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It was the decade after the Civil War.
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Those first years of freedom
were a time of change...
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...for Tom Harvey and his family.
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But freedom was only the beginning.
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Hold your horses!
l got me a dumb nigger making trouble.
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l gots the right to vote!
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Papa, this here's Will Palmer.
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-Mr. Palmer.
-Do you love me?
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This ain't the time nor the place
to be talking about a thing like that.
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And things had changed
for Colonel Warner and his family.
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-We were married.
-As far as l'm concerned...
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...you are a nigger.
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Your father'd never forgive me
if he knew l came at all.
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What's that white lady doing here?
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l support with my heart's blood...
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...any action to safeguard...
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...the purity of white civilization.
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Roots. The true story
of an American family.
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This family gonna go forward.
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From the end of innocence
to the easy times of a new era.
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l wish you could stay with me now.
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Through the war overseas
and hard times at home...
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He's Alexander Murray Palmer Haley.
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...the family,s dream of freedom survived.
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Haley. Alex Haley. l'm a writer.
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We call your race ""niggers.""
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l have been called nigger many times...
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...and this is the first time
l'm being paid for it.
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The fulfillment of a dream
that lasted 200 years.
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You old African!
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l found you!
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Kunta Kinte!
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One family,s triumph
is a triumph for us all.
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And now,
Roots: The Next Generations.
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People will be contrary...
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...and bad and mean. Giddap.
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A Christian woman can just take
so much. That's all l'm saying.
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This is a line
between flesh and blood...
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...that you can abide it or not.
Giddap here.
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l've been patient, you hear?
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l've been patient as Job's turkey.
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God is my witness.
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Come on, mule. Giddap here!
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""Chicken George."" Good name for him.
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Because he's just like a old, dirty
chicken. Fretsome, strutting and crowing.
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That old man is not
gonna cross my threshold...
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...with his dirty old rooster
and his poached eggs!
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-He got to stay somewhere. lt's your turn.
-No, it ain't.
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l don't care if he stay in a ditch
alongside the road.
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He's a uppity old man
long past his time!
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Now, you shut your mouth,
you old Sally.
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You hear?!
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Come on, Papa.
You gonna be with us a spell.
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Don't know if l wants to.
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Now, Papa, l gotta be
on the train to Memphis.
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And l don't want you
making no trouble for lrene.
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Who's lrene?
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-You knows who. She's my wife.
-Oh, that lrene.
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-Come on, Papa George, let me help you.
-Don't need no woman helping me.
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Where's my bird?
Somebody stole my bird!
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-No, Papa George.
-She said she's gonna put it in the pot!
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l heard what she said!
She stole my fighting chicken!
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-Papa George....
-He's right here, Papa.
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Elizabeth, go get that corn-shuck pallet
so your grandpa can rest hisself.
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Giddap!
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You satisfied keeping the old man?
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That's what we promised your
Mama Tildy before she went to Glory.
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And he family, ain't he?
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London, England. That's where l was
fighting birds for Sir Eric Russell.
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That's the truth. You hear me, Elizabeth?
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-l'm Cynthy, Grandpa.
-That's what l said. Now...
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...around all them lords and earls...
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...l got the habit
of eating my eggs poached.
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London, England. Everybody there
eats their eggs poached.
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Papa, you ain't gonna make no fuss
whiles l's away in Memphis.
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-What you going for?
-l told you. Politics.
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Mr. Beeman Jones,
the most important colored Republican...
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...done sent for me to come
all the way to Memphis.
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Prance around.
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Call yourself
the Committee for Republicans of Color.
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Boy, do you know
what the white Republicans...
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...call the Committee
for Republicans of Color?
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Niggers.
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Papa, you never did know nothing
except fighting chickens.
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Now, Tom, you ain't got no time
to be talking about politics.
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Now, don't you forget them dry goods
from the store in Memphis, and the frogs.
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-Frogs?
-l told you, frogs.
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Them braid fasteners
for my black church dress.
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Now, Cynthy, l want you to carry
your daddy's carpetbag out.
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Bye, Papa.
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Boy, when the fool-killer come around...
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...you and your nigger Republicans
sure better hide in the high grass.
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-ls that the truth, Daddy?
-What?
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All them stories Grandpa George tell
about his fighting chickens.
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Always won, hundreds and hundreds
and hundreds of times?
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Well, Cynthy,
he roamed from London, England...
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...to Charleston and places in between.
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But l expect that chicken story,
just like them fighting cocks...
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...a lot of flapping and crowing...
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...but when you plucks out
all the feathers...
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-...ain't much meat to it.
-Then they ain't true.
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Them tales he tells
from the old times, they ain't true?
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About that Kinte and the funny words
from Africa and all that?
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Hold on. Hold on.
Now, that's something else.
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Them stories from
the far olden times, they's all true.
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-Papa!
-Coming, Elizabeth.
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l recollect, when l was a little boy...
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...running around the quarters,
shirttail naked...
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...my Grandmamma Kizzy
used to tell me the selfsame tale...
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...about the old African
who calls himself Kinte.
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l know.
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He call the river Kambi Bolongo
and the slave catchers cut off his foot.
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And just like your Grandpa George
told you, my Grandma Kizzy told me.
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And it was her daddy was the African
himself. And that make it true.
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What you doing with your shoes
around your neck?
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You're going to the depot,
not the cotton patch.
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Your mama would die
from mortification.
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l'll be staying
at Judge Damian's in Memphis.
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Any necessary communication can be
addressed to me there by telegraph.
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-James!
-l heard you, Papa.
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l wish you'd oblige me, sir, by looking
me in the eye when l address you.
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l didn't know l was being addressed.
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l often wonder what you managed
to find to occupy yourself...
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...for two years of college...
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...without touching a single subject
of any practical advantage for gentlemen.
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Poetry.
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James, l had....
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l have...
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...the highest hopes for you
to carry on the family tradition.
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You have a keen, agile mind.
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l'll still entertain the conviction that
if you'd read law with a proper advocate...
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-...you could be admitted to the bar.
-You'll be late for your train.
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The train will wait.
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-James--
-Papa, it's no use.
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The affairs of the Chesapeake,
Ohio and Southwestern...
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...will not come down from father to son
unless Andy is called to the bar.
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Your brother is frequently
called to the bar.
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ln fact, he never passes one by.
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Jimmy, l am concerned about you.
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A gentleman--
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No, l will go further.
A man must at some time of his life...
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...reach a point where he says,
""This is my duty.
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This l must do to be a man.""
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Colonel, Mrs. Warner is sitting outside
in the carriage waiting for you...
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-...to take her to the depot.
-Yes, Minnie, l'm coming.
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-What about that gal in the kitchen?
-What gal?
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-This teacher for the colored.
-Oh, yes, yes. She wrote a letter.
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Bring her in here.
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-What's the matter?
-You want me to bring that colored gal...
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-...right in here?
-Just do what l tell you, Minnie.
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l ain't never heard no outside niggers
coming in the house before.
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Now, l believe, sir, we were discussing
your occupation or lack of it.
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A gentleman in these modern times
can hardly occupy himself...
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...writing scripts of light verse
for irreverent magazines.
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Come in. Come in. Minnie,
tell Mrs. Warner l'll be right out.
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-You're the schoolteacher?
-Yes, sir.
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Tom Harvey recommends you
very highly, young woman.
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l'm very grateful to Mr. Harvey
for his confidence.
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You want to borrow some books.
Well....
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-What was your name?
-Barden. Carrie Barden.
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Well, Miss Carrie...
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...l'm a great believer in appropriate
education for our colored children...
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-...and l wish you well in your endeavor.
-Thank you, colonel.
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By all means, stay and peruse
the shelves. My son will assist you.
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Although l'm not sure you'll find volumes
simple enough for your usage.
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-Miss Carrie.
-Safe trip, Papa.
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Thank you, James.
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Lot of books.
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l'll wager you never saw
so many books in one place.
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lt is a fine library.
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Little harder than
the First Primer or McGuffey,s.
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Yes, sir. l imagine so.
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lf you have any trouble
with the titles, l'll help you.
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That's very kind of you.
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Actually, there are a lot
of old friends here.
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Shakespeare, Paradise Lost...
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...Mr. Dickens, Mr. Whittier...
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...and Mrs. Browning.
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Sonnets from the Portuguese.
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You don't need any help, do you?
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l take the offer kindly, sir.
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Do you think your father
would allow me to borrow this?
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-Why do you want that?
-Well, l have a student.
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l thought she might
find Mrs. Browning...
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...most sympathetic.
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Well, l'll be damned!
l mean, that is an amazing notion!
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A colored girl reading
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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lt is. Almost as amazing as her
colored teacher borrowing it for her.
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-l'll come back when your father returns.
-You don't have to go. Hold on.
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l'll just go now and....
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You've read Mrs. Browning?
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Yes.
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l wasn't supposed to. They didn't think
her poems were suitable for females...
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...but all of us at college read them.
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Col--
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You mean you went to co--?
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Where?
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Fisk.
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l was in second graduating class.
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That's remarkable.
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That is remarkable.
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l mean, l don't suppose there are
two people in Lauderdale County...
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...who have ever read Mrs. Browning's
poems, and you're one of them!
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l trust you will accept my formal apology
if l've offended you in any way.
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Yes.
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Yes, sir, if you like.
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Please, continue selecting your volumes.
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-What is it, Minnie?
-When she done, call me...
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...and l'll see her out the kitchen.
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All right, Minnie.
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Do you know Whitman?
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-Whitcomb? James Whitcomb--
-No, no, no. Whitman. Walt Whitman.
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He's a newspaper editor up north.
The Brooklyn Eagle, l think it is.
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He writes poetry. lt's very odd, though.
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-Odd?
-Nothing spiritual or ideal about it.
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lt's earthy. Physical love
between a man and a woman....
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l hope l haven't offended you...
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...mentioning an indelicate
topic before a la-- A female.
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l think that's what's so uplifting
about poetry. l mean...
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...you can think about
so many things that would be...
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-...most improper if it wasn't a poem.
-That's true. That is very true.
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But most people
just don't understand that.
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-l'd better go.
-l have a copy of that book in my trunk.
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lf it ever arrives,
l'd be happy to lend it to you.
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l wouldn't put you to any bother.
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Thank you, Mr. Warner.
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Come on, Willy. We're gonna miss
the steam cars being flagged down.
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Come on!
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Danny, hand me that catcher!
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Hurry up, son!
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Thank you.
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Boys, when l give the signal, you
start playing just like we rehearsed it.
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Hey, you young'uns!
Get off that track!
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The train come, you gonna be
cut right in half!
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You hear me? You get off that track,
and you stay off it!
236
00:16:00,671 --> 00:16:03,671
Are you sure it's safe, Frederick?
This close to the track?
237
00:16:04,108 --> 00:16:06,109
Won't the horses bolt?
238
00:16:06,110 --> 00:16:09,110
Don't worry, my dear.
Jethro will hold their heads.
239
00:16:09,780 --> 00:16:12,415
The train will be stopping
in Henning every other day.
240
00:16:12,416 --> 00:16:14,251
We must accept progress.
241
00:16:14,252 --> 00:16:17,252
l'm not sure that a steam engine
pouring out smoke is progress.
242
00:16:18,389 --> 00:16:21,389
You are a romantic, my dear.
243
00:16:22,927 --> 00:16:25,829
Andy Warner,
you are just crazy in the head.
244
00:16:25,830 --> 00:16:28,498
You're gonna break my neck.
245
00:16:28,499 --> 00:16:30,333
Morning, Papa.
246
00:16:30,334 --> 00:16:33,069
We thought we'd wish you
a pleasant and profitable trip.
247
00:16:33,070 --> 00:16:35,472
-Andrew.
-Where are my manners?
248
00:16:35,473 --> 00:16:38,473
Papa, may l introduce to you
Miss Lucy Damson?
249
00:16:38,876 --> 00:16:41,876
-l've heard of Miss Damson.
-Colonel...
250
00:16:41,879 --> 00:16:44,879
...you knew me when l used to
run around your place bare-bottom naked.
251
00:16:45,716 --> 00:16:48,716
My daddy was overseer before the war.
Royce Damson.
252
00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,720
l did not recognize you clothed.
253
00:16:53,991 --> 00:16:56,991
l take it you're on liquor, sir,
or you'd be aware your mother's present.
254
00:16:57,562 --> 00:17:00,562
Mama, may l introduce to you Miss Lucy?
255
00:17:01,198 --> 00:17:04,198
Andrew, l'm here to bid
your father goodbye.
256
00:17:04,802 --> 00:17:07,802
Please don't force me to be unmannerly.
257
00:17:09,674 --> 00:17:12,576
Yeah.
258
00:17:12,577 --> 00:17:15,345
We can watch the trains
come in when we get old.
259
00:17:15,346 --> 00:17:18,346
Come on! Giddap!
260
00:17:27,358 --> 00:17:29,960
Folks, l tell you,
this is a great day for Henning.
261
00:17:29,961 --> 00:17:32,961
With the first train coming through, this
town is gonna grow into a metropolis.
262
00:17:35,967 --> 00:17:38,101
Danny, hand me my flag!
263
00:17:38,102 --> 00:17:40,804
There's smoke, Papa!
lt's coming! lt's coming!
264
00:17:40,805 --> 00:17:43,805
Cynthy, remember you saw the first train
to ever stop in Henning.
265
00:17:44,308 --> 00:17:47,308
Papa, you ever ride on the cars before?
266
00:17:47,311 --> 00:17:50,046
First time.
267
00:17:50,047 --> 00:17:51,982
Here l be...
268
00:17:51,983 --> 00:17:54,017
...a free man in my Sunday clothes...
269
00:17:54,018 --> 00:17:57,018
...with a first-class ticket to ride
in my hand.
270
00:17:57,154 --> 00:17:58,955
lf you don't mind, Frederick...
271
00:17:58,956 --> 00:18:01,956
...l shall ask Jethro to drive me home
before the train comes.
272
00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:05,560
-l don't trust the horses.
-Of course, my dear.
273
00:18:05,796 --> 00:18:08,796
l wish you a safe
and successful journey.
274
00:18:11,235 --> 00:18:14,235
Jethro.
275
00:19:03,921 --> 00:19:06,921
Sir, welcome you to Henning.
lt's a glorious day.
276
00:19:15,399 --> 00:19:17,500
Let me help you with that.
277
00:19:17,501 --> 00:19:20,501
Now, you be good
and mind your mama, you hear?
278
00:19:24,275 --> 00:19:27,275
All right, you go on up a ways, uncle.
279
00:19:27,745 --> 00:19:30,580
Excuse me, sir,
this here a first-class ticket.
280
00:19:30,581 --> 00:19:33,581
What are you talking about?
281
00:19:34,852 --> 00:19:37,852
Well, l seen it. Now, go ahead and
get on that car there like l told you.
282
00:19:38,856 --> 00:19:41,856
That the baggage car
with the second-class board benches.
283
00:19:42,193 --> 00:19:45,193
-This here a first-class ticket.
-Now, look here, uncle...
284
00:19:45,262 --> 00:19:48,262
...if you wanna ride these cars,
you'll do as l tell you, you hear?
285
00:19:48,599 --> 00:19:50,900
l don't want you
to cause no trouble, you hear?
286
00:19:50,901 --> 00:19:53,901
l paid me for a first-class ticket.
287
00:19:54,004 --> 00:19:57,004
l got the right to ride where this
ticket say, in the first-class carriage.
288
00:19:57,942 --> 00:20:00,143
-Let's get going.
-Hold your horses!
289
00:20:00,144 --> 00:20:03,144
l got me a dumb nigger making trouble!
Now, you listen here...
290
00:20:03,380 --> 00:20:06,380
...if you want to ride this train, you
go get on that Jim Crow car like l said.
291
00:20:07,752 --> 00:20:10,553
Law say a man got a right
to what he paid for.
292
00:20:10,554 --> 00:20:13,554
-The Jim Crow law says--
-Perhaps l can be of some assistance.
293
00:20:14,725 --> 00:20:17,725
l don't need no assistance.
Who are you?
294
00:20:17,928 --> 00:20:20,928
Well, l'm general counsel of the West
Tennessee division of this railroad...
295
00:20:22,500 --> 00:20:25,500
-...Colonel Frederick Warner.
-Oh, l'm sorry, l didn't know.
296
00:20:25,736 --> 00:20:28,638
-Colonel Warner, of course.
-What's going on?
297
00:20:28,639 --> 00:20:31,141
l told him he had to ride
on the baggage car, but--
298
00:20:31,142 --> 00:20:33,510
l paid me for a first-class ticket.
299
00:20:33,511 --> 00:20:36,511
Colored people always ride
the first-class coach since the war...
300
00:20:37,348 --> 00:20:39,916
...if they got a first-class ticket.
That the law.
301
00:20:39,917 --> 00:20:42,917
No more, it ain't. From now on,
in the state of Tennessee...
302
00:20:43,053 --> 00:20:45,388
...niggers do not ride
in the first-class coach.
303
00:20:45,389 --> 00:20:48,191
-And that's the law.
-Conductor...
304
00:20:48,192 --> 00:20:50,960
...certainly, for the railroad,
let me counsel you.
305
00:20:50,961 --> 00:20:53,961
Mr. Hapgood sold this ticket
in good faith to this man.
306
00:20:54,465 --> 00:20:57,465
Clearly, it's a case
of race ante legem...
307
00:20:57,735 --> 00:21:00,735
...until due notification
of the statute in situ.
308
00:21:00,905 --> 00:21:03,905
You mean l gotta let him ride?
Well, what about the law?
309
00:21:03,974 --> 00:21:06,974
My dear fella,
only a lower order of white riffraff...
310
00:21:08,045 --> 00:21:11,045
...needs such a law
to allay their fears.
311
00:21:11,715 --> 00:21:14,715
Tom and l know who we are.
We understand each other.
312
00:21:16,754 --> 00:21:19,754
Well, what the hell you waiting on?
Go ahead, get on!
313
00:21:28,966 --> 00:21:31,801
l don't care if he owns
the entire railroad.
314
00:21:31,802 --> 00:21:34,070
The law's the law
in the state of Tennessee...
315
00:21:34,071 --> 00:21:37,071
...and that's the last nigger gonna ride
first-class on my train, you hear?
316
00:21:37,842 --> 00:21:39,442
Give me that.
317
00:21:39,443 --> 00:21:41,911
Yes, sir.
318
00:21:41,912 --> 00:21:44,912
Board!
319
00:21:53,090 --> 00:21:56,090
Bye, Daddy. Bye!
320
00:22:26,924 --> 00:22:29,924
Elizabeth!
321
00:23:01,425 --> 00:23:04,425
That was fine, darling.
You played real fine.
322
00:23:04,528 --> 00:23:06,296
Daddy's proud of you.
323
00:23:06,297 --> 00:23:09,232
Good night, Mr. Harvey,
Representative Boyd.
324
00:23:09,233 --> 00:23:12,233
-Good night, darling.
-Good night, dear.
325
00:23:13,070 --> 00:23:15,204
Please.
326
00:23:15,205 --> 00:23:18,205
Now, gentlemen, the truth of the matter
is that the colored voter in Tennessee...
327
00:23:19,877 --> 00:23:22,877
...is facing a major crisis
in the forthcoming elections.
328
00:23:23,380 --> 00:23:26,380
Now, l'll be talking
to all of the county leaders in turn.
329
00:23:27,351 --> 00:23:29,018
Now, in the last election...
330
00:23:29,019 --> 00:23:32,019
...we delivered the colored vote solid
to the Republican Party.
331
00:23:32,990 --> 00:23:34,857
Now, what happened?
332
00:23:34,858 --> 00:23:37,858
They turned lily white on us.
There were no state jobs for coloreds.
333
00:23:39,229 --> 00:23:42,229
Now, we cannot afford
to let them take us for granted.
334
00:23:44,234 --> 00:23:47,234
Mr. Harvey, you rode up on the cars
with Colonel Frederick Warner.
335
00:23:47,805 --> 00:23:49,472
Yes.
336
00:23:49,473 --> 00:23:51,407
That was no accident.
337
00:23:51,408 --> 00:23:54,408
You see, Colonel Warner
is here to do business with us.
338
00:23:56,213 --> 00:23:59,213
The Democrats want our votes.
339
00:23:59,249 --> 00:24:02,249
Now, if you gentlemen can deliver
those votes out there in the counties...
340
00:24:03,087 --> 00:24:06,087
...we got ourselves
one sweet little deal.
341
00:24:07,791 --> 00:24:10,626
With the Warners?
342
00:24:10,627 --> 00:24:13,627
ln the old days, they owned more
niggers than anybody in the county.
343
00:24:14,898 --> 00:24:17,898
ln the Johnson Amnesty they
stole back the land from the coloreds.
344
00:24:20,671 --> 00:24:23,671
-You telling me l got to vote for them?
-Mr. Harvey...
345
00:24:24,408 --> 00:24:26,743
...we are not talking
about the last judgment...
346
00:24:26,744 --> 00:24:29,545
...where the Lord will separate
the sheep from the goats.
347
00:24:29,546 --> 00:24:32,546
We are talking politics.
348
00:24:37,021 --> 00:24:40,021
l ain't never vote
nothing but Republican.
349
00:24:41,525 --> 00:24:44,060
l ain't gonna ask
my people to vote for no...
350
00:24:44,061 --> 00:24:46,596
...nigger-owning rebel officer.
351
00:24:46,597 --> 00:24:49,399
They want us bad, Mr. Harvey.
352
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,834
They're willing to make a deal.
353
00:24:51,835 --> 00:24:53,936
We give them our support...
354
00:24:53,937 --> 00:24:56,937
...and they will protect
the coloreds' civil rights.
355
00:24:57,041 --> 00:24:59,909
They will protect the vote.
356
00:24:59,910 --> 00:25:02,910
As long as we got that,
we still got hope.
357
00:25:07,017 --> 00:25:10,017
l be a blacksmith, that's all.
358
00:25:10,888 --> 00:25:13,022
Ain't had no schooling.
359
00:25:13,023 --> 00:25:16,023
Now you tell me l got to vote
for them redeemer Democrats...
360
00:25:18,162 --> 00:25:21,162
...l got to believe it.
361
00:25:21,598 --> 00:25:24,598
But something tell me
my old daddy had the truth of it.
362
00:25:26,170 --> 00:25:29,170
When the fool-killer come...
363
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,640
...we all better be hiding
in the high grass.
364
00:25:40,517 --> 00:25:42,952
l know what you're doing.
365
00:25:42,953 --> 00:25:45,188
You go on and get out of here!
366
00:25:45,189 --> 00:25:48,189
You're looking in the mirror, trying to
see the face of your future husband.
367
00:25:48,992 --> 00:25:51,992
-You are out of your head, child.
-You see him?
368
00:25:54,198 --> 00:25:57,198
-What he look like?
-Handsome.
369
00:25:57,501 --> 00:26:00,501
Real handsome. He got brown eyes
and he's real tall.
370
00:26:02,473 --> 00:26:05,473
Oh, and, Cynthy, he got
the nicest smile you ever want to see.
371
00:26:06,610 --> 00:26:09,610
Can't see that face in no looking glass.
That's the boy l saw you with at the depot.
372
00:26:11,915 --> 00:26:14,517
-Hush up.
-l seen you holding hands.
373
00:26:14,518 --> 00:26:16,686
-You hush up!
-And hugging and kissing.
374
00:26:16,687 --> 00:26:19,687
-Cynthy, l'm gonna do you.
-l seen you. That ain't the only thing.
375
00:26:19,890 --> 00:26:22,558
-He a white boy.
-Not true! Not true!
376
00:26:22,559 --> 00:26:24,727
He ain't no white boy!
You hear me?!
377
00:26:24,728 --> 00:26:27,728
-He is colored! He is colored!
-Elizabeth!
378
00:26:28,298 --> 00:26:31,298
Now y'all just stop that squabbling.
379
00:26:31,902 --> 00:26:34,337
What in the world
is a matter with you children?
380
00:26:34,338 --> 00:26:37,338
-Mama, you know what she--?
-Child, you better get in that house...
381
00:26:37,574 --> 00:26:39,408
-...and clean yourself up.
-But she--
382
00:26:39,409 --> 00:26:42,409
lf you don't get out of here,
child, you better.
383
00:26:42,613 --> 00:26:44,680
Elizabeth?
384
00:26:44,681 --> 00:26:47,083
-What his name?
-Who, Mama?
385
00:26:47,084 --> 00:26:49,919
Now, child, don't you trifle with me.
l said, who is he?
386
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,321
Name John Dolan.
387
00:26:52,322 --> 00:26:55,322
-Don't know no John Dolan.
-From over Ripley way.
388
00:26:56,026 --> 00:26:59,026
l met him when l was help taking care
Aunt Lacey Berwin with the pneumonia.
389
00:27:01,131 --> 00:27:03,866
-Where did you see him?
-Nowheres.
390
00:27:03,867 --> 00:27:06,867
-Except just walking, that's all.
-What happened, Elizabeth?
391
00:27:08,305 --> 00:27:11,107
-He mess with you?
-No, Mama!
392
00:27:11,108 --> 00:27:14,043
-Mama, l swear!
-Leastways l knows you ain't pregnant...
393
00:27:14,044 --> 00:27:16,579
...because you finish your time
a week ago Tuesday.
394
00:27:16,580 --> 00:27:19,580
Mama, you shouldn't be
saying nothing like that.
395
00:27:19,583 --> 00:27:22,583
Why not?
Child, that's a mama's business.
396
00:27:23,353 --> 00:27:26,353
Keeping track of her daughter's time of
month so she don't get in no sinful ways.
397
00:27:27,658 --> 00:27:30,658
Yeah, but, Mama, you ain't got no right
to expect nothing like that.
398
00:27:32,095 --> 00:27:34,931
l just love him, that's all.
399
00:27:34,932 --> 00:27:37,932
-Mama, what there be wrong about that?
-Nothing.
400
00:27:38,035 --> 00:27:40,903
But we's a respectable
and Christian family.
401
00:27:40,904 --> 00:27:43,904
Now, you wants to keep company with
the boy, then you do it respectable.
402
00:27:45,008 --> 00:27:47,510
There ain't gonna be
running off behind the bushes.
403
00:27:47,511 --> 00:27:49,812
-Not in this family.
-l know, Mama. l'm not--
404
00:27:49,813 --> 00:27:52,813
You got to ask your papa's permission
to keep company.
405
00:27:53,217 --> 00:27:56,217
-But, Mama, l loves John. lf l got--
-Child, now that's all there is to it.
406
00:27:57,688 --> 00:28:00,688
Now, you ask him
when he get back from Memphis.
407
00:28:01,225 --> 00:28:03,826
Now, listen to me, child,
because till then...
408
00:28:03,827 --> 00:28:06,827
...you ain't to see
nary hide nor hair of that boy.
409
00:28:07,531 --> 00:28:10,531
Not till your papa say yes or no.
410
00:28:11,134 --> 00:28:14,134
Yes, ma'am.
411
00:28:41,098 --> 00:28:43,432
Please, ma'am.
l got to go down to the depot...
412
00:28:43,433 --> 00:28:45,534
...and fetch something
for my mama.
413
00:28:45,535 --> 00:28:48,535
And l'm gonna be late if l don't hurry.
414
00:28:49,773 --> 00:28:51,741
All right.
415
00:28:51,742 --> 00:28:54,742
-l'll see you Monday, Elizabeth.
-Yes, ma'am.
416
00:29:04,288 --> 00:29:07,288
l didn't mean to interfere.
l thought all the children were gone.
417
00:29:07,791 --> 00:29:10,791
Except Elizabeth.
l'm afraid she didn't read it at all.
418
00:29:12,362 --> 00:29:15,362
l thought she'd feel close
to Mrs. Browning, but...
419
00:29:17,067 --> 00:29:19,835
...it's a long way
from ltaly to Tennessee.
420
00:29:19,836 --> 00:29:22,836
-l'll get the books for you.
-Oh, no. l didn't come for the books.
421
00:29:25,809 --> 00:29:28,809
ln fact, quite the contrary.
My trunk finally arrived.
422
00:29:30,614 --> 00:29:33,614
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.
l said l'd lend it to you.
423
00:29:33,884 --> 00:29:36,452
l didn't think
you'd bring it here, Mr. Warner.
424
00:29:36,453 --> 00:29:38,387
Perhaps when l bring
the others back...
425
00:29:38,388 --> 00:29:41,223
-...you'll leave it for me in the kitchen.
-l have it now.
426
00:29:41,224 --> 00:29:44,126
There's a poem here somewhere.
427
00:29:44,127 --> 00:29:47,127
lt begins:
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed
428
00:29:47,230 --> 00:29:50,066
l read it last night,
and l was most affected.
429
00:29:50,067 --> 00:29:52,935
lt's about Lincoln, when he died.
430
00:29:52,936 --> 00:29:55,936
The star early drooped
In the western sky
431
00:29:56,106 --> 00:29:59,106
l even started downstairs to the sitting
room to just share it with someone.
432
00:30:01,378 --> 00:30:04,378
But l suddenly realized that there's
absolutely no one in this town...
433
00:30:04,748 --> 00:30:07,748
...l could talk to
about anything like this.
434
00:30:09,186 --> 00:30:12,186
Well, l do understand your feeling,
Mr. Warner, but--
435
00:30:13,056 --> 00:30:16,056
l do have one serious
misgiving, however.
436
00:30:17,127 --> 00:30:20,127
There is, of course, a profound
and obvious difference between us.
437
00:30:22,866 --> 00:30:25,866
There are passages in
this book, words...
438
00:30:27,871 --> 00:30:30,871
...and apostrophes to the human anatomy,
which might disturb your sensibilities.
439
00:30:32,409 --> 00:30:35,409
You mean because l'm a female?
That's what you mean?
440
00:30:36,513 --> 00:30:39,513
Well, it is true that ladies
are of a purer nature.
441
00:30:40,150 --> 00:30:42,918
My mama can hardly refer
to the nether extremities.
442
00:30:42,919 --> 00:30:45,919
She calls the leg of a table a limb.
443
00:30:46,890 --> 00:30:49,890
l assure you, Mr. Warner,
l call a leg a leg...
444
00:30:51,395 --> 00:30:53,729
...whether it's on a table or on myself.
445
00:30:53,730 --> 00:30:56,730
Well, in that case, l'm very glad
l didn't excise certain words.
446
00:30:57,667 --> 00:30:59,602
l was gonna cut them out
with my razor.
447
00:30:59,603 --> 00:31:02,603
Oh, no! You wouldn't cut up a book.
That would be like mutilating a child!
448
00:31:06,343 --> 00:31:09,343
You're absolutely right, Miss Barden.
449
00:31:13,483 --> 00:31:15,451
You will excuse me, Mr. Warner.
450
00:31:15,452 --> 00:31:18,452
l'm obliged to go across town to bring
the lesson to a child stricken with measles.
451
00:31:20,657 --> 00:31:21,857
So l must hurry.
452
00:31:21,858 --> 00:31:24,627
My surrey's right outside.
Allow me to offer you a ride.
453
00:31:24,628 --> 00:31:27,329
-l can walk.
-Oh, it's no trouble.
454
00:31:27,330 --> 00:31:30,330
ln fact, there's something else
l wanted to discuss with you.
455
00:31:30,333 --> 00:31:32,435
Some newspaper stories from Georgia.
456
00:31:32,436 --> 00:31:35,436
A fellow named Harris has set down
some old darky tales. They're enchanting.
457
00:31:37,307 --> 00:31:40,307
Mr. Warner, l do appreciate
your kindness...
458
00:31:41,578 --> 00:31:44,280
-...but l cannot accept your offer.
-Well, why not?
459
00:31:44,281 --> 00:31:47,281
l would rather walk.
460
00:31:47,517 --> 00:31:48,918
Please, Miss Barden--
461
00:31:48,919 --> 00:31:51,919
And don't follow me down the road
calling me ""Miss Barden.""
462
00:31:53,690 --> 00:31:56,125
l was not thinking of custom.
463
00:31:56,126 --> 00:31:59,126
l simply wish to continue our exchange
of views, but l do understand.
464
00:32:01,765 --> 00:32:04,765
Now, l can drive around by Hollis Road.
465
00:32:04,901 --> 00:32:07,901
And that way, no one is likely
to remark our passing.
466
00:32:08,205 --> 00:32:11,205
l simply wanted the time to tell you
about Mr. Harris' stories.
467
00:32:21,251 --> 00:32:24,251
Mr. Warner, l will ask you not to turn your
head to talk to me if anyone's watching.
468
00:32:32,162 --> 00:32:35,162
l appreciate your concern, Miss Barden.
469
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,200
Mr. Joel Chandler Harris from Georgia has
written these newspaper stories regarding...
470
00:32:41,404 --> 00:32:44,404
...a delightful, delightful old gentleman
named Uncle Remus.
471
00:32:45,375 --> 00:32:48,375
And he tells these darky tales to the young
white gentlemen on the plantation.
472
00:32:50,247 --> 00:32:53,247
And they concern the adventures of the
most astute critter that you ever heard of.
473
00:32:54,317 --> 00:32:57,317
There's old Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit.
474
00:32:58,421 --> 00:33:00,122
And l don't mind saying that...
475
00:33:00,123 --> 00:33:03,123
...whenever they have an encounter, Brer
Rabbit always gets the best of Brer Fox.
476
00:33:13,770 --> 00:33:16,171
That little girl...
477
00:33:16,172 --> 00:33:18,541
...sat up on that piano...
478
00:33:18,542 --> 00:33:21,043
...with her velvet dress...
479
00:33:21,044 --> 00:33:24,044
...and her fancy hair ribbon...
480
00:33:24,114 --> 00:33:27,114
...and she play that buttercup song like--
481
00:33:27,484 --> 00:33:30,484
The good book says,
""Thou shalt not covet.""
482
00:33:30,921 --> 00:33:33,921
That's all you been doing since
you been to Memphis. Coveting.
483
00:33:34,457 --> 00:33:37,457
Papa, you done missed
the point entirely.
484
00:33:37,761 --> 00:33:40,761
Mr. Beeman Jones showed what
the colored can make of himself.
485
00:33:41,965 --> 00:33:44,965
My children could have a house like that,
with a cast-iron parlor stove...
486
00:33:46,503 --> 00:33:49,503
...instead of an old brick fireplace.
487
00:33:49,506 --> 00:33:51,907
My grandchildren could play that piano.
488
00:33:51,908 --> 00:33:54,908
You gonna lead all the niggers
that's in the county to vote Democrat...
489
00:33:55,645 --> 00:33:58,645
...because your head done been turned
by some fool buttercup song--
490
00:33:59,316 --> 00:34:01,917
-Papa, you just never did know nothing--
-Tom!
491
00:34:01,918 --> 00:34:04,918
l ain't gonna have my cooking spoiled
one more time with you and your daddy...
492
00:34:05,689 --> 00:34:08,157
...spatting on about politics.
493
00:34:08,158 --> 00:34:11,158
Now, Papa George,
you just keep on eating.
494
00:34:11,428 --> 00:34:13,095
Anyway...
495
00:34:13,096 --> 00:34:16,096
...Elizabeth got something
she wanna ask you.
496
00:34:18,068 --> 00:34:21,068
Now, go on, Elizabeth.
497
00:34:21,972 --> 00:34:24,006
Papa...
498
00:34:24,007 --> 00:34:27,007
...l wants to take up.
499
00:34:27,043 --> 00:34:30,043
And l's asking your permission
to keep company.
500
00:34:38,555 --> 00:34:41,555
That's a fool thing.
501
00:34:41,625 --> 00:34:42,791
You're too young.
502
00:34:42,792 --> 00:34:44,660
Why Papa, l's 1 8!
503
00:34:44,661 --> 00:34:47,229
Mama was 1 5 when you was married.
504
00:34:47,230 --> 00:34:50,230
That's before the war.
Different now. Too young.
505
00:34:51,835 --> 00:34:54,835
-Papa, l's a woman grown!
-Don't talk back on me.
506
00:35:05,048 --> 00:35:07,850
You're still a child, just a child.
507
00:35:07,851 --> 00:35:09,718
Tom.
508
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,688
Now, you know she old enough.
509
00:35:12,689 --> 00:35:15,689
And she done the right thing
when she asked your permission.
510
00:35:17,293 --> 00:35:19,762
Now you got to do right.
511
00:35:19,763 --> 00:35:22,763
You can't say no without you talk
to the boy and there a good reason.
512
00:35:35,245 --> 00:35:38,245
l talks to him next week or the week
after if l'm not too busy--
513
00:35:38,782 --> 00:35:41,350
-He waiting down the road right now.
-Just hold on--
514
00:35:41,351 --> 00:35:44,351
Cynthy, go down to the turn of the road,
ask the young man to come in.
515
00:35:44,788 --> 00:35:47,788
Papa, you just gonna admire John.
l know you are.
516
00:35:48,958 --> 00:35:51,427
Some things was better in slavery days.
517
00:35:51,428 --> 00:35:54,428
A man want a woman, he jump over
a broom and keep jumping--
518
00:35:56,166 --> 00:35:57,900
And Papa George...
519
00:35:57,901 --> 00:36:00,901
...you going in the back room
and go to bed. You tired.
520
00:36:10,547 --> 00:36:13,547
Come in.
521
00:36:24,294 --> 00:36:27,294
Papa, this here Mr. John Dolan.
522
00:36:28,164 --> 00:36:31,164
-Good evening to you, Mr. Harvey.
-Come on in, Mr. Dolan.
523
00:36:32,302 --> 00:36:35,302
-Thank you, ma'am.
-You'll excuse us, won't you? Elizabeth.
524
00:36:37,841 --> 00:36:40,841
Elizabeth.
525
00:36:48,218 --> 00:36:51,120
l brought you some
pipe tobacco, Mr. Harvey.
526
00:36:51,121 --> 00:36:54,121
lt's Virginia burley, factory-packed.
527
00:36:54,691 --> 00:36:56,558
Thank you.
528
00:36:56,559 --> 00:36:59,559
Sit down.
529
00:37:10,974 --> 00:37:13,742
-Who your folks?
-Dolans.
530
00:37:13,743 --> 00:37:16,743
We live about five miles past Ripley.
531
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:19,515
Don't know no Dolans.
532
00:37:19,516 --> 00:37:22,516
Well, we just move up
from Nashville two years ago.
533
00:37:24,854 --> 00:37:27,756
-Who your mama?
-Winnie Dolan.
534
00:37:27,757 --> 00:37:30,757
She was a baker in a cook shop
up to the war.
535
00:37:31,795 --> 00:37:34,795
-Your daddy?
-Micah Dolan.
536
00:37:35,331 --> 00:37:38,133
He a carpenter.
537
00:37:38,134 --> 00:37:41,134
Before the emancipation, he hire his own
time and run a chair-making shop.
538
00:37:46,209 --> 00:37:48,410
This here...
539
00:37:48,411 --> 00:37:51,411
...Micah Dolan...
540
00:37:51,681 --> 00:37:54,681
...he your natural father?
541
00:37:58,521 --> 00:38:01,521
Mr. Harvey...
542
00:38:01,591 --> 00:38:04,393
...it was Micah Dolan raised me up...
543
00:38:04,394 --> 00:38:07,394
...and put food on the table
and clothes on my back...
544
00:38:08,097 --> 00:38:11,097
...and teached me the trade to be
a first-class journeyman cabinetmaker.
545
00:38:14,003 --> 00:38:17,003
lf that's what it take to be a father...
546
00:38:17,507 --> 00:38:20,507
...then that's who it was.
547
00:38:27,183 --> 00:38:30,183
Mr. Harvey, l'm asking your permission
to take up with your daughter, Elizabeth.
548
00:38:33,223 --> 00:38:36,223
Now, l have a good trade.
l can read and write easy.
549
00:38:36,759 --> 00:38:39,759
l'm a Christian and a member of the Colored
Methodist Episcopal Church in Ripley.
550
00:38:40,730 --> 00:38:43,730
l don't drink whiskey--
551
00:38:44,701 --> 00:38:47,701
l thinks on it.
552
00:38:51,007 --> 00:38:54,007
lt sure be getting late.
553
00:38:55,044 --> 00:38:58,044
l reckon l'd better be getting on home.
554
00:39:00,717 --> 00:39:03,619
l do thank you, ma'am,
for your hospitality.
555
00:39:03,620 --> 00:39:06,620
Papa, can l walk Mr. Dolan to the gate?
556
00:39:22,939 --> 00:39:25,939
lt gonna be fine, honey.
Papa got to say yes.
557
00:39:26,075 --> 00:39:28,343
Ain't no reason he won't say yes.
558
00:39:28,344 --> 00:39:31,344
-You gonna be cold tonight.
-Oh, l loves you, Johnny.
559
00:39:32,582 --> 00:39:35,582
-You know, whatever happens--
-l know.
560
00:39:36,119 --> 00:39:39,119
And you is the only girl
l ever gonna love.
561
00:39:40,256 --> 00:39:43,256
You gonna be my wife.
And that's for true.
562
00:39:46,396 --> 00:39:49,396
Now, don't you worry.
lt gonna be fine. Papa say yes.
563
00:39:50,566 --> 00:39:53,566
lt gonna be just fine.
564
00:39:54,103 --> 00:39:56,972
Elizabeth?
565
00:39:56,973 --> 00:39:58,607
Good night.
566
00:39:58,608 --> 00:40:01,608
Good night.
567
00:40:01,878 --> 00:40:04,878
-Mama?
-He say he think on it.
568
00:40:11,087 --> 00:40:14,087
It is a beauteous evening
Calm and free
569
00:40:15,291 --> 00:40:18,291
The holy time is quiet as a nun
Breathless with adoration
570
00:40:20,396 --> 00:40:23,396
The broad sun is sinking in its tranquility
571
00:40:24,667 --> 00:40:27,102
l don't remember any more.
572
00:40:27,103 --> 00:40:30,103
lt's lovely.
573
00:40:31,841 --> 00:40:34,576
What is it?
574
00:40:34,577 --> 00:40:36,979
l was just thinking what
my father would say...
575
00:40:36,980 --> 00:40:39,980
...if he knew l was sitting here
reciting Wordsworth like this.
576
00:40:43,219 --> 00:40:46,219
But then, he doesn't approve
of much that l do.
577
00:40:46,990 --> 00:40:49,990
What do you want to do?
578
00:40:53,062 --> 00:40:56,062
l don't know.
579
00:40:56,232 --> 00:40:58,900
At college, l thought
l wanted to be a poet...
580
00:40:58,901 --> 00:41:00,402
...or a writer.
581
00:41:00,403 --> 00:41:03,403
But no one seemed to think
l was very good at it.
582
00:41:03,639 --> 00:41:06,639
What do you care?
l mean, what anyone else thinks?
583
00:41:08,611 --> 00:41:11,179
There's an old Arabian proverb:
584
00:41:11,180 --> 00:41:14,180
""lf one man says you are an ass,
pay no attention.
585
00:41:14,550 --> 00:41:17,550
lf five men say you are an ass,
go out and buy a saddle.""
586
00:41:19,188 --> 00:41:22,188
No. lf you wanna be a poet,
then go ahead and do it.
587
00:41:23,259 --> 00:41:26,259
-Don't let anyone tell you you can't.
-l'm afraid you don't understand.
588
00:41:27,764 --> 00:41:30,764
Oh, yes, l do.
589
00:41:31,034 --> 00:41:34,034
My mother worked
in a wash house all her life.
590
00:41:35,438 --> 00:41:38,073
And that's what l would have done.
591
00:41:38,074 --> 00:41:41,074
But l wanted to go to school
and learn things...
592
00:41:43,579 --> 00:41:46,579
...and teach. And l did.
593
00:41:48,651 --> 00:41:51,651
-You are quite remarkable.
-So are you.
594
00:41:52,255 --> 00:41:55,255
You have a sensitive soul...
595
00:41:55,425 --> 00:41:58,425
...and a fine, delicate perception of life.
596
00:41:59,629 --> 00:42:02,629
You should stand up to the world.
Stand up to your father.
597
00:42:03,232 --> 00:42:06,232
Follow your feelings.
l know you can do it.
598
00:42:13,476 --> 00:42:16,476
-lt is getting late, Mr. Warner, l think--
-You're quite right, Miss Barden.
599
00:42:17,713 --> 00:42:20,713
l must apologize for detaining
you this long.
600
00:42:33,196 --> 00:42:36,196
Ah, here's an editorial reprinted
from the South Carolina paper.
601
00:42:38,101 --> 00:42:39,835
-""The old slave owner--""
-Papa...
602
00:42:39,836 --> 00:42:42,836
...have you ever considered allowing mama
to read the newspaper for herself?
603
00:42:43,506 --> 00:42:46,506
Oh, no, Jimmy. Your papa reads
the suitable items for me.
604
00:42:48,144 --> 00:42:49,911
l do prefer it that way.
605
00:42:49,912 --> 00:42:52,912
There are things in the vulgar journals today
that'd be distasteful to a lady of breeding.
606
00:42:55,318 --> 00:42:58,318
l see no reason why your mother
should be exposed to them. Now:
607
00:42:59,956 --> 00:43:02,956
""The old slave owner feels no social fear
of Negro equality.
608
00:43:03,993 --> 00:43:06,993
He feels no desire to maltreat and browbeat
and spit upon the colored man.
609
00:43:08,598 --> 00:43:11,598
He doesn't oppose the education
and elevation of the black man...
610
00:43:11,801 --> 00:43:14,069
-...to civilized life.""
-Morning, everybody.
611
00:43:14,070 --> 00:43:15,971
You are late for breakfast, Andrew.
612
00:43:15,972 --> 00:43:18,140
l had a late night.
613
00:43:18,141 --> 00:43:20,609
-Horehound.
-Mama?
614
00:43:20,610 --> 00:43:23,610
Horehound and wintergreen leaves
in a decoction of soda water.
615
00:43:25,081 --> 00:43:28,081
-lt sweetens the stomach and the breath.
-Thank you, Mama.
616
00:43:28,484 --> 00:43:29,951
What were you doing, Andy?
617
00:43:29,952 --> 00:43:32,687
Discussing social implications
of the recent election...
618
00:43:32,688 --> 00:43:35,657
...with the learned Miss Lucy?
l thought so.
619
00:43:35,658 --> 00:43:38,658
Avoiding overindulgence and dissolute
companions leads to longer life, Andrew.
620
00:43:40,363 --> 00:43:43,363
No, Papa. lt just makes it seem longer.
Coffee, Minnie. For God's sake, coffee.
621
00:43:44,367 --> 00:43:47,367
We're talking about different ways
to treat the colored.
622
00:43:47,403 --> 00:43:50,038
l suppose l cannot expect you to...
623
00:43:50,039 --> 00:43:53,039
-...join in such a philosophical discussion.
-Before breakfast?
624
00:43:53,609 --> 00:43:56,609
Well, l know Jimmy shares
your opinion, dear.
625
00:43:56,646 --> 00:43:59,646
l think it's very sweet for you to offer
that colored schoolteacher...
626
00:44:00,082 --> 00:44:03,082
...the benefit of your education and advice.
627
00:44:04,287 --> 00:44:07,287
Dora Fawcett said she never knew any
gentleman to take such an active interest...
628
00:44:09,091 --> 00:44:12,091
...in the education of those
dear little pickaninnies.
629
00:44:12,929 --> 00:44:14,529
-Minnie.
-Ma'am?
630
00:44:14,530 --> 00:44:17,530
l want to go over that cold soup
with you for Saturday night.
631
00:44:18,301 --> 00:44:21,301
Yes, ma'am.
632
00:44:22,071 --> 00:44:25,040
Hey, Jim. l bet you're offering
that nigger schoolteacher...
633
00:44:25,041 --> 00:44:27,776
...the benefit of a lot more
than your education.
634
00:44:27,777 --> 00:44:30,512
What do you talk about when
you're doing it? Philosophy?
635
00:44:30,513 --> 00:44:32,247
Andrew.
636
00:44:32,248 --> 00:44:35,248
lf you're bound to be ribald, lower your
voice. Your mother's in the next room.
637
00:44:36,886 --> 00:44:39,754
Papa, l assure you, there is nothing
to be concerned about.
638
00:44:39,755 --> 00:44:41,656
That's fine, James.
639
00:44:41,657 --> 00:44:44,657
l'm sure you'll manage affairs
like a gentleman.
640
00:44:44,927 --> 00:44:46,361
There is nothing to manage.
641
00:44:46,362 --> 00:44:49,362
l know, l know. lt's just a phase
all young men have to go through.
642
00:44:50,866 --> 00:44:53,468
Your only responsibility
is to be discreet.
643
00:44:53,469 --> 00:44:56,469
What Papa means is,
keep your darky a dark secret.
644
00:44:57,139 --> 00:45:00,139
l would agree roughly with
Miss Ellen Terry on the subject.
645
00:45:01,110 --> 00:45:04,110
Do what you want, just don't do
it in the street and frighten the horses.
646
00:45:07,116 --> 00:45:09,884
Oh, did you say something witty?
647
00:45:09,885 --> 00:45:12,885
l'm afraid, my dear, it was not
entirely suitable for ladies.
648
00:45:19,729 --> 00:45:22,364
Papa?
649
00:45:22,365 --> 00:45:24,899
Papa, l--
650
00:45:24,900 --> 00:45:27,900
Papa, it's been two days.
You got to tell me something.
651
00:45:28,771 --> 00:45:31,771
l said l'd think on it.
652
00:45:32,141 --> 00:45:35,141
-Nine o'clock. Going to bed.
-Papa, you gonna tell me now.
653
00:45:36,345 --> 00:45:39,345
You got to give your answer.
654
00:45:41,584 --> 00:45:44,584
Taking up with a man...
655
00:45:45,221 --> 00:45:48,221
...walking with him from church
and all that, means marrying.
656
00:45:50,226 --> 00:45:53,226
-l know, Papa. John says--
-That's why...
657
00:45:54,096 --> 00:45:57,096
...l ain't gonna give my permission.
658
00:45:58,668 --> 00:46:01,668
You ain't gonna be marrying
with that man.
659
00:46:01,971 --> 00:46:04,971
Why, Papa? Why?
Papa, John a good man.
660
00:46:07,276 --> 00:46:09,577
He's steady. He got him a good trade.
661
00:46:09,578 --> 00:46:12,280
Papa, he saving to have his own
cabinet-repair shop...
662
00:46:12,281 --> 00:46:15,083
...just the way you got
the blacksmithing.
663
00:46:15,084 --> 00:46:17,986
Oh, Papa, you just can't say no!
664
00:46:17,987 --> 00:46:20,255
Papa, you gotta say why!
665
00:46:20,256 --> 00:46:23,256
l said my word and that's it. No.
666
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:27,160
You have got to give me a reason, Papa!
667
00:46:28,931 --> 00:46:31,931
You got a reason, Tom...
668
00:46:32,401 --> 00:46:35,401
...then you tell it to your daughter.
669
00:46:39,308 --> 00:46:42,308
That Micah Dolan
maybe raised that boy...
670
00:46:44,647 --> 00:46:47,647
...but more than likely,
he never fathered him.
671
00:46:48,651 --> 00:46:51,519
That boy almost white.
672
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:53,888
There's a little nigger
around the mouth...
673
00:46:53,889 --> 00:46:56,889
...but alongside of that, he could pass
for white most anywhere.
674
00:46:59,061 --> 00:47:02,061
l ain't gonna have my daughter
married to nobody looks so white.
675
00:47:03,232 --> 00:47:06,232
Too white for black,
too nigger for white.
676
00:47:07,870 --> 00:47:09,938
Never belong nowhere.
677
00:47:09,939 --> 00:47:12,939
John Dolan nigger enough to be born
a slave, Tom, same as you.
678
00:47:13,676 --> 00:47:16,411
-l said my word.
-What's the matter?
679
00:47:16,412 --> 00:47:18,847
You ain't making no kind
of sense at all.
680
00:47:18,848 --> 00:47:21,848
Ain't nobody remembered
the way it was no more!
681
00:47:23,552 --> 00:47:26,552
We was stock on the master's place.
682
00:47:27,189 --> 00:47:30,189
Like the cows and hogs.
683
00:47:31,260 --> 00:47:34,260
The light-skinned niggers was
the favored ones.
684
00:47:35,331 --> 00:47:38,331
Work in the house with a broadcloth
coat for the butler...
685
00:47:39,402 --> 00:47:42,402
...and a silk hat for the coachman.
686
00:47:42,571 --> 00:47:45,571
The yellower they was, the more
they prized that coat, that hat.
687
00:47:48,711 --> 00:47:50,311
They lie for it.
688
00:47:50,312 --> 00:47:53,312
They carry tales to the overseer
against their own people.
689
00:47:53,949 --> 00:47:56,949
They lord it over all over the quarters
because they whiter, they righter.
690
00:47:58,020 --> 00:48:01,020
-""Out of my way, blacker than me.""
-Tom, them days was long time ago.
691
00:48:03,192 --> 00:48:06,192
That boy was running in his shirttail
when freedom come.
692
00:48:07,830 --> 00:48:09,898
l don't understand!
693
00:48:09,899 --> 00:48:12,899
Papa, you just can't say me no!
694
00:48:13,102 --> 00:48:16,102
-Papa, please!
-l said my word.
695
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:20,175
l say no...
696
00:48:20,176 --> 00:48:21,743
...and that's all there is.
697
00:48:21,744 --> 00:48:24,744
Because l'm the father
of this here family.
698
00:48:30,286 --> 00:48:32,587
Now, l done hung the switch
over the door.
699
00:48:32,588 --> 00:48:35,588
And ain't nobody gainsay me
before my own family.
700
00:48:39,728 --> 00:48:42,464
Papa!
701
00:48:42,465 --> 00:48:45,465
Papa!
702
00:49:14,230 --> 00:49:16,264
-How you do this--?
-l hung the switch.
703
00:49:16,265 --> 00:49:19,265
l ain't care if you hang the overseer's
old bullwhip on the door.
704
00:49:19,401 --> 00:49:22,401
l gotta speak for my children.
705
00:49:23,472 --> 00:49:26,472
l know it don't sound,
but l can't do no different.
706
00:49:28,677 --> 00:49:30,845
That boy walked through the door...
707
00:49:30,846 --> 00:49:33,846
...with the lamplight shining on his face
like the belly of a dead fish in a pond.
708
00:49:35,985 --> 00:49:38,419
lt come before me.
709
00:49:38,420 --> 00:49:41,322
Since l remembers l seen that face...
710
00:49:41,323 --> 00:49:44,323
...on the old massas in Alamance County,
on the patrollers before the war...
711
00:49:46,729 --> 00:49:49,729
...on the Night Riders, the Kluxers after,
that train conductor.
712
00:49:51,433 --> 00:49:54,433
That the face of mine enemy.
713
00:49:54,837 --> 00:49:56,371
That's all l know.
714
00:49:56,372 --> 00:49:59,307
Oh, Tom, honey, honey.
715
00:49:59,308 --> 00:50:02,308
You got everything mixed up
in your head like a magpie nest.
716
00:50:03,412 --> 00:50:06,412
Old George Johnson from the old days,
he saved your life.
717
00:50:07,950 --> 00:50:10,950
He was your best friend up till
the time he went west...
718
00:50:11,353 --> 00:50:12,820
...and he was white.
719
00:50:12,821 --> 00:50:15,821
Ain't got nothing to do with
Old George Johnson. Marrying is different.
720
00:50:18,027 --> 00:50:20,929
Now, you listen to me, Tom Harvey.
721
00:50:20,930 --> 00:50:23,930
l done heard the stories in your family
from the time l marry up with you.
722
00:50:25,868 --> 00:50:28,868
Your grandma Kizzy was raped
by the massa Tom Moore.
723
00:50:29,772 --> 00:50:32,574
Your daddy, Chicken George,
is half white.
724
00:50:32,575 --> 00:50:34,776
-You one-quarter white.
-Don't try me, lrene.
725
00:50:34,777 --> 00:50:37,777
You look your daddy's face,
you see the face of your enemy?
726
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,880
You look yourself in the looking glass,
you looking at your own enemy?
727
00:50:41,584 --> 00:50:44,584
l hates the white blood in me.
728
00:50:45,888 --> 00:50:48,888
l hates them niggers preening on
their yellow color like it a sign.
729
00:50:52,261 --> 00:50:54,162
Well, it a sign.
730
00:50:54,163 --> 00:50:57,163
Before God, it a sign of slavery...
731
00:50:57,333 --> 00:50:58,967
...of the black man...
732
00:50:58,968 --> 00:51:01,968
...chained and beat down so he can't
protect his own womenfolk.
733
00:51:02,204 --> 00:51:05,204
Woman, stay out my head!
734
00:51:06,108 --> 00:51:07,809
Now, l said my word.
735
00:51:07,810 --> 00:51:10,810
She my daughter, and l will not
see her married to that man.
736
00:51:15,684 --> 00:51:18,186
They tied you to a tree...
737
00:51:18,187 --> 00:51:21,187
...and they lashed you
till you almost died.
738
00:51:22,625 --> 00:51:24,792
But l tell you, Tom Harvey...
739
00:51:24,793 --> 00:51:27,793
...all the scarring from slavery days
ain't on your back.
740
00:51:29,531 --> 00:51:32,531
lt on your soul.
741
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:08,000
Elizabeth!
742
00:52:09,905 --> 00:52:11,472
-Listen to me.
-John.
743
00:52:11,473 --> 00:52:14,042
-l got wonderful news.
-Don't say nothing, not yet.
744
00:52:14,043 --> 00:52:15,576
This gonna make it all fine.
745
00:52:15,577 --> 00:52:18,146
You come by tomorrow and we
get married next day...
746
00:52:18,147 --> 00:52:21,147
-...by Reverend Calper at the C.M.E. Chur--
-l can't go.
747
00:52:26,121 --> 00:52:28,656
What you talking about?
748
00:52:28,657 --> 00:52:31,657
l told you.
Papa won't let me take up.
749
00:52:33,128 --> 00:52:36,128
l can't go with you.
750
00:52:37,366 --> 00:52:40,366
That's crazy.
751
00:52:40,836 --> 00:52:42,603
Why not?
752
00:52:42,604 --> 00:52:45,604
l don't know. l just can't.
753
00:52:46,375 --> 00:52:49,375
l can't go against Papa.
754
00:52:51,447 --> 00:52:54,447
Now, we loves each other, don't we?
755
00:52:56,418 --> 00:52:59,418
And l gots a chance to have a first-class
cabinet shop in Knoxville.
756
00:53:02,925 --> 00:53:05,626
Your papa can't tell you
you don't love me.
757
00:53:05,627 --> 00:53:08,627
l do. l do love you, John.
758
00:53:11,467 --> 00:53:13,367
But my papa...
759
00:53:13,368 --> 00:53:16,368
...he the head of the family,
and l can't go against the family.
760
00:53:27,616 --> 00:53:30,616
l loves you, Elizabeth.
761
00:53:34,656 --> 00:53:37,656
l'm going to Knoxville, Elizabeth.
762
00:53:38,961 --> 00:53:41,961
l ain't be coming back.
763
00:53:43,398 --> 00:53:46,398
So you come with me now.
764
00:53:49,972 --> 00:53:52,972
Don't look back.
You just walk away with me now.
765
00:54:19,835 --> 00:54:22,835
John. Johnny!
766
00:54:39,087 --> 00:54:42,087
lt's your mama's word
to give you this time.
767
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:47,395
You come inside now, child.
768
00:54:47,396 --> 00:54:50,396
You'll understand, by and by.
769
00:54:50,465 --> 00:54:53,267
He gone.
770
00:54:53,268 --> 00:54:56,268
He just be gone in the night.
771
00:54:58,807 --> 00:55:01,807
l done it for you, Elizabeth.
772
00:55:05,948 --> 00:55:08,948
-You ruined my life, Papa.
-l done it...
773
00:55:10,886 --> 00:55:13,886
...because you're my little girl.
774
00:55:15,657 --> 00:55:18,657
lf l can't marry John...
775
00:55:19,228 --> 00:55:22,228
...l ain't never gonna marry nobody.
776
00:55:54,763 --> 00:55:56,731
Liz?
777
00:55:56,732 --> 00:55:59,400
You all right this morning?
778
00:55:59,401 --> 00:56:02,169
Heard you crying most of the night.
779
00:56:02,170 --> 00:56:04,572
Liz, l swear to you...
780
00:56:04,573 --> 00:56:07,573
...unless Papa change his mind,
l won't never marry nobody neither.
781
00:56:09,044 --> 00:56:12,044
l'll always stay with you, forever.
782
00:56:30,666 --> 00:56:33,334
What you fretting for, child?
783
00:56:33,335 --> 00:56:36,335
Oh, Grandpa George, l'm gonna die.
784
00:56:36,338 --> 00:56:39,338
-l'm just gonna die.
-Of course you are, child.
785
00:56:40,275 --> 00:56:43,275
ln the Lord's good time,
everybody's gonna die.
786
00:56:44,012 --> 00:56:47,012
Except me.
787
00:56:47,649 --> 00:56:50,649
Or you, Elizabeth.
788
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:53,719
Elizabeth? l know.
789
00:56:54,323 --> 00:56:55,957
l heard.
790
00:56:55,958 --> 00:56:58,526
How could Papa do that?
791
00:56:58,527 --> 00:57:01,527
How could he be so mean and...?
792
00:57:02,397 --> 00:57:05,397
Grandpa George, couldn't you talk to him?
793
00:57:06,401 --> 00:57:09,401
See, child, some things
about being a papa...
794
00:57:10,472 --> 00:57:13,472
...l rightly don't know.
795
00:57:14,376 --> 00:57:17,376
All these years,
when the children was young...
796
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:21,480
...and a papa be needed,
l wasn't there.
797
00:57:22,417 --> 00:57:25,417
But your Papa Tom,
he was there at the beginning.
798
00:57:26,254 --> 00:57:28,189
But he being cruel.
799
00:57:28,190 --> 00:57:31,190
lt look like it to you,
maybe to me.
800
00:57:33,128 --> 00:57:36,128
But everything go by its nature.
801
00:57:36,331 --> 00:57:39,331
lt's the nature of
the gamecock to fight...
802
00:57:40,268 --> 00:57:43,268
...for a young gal to be in love.
803
00:57:43,739 --> 00:57:45,673
Your Papa Tom...
804
00:57:45,674 --> 00:57:48,674
...he gotta go by his nature.
805
00:57:49,778 --> 00:57:51,579
Child...
806
00:57:51,580 --> 00:57:54,580
...ain't nothing l can do about nothing.
807
00:57:56,818 --> 00:57:59,787
But l do love you.
808
00:57:59,788 --> 00:58:02,256
l do.
809
00:58:02,257 --> 00:58:05,257
lndeed l do.
810
00:58:12,567 --> 00:58:15,567
l ain't say no more.
811
00:58:15,904 --> 00:58:18,904
Except sauce for the goose
ain't sauce for the gander.
812
00:58:20,409 --> 00:58:23,409
-What do that mean?
-Nothing.
813
00:58:25,414 --> 00:58:28,414
Woman, what you talking
about gooses and ganders for?
814
00:58:30,986 --> 00:58:33,986
You gonna forbid Elizabeth to take up
with the boy on account of he looks white.
815
00:58:34,923 --> 00:58:37,923
But you don't say nothing about a colored
woman and a real, before-God white man.
816
00:58:40,495 --> 00:58:42,696
What are you talking about?
817
00:58:42,697 --> 00:58:45,697
What colored woman? And what
that gotta do with me?
818
00:58:46,268 --> 00:58:49,268
Nothing, excepting you bring her to town.
819
00:58:49,538 --> 00:58:52,538
You go around talking about how
high-toned and educated she is and all.
820
00:58:55,043 --> 00:58:57,645
You talking about Miss Carrie.
821
00:58:57,646 --> 00:58:59,547
Miss Carrie Barden?
822
00:58:59,548 --> 00:59:01,816
You out your head.
823
00:59:01,817 --> 00:59:04,817
Miss Carrie a bona fide graduate
of Fisk College.
824
00:59:07,956 --> 00:59:10,956
That may be,
but she still squat behind two shoes.
825
00:59:17,732 --> 00:59:19,600
I, young in life
826
00:59:19,601 --> 00:59:22,601
By seeming cruel fate was snatched
From Afric,s fancied happy seat
827
00:59:24,639 --> 00:59:27,639
What pangs excruciating must molest
828
00:59:27,909 --> 00:59:30,909
What sorrows labor
In my parent,s breast
829
00:59:31,746 --> 00:59:34,115
Steeled was the soul and by
No misery moved
830
00:59:34,116 --> 00:59:37,017
That from a father seized
His babe beloved
831
00:59:37,018 --> 00:59:39,820
Such, such my case
832
00:59:39,821 --> 00:59:42,821
And can I then but pray
Others may never feel tyrranic sway?
833
00:59:47,529 --> 00:59:49,830
She was a slave.
834
00:59:49,831 --> 00:59:52,831
Phillis Wheatley. Born 1 753.
835
00:59:52,934 --> 00:59:55,035
l don't wanna read any more poetry now.
836
00:59:55,036 --> 00:59:58,036
-Mr. Warner--
-We got to talk.
837
01:00:01,476 --> 01:00:04,476
l just can't take any more of it.
838
01:00:04,846 --> 01:00:07,615
My God, the way my
own brother thinks.
839
01:00:07,616 --> 01:00:10,616
The way he talks.
The grins and the jokes.
840
01:00:10,952 --> 01:00:13,888
-Let's go on with--
-No!
841
01:00:13,889 --> 01:00:16,357
l don't care, l just gotta
come out with it.
842
01:00:16,358 --> 01:00:19,358
Miss Barden? Carrie?
843
01:00:19,728 --> 01:00:22,728
l care for you.
844
01:00:23,231 --> 01:00:26,231
Oh, why can't l just say it right out?
l love you.
845
01:00:32,374 --> 01:00:35,374
How could you?!
846
01:00:35,610 --> 01:00:37,077
l said, l love you.
847
01:00:37,078 --> 01:00:40,078
lt was all right the way it was,
but you had to tarnish it all.
848
01:00:42,817 --> 01:00:45,152
-You don't understand.
-Oh, yes, l do.
849
01:00:45,153 --> 01:00:48,153
l thought we could meet
on a spiritual plane. lt was so lovely.
850
01:00:49,124 --> 01:00:52,124
The books and the poems
and the high ideals.
851
01:00:52,561 --> 01:00:54,929
But that wasn't the truth, was it?
852
01:00:54,930 --> 01:00:57,930
Oh, l know they've been talking,
the sisters in the choir at church.
853
01:00:59,301 --> 01:01:02,301
""That high-and-mighty schoolteacher
let that white man mess around with her.""
854
01:01:03,104 --> 01:01:06,040
-Carrie, stop it.
-They're right.
855
01:01:06,041 --> 01:01:08,275
You are the white man.
856
01:01:08,276 --> 01:01:10,711
And any colored gal is yours to take.
857
01:01:10,712 --> 01:01:11,979
For God's sake, Carrie--
858
01:01:11,980 --> 01:01:14,980
What difference does it make?
Going to school, studying...
859
01:01:15,150 --> 01:01:17,785
...reading Horace Mann on education...
860
01:01:17,786 --> 01:01:20,154
...Emerson on self-reliance...
861
01:01:20,155 --> 01:01:22,489
...Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
862
01:01:22,490 --> 01:01:24,692
Because after all, what am l?
863
01:01:24,693 --> 01:01:27,693
Just a little nigger gal you can take
any time you wants to.
864
01:01:29,197 --> 01:01:32,197
Do you understand what l'm telling you?
l love you, l wanna marry you!
865
01:01:33,435 --> 01:01:35,002
No!
866
01:01:35,003 --> 01:01:37,271
Carrie!
867
01:01:37,272 --> 01:01:39,306
Carrie!
868
01:01:39,307 --> 01:01:42,142
Listen to me. Listen to me.
You're crazy.
869
01:01:42,143 --> 01:01:43,978
Color has nothing to do with us.
870
01:01:43,979 --> 01:01:46,979
l said l love you,
and you're gonna marry me.
871
01:01:47,749 --> 01:01:50,749
You understand me, Miss Carrie Barden?
872
01:01:51,186 --> 01:01:53,020
l love you, and l'm gonna marry you!
873
01:01:53,021 --> 01:01:56,021
And l don't give a damn
what the whole world thinks!
874
01:02:13,008 --> 01:02:16,008
What's the matter, little brother?
You got your dauber down, for sure.
875
01:02:18,947 --> 01:02:21,947
lt appears to me that little sonny Jim
isn't getting it regular anymore.
876
01:02:24,886 --> 01:02:27,886
Well, you've come to the right place
for expert advice.
877
01:02:30,225 --> 01:02:33,225
Now, based on my experience, which
l don't mind telling you, is considerable...
878
01:02:34,929 --> 01:02:37,364
...with every color from a nice caf� au lait...
879
01:02:37,365 --> 01:02:40,365
...all the way down to a blue-gum
pitch-black, what you ought to do...
880
01:02:41,369 --> 01:02:44,369
...is send up to Memphis and buy that gal
a red dress. That's the ticket.
881
01:02:46,941 --> 01:02:49,410
A red dress and beads, it is infallible.
882
01:02:49,411 --> 01:02:52,411
There isn't a nigger gal anywhere
won't put out for a red dress.
883
01:02:52,647 --> 01:02:55,647
-Will you shut up, Andy?
-You got to look at it scientifically.
884
01:02:55,850 --> 01:02:57,685
Niggers are closer to nature.
885
01:02:57,686 --> 01:03:00,686
White girls are more sensitive and delicate.
That's in their nature.
886
01:03:02,357 --> 01:03:05,357
Niggers are lower on the scale of evolution.
They're closer to the monkeys.
887
01:03:06,828 --> 01:03:09,828
They're more elemental, which is to say...
888
01:03:09,898 --> 01:03:12,898
...they just plain like to get it
any way they can.
889
01:03:13,868 --> 01:03:16,770
They can't help it,
that's just the way they are.
890
01:03:16,771 --> 01:03:19,606
-lt's different with this lady.
-What lady?
891
01:03:19,607 --> 01:03:22,607
Oh, yeah, the nigger schoolteacher.
l bet it is different with her.
892
01:03:24,946 --> 01:03:27,946
lt is. l've asked her to marry me.
893
01:03:29,818 --> 01:03:32,219
That won't work as good
as a red dress and beads.
894
01:03:32,220 --> 01:03:35,220
-l'm serious, Andy.
-Yeah, sure you are.
895
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:41,960
l've already asked her,
and l mean to marry her.
896
01:03:48,103 --> 01:03:50,938
You're crazy.
897
01:03:50,939 --> 01:03:53,707
You don't mean that.
898
01:03:53,708 --> 01:03:55,843
l do.
899
01:03:55,844 --> 01:03:58,212
You can't.
900
01:03:58,213 --> 01:04:01,213
My God, you'll kill Mama.
901
01:04:02,550 --> 01:04:05,550
Pa'll throw you right out of the house.
You won't have a cent.
902
01:04:06,187 --> 01:04:09,187
l'm afraid that wouldn't bother me
as much as it would you.
903
01:04:09,190 --> 01:04:12,190
You're seriously contemplating
marrying a--
904
01:04:12,360 --> 01:04:15,360
l can't even say it. Marrying a nigger?
No, look here, Jim.
905
01:04:15,363 --> 01:04:18,363
No white man sinks that low. You'll wake
up every day with nigger hair in your face.
906
01:04:19,401 --> 01:04:22,035
What are you talking about?
You've slept with them.
907
01:04:22,036 --> 01:04:24,271
l am not dumb enough
to marry one of them!
908
01:04:24,272 --> 01:04:27,272
-Well, l am, if the lady will have me.
-lf she'll have you?
909
01:04:27,308 --> 01:04:30,308
l'll tell you-- l'll tell you what,
l'll show you.
910
01:04:30,578 --> 01:04:33,313
l'll send to Memphis for that dress,
and l'll bet you...
911
01:04:33,314 --> 01:04:36,314
...that nigger schoolteacher will lie down
for me like the two-bit whore she is!
912
01:05:16,124 --> 01:05:18,358
Andrew, where is your decency?
913
01:05:18,359 --> 01:05:21,359
-That will be all. Do you hear me?
-Let me tell you something.
914
01:05:21,463 --> 01:05:24,264
Before l let you marry
your nigger whore, l'll kill you!
915
01:05:24,265 --> 01:05:27,265
Stop. You will oblige me by going
to your room and cleaning yourself...
916
01:05:28,169 --> 01:05:31,169
...before your mother chances to see you
in this distressing condition.
917
01:05:37,545 --> 01:05:40,545
l will not discuss with you the appalling
spectacle of brothers in a common brawl.
918
01:05:42,884 --> 01:05:45,519
Discuss it, Papa.
You heard what Andy said. lt's true.
919
01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:48,520
l want you to understand, James,
l'm a worldly man...
920
01:05:48,890 --> 01:05:51,890
...but certain codes of decency
must be followed.
921
01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:54,161
-Proper respect for public opinion.
-Listen--
922
01:05:54,162 --> 01:05:57,097
The presence of colored women
is a necessity, l'll concede.
923
01:05:57,098 --> 01:06:00,098
They relieve the urgency of white men
without distressing their ladies.
924
01:06:00,635 --> 01:06:03,635
Therefore, if you wish to set this girl up
somewhere discreetly...
925
01:06:04,706 --> 01:06:07,706
...l will arrange to increase your drawing
account to cover the expenses.
926
01:06:08,243 --> 01:06:11,243
Papa, you're not hearing me.
l'm going to marry Miss Barden.
927
01:06:11,312 --> 01:06:13,514
l made you a handsome offer.
l expect you--
928
01:06:13,515 --> 01:06:16,515
My God, Papa! You are a hypocrite
in a whited sepulcher!
929
01:06:17,051 --> 01:06:19,753
-l will not discuss unthinkable--
-l could keep her...
930
01:06:19,754 --> 01:06:22,754
...in niggertown as a concubine. l would
have your blessing for discreet fornication.
931
01:06:24,592 --> 01:06:27,592
Nobody'd give a damn, would they?
932
01:06:27,662 --> 01:06:30,662
Papa, you brought me to church
and you taught me the Commandments.
933
01:06:30,899 --> 01:06:33,300
l aim to marry her in the name
of Jesus Christ...
934
01:06:33,301 --> 01:06:36,136
...and in the sight of God Almighty!
935
01:06:36,137 --> 01:06:38,772
-What happened to Andrew?
-Nothing, dear, an accident.
936
01:06:38,773 --> 01:06:41,773
l am afraid, my dear, this matter
is not suited to a lady's sensibilities.
937
01:06:42,343 --> 01:06:44,478
-l must ask you--
-Don't be a fool.
938
01:06:44,479 --> 01:06:46,179
Do you think l'm deaf and blind?
939
01:06:46,180 --> 01:06:49,180
The three of you roaring ""nigger whore""
through the house?
940
01:06:49,317 --> 01:06:51,618
l'm not stupid, Frederick.
941
01:06:51,619 --> 01:06:54,619
l've known about men
and their Negresses since l was a little girl.
942
01:06:55,223 --> 01:06:58,223
My father, my brothers. l know that
Andrew does not confine himself...
943
01:06:59,761 --> 01:07:02,329
...to that white slut
he parades around town.
944
01:07:02,330 --> 01:07:05,330
You, Frederick, when you were younger,
were not so fastidious.
945
01:07:05,433 --> 01:07:08,068
lt's not the same, Mama.
l mean to marry this lady.
946
01:07:08,069 --> 01:07:11,069
Oh, no. White men marry white women
and hold them in such high esteem...
947
01:07:13,274 --> 01:07:16,274
...they set them under glass jars
on the parlor table to collect dust.
948
01:07:21,482 --> 01:07:24,482
l shall need witch hazel...
949
01:07:26,988 --> 01:07:29,988
...and court plaster.
950
01:07:31,759 --> 01:07:33,894
Proud of your morning's work?
951
01:07:33,895 --> 01:07:36,895
March all them poor, poor niggers down
to the election to vote for them Democrats.
952
01:07:37,966 --> 01:07:40,167
l done explained to you, Daddy...
953
01:07:40,168 --> 01:07:43,168
...the way we vote this morning
was between the lesser of two evils.
954
01:07:43,471 --> 01:07:46,471
That's what l said.
Two things gonna ruin the colored man:
955
01:07:47,542 --> 01:07:50,542
The boll weevils and the lesser
of two evils.
956
01:07:50,678 --> 01:07:53,678
-Now, what l say--
-Gotta take this to the forge.
957
01:07:55,116 --> 01:07:58,116
Damn, damn.
Damn it! Damn it!
958
01:07:58,186 --> 01:08:00,754
Papa George, now you just
calm yourself.
959
01:08:00,755 --> 01:08:03,557
Now, l ask you, how come,
just when l'm going make him...
960
01:08:03,558 --> 01:08:06,558
...holler ""enough"" in the argument,
that's when he walks right out the room?
961
01:08:08,196 --> 01:08:10,864
Sister lrene, may l speak
with you for a little?
962
01:08:10,865 --> 01:08:13,865
Sure can, child. We're just going
on out to the back yard.
963
01:08:14,502 --> 01:08:17,502
Elizabeth, come on and sit
with your grandpa.
964
01:08:17,839 --> 01:08:20,839
Walk right out.
Walk right out on me.
965
01:08:21,109 --> 01:08:23,443
Damn it, damn, damn.
966
01:08:23,444 --> 01:08:26,444
Sister lrene, l'm so frightened.
967
01:08:27,448 --> 01:08:29,950
l had to speak with somebody.
968
01:08:29,951 --> 01:08:32,452
You didn't miss your time,
did you, honey?
969
01:08:32,453 --> 01:08:35,453
-That what it is?
-What do you--?
970
01:08:39,927 --> 01:08:42,927
No. No, that isn't it.
971
01:08:44,232 --> 01:08:47,232
Well, praise the Lord
who looks after the righteous.
972
01:08:47,835 --> 01:08:50,637
l know.
973
01:08:50,638 --> 01:08:53,638
Everybody in town thinks l've been
sleeping with Mr. Warner.
974
01:08:58,680 --> 01:09:01,148
You thought so.
975
01:09:01,149 --> 01:09:02,683
Didn't you?
976
01:09:02,684 --> 01:09:05,684
Well now, honey, l didn't think nothing
because it just wasn't none of my business.
977
01:09:08,222 --> 01:09:11,222
He asked me to marry him.
978
01:09:11,859 --> 01:09:14,859
Mr. Jim Warner, Colonel Warner's boy?
979
01:09:15,530 --> 01:09:18,530
-What'd you say?
-Nothing. l just ran away.
980
01:09:21,602 --> 01:09:24,404
l mean, it's not possible.
981
01:09:24,405 --> 01:09:27,340
You can't even think a thing like that.
982
01:09:27,341 --> 01:09:29,609
l never heard anything
like that, never.
983
01:09:29,610 --> 01:09:32,610
Then what you feared of?
984
01:09:35,416 --> 01:09:38,416
l can't sleep.
985
01:09:38,686 --> 01:09:41,621
l'm afraid to sleep.
986
01:09:41,622 --> 01:09:44,622
You've been dreaming.
987
01:09:44,926 --> 01:09:47,926
l don't remember the dreams after.
988
01:09:48,496 --> 01:09:51,496
But l wake up,
and l'm shivering and afraid.
989
01:09:57,171 --> 01:10:00,171
My mama raised me to be a Christian.
990
01:10:02,276 --> 01:10:05,276
She said, ""Carrie, you ain't
gonna be no nigger.
991
01:10:07,315 --> 01:10:10,315
And don't you let no man,
white nor colored...
992
01:10:10,551 --> 01:10:13,551
...make no nigger whore out of you.""
993
01:10:14,655 --> 01:10:17,655
But there's something inside of me
that's laughing at me...
994
01:10:18,326 --> 01:10:21,326
...that wants me to be bad
and dirty and sinful.
995
01:10:21,596 --> 01:10:24,596
-l'm afraid of it.
-Oh, honey, honey.
996
01:10:28,469 --> 01:10:31,438
-What am l gonna do?
-Oh, child.
997
01:10:31,439 --> 01:10:34,439
Oh, my God. What am l gonna do?
998
01:10:35,143 --> 01:10:37,310
Well...
999
01:10:37,311 --> 01:10:39,846
...look like to me the question be...
1000
01:10:39,847 --> 01:10:42,847
...is you feared of this white man
because he white...
1001
01:10:43,818 --> 01:10:46,818
...or because he a man.
1002
01:10:48,189 --> 01:10:51,189
-lt must be because he's white.
-Maybe, and maybe more.
1003
01:10:54,061 --> 01:10:56,229
But let me tell you something...
1004
01:10:56,230 --> 01:10:59,230
...because you's just a little bitty
baby in slavery days...
1005
01:10:59,734 --> 01:11:02,369
...and l was a growed woman.
1006
01:11:02,370 --> 01:11:05,370
The only comfort
for us in them days...
1007
01:11:05,606 --> 01:11:08,606
...that was man and woman
loving each other...
1008
01:11:09,877 --> 01:11:12,877
...and taking care of each other
the best they could under the circumstance.
1009
01:11:15,817 --> 01:11:18,817
And childrens...
1010
01:11:19,120 --> 01:11:22,120
...now, ain't nothing bad,
nor dirty, nor sinful about that.
1011
01:11:25,026 --> 01:11:28,026
The yearning of a man for his woman
and a woman for her man...
1012
01:11:30,565 --> 01:11:33,565
...child, that's God's doings.
1013
01:11:36,904 --> 01:11:39,904
Because when you're growed up
past a little girl...
1014
01:11:40,007 --> 01:11:43,007
...when your breasts come
and your flow start...
1015
01:11:44,078 --> 01:11:47,078
...and all that what makes you a woman...
1016
01:11:47,381 --> 01:11:50,381
...God, he done that
because that be his plan.
1017
01:11:54,021 --> 01:11:57,021
Not just to multiply
and replenish, like it say...
1018
01:11:59,827 --> 01:12:02,827
...but for the joy of it, child.
1019
01:12:03,631 --> 01:12:06,631
For the joy of it.
1020
01:12:10,538 --> 01:12:13,538
Sister lrene...
1021
01:12:14,876 --> 01:12:17,876
...you're the only folks l've got left,
you and Mr. Tom.
1022
01:12:20,114 --> 01:12:23,114
What am l gonna do?
1023
01:12:24,418 --> 01:12:27,418
First you close your eyes,
and you look ln your heart.
1024
01:12:29,991 --> 01:12:32,991
And you ask yourself,
""Do l love this man, and do he love me?""
1025
01:12:39,267 --> 01:12:41,401
Oh, Lord.
1026
01:12:41,402 --> 01:12:44,402
-Mama! Mama!
-Oh, Lord!
1027
01:12:44,772 --> 01:12:47,772
-Mama, he just fell off in the fire.
-Oh, no, Papa George.
1028
01:12:49,677 --> 01:12:52,677
Papa George! Papa George.
1029
01:12:54,148 --> 01:12:57,148
Oh, Papa.
1030
01:13:00,788 --> 01:13:03,788
He don't be feeling nothing,
despite the burns.
1031
01:13:04,759 --> 01:13:07,260
Praise be to Jesus.
1032
01:13:07,261 --> 01:13:09,529
Tildy?
1033
01:13:09,530 --> 01:13:11,932
Where my Tildy?
1034
01:13:11,933 --> 01:13:14,768
She gone to Glory, Papa.
1035
01:13:14,769 --> 01:13:17,769
That woman never around
when you needs her.
1036
01:13:18,205 --> 01:13:21,205
Papa, you just rest yourself.
1037
01:13:22,677 --> 01:13:25,278
Papa...
1038
01:13:25,279 --> 01:13:28,279
...you hear me?
1039
01:13:28,382 --> 01:13:31,382
-Me, it's Tom.
-Well, l know that. l ain't simple.
1040
01:13:34,822 --> 01:13:37,822
He just fell in the fire.
1041
01:13:38,392 --> 01:13:41,392
Ain't your fault, child.
You did all you could.
1042
01:13:43,464 --> 01:13:46,032
Ain't nobody's fault.
1043
01:13:46,033 --> 01:13:49,033
lt's just time.
1044
01:13:53,174 --> 01:13:56,174
Papa, what you laughing at?
1045
01:13:56,410 --> 01:13:59,410
What the joke?
1046
01:14:20,001 --> 01:14:23,001
Lord God Jesus...
1047
01:14:25,072 --> 01:14:28,072
...this here George Moore.
1048
01:14:30,544 --> 01:14:33,544
Welcome him
to the bosom of Abraham...
1049
01:14:34,715 --> 01:14:37,715
...where he gonna be with his Matilda...
1050
01:14:37,918 --> 01:14:40,720
...who was my mama...
1051
01:14:40,721 --> 01:14:43,721
...and with his mama,
who was named Kizzy...
1052
01:14:47,261 --> 01:14:50,261
...and with her daddy, the old African...
1053
01:14:51,032 --> 01:14:54,032
...whose name was Kunta Kinte.
1054
01:15:14,221 --> 01:15:17,221
He was the head of this family.
1055
01:15:25,833 --> 01:15:28,501
No. Wipe your feet there on the mat.
1056
01:15:28,502 --> 01:15:31,502
Ain't gonna have no mud
tracked in on my carpet.
1057
01:15:33,240 --> 01:15:36,240
This way.
1058
01:15:39,380 --> 01:15:42,380
Come in.
1059
01:15:42,983 --> 01:15:45,983
-Blacksmith here.
-Come in, Tom. Come in.
1060
01:15:47,621 --> 01:15:50,621
Sit down.
1061
01:15:54,095 --> 01:15:57,095
All right, Minnie.
1062
01:15:59,300 --> 01:16:02,300
Tom, you will be pleased to learn...
1063
01:16:02,837 --> 01:16:05,837
...we have made a clear victory
in this election.
1064
01:16:08,008 --> 01:16:11,008
Thanks to your leadership
and the support of the Negro voters.
1065
01:16:13,147 --> 01:16:16,147
l pledge my continued effort
to advance the cause...
1066
01:16:16,517 --> 01:16:19,517
...of colored men
in this part of the state.
1067
01:16:19,720 --> 01:16:22,720
However, it does appear...
1068
01:16:24,058 --> 01:16:26,793
...that you and l, Tom...
1069
01:16:26,794 --> 01:16:28,862
...have a problem on our hands.
1070
01:16:28,863 --> 01:16:31,863
Now, l admit l was dubious
when you brought this teacher in.
1071
01:16:32,933 --> 01:16:35,933
l do not entirely approve
of radical Negro schools such as Fisk.
1072
01:16:38,139 --> 01:16:41,139
But l acquiesced, indeed l encouraged her
by lending her books.
1073
01:16:43,811 --> 01:16:46,811
You raising some grievance
against Miss Carrie Barden, colonel?
1074
01:16:47,615 --> 01:16:50,615
She's obviously not
a fit person for the job.
1075
01:16:51,218 --> 01:16:54,218
-We figured she doing all right.
-Tom, l'll put it to you...
1076
01:16:56,123 --> 01:16:58,758
...because you're the one
who brought her here.
1077
01:16:58,759 --> 01:17:01,759
How can we best remove
this woman from the school...
1078
01:17:02,897 --> 01:17:05,897
...and the town
and the county as well?
1079
01:17:06,167 --> 01:17:09,167
The alternative would be
most tragic. Most tragic.
1080
01:17:10,037 --> 01:17:13,037
For the well-being of our Negroes,
l'd recommend to the county board...
1081
01:17:13,474 --> 01:17:16,474
...they padlock the door
and close the school down.
1082
01:17:17,511 --> 01:17:20,246
ls that what you
has to say to me, colonel?
1083
01:17:20,247 --> 01:17:22,649
Tom, you and l
understand each other.
1084
01:17:22,650 --> 01:17:25,650
We have worked side by side
in our election victory.
1085
01:17:26,554 --> 01:17:29,554
Let us meet this difficulty
in equal harmony.
1086
01:17:36,497 --> 01:17:39,497
l thinks on it.
1087
01:17:40,134 --> 01:17:43,134
Of course, l would not press you, Tom.
1088
01:17:43,204 --> 01:17:46,204
l will not expect your answer
until tomorrow.
1089
01:18:06,026 --> 01:18:09,026
-He can't just close down our school.
-He can and he will.
1090
01:18:10,064 --> 01:18:13,064
He say Miss Carrie ain't a fit teacher?
That's a lie, and we can prove it.
1091
01:18:15,302 --> 01:18:18,302
That ain't got nothing
to do with it at all, and you knows it.
1092
01:18:18,439 --> 01:18:21,439
Fool. Why'd he have to go around
saying he gonna marry her for?
1093
01:18:23,143 --> 01:18:26,143
Oh, is that what sticking
in your craw, marrying?
1094
01:18:28,549 --> 01:18:31,549
lf he just lay with her
and leave her with a big belly...
1095
01:18:31,685 --> 01:18:34,520
...and no name for the child,
that'd be all right?
1096
01:18:34,521 --> 01:18:37,521
The point is that woman
was my responsibility.
1097
01:18:38,425 --> 01:18:40,226
l brung her here.
1098
01:18:40,227 --> 01:18:43,227
l talks big how we need a graduate
from that Fisk University.
1099
01:18:46,233 --> 01:18:48,401
lt was my pride.
1100
01:18:48,402 --> 01:18:51,402
And my pride been brung low.
Why can't she behave herself?
1101
01:18:53,374 --> 01:18:56,374
Why she let that white boy
go sniffing around her skirts for?
1102
01:18:57,911 --> 01:19:00,911
You like that Colonel Warner,
blaming it all on Miss Carrie...
1103
01:19:02,283 --> 01:19:05,283
...like she's some Beale Street woman
from Memphis.
1104
01:19:06,787 --> 01:19:09,322
How come he don't say
nothing about his own son...
1105
01:19:09,323 --> 01:19:12,323
...nosing around a decent
Christian woman like a randy goat?
1106
01:19:13,260 --> 01:19:16,260
Because that's his son, and he white.
1107
01:19:17,031 --> 01:19:20,031
Papa, is you gonna turn Miss Carrie
out the school and drive her out of town?
1108
01:19:23,437 --> 01:19:26,437
Now, you go on, girl.
This ain't none of your concern.
1109
01:19:27,174 --> 01:19:30,174
So you gonna make the judgment,
like the massa in the slave time?
1110
01:19:31,645 --> 01:19:34,645
Child, don't you say nothing.
That's your father.
1111
01:19:34,848 --> 01:19:37,848
l know. And he had the say over me...
1112
01:19:37,885 --> 01:19:40,853
...but you ain't the father
over Miss Carrie Barden.
1113
01:19:40,854 --> 01:19:43,854
-Elizabeth.
-You ruined my life, Papa.
1114
01:19:44,525 --> 01:19:47,525
You gonna do the same thing
to Miss Carrie?
1115
01:19:48,529 --> 01:19:51,529
Tom, she ain't herself.
1116
01:19:52,232 --> 01:19:55,201
lt's the melancholy.
She don't mean nothing.
1117
01:19:55,202 --> 01:19:58,202
Now, Elizabeth,
that school gotta keep on.
1118
01:19:59,907 --> 01:20:02,141
Meaning, sorry as it is...
1119
01:20:02,142 --> 01:20:05,044
...it's the only way black folk
gonna break out and climb.
1120
01:20:05,045 --> 01:20:06,512
That school gotta keep on.
1121
01:20:06,513 --> 01:20:08,948
So you gonna do
what the white man tell you?
1122
01:20:08,949 --> 01:20:11,949
-You gonna knuckle under, Papa?
-Now, Elizabeth, you hush.
1123
01:20:16,256 --> 01:20:19,256
The colonel tell you to jump...
1124
01:20:20,694 --> 01:20:23,694
...and what you do, Papa?
1125
01:20:24,398 --> 01:20:27,398
You jump. Jump. Jump, Jim Crow.
1126
01:20:37,878 --> 01:20:40,878
Elizabeth.
1127
01:20:42,349 --> 01:20:45,349
-Elizabeth, stop that! Stop that!
-Elizabeth.
1128
01:20:55,763 --> 01:20:58,763
-Now, that's enough!
-Don't you touch this child.
1129
01:21:01,969 --> 01:21:04,969
l knows you's a mighty man, Papa.
1130
01:21:07,408 --> 01:21:10,408
l heard your old stories
from Grandpa George...
1131
01:21:12,579 --> 01:21:15,579
...about the African.
1132
01:21:15,649 --> 01:21:18,649
You forgot about him, Papa?
1133
01:21:19,720 --> 01:21:22,720
Kunta Kinte...
1134
01:21:23,190 --> 01:21:26,190
...that was his name.
1135
01:21:26,794 --> 01:21:29,794
He die a slave, Papa,
and you be free.
1136
01:21:33,167 --> 01:21:36,167
What you done
with that freedom, Papa?
1137
01:21:40,073 --> 01:21:43,073
You gonna jump, Papa?
1138
01:21:44,611 --> 01:21:47,611
You gonna jump, Jim Crow?
1139
01:22:13,040 --> 01:22:16,040
Colonel Warner...
1140
01:22:17,377 --> 01:22:20,377
...l done come with the answer
about Miss Carrie Barden and the school.
1141
01:22:23,650 --> 01:22:26,650
This how it be.
1142
01:22:28,455 --> 01:22:31,455
We ain't gonna turn Miss Carrie Barden
out the school.
1143
01:22:35,929 --> 01:22:38,898
Put the padlock on the door...
1144
01:22:38,899 --> 01:22:41,899
...take away the county money...
1145
01:22:42,669 --> 01:22:45,669
...we set the school up in my house
or the blacksmith forge or the field.
1146
01:22:49,476 --> 01:22:52,378
That school belong to us.
1147
01:22:52,379 --> 01:22:55,379
And we gonna have
the teacher we wants.
1148
01:22:57,985 --> 01:23:00,985
The school gonna go on.
1149
01:23:08,195 --> 01:23:11,195
Tom.
1150
01:23:22,342 --> 01:23:25,342
From my son.
1151
01:23:26,013 --> 01:23:29,013
l found it this morning
on my shaving stand.
1152
01:23:32,085 --> 01:23:35,085
He went to Memphis last night
with that Negress.
1153
01:23:40,193 --> 01:23:43,193
By this time...
1154
01:23:44,565 --> 01:23:47,565
...they have been married.
1155
01:23:53,974 --> 01:23:56,974
Tom, l understand
you had no part in this.
1156
01:23:58,545 --> 01:24:01,545
l consider you a good,
decent kind of colored man...
1157
01:24:01,748 --> 01:24:04,748
...who knows what's right
and who your friends are.
1158
01:24:06,820 --> 01:24:09,555
Well, colonel, l is sure learning.
1159
01:24:09,556 --> 01:24:12,556
You and l both understand
this is wrong...
1160
01:24:13,860 --> 01:24:16,860
...but they say that in every evil
there is a compensating good.
1161
01:24:21,134 --> 01:24:24,134
They're gone, and at least we're shut
of that woman at the school.
1162
01:24:27,074 --> 01:24:30,074
Then l best go, colonel.
1163
01:24:30,510 --> 01:24:33,510
We gonna have a lot of hunting
before we find us another teacher...
1164
01:24:33,981 --> 01:24:36,981
...with the quality of Miss Carrie--
1165
01:24:39,753 --> 01:24:42,753
Mrs. Warner.
1166
01:25:17,858 --> 01:25:19,859
Andy!
1167
01:25:19,860 --> 01:25:22,860
-l'm coming up there, Andy.
-Andy, if you pop me out of my clothes--
1168
01:25:24,031 --> 01:25:26,599
Earl, l'm occupied with a lady.
1169
01:25:26,600 --> 01:25:29,600
You can squeeze them Damson plums
any time. This is something.
1170
01:25:29,836 --> 01:25:32,571
You want a drink, Earl?
1171
01:25:32,572 --> 01:25:35,572
-Damson plums.
-Reed Golightly just rode into town.
1172
01:25:39,479 --> 01:25:41,247
Your brother's coming back.
1173
01:25:41,248 --> 01:25:43,616
He said he seen him
on the Ripley road...
1174
01:25:43,617 --> 01:25:46,617
...with his nigger woman
sitting right beside him.
1175
01:25:50,524 --> 01:25:53,524
Well, as the fellow said,
""Am l my brother's keeper?""
1176
01:25:53,527 --> 01:25:56,527
He's got his nerve. He's gonna drive
that slut right up Main Street...
1177
01:25:57,197 --> 01:25:59,165
...in front of decent white women.
1178
01:25:59,166 --> 01:26:02,001
You remembers what we talked
about last night, don't you?
1179
01:26:02,002 --> 01:26:05,002
About what we all gonna do if he brung
her back here, because the boys is ready.
1180
01:26:06,473 --> 01:26:08,941
They're getting a bit edgy...
1181
01:26:08,942 --> 01:26:11,942
...because he is your brother.
1182
01:26:15,615 --> 01:26:18,615
They just want to know
what you gonna do.
1183
01:26:19,720 --> 01:26:22,555
l'm gonna finish this bottle.
1184
01:26:22,556 --> 01:26:25,556
Then l'm gonna make me
some Damson plum jam.
1185
01:26:27,427 --> 01:26:30,427
What about your brother?
1186
01:26:34,267 --> 01:26:37,267
l have no brother.
1187
01:26:37,704 --> 01:26:40,704
Whatever the boys feel
they have to do...
1188
01:26:42,242 --> 01:26:45,242
...it don't matter to me
one way or the other.
1189
01:26:59,793 --> 01:27:02,793
Hey, boys. Hey, Jesse.
1190
01:27:03,296 --> 01:27:06,296
Get on over here.
1191
01:27:08,568 --> 01:27:11,568
All right, Jim Warner
is coming back with his nigger bride.
1192
01:28:42,996 --> 01:28:45,996
Hey, darky...
1193
01:28:46,333 --> 01:28:49,333
...if you like white men so much...
1194
01:28:51,605 --> 01:28:54,605
...how about a real one?
1195
01:28:56,509 --> 01:28:59,509
Jim!
1196
01:29:11,958 --> 01:29:14,958
-Luther.
-Mr. Jim, colonel asks you up to the house.
1197
01:29:20,400 --> 01:29:23,400
He say l stay here
and take care of your buggy for you.
1198
01:29:31,578 --> 01:29:34,578
Thank you, Luther.
1199
01:29:54,901 --> 01:29:57,603
Good afternoon, Papa.
1200
01:29:57,604 --> 01:30:00,604
l assume you have carried out
the act threatened in your letter.
1201
01:30:03,710 --> 01:30:06,645
We were married by Judge Braithwaite.
You remember--
1202
01:30:06,646 --> 01:30:09,581
The legal aspects of the...
1203
01:30:09,582 --> 01:30:12,582
...liaison can be annulled
on several grounds, such as--
1204
01:30:14,988 --> 01:30:17,988
Papa. Papa, look at me.
1205
01:30:22,062 --> 01:30:25,062
Papa, it isn't a liaison, you understand?
Carrie and l are married.
1206
01:30:26,099 --> 01:30:29,099
She is my wife. l won't allow
any annulment or anything of the kind.
1207
01:30:32,973 --> 01:30:35,874
You got to face it, Papa.
1208
01:30:35,875 --> 01:30:38,875
l love her.
1209
01:30:41,081 --> 01:30:44,081
l....
1210
01:30:44,217 --> 01:30:47,217
l'm obliged...
1211
01:30:47,354 --> 01:30:50,354
...to say you are no longer my son.
1212
01:30:52,659 --> 01:30:55,659
l have reviewed the deeds
to the family properties...
1213
01:30:56,629 --> 01:30:59,629
...and revised my last will and testament.
1214
01:31:00,800 --> 01:31:03,800
All these instruments will be amended...
1215
01:31:05,472 --> 01:31:08,472
...to efface you from the family.
1216
01:31:13,947 --> 01:31:16,947
l assumed that, sir.
1217
01:31:20,320 --> 01:31:23,320
l know that l have no right
to ask anything from you.
1218
01:31:26,159 --> 01:31:29,159
But look at them.
1219
01:31:29,796 --> 01:31:32,131
Earl Crowther and those men
that used to ride...
1220
01:31:32,132 --> 01:31:35,132
...with Bedford Forrest and the Klan,
they're just waiting there.
1221
01:31:35,568 --> 01:31:38,537
The only thing that's holding them back
is that you're here.
1222
01:31:38,538 --> 01:31:41,538
They're afraid of you.
1223
01:31:41,941 --> 01:31:44,941
l need your protection
for me and for my wife.
1224
01:31:46,613 --> 01:31:49,613
Papa, that's all l'm asking from you.
1225
01:32:06,733 --> 01:32:09,733
l will make it clear
that no one in this town...
1226
01:32:10,904 --> 01:32:13,904
...is to physically harm either you
or the woman.
1227
01:32:17,977 --> 01:32:20,977
But all white men will merely treat you
as if you were black.
1228
01:32:24,317 --> 01:32:27,317
As far as l'm concerned,
the mark is on you.
1229
01:32:30,990 --> 01:32:33,990
You are a nigger.
1230
01:34:28,942 --> 01:34:31,942
We're happy to have you with us,
Mr. Warner.
1231
01:34:32,212 --> 01:34:35,212
Thank you. Thank you very much.
1232
01:34:35,615 --> 01:34:38,450
We's all glad you came back
to the school, Sister Carrie.
1233
01:34:38,451 --> 01:34:41,451
Oh, yes. Mr. Jim.
1234
01:34:43,289 --> 01:34:46,289
-Thank you, ma'am. l do appreciate it.
-Yes, sir.
1235
01:34:47,227 --> 01:34:50,227
-Welcome to the community.
-Thank you very much, sir. l appreciate that.
1236
01:34:50,730 --> 01:34:53,632
-Meet some folks.
-How do you do?
1237
01:34:53,633 --> 01:34:56,633
Papa, l wants to go to Memphis
to school.
1238
01:34:58,071 --> 01:35:01,071
l want to be a teacher.
1239
01:35:02,308 --> 01:35:05,308
That's far away.
1240
01:35:05,578 --> 01:35:06,912
Memphis?
1241
01:35:06,913 --> 01:35:09,913
l's asking your permission
out of respect, Papa...
1242
01:35:10,984 --> 01:35:13,984
...but that what l bound to do.
1243
01:35:20,093 --> 01:35:23,093
And that what you do.
1244
01:35:56,195 --> 01:35:59,195
Goodbye, Daddy.
1245
01:36:12,779 --> 01:36:14,212
Next on Roots:
1246
01:36:14,213 --> 01:36:17,213
""l feel we have kept company
long enough for me to propose...
1247
01:36:19,152 --> 01:36:22,152
...to you that we discuss
the contract of marriage.
1248
01:36:24,657 --> 01:36:27,657
Sincerely, W.E. Palmer.""
1249
01:36:34,334 --> 01:36:37,334
l will, with a suitable show
of modesty, allow you...
1250
01:36:38,338 --> 01:36:41,338
...to place my name in nomination
on your slate.
1251
01:36:41,341 --> 01:36:44,341
Good. Against your own pa.
1252
01:36:46,079 --> 01:36:49,079
l don't need you.
1253
01:36:49,082 --> 01:36:51,350
l can make my own contacts.
1254
01:36:51,351 --> 01:36:54,252
Papa?
1255
01:36:54,253 --> 01:36:57,253
Will got something he want
to talk to you about.
1256
01:37:03,930 --> 01:37:06,930
Dearly beloved, we are gathered
here tonight--
1257
01:37:08,434 --> 01:37:11,434
l'm going to make a success
out of this business.
1258
01:37:12,038 --> 01:37:15,038
That's my way of winning
this here fight.
1259
01:37:15,108 --> 01:37:17,442
l means on making do.
1260
01:37:17,443 --> 01:37:19,878
And l means on going straight forward.
1261
01:37:19,879 --> 01:37:22,879
This here our grandchild.
1262
01:37:23,616 --> 01:37:26,616
This family gonna go forward.
1263
01:38:11,297 --> 01:38:14,297
This family gonna go forward.
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