knowing the custom,
I realized I was being rude.

1091
01:41:14,373 --> 01:41:18,571
But when I recommended that she turn
to a young man of her same condition —"

1092
01:41:18,644 --> 01:41:24,640
You mean with a Negro?
No, I don't like Negroes.

1093
01:41:25,151 --> 01:41:31,318
No, Negroes disgust me.
I tried once with a Negro.

1094
01:41:31,390 --> 01:41:36,692
He hurt me so much.
He was so big.

1095
01:41:37,363 --> 01:41:38,387
You know,

1096
01:41:38,464 --> 01:41:44,096
White men
are much smaller, master.

1097
01:41:44,170 --> 01:41:48,630
It's much better
for a beginner like me.

1098
01:41:48,708 --> 01:41:52,406
White men don't smell like Negroes.

1099
01:41:54,246 --> 01:41:58,740
Do me the favor,

1100
01:41:58,818 --> 01:42:03,483
master, please.

1101
01:42:03,556 --> 01:42:07,493
Yes, like that, master.
Yes.

1102
01:42:40,693 --> 01:42:44,425
This awful book from Boston goes on
to spread even more filth. Listen.

1103
01:42:44,497 --> 01:42:48,661
"As for the southern ladies,
their famous virtue

1104
01:42:48,734 --> 01:42:52,762
is greatly devalued by the fact that
they have no choice in the matter."

1105
01:42:52,838 --> 01:42:56,706
Listen to this.
"How could they not be virtuous,

1106
01:42:56,776 --> 01:43:01,145
since their men would much rather
go with colored girls?"

1107
01:43:01,213 --> 01:43:04,649
- I can't believe it.
- "The truth is that these women

1108
01:43:04,717 --> 01:43:08,779
can get no satisfaction from either
husbands or potential lovers,

1109
01:43:08,854 --> 01:43:13,121
as these are too often occupied with
the comely slaves on the plantation."

1110
01:43:13,192 --> 01:43:17,356
The horror! How could someone write
such venomous nonsense?

1111
01:43:17,430 --> 01:43:21,799
It's all shameless political propaganda.
What do they know of the Negroes,

1112
01:43:21,867 --> 01:43:24,996
those pencil pushers from Boston
and Philadelphia?

1113
01:43:25,071 --> 01:43:30,441
Nothing. But envy, prejudice and malice
induce them to try to humiliate us

1114
01:43:30,509 --> 01:43:32,739
in every way possible.

1115
01:43:32,812 --> 01:43:36,715
My God, how could they insult
our husbands like this? Our men?

1116
01:43:36,782 --> 01:43:38,113
It's absolutely disgraceful.

1117
01:43:38,184 --> 01:43:42,348
Goodness, accusing our men
of fornicating with slaves

1118
01:43:42,421 --> 01:43:45,618
is like saying that they're copulating
with animals.

1119
01:43:45,691 --> 01:43:49,628
It's nothing less than
an accusation of sexual aberration.

1120
01:43:49,695 --> 01:43:53,359
The phenomenon of abnormal mating
between whites and Negroes

1121
01:43:53,432 --> 01:43:58,632
has a scientific name: Bestiality.

1122
01:43:58,704 --> 01:44:00,229
- It's disgraceful!
- Lies!

1123
01:44:00,306 --> 01:44:04,834
As if we didn't know all too well where
our husbands take their incontinence!

1124
01:44:04,910 --> 01:44:08,608
Every Friday night —
but what am I saying?

1125
01:44:09,749 --> 01:44:14,118
I'm sorry, my friends, but we shouldn't
speak so clearly in front of them.

1126
01:44:14,186 --> 01:44:17,178
Don't worry, my dear. I've noticed
a tendency among our slaves

1127
01:44:17,256 --> 01:44:20,783
a general tendency to develop
a lighter skin tone.

1128
01:44:20,860 --> 01:44:23,056
As time goes by, they become
lighter and lighter.

1129
01:44:23,129 --> 01:44:27,930
But their mentality, intelligence
and sensitivity are those of animals.

1130
01:44:28,000 --> 01:44:31,459
It's true, each generation
is lighter than the previous one.

1131
01:44:31,537 --> 01:44:34,871
In my house there have been
a few pink Negro babies, even.

1132
01:44:34,940 --> 01:44:37,375
My husband says that this
phenomenon is called —

1133
01:44:37,443 --> 01:44:43,439
Symbiosis. The scientific term
is symbiosis. Your husband is right.

1134
01:44:43,516 --> 01:44:47,248
It's like those creatures that take on
the color of their habitat.

1135
01:44:47,319 --> 01:44:50,755
You're right, dear.
Take Scipio, for example.

1136
01:44:50,823 --> 01:44:53,053
He's left-handed, like my brother.

1137
01:44:53,125 --> 01:44:54,593
Or take Jason, here.

1138
01:44:54,660 --> 01:44:57,561
My husband raised him personally
from when he was a child.

1139
01:44:57,630 --> 01:45:00,691
And now, incredibly, he's almost
as blond as my husband.

1140
01:45:01,867 --> 01:45:04,700
Nature is truly bizarre.

1141
01:45:25,558 --> 01:45:30,086
Here it is, my Negro factory.
You get the general idea down there.

1142
01:45:30,796 --> 01:45:34,755
Business was going downhill.
Cotton and tobacco were in crisis.

1143
01:45:34,834 --> 01:45:40,295
So I got up my courage and transformed
the plantation into a stud farm.

1144
01:45:40,372 --> 01:45:42,306
And I have to say it's worked out well

1145
01:45:42,374 --> 01:45:45,537
because the new law that prohibits
importing Negroes from Africa

1146
01:45:45,611 --> 01:45:48,581
has practically doubled
the price of slaves.

1147
01:45:48,647 --> 01:45:50,775
- And so, after everything--
- Hey, Pa!

1148
01:45:52,785 --> 01:45:55,152
Mr. Wilson's here!

1149
01:45:59,425 --> 01:46:02,156
Hello Mr. Bighorn.
I've brought the Negress.

1150
01:46:02,228 --> 01:46:05,061
Here she is.
Did you count the days well?

1151
01:46:06,131 --> 01:46:09,999
- Are you completely sure she's in heat?
- Of course she's in heat.

1152
01:46:10,069 --> 01:46:12,197
She's perfectly ready for breeding.

1153
01:46:12,271 --> 01:46:15,172
If we give her to the male right away,
he'll certainly go right for her.

1154
01:46:15,241 --> 01:46:16,367
Okay.

1155
01:46:16,442 --> 01:46:18,240
How many days has it been
since the bleeding stopped?

1156
01:46:19,445 --> 01:46:23,404
My wife counted 12.
With the trip, that makes 13.

1157
01:46:23,482 --> 01:46:27,476
If you let me breed her right away, I'll
be out of your hair within two hours.

1158
01:46:27,553 --> 01:46:28,816
Can I have her, Pa?

1159
01:46:28,888 --> 01:46:31,255
we'll talk about that
after the examination.

1160
01:46:31,323 --> 01:46:33,382
For now, do your homework.

1161
01:46:35,427 --> 01:46:37,293
- Is she healthy?
- Of course.

1162
01:46:37,363 --> 01:46:39,457
- She doesn't have crabs?
- What are you saying?

1163
01:46:39,531 --> 01:46:40,930
We always kept her at home.

1164
01:46:42,668 --> 01:46:44,932
- Oh, so she's a virgin.
- Of course.

1165
01:46:45,004 --> 01:46:46,494
You know that we've been saving her
for Jason.

1166
01:46:46,572 --> 01:46:50,634
What?
Avirgin for such a stallion?

1167
01:46:51,677 --> 01:46:54,078
He'll rip her innards apart.

1168
01:46:54,880 --> 01:46:58,180
If he does, you can sew her up again.
Don't worry.

1169
01:46:58,250 --> 01:47:01,447
You know I could breed this one
for at least $50.

1170
01:47:01,520 --> 01:47:02,646
And right at home, too.

1171
01:47:02,721 --> 01:47:05,281
If I've made 60 Negroes
and paid 200 for it

1172
01:47:05,357 --> 01:47:07,758
it's because I like Jason's line.

1173
01:47:07,826 --> 01:47:10,158
- Okay.
- Let's go.

1174
01:47:10,229 --> 01:47:13,324
You know full well
you won't find another one like this.

1175
01:47:13,399 --> 01:47:16,664
Well done!
But that's your business.

1176
01:47:16,735 --> 01:47:19,432
Hey stallion!
Hey three-legged stallion!

1177
01:47:19,505 --> 01:47:20,495
Hi General.

1178
01:47:23,175 --> 01:47:24,734
How's your father's arthritis?

1179
01:47:24,810 --> 01:47:28,144
He's been doing much better since
getting Negro compresses on his legs.

1180
01:47:28,213 --> 01:47:29,840
You're right, Mr. Bighorn.

1181
01:47:29,915 --> 01:47:33,078
Strong wine and dark meat
cure arthritis, nice and neat.

1182
01:47:33,152 --> 01:47:33,948
That's right.

1183
01:47:34,019 --> 01:47:37,216
But then I'll find myself with
a whole litter with arthritis.

1184
01:47:37,289 --> 01:47:38,518
Hey Wilson, look there!

1185
01:47:38,590 --> 01:47:40,524
- Where?
- Over there, up ahead, that glass.

1186
01:47:40,592 --> 01:47:41,582
Why?

1187
01:47:41,660 --> 01:47:44,857
Those journalists always want us
to look in that glass.

1188
01:47:45,798 --> 01:47:48,199
Go wait for me in the barn.
I'll be right there.

1189
01:47:48,267 --> 01:47:48,995
Okay.

1190
01:47:49,068 --> 01:47:50,968
First I have to deal with
these gentlemen.

1191
01:47:53,172 --> 01:47:57,040
Bring me some more sugar cane!

1192
01:48:01,547 --> 01:48:05,643
They're almost all vintage "43.
A very good year.

1193
01:48:05,718 --> 01:48:08,710
I only lost 25%.

1194
01:48:08,787 --> 01:48:13,418
It's usually 40-60%,
especially from German measles,

1195
01:48:13,492 --> 01:48:16,553
which is nothing when it comes to
human blood, but it wipes them out.

1196
01:48:17,229 --> 01:48:19,027
Why are there so many blondes?

1197
01:48:19,098 --> 01:48:21,157
What you want me to say?

1198
01:48:21,233 --> 01:48:24,828
One or another might be mine.
Lots of them are my brother's.

1199
01:48:24,903 --> 01:48:26,837
Some are from the priest.

1200
01:48:26,905 --> 01:48:30,341
Some are from some guests
who were passing through.

1201
01:48:30,409 --> 01:48:34,744
Okay, enough, don't be greedy.

1202
01:48:40,986 --> 01:48:44,115
These are the breeding females.

1203
01:48:44,189 --> 01:48:47,250
With the new stallions Auze and Mandico
that I bought three years ago,

1204
01:48:47,326 --> 01:48:51,024
I've been successful with 86% of them.

1205
01:48:51,096 --> 01:48:55,397
With an interval between productions
of less than 60 days.

1206
01:48:55,467 --> 01:48:59,370
Hey, where are you?
Come over here, look at this one!

1207
01:49:00,305 --> 01:49:03,468
The black pearl of the ranch.
Seven sets of twins in six years.

1208
01:49:07,146 --> 01:49:10,138
And I'm sure that this time, too,
there are two inside.

1209
01:49:10,215 --> 01:49:13,150
This heifer alone
is worth a fortune.

1210
01:49:15,788 --> 01:49:19,656
Come in, come onin.
Damn, you're in luck.

1211
01:49:19,725 --> 01:49:22,626
Come inside and see
how a little bastard is born.

1212
01:49:33,472 --> 01:49:35,133
Fine, isn't he?

1213
01:49:35,207 --> 01:49:37,642
He must be six or seven pounds at least.

1214
01:49:37,709 --> 01:49:40,576
You know something? I'm going to
dedicate this one to you guys.

1215
01:49:40,646 --> 01:49:42,546
I'm going to call him "Macaroni".

1216
01:49:43,549 --> 01:49:45,108
Bravo, Cleopatra.
Who's the male?

1217
01:49:45,184 --> 01:49:47,653
- Me no know.
- What do mean you don't know?

1218
01:49:47,719 --> 01:49:48,777
Me no know.

1219
01:49:48,854 --> 01:49:51,687
They breed me first with Pluto,
then with four other males.

1220
01:49:51,757 --> 01:49:53,384
Me no know.

1221
01:49:53,459 --> 01:49:57,418
It doesn't matter.
You've done a good job.

1222
01:49:59,264 --> 01:50:01,733
See what respect the master has?

1223
01:50:02,468 --> 01:50:05,403
It's the reward.
One dollar per pup.

1224
01:50:06,105 --> 01:50:07,698
Family tradition.

1225
01:50:10,242 --> 01:50:12,768
Another beloved tradition
among breeders

1226
01:50:12,845 --> 01:50:16,042
is presenting new prized breeds
every year at the big fair in the south

1227
01:50:16,115 --> 01:50:19,210
which, like fine horses,
carry the name of their family.

1228
01:50:19,284 --> 01:50:25,189
The Bighorn breed, celebrated for
the precociousness of its females

1229
01:50:25,257 --> 01:50:27,157
which can be bred
by their 10th year

1230
01:50:27,226 --> 01:50:31,026
earned its owner two gold medals
at the Jackson fair.

1231
01:50:31,096 --> 01:50:33,292
Hey, bring me Poppea.

1232
01:50:36,235 --> 01:50:38,101
I said Poppeal!

1233
01:50:39,972 --> 01:50:41,337
No, you imbeciles.

1234
01:50:41,406 --> 01:50:44,103
That one's pregnant.
Drop her.

1235
01:50:51,250 --> 01:50:53,309
No, that one.

1236
01:50:53,385 --> 01:50:58,255
Here in Louisiana, the breeding ratio
is one male to every five females.

1237
01:50:58,323 --> 01:50:59,347
But in Virginia,

1238
01:50:59,424 --> 01:51:03,952
a great specialist of the time
declares the ideal ratio

1239
01:51:04,029 --> 01:51:05,827
to be one male for eight females.

1240
01:51:05,898 --> 01:51:10,062
In fact, on this basis Virginia produced
more than 6000 Negroes per year.

1241
01:51:10,135 --> 01:51:12,934
It was the Golden Age
in which the great breeding plantations

1242
01:51:13,005 --> 01:51:17,374
such as the famous North Carolina planter
were even quoted on the stock market.

1243
01:51:18,477 --> 01:51:23,347
Now tell me if it doesn't take talent
to invent a breed like this.

1244
01:51:28,086 --> 01:51:31,852
You see, to create a hybrid,
the breeder combines the various races

1245
01:51:31,924 --> 01:51:33,414
as an artist does
with the colors of his palette.

1246
01:51:33,492 --> 01:51:35,654
A little white here,
a little black there

1247
01:51:35,727 --> 01:51:38,287
a pinch of red
and the smidgen of yellow.

1248
01:51:38,363 --> 01:51:41,389
Until something comes forth
that's not black, not white,

1249
01:51:41,466 --> 01:51:42,900
not red, not yellow.

1250
01:51:42,968 --> 01:51:44,367
It's a masterpiece.

1251
01:51:49,107 --> 01:51:51,041
Get him!

1252
01:51:54,079 --> 01:51:55,638
A slave trying to escape.

1253
01:51:55,714 --> 01:51:57,739
No, he's afraid
of the branding.

1254
01:51:57,816 --> 01:52:00,285
It always happens
with the new stallions.

1255
01:52:00,352 --> 01:52:04,846
At the 18th birthday,
on the eve of his first services

1256
01:52:04,923 --> 01:52:08,757
the new stallion is branded with fire
with a conventional mark

1257
01:52:08,827 --> 01:52:12,388
that prevents mistakes and confusion
in the breeding registry.

1258
01:52:16,168 --> 01:52:18,899
- Are you ready, Wilson? Can we go?
- I was waiting for you.

1259
01:52:18,971 --> 01:52:21,497
- And the heifer?
- Ready.

1260
01:52:21,573 --> 01:52:23,598
Okay then.
Bring her along.

1261
01:52:24,476 --> 01:52:25,500
Get back!

1262
01:52:26,411 --> 01:52:27,970
Fine, Casanova, fine.

1263
01:52:28,046 --> 01:52:31,414
These stallions! Just let them
catch the scent of a female!

1264
01:52:32,751 --> 01:52:35,618
They have more semen
than four teams of oxen.

1265
01:52:36,688 --> 01:52:40,682
Did you know they offered me
$4500 each?

1266
01:53:01,346 --> 01:53:04,077
Here hes,
our oldest stud.

1267
01:53:04,149 --> 01:53:07,380
Two hundred pounds of muscle
and not a single ounce the fat.

1268
01:53:08,220 --> 01:53:11,815
And this devil's good for at least
20 shots a day.

1269
01:53:13,358 --> 01:53:14,951
With these tanks!

1270
01:53:16,461 --> 01:53:18,862
- Is the heifer ready, Wilson?
- Ready, Mr. Bighorn.

1271
01:53:18,930 --> 01:53:22,127
Okay, then, bring her in.

1272
01:53:24,503 --> 01:53:26,972
Hey, Wilson.
I told you.

1273
01:53:27,039 --> 01:53:30,669
Be careful.
But it's your business.

1274
01:53:30,742 --> 01:53:33,370
Don't you worry.

1275
01:53:33,445 --> 01:53:35,812
I'll take care of it.

1276
01:54:21,993 --> 01:54:24,860
That's enough, Jason.
Stop!

1277
01:54:24,930 --> 01:54:26,489
Get some water.
Quick!

1278
01:55:14,880 --> 01:55:17,247
"Your honor,
my name is Nat Turner.

1279
01:55:17,315 --> 01:55:20,910
I intend to provide you
with a full confession of my crimes.

1280
01:55:29,928 --> 01:55:34,263
On August 21st, 1831,
55 whites were massacred

1281
01:55:34,332 --> 01:55:36,960
as a result of my doing
and that of 70 other slaves.

1282
01:55:43,875 --> 01:55:46,469
My deep-seated hatred
of the whites was--"

1283
01:55:48,113 --> 01:55:50,309
"My deep-seated hatred
of the whites was--"

1284
01:55:50,382 --> 01:55:52,316
Damned idiots!

1285
01:55:54,119 --> 01:56:00,058
"Deep-seated hatred came from God,
who ordered me to kill them."

1286
01:56:00,125 --> 01:56:04,756
Let's see, 1831.

1287
01:56:04,830 --> 01:56:09,165
If Cleaver, Leroy Jones, Malcolm X,
had lived 140 years ago

1288
01:56:09,234 --> 01:56:12,693
they too, like Nat Turner,
would have fallen into hating whites

1289
01:56:12,771 --> 01:56:16,366
men, women, children who were there
by God's orders.

1290
01:56:17,209 --> 01:56:21,806
The slave Cleaver, like the slave Turner,
certainly never would have dared imagine

1291
01:56:21,880 --> 01:56:24,815
that the order would come to them
directly from within.

1292
01:56:28,086 --> 01:56:32,114
"The evening of August 21st,
we lined up single file in the cornfield.

1293
01:56:32,190 --> 01:56:34,557
We came out
right in front of the Travis house.

1294
01:56:34,626 --> 01:56:37,926
The night before,
God had clearly given me the sign

1295
01:56:37,996 --> 01:56:40,658
that this would be our first target.

1296
01:56:40,732 --> 01:56:43,201
We knew that inside
was the little Travis,

1297
01:56:46,938 --> 01:56:48,838
his wife Sarah,"

1298
01:56:50,141 --> 01:56:54,100
Who knows if the whites in those days
were like those of today?

1299
01:56:54,179 --> 01:56:56,841
Or rather,
who knows if the whites of today

1300
01:56:56,915 --> 01:57:00,180
would have been like those back then
if Nat Turner had never existed?

1301
01:57:04,022 --> 01:57:06,855
Would they have allowed me
to attend their schools,

1302
01:57:06,925 --> 01:57:10,156
to become a doctor,
to earn $2000 a week,

1303
01:57:10,228 --> 01:57:14,392
to have a beautiful house, a wife,
a healthy, well-fed baby?

1304
01:57:16,968 --> 01:57:22,737
"Nelson, Sam, Jack, Hark and I silently
climbed in the living room window.

1305
01:57:22,807 --> 01:57:25,708
Will, who was bringing up the rear,
took a false step

1306
01:57:25,777 --> 01:57:27,905
and tumbled onto the table
that was still set.

1307
01:57:34,185 --> 01:57:36,916
I was afraid old Travis had woken up

1308
01:57:36,988 --> 01:57:40,219
since Will kept making
an infernal racket.

1309
01:57:45,030 --> 01:57:48,398
Instead, old Travis was still asleep
next to his wife

1310
01:57:48,466 --> 01:57:52,027
when Sam and Jack
moved forward on tiptoe.

1311
01:57:52,103 --> 01:57:54,435
His sleep was deep and peaceful

1312
01:57:54,506 --> 01:57:57,441
as evidenced by
that deep, rhythmic snoring

1313
01:57:57,509 --> 01:58:00,103
that I had known since my childhood.

1314
01:58:04,583 --> 01:58:08,315
So Sam and Jack moved forward.

1315
01:58:09,020 --> 01:58:11,717
That old man
who had practically raised me

1316
01:58:11,790 --> 01:58:14,316
and had been
a tolerant and kindly master

1317
01:58:14,392 --> 01:58:18,158
was nevertheless a white man
and, as such, had to die.

1318
01:58:21,099 --> 01:58:25,730
Grandpa Travis, like all whites,
had never dreamed that a slave,

1319
01:58:25,804 --> 01:58:28,273
a meek creature
without courage or dignity

1320
01:58:28,340 --> 01:58:30,866
could ever one day
rebel against a master.

1321
01:58:30,942 --> 01:58:34,242
So it was perhaps only disbelief

1322
01:58:34,312 --> 01:58:39,307
that dominated his mind
still clouded with sleep, when--"

1323
01:59:14,819 --> 01:59:15,809
"We were about--"

1324
01:59:18,757 --> 01:59:22,159
"We were about to leave the house
when Hark, on the run was called--"

1325
01:59:23,028 --> 01:59:26,487
"was called back by the cry
of the children whom we had forgotten."

1326
01:59:36,007 --> 01:59:37,941
"After the murder of the Travis family

1327
01:59:38,009 --> 01:59:40,944
our second goal was
the extermination of the Reeses."

1328
01:59:41,613 --> 01:59:43,581
Oh, it's those idiots again.

1329
01:59:43,648 --> 01:59:45,309
"After the murder of the Travis family

1330
01:59:45,383 --> 01:59:47,647
our second goal was
the extermination of the Reeses.

1331
01:59:47,719 --> 01:59:50,120
Reese was a dull-witted, cruel master

1332
01:59:50,188 --> 01:59:52,589
who amused himself
by tormenting his Negroes...

1333
01:59:55,293 --> 01:59:57,193
with every sort of stupid prank.

1334
01:59:57,262 --> 02:00:00,664
His wife and sister-in-law,
two dull-witted, insignificant women

1335
02:00:00,732 --> 02:00:04,965
encouraged those vapid stunts
with little hysterical--"

1336
02:00:06,037 --> 02:00:07,027
Buffoon!

1337
02:00:07,939 --> 02:00:13,935
"With little hysterical, shrill cries
that pierced the ears like daggers.

1338
02:00:15,714 --> 02:00:19,708
It was in front of their house that I
swore to never again disobey God's orders

1339
02:00:19,784 --> 02:00:22,151
and to also spill my share of blood.

1340
02:00:22,220 --> 02:00:23,187
I hated Reese

1341
02:00:23,254 --> 02:00:27,555
and one day he involved me, too,
in one of his humiliating, vulgar pranks.

1342
02:00:27,625 --> 02:00:32,358
I could have refused to rebel.
But how could, a slave--"

1343
02:00:45,744 --> 02:00:50,443
"I could have refused to rebel.
But how could I, a slave?

1344
02:00:54,986 --> 02:00:57,819
Reese was a dull-witted, cruel master."

1345
02:02:18,236 --> 02:02:20,534
Nat Turner didn't kill out of hate.

1346
02:02:20,605 --> 02:02:23,438
He killed out of love
between the columns of that big house.

1347
02:02:24,209 --> 02:02:26,906
Who knows why, for us Negroes,
this story never loses its value?

1348
02:02:26,978 --> 02:02:31,472
Well, Nat Turner,
the pious Nat Turner, biblical fanatic

1349
02:02:31,549 --> 02:02:34,814
almost a tutor to little Margaret,
but nevertheless a Negro

1350
02:02:34,886 --> 02:02:39,847
and thus not suspected of desiring that
white girl who hung around him all day,

1351
02:02:47,031 --> 02:02:50,262
who excited him in a thousand ways
without even realizing it.

1352
02:02:50,335 --> 02:02:52,929
Where are you, Nat?
Come here, Nat.

1353
02:02:53,004 --> 02:02:54,972
Here's something new.

1354
02:02:55,039 --> 02:02:56,529
It's beautiful!

1355
02:02:56,608 --> 02:02:58,599
Come on, Nat.
Get me that rose.

1356
02:02:58,676 --> 02:03:01,509
No, no.
Not the silk one!

1357
02:03:01,579 --> 02:03:02,876
The bright one, Nat.

1358
02:03:02,947 --> 02:03:04,642
There, see!
Now here we are, the two of us.

1359
02:03:04,716 --> 02:03:08,653
She and Nat.
Almost in skin contact.

1360
02:03:09,554 --> 02:03:14,856
The wind in that blond hair, that
white neck that he desired so badly.

1361
02:03:17,295 --> 02:03:19,787
"Hey Nat," she said to me one day

1362
02:03:19,864 --> 02:03:24,097
as her closeness and her youthful
scent of lavender made me stiff.

1363
02:03:24,168 --> 02:03:29,663
"Nat, why are Negroes
born so wretched?"

1364
02:03:29,741 --> 02:03:34,542
"Why, in this warm spring,
are they only fallen flowers?"

1365
02:03:49,227 --> 02:03:51,958
Let's take a look.
140 years later.

1366
02:03:52,030 --> 02:03:55,660
If I were to fall in love
with that white girl.

1367
02:03:55,733 --> 02:03:59,169
In love to the point of not being able
to do any less than what she's doing now.

1368
02:03:59,237 --> 02:04:00,227
To want her.

1369
02:04:00,305 --> 02:04:03,866
But just because I'm a Negro,
like Nat Turner--

1370
02:04:05,777 --> 02:04:08,041
I can just imagine the scene!

1371
02:04:08,112 --> 02:04:10,137
Sir, 'm Dr. Nat Turner.

1372
02:04:10,214 --> 02:04:13,115
I love your daughter
and I intend to marry her.

1373
02:04:32,470 --> 02:04:36,737
Margaret had just returned from
Southampton College for summer vacation

1374
02:04:36,808 --> 02:04:41,746
when we decided that the Whitehead house
would be our next target.

1375
02:04:42,413 --> 02:04:45,144
We advanced,
remaining hidden in the oak forest

1376
02:04:45,216 --> 02:04:47,446
that surrounded the house
on three sides.

1377
02:04:47,518 --> 02:04:50,510
When we saw the father so overjoyed
at the arrival of his daughter...

1378
02:04:57,095 --> 02:05:01,692
and so absorbed in demonstrating
all his joy as to not notice us--

1379
02:05:40,438 --> 02:05:42,031
I was looking for Margaret.

1380
02:05:42,106 --> 02:05:45,542
She was hiding behind
a corner of the house.

1381
02:05:45,610 --> 02:05:48,079
When I finally saw her,
she ran away...

1382
02:05:50,081 --> 02:05:53,984
as light and fast as a deer,
through the cornfield.

1383
02:05:56,721 --> 02:05:59,986
I ran after the glint
of that flowing hair in the sun

1384
02:06:01,993 --> 02:06:05,327
after the gleam
of that face looking back.

1385
02:06:06,697 --> 02:06:09,291
She ran faster than I did.

1386
02:06:09,367 --> 02:06:11,131
But I caught up.

1387
02:06:11,202 --> 02:06:12,692
I must! I must!

1388
02:06:15,807 --> 02:06:17,400
I must kill you!

1389
02:06:20,912 --> 02:06:24,871
Because I love you!
Because you're white!

1390
02:06:27,151 --> 02:06:28,983
White!

1391
02:06:40,565 --> 02:06:44,433
"Your honor,
before condemning me to the gallows

1392
02:06:44,502 --> 02:06:46,368
you asked if I felt remorse.

1393
02:06:47,805 --> 02:06:53,437
Well, completely at peace and tranquil,
I answer you that if I could go back--"

1394
02:08:51,963 --> 02:08:54,933
Peace, peace, peace.

1395
02:08:54,999 --> 02:08:57,730
I'm a Negro like you,
an ex-slave like you.

1396
02:08:57,802 --> 02:09:00,737
But today I've dealt with the whites,
and I'm speaking with their permission.

1397
02:09:00,805 --> 02:09:03,001
And this is a police car.

1398
02:09:03,841 --> 02:09:06,936
If you think I'm a traitor,
then shoot me.

1399
02:09:08,412 --> 02:09:11,871
But first listen
to what I have to say.

1400
02:09:11,949 --> 02:09:15,943
Slavery was not our disgrace.
It is our glory.

1401
02:09:16,020 --> 02:09:18,648
We must not soil it with revenge.

1402
02:09:19,590 --> 02:09:22,651
In every plan that the racist attempts
to search for an alibi

1403
02:09:22,727 --> 02:09:25,890
for his evil conscience
towards the Negro

1404
02:09:26,697 --> 02:09:31,259
all that's necessary is one broken window
to make him feel absolved of his guilt.

1405
02:09:31,936 --> 02:09:34,769
When we allow ourselves to bend
before the white man's hatred

1406
02:09:34,839 --> 02:09:36,864
we're playing his game.

1407
02:09:36,941 --> 02:09:39,342
We're also playing the game
of the white communists

1408
02:09:39,410 --> 02:09:42,937
who want to make use of us
to destroy America.

1409
02:09:43,614 --> 02:09:45,104
We don't love America,

1410
02:09:45,182 --> 02:09:48,083
but neither do we want to be used
to destroy it.

1411
02:09:49,086 --> 02:09:52,784
We Negroes must not fall into
the same errors that the whites make.

1412
02:09:52,857 --> 02:09:56,259
We must not respond
to their old white racism

1413
02:09:56,327 --> 02:09:58,261
with a new black racism.

1414
02:09:59,263 --> 02:10:01,960
To the recent events
that have made us understand,

1415
02:10:02,033 --> 02:10:06,903
we must respond
peace, peace, peace.

1416
02:10:45,443 --> 02:10:49,004
On one side, the north
that wanted to abolish slavery.

1417
02:10:49,080 --> 02:10:51,208
On the other,
the south that wanted to keep it.

1418
02:10:51,282 --> 02:10:55,742
So the war to liberate slaves
cost America one million dead.

1419
02:10:55,820 --> 02:10:59,950
Today, the American public assisting in
the reenactment of the battle of Shiloh

1420
02:11:00,024 --> 02:11:01,822
doesn't root for anyone.

1421
02:11:01,892 --> 02:11:03,417
They enjoy the show.

1422
02:11:03,494 --> 02:11:06,589
Northern and southern combatants
are interchangeable.

1423
02:11:06,664 --> 02:11:08,723
It just depends upon
the color of the uniform.

1424
02:11:08,799 --> 02:11:13,293
The anonymous slavery society
closed the books a hundred years ago.

1425
02:11:13,371 --> 02:11:14,702
And the accounts are balanced.

1426
02:11:14,772 --> 02:11:17,104
For every imported slave,
one American death.

1427
02:11:17,174 --> 02:11:18,903
The wounded don't count.

1428
02:11:18,976 --> 02:11:21,274
Here's one that ended up in bad shape.

1429
02:11:21,345 --> 02:11:23,905
A northern uniform.
So he wanted it this way, right?

1430
02:11:24,915 --> 02:11:27,213
Of course.
Say cheese!

1431
02:11:27,284 --> 02:11:28,615
Today, everyone's smiling,

1432
02:11:28,686 --> 02:11:30,780
dead and wounded,
victor and vanquished.

1433
02:11:30,855 --> 02:11:34,382
It's wonderful to return home
on this splendid day in May

1434
02:11:34,458 --> 02:11:38,952
and to take a nice shower
to wash away all of the dust of the past.

1435
02:13:00,244 --> 02:13:03,874
THIS FILM IS A DOCUMENTARY.

1436
02:13:03,948 --> 02:13:09,387
THE EVENTS OCCURRED IN HISTORY
AND THE CHARACTERS REALLY EXISTED.