1 00:00:06,070 --> 00:00:08,323 I had this dream the other night. 2 00:00:08,364 --> 00:00:11,478 I was in church and they was having a funeral for me. 3 00:00:11,525 --> 00:00:13,827 There was two coffins. 4 00:00:13,870 --> 00:00:15,872 And both of them was me. 5 00:00:16,830 --> 00:00:18,957 In one coffin was my heart, beating, 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,003 and all my veins and blood was moving around, 7 00:00:22,045 --> 00:00:23,843 but with no body. 8 00:00:24,684 --> 00:00:27,357 Looked like some sort of sea creature. 9 00:00:28,092 --> 00:00:30,970 Then in the other coffin was my body. 10 00:00:31,012 --> 00:00:33,723 Uh, skin, muscles, brain and lungs. 11 00:00:33,765 --> 00:00:35,266 My eyes was empty. 12 00:00:35,308 --> 00:00:37,477 The lungs were still trying to breathe. 13 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:39,396 Like... 14 00:00:39,437 --> 00:00:41,106 Like, wheezing-like. 15 00:00:41,824 --> 00:00:44,484 A breathing body with no heart or blood on one side 16 00:00:44,527 --> 00:00:47,612 and a beating heart and a box of veins and blood 17 00:00:47,655 --> 00:00:49,906 with no body on the other. 18 00:00:50,507 --> 00:00:52,700 And a preacher said, 19 00:00:52,742 --> 00:00:54,609 "You need your prayers." 20 00:00:55,060 --> 00:00:57,747 And I looked at both these parts of me and said, 21 00:00:57,790 --> 00:00:59,250 "But who is he?" 22 00:00:59,725 --> 00:01:03,045 Who are you? What are you? 23 00:01:07,925 --> 00:01:09,385 Wake up. 24 00:01:10,344 --> 00:01:11,595 Are we there? 25 00:01:11,637 --> 00:01:12,972 No. Uphill grade. 26 00:01:13,013 --> 00:01:15,985 When the train slows down, we're gonna jump off. 27 00:01:56,536 --> 00:02:04,536 Synced and corrected by -robtor- www.addic7ed.com 28 00:02:07,866 --> 00:02:10,697 Bet you never jumped off a train before. Huh? 29 00:02:10,740 --> 00:02:11,823 Isn't that fun? 30 00:02:12,166 --> 00:02:14,576 See, I want them all thinking we're out west. 31 00:02:14,619 --> 00:02:15,869 Why? 32 00:02:15,912 --> 00:02:19,664 'Cause we're up to no good, in their eyes. 33 00:02:19,706 --> 00:02:22,792 But the Lord of lords 34 00:02:22,834 --> 00:02:24,669 is smiling down upon us. 35 00:02:24,712 --> 00:02:26,087 But where are we? 36 00:02:26,129 --> 00:02:30,967 Pennsylvania. The Allegheny Mountains of my youth. 37 00:02:31,010 --> 00:02:34,722 The Lord put forth his thumb and pressed these hills 38 00:02:34,764 --> 00:02:37,058 and made these passages for the poor. 39 00:02:37,098 --> 00:02:40,645 Now a small band of Negro revolutionaries 40 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:42,509 could hide out in here 41 00:02:42,550 --> 00:02:45,303 and fight off an army of thousands for years. 42 00:02:45,345 --> 00:02:47,624 These the first mountains I ever seen up close. 43 00:02:47,677 --> 00:02:49,167 They were mine, too. 44 00:02:49,641 --> 00:02:51,601 Now, Mr. Douglass, 45 00:02:52,087 --> 00:02:55,772 he showed me a few tricks about putting on a show, 46 00:02:55,814 --> 00:02:59,956 speechifying, so I'm gonna raise us some money 47 00:02:59,999 --> 00:03:03,280 and we'll go back, get the men, carry on the fight. 48 00:03:03,321 --> 00:03:05,198 - Yes, Captain. - Mm-hmm. 49 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:06,658 When I'm giving my talks, 50 00:03:06,701 --> 00:03:10,251 I may ask you to testify, you know, about your life. 51 00:03:10,300 --> 00:03:13,206 Deprivation and starvation as a slave, 52 00:03:13,249 --> 00:03:16,168 being whipped scandalous and such. 53 00:03:16,209 --> 00:03:18,642 Dutch ain't never whipped me. 54 00:03:18,696 --> 00:03:20,131 And fed me good. 55 00:03:20,172 --> 00:03:21,298 Never been cold 56 00:03:21,339 --> 00:03:23,175 before sleeping in the woods with you and the boys. 57 00:03:23,217 --> 00:03:25,848 Yeah, well, I-I... I-I wouldn't mention that. 58 00:03:25,945 --> 00:03:28,180 And I ain't never been shot at till I met you. 59 00:03:28,222 --> 00:03:30,468 No? Yeah, I wouldn't mention that, either. 60 00:03:30,517 --> 00:03:31,517 Truth be told, 61 00:03:32,091 --> 00:03:34,848 I ain't seen a person murdered till I met you. 62 00:03:35,354 --> 00:03:36,939 I would stay off that subject 63 00:03:36,981 --> 00:03:38,107 - entirely. - Mm. 64 00:03:38,149 --> 00:03:41,694 While the old man was hidded out on the plains, 65 00:03:41,736 --> 00:03:43,988 he was a hero back east. 66 00:03:44,030 --> 00:03:47,992 My name is Osawatomie John Brown 67 00:03:48,034 --> 00:03:50,411 and I am here to fight slavery. 68 00:03:50,454 --> 00:03:53,165 They couldn't get enough of his stories. 69 00:03:53,206 --> 00:03:55,833 You would've thunk that every pro-slaver, 70 00:03:55,876 --> 00:03:59,212 who mostly lived off of pennies and generally didn't treat 71 00:03:59,253 --> 00:04:02,007 the Negro any worse than they treated each other 72 00:04:02,048 --> 00:04:04,551 was a bunch of cranks, heathens and drunks 73 00:04:04,593 --> 00:04:06,762 who run around murdering one another, 74 00:04:06,803 --> 00:04:10,152 while the free staters spend all day sitting in church 75 00:04:10,189 --> 00:04:13,908 making paper cutout dolls on Wednesday nights. 76 00:04:13,954 --> 00:04:17,189 We must defeat slavery! 77 00:04:17,231 --> 00:04:20,776 If any are bound, we are all bound! 78 00:04:22,550 --> 00:04:25,280 It made me a bit sad, truth be to tell it, 79 00:04:25,322 --> 00:04:28,534 to watch all them white folks crying for the Negro. 80 00:04:28,575 --> 00:04:31,789 There weren't but one Negro 'sides me present. 81 00:04:31,822 --> 00:04:34,957 And we both knew to be quiet as mouses. 82 00:04:36,371 --> 00:04:38,503 Except for Frederick Douglass, 83 00:04:38,544 --> 00:04:42,422 it seemed like everybody got to make a speech about the Negro 84 00:04:42,465 --> 00:04:44,217 except the Negro. 85 00:04:44,258 --> 00:04:48,262 It has been a long time since I've had any ice cream. 86 00:04:50,571 --> 00:04:53,768 - Can we afford it? - I think we can. 87 00:04:56,187 --> 00:04:58,250 I've heard some news. 88 00:05:00,344 --> 00:05:01,984 Federal agents are after me. 89 00:05:02,026 --> 00:05:04,691 Mm. I'm gonna need you to keep a lookout. 90 00:05:05,155 --> 00:05:06,530 Well, 91 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:08,950 what does a federal agent look like? 92 00:05:08,992 --> 00:05:11,599 The federal man... 93 00:05:11,636 --> 00:05:15,748 He smells like... like bear. 94 00:05:15,790 --> 00:05:17,835 They use bear grease 95 00:05:17,876 --> 00:05:19,811 to oil their hair. 96 00:05:20,170 --> 00:05:24,048 But they live indoors. They're clean. Mm-hmm. 97 00:05:24,091 --> 00:05:26,593 - Sickly, pale, yellow. - Captain, 98 00:05:26,634 --> 00:05:29,221 about half the white folks up north seem like that. 99 00:05:29,263 --> 00:05:31,639 Mm-hmm. True. 100 00:05:32,487 --> 00:05:34,010 Recognize this? 101 00:05:35,394 --> 00:05:37,688 This is Frederick's old Colt. 102 00:05:37,729 --> 00:05:39,842 He'd want you to have... Now be careful. 103 00:05:39,910 --> 00:05:41,441 It's primed and loaded... Uh-uh. 104 00:05:41,484 --> 00:05:44,361 Keep it down. There's eyes about. 105 00:05:45,218 --> 00:05:48,471 Look at this. 106 00:05:49,950 --> 00:05:51,096 I'm sorry. 107 00:05:51,121 --> 00:05:52,771 No need to see that... 108 00:05:53,370 --> 00:05:56,488 Now, if you see a federal man while I'm... 109 00:05:56,524 --> 00:05:58,125 givin' my show, 110 00:05:58,167 --> 00:05:59,502 I don't want you interrupt me. 111 00:05:59,543 --> 00:06:03,255 Just take out your Good Lord bird feather and wave it. 112 00:06:03,298 --> 00:06:04,840 I'll know. 113 00:06:05,805 --> 00:06:07,056 Course, 114 00:06:07,218 --> 00:06:11,590 if they try to apprehend me, start shooting. 115 00:06:11,620 --> 00:06:13,766 You want me to draw down on a federal agent? 116 00:06:13,808 --> 00:06:16,311 Just... Not at first. Just fire up in the air. 117 00:06:16,352 --> 00:06:18,383 - Okay. - They'll run, they'll scream, 118 00:06:18,423 --> 00:06:20,315 we'll make our escape... If they arrest me, 119 00:06:20,356 --> 00:06:23,212 I'm gonna need you to, point-blank, fire. 120 00:06:23,761 --> 00:06:26,221 John Brown... No, no, please! Please don't shoot. 121 00:06:26,404 --> 00:06:28,656 I-I'm Deacon Lee, with First Methodist 122 00:06:28,698 --> 00:06:31,034 and the Hartford Abolitionist Society? 123 00:06:31,666 --> 00:06:33,202 A deacon. 124 00:06:33,245 --> 00:06:35,122 And an abolitionist. 125 00:06:36,164 --> 00:06:37,290 - Yes, sir. - Pleasure. 126 00:06:37,332 --> 00:06:38,583 Likewise. This is my wife 127 00:06:38,625 --> 00:06:40,418 - Temperance. - Temperance. 128 00:06:40,460 --> 00:06:42,796 - Hello. Pleasure. - Hmm. What a wonderful name. 129 00:06:44,589 --> 00:06:46,716 - If you are John Brown... - I am. 130 00:06:46,758 --> 00:06:50,095 ...could you spare a few words at our meeting this afternoon? 131 00:06:52,097 --> 00:06:53,098 Love to. 132 00:06:54,475 --> 00:06:58,354 Well, uh, l-let me buy you some ice cream. 133 00:06:58,395 --> 00:06:59,313 Hello. 134 00:06:59,355 --> 00:07:01,857 My name is Osawatomie John Brown 135 00:07:01,899 --> 00:07:04,485 and I'm here to fight slavery! 136 00:07:11,693 --> 00:07:14,154 I have been warned 137 00:07:14,370 --> 00:07:16,747 that federal agents are hunting me 138 00:07:16,789 --> 00:07:20,084 and that there may even be a federal man 139 00:07:20,126 --> 00:07:21,836 here with us this afternoon. 140 00:07:24,922 --> 00:07:26,799 Federal man, 141 00:07:26,841 --> 00:07:30,928 if ye be here, make yourself known! 142 00:07:34,860 --> 00:07:37,405 Good. Now, 143 00:07:38,060 --> 00:07:42,399 I demand the immediate emancipation 144 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:47,529 of every soul pining for freedom on American soil! 145 00:07:52,033 --> 00:07:55,578 Those in the fields of Maryland, 146 00:07:56,174 --> 00:08:00,209 the cotton plantations of Arkansas, 147 00:08:00,250 --> 00:08:03,462 Louisiana, Georgia, 148 00:08:03,504 --> 00:08:05,589 Alabama! 149 00:08:05,631 --> 00:08:08,258 Not some, but all, 150 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:11,220 without limitations, without restrictions, 151 00:08:11,261 --> 00:08:13,305 for their inalienable right 152 00:08:13,347 --> 00:08:17,351 to pursue their absolute equality! 153 00:08:22,565 --> 00:08:24,275 My grandfather, 154 00:08:24,316 --> 00:08:26,277 he served with General George Washington. 155 00:08:26,318 --> 00:08:29,238 Yes. Thank you, thank you. Yes. 156 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:34,828 They railed against a three-penny tax on tea. 157 00:08:34,869 --> 00:08:36,412 Hmm. 158 00:08:36,454 --> 00:08:38,497 They used that to justify 159 00:08:38,540 --> 00:08:42,825 seven years of bloody war with England. 160 00:08:42,890 --> 00:08:44,394 Suspenseful music 161 00:08:44,439 --> 00:08:47,339 Imagine if those men 162 00:08:47,382 --> 00:08:49,456 had the cause that we have. 163 00:08:50,552 --> 00:08:51,803 They would take action. 164 00:08:51,845 --> 00:08:56,805 I know: Violence, that's not what any of us want. 165 00:08:56,846 --> 00:08:59,310 It's an extreme measure. 166 00:09:00,176 --> 00:09:03,356 However, sometimes, a limb is sick. 167 00:09:03,621 --> 00:09:05,707 It has to be excised. 168 00:09:06,151 --> 00:09:09,196 If thine own eye offends thee, 169 00:09:09,237 --> 00:09:11,371 pluck it out! 170 00:09:11,412 --> 00:09:13,784 I am offended! 171 00:09:13,825 --> 00:09:17,370 And I will pluck it out! 172 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:21,625 Amen. 173 00:09:22,460 --> 00:09:23,711 Thank you. 174 00:09:23,753 --> 00:09:25,463 Thank you. Thank you. 175 00:09:25,504 --> 00:09:27,089 Let us, let us pray. 176 00:09:30,845 --> 00:09:34,308 Dear Lord, we thank you for this time together. 177 00:09:34,986 --> 00:09:37,016 First I want to thank Temperance and Deacon Lee 178 00:09:37,057 --> 00:09:38,267 for in-inviting me here today. 179 00:09:38,309 --> 00:09:40,603 I... What fine people. 180 00:09:40,644 --> 00:09:43,815 We thank whoever made those, uh, sugar cookies, 181 00:09:43,856 --> 00:09:45,900 that were simply delicious. 182 00:09:45,941 --> 00:09:49,153 I know God must love whoever made those, 183 00:09:49,195 --> 00:09:50,655 because they are inv... 184 00:09:50,696 --> 00:09:52,323 I would really like to have some more 185 00:09:52,365 --> 00:09:53,491 when-when this meeting is over. 186 00:09:53,533 --> 00:09:56,285 But first, let us thank the good people 187 00:09:56,327 --> 00:09:58,121 of this town, the good Methodists 188 00:09:58,162 --> 00:09:59,330 that are here tonight. 189 00:09:59,372 --> 00:10:01,208 We feel you, Holy Savior. 190 00:10:01,249 --> 00:10:03,960 We know we share one blood, we know... 191 00:10:04,001 --> 00:10:06,213 Captain, I smell bear! 192 00:10:12,135 --> 00:10:13,970 You received my letters. 193 00:10:14,011 --> 00:10:14,930 Indeed. 194 00:10:14,971 --> 00:10:17,099 It's Hugh Forbes. 195 00:10:17,140 --> 00:10:18,350 Hugh Forbes! 196 00:10:18,391 --> 00:10:20,185 At your service, General. 197 00:10:20,227 --> 00:10:23,317 It is an honor to meet the great warrior of slavery 198 00:10:23,357 --> 00:10:24,863 of whom I have heard so much. 199 00:10:24,934 --> 00:10:26,900 The honor is mine. All mine. 200 00:10:26,942 --> 00:10:28,291 No. Mine. 201 00:10:29,444 --> 00:10:30,821 It's Hugh Forbes. 202 00:10:30,863 --> 00:10:33,115 Onion, you thought he was a bear! 203 00:10:35,492 --> 00:10:37,786 I've studied your war pamphlets. 204 00:10:37,828 --> 00:10:40,205 I dare say they are excellent. 205 00:10:40,247 --> 00:10:41,874 You're the right man for our mission. 206 00:10:41,915 --> 00:10:43,667 Did you really serve under General Garibaldi? 207 00:10:43,709 --> 00:10:45,919 Mm. With his legions, through his victories. 208 00:10:45,962 --> 00:10:47,672 In league with your own achievements. 209 00:10:47,713 --> 00:10:50,507 Oh, hardly. In-in Italy and in Brazil? 210 00:10:50,550 --> 00:10:53,678 And Paraguay. Tough terrain, overwhelming forces. 211 00:10:53,719 --> 00:10:55,220 - Ah. - But victory. 212 00:10:55,263 --> 00:10:56,722 Oh, I love what you wrote here: 213 00:10:56,763 --> 00:10:59,057 "If these hands used for fighting would be acceptable 214 00:10:59,100 --> 00:11:03,229 to God, I dedicate them, uh, to all man's redemption." 215 00:11:03,271 --> 00:11:05,064 - Mm-hmm. - Strong words. 216 00:11:05,106 --> 00:11:07,567 Your letters convinced me of my own... 217 00:11:07,608 --> 00:11:10,486 Our own destiny together, so I came at once. 218 00:11:10,528 --> 00:11:11,905 - By God's grace. - Amen. 219 00:11:11,946 --> 00:11:14,323 An expensive endeavor, but shall be worth it. 220 00:11:14,365 --> 00:11:16,717 Here is your payment. 221 00:11:17,182 --> 00:11:18,810 Captain... 222 00:11:19,078 --> 00:11:20,997 This seems excessive, Captain Brown. 223 00:11:21,039 --> 00:11:22,916 Tell me you haven't emptied your pockets. 224 00:11:22,957 --> 00:11:23,917 No. No, no, here's some more. 225 00:11:23,958 --> 00:11:25,835 Maybe we should keep back a bit. 226 00:11:25,878 --> 00:11:27,545 No, no. Mr. Forbes 227 00:11:27,588 --> 00:11:29,281 needs to begin his work immediately. 228 00:11:29,323 --> 00:11:30,816 God will provide. 229 00:11:30,869 --> 00:11:33,333 Please. Accept it. 230 00:11:33,376 --> 00:11:35,637 This is to be the greatest campaign of my life: 231 00:11:35,678 --> 00:11:36,847 To serve with you, General. 232 00:11:36,889 --> 00:11:37,972 Oh, no. 233 00:11:38,015 --> 00:11:39,433 - I'm but a captain... - Mm. 234 00:11:39,475 --> 00:11:41,546 ...serving in the army of the Prince of Peace. 235 00:11:41,582 --> 00:11:43,394 Let's begin at once! 236 00:11:43,437 --> 00:11:45,314 Let us commence this evening. 237 00:11:45,355 --> 00:11:46,607 Over dinner at Keaney House, 238 00:11:46,648 --> 00:11:47,900 - where I am staying. - Keaney House. Yes, yes. 239 00:11:47,941 --> 00:11:50,402 I have brought regimes and schemes for you to look over. 240 00:11:50,444 --> 00:11:51,779 Ah, regimes and schemes. 241 00:11:53,739 --> 00:11:54,698 - Ah... - I like the way 242 00:11:54,740 --> 00:11:56,408 you handle a pistol, Miss. 243 00:11:56,450 --> 00:11:59,245 Tell me: Were you going to pull the trigger? 244 00:11:59,700 --> 00:12:01,052 About to. 245 00:12:01,095 --> 00:12:02,047 Oh! 246 00:12:03,582 --> 00:12:05,251 Such a scary one. 247 00:12:05,292 --> 00:12:06,418 Watch your back. 248 00:12:09,798 --> 00:12:11,340 - All right. Fine. - Yeah. 249 00:12:11,382 --> 00:12:12,901 Keaney House! 250 00:12:14,636 --> 00:12:18,188 I have been writing to that man for years. 251 00:12:18,212 --> 00:12:19,672 He'll train the men. 252 00:12:19,715 --> 00:12:21,008 He'll help us plan. 253 00:12:21,049 --> 00:12:25,179 Finally, we'll be able to ride into battle with an expert. 254 00:12:32,226 --> 00:12:33,770 Sir. 255 00:12:33,812 --> 00:12:36,190 You and your girl must rent a room, 256 00:12:36,231 --> 00:12:37,566 or I shall have to ask you to leave. 257 00:12:37,608 --> 00:12:39,401 No, we are still waiting for our colleague. 258 00:12:39,443 --> 00:12:41,778 He's a guest at this hotel; It's all right. 259 00:12:41,820 --> 00:12:44,573 And who might your colleague be, then? 260 00:12:46,542 --> 00:12:50,120 Mr. Hugh Forbes. 261 00:12:55,702 --> 00:12:57,461 Hmm. 262 00:12:58,087 --> 00:12:59,181 May... 263 00:13:00,048 --> 00:13:01,715 No... 264 00:13:05,385 --> 00:13:06,888 W... 265 00:13:06,930 --> 00:13:08,473 I'm sorry, sir, 266 00:13:08,515 --> 00:13:11,558 Mr. Hugh Forbes checked out this afternoon. 267 00:13:12,394 --> 00:13:13,514 He did? 268 00:13:13,582 --> 00:13:15,188 Yes, sir. 269 00:13:15,230 --> 00:13:16,481 No, he didn't. 270 00:13:16,523 --> 00:13:18,775 Yes, sir, he did. 271 00:13:20,985 --> 00:13:22,320 Are you sure? 272 00:13:22,362 --> 00:13:24,072 I'm quite sure. 273 00:13:29,119 --> 00:13:31,079 What was the final count? 274 00:13:31,121 --> 00:13:32,580 1,700, sir. 275 00:13:32,622 --> 00:13:35,208 We gave it all to him? 276 00:13:35,251 --> 00:13:37,460 Well you gave it all to him. 277 00:13:37,775 --> 00:13:39,063 Yes, sir. 278 00:13:57,565 --> 00:14:00,441 You can always make the money back speeching again. 279 00:14:00,484 --> 00:14:03,195 Lots of folks willing to part with their pocket money. 280 00:14:03,237 --> 00:14:04,957 Pocket money. 281 00:14:04,982 --> 00:14:06,198 Yes, sir. 282 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,784 Uh... a little here, a little there. 283 00:14:11,265 --> 00:14:13,851 You are so right. 284 00:14:14,759 --> 00:14:16,344 That's the problem. 285 00:14:16,667 --> 00:14:19,044 The soul of this country 286 00:14:19,086 --> 00:14:23,034 can't be bought with pocket change. 287 00:14:23,078 --> 00:14:25,676 You are a gift from God, 288 00:14:25,719 --> 00:14:27,219 - Little Onion. - I... I am? 289 00:14:27,261 --> 00:14:30,015 Yes! It's what you said! You're right! 290 00:14:30,055 --> 00:14:31,908 We need men, not money! 291 00:14:31,954 --> 00:14:32,962 I said that? 292 00:14:33,020 --> 00:14:35,312 Yeah, followers, not funds. 293 00:14:39,274 --> 00:14:40,943 I'm such a fool. 294 00:14:41,448 --> 00:14:43,867 I'm the worst kind of fool. 295 00:14:44,866 --> 00:14:47,324 You know why God punished me? 296 00:14:47,365 --> 00:14:50,684 You know why Hugh Forbes proved to be a thief? 297 00:14:51,077 --> 00:14:52,286 No, sir. 298 00:14:52,584 --> 00:14:54,206 Spiritual pride. 299 00:14:54,247 --> 00:14:55,744 Amen. 300 00:15:00,630 --> 00:15:02,224 Do you hear that? 301 00:15:04,716 --> 00:15:07,177 Oh! Do you hear that? 302 00:15:09,846 --> 00:15:12,515 Give me your hand. Give me your hand. 303 00:15:15,702 --> 00:15:18,104 There is a hidden oneness 304 00:15:18,648 --> 00:15:21,524 to the whole world, Little Onion. 305 00:15:21,566 --> 00:15:23,444 And it's our job 306 00:15:23,486 --> 00:15:27,198 to help the Lord illuminate that oneness. 307 00:15:28,176 --> 00:15:29,260 Amen? 308 00:15:29,575 --> 00:15:31,035 Amen. 309 00:15:32,954 --> 00:15:35,331 We need to go to Canada. 310 00:15:35,373 --> 00:15:37,124 Canada's a civilized country. 311 00:15:37,166 --> 00:15:38,543 Get your things. 312 00:15:40,419 --> 00:15:41,295 Mm. 313 00:15:41,337 --> 00:15:43,923 - Canada is out the back door. - See, that's the one... 314 00:15:43,966 --> 00:15:46,186 "Every... ev..." 315 00:15:46,969 --> 00:15:49,096 "God takes the side of the defenseless. 316 00:15:49,136 --> 00:15:52,808 The Christian must also take the side of the defenseless. 317 00:15:52,848 --> 00:15:54,101 The Christian must be justice, 318 00:15:54,141 --> 00:15:56,247 - must speak justice..." - We in Canada yet? 319 00:15:56,295 --> 00:15:57,311 What? 320 00:15:57,353 --> 00:15:58,479 Are we in... 321 00:15:58,522 --> 00:16:00,565 No. Not yet. 322 00:16:00,606 --> 00:16:03,546 Another two or three days, on foot. 323 00:16:03,626 --> 00:16:05,170 Oh. 324 00:16:05,736 --> 00:16:08,782 So we walking all the way to Canada? 325 00:16:10,935 --> 00:16:12,186 Yeah. 326 00:16:12,494 --> 00:16:14,913 Our travel funds are threadbare. 327 00:16:15,956 --> 00:16:19,418 "Every Negro must be free to pursue 328 00:16:19,459 --> 00:16:21,586 his or her own life." 329 00:16:21,628 --> 00:16:22,712 Uh-huh. 330 00:16:22,753 --> 00:16:23,887 "Every Negro..." 331 00:16:23,933 --> 00:16:26,341 Dammit, I am a Negro. 332 00:16:26,383 --> 00:16:28,260 And I'm ready to be free. 333 00:16:28,303 --> 00:16:31,346 That is the spirit, Onion. 334 00:16:31,388 --> 00:16:32,848 But you are already free. 335 00:16:32,890 --> 00:16:34,600 - No, I ain't. - Yes, you are. 336 00:16:34,641 --> 00:16:37,227 You've been free since the day we met. 337 00:16:37,269 --> 00:16:38,348 If I'm so free, 338 00:16:38,827 --> 00:16:40,882 then why do I do whatever you tell me to do? 339 00:16:40,915 --> 00:16:42,816 Go wherever you says. 340 00:16:42,859 --> 00:16:44,444 Jumpin' off trains. 341 00:16:44,484 --> 00:16:46,486 Eatin' scraps. 342 00:16:46,528 --> 00:16:47,779 Run around like an outlaw. 343 00:16:47,822 --> 00:16:49,925 Getting yanked around by an old white man? 344 00:16:49,949 --> 00:16:52,577 All right, that is not slavery, Onion. 345 00:16:52,618 --> 00:16:54,494 We are abolitionists. 346 00:16:54,537 --> 00:16:56,748 Warriors. Pilgrims. 347 00:16:56,788 --> 00:16:58,267 We're family. 348 00:16:59,307 --> 00:17:00,877 Aren't we? 349 00:17:08,662 --> 00:17:12,067 _ 350 00:17:23,107 --> 00:17:25,443 Who wants hot bread and cider? 351 00:17:56,685 --> 00:17:57,948 Hey. 352 00:17:58,396 --> 00:17:59,828 Here you go. 353 00:18:00,230 --> 00:18:02,357 Here, have a seat. 354 00:18:10,615 --> 00:18:12,348 Oh, Onion. 355 00:18:12,785 --> 00:18:17,248 I owe you a long-overdue apology. 356 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:21,710 You must be missing your pa somethin' fierce. 357 00:18:24,518 --> 00:18:26,669 Yeah, that's my fault. 358 00:18:28,008 --> 00:18:31,629 You, uh, were living a life without choice. 359 00:18:32,012 --> 00:18:33,598 I come along, 360 00:18:33,639 --> 00:18:34,807 thrust freedom on you 361 00:18:34,849 --> 00:18:37,602 without giving you a deciding vote 362 00:18:37,643 --> 00:18:40,029 in which way your life road went. 363 00:18:41,412 --> 00:18:43,371 I'm no better than Dutch Henry. 364 00:18:46,652 --> 00:18:48,738 I'd like, if I could, to... 365 00:18:48,779 --> 00:18:52,492 have a chance to explain to you why I done what I done. 366 00:18:56,037 --> 00:18:58,870 I was just tryin' to treat you like family. 367 00:18:59,831 --> 00:19:01,666 The best I could. 368 00:19:01,835 --> 00:19:03,470 You know. 369 00:19:05,216 --> 00:19:07,150 There comes a time, 370 00:19:08,026 --> 00:19:09,590 as a parent, 371 00:19:10,343 --> 00:19:15,224 when you have to let your child be free. 372 00:19:15,265 --> 00:19:19,311 And sometimes, parents, we... we cling too tight. 373 00:19:19,353 --> 00:19:20,870 Out of love. 374 00:19:21,522 --> 00:19:23,950 I've done it to my own children. 375 00:19:24,525 --> 00:19:25,901 And I've done it to you. 376 00:19:26,470 --> 00:19:28,362 And I'm sorry. 377 00:19:31,491 --> 00:19:33,326 Okay. 378 00:19:33,367 --> 00:19:34,827 Anyhow... 379 00:19:34,868 --> 00:19:36,550 here we are. 380 00:19:37,663 --> 00:19:39,581 We're in Canada. 381 00:19:39,624 --> 00:19:41,542 And you're free! 382 00:19:41,583 --> 00:19:43,961 Free to make your own choices 383 00:19:44,002 --> 00:19:46,506 and build whatever life you want. 384 00:19:47,089 --> 00:19:48,549 That, right there, is a mission 385 00:19:48,591 --> 00:19:50,218 run by good, Christian women. 386 00:19:50,259 --> 00:19:52,637 I mean, they're-they're Catholic, but we... 387 00:19:52,678 --> 00:19:54,764 we ought not be too judgmental. They're kind 388 00:19:54,805 --> 00:19:57,517 and they'll look after you and... 389 00:19:57,559 --> 00:19:59,810 give you a fresh start. 390 00:20:02,939 --> 00:20:04,899 Oh... 391 00:20:05,272 --> 00:20:06,693 That's... 392 00:20:06,734 --> 00:20:08,311 how... 393 00:20:08,664 --> 00:20:10,951 I really enjoyed your company. 394 00:20:22,132 --> 00:20:23,550 And, um... 395 00:20:23,575 --> 00:20:25,911 if freedom ever comes to America, 396 00:20:26,511 --> 00:20:29,800 I hope that you will make your way to Lake Placid. 397 00:20:29,841 --> 00:20:33,053 Meet my wife, meet my daughters. 398 00:20:34,304 --> 00:20:38,192 Course, the... the boys are gonna miss you. 399 00:20:41,853 --> 00:20:43,552 You forgive me? 400 00:20:46,042 --> 00:20:49,073 Didn't you say we's all already forgiven? 401 00:20:51,113 --> 00:20:53,493 The world's a pretty confusing place, Captain. 402 00:20:54,952 --> 00:20:57,828 And you don't seem much more confused than most folks. 403 00:20:57,870 --> 00:20:59,753 Even bein' white. 404 00:21:01,912 --> 00:21:04,733 You don't gotta ask, for forgiveness from me. 405 00:21:13,399 --> 00:21:15,734 This is my grandmother's Bible. 406 00:21:23,865 --> 00:21:25,825 The devil works hard, Little Onion, 407 00:21:26,136 --> 00:21:27,887 but God works harder. 408 00:22:20,121 --> 00:22:21,622 Are you an orphan? 409 00:22:22,790 --> 00:22:24,000 I guess so. 410 00:22:25,177 --> 00:22:26,502 Join us. 411 00:22:27,879 --> 00:22:30,339 We're going to be hearing some inspiring words. 412 00:22:30,382 --> 00:22:31,841 The abolitionist John Brown 413 00:22:31,883 --> 00:22:33,551 is gonna be speaking at the First Methodist. 414 00:22:34,155 --> 00:22:36,388 I've already heard everything he gots to say. 415 00:22:40,558 --> 00:22:44,521 Thank you. 416 00:23:12,799 --> 00:23:14,092 Hello. 417 00:23:14,135 --> 00:23:17,262 My name is John Brown, and 418 00:23:17,836 --> 00:23:20,599 I'm here fighting to end slavery. 419 00:23:20,641 --> 00:23:21,830 Amen. 420 00:23:21,861 --> 00:23:24,145 I've learned a lot about freedom 421 00:23:24,835 --> 00:23:27,196 since I've come to your country. 422 00:23:38,796 --> 00:23:42,037 You know, at home, 423 00:23:43,036 --> 00:23:45,375 I'm wanted for murder. 424 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,587 Which is funny, because, uh, 425 00:23:50,357 --> 00:23:53,320 for the first 50 or so years of my life, 426 00:23:53,384 --> 00:23:55,885 I lived exactly as my father taught me... 427 00:23:55,927 --> 00:23:56,886 Change your mind? 428 00:23:56,928 --> 00:24:00,306 ...as a non-violent abolitionist. 429 00:24:00,348 --> 00:24:02,430 Then my boys grew up; 430 00:24:02,472 --> 00:24:05,645 They moved away. They wanted to start a life of their own. 431 00:24:05,687 --> 00:24:08,023 Staked a claim in Kansas. 432 00:24:08,064 --> 00:24:11,193 Mm-hmm. They walked and talked, 433 00:24:11,234 --> 00:24:14,613 speaking as I taught them, as my father taught me, 434 00:24:14,654 --> 00:24:15,822 to love thy neighbor, 435 00:24:15,865 --> 00:24:17,877 to do unto others... 436 00:24:18,757 --> 00:24:22,064 ...but it seems that the pro-slavers of Kansas 437 00:24:22,106 --> 00:24:25,499 were not satisfied simply with raping and murdering 438 00:24:25,540 --> 00:24:27,375 and enslaving Black people. 439 00:24:27,418 --> 00:24:29,669 They wanted to pick a fight 440 00:24:29,712 --> 00:24:33,048 with anyone who was friends with a Black man. 441 00:24:33,557 --> 00:24:36,364 So they burned my sons' farms, 442 00:24:36,388 --> 00:24:38,262 they destroyed their homes, 443 00:24:38,304 --> 00:24:40,097 and it woke me up! 444 00:24:41,332 --> 00:24:43,392 Now, we can't just wait. 445 00:24:43,798 --> 00:24:47,883 We can't sit around idle waiting for fear, 446 00:24:47,924 --> 00:24:51,901 ignorance, hatred, and stupidity 447 00:24:51,943 --> 00:24:55,123 to hurt our own little ones. 448 00:24:58,115 --> 00:25:02,286 We're all a part of one family: 449 00:25:02,329 --> 00:25:04,719 The human family. 450 00:25:06,333 --> 00:25:08,376 - Ah. - And... 451 00:25:08,417 --> 00:25:10,795 and to that end, I decided 452 00:25:10,837 --> 00:25:12,380 that I was comfortable 453 00:25:12,421 --> 00:25:15,300 to shed my blood with my African brothers and sisters. 454 00:25:15,342 --> 00:25:20,776 I was even comfortable shedding blood for them. 455 00:25:20,833 --> 00:25:23,725 Now, for this, 456 00:25:23,767 --> 00:25:25,638 I have a price on my head. 457 00:25:26,499 --> 00:25:27,709 But I ask you, 458 00:25:28,599 --> 00:25:31,692 do you think it's a crime for a citizen 459 00:25:31,733 --> 00:25:33,360 to stand up and say 460 00:25:33,402 --> 00:25:37,072 each and every one of us is imbued 461 00:25:37,114 --> 00:25:40,075 by our Creator with certain 462 00:25:40,117 --> 00:25:42,286 inalienable rights. 463 00:25:42,327 --> 00:25:43,984 - No! - No! 464 00:25:44,027 --> 00:25:45,581 If that's a crime, 465 00:25:45,622 --> 00:25:47,834 then the Declaration of Independence 466 00:25:47,875 --> 00:25:49,418 is a call for sedition 467 00:25:49,459 --> 00:25:51,151 and should be burned! 468 00:25:51,185 --> 00:25:53,129 I say it's not a crime. 469 00:25:53,172 --> 00:25:56,968 No, I say to not assert yourself 470 00:25:57,009 --> 00:25:59,737 for the rights of the oppressed is to 471 00:25:59,780 --> 00:26:02,306 fall down and worship 472 00:26:02,348 --> 00:26:04,642 at the Moloch of despotism! 473 00:26:04,684 --> 00:26:07,061 Yes, sir! We hear you! 474 00:26:07,103 --> 00:26:09,939 We must... we must join together 475 00:26:09,981 --> 00:26:13,669 and form an anti-slavery movement; 476 00:26:13,693 --> 00:26:15,127 Black folks, white folks, 477 00:26:15,152 --> 00:26:17,238 working together, committed, 478 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:21,034 for the violence necessary to end slavery! 479 00:26:21,075 --> 00:26:23,036 - Yes, sir! - Now, I know. 480 00:26:24,662 --> 00:26:27,640 Violence is not what we want! 481 00:26:30,169 --> 00:26:34,590 I know, good people of Chatham. 482 00:26:35,214 --> 00:26:38,081 Oh, gentle Canada. 483 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,930 I have... I have tried America. 484 00:26:44,001 --> 00:26:48,103 America is rife with hypocrites. 485 00:26:50,564 --> 00:26:53,192 Especially the north. 486 00:26:54,921 --> 00:26:57,487 Greed and slavery 487 00:26:57,841 --> 00:27:00,866 has made a trembling coward 488 00:27:00,908 --> 00:27:02,761 of the white man. 489 00:27:03,702 --> 00:27:07,164 He is so rich 490 00:27:07,207 --> 00:27:09,583 and fat and indolent, 491 00:27:09,626 --> 00:27:12,586 he cannot even remember the values 492 00:27:12,629 --> 00:27:16,256 upon which his country was founded! 493 00:27:20,642 --> 00:27:22,262 How... 494 00:27:23,223 --> 00:27:25,725 How do I... How do I talk to such a man? 495 00:27:25,767 --> 00:27:28,811 How do I affect change in his heart? 496 00:27:28,852 --> 00:27:30,855 I must speak to him 497 00:27:31,515 --> 00:27:33,225 in a language 498 00:27:33,621 --> 00:27:35,527 that he understands. 499 00:27:35,568 --> 00:27:38,571 The language of violence. 500 00:27:38,613 --> 00:27:41,339 - Mm-hmm. - Gunfire! 501 00:27:41,380 --> 00:27:44,285 The sharp edge of a sword! 502 00:27:44,327 --> 00:27:45,453 Come on! Yeah! 503 00:27:50,500 --> 00:27:53,795 I am not asking 504 00:27:53,838 --> 00:27:55,213 for more talk. 505 00:27:55,256 --> 00:27:57,189 - No, sir. - I'm not asking 506 00:27:57,214 --> 00:27:59,127 for money. 507 00:27:59,390 --> 00:28:01,225 I'm asking for men. 508 00:28:01,683 --> 00:28:04,431 Brave men! 509 00:28:04,472 --> 00:28:06,057 Oh, Canada! 510 00:28:06,100 --> 00:28:09,979 Do you have any men for me? 511 00:28:10,020 --> 00:28:11,187 We're not afraid, Captain. 512 00:28:11,230 --> 00:28:12,857 - I'm ready. - Oh, I hear you! 513 00:28:12,897 --> 00:28:14,859 It is time 514 00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:16,986 to meet the slavers 515 00:28:17,027 --> 00:28:20,447 with grape, gunshot and powder! 516 00:28:20,489 --> 00:28:22,116 - Come on! Yeah! - It is time 517 00:28:22,157 --> 00:28:23,951 to smite him! 518 00:28:23,993 --> 00:28:26,573 No more words! 519 00:28:26,598 --> 00:28:29,031 The time for words is over! 520 00:28:29,123 --> 00:28:31,208 Who wants to sign up? 521 00:28:31,250 --> 00:28:33,669 Yes! Yes! 522 00:28:33,711 --> 00:28:36,539 No more words! No more talk! 523 00:28:36,579 --> 00:28:38,294 Now is the time. 524 00:28:38,318 --> 00:28:40,302 Who wants to sign up? 525 00:28:40,342 --> 00:28:42,179 Who's with me? 526 00:28:49,643 --> 00:28:52,272 We're all for your war on slavery, 527 00:28:52,314 --> 00:28:54,191 but what's your specific plan? 528 00:28:54,231 --> 00:28:55,357 Oh, well, that's... 529 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,777 That's... That's a very, very good qu... 530 00:28:57,819 --> 00:28:59,361 That's a good question. That's understa... 531 00:28:59,404 --> 00:29:03,533 I-I cannot make that announcement publicly yet. 532 00:29:03,575 --> 00:29:05,133 I can... I can, uh, tell you... 533 00:29:05,161 --> 00:29:07,364 ...it will not be peaceable. 534 00:29:07,393 --> 00:29:09,122 What's that spell to us? 535 00:29:09,164 --> 00:29:11,958 I aim to purge America's sin with blood 536 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,937 and do it soon with the help of the Negro people. 537 00:29:14,997 --> 00:29:18,298 If you will just give us a little of your battle plan. 538 00:29:18,341 --> 00:29:19,758 I can't sign a contract 539 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:21,968 - if I don't know even a bit. - Well, I... 540 00:29:22,010 --> 00:29:25,388 Do you want to save your people or not? 541 00:29:25,430 --> 00:29:28,081 Captain, I escaped slavery 542 00:29:28,105 --> 00:29:30,268 and traveled 3,000 miles here 543 00:29:30,311 --> 00:29:32,513 on foot and by boat. 544 00:29:32,555 --> 00:29:34,649 But I hold my life dear, and if I'm gonna lose it, 545 00:29:34,689 --> 00:29:36,734 I want to know the manner in which it's gonna happen. 546 00:29:36,922 --> 00:29:38,215 You're safe here, sir. 547 00:29:38,565 --> 00:29:41,404 We're all either free men or former slaves. 548 00:29:41,447 --> 00:29:43,159 Why you holding back? 549 00:29:43,201 --> 00:29:46,619 Fact is, we heard of you, 550 00:29:46,661 --> 00:29:48,538 but we don't know you. 551 00:29:49,005 --> 00:29:51,165 Now, tell us why we should we trust you. 552 00:29:51,874 --> 00:29:54,485 I move with God's purpose. 553 00:29:54,837 --> 00:29:58,506 And He whispered a battle plan in my ear 554 00:29:58,805 --> 00:30:02,468 to start a war that will end slavery. 555 00:30:02,510 --> 00:30:03,554 And for now, 556 00:30:03,925 --> 00:30:06,807 that whisper must remain secret. 557 00:30:07,965 --> 00:30:09,308 Join me. 558 00:30:09,350 --> 00:30:10,651 Please, sir. 559 00:30:10,714 --> 00:30:13,564 I know. I know you have the fire in you. 560 00:30:13,604 --> 00:30:17,150 You have a fire in your heart, for justice, I know it! 561 00:30:28,203 --> 00:30:30,037 My work is done. 562 00:30:30,079 --> 00:30:32,708 Hold a minute, Captain. 563 00:30:33,667 --> 00:30:35,927 Rise for the general. 564 00:31:02,046 --> 00:31:03,726 You know me. 565 00:31:04,847 --> 00:31:08,161 My name's Harriet Tubman. 566 00:31:08,887 --> 00:31:13,249 And John Brown don't have to explain nothing to me. 567 00:31:14,047 --> 00:31:16,044 If he says he has a good plan, 568 00:31:16,085 --> 00:31:19,172 he has a good plan. 569 00:31:20,047 --> 00:31:22,287 You got something for us? 570 00:31:30,568 --> 00:31:33,603 Now, John Brown has took many a whipping 571 00:31:33,646 --> 00:31:35,605 for the colored folk, 572 00:31:35,648 --> 00:31:37,523 and he took it standing up. 573 00:31:37,927 --> 00:31:41,737 His own wife and children starving at home. 574 00:31:42,288 --> 00:31:44,323 He already offered the life of one 575 00:31:44,365 --> 00:31:46,824 of his sons, Frederick, to the cause. 576 00:31:47,888 --> 00:31:51,038 He here asking you to feed his children? 577 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:52,665 Hmm? 578 00:31:53,047 --> 00:31:54,832 He here asking you to help him? 579 00:31:54,875 --> 00:31:58,212 He asking you to help yourself. 580 00:31:58,254 --> 00:32:00,968 To free yourself. 581 00:32:03,928 --> 00:32:06,595 Y'all clucking like a bunch of hens. 582 00:32:06,637 --> 00:32:10,516 Sitting here warm and cozy, 583 00:32:10,558 --> 00:32:12,104 worrying about your own skin 584 00:32:12,147 --> 00:32:14,478 while your children cry for their mothers 585 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,273 somewhere else right now. 586 00:32:18,941 --> 00:32:23,329 Some of y'all got your brothers and sisters torn from you. 587 00:32:23,822 --> 00:32:26,490 Your own families living across the border 588 00:32:26,533 --> 00:32:28,247 in slavery. 589 00:32:28,332 --> 00:32:29,995 That's why he's here... 590 00:32:30,874 --> 00:32:35,769 ...asking you freedmen to join in. 591 00:32:37,459 --> 00:32:40,234 And you sitting on the doorstep of change, 592 00:32:40,292 --> 00:32:44,889 lonely and too scared to walk through it. 593 00:32:45,260 --> 00:32:47,729 Mr. Brown asks 594 00:32:48,450 --> 00:32:51,016 who is a man here? 595 00:32:51,369 --> 00:32:53,268 I didn't want to die. 596 00:32:53,311 --> 00:32:54,769 I didn't want to be hungry. 597 00:32:55,129 --> 00:32:57,336 I liked somebody taking care of me. 598 00:32:57,769 --> 00:33:01,861 But Miss Tubman standing there so firm and so strong 599 00:33:01,902 --> 00:33:05,311 reminded me of Sibonia saying, 600 00:33:05,355 --> 00:33:09,090 "I am the woman, and I am not ashamed." 601 00:33:10,010 --> 00:33:11,930 Suddenly, I heard 602 00:33:11,979 --> 00:33:14,080 a terrible squawking voice in the room. 603 00:33:14,123 --> 00:33:15,226 Sign me up! 604 00:33:15,267 --> 00:33:17,960 I'll follow the captain to the ends of the Earth. 605 00:33:18,002 --> 00:33:20,629 - Count me in! - Praise Jesus. 606 00:33:20,671 --> 00:33:23,799 And a child will lead them. 607 00:33:23,841 --> 00:33:26,635 - Yeah! - Yeah! 608 00:33:26,677 --> 00:33:29,430 Praise God! 609 00:33:33,935 --> 00:33:35,138 My name is Lewis Leary, 610 00:33:35,172 --> 00:33:36,646 and this is my cousin Attucks Copeland. 611 00:33:36,687 --> 00:33:39,023 We both have engineering degrees, and we are both willing 612 00:33:39,066 --> 00:33:41,400 to give our lives in the service of humanity. 613 00:33:41,442 --> 00:33:43,027 Well, I like you already. 614 00:33:43,070 --> 00:33:45,529 - Attucks. - Yes, sir. 615 00:33:45,571 --> 00:33:47,949 Nice to meet you, Attucks. And Lewis. 616 00:33:47,990 --> 00:33:50,409 - Mm-hmm. - Welcome. 617 00:33:51,285 --> 00:33:52,570 Dangerfield Newby. 618 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,916 Son of a Black slave mother, white slave owner father. 619 00:33:55,957 --> 00:33:59,878 I'm better at drawing maps than anyone you met in your life. 620 00:34:00,504 --> 00:34:01,837 Probably even you. 621 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,423 Well, we need maps. 622 00:34:04,466 --> 00:34:05,884 And we need you. 623 00:34:07,594 --> 00:34:09,179 O.P. Anderson. 624 00:34:10,055 --> 00:34:13,350 I'm a freeborn Negro from Pennsylvania. 625 00:34:13,392 --> 00:34:17,104 I've been waiting to meet you since you first fired a shot. 626 00:34:17,145 --> 00:34:20,691 Well, we will fire shots together, O.P. 627 00:34:23,051 --> 00:34:24,653 Don't you leave, now. Stay right here, okay? 628 00:34:24,695 --> 00:34:26,321 Oh, are you with us, sir? 629 00:34:27,322 --> 00:34:29,908 Will there be whiskey on this adventure of yours? 630 00:34:30,412 --> 00:34:31,828 No, there will not. 631 00:34:32,451 --> 00:34:34,360 Never mind, I will provide my own. 632 00:34:34,392 --> 00:34:36,623 To what the matter of, uh... 633 00:34:36,666 --> 00:34:38,292 sporting women? 634 00:34:39,459 --> 00:34:42,296 We are looking for men of high honor. 635 00:34:42,337 --> 00:34:43,714 Uh-huh. 636 00:34:43,755 --> 00:34:45,216 Uh-huh. 637 00:34:45,258 --> 00:34:46,592 Uh-huh. 638 00:34:46,634 --> 00:34:48,386 Well, it's a minor detail. 639 00:34:48,428 --> 00:34:52,640 Uh, I was warmed by the fire in your words up there. 640 00:34:52,682 --> 00:34:54,984 The Moloch of depotism! 641 00:34:55,026 --> 00:34:56,426 Despotism. 642 00:34:57,854 --> 00:34:58,897 No more words! 643 00:34:58,938 --> 00:35:00,815 - Uh-huh. - You put on a good show. 644 00:35:02,358 --> 00:35:03,568 It's poetry. 645 00:35:03,610 --> 00:35:04,986 Uh... 646 00:35:05,028 --> 00:35:06,946 I believe I can be the hero 647 00:35:06,988 --> 00:35:09,699 in this, uh, this tragedy of yours. 648 00:35:09,741 --> 00:35:11,373 What's your name? 649 00:35:11,826 --> 00:35:13,620 Uh, that'd be Cook. 650 00:35:13,661 --> 00:35:14,872 And, uh, and you are, again? 651 00:35:14,913 --> 00:35:17,332 Sorry, I was, uh, distracted earlier. 652 00:35:17,373 --> 00:35:18,499 John Brown. 653 00:35:18,541 --> 00:35:20,335 John Brown. 654 00:35:20,376 --> 00:35:22,129 Yeah. 655 00:35:22,693 --> 00:35:24,756 Yeah, that rings familiar. 656 00:35:24,797 --> 00:35:25,924 Yeah. 657 00:35:25,966 --> 00:35:27,050 Welcome aboard. 658 00:35:27,091 --> 00:35:28,552 All right. 659 00:35:28,594 --> 00:35:31,705 I will not let you down, General. 660 00:35:31,747 --> 00:35:33,293 I will not. 661 00:35:34,016 --> 00:35:35,976 I heard your plan. 662 00:35:36,333 --> 00:35:38,604 Mr. Douglass wrote you? 663 00:35:39,159 --> 00:35:40,648 Your plan is good, John. 664 00:35:40,685 --> 00:35:42,441 - Ah, praise Jesus. - Figure out the date 665 00:35:42,483 --> 00:35:44,526 that works best and let me know. 666 00:35:45,194 --> 00:35:47,696 I will come with all the bees I can hive. 667 00:35:48,333 --> 00:35:51,450 But once that date is set, do not change it. 668 00:35:51,493 --> 00:35:53,077 Not for anything. 669 00:35:53,118 --> 00:35:54,913 Of course. I will not. 670 00:35:54,954 --> 00:35:57,973 - I will not. Thank you. - Captain. 671 00:36:02,504 --> 00:36:04,214 We have some questions. 672 00:36:09,054 --> 00:36:10,929 I've seen you before. 673 00:36:11,333 --> 00:36:13,181 In a dream. 674 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:17,494 Who are you? 675 00:36:18,890 --> 00:36:21,143 What are you? 676 00:36:27,529 --> 00:36:29,114 I don't rightly know. 677 00:36:29,374 --> 00:36:33,159 Slavery has made a fool out of a lot of folks. 678 00:36:33,994 --> 00:36:36,705 Twisted them all different kinds of ways. 679 00:36:37,574 --> 00:36:41,126 I seen it happen many a time in my day. 680 00:36:41,574 --> 00:36:44,713 I expect I'll see it in all our tomorrows, too. 681 00:36:45,798 --> 00:36:48,049 For when you slave a person, 682 00:36:48,092 --> 00:36:52,596 you slave the one in front and the one behind. 683 00:36:53,175 --> 00:36:54,598 You understand me? 684 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,055 Yes, ma'am. 685 00:36:59,311 --> 00:37:00,975 Take this. 686 00:37:04,316 --> 00:37:05,935 And keep it. 687 00:37:07,945 --> 00:37:10,255 It's more than a shawl. 688 00:37:11,255 --> 00:37:12,992 Carries hidden meanings. 689 00:37:13,256 --> 00:37:16,203 You're choosing to go back into the lion's den. 690 00:37:16,245 --> 00:37:18,776 Might come in handy when you need it. 691 00:37:19,874 --> 00:37:22,043 Just keep being brave the way you was today, 692 00:37:22,084 --> 00:37:24,921 and do what you can to help the captain. 693 00:37:25,455 --> 00:37:27,256 He's gonna need it. 694 00:37:28,549 --> 00:37:30,335 Yes, General. 695 00:37:37,559 --> 00:37:39,102 General. 696 00:37:40,562 --> 00:37:41,896 Yes? 697 00:37:43,856 --> 00:37:46,776 Thank you for speaking on my behalf. 698 00:37:48,256 --> 00:37:50,217 You have the date? 699 00:37:50,905 --> 00:37:52,256 I do. 700 00:37:59,831 --> 00:38:01,458 John. 701 00:38:01,500 --> 00:38:03,419 Compromise your life 702 00:38:03,450 --> 00:38:06,755 before you compromise the time. 703 00:38:21,937 --> 00:38:24,982 _ 704 00:38:25,024 --> 00:38:28,319 See, the way I figure it, we make too big of a deal 705 00:38:28,361 --> 00:38:31,697 out of this whole Black and white thing. 706 00:38:31,739 --> 00:38:33,074 Truth be told, 707 00:38:33,115 --> 00:38:36,077 there's only three kinds of people in this world: 708 00:38:36,119 --> 00:38:38,121 Those who can count 709 00:38:38,497 --> 00:38:40,338 and those who can't. 710 00:38:44,794 --> 00:38:45,935 Onion? 711 00:38:45,988 --> 00:38:47,547 Could I ask you a question? 712 00:38:47,589 --> 00:38:48,736 Yes, Captain. 713 00:38:48,794 --> 00:38:50,967 Have you ever heard of Harpers Ferry? 714 00:38:52,010 --> 00:38:53,511 - No. - Harpers Ferry, Virginia? 715 00:38:53,553 --> 00:38:56,889 They make rifles there, thousands of them, 716 00:38:56,931 --> 00:38:59,267 and it's only guarded by two men, 717 00:38:59,309 --> 00:39:03,522 and holding enough weapons to arm 5,000. 718 00:39:03,892 --> 00:39:06,274 There's only two guards, 719 00:39:06,316 --> 00:39:08,193 one on either end. 720 00:39:08,235 --> 00:39:09,778 We'll take them easily. 721 00:39:09,820 --> 00:39:12,489 Then we cut the telegraph wires, 722 00:39:12,531 --> 00:39:15,409 we move through the gate with the stolen wagons, 723 00:39:15,450 --> 00:39:18,578 we load rifles between 2 and 4 a.m., 724 00:39:18,621 --> 00:39:19,747 and then... 725 00:39:19,788 --> 00:39:21,040 we escape. 726 00:39:21,081 --> 00:39:23,417 We cut the telegraph wires, storm the guardhouse, 727 00:39:23,459 --> 00:39:27,504 load the rifles, escape right through... 728 00:39:27,546 --> 00:39:29,099 here. 729 00:39:29,798 --> 00:39:31,550 And then... 730 00:39:34,136 --> 00:39:36,816 - ...we retreat. - Retreat where? 731 00:39:37,458 --> 00:39:38,433 South... 732 00:39:38,474 --> 00:39:40,508 ...into the Blue Ridge Mountains. 733 00:39:40,575 --> 00:39:42,854 ...into the Blue Ridge Mountains. 734 00:39:42,895 --> 00:39:44,328 And as we pull back, 735 00:39:44,375 --> 00:39:46,231 planters won't be able to withstand the cost 736 00:39:46,274 --> 00:39:47,862 of the Negroes leaving, 737 00:39:47,888 --> 00:39:50,153 and they won't be able to sleep at night for fear. 738 00:39:50,194 --> 00:39:52,029 I ran those trails as a boy. 739 00:39:52,078 --> 00:39:55,814 I surveyed that land since before any of you were born. 740 00:39:55,844 --> 00:39:59,137 There are thin passes, too thin for columns of men, 741 00:39:59,178 --> 00:40:00,414 too steep for cannon. 742 00:40:00,438 --> 00:40:04,130 A small group of dedicated, trained soldiers 743 00:40:04,208 --> 00:40:07,633 can hold off an enemy for years. 744 00:40:07,675 --> 00:40:09,756 It's happened many times before. 745 00:40:09,798 --> 00:40:10,971 Do you know Spartacus? 746 00:40:11,014 --> 00:40:14,094 We'll arm the first 5,000, 747 00:40:14,135 --> 00:40:16,334 then we move through the mountains, 748 00:40:16,358 --> 00:40:19,196 defeating the pro-slavers as we go. 749 00:40:19,242 --> 00:40:22,016 Father, what if... what if we get these fine men killed? 750 00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,145 Wh-What if what we are doing is wrong? 751 00:40:24,188 --> 00:40:27,327 Wrong? We're not talking about right and wrong. 752 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,424 This country's been wrong since the beginning, 753 00:40:29,467 --> 00:40:31,987 since the first Thanksgiving... Ask the Indians. 754 00:40:32,029 --> 00:40:34,490 That's not what we're talking about. 755 00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,555 We're talking about breathing life 756 00:40:37,596 --> 00:40:39,890 - back into her soul. - Old man, 757 00:40:39,932 --> 00:40:43,145 the cheese has slid all the way off your biscuit. 758 00:40:43,845 --> 00:40:46,140 Negroes will hive to us from near and far. 759 00:40:46,313 --> 00:40:47,648 They'll hive for us. 760 00:40:48,101 --> 00:40:49,900 We have the support of Frederick Douglass. 761 00:40:49,942 --> 00:40:51,527 We have the blessing... 762 00:40:51,570 --> 00:40:53,280 of Frederick Douglass... 763 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:54,448 And the general. 764 00:40:54,488 --> 00:40:56,158 ...and the general herself. 765 00:40:56,198 --> 00:40:57,491 Why wouldn't they? 766 00:40:57,534 --> 00:40:58,702 Frederick Douglass is coming? 767 00:40:58,744 --> 00:41:00,412 Old man, you puttin' us on. 768 00:41:00,454 --> 00:41:01,602 Father, I don't doubt your word 769 00:41:01,653 --> 00:41:03,415 or study, but our aim has always been 770 00:41:03,457 --> 00:41:06,001 to free the slave and to harass the pro-slaver. 771 00:41:06,042 --> 00:41:07,461 Pebbles in the ocean, son. 772 00:41:07,502 --> 00:41:11,089 We're no longer simply freeing slaves. 773 00:41:11,131 --> 00:41:13,661 We're hiving them to fight. 774 00:41:13,813 --> 00:41:15,648 Our aim... 775 00:41:15,844 --> 00:41:17,137 revolution. 776 00:41:17,179 --> 00:41:18,513 There are 1,200 777 00:41:18,555 --> 00:41:21,224 colored people in Harpers Ferry alone. 778 00:41:21,266 --> 00:41:25,020 30,000 in the surrounding 50 miles. 779 00:41:25,063 --> 00:41:29,192 When they hear that we have a loaded rifle waiting for them, 780 00:41:29,232 --> 00:41:31,359 we'll make friends fast. 781 00:41:31,401 --> 00:41:33,762 I'm gonna need you to form the advance guard 782 00:41:33,786 --> 00:41:34,988 at Harpers Ferry. 783 00:41:35,031 --> 00:41:36,157 Onion... 784 00:41:36,199 --> 00:41:38,034 will serve as the advance guard, 785 00:41:38,076 --> 00:41:39,534 - with you, Cook. - You... 786 00:41:40,101 --> 00:41:42,747 and Cook, I'm gonna need you to stake a residence 787 00:41:42,789 --> 00:41:45,917 near the armory, but far from peeping eyes. 788 00:41:45,957 --> 00:41:49,921 That way you can gather intelligence on the sly. 789 00:41:53,256 --> 00:41:54,592 Captain, 790 00:41:54,634 --> 00:41:57,136 ain't nothin' intelligent about that fella. 791 00:41:57,178 --> 00:41:59,263 Hmm. He's a good talker, 792 00:41:59,305 --> 00:42:01,516 and he can mix in with daily life well. 793 00:42:01,557 --> 00:42:03,476 Frederick Douglass will bring thousands. 794 00:42:03,518 --> 00:42:04,644 So will the general. 795 00:42:05,201 --> 00:42:07,106 You just need to hive the locals. 796 00:42:07,146 --> 00:42:09,982 Soldiers, pilgrims, 797 00:42:10,024 --> 00:42:12,710 fellow children of God, that, in short, 798 00:42:12,734 --> 00:42:14,779 is the plan. 799 00:42:14,822 --> 00:42:16,949 Why not keep the fight in Kansas? 800 00:42:16,989 --> 00:42:18,233 We have friends there. 801 00:42:18,268 --> 00:42:19,785 - Mm, we know the land. - We do, 802 00:42:19,827 --> 00:42:21,537 but if you wanted to kill a lion, 803 00:42:21,577 --> 00:42:23,162 would you chop off its tail? 804 00:42:23,205 --> 00:42:25,082 Kansas is the tail. 805 00:42:25,124 --> 00:42:26,667 Virginia is its terrible head. 806 00:42:26,707 --> 00:42:27,941 We is ready. 807 00:42:27,990 --> 00:42:29,534 - Mm-hmm. - All we need is a chance. 808 00:42:29,573 --> 00:42:32,152 I know y'all is ready, but the white folks is more ready. 809 00:42:32,186 --> 00:42:33,757 They got more guns, and they're gonna donate 810 00:42:33,799 --> 00:42:36,176 all the bullets they have to elephant hunt 811 00:42:36,218 --> 00:42:37,874 every Negro in this region 812 00:42:37,916 --> 00:42:39,763 five minutes after they kill the old man! 813 00:42:39,805 --> 00:42:42,141 You're talking about a lot of people dying. 814 00:42:44,099 --> 00:42:45,643 Yes. 815 00:42:46,019 --> 00:42:47,938 I am. 816 00:42:49,522 --> 00:42:53,026 I'm talking about purging this guilty land with blood. 817 00:42:53,862 --> 00:42:56,405 I'm talking about civil war. 818 00:42:56,447 --> 00:42:58,504 You sure about this, Father? 819 00:42:59,865 --> 00:43:02,534 As He who made me. 820 00:43:02,996 --> 00:43:05,063 I'm with you all. 821 00:43:05,944 --> 00:43:08,208 Unto the brink. 822 00:43:09,544 --> 00:43:10,936 Me, too. 823 00:43:10,991 --> 00:43:13,338 I will come if I can bring my wife. 824 00:43:16,446 --> 00:43:19,512 You said we were made from one blood. 825 00:43:19,904 --> 00:43:22,724 It would be wrong for us to die apart. 826 00:43:22,764 --> 00:43:24,559 If y'all gonna kill a lion, 827 00:43:24,601 --> 00:43:26,394 then I'm gonna be there. 828 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,190 Well, this is a bold and outrageous plan. 829 00:43:32,193 --> 00:43:33,735 I mean that in a good way. 830 00:43:33,777 --> 00:43:35,820 I'm very excited. Let's do it. 831 00:43:35,862 --> 00:43:38,104 Onion... 832 00:43:38,501 --> 00:43:40,377 it's not an order. 833 00:43:40,402 --> 00:43:41,512 You're free to... 834 00:43:41,536 --> 00:43:44,222 join the fight or not, as you wish. 835 00:43:47,224 --> 00:43:49,185 I'm with you, Captain.