1 00:02:34,572 --> 00:02:38,412 - I am the first and the last. 2 00:02:38,659 --> 00:02:41,909 I am the honored one and the scorned one. 3 00:02:44,790 --> 00:02:46,540 I am the whore and the holy one. 4 00:02:47,877 --> 00:02:50,337 I am the wife and the virgin. 5 00:02:51,839 --> 00:02:53,509 I am the barren one 6 00:02:55,634 --> 00:02:57,554 And many are my daughters. 7 00:03:04,185 --> 00:03:07,725 I am the silence that you cannot understand. 8 00:03:10,524 --> 00:03:12,864 I am the utterance of my name. 9 00:05:05,723 --> 00:05:07,643 - I can't believe it. 10 00:05:08,684 --> 00:05:09,854 I had no idea. 11 00:05:11,979 --> 00:05:12,939 Cousin Mary. 12 00:05:15,899 --> 00:05:19,819 Praise the lord, Mr. Snead, my dear cousin, Mary Peazant. 13 00:05:21,697 --> 00:05:23,617 This has turned out to be a very special day 14 00:05:23,866 --> 00:05:26,286 for the Peazant family, indeed. 15 00:05:30,372 --> 00:05:31,122 - Viola. 16 00:05:33,792 --> 00:05:36,802 - Pleasure to meet you, Mary Peazant. 17 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:41,929 - Yellow, they call me Yellow Mary. 18 00:05:44,553 --> 00:05:49,183 - Our fathers were brothers. 19 00:05:49,433 --> 00:05:51,693 Of course, compared to some people, 20 00:05:51,935 --> 00:05:55,765 Yellow Mary's not all that lightskinned, but... 21 00:05:56,899 --> 00:05:59,069 Yellow Mary, I'd like you to meet 22 00:05:59,318 --> 00:06:01,608 my photographer, Mr. Snead. 23 00:06:03,072 --> 00:06:04,872 I've commissioned Mr. Snead to photograph 24 00:06:05,115 --> 00:06:08,575 our family crossing over to the mainland. 25 00:06:10,496 --> 00:06:12,456 What's past is prologue. 26 00:06:15,626 --> 00:06:19,796 I see this day as their first steps toward progress, 27 00:06:21,507 --> 00:06:24,387 an engraved invitation to the culture 28 00:06:24,635 --> 00:06:27,885 and education and wealth of the mainland. 29 00:06:29,181 --> 00:06:31,981 Yellow Mary, wouldn't you agree? 30 00:07:00,963 --> 00:07:02,763 - My story begins on the eve 31 00:07:03,006 --> 00:07:05,676 of my family's migration north. 32 00:07:07,761 --> 00:07:10,511 My story begins before I was born. 33 00:07:19,356 --> 00:07:23,356 My great-great-grandmother, Nana Peazant, 34 00:07:23,610 --> 00:07:25,990 saw her family coming apart, 35 00:07:27,489 --> 00:07:30,949 her flowers to bloom in a distant frontier. 36 00:07:32,703 --> 00:07:36,373 And then, there was my ma and daddy's problem. 37 00:08:08,113 --> 00:08:10,533 Nana prayed and the old souls 38 00:08:10,782 --> 00:08:12,992 guided me into the New World. 39 00:08:14,620 --> 00:08:17,920 I came in time for the big celebration, 40 00:08:18,957 --> 00:08:23,087 to be among my cousins, my aunties, and uncles. 41 00:08:23,337 --> 00:08:26,167 I can still see their faces, 42 00:08:26,423 --> 00:08:29,263 smell the oil in the wicker lamps. 43 00:08:29,510 --> 00:08:32,100 I can hear the voice of Auntie Haagar 44 00:08:32,346 --> 00:08:36,016 calling out for her daughters, Iona and Myown. 45 00:08:37,768 --> 00:08:39,938 And teasing the newlyweds. 46 00:09:05,337 --> 00:09:08,127 - Kalos, beautiful, eidos, form. 47 00:09:09,967 --> 00:09:11,217 Skopein, to view. 48 00:09:18,308 --> 00:09:21,188 If an object is placed between two mirrors, 49 00:09:21,436 --> 00:09:26,146 inclined at right angles, an image is formed in each mirror. 50 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:28,780 Then, these mirror images are in turn 51 00:09:29,027 --> 00:09:31,147 reflected in the other mirror, 52 00:09:31,405 --> 00:09:34,065 forming the appearance of four, 53 00:09:34,324 --> 00:09:36,834 symmetrically-shaped objects. 54 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:40,370 Oh, I think it's just a wonderful discovery. 55 00:09:40,622 --> 00:09:43,212 It's beauty, simplicity, and science 56 00:09:43,458 --> 00:09:45,208 all rolled into one small tube. 57 00:09:47,337 --> 00:09:49,967 I think the children will enjoy it. 58 00:09:50,215 --> 00:09:52,005 - Yellow Mary, look! 59 00:09:56,555 --> 00:09:58,965 Uncle Spikenard used to live there. 60 00:09:59,224 --> 00:10:00,484 Do you remember him? 61 00:10:00,726 --> 00:10:02,096 Oh, I guess not. 62 00:10:03,103 --> 00:10:05,903 I was just a young Miss, too, then. 63 00:10:06,148 --> 00:10:09,858 He was from Africa, and just after the war, 64 00:10:10,110 --> 00:10:11,780 he moved from the plantation to 65 00:10:12,029 --> 00:10:14,989 that little house on the waterfront. 66 00:10:20,203 --> 00:10:21,793 Remember how when Uncle Spikenard 67 00:10:22,039 --> 00:10:25,379 got excited or angry he'd talk funny 68 00:10:25,626 --> 00:10:27,336 so the children couldn't understand him? 69 00:10:27,586 --> 00:10:31,756 He'd speak in African words and sounds. 70 00:10:33,508 --> 00:10:37,348 You know, just before the war, Uncle Spikenard told me, 71 00:10:37,596 --> 00:10:41,016 they'd keep boatloads of fresh Africans 72 00:10:41,266 --> 00:10:43,016 off on some secret islands around here. 73 00:10:43,268 --> 00:10:46,898 - Viola, our government banned the transporting of Africans 74 00:10:47,147 --> 00:10:50,727 for slavery 50 years before the Civil War. 75 00:10:52,986 --> 00:10:55,946 - Not back off on these islands, no. 76 00:10:58,158 --> 00:11:00,698 Just before the war, they were still 77 00:11:00,952 --> 00:11:04,122 running and hiding saltwater Africans, 78 00:11:05,207 --> 00:11:07,327 pure-bred, from the Yankees. 79 00:12:39,843 --> 00:12:41,933 - "Mistress Iona Peazant, 80 00:12:42,804 --> 00:12:45,354 "Dahtaw Island, August 18, 1902. 81 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:51,350 "Iona, with the greatest respect 82 00:12:53,648 --> 00:12:56,738 "for yourself and the Peazant family, 83 00:12:57,694 --> 00:13:00,364 "I beg that you stay by my side 84 00:13:01,448 --> 00:13:03,328 "here on this island. 85 00:13:05,869 --> 00:13:10,039 "Please do not leave me in this flood of migration north. 86 00:13:12,042 --> 00:13:13,792 "I feel if I lose you, 87 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:16,460 "I will lose myself. 88 00:13:25,347 --> 00:13:27,767 "Consider the memories we share 89 00:13:29,059 --> 00:13:31,019 "of growing up together. 90 00:13:32,646 --> 00:13:34,186 "We are the young, 91 00:13:35,816 --> 00:13:38,066 "the eager up from slavery, 92 00:13:39,861 --> 00:13:41,821 "eager to learn a trade, 93 00:13:44,157 --> 00:13:47,487 "eager to make a better life for ourselves 94 00:13:48,829 --> 00:13:51,579 "and our children who will follow. 95 00:13:55,669 --> 00:13:58,169 "Our love is a very precious, 96 00:14:00,298 --> 00:14:03,178 "very fragile flowering of our most 97 00:14:05,345 --> 00:14:08,135 "innocent childhood association. 98 00:14:11,476 --> 00:14:14,056 "If fear clouds your decision, 99 00:14:16,606 --> 00:14:20,276 "together we must call out to higher forces 100 00:14:22,237 --> 00:14:24,407 "that they might guide us. 101 00:14:25,824 --> 00:14:26,584 "Iona, 102 00:14:29,286 --> 00:14:31,496 "as I walk toward the future, 103 00:14:33,039 --> 00:14:35,499 "with your heart embracing mine, 104 00:14:40,547 --> 00:14:42,417 "everything seem new. 105 00:14:44,885 --> 00:14:46,635 "Everything seem good. 106 00:14:48,471 --> 00:14:50,641 "Everything seem possible. 107 00:14:55,228 --> 00:14:57,688 "Signed, St. Julian Last Child, 108 00:15:01,026 --> 00:15:03,396 "son of the Cherokee Nation, 109 00:15:04,571 --> 00:15:07,661 "son of these islands we call Dahtaw, 110 00:15:10,452 --> 00:15:11,492 "Coosa, Edisto, 111 00:15:15,498 --> 00:15:16,828 "Sapelo, Dafuskie, 112 00:15:19,544 --> 00:15:20,844 "Ossabaw, Kiwa, 113 00:15:24,341 --> 00:15:25,591 "Wassaw, Paris, 114 00:15:30,138 --> 00:15:31,468 and Santa Helena." 115 00:15:39,648 --> 00:15:42,978 - Iona, you have to go North with us. 116 00:15:43,234 --> 00:15:45,534 Auntie Haagar won't let you stay. 117 00:15:45,779 --> 00:15:47,409 We all have to leave. 118 00:15:47,656 --> 00:15:50,236 We all have to leave together. 119 00:16:08,218 --> 00:16:10,178 - Who's that? 120 00:16:10,428 --> 00:16:12,848 What's your children up to now? 121 00:16:14,474 --> 00:16:18,654 Get on with you, son, and help me clear away these weeds. 122 00:17:09,279 --> 00:17:12,069 - Just 'cause we crossing over to the mainland, 123 00:17:12,323 --> 00:17:15,083 it doesn't mean we don't love you. 124 00:17:17,620 --> 00:17:21,710 It doesn't mean we're not going to miss you none. 125 00:17:23,043 --> 00:17:25,463 And it doesn't mean we're not going 126 00:17:25,712 --> 00:17:29,882 to come home to visit with you soon. 127 00:17:32,135 --> 00:17:36,345 - Eli Peazant, if you don't stop grinning at me... 128 00:17:36,598 --> 00:17:38,598 It ain't right to tease old folks, 129 00:17:38,850 --> 00:17:40,520 especially your great-grandmother. 130 00:17:40,769 --> 00:17:44,939 You're lucky I've got breath in me yet, you old Goober Head. 131 00:17:46,441 --> 00:17:48,231 Goober Head. 132 00:17:48,485 --> 00:17:52,655 Your name used to be called Goober Head, remember that? 133 00:17:56,034 --> 00:17:57,584 Goober means peanut. 134 00:18:00,955 --> 00:18:02,205 - What is this? 135 00:18:05,585 --> 00:18:08,545 Something seems to be stuck in here. 136 00:18:16,137 --> 00:18:18,427 - You know, your grandaddy Shad ain't like 137 00:18:18,681 --> 00:18:21,231 to see no woman chewing tobacco. 138 00:18:22,143 --> 00:18:23,313 Ain't that so? 139 00:18:24,896 --> 00:18:26,146 You know that's so. 140 00:18:26,397 --> 00:18:27,357 - No, ma'am. 141 00:18:48,670 --> 00:18:51,630 - I visit with old Peazant every day 142 00:18:52,966 --> 00:18:54,796 since the day him died. 143 00:18:56,386 --> 00:18:59,716 It's up to the living to keep in touch with the dead, Eli. 144 00:18:59,973 --> 00:19:02,353 Man's power don't end with death. 145 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,600 We just move on to another place, 146 00:19:05,854 --> 00:19:10,194 a place where we go and watch over our living family. 147 00:19:11,609 --> 00:19:13,149 Respect your elders. 148 00:19:14,529 --> 00:19:16,069 Respect your family. 149 00:19:17,740 --> 00:19:19,580 Respect your ancestors. 150 00:19:21,077 --> 00:19:23,867 You're worried that baby Eula's carrying 151 00:19:24,122 --> 00:19:27,002 ain't yours because she get forced. 152 00:19:28,334 --> 00:19:32,594 You won't have no baby that wasn't sent to you. 153 00:19:32,839 --> 00:19:37,009 The ancestors and the womb, they're one, they're the same. 154 00:19:38,636 --> 00:19:41,756 Those in this grave, like those 155 00:19:42,015 --> 00:19:44,975 who're across the sea, they're with us. 156 00:19:45,226 --> 00:19:49,266 They're all the same, the ancestors and the womb. 157 00:19:52,358 --> 00:19:54,648 Call on your ancestors, Eli. 158 00:19:54,903 --> 00:19:56,363 Let them guide. 159 00:19:56,613 --> 00:19:58,573 You need their strength. 160 00:19:59,824 --> 00:20:01,914 Eli, I need for you to make the family 161 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,540 strong again, like we used to been. 162 00:20:04,787 --> 00:20:08,747 - How can you understand me and the way I feel? 163 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,750 This happened to my wife, my wife! 164 00:20:16,591 --> 00:20:19,471 I don't feel like she mine no more. 165 00:20:20,929 --> 00:20:23,599 When I look at her, I feel I don't even want her no more. 166 00:20:23,848 --> 00:20:27,438 - You can't get back what you never owned. 167 00:20:28,770 --> 00:20:31,860 Eula never belonged to you, she married you. 168 00:20:33,983 --> 00:20:36,283 - Why didn't you protect us, Nana? 169 00:20:36,527 --> 00:20:38,907 Someone put the fix on me. 170 00:20:39,155 --> 00:20:41,615 Was it the conjure or bad luck? 171 00:20:43,201 --> 00:20:44,541 Or were the old souls too deep in their graves to give 172 00:20:44,786 --> 00:20:48,616 a damn about my wife while some stranger was riding her? 173 00:20:57,465 --> 00:21:01,175 When we was children, we really believed 174 00:21:01,427 --> 00:21:04,557 you could work the good out of evil. 175 00:21:04,806 --> 00:21:07,976 We believed in the newsprint on the walls, 176 00:21:08,226 --> 00:21:11,186 your tree of glass jars and bottles, 177 00:21:12,438 --> 00:21:15,278 the rice you carry in your pockets. 178 00:21:15,525 --> 00:21:18,945 We believed in the frizzled-haired chicken. 179 00:21:22,782 --> 00:21:25,952 The coins, the roots, and the flowers, 180 00:21:27,328 --> 00:21:30,288 we believed they would protect us 181 00:21:30,540 --> 00:21:33,750 and every little thing we owned or loved. 182 00:21:35,044 --> 00:21:38,554 I wasn't scared of nothing and no one 183 00:21:38,798 --> 00:21:42,758 because I knew, I knew my great-grandmother 184 00:21:43,011 --> 00:21:46,681 had it all in her pocket or could work it up. 185 00:21:50,101 --> 00:21:52,061 - Never forget who we is 186 00:21:53,604 --> 00:21:56,024 and how far we done come. 187 00:21:56,274 --> 00:21:58,114 - I have to leave here. 188 00:22:00,695 --> 00:22:02,945 I don't have no other choice. 189 00:22:06,826 --> 00:22:07,696 - Eli, Eli! 190 00:22:09,412 --> 00:22:12,422 There's a thought, a recollection, 191 00:22:12,665 --> 00:22:14,915 something somebody remembers. 192 00:22:16,127 --> 00:22:19,417 We carry these memories inside of we. 193 00:22:19,672 --> 00:22:23,552 Do you believe that those hundreds and hundreds of Africans 194 00:22:23,801 --> 00:22:25,721 brought here on this other side 195 00:22:25,970 --> 00:22:29,020 would forget everything they once knew? 196 00:22:29,265 --> 00:22:31,845 We don't know where the recollections come from. 197 00:22:32,101 --> 00:22:34,401 Sometimes we dream them. 198 00:22:34,645 --> 00:22:38,225 But we carry these memories inside of we. 199 00:22:38,483 --> 00:22:40,693 - What are we supposed to remember, Nana? 200 00:22:40,943 --> 00:22:44,283 How at one time we were able to protect those we loved? 201 00:22:44,530 --> 00:22:45,570 How in Africa world we were kings 202 00:22:45,823 --> 00:22:48,663 and queens and built great, big cities? 203 00:22:48,910 --> 00:22:52,830 - Eli, I'm trying to learn you how to touch your own spirit. 204 00:22:54,582 --> 00:22:58,752 I'm fighting for my life, and I'm fighting for yours. 205 00:22:59,796 --> 00:23:01,166 Look in my face! 206 00:23:04,550 --> 00:23:07,800 I'm trying to give you something to take north with you, 207 00:23:08,054 --> 00:23:11,224 along with all your great, big dreams! 208 00:23:14,018 --> 00:23:17,268 Call on those old Africans, Eli. 209 00:23:17,522 --> 00:23:21,402 They'll come to you when you least expect them. 210 00:23:21,651 --> 00:23:24,491 They'll hug you up quick and soft 211 00:23:24,737 --> 00:23:26,697 as the warm, sweet wind. 212 00:23:27,865 --> 00:23:32,245 Let them old souls come into your heart, Eli. 213 00:23:32,495 --> 00:23:35,995 Let them touch you with the hands of time. 214 00:23:36,999 --> 00:23:39,129 Let them feed your head with wisdom 215 00:23:39,377 --> 00:23:42,127 that ain't from this day and time. 216 00:23:43,673 --> 00:23:47,223 'Cause when you leave this island, Eli Peazant, 217 00:23:47,468 --> 00:23:50,808 you ain't going to no land of milk and honey. 218 00:23:56,936 --> 00:23:59,606 Eli, I'm putting my trust in you, 219 00:24:01,858 --> 00:24:04,938 to keep the family together up north. 220 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:11,370 That's the challenge facing all you free Negroes. 221 00:24:12,910 --> 00:24:14,910 Celebrate our ways. 222 00:25:57,306 --> 00:25:59,846 Nana prayed for help. 223 00:26:00,101 --> 00:26:02,481 I got there just in time. 224 00:26:09,569 --> 00:26:11,819 - Come, child, come! 225 00:26:58,618 --> 00:27:02,788 - Fresh and sweet like a baby's breath. 226 00:27:55,925 --> 00:27:56,675 - Eula. 227 00:27:59,679 --> 00:28:00,759 Who done this to us? 228 00:28:01,013 --> 00:28:03,893 - Nothing good can come from knowing! 229 00:28:09,772 --> 00:28:12,152 - Everything good done gone. 230 00:28:17,655 --> 00:28:19,615 Our dreams are all gone. 231 00:29:26,223 --> 00:29:27,983 - God as my witness... 232 00:29:35,983 --> 00:29:38,113 when I leave this place, I'm never 233 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,240 again going to live in your land! 234 00:30:07,723 --> 00:30:10,023 - Oh girl, you're so silly. 235 00:30:12,645 --> 00:30:14,055 What are you looking at? 236 00:30:35,125 --> 00:30:36,785 - Oh, I love you, oh! 237 00:30:41,423 --> 00:30:42,933 Now, this means-- 238 00:30:44,051 --> 00:30:45,221 - Gumbo! 239 00:30:46,136 --> 00:30:46,926 - Pot called? 240 00:30:47,179 --> 00:30:48,219 - Sojo. 241 00:30:49,306 --> 00:30:53,136 - Water, water. 242 00:30:53,394 --> 00:30:55,024 - Deloe. 243 00:30:55,271 --> 00:30:56,231 - Fire. 244 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:57,400 - Diffy! 245 00:30:59,441 --> 00:31:01,111 - Yeah! 246 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,530 Now, that's all what grandma remember. 247 00:31:10,911 --> 00:31:14,461 - They the last of the old and the first of the new. 248 00:31:14,707 --> 00:31:18,667 The older I get, the closer I get to the ground. 249 00:31:20,713 --> 00:31:24,883 This was the worst place to have been born in slavery time. 250 00:31:30,514 --> 00:31:34,144 Their hands scarred with blue from the poisonous indigo dye 251 00:31:34,393 --> 00:31:38,563 what built up all them plantations from swampland. 252 00:31:40,733 --> 00:31:44,903 We spirit numb from the sting of fever from the rice fields. 253 00:31:49,533 --> 00:31:52,543 We back bend down while we did planting 254 00:31:54,121 --> 00:31:57,331 and the hoeing and the Sea Island cotton. 255 00:32:01,128 --> 00:32:04,878 I was an elder, and many, many years back, 256 00:32:05,132 --> 00:32:08,012 when I lay in my mother's arms, 257 00:32:08,260 --> 00:32:10,350 I saw Africa in her face. 258 00:32:24,193 --> 00:32:25,283 - It was an age 259 00:32:25,527 --> 00:32:28,157 of beginnings, a time of promises. 260 00:32:30,324 --> 00:32:34,044 The newspaper said it was a time for everyone, 261 00:32:35,371 --> 00:32:39,171 the rich and the poor, the powerful and the powerless. 262 00:32:53,681 --> 00:32:57,851 - Eula say, we the bridge that they cross over on. 263 00:32:58,102 --> 00:33:00,902 We're the tie between then and now, 264 00:33:01,146 --> 00:33:04,896 between the past and the story that will come. 265 00:34:22,102 --> 00:34:25,942 - Old Man Peazant granddaughter done come home. 266 00:34:27,149 --> 00:34:29,279 - Oh, she got ruined. 267 00:34:29,526 --> 00:34:32,486 Yellow Mary gone off and got ruined. 268 00:34:33,781 --> 00:34:36,241 - What's that she got with her? 269 00:34:36,492 --> 00:34:37,492 - Iona! 270 00:34:39,703 --> 00:34:40,453 Iona! 271 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,300 You go warn Nana Peazant. 272 00:34:51,548 --> 00:34:54,838 It'll most likely kill her to see this heifer done returned. 273 00:34:55,094 --> 00:34:57,264 - But Ma, I don't think... 274 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,480 - All that yellow wasted. 275 00:35:25,541 --> 00:35:27,921 - Ah, is this the same little girl 276 00:35:28,168 --> 00:35:32,338 I used to rock in Gussie's yard? 277 00:35:39,012 --> 00:35:40,762 - The shameless hussy. 278 00:35:45,686 --> 00:35:48,606 - Look, Trula, this is Eula. 279 00:35:48,856 --> 00:35:50,896 - Eula, nice to meet you. 280 00:36:05,581 --> 00:36:06,871 - What is this? 281 00:36:16,633 --> 00:36:19,473 - Store-bought biscuits, Haagar. 282 00:36:19,720 --> 00:36:21,600 - Bread from a store? 283 00:36:30,022 --> 00:36:31,942 You know, Yellow Mary, they say a woman 284 00:36:32,191 --> 00:36:35,361 who knows how to cook is mighty pretty. 285 00:36:36,361 --> 00:36:38,111 - Ma, can I taste one? 286 00:36:44,077 --> 00:36:47,247 - You know, I don't like messing around in no kitchen. 287 00:36:47,497 --> 00:36:50,667 - I wouldn't eat them no how if she touched them. 288 00:36:50,918 --> 00:36:53,498 - You never know where her hands have been. 289 00:36:53,754 --> 00:36:55,634 I mean, I can just smell the heifer. 290 00:36:55,881 --> 00:36:59,091 - Buzzards don't circle in the air just for fun. 291 00:36:59,343 --> 00:37:02,013 That gal's come back here for something. 292 00:37:29,289 --> 00:37:31,169 - Girl, what are you doing with those things? 293 00:37:31,416 --> 00:37:32,876 - Just make sure ain't no dead crabs. 294 00:37:33,126 --> 00:37:34,536 Ain't nobody wanna eat no dead crab. 295 00:37:34,795 --> 00:37:37,165 - Why're you making them crawl? 296 00:37:37,422 --> 00:37:41,182 - Girl, you need to be plucking this chicken. 297 00:37:41,426 --> 00:37:44,596 - Throw one of them things on Haagar. 298 00:37:44,846 --> 00:37:45,596 - No, no. 299 00:38:07,536 --> 00:38:11,286 - The Earth, O Lord, is swelling with fruitage 300 00:38:14,710 --> 00:38:16,670 and reminds us that this 301 00:38:17,796 --> 00:38:19,836 is the seed time of life. 302 00:38:22,509 --> 00:38:25,969 That not today, not tomorrow will come 303 00:38:26,221 --> 00:38:28,771 the true reaping of the deeds we do 304 00:38:29,016 --> 00:38:30,766 but in some far-veiled 305 00:38:33,145 --> 00:38:34,725 and mighty harvest, 306 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:41,030 not deceiving ourselves with the apparent ease of evil, 307 00:38:41,278 --> 00:38:43,108 looking to that harvest 308 00:38:45,282 --> 00:38:48,122 when the earth belongs to the Lord, 309 00:38:49,786 --> 00:38:52,326 not us and the fullness thereof. 310 00:38:59,838 --> 00:39:01,008 Put that down. 311 00:39:06,094 --> 00:39:09,354 Now, you know, when I left this island, 312 00:39:11,433 --> 00:39:15,193 I was a sinner and I didn't even know it. 313 00:39:15,437 --> 00:39:17,477 But I left these islands, 314 00:39:19,191 --> 00:39:20,941 touched that mainland, 315 00:39:22,235 --> 00:39:25,105 and fell into the arms of the Lord. 316 00:39:26,823 --> 00:39:31,243 - What they got out there, Auntie Viola? 317 00:39:31,495 --> 00:39:34,955 - Life, child, the beginning of a new life. 318 00:39:38,210 --> 00:39:39,800 - Who's out there? 319 00:39:42,672 --> 00:39:45,762 - Jesus Christ, baby, the Son of God. 320 00:39:50,138 --> 00:39:52,348 - Heard you was coming. 321 00:39:52,599 --> 00:39:56,139 I've been waiting to see you since daybreak. 322 00:39:58,980 --> 00:40:00,020 - I heard the drums but I didn't know 323 00:40:00,273 --> 00:40:03,783 they were talking about me, you know. 324 00:40:04,027 --> 00:40:05,947 - I wanted to surprise you, Nana. 325 00:40:06,196 --> 00:40:09,486 It's a hard thing to do in Ibo Landing. 326 00:40:10,951 --> 00:40:13,581 - No surprises here, Yellow Mary. 327 00:40:29,553 --> 00:40:32,723 What's that you wear around your neck? 328 00:40:34,724 --> 00:40:38,904 - St. Christopher's charm, for travelers on a journey. 329 00:40:40,939 --> 00:40:43,729 - What kind of belief is that? 330 00:40:43,984 --> 00:40:45,494 He protect you? 331 00:41:21,438 --> 00:41:24,898 - I see your family sticks to the old ways. 332 00:41:26,693 --> 00:41:29,653 - Yeah, yeah, we stick to them, 333 00:41:29,905 --> 00:41:34,235 but times is a-changing, and you know, Mr. Snead, 334 00:41:34,493 --> 00:41:37,253 you have to change with the times. 335 00:41:38,455 --> 00:41:41,825 - Mr. Hail, you know any of those old 336 00:41:42,083 --> 00:41:45,423 Africans from your plantation days? 337 00:42:10,111 --> 00:42:12,781 - As much as I like to fish, 338 00:42:13,031 --> 00:42:16,331 I'll never put a pole in that water. 339 00:42:16,576 --> 00:42:19,786 That's the spot where the girl got drowned by her owner. 340 00:42:20,038 --> 00:42:22,118 - Isn't this Ibo Landing? 341 00:42:23,500 --> 00:42:26,800 - That don't mean you can't drown here. 342 00:42:33,093 --> 00:42:36,393 Say again how they say water in Spanish. 343 00:42:39,599 --> 00:42:40,349 - Agua. 344 00:42:44,229 --> 00:42:45,269 - Agua, agua. 345 00:42:55,198 --> 00:42:58,368 My Ma came to me last night, you know? 346 00:42:59,869 --> 00:43:01,829 She took me by the hand. 347 00:43:04,541 --> 00:43:07,961 - Your titty's been dead a long time, Eula. 348 00:43:10,088 --> 00:43:12,048 - I needed to see my Ma. 349 00:43:15,218 --> 00:43:16,968 I want to talk to her. 350 00:43:18,638 --> 00:43:21,768 So I wrote her a letter, put it beneath the bed 351 00:43:22,017 --> 00:43:24,977 with a glass of water, and I waited. 352 00:43:28,106 --> 00:43:29,936 I waited, and my Ma came to me. 353 00:43:30,191 --> 00:43:31,991 She came right away. 354 00:43:38,033 --> 00:43:38,783 - Eula! 355 00:43:40,744 --> 00:43:44,914 You're a real back-water Geeche girl! 356 00:43:50,337 --> 00:43:54,507 This must be the most desolate place on the earth. 357 00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,050 You know, I think what I would do-- 358 00:43:57,302 --> 00:44:00,062 - No, Mary, it's beautiful. 359 00:44:04,809 --> 00:44:07,349 - Here it is folks, Ibo Landing, 360 00:44:08,605 --> 00:44:11,685 reflecting the muddy waters of history. 361 00:44:14,569 --> 00:44:16,989 Me, myself, personally, I don't look for 362 00:44:17,238 --> 00:44:20,278 my reflection in no muddy water, you know? 363 00:44:20,533 --> 00:44:25,043 The only way for things to change is to keep moving. 364 00:44:25,288 --> 00:44:26,828 People sitting still, men sitting still, 365 00:44:27,082 --> 00:44:29,752 don't get it with me, you know? 366 00:44:34,047 --> 00:44:37,177 Wish I could find me a good man, Eula. 367 00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,010 Somebody I could depend on. 368 00:44:42,514 --> 00:44:45,394 Not that I'd want to depend on him. 369 00:44:46,726 --> 00:44:49,896 Just to know that I could if I had to. 370 00:45:18,049 --> 00:45:19,089 - Eula! 371 00:45:41,948 --> 00:45:45,988 - Mind now, Yellow Mary, you'll be itching soon. 372 00:45:46,244 --> 00:45:48,714 - A little face powder never hurt Yellow none, y'know. 373 00:45:48,955 --> 00:45:50,035 It's these blood sucking gnats 374 00:45:50,290 --> 00:45:52,710 is going to drive me back over to the mainland. 375 00:45:52,959 --> 00:45:56,339 You live like savages back over in here. 376 00:46:18,234 --> 00:46:19,284 Oh, you know, 377 00:46:22,405 --> 00:46:25,575 I sure hope they're fixing some gumbo. 378 00:46:25,825 --> 00:46:29,285 It's been a long time since I've had some good gumbo. 379 00:46:29,537 --> 00:46:31,577 I had some in Savannah, you know, 380 00:46:31,831 --> 00:46:34,831 but they didn't put everything in it. 381 00:46:39,422 --> 00:46:43,262 I've haven't had some good food in a long time. 382 00:46:46,054 --> 00:46:47,224 - I found her. 383 00:46:48,264 --> 00:46:52,144 I found her fetching her parasol by Ibo Landing. 384 00:46:55,355 --> 00:46:57,645 What kind of woman she is? 385 00:46:57,899 --> 00:46:59,979 Yellow Mary's no family woman. 386 00:47:00,235 --> 00:47:02,025 She's a scary woman. 387 00:47:03,112 --> 00:47:05,242 - She's a new kind of woman. 388 00:47:06,866 --> 00:47:08,866 - At the same time, the raping of colored women 389 00:47:09,118 --> 00:47:11,658 is as common as fish in the sea. 390 00:47:15,625 --> 00:47:18,995 You didn't tell Eli who did it, did you? 391 00:47:25,927 --> 00:47:30,097 You've got a good man, Eula, somebody you can depend on. 392 00:47:30,348 --> 00:47:32,348 He doesn't need to know what could get himself killed. 393 00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,310 There's enough uncertainty in life without 394 00:47:34,561 --> 00:47:38,061 wondering what tree your husband's hanging from. 395 00:47:38,314 --> 00:47:39,234 Don't tell him nothing. 396 00:47:46,948 --> 00:47:49,078 - I remember how important 397 00:47:49,325 --> 00:47:52,495 the children were to the Peazant family, 398 00:47:52,745 --> 00:47:56,915 and how I had to convince my daddy that I was his child. 399 00:48:45,590 --> 00:48:46,340 - Hold it. 400 00:48:47,884 --> 00:48:50,434 - If you want to know about them African people, 401 00:48:50,678 --> 00:48:52,848 you need to talk to Bilal. 402 00:48:56,392 --> 00:48:59,022 - Salt water negroes. 403 00:49:19,832 --> 00:49:22,462 - They stole Bilal from Africa 404 00:49:22,710 --> 00:49:24,800 when he was just a little boy. 405 00:49:25,046 --> 00:49:28,296 He came over on the very last slave ship. 406 00:49:28,549 --> 00:49:31,089 Bilal came over on The Wanderer. 407 00:49:34,597 --> 00:49:36,517 - My baby was born dead... 408 00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:44,820 and my titty was full of milk. 409 00:49:47,402 --> 00:49:51,572 We needed money, so I hired out to a wealthy family, 410 00:49:53,491 --> 00:49:55,331 some big, supposed to be, muckety-mucks, 411 00:49:55,576 --> 00:49:58,956 off Edisto Island, high-falutin' buckra. 412 00:50:02,083 --> 00:50:03,843 They go to Cuba, I go. 413 00:50:08,673 --> 00:50:12,843 I nursed their baby and took care of their other children. 414 00:50:16,597 --> 00:50:18,557 That's how I got ruined. 415 00:50:22,145 --> 00:50:24,605 I wanted to go home and they keep me. 416 00:50:24,856 --> 00:50:25,936 They keep me. 417 00:50:27,900 --> 00:50:31,070 So I fix the titty, they send me home. 418 00:53:47,683 --> 00:53:48,733 - Iona, Iona! 419 00:53:52,772 --> 00:53:53,612 Iona, Iona! 420 00:53:59,278 --> 00:54:00,608 Where's that girl? 421 00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:05,490 I don't know why Nana Peazant won't 422 00:54:05,743 --> 00:54:06,873 come sit herself down over here 423 00:54:07,119 --> 00:54:09,749 near where we can watch over her. 424 00:54:11,916 --> 00:54:14,876 Snakes off in that high grass. 425 00:54:15,127 --> 00:54:17,957 - Old people think they have all the answers, you know? 426 00:54:18,214 --> 00:54:21,844 Carrying around that tin can. 427 00:54:22,093 --> 00:54:24,763 I don't think I ever see her without it. 428 00:54:25,012 --> 00:54:27,602 - We ought to save this one for Eula. 429 00:54:27,848 --> 00:54:30,598 She's about as strange as Nana Peazant. 430 00:54:30,851 --> 00:54:34,061 Sometimes, I think that old woman isn't in her right mind. 431 00:54:34,313 --> 00:54:37,733 - Haagar Peazant, you're laughing at an old woman, 432 00:54:37,984 --> 00:54:42,284 and just like Eula, you married into this family, 433 00:54:42,530 --> 00:54:44,700 but she's our grandmother. 434 00:54:45,866 --> 00:54:47,446 There's nothing wrong or harmful 435 00:54:47,702 --> 00:54:51,542 in that tin can she carries, just some old-- 436 00:54:51,789 --> 00:54:56,539 - Scraps of memories! 437 00:54:56,794 --> 00:54:59,054 - Now, I'll be the first to admit 438 00:54:59,297 --> 00:55:02,127 that Nana is carrying a lot of luggage, 439 00:55:02,383 --> 00:55:05,643 and she needs to put her soul in the hands of the Lord, 440 00:55:05,886 --> 00:55:09,466 but she built her life around this family. 441 00:55:12,351 --> 00:55:14,811 She's old and she's frightened. 442 00:55:16,814 --> 00:55:21,114 What does Nana know about the world outside? 443 00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:22,110 Nothing. 444 00:55:23,195 --> 00:55:25,605 Nana was never educated. 445 00:55:25,865 --> 00:55:28,655 All she knows are simple things, 446 00:55:30,619 --> 00:55:33,869 things people told her a long time ago. 447 00:55:35,333 --> 00:55:38,383 - That's why I say Nana Peazant needs to pack 448 00:55:38,627 --> 00:55:41,457 her things like the rest of we and come along. 449 00:55:41,714 --> 00:55:42,884 She doesn't need to stay here like 450 00:55:43,132 --> 00:55:45,932 she's somebody with no people. 451 00:55:46,177 --> 00:55:47,677 - I might not have been born into 452 00:55:47,928 --> 00:55:49,808 this family, but I'm here now, 453 00:55:50,056 --> 00:55:51,926 and I say let Nana Peazant stay behind. 454 00:55:52,183 --> 00:55:54,523 That's what she wants. 455 00:55:54,769 --> 00:55:55,729 We're moving into a new day. 456 00:55:55,978 --> 00:55:58,858 She's too much a part of the past. 457 00:55:59,106 --> 00:56:03,276 - Don't let Daddy Mac hear your mouth! 458 00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,070 - I'm a fully grown woman, 459 00:56:06,322 --> 00:56:09,332 and I don't have to mind what I say. 460 00:56:09,575 --> 00:56:11,695 I done born five children into the world 461 00:56:11,952 --> 00:56:14,462 and put two in the ground alongside their daddy. 462 00:56:14,705 --> 00:56:17,665 I worked all my life and got nothing to show for it. 463 00:56:17,917 --> 00:56:20,667 And if I can't say what's on my mind, 464 00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:23,300 then damn everybody to hell! 465 00:56:24,548 --> 00:56:27,008 - Mind now, the Lord is listening! 466 00:56:28,677 --> 00:56:30,717 - I'm an educated person, 467 00:56:30,971 --> 00:56:32,771 and I'm tired of those old stories, 468 00:56:33,015 --> 00:56:34,885 watching her make those root potions. 469 00:56:35,142 --> 00:56:37,232 Hoodoo, she be talking! 470 00:56:37,478 --> 00:56:39,558 Washing up in the river with her clothes on, 471 00:56:39,814 --> 00:56:42,734 just like those old Salt Water folks used to do. 472 00:56:42,983 --> 00:56:43,903 My children ain't gonna be like 473 00:56:44,151 --> 00:56:47,241 those old Africans, fresh off the boat. 474 00:56:47,488 --> 00:56:50,158 My God, I still remember. 475 00:56:50,408 --> 00:56:53,288 - And look at that old crazy Bilal. 476 00:56:53,536 --> 00:56:55,656 - Bilal Muhammed is a heathen. 477 00:56:55,913 --> 00:56:56,583 - But he does 478 00:56:56,831 --> 00:56:58,581 strange things, just like Nana. 479 00:56:58,833 --> 00:57:02,003 - Hush, she's our grandmother! 480 00:57:03,003 --> 00:57:05,383 - Those old people, they pray to the sun, 481 00:57:05,631 --> 00:57:08,801 they pray to the moon, sometimes just to a big star! 482 00:57:09,051 --> 00:57:11,351 They ain't got no religion in them. 483 00:57:11,595 --> 00:57:15,465 No, this is a new world we're moving into, 484 00:57:15,724 --> 00:57:19,774 and I want my daughters to grow up to be decent somebodies. 485 00:57:20,020 --> 00:57:20,900 I don't even want my girls to have 486 00:57:21,147 --> 00:57:23,817 to hear about all that mess. 487 00:57:24,066 --> 00:57:26,736 I'll lock horns with anybody and 488 00:57:26,986 --> 00:57:30,066 anything that tries to hold me back. 489 00:57:30,322 --> 00:57:34,032 Now I say, if Nana Peazant wants to live and die 490 00:57:34,285 --> 00:57:38,535 on Ibo Landing, then God bless her old soul. 491 00:57:40,332 --> 00:57:42,292 - I think it's going to rain. 492 00:57:46,964 --> 00:57:50,844 - My time was running out. 493 00:57:54,221 --> 00:57:57,181 The women were arguing and fighting. 494 00:57:58,601 --> 00:58:00,231 I can still see the fear and the 495 00:58:00,478 --> 00:58:03,018 hope in the eyes of our fathers. 496 00:58:04,064 --> 00:58:06,484 They were the sons of drums, 497 00:58:06,734 --> 00:58:10,324 who could only speak of their future. 498 00:58:10,571 --> 00:58:14,121 Everyone was just as scared as Nana Peazant. 499 01:01:04,453 --> 01:01:08,213 - Solomon's in town, got a colored lady with him. 500 01:01:08,457 --> 01:01:09,377 Says she's a newspaper woman. 501 01:01:33,107 --> 01:01:34,067 - Cousin! 502 01:01:47,496 --> 01:01:50,786 - We're working on the anti-lynching law again. 503 01:01:51,041 --> 01:01:53,421 Maybe you want to be with us. 504 01:01:53,669 --> 01:01:55,049 - Maybe... 505 01:01:57,047 --> 01:02:00,797 I still be leaving with the rest come morning. 506 01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:23,740 - Maybe when we go north, you'll take with you 507 01:02:23,991 --> 01:02:26,411 more than Eula and your dreams. 508 01:02:28,162 --> 01:02:32,332 - I ain't got no more dreams, cousin. 509 01:02:40,299 --> 01:02:44,219 - You've been practicing. 510 01:03:28,555 --> 01:03:30,845 - In this quiet place, 511 01:03:31,099 --> 01:03:33,559 years ago, my family knelt down 512 01:03:34,853 --> 01:03:37,823 and caught a glimpse of the eternal. 513 01:03:41,235 --> 01:03:44,395 We left our markers in the soil 514 01:03:44,655 --> 01:03:48,405 in memory of the families who once lived here. 515 01:03:58,710 --> 01:04:02,880 We were the children of those who chose to survive. 516 01:04:05,467 --> 01:04:08,297 Years later, my Ma told me she knew 517 01:04:09,972 --> 01:04:13,432 I had been sent forward by the old souls. 518 01:05:25,631 --> 01:05:27,801 - That's mine, that's me, no wait, 519 01:05:28,050 --> 01:05:30,300 this one, this one, wait, that one's you. 520 01:05:42,439 --> 01:05:46,399 I was travelling on a spiritual mission, 521 01:05:46,652 --> 01:05:49,822 but sometimes, I would get distracted. 522 01:05:54,117 --> 01:05:56,237 - I wish I had this doll, I wish I had this doll, 523 01:05:56,495 --> 01:05:58,155 I wish I had this bed to go inside my house. 524 01:05:58,413 --> 01:06:00,173 - You ain't got no house! 525 01:06:01,500 --> 01:06:02,290 - I wish I did. 526 01:06:02,542 --> 01:06:06,212 If I did, I'd put this bed inside my house. 527 01:06:06,463 --> 01:06:07,713 Then I wish I had a rabbit. 528 01:06:07,965 --> 01:06:09,375 - What'd you wish for, Ninnyjugs? 529 01:06:09,633 --> 01:06:10,593 - Everything! 530 01:06:12,052 --> 01:06:14,262 - Ninnyjugs, you can't have everything! 531 01:06:14,513 --> 01:06:16,143 You've got to go like this. 532 01:06:16,390 --> 01:06:20,230 Eenie, meenie, miney, moe, catch a piggie by his toe, 533 01:06:20,477 --> 01:06:22,477 my mother said to pick 534 01:06:23,438 --> 01:06:25,518 this one right over here. 535 01:06:26,984 --> 01:06:29,244 Wish for the one right where my finger stopped. 536 01:06:29,486 --> 01:06:31,856 Now, put that wish book away. 537 01:06:32,114 --> 01:06:33,374 It's time to eat. 538 01:06:34,825 --> 01:06:38,195 - I hear they done opened up the old 539 01:06:38,453 --> 01:06:42,213 Seminole Creeklands for the white homesteader. 540 01:06:43,500 --> 01:06:47,340 The only thing left is scrap iron stills and tenant farming. 541 01:06:47,587 --> 01:06:48,917 Listen to what I tell you, man. 542 01:06:49,172 --> 01:06:51,382 If Roosevelt does anything at all, 543 01:06:51,633 --> 01:06:55,603 it will be for Northern industry and not for we. 544 01:07:01,143 --> 01:07:03,023 - Supper's ready, Mr. Snead. 545 01:07:03,270 --> 01:07:05,150 We'll be taking our places right up there. 546 01:07:05,397 --> 01:07:07,937 - Wish books, saltwater negroes, 547 01:07:09,818 --> 01:07:13,988 gold earrings, to sharpen your vision? 548 01:07:18,410 --> 01:07:20,200 - Oh, they spoil their children 549 01:07:20,454 --> 01:07:22,464 with dreams, wishes, magic. 550 01:07:27,919 --> 01:07:31,509 But then, they're the most important members of the family, 551 01:07:31,757 --> 01:07:34,337 the children and the old souls. 552 01:07:40,223 --> 01:07:40,973 Come. 553 01:07:49,733 --> 01:07:52,283 Gather up those kids on Ibo Landing! 554 01:07:52,527 --> 01:07:54,447 Bring them over here! 555 01:07:55,989 --> 01:07:57,279 - Let's go and get them. 556 01:07:57,532 --> 01:07:58,622 Come now, no! 557 01:08:15,926 --> 01:08:19,966 - Hey, Yellow Mary, they say you're a rich woman. 558 01:08:48,917 --> 01:08:52,377 - My Ma said she could feel me by her side. 559 01:08:55,757 --> 01:09:00,347 I remember the call of my great-great-grandmother. 560 01:09:00,595 --> 01:09:03,305 I remember the journey home. 561 01:09:03,557 --> 01:09:07,687 I remember the long walk to the graveyard, 562 01:09:07,936 --> 01:09:12,106 to the house that I would be born in, to the picnic site. 563 01:09:13,692 --> 01:09:15,742 I remember, and I recall. 564 01:09:22,701 --> 01:09:26,411 - It's 50 years since slavery, Mr. Snead, but here, 565 01:09:26,663 --> 01:09:30,463 we still give our children names like 566 01:09:30,709 --> 01:09:32,459 Myown and Iona, Unita, 567 01:09:35,130 --> 01:09:37,720 Iadora, Euadora. 568 01:09:37,966 --> 01:09:42,136 We even have a Pete and Re-Pete. 569 01:09:44,556 --> 01:09:47,726 Sometimes, these Islanders name their babies 570 01:09:47,976 --> 01:09:52,146 the day of the week or the season in which they were born. 571 01:09:52,397 --> 01:09:56,817 Not to mention, everyone has several nicknames, 572 01:09:57,068 --> 01:09:58,818 Goober, Boy Rat, Hail, 573 01:10:00,697 --> 01:10:03,577 Harvest, Winter, Pidgeon, Hardtime, 574 01:10:05,827 --> 01:10:07,997 Fantee, Cudah, Ocra, Yono, 575 01:10:10,874 --> 01:10:13,134 Cish, Alexmine, Jackiemine, 576 01:10:15,545 --> 01:10:17,415 Jaspermine, Cornhouse, 577 01:10:21,343 --> 01:10:22,593 Binah, Shango, 578 01:10:26,848 --> 01:10:28,308 Obatala, Oya-yansa, 579 01:10:32,979 --> 01:10:33,689 Yemonja, 580 01:10:36,358 --> 01:10:37,318 Eshu Elegba. 581 01:11:32,914 --> 01:11:34,754 - We're here today to show 582 01:11:36,710 --> 01:11:39,500 our respect to our family elders 583 01:11:41,006 --> 01:11:45,176 and to celebrate our family's crossing to the mainland. 584 01:11:47,304 --> 01:11:51,394 But we're also here today to honor the old souls, 585 01:11:52,892 --> 01:11:55,902 many, who from the very, very beginning 586 01:11:57,522 --> 01:12:00,282 of our creation guided our journey 587 01:12:01,943 --> 01:12:03,863 from one world to another. 588 01:12:06,573 --> 01:12:10,743 We're here today because our parent took we by the hand 589 01:12:11,995 --> 01:12:15,785 and teach we to swim the current surrounding these islands. 590 01:12:17,042 --> 01:12:18,462 And they teach we to-- 591 01:12:18,710 --> 01:12:21,250 - I recollect how we lived in the time 592 01:12:21,504 --> 01:12:24,554 before freedom come, in the old days. 593 01:12:28,303 --> 01:12:31,683 They didn't keep good records of our births, 594 01:12:31,931 --> 01:12:35,771 our deaths, or the selling of the slaves back then. 595 01:12:40,398 --> 01:12:44,778 A male child might get took from a mother and sold at birth. 596 01:12:45,028 --> 01:12:48,368 Then years later, the same person 597 01:12:48,615 --> 01:12:52,285 might have to mate with his own mother or sister 598 01:12:52,535 --> 01:12:56,035 if they was brought back together again, 599 01:12:56,289 --> 01:12:58,169 so it was important for the slave, 600 01:12:58,416 --> 01:13:00,956 theyself, to keep the family ties. 601 01:13:01,211 --> 01:13:03,591 Just like the African Griot, 602 01:13:03,838 --> 01:13:06,928 who would hold these records in his head, 603 01:13:07,175 --> 01:13:09,545 the old souls in each family 604 01:13:10,929 --> 01:13:13,219 could recollect all the births, 605 01:13:13,473 --> 01:13:15,733 deaths, marriage, and sale. 606 01:13:18,478 --> 01:13:20,858 Those 18th century Africans, 607 01:13:22,649 --> 01:13:24,819 the watchers, the keepers, 608 01:13:26,694 --> 01:13:27,864 the ancestors. 609 01:13:41,251 --> 01:13:44,091 - We Peazants, we come from a long, 610 01:13:45,964 --> 01:13:48,304 long line of creation and hope 611 01:13:51,302 --> 01:13:54,602 begun by those first-captured Africans. 612 01:13:56,224 --> 01:13:59,814 And Nana, Nana, she carried them with her, 613 01:14:00,895 --> 01:14:03,355 four generations of Peazants. 614 01:14:05,024 --> 01:14:07,904 And we, we must carry them with us, 615 01:14:10,613 --> 01:14:11,873 wherever we go. 616 01:14:52,238 --> 01:14:55,028 - It was here they brought them. 617 01:14:56,493 --> 01:15:00,663 They took them out of the boats right here where we stand. 618 01:15:06,002 --> 01:15:09,712 Nobody remembers how many of them it was, 619 01:15:09,964 --> 01:15:14,144 but there was a good few, according to my great-grandmother. 620 01:15:15,303 --> 01:15:18,853 She was a little, little girl at the time. 621 01:15:25,396 --> 01:15:29,106 The ship had just come from the deep water. 622 01:15:30,318 --> 01:15:33,608 It was a great big old ship with sails. 623 01:15:35,031 --> 01:15:38,541 The minute those Ibo were brought ashore, 624 01:15:39,786 --> 01:15:42,866 they just stopped and took a look around. 625 01:15:45,542 --> 01:15:49,712 Not saying a word, just studying the place real good. 626 01:15:55,093 --> 01:15:57,933 And they saw things that day that you 627 01:15:59,180 --> 01:16:01,770 and I don't have the power to see. 628 01:16:06,813 --> 01:16:09,773 Well, they saw just about everything 629 01:16:11,609 --> 01:16:14,199 that was to happen around here that day. 630 01:16:14,445 --> 01:16:19,155 The slavery time, the war my grandmother always talks about, 631 01:16:19,409 --> 01:16:23,449 those Ibo didn't miss a thing. 632 01:16:23,705 --> 01:16:27,665 They even saw you and me, standing here talking. 633 01:16:35,008 --> 01:16:38,888 When they got through sizing up the place real good 634 01:16:39,137 --> 01:16:41,507 and seeing what was to come, 635 01:16:42,682 --> 01:16:45,232 my grandmother said they turned, 636 01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:51,110 all of them, and walked back in the water, 637 01:16:53,151 --> 01:16:55,821 every last man, woman, and child. 638 01:16:58,281 --> 01:17:00,371 Now you wouldn't think they'd get very far 639 01:17:00,617 --> 01:17:04,407 seeing as it was water they were walking on. 640 01:17:04,662 --> 01:17:07,042 Had all that iron upon them, 641 01:17:08,583 --> 01:17:12,003 upon their ankles and their wrists, 642 01:17:12,253 --> 01:17:16,223 and fastened around their neck like dog collars. 643 01:17:17,800 --> 01:17:21,350 But chains didn't stop those Ibo none. 644 01:17:21,596 --> 01:17:25,766 They just kept walking, like the water was solid ground. 645 01:17:30,480 --> 01:17:34,530 When they got to where the ship was, 646 01:17:34,776 --> 01:17:38,236 they didn't so much as give it a look. 647 01:17:38,488 --> 01:17:40,528 Just walked right past it 648 01:17:43,201 --> 01:17:45,581 because they was going home. 649 01:18:21,989 --> 01:18:24,119 - I'm especially proud today 650 01:18:25,493 --> 01:18:27,873 to bless the coming child of 651 01:18:28,121 --> 01:18:30,211 our Eli and Eula Peazant. 652 01:18:31,749 --> 01:18:34,919 Our first child that's going to be born up north, 653 01:18:35,169 --> 01:18:37,299 we child of the future. 654 01:18:39,716 --> 01:18:41,966 - Just counting stumps, don't clear the field. 655 01:18:42,218 --> 01:18:44,718 Let's eat. 656 01:19:42,403 --> 01:19:45,203 - Once, I saw a pink satin case, 657 01:19:48,201 --> 01:19:52,331 for jewelry, for rich women in a shop window. 658 01:19:52,580 --> 01:19:53,620 And it had a thing on the side 659 01:19:53,873 --> 01:19:56,923 and you turned it and music came out. 660 01:20:00,505 --> 01:20:04,175 I couldn't afford that case for myself, 661 01:20:04,425 --> 01:20:08,595 and I didn't ask nobody to buy it for me, you know? 662 01:20:10,348 --> 01:20:14,058 But in my mind, I put all those bad memories 663 01:20:14,310 --> 01:20:17,230 in that case, and I locked them there, 664 01:20:18,397 --> 01:20:21,067 so that I could take them out 665 01:20:21,317 --> 01:20:22,647 and look at them when I'd feel like it, 666 01:20:22,902 --> 01:20:25,112 and so I could study them when I want to, 667 01:20:25,363 --> 01:20:27,073 and figure it out, you know? 668 01:20:27,323 --> 01:20:29,993 But I didn't want them inside of me. 669 01:20:30,243 --> 01:20:32,793 I didn't want them inside of me. 670 01:20:34,372 --> 01:20:37,172 I don't let nothing in that case 671 01:20:38,459 --> 01:20:41,749 or nobody outside that case tell me who I am 672 01:20:42,004 --> 01:20:44,344 or how I should feel about me. 673 01:20:57,520 --> 01:20:58,770 - Bilal, Bilal! 674 01:21:01,440 --> 01:21:04,280 Bilal Muhammed, come join we. 675 01:21:04,527 --> 01:21:08,237 Come wash away your sins in the blood of the lamb. 676 01:21:08,489 --> 01:21:10,409 - Let him go, Deacon. 677 01:21:11,242 --> 01:21:12,702 He's a saltwater negro. 678 01:21:12,952 --> 01:21:14,332 He has no shame! 679 01:21:15,288 --> 01:21:18,668 He's the master of the sun and the moon. 680 01:21:22,503 --> 01:21:23,593 - When I leave here, you know, 681 01:21:23,838 --> 01:21:27,298 I'll be heading up for Canada, Nova Scotia. 682 01:21:29,844 --> 01:21:33,604 I like the sound of it, you know, Nova Scotia. 683 01:21:34,765 --> 01:21:36,135 - No-va Scotcha. 684 01:21:39,061 --> 01:21:40,231 - Nova Scotia. 685 01:21:44,901 --> 01:21:47,741 - I never had too much trouble making a dollar. 686 01:21:47,987 --> 01:21:50,777 Never needed nobody to help me do that. 687 01:21:51,032 --> 01:21:52,582 I can't stand still. 688 01:21:54,327 --> 01:21:55,747 Got to keep moving. 689 01:21:56,871 --> 01:21:58,831 New faces, new places... 690 01:22:04,337 --> 01:22:07,007 Nova Scotia will be good to me. 691 01:24:25,478 --> 01:24:28,858 - Come closer together, closer, come on. 692 01:24:29,899 --> 01:24:31,479 - Mind now, Mr. Snead, there's 693 01:24:31,734 --> 01:24:33,444 gators back off in these waters. 694 01:24:42,953 --> 01:24:47,043 - I don't think about those old days much lately, 695 01:24:49,543 --> 01:24:51,963 but when I start to study them, 696 01:24:54,840 --> 01:24:57,510 lots of things come back to me. 697 01:25:17,530 --> 01:25:20,910 - You're a natural fool, Haagar Peazant. 698 01:25:23,035 --> 01:25:25,575 Nobody ever said that the old souls 699 01:25:25,830 --> 01:25:28,790 were living inside those glass jars. 700 01:25:30,584 --> 01:25:32,714 The bottle tree reminds we of who 701 01:25:32,962 --> 01:25:35,132 was here and who's gone on. 702 01:25:36,590 --> 01:25:40,300 You study upon the colors and the shapes. 703 01:25:40,553 --> 01:25:43,933 You appreciate the bottle tree each and every day, 704 01:25:44,181 --> 01:25:46,931 as you appreciate your loved ones. 705 01:25:50,437 --> 01:25:51,397 - Mr. Snead! 706 01:25:55,484 --> 01:25:57,704 - Can you take me to the old man, Bilal? 707 01:25:57,945 --> 01:25:58,605 - That old heathen? 708 01:25:58,863 --> 01:26:00,363 He's not important. 709 01:26:00,614 --> 01:26:02,074 - Is he family? 710 01:26:02,324 --> 01:26:03,534 - Oh, I guess so. 711 01:26:06,453 --> 01:26:09,753 Everybody back off on these islands is family. 712 01:26:09,999 --> 01:26:14,499 Unfortunately, so many like Bilal are so backwards. 713 01:26:14,753 --> 01:26:17,843 They believe everything that happens is caused by 714 01:26:18,090 --> 01:26:20,380 conjure, magic, or their ancestors. 715 01:26:20,634 --> 01:26:23,644 They don't leave nothing to God. 716 01:26:23,888 --> 01:26:27,428 - Where we're headed Nana, there'll be no need for trees 717 01:26:27,683 --> 01:26:31,443 covered with glass jars in our yard. 718 01:26:31,687 --> 01:26:33,767 We'll have gardens of fresh flowers, 719 01:26:34,023 --> 01:26:36,483 vegetables for the dinner table. 720 01:26:36,734 --> 01:26:38,994 Where we're headed Nana, there'll be 721 01:26:39,236 --> 01:26:42,106 no need for an old woman's magic. 722 01:27:14,688 --> 01:27:16,068 - Look, look up! 723 01:27:18,442 --> 01:27:20,492 And remember Ibo Landing! 724 01:27:22,613 --> 01:27:23,363 Hold! 725 01:27:43,092 --> 01:27:46,222 - Can't complain none about them horseflies worrying you. 726 01:27:46,470 --> 01:27:48,640 Stop putting that lard on your head. 727 01:27:52,393 --> 01:27:55,273 - The Lord will carry us through, Nana. 728 01:27:55,521 --> 01:27:56,811 Trust in Jesus. 729 01:27:58,440 --> 01:28:02,610 Nana, we don't need no charms of dried roots and flowers. 730 01:28:07,992 --> 01:28:11,292 - When I was a child, my mother cut this 731 01:28:11,537 --> 01:28:15,417 from her hair before she was sold away from we. 732 01:28:19,545 --> 01:28:21,665 Now, I'm adding my own hair. 733 01:28:26,885 --> 01:28:30,135 There must be a bond, a connection, 734 01:28:30,389 --> 01:28:34,309 between those who go North and those who remain, 735 01:28:35,853 --> 01:28:40,613 between us who are here and those who are across the sea. 736 01:28:40,858 --> 01:28:41,898 A connection! 737 01:28:46,363 --> 01:28:48,993 We are as two people in one body, 738 01:28:52,619 --> 01:28:54,039 the last of the old 739 01:28:55,956 --> 01:28:57,786 and the first of the new. 740 01:29:00,878 --> 01:29:03,168 We will always live this double life, 741 01:29:03,422 --> 01:29:06,512 you know, because we're from the sea. 742 01:29:07,468 --> 01:29:09,298 We came here in chains, 743 01:29:11,221 --> 01:29:12,771 and we must survive. 744 01:29:14,308 --> 01:29:16,098 We must survive! 745 01:29:16,352 --> 01:29:18,942 There's saltwater in we blood. 746 01:29:52,429 --> 01:29:55,639 - Mister, for many years, 747 01:29:55,891 --> 01:29:59,021 I've not spoken those words with no one. 748 01:29:59,978 --> 01:30:01,808 What I remember, I'll tell you in 749 01:30:02,064 --> 01:30:05,734 this language that I learned to speak here. 750 01:30:09,822 --> 01:30:12,782 I come here on a ship called The Wanderer. 751 01:30:13,033 --> 01:30:14,583 I come with the Ibo. 752 01:30:17,871 --> 01:30:21,631 Some say the Ibo flew back home to Africa. 753 01:30:21,875 --> 01:30:24,625 Some say they all joined hands 754 01:30:24,878 --> 01:30:27,588 and walked on top of the water. 755 01:30:29,299 --> 01:30:31,389 But, Mister, I was there. 756 01:30:33,011 --> 01:30:36,771 Those Ibo, men, women, and children, a hundred or more, 757 01:30:37,015 --> 01:30:39,885 shackled in iron, when they go down 758 01:30:40,978 --> 01:30:44,268 in that water, they never came back up. 759 01:30:45,941 --> 01:30:48,651 Ain't nobody can walk on water. 760 01:30:55,784 --> 01:30:57,164 - We'll be fine, Nana. 761 01:30:57,411 --> 01:31:00,041 Now, Nana, don't you go worrying. 762 01:31:00,998 --> 01:31:02,958 We're going to be just fine. 763 01:31:03,208 --> 01:31:05,458 Mind now, Nana Peazant. 764 01:31:05,711 --> 01:31:07,501 Don't go work yourself up. 765 01:31:07,754 --> 01:31:10,514 It's too hot out here for no mess. 766 01:31:12,634 --> 01:31:14,974 Get a hold of yourself, Viola! 767 01:31:16,555 --> 01:31:20,595 - I remember what my father teach me before he passed on. 768 01:31:22,144 --> 01:31:24,154 It was the same as his father teach 769 01:31:24,396 --> 01:31:26,856 him on the day he become a man. 770 01:31:28,859 --> 01:31:32,199 He said, "Women are the sweetness of life. 771 01:31:35,324 --> 01:31:39,664 "They're sweet to the eye because they're beautiful. 772 01:31:39,912 --> 01:31:42,662 "They're sweet to the ears because of 773 01:31:42,915 --> 01:31:46,245 "their lovely voice and the way they sing. 774 01:31:53,425 --> 01:31:56,085 "Woman is the sweetness of life," 775 01:31:57,054 --> 01:31:59,314 and that's what I remember. 776 01:32:50,732 --> 01:32:54,702 - I've been on my own since I was a little girl. 777 01:32:58,448 --> 01:33:01,738 I've been on my own for such a long time, 778 01:33:01,994 --> 01:33:05,664 I thought I wanted it to be that way. 779 01:33:05,914 --> 01:33:09,334 - Lord knows, you've done worked hard, gal. 780 01:33:11,044 --> 01:33:14,844 - You know, I'm not like the other women here, 781 01:33:15,090 --> 01:33:16,800 but I need to know that I can come 782 01:33:17,050 --> 01:33:19,760 and hold onto what I come from. 783 01:33:21,013 --> 01:33:23,973 I need to know that people here know my name. 784 01:33:24,224 --> 01:33:26,894 I'm Yellow Mary Peazant! 785 01:33:27,144 --> 01:33:30,274 And I'm a proud woman, not a hard woman. 786 01:33:36,111 --> 01:33:37,401 I want to stay. 787 01:33:39,114 --> 01:33:41,334 I want to stay with you here. 788 01:33:44,953 --> 01:33:46,793 - Oh, now how's she going to come 789 01:33:47,039 --> 01:33:50,209 and put her shame upon Mother Peazant? 790 01:33:51,543 --> 01:33:53,423 - I can't understand... 791 01:33:56,882 --> 01:33:58,842 how me and Peazant put you children 792 01:33:59,092 --> 01:34:02,352 here on Earth to fight among yourselves. 793 01:34:02,596 --> 01:34:05,846 How you can leave this soil, this soil. 794 01:34:08,060 --> 01:34:12,060 The sweat of our love, it's here in this soil. 795 01:34:15,233 --> 01:34:19,403 I love you 'cause you're mine. 796 01:34:21,281 --> 01:34:25,081 You're the fruit of an ancient tree. 797 01:34:25,327 --> 01:34:26,997 - Hush, hush, hush! 798 01:34:31,792 --> 01:34:33,252 Hush, all of you. 799 01:34:35,253 --> 01:34:37,633 Some of us aren't forgetting how Yellow Mary sent the money 800 01:34:37,881 --> 01:34:40,971 to get Cousin Jake out of jail last spring. 801 01:34:41,218 --> 01:34:45,218 - Now, Nana, we aren't talking about no Cousin Jake here. 802 01:34:45,472 --> 01:34:49,232 A dog don't get mad 'cause you say he's a dog. 803 01:34:53,230 --> 01:34:53,980 - Say it! 804 01:34:56,983 --> 01:34:58,443 - If you're so ashamed of Yellow Mary 805 01:34:58,694 --> 01:35:02,664 'cause she got ruined, what do you say about me? 806 01:35:03,657 --> 01:35:04,947 I'm ruined too? 807 01:35:06,785 --> 01:35:10,655 - Whatever's to be said, just say it now, Eula! 808 01:35:13,333 --> 01:35:16,293 - As far as this place is concerned, 809 01:35:18,296 --> 01:35:20,466 we never was a pure woman. 810 01:35:24,052 --> 01:35:27,932 Deep inside, we believed that they ruined our mothers 811 01:35:28,181 --> 01:35:32,101 and their mothers who had come before them, 812 01:35:32,352 --> 01:35:35,562 and we live our lives always expecting the worst 813 01:35:35,814 --> 01:35:39,154 'cause we feel we don't deserve no better. 814 01:35:44,531 --> 01:35:47,581 Deep inside, we believe that even God 815 01:35:49,161 --> 01:35:51,961 can't heal the wounds of our past 816 01:35:52,205 --> 01:35:55,035 or protect us from the world 817 01:35:55,292 --> 01:35:57,632 that put shackles on our feet. 818 01:36:00,380 --> 01:36:04,300 - My God loves me and protects me and watches over me. 819 01:36:05,510 --> 01:36:08,470 - Even though you're going up north, 820 01:36:09,931 --> 01:36:13,101 you all think about being ruined, too. 821 01:36:14,478 --> 01:36:18,108 You think you can cross over to the mainland 822 01:36:18,356 --> 01:36:20,226 and run away from it? 823 01:36:21,610 --> 01:36:24,150 You're going to be sorry, sorry if you don't change 824 01:36:24,404 --> 01:36:28,244 your way of thinking before you leave this place. 825 01:36:47,969 --> 01:36:49,809 If you love yourselves, 826 01:36:52,057 --> 01:36:53,807 then love Yellow Mary, 827 01:36:57,395 --> 01:36:59,765 because she's a part of you, 828 01:37:01,024 --> 01:37:04,194 just like we're a part of our mothers. 829 01:37:08,448 --> 01:37:12,198 A lot of us are going through things 830 01:37:12,452 --> 01:37:15,412 you feel you can't handle all alone. 831 01:37:20,460 --> 01:37:24,380 There's going to be all kinds of roads to take in life. 832 01:37:27,384 --> 01:37:30,014 Let's not be afraid to take them. 833 01:37:31,263 --> 01:37:34,473 We deserve them because we're all good women. 834 01:37:43,692 --> 01:37:46,072 Do you understand who we are 835 01:37:48,280 --> 01:37:50,240 and what we have become? 836 01:37:52,325 --> 01:37:55,695 We're the daughters of those old dusty 837 01:37:55,954 --> 01:37:58,794 things Nana carries in her tin can. 838 01:38:02,961 --> 01:38:06,131 We carry too many scars from the past. 839 01:38:10,719 --> 01:38:12,179 Our past owns us. 840 01:38:17,517 --> 01:38:21,057 We wear our scars like armor for protection. 841 01:38:24,524 --> 01:38:26,654 Thick, hard, ugly scars that 842 01:38:28,445 --> 01:38:32,445 no one can pass through to ever hurt us again. 843 01:38:36,369 --> 01:38:39,829 Let's live our lives without living 844 01:38:40,081 --> 01:38:42,251 in the fold of old wounds. 845 01:39:45,313 --> 01:39:49,113 - Shad, how can we plant in this dust? 846 01:39:49,359 --> 01:39:53,529 - We plant 'em each and every year, or we're finished. 847 01:40:06,918 --> 01:40:08,998 - My life is almost over, 848 01:40:10,296 --> 01:40:12,546 and yours is just starting. 849 01:40:13,591 --> 01:40:15,801 And I'm not going to live long enough 850 01:40:16,052 --> 01:40:19,602 to see what becomes of all you free Negroes. 851 01:40:21,224 --> 01:40:24,854 - We're gonna be watching from heaven, Nana. 852 01:40:25,103 --> 01:40:29,193 - No, I'm not going to be watching from no heaven 853 01:40:29,441 --> 01:40:33,611 while there's still soil here for me for planting. 854 01:40:40,535 --> 01:40:42,495 We've done took old Gods 855 01:40:46,583 --> 01:40:48,633 and given them new names. 856 01:41:02,098 --> 01:41:04,978 This hand, it's from me, from them, 857 01:41:07,979 --> 01:41:08,729 from us. 858 01:41:10,065 --> 01:41:12,225 Same soul as you all have. 859 01:41:15,862 --> 01:41:19,372 Come children, kiss this hand full of me. 860 01:41:20,700 --> 01:41:23,370 - Lord, have mercy, have mercy. 861 01:41:32,754 --> 01:41:34,674 - Take my hand. 862 01:41:36,049 --> 01:41:39,339 I'm the one that can give you strength. 863 01:41:51,940 --> 01:41:53,900 Take me wherever you go. 864 01:41:54,776 --> 01:41:56,356 I'm your strength. 865 01:42:06,496 --> 01:42:07,576 Take my hand. 866 01:42:08,456 --> 01:42:10,416 Take me wherever you go. 867 01:42:13,753 --> 01:42:15,343 I'm your strength. 868 01:42:18,716 --> 01:42:20,086 Wherever you go. 869 01:42:21,636 --> 01:42:24,466 - Old folks are supposed to die! 870 01:42:24,722 --> 01:42:25,722 It ain't right! 871 01:42:27,433 --> 01:42:30,943 They're supposed to die and go to heaven! 872 01:42:31,187 --> 01:42:34,477 It ain't right! 873 01:42:40,655 --> 01:42:43,775 It ain't right! 874 01:42:50,081 --> 01:42:51,251 - Hoodoo! 875 01:42:51,499 --> 01:42:52,249 Hoodoo! 876 01:42:53,710 --> 01:42:55,210 Hoodoo! 877 01:42:55,461 --> 01:42:56,421 Hoodoo mess! 878 01:42:59,424 --> 01:43:03,514 Ain't no roots and herbs going to change nothing. 879 01:43:03,761 --> 01:43:06,391 Don't go and spoil everything. 880 01:43:06,639 --> 01:43:10,729 Old Used-To-Do-It-This-Way don't help none today! 881 01:43:33,708 --> 01:43:37,798 - Come, come child, I love you 'cause you're mine! 882 01:43:43,676 --> 01:43:45,756 - Mama, please! 883 01:44:11,663 --> 01:44:14,503 - Look at that, see? 884 01:45:24,902 --> 01:45:28,362 In this quiet place, simple folk kneel down 885 01:45:30,116 --> 01:45:32,986 and catch a glimpse of the eternal. 886 01:45:38,833 --> 01:45:41,423 Morning would begin a new life 887 01:45:42,962 --> 01:45:44,802 for my children and me. 888 01:45:47,175 --> 01:45:49,425 They would carry my spirit. 889 01:45:50,720 --> 01:45:53,890 I would remain here with the old souls. 890 01:46:33,846 --> 01:46:34,846 - Iona, Iona! 891 01:46:39,560 --> 01:46:41,770 Iona! 892 01:47:30,987 --> 01:47:33,697 - And so, on the 19th day 893 01:47:33,948 --> 01:47:35,278 of August, 1902, 894 01:47:38,119 --> 01:47:40,079 they left these islands. 895 01:47:41,873 --> 01:47:45,843 And set out for the North, having said farewell, 896 01:47:47,628 --> 01:47:50,628 perhaps, never to see us again. 897 01:48:16,949 --> 01:48:21,119 My Momma and Daddy stayed behind with Yellow Mary. 898 01:48:22,663 --> 01:48:25,713 Some say Eli got himself all involved 899 01:48:27,043 --> 01:48:29,303 with the anti-lynching issue. 900 01:48:32,048 --> 01:48:36,178 Some say Eula saw too much of herself in Nana Peazant 901 01:48:36,427 --> 01:48:39,967 and wanted her children born on this island. 902 01:48:42,475 --> 01:48:45,685 They say Mama was always peculiar, 903 01:48:45,937 --> 01:48:49,187 and Nana's roots and herbs set her off. 904 01:48:53,486 --> 01:48:57,656 All I know is, I was born here before Nana passed on. 905 01:49:03,162 --> 01:49:05,922 We remained behind, growing older, 906 01:49:08,960 --> 01:49:10,090 wiser, stronger.