1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:04,000 (insects chirping, animals chittering) 2 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:17,960 OLD JULY: The life of a white missus 3 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:21,280 on a Jamaican sugar plantation 4 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:25,400 be surely full of tribulation. 5 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,000 From the scarcity of beef 6 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:33,160 to the want of a fashionable hat 7 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:38,800 to the almost impossible search on this so-small island 8 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,840 for a suitable man to marry. 9 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:45,560 -(fan fluttering) -CAROLINE: Marguerite. 10 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:56,600 Marguerite. Marguerite. Marguerite! 11 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,160 OLD JULY: But if that is the story you wish to hear, 12 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:01,920 Marguerite! 13 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,280 ...then be on your way. 14 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:08,200 Go. Yes, go. 15 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:12,560 For the tale I have to tell 16 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:16,680 is quite a different one. 17 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:19,120 CAROLINE (in distance): Marguerite! 18 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:21,440 Marguerite! 19 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:23,560 GODFREY: July, missus calling you. 20 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:25,040 JULY: Yeah, soon come. Me busy. 21 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:26,960 -What you have there? -Missus' dress. She want it. 22 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:30,600 -Then go give it. -July, me can have some of them button? 23 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:32,720 Yeah, when the missus give you dress for mend, 24 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:33,640 then you may have button. 25 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:35,080 -CAROLINE: Marguerite! -HANNAH: Molly, come. 26 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,040 -The missus calling you. -GODFREY: July, go see to her now. 27 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:40,200 She paining me head. 28 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:43,360 Oh, what are...? 29 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:44,480 -(laughs) -Yes. 30 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:46,160 -HANNAH: She's fierce enough. -CAROLINE: Marguerite! 31 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:49,360 -GODFREY: She's too fierce. -HANNAH: She don't want to listen to nothing, 32 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:53,280 she don't want to hear nothing, she feels it's too nice. 33 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:54,720 -Hmm, not our manners. -(grunts) 34 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:57,920 -You have any milk? You have any...? -You see we have milk? 35 00:01:57,920 --> 00:01:59,360 You have any cold milk? 36 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:00,840 (indistinct chatter) 37 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:04,120 (insects chirping, animals chittering) 38 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,240 ♪♪ ♪♪ 39 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:13,560 CAROLINE: Marguerite! 40 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,920 Marguerite! 41 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,000 Marguerite! 42 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:31,040 -Marguerite! -JULY: Yes, missus! 43 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,320 (panting): Me here. Me come quick as me could. 44 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,480 Me... me did finish the dress. 45 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:39,160 (grunts) 46 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:40,160 I have decided 47 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:45,200 to arrange a grand Christmas dinner here at Amity. 48 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:48,360 In England, we used to have such parties and balls 49 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:49,600 at this time of year. 50 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:55,160 Carol singers, roaring fires. 51 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:56,760 (exhales) 52 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:57,560 Fresh holly berries. 53 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:00,080 ♪♪ If you have no penny, a halfpenny will do ♪♪ 54 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,040 ♪♪ If you haven't got a halfpenny, God... ♪♪ 55 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:06,080 Careful! 56 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:12,760 Breathe in, missus. 57 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:14,160 (Caroline groans) 58 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,360 Christmases here are so dreary. 59 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:18,160 This year, I am resolved... 60 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:19,560 (grunts) Ow. 61 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:21,600 Just a likkle more. 62 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:24,520 CAROLINE: ...to give a party the likes of which 63 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:26,720 this island has never before seen. 64 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:27,280 Ow! 65 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,640 -Ooh. -That hurts. That's enough. 66 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:34,960 (sighs) 67 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:39,760 Didn't this dress used to have buttons on the sleeve? 68 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:43,080 No, missus. 69 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:47,280 No, no, that'd be the yellow dress you think of. 70 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:50,080 No, no, look. 71 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:51,720 Look, here are the threads where they were. 72 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:56,280 JULY (sighs): Oh, missus. 73 00:03:57,840 --> 00:03:59,840 Must be them washer women in the river. 74 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:01,280 Them slap the dress against the rock 75 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:02,640 -and bash it till it... -No, no, no, no, no. 76 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:04,840 How many times have I told you not to let those women anywhere 77 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,000 -near my dresses? -I-I did scream and I shout, missus, 78 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,440 "Mind the missus' dress," I did tell them. 79 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,840 But, look, the buttons come loose now. 80 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:13,720 -Look. -No, but they were pearl buttons. 81 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:15,600 -They were pearl buttons. -(exhales) 82 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,400 They was pearl buttons. 83 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:19,960 (whispers): Well... 84 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:25,280 I fear them pearls be back down at the bottom of the sea 85 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:28,040 once more. 86 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:34,960 I could have you whipped for this. 87 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:40,800 I could have you sent back into the fields. 88 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:45,200 -Come here. Come here! -Missus, no, please! 89 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:46,520 -No! -Marguerite! Stop it... 90 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:48,000 OLD JULY: But wait. 91 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,320 I cannot start my tale here. 92 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,600 For it not be plain how this crafty girl 93 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,640 come to be a ladies' maid, nor why her mistress 94 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,760 call her "Marguerite," when her name be July. 95 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:01,400 No. 96 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,720 Me must start at... the beginning. 97 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:05,760 ♪♪ Bring me half a hoe ♪♪ 98 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,440 ♪♪ Come give me a, bring me half a hoe... ♪♪ 99 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,520 The successful cultivation of the sugar cane crop 100 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:15,600 requires a tropical climate and a fertile soil. 101 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:17,360 ♪♪ Bring me half a hoe... ♪♪ 102 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:21,960 Plenty water, plenty sunshine, 103 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:23,760 plenty shit. 104 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:25,120 ♪♪ Bring me half a hoe... ♪♪ 105 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:31,240 And at the time of which I am speaking, plenty slaves. 106 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,200 (man shouting) 107 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:38,680 July's mama was a field slave name Kitty. 108 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,480 (conch shell blowing) 109 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:49,760 (horse grumbles) 110 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:51,200 Kitty had not felt the lash 111 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:56,040 of the driver's whip for many a month now. 112 00:05:57,280 --> 00:06:00,320 And there was a reason for this. 113 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:02,880 (thudding, grunting) 114 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,600 Thankfully his part was small, 115 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:09,240 and he was always done quick. 116 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:15,120 And if she kept quiet, he seldom hit her. 117 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:18,600 (shuddering) 118 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,280 Tam Dewar was his name. 119 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:25,480 From Scotch Land. 120 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:31,160 And she would never forget him. 121 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:35,320 KITTY (crying): Miss Rose! Miss Rose! 122 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:38,360 (wailing) 123 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,560 ROSE: Kitty. I come. I come. 124 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:46,640 Oh... 125 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,240 (baby cooing) 126 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,800 She's so, so pretty. 127 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:59,520 You not see him in her face. 128 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,840 She be your pickney. 129 00:07:02,840 --> 00:07:06,000 What you gonna call her? 130 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:10,000 July. 131 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:14,160 But it be December. 132 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:15,880 Well... 133 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:20,200 She be July. 134 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,240 (laughs softly) 135 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:26,800 (shushing) 136 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,120 ♪♪ ♪♪ 137 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:55,560 ♪♪ ♪♪ 138 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:58,000 You! 139 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,880 Back to work. 140 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:22,480 July. 141 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:25,120 (July giggles) 142 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:32,040 (people singing in distance) 143 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:36,720 July, co-- 144 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:38,920 Come from out there. 145 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:42,360 W-We must not stop here. 146 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:44,000 (sighs) 147 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,440 (laughs softly) 148 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:49,680 Here. 149 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,520 Hmm. Now come on, you naughty girl. 150 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:57,520 -(horse approaches) -Hmm? 151 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:00,000 (horse neighs) 152 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,480 Hey! 153 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:04,880 (quietly): Come on, follow me. Come. 154 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:09,240 -You, where are you going? -Uh, um, me have pass, massa. 155 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:10,760 Me and the pickney. 156 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,440 We are go Unity Pen. 157 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,040 (gasps) 158 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:17,560 Oh. 159 00:09:17,560 --> 00:09:20,120 Look at the little one. 160 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,080 Isn't she pretty? 161 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:24,960 John, what's her name? 162 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:28,920 Tell your mistress the name of your child. 163 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:32,360 July, massa. 164 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,440 (laughs softly) 165 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:41,960 Come, sister, this will be an education for you. 166 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:47,760 (clears throat) 167 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:51,400 Uh, look at, look at the legs, Caroline. 168 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:53,000 -I... -(chuckles) 169 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,400 Like tree trunks. 170 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:57,360 Feel the muscles. 171 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:00,760 Come on, she won't bite. 172 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:03,800 (John laughs) 173 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:06,160 -(grunts softly) -(John chuckles) 174 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:09,760 JOHN: Imagine putting silk stockings over these, eh, Caroline? 175 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:12,160 (laughs) There are some in England 176 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:13,920 that say it should be done. 177 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:16,200 Come, let's, uh, get out of the heat. 178 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:20,000 Oh, but look how adorable the little one is. 179 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,400 JOHN: Well... 180 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:25,120 (sighs) Well, bring her, then, if you like. 181 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:28,880 CAROLINE: What? Can I? 182 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:32,160 JOHN: Of course, if she amuses you. She's my property. 183 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:34,000 She'll be taken from the mother soon enough anyway. 184 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:35,680 It will encourage her to have another. 185 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:38,040 They're dreadful mothers, these Negroes. 186 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:41,800 Massa, m-me have p-pass. We are go market. 187 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:43,600 Well, I suppose if I am to stay on this island, 188 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:46,960 I could train her to be my ladies' maid. 189 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:48,640 (laughs softly) 190 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:49,440 (laughs) 191 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:51,120 They aren't very bright, you realize. 192 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:54,920 Please, massa, no. No... 193 00:10:56,680 --> 00:10:58,560 Yes, yes, I'll take her. 194 00:10:58,560 --> 00:10:59,600 -Right. -Oh, no. 195 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:00,720 KITTY: Massa, she too, she too small. 196 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:02,440 -JOHN: Quiet. -Have mercy, massa. Massa, massa... 197 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:04,240 -JULY: Mama! -KITTY: Please, massa, no. 198 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:05,760 -Massa, no, please. -No... 199 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:07,080 Please, massa, no! 200 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:08,840 -Be off with you. -She too small. 201 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,400 -Massa, please... -Be off! 202 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:15,400 (July whimpers) 203 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:24,720 Yes, I... 204 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:29,720 I think I'll call you Marguerite. 205 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,320 Like the flower. 206 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:34,880 JULY: Mama? 207 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:36,240 JOHN: Hyah! 208 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:39,440 (horse neighing) 209 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:47,520 (wind whistling) 210 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:54,720 OLD JULY: And that was that. 211 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,200 Happened all the time in them days. 212 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:02,720 Your pickney not your own. 213 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,440 (July crying) 214 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:09,920 (crying continues) 215 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:14,640 Your mother is sold away. You are mine now. 216 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:16,640 You must do as I say, otherwise I will send you 217 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:19,840 back into the field like any other filthy little piccaninny. 218 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,960 -JULY: Where be my mama? -Miss Kitty. Miss Kitty. 219 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:24,120 CAROLINE: You belong to me now. 220 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:26,560 -And you must obey me! -You cannot keep coming here. 221 00:12:26,560 --> 00:12:28,600 -Come. -CAROLINE: Come on, you stupid girl. 222 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:31,040 ROSE: Come! 223 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:32,080 CAROLINE: Stop crying. 224 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:33,440 ROSE: If them catch you, 225 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:36,320 it gonna be the cat-o'-nine-tail. 226 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,280 Or worse! Come. 227 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:40,000 -No. -Ow! Marguerite! 228 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:44,520 -Marguerite, come back here! -OLD JULY: Enough. 229 00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:47,720 Let us rejoin our tale. 230 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:52,000 Suffice to say that despite all our beatings 231 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,760 -and whippings... -(gasps) 232 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:58,440 ...July realize that her missus never would 233 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:00,560 return her to the fields. 234 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:03,640 Marguerite, come here. 235 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:09,840 For, come, what would that fool, fool woman do without her? 236 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:15,160 She was stuck on that godforsaken island 237 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:20,640 with no husband, friend or companion. 238 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:26,400 All she had was that one little slave girl 239 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:30,160 that she did call Marguerite... 240 00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:33,280 ...but who would forever cling to the name 241 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:35,360 her mama give her. 242 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:38,440 (rooster crowing nearby) 243 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:40,920 Enough, Marguerite. 244 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:42,080 July. 245 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:43,480 We must have the best turtle soup. 246 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:46,680 We must have mutton pies and pigeon pies and boiled ham, 247 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:49,240 two brace of quail, roasted. 248 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:50,400 And, of course, a turkey. 249 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:53,200 No, uh, let us have two turkeys, and duck. 250 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:56,240 Uh, three if you can get them, Godfrey. In aspic. 251 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:59,800 -All this for seven people, missus? -Yes, yes. 252 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,160 And, Godfrey, enquire in town about cheese. 253 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:05,240 And buy whatever you can. 254 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:06,920 I will enquire, missus. 255 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:08,960 I want candles all over the walls. 256 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:10,600 Uh, a hundred of them. Yes. 257 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,640 Yes, I've seen it done in London. 258 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:16,880 It looks quite magical. 259 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:18,280 (Caroline clears throat) 260 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,400 All this be plenty, plenty money, missus. 261 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:23,480 Well, how much do you need? 262 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:25,840 Well, to start, the beeswax candles, 263 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:27,080 which the missus do prefer, 264 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:30,000 be six shillings and eight pennies for the box. 265 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:31,560 What? No, that's too expensive. 266 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:32,600 Now, the tallow candles be 267 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:34,240 one shilling and one penny for the box. 268 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,680 Tallow? Do you expect this room to smell like an abattoir? 269 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:42,600 Then it's six shillings and eight pennies for a box. 270 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:44,720 (Caroline scoffs) 271 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:50,640 My brother says you cheat me. 272 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:53,400 How can they be that expensive? 273 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,480 It is not that the candles be expensive, missus, 274 00:14:56,480 --> 00:15:00,120 it is just that you cannot afford them. 275 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,120 (stifled laughs) 276 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:06,720 How dare you talk back to me! 277 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:10,080 Just get me a good price for them, boy. 278 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:13,600 Or I will have you whipped. 279 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:16,480 Yes, missus. 280 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:21,960 Make sure you put the Irish linen upon the table. 281 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:26,400 That will impress Elizabeth Wyndham. 282 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:29,240 Marguerite! 283 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:42,720 (indistinct chatter) 284 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:50,080 ♪♪ ♪♪ 285 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:51,760 GODFREY: Run this to the kitchen. 286 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:54,880 Did you not hear me? Hurry up! 287 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,120 Morning, Mr. Godfrey. 288 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:07,920 HANNAH: Molly! 289 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,000 (Godfrey mutters indistinctly) 290 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:13,680 I'm fed up with these people. 291 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:14,920 Making me do this, do that, 292 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:18,240 like I have nothin' to do but chop. 293 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:21,000 Seven people never gon' eat all of these dead creature, 294 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,040 not in one dinner, eh? 295 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:24,440 Not even them white greedy-guts. 296 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:26,040 GODFREY: Come, dinner not just be for eatin'. 297 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:30,680 -Dinner be for show. -The mango woman say, one day soon we all be free. 298 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:32,680 -JULY: Free? -HANNAH: What you chattin', girl? 299 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:34,640 MOLLY: The mango woman hear it from the fisherman. 300 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:37,680 The king in England say no more slaves. 301 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:40,040 Yeah, me hear that the fisherman good friends 302 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:40,760 with the king in England. 303 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:44,080 Come, we hear all this freedom chat before. 304 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:45,080 Mornin', Miss July. 305 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:48,040 -My, how you're all grow up. -(July chuckles) 306 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:48,840 Mornin', Mr. Nimrod. 307 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:50,080 The fisherman hear it from the white preacher-man 308 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:53,680 at the Sunday chapel, and he don't... him not lie. 309 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:54,720 HANNAH: What? Go get more garlic. 310 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:56,640 GODFREY: Girl, you have no time this day 311 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:58,680 to chat no freedom gossip. 312 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:01,920 Of course, me, I'm in freedom already. 313 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:03,920 -(chuckles) -(door creaks) 314 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:05,400 Me bought it. 315 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:11,160 Walked right up to the massa with 100 pounds in me hand. 316 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:11,680 Yeah? 317 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:13,280 And where you get that money? 318 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:17,320 Me free to do anything me like. 319 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:19,280 Set up shop. 320 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:22,640 -Take wife if me want. -Mr. Nimrod, 321 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:23,720 you want mango juice? 322 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:25,800 Me make it fresh and sweet. 323 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:27,440 Get me a house in town. 324 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:29,880 GODFREY: Miss July, come lay the table. 325 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:32,640 We got work to do here, Mr. Nimrod. 326 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:34,960 Of course, Mr. Godfrey. 327 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:37,400 Massa say jump and you jump. 328 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:41,360 -But I is free. -(July chuckles) 329 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:43,480 Not in my kitchen. 330 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:45,840 Good day, Mr. Nimrod. 331 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:48,280 Come on. (scoffs) 332 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:53,760 Mr. Godfrey, 333 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:58,360 this be a dirty bed sheet, not linen for the table. 334 00:17:58,360 --> 00:17:59,760 I beg your pardon? 335 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:02,840 It be a bed sheet. 336 00:18:11,360 --> 00:18:13,360 It be a fine linen tablecloth. 337 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:17,880 Then lay it upon the table. 338 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:19,440 (laughs) 339 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:21,760 JOHN: Why didn't you ask me first, Caroline? 340 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:25,840 This monumental expense for a dinner 341 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:27,920 when we're hanging by a thread. 342 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,520 And it's our busiest time of the year; to what end?! 343 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:34,560 It will do you good. I-It will cheer you up. 344 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:38,240 John, please, we need to meet more people. 345 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:38,920 I need company. 346 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:41,480 There is no reason that I should not marry again. 347 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:43,640 Nor even you. We're still young. 348 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:48,240 I'm not young by a long chalk, sister. 349 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:48,840 And I shall never remarry. 350 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:53,760 You will not ruin this Christmas dinner for me, John! 351 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:55,960 It's high time we had some fun. 352 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:59,640 -(man grunts) -Where is he, Marguerite? 353 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:01,280 (whip cracks) 354 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:05,160 -There, missus. -Joh-- John! 355 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:06,400 John. 356 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,840 John, please, listen to me. 357 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:12,600 John, just wait. John, please... 358 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,680 (fiddles playing "Silent Night") 359 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,240 ♪♪ ♪♪ 360 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:23,880 (horse snorts) 361 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:35,800 How's business here at Amity, Dewar? 362 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,120 I hear it's been a little slow. 363 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:41,800 We're shifting 140 hogshead a month, Mr. Sadler, 364 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:42,600 so I think we can still give you 365 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,760 -at Prosperity a run for your money. -(George chuckles) 366 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:50,400 You run things here with a firm hand, Dewar. 367 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:52,360 Come along, Evelyn. 368 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:55,680 Damn bloody racket. 369 00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:59,040 Oh, Evelyn. (chuckles nervously) 370 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:02,400 My, that's quite a dress, Caroline. 371 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:04,040 (kissing) 372 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:05,920 Look at all these candles. 373 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,440 I don't know how we shall stand the heat. 374 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:10,640 EVELYN: Ah. Oh, Charles... 375 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:14,920 (fiddles continue playing "Silent Night") 376 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:24,080 (song ends with flourish) 377 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:26,840 -(snaps fingers) -Ah. 378 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:30,400 -(low, indistinct chatter) -(man clears throat) 379 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,720 Here. There. 380 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:36,160 (chatter continues) 381 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,360 (quietly): No, Caroline. 382 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:39,560 -Yes. -Caroline, no. 383 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:40,880 -Get up. -I will not. 384 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,560 No, I will not, sister. 385 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:45,360 (dinging) 386 00:20:45,360 --> 00:20:47,160 -Ah. -Mm! 387 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:50,680 -(soft laughter) -(Charles clears throat) 388 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:55,960 -Uh, friends, neighbors, -(Caroline chuckles) 389 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:57,360 um... welcome, 390 00:20:57,360 --> 00:21:00,360 uh, welcome to Amity. 391 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:04,120 As you know, these are dark days. 392 00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:05,320 The abolitionists in England 393 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,520 are gaining support, and yet they are still happy 394 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:09,320 to eat our sugar and drink our rum. 395 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:10,440 -(low murmurs) -And thanks to them, 396 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,360 mutinous talk has been circulating amongst the slaves. 397 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:16,240 Now, I have always prided myself 398 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,040 on being a fair master. 399 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,880 -Mm... -But now more than ever, 400 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,480 we must be vigilant... 401 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:24,360 -(men murmuring assent) -...and stand together. 402 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:26,680 -Hear, hear! -WOMAN: Absolutely. 403 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,400 (clears throat) 404 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:30,440 Yes, uh... 405 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,160 uh, your-your good health. 406 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,600 Yes! Your good health. 407 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:36,800 Merry Christmas! 408 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,640 -(low chatter) -(Caroline clears throat) 409 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:45,320 (dishes rattle) 410 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:46,240 (snaps fingers) 411 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:50,240 GEORGE: Those Baptist preachers are to blame, Howarth. 412 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,400 They've put it into the Negroes' heads 413 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:54,560 that they're as good as a white man. 414 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:55,200 CHARLES: That's true. 415 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,240 -The Baptists are whipping up discontent, -(low murmurs) 416 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,960 and it spells nothing but trouble for us. 417 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,040 TAM: We won't have problems with our slaves. 418 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,440 There are good ones and there are bad ones. 419 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:07,640 -Mm. -You just need to weed out 420 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,080 -the bad ones early on. -CHARLES: True enough. 421 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:13,960 They won't rise against us for one simple reason: 422 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:17,160 they lack any ability to organize themselves. 423 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:17,760 (laughter) 424 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,920 -(snaps fingers) -(laughter stops abruptly) -OLD JULY: Oh, yes, 425 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:22,920 all white folk did know for sure 426 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:26,840 that slaves had not the wit to organize themselves. 427 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:28,400 So of course it be impossible 428 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,920 that they arrange a Christmas party of their own, 429 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:35,360 to entertain the slaves of their masters' visitors. 430 00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:35,960 ♪♪ ♪♪ 431 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:41,240 No, them slaves could no more organize a Christmas party 432 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:45,400 than they could start a rebellion. 433 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,720 ♪♪ ♪♪ 434 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,800 (whooping) 435 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:57,760 (laughing) 436 00:22:57,760 --> 00:22:59,120 Whoo! 437 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:01,200 (laughs) 438 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:05,800 ♪♪ ♪♪ 439 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:33,200 ♪♪ ♪♪ 440 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,400 MAN: Yeah! 441 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:49,720 Is it me dress you like 442 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:54,440 or me pretty fair face that make you both stare so? 443 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,120 Me just recalls there-- 444 00:23:59,120 --> 00:24:00,480 me missus did give me cloth 445 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,720 to make a white dress like yours. 446 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:03,600 Cast-off. 447 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,640 (laughs) I cannot abide to be dressed in cast-off. 448 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:08,960 JULY: No, no, no. 449 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:10,360 It be new. 450 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:14,840 It be the finest white muslin from ship... 451 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,680 just come from England. 452 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:19,880 (laughs) 453 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,840 Your missus no give you fine muslin. 454 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,720 Yes, she do. 455 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,880 Then why she dressed so bad herself? 456 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:31,800 No worthy white missus be wearing cotton print. 457 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,520 Well, your missus does have an ugly face. 458 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,600 How dare you... 459 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:39,000 impudence me missus. 460 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:43,920 Me missus would never have a maid as dark as you. 461 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:45,880 I is a quadroon. 462 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:46,840 Me mother was a mulatto 463 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,160 and me papa was a naval man from Scotch Land. 464 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,600 Me papa be from Scotch Land, too. 465 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:52,880 (scoffs) 466 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:53,920 You lie. 467 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:55,520 I is a mulatto. 468 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,480 My papa be the Scotch overseer. 469 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,600 -Mr. Godfrey, Mr. Godfrey! -What? 470 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,040 Tell Miss Clara, sir, 471 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,920 my papa be the Scotch overseer 472 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:10,120 of Amity. 473 00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:12,320 Miss July. 474 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,120 Take Byron and go and get us some more wine. 475 00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:19,160 (woman whoops) 476 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:21,120 Yes, Mr. Godfrey. 477 00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:22,320 GODFREY: Just the open bottles, you know? 478 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,520 And no come back with nothing, you hear me? 479 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:29,960 Yes, Mr. Godfrey. 480 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:31,640 MAN: Not too much! 481 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:33,000 JULY: Byron. 482 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:34,520 (indistinct shouting) 483 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,680 (indistinct chatter) 484 00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:42,200 (crickets chirping) 485 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,480 EVELYN: I say, you must go to Kingston for silks. 486 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:48,760 That's where I go-- it's more expensive, of course, but... 487 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,240 (indistinct chatter) 488 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:52,600 EVELYN: ...it's worth it. 489 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,520 Yes, one must make the effort... 490 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,520 (indistinct chatter) 491 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,280 EVELYN: Yes, I feel lost out here, so lost... 492 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:05,480 (George grunting) 493 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:10,840 -GEORGE: You, what are you doing there? -What? 494 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,680 I said what are you doing? 495 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,040 Oh, Marguerite, there you are. 496 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:17,160 We've been waiting an age. 497 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:18,280 Yes, where is the dessert? 498 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:22,760 Can't you see she's stealing from you? 499 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:24,520 Come here, girl. 500 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,080 EVELYN: How embarrassing. 501 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,200 GEORGE: Come here. 502 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,280 (low murmuring) 503 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:38,880 (July gasps, pants) 504 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:43,960 You're a thieving little nigger, aren't you? 505 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:46,120 No... no, massa. 506 00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:49,640 -No, massa, me no steal, massa, me no steal... -Yes. 507 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,760 -No. -You're stealing wine. 508 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:55,760 JOHN: Sadler, let her go so she may bring the dessert. 509 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:56,080 Please... 510 00:26:56,080 --> 00:27:00,000 GEORGE: Not till she admits she's a dirty little thief, 511 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:04,320 who deserves... a good lashing. 512 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:05,800 Please... 513 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,200 (clamoring outside) 514 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,760 -MILITIA MAN: Sorry to disturb you. -What's going on? 515 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:12,320 Apologies. 516 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,840 -EVELYN: George, what's happening? -There's trouble in the West. 517 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:16,520 The slaves are burning down the plantations. 518 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,520 -BOTH: What?! -This is exactly what I feared. 519 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,720 I'm gonna need every man to report to militia duty at once. 520 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,040 -(overlapping chatter) -John, you can't leave me here! 521 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,320 Marguerite, get up from there 522 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,640 at once and look to your mistress. 523 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:29,640 She needs you now. 524 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:30,240 You can't leave me here! 525 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,760 JOHN: You must not leave this house at any cost! 526 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,520 Just stay inside. 527 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:35,440 Oh, God. 528 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:39,400 (indistinct shouting, clamoring) 529 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:41,880 (crying): Misery. 530 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,640 (sniffles, sobbing) 531 00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,360 Marguerite? 532 00:27:59,360 --> 00:28:02,680 Yes, missus? 533 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:05,960 This isn't the Irish linen. 534 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,240 (sobs) Oh, my God. 535 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,240 Evelyn Sadler will testify to everyone 536 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,280 that a soiled bedsheet was used on my table 537 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,560 upon this beastly dinner. 538 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,160 (sobbing) 539 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,960 (exhales) 540 00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:35,480 ♪♪ ♪♪ 541 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:45,640 OLD JULY: Some say that 542 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:49,520 the Christmas Rebellion of 1831 was start 543 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:53,240 by Sam Sharpe up in Montego Bay. 544 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,400 Some say it start in Salt Springs 545 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:02,360 when the Negro driver refused to flog his own wife. 546 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,680 I cannot say. 547 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:06,880 ♪♪ ♪♪ 548 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:11,960 For when all that rage and fury was finally unleashed, 549 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:17,320 all your storyteller could hear... 550 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:18,320 (crunching) 551 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,880 ...was the sound of old Miss Hannah 552 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,360 sucking on a hambone. 553 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,160 (crunching continues) 554 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:33,840 What? 555 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:35,840 Can you see anyone? 556 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:37,760 -Anyone? -Nobody, missus. 557 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,840 Oh, where's my brother? Where is he? 558 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,440 Why has he not sent word? What if something's 559 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,240 happened to him and I'm all alone? 560 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,440 No be fretting, missus. 561 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,800 True... 562 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,120 you is all alone. 563 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:54,040 With no white people near. 564 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:55,840 No massa. 565 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,640 No friend, no bakra... 566 00:29:58,640 --> 00:29:59,480 Oh, my God... 567 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,320 Oh, my God, what am I to do?! 568 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:02,400 But no be feared. 569 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,920 Me two fists is raised! 570 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:06,440 Them no take you from me, missus. 571 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,520 -(horse neighs outside) -Is that a horse? 572 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,680 Is that my brother? Tell me it's him! 573 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,760 (dogs barking in distance) 574 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,640 It be no white massa. 575 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:23,880 -It be a Black man, missus. -(gasps) 576 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,600 (whimpers) 577 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,320 -Me go see what him want. -No! No! 578 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,360 -No, no, no. No, don't go! -Missus, let me go! 579 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,040 -Don't go! Don't go... -Let me go so me can, 580 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,800 -so me can go see what happen. -(whimpers) 581 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:40,480 Me will turn the key in the door 582 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,240 just till the Negro be gone. 583 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:46,160 Then me soon come back and set you free. 584 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,120 All right? 585 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,280 (whimpering) 586 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:05,880 NIMROD: Them slaves jumped on them white man. 587 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,200 Them seize them cutlass, bound them hands, 588 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:12,640 blindfold them and march them to the works. 589 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:14,280 Ah, Miss July. 590 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,960 -Greetings. -Good evening, Mr. Freeman. 591 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:19,520 ♪♪ ♪♪ 592 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,640 Continue, Mr. Nimrod, continue! 593 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,480 And then them throw them white men in the boiling sugar. 594 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:26,640 -No... -Oh, my... 595 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,200 You say all this going on as we sit? 596 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,520 You hear me now, this island ablaze. 597 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,680 -Oh. -They be fighting in the streets. 598 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,800 The white men be running for their lives. 599 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,880 CAROLINE: Marguerite! 600 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:39,600 Wait, Miss July. 601 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,320 Is that your missus? 602 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:42,440 Mm-hmm. (laughs) 603 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,000 She not safe here. 604 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,080 She must go to town, Miss July. 605 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,400 Oh, come, there been plenty trouble here before. 606 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,280 Not like this ever before. I tell you now there not 607 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,920 be a white person left in town-- them all dead or gone! 608 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,840 GODFREY: Where them all go to? 609 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,160 NIMROD: Them sail away when this trouble start. 610 00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,720 Your missus must go to town, Miss July. 611 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,120 There be a ship in the bay. 612 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,680 She must board that ship. 613 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,560 She not safe here. 614 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,800 This island ablaze. 615 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,160 CAROLINE: I am forgot! 616 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,280 Abandoned by my own brother! 617 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,480 Do I take the blue one or do I take the yellow one? 618 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,760 -Or do I take both? I... -Hurry, missus, hurry! 619 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:17,520 You must board that ship! 620 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,800 My goodness, I'm so hot. 621 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,200 (exhales) Byron! 622 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:27,480 CAROLINE: Hurry, Marguerite! 623 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:28,360 Bring the hatbox. 624 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,680 I can't believe it's come to this. 625 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:31,800 Have you packed my cloak? 626 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:33,520 It may be cold upon the ship. 627 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:34,920 Where's Godfrey? Where's Godfrey? 628 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,240 Come on, Godfrey, let's be gone. 629 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:38,680 (crickets chirping) 630 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:40,320 Quickly, now, quickly! 631 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:41,920 What, you want me to lift all this 632 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,120 into the cart and then drive you into town? 633 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,520 (stammers) Do not play the fool with me, Godfrey. 634 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,920 You know I need to go into town for my own safety. 635 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:52,960 Then you must pay me. 636 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:55,920 (scoffs) Don't be ridiculous. 637 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:57,160 Pick up the trunk! 638 00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,320 GODFREY: Well, missus, you see, if them 639 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,120 fight-for-freedom slaves 640 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,280 find me on the road with you, 641 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,920 then my throat be cut sure as yours. 642 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,760 So me want payment for taking you. 643 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:15,960 Marguerite... tell him. 644 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,640 -Tell him. -Let her go. 645 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:24,000 Get up and do as I bid. 646 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:28,720 (gasps) No! 647 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:30,440 Marguerite, he's touching me! 648 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,000 (Caroline whimpering) 649 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,480 GODFREY: No, her name 650 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,000 not be Marguerite, it be July. 651 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,840 Speak it! 652 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:42,960 Speak her name! 653 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,120 (Caroline sobbing) 654 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,800 July... July. 655 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:49,840 Now say it to her. 656 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:53,040 Say Miss July. 657 00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:58,960 Miss July... (sobbing) 658 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,040 GODFREY: Good. 659 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:01,840 Now... 660 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:05,040 you want me take you into town? 661 00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:12,360 How much? 662 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:18,000 If my brother hears about this, he'll, 663 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,280 he'll send you all back into the field. 664 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:21,920 -It's so dark! -Hyah! 665 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:23,680 -Get up! -He'll have you whipped. 666 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,840 -Lady, shut up. -BYRON: Mr. Godfrey! 667 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,200 You want them to kill us? Hush your mouth. 668 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:30,920 Mr. Godfrey, the cover! 669 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:32,400 GODFREY: Leave it! 670 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,800 -The cover, sir. -I said leave it! 671 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:36,640 (July exhales) 672 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,440 (laughs softly) 673 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:42,240 (laughs) 674 00:34:42,240 --> 00:34:45,000 ("Missa Bilban" playing, lyrics in Jamaican) 675 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,560 ♪♪ ♪♪ 676 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,600 ♪♪ ♪♪ 677 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:22,640 (laughing) 678 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:28,480 ♪♪ ♪♪ 679 00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,120 JULY: Marguerite! 680 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,640 Come do my hair! 681 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:36,240 (sniffs) 682 00:35:36,240 --> 00:35:38,840 ♪♪ ♪♪ 683 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,480 (laughs) 684 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:45,520 Marguerite...! 685 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,080 (laughing) 686 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,280 (whoops) 687 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,840 ♪♪ ♪♪ 688 00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,720 Mm. Mm. 689 00:35:57,720 --> 00:35:59,760 Marguerite. 690 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:01,280 Marguerite! 691 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:05,440 I am waiting for my plum pudding. 692 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:09,760 Marguerite. 693 00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:11,520 Quickly. 694 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,480 Oh, Miss July... 695 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:18,880 Greetings. 696 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:26,920 (giggles) 697 00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:30,000 I am waiting for my plum pudding. 698 00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:34,480 Ah, well... 699 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,960 -here, missus. -Oh! 700 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:39,400 Be careful, nigger. 701 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,160 This is our finest wine! 702 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:52,920 (giggles) 703 00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:57,200 Am I to peel it myself? 704 00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:58,600 -Oh, um... -Mm-hmm. 705 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,240 Sorry, missus. 706 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,040 Mm-mm, not so close! 707 00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,080 -No beat me. -You stink. 708 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:08,600 -Well, no beat me, missus. -You stink! 709 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,240 -No beat me, missus! -You stink! 710 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:12,880 (laughing) 711 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,880 -(both laughing) -You stink. 712 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,360 Mr. Nimrod. 713 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:23,520 (laughs softly) 714 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,080 Mr. Nimrod... 715 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,680 Yes, Miss July? 716 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:31,120 Is me pretty? 717 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:34,920 Oh, yes, Miss July. 718 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:36,440 Prettier than Molly? 719 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:37,840 -Oh, yes. -Hmm. 720 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:43,080 You is definitely prettier than Miss Molly. 721 00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:56,720 (squeals) 722 00:37:56,720 --> 00:37:59,280 (giggles) 723 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,600 Miss Hannah say you have plenty woman in town. 724 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:05,240 Hmm. 725 00:38:05,240 --> 00:38:07,160 That be true, Mr. Nimrod? 726 00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:09,120 No, Miss July, no. 727 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:12,760 But me are getting a house... 728 00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:14,080 in town. 729 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,280 -(humming) -You could come and live there with me. 730 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:17,960 (giggles) 731 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:21,840 -As a free woman. -A free woman? 732 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:26,640 But this be the massa's room... 733 00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:27,320 Massa gone. 734 00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,240 There be no white bakra here no more. 735 00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:33,720 We done chase them from this island. 736 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:39,280 All gone? 737 00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:40,560 Gone. 738 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,120 Black man gon' rule now. 739 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:44,000 (July exhales) 740 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,840 -(panting) -(kissing) 741 00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,840 Mr. Nimrod... 742 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,520 is me free now? 743 00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,040 OLD JULY: And so, 744 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,640 while the island burn and blaze, 745 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:11,320 our July was abed, 746 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:15,520 drifting upon a cloud of foolish dreams... 747 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:19,000 -(loud banging, shouting) -Shoo! 748 00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,000 Stop that! Get away! 749 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,160 (girls giggling) 750 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:34,640 Hmm. 751 00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,520 (girls shouting, laughing) 752 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:46,160 (exhales) 753 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,240 OLD JULY: How could she know 754 00:39:48,240 --> 00:39:52,360 that the consequences of her actions that night 755 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:56,680 would change her life forever? 756 00:39:58,040 --> 00:39:59,400 (rooster crows) 757 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,160 (chickens clucking) 758 00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:07,360 (birds singing) 759 00:40:11,720 --> 00:40:12,280 (grunts) 760 00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:14,880 (groans happily) 761 00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:20,880 (humming quietly) 762 00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:30,080 (carriage approaching) 763 00:40:38,720 --> 00:40:40,080 (exhales) Oh. 764 00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,320 Wake up, Nimrod. Nimrod. Wake up, wake up. 765 00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:46,680 CAROLINE: How you could just abandon me here like a stray dog? 766 00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:48,960 If Tam Dewar hadn't discovered me on the quayside, 767 00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:50,400 then I don't know what would have happened! 768 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:52,560 JOHN: Oh, leave it, Caroline! You're back now! 769 00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:53,320 What more is there to it? 770 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,040 CAROLINE: Godfrey just disappeared into the night! 771 00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,120 I need you to find him and I want you to punish him, John! 772 00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,280 JOHN: For heaven's sake, will you let me alone, woman! 773 00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,160 -Let me to bed! -Yes, but I want your word... 774 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,520 Oh, for God's sake, will you just get out! 775 00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,520 -(exhales shakily) -John. 776 00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:25,160 (sniffles) 777 00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:31,320 Lord, on this night I have taken more lives than I can count. 778 00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:34,360 But still they keep coming. 779 00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,400 We are done for here. 780 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:44,800 Forgive me. 781 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:46,760 (gunshot) 782 00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:50,600 CAROLINE: John? 783 00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,480 (July panting) 784 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,440 (footsteps approaching) 785 00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,920 John? John! 786 00:41:57,920 --> 00:41:58,840 Oh, God, oh, God! 787 00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:00,800 (muffled): I can't believe... 788 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,360 Oh, God! Oh, God! 789 00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:09,720 -TAM: He's dead. -CAROLINE: No, no, 790 00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:11,320 no, no, no. 791 00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:12,840 TAM: Aye. Shot himself. 792 00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:16,160 CAROLINE: No, no, no, it's-- it's a crime! 793 00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:19,680 He put a pistol in his mouth. 794 00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:20,560 No, no. 795 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:22,920 We'll lose everything. 796 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,120 (gasps) 797 00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:27,880 TAM: What the hell is... 798 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:31,240 -(July whimpers) -What in hell's name are you doing there? 799 00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:32,480 (panting) 800 00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:33,040 -Get up! -Have mercy. 801 00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:36,840 -Get up. Stand. Stand still! -Have mercy. Yes, massa. 802 00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:38,720 CAROLINE: It was him. He shot my brother. 803 00:42:38,720 --> 00:42:39,960 NIMROD: Not me! Not me, massa, not me! 804 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:41,240 CAROLINE: Yes, no, I saw him. 805 00:42:41,240 --> 00:42:42,560 With my own eyes. From behind. 806 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:44,160 NIMROD: No! No! Not me, massa. 807 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:45,080 Not me. Massa... 808 00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,000 TAM: If you want to save your plantation... 809 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:48,800 -No shoot me, no shoot. -...well, all right. 810 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,960 But you've got to tell the story as I say it. 811 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,040 (sobbing) No shoot. 812 00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:56,400 Your brother was shot from the front. 813 00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:58,200 So you got to say you saw 814 00:42:58,200 --> 00:42:59,400 this nigger here shoot him from the front. 815 00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:00,440 -NIMROD: No, no! -CAROLINE: Yes, from the front. 816 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,280 -That's what I meant, from the front... -(grunts) 817 00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:04,200 (gasps) 818 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:05,600 TAM: When he tried to escape, 819 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:07,600 you shot him. Like this... 820 00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,720 -Mm-hmm. -Have mercy, please... 821 00:43:09,720 --> 00:43:10,520 Me? No. 822 00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,360 -No, no! I can't. -NIMROD: Mercy, massa. I am a free man. 823 00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:14,240 TAM: I'll do it. 824 00:43:14,240 --> 00:43:17,200 Remember, you shot him as he tried to escape. 825 00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,920 NIMROD: Massa. Massa, massa, mercy, massa! 826 00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:21,600 -Massa, mercy. -Keep still! 827 00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:22,960 NIMROD: Massa, massa. 828 00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,040 Not me. Not me. 829 00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:26,520 Massa... 830 00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:28,640 -We'll see who... -(screaming) 831 00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:30,720 -(gunshot) -(glass shattering) 832 00:43:30,720 --> 00:43:32,000 (yelps) 833 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,240 (Tam shouting) 834 00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:36,240 (door rattling) 835 00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:38,880 (panting) 836 00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:43,480 OLD JULY: But where could July run? 837 00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:45,320 Where could she hide? 838 00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:46,680 All she could think was to go 839 00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:49,280 -to them field slaves... -Don't stop! Don't stop! 840 00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:51,000 ...and beg for shelter. 841 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,640 TAM: Hyah! Hyah! 842 00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:57,960 JULY (in distance): Help! 843 00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:00,360 Please help us! 844 00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,520 Help us, please! 845 00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:05,600 (panting) 846 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:10,120 Please help! 847 00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:11,320 Help! 848 00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:14,080 Please help! (pants) 849 00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:16,600 Massa John be dead! 850 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:18,240 He shot hisself! 851 00:44:18,240 --> 00:44:21,200 -Help us, please! -(indistinct chatter) 852 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:24,000 Massa John shot hisself! 853 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:24,960 Please! (pants) 854 00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:26,000 Mr. Nimrod... 855 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,000 Them say Mr. Nimrod did it, but him never did! 856 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,840 -Please! -ROSE: Wait, wait! 857 00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,000 This be Miss Kitty's pickney! 858 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,920 -(gasping) -(exclaiming) 859 00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,680 Miss July? 860 00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:42,240 (panting) 861 00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:44,960 Go find Miss Kitty. 862 00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,880 -Bring her here, quick. -No, no, no, no, no! Mama... 863 00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:49,640 Mama sold away! She gone! 864 00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:51,800 -She not... -ROSE: She... 865 00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,200 (July panting) 866 00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:57,040 She here, child. 867 00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:00,520 ♪♪ ♪♪ 868 00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:05,320 ROSE: All these years. 869 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:11,440 She feel the lash many time for try come find you. 870 00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:13,160 What? 871 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:18,760 ROSE: Go! 872 00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,000 DRIVER: Hey! 873 00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:35,200 ♪♪ ♪♪ 874 00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,440 (indistinct shouting) 875 00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:50,360 Hyah! Hyah! 876 00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,320 (indistinct shouting) 877 00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:54,000 Where are they?! 878 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:55,000 (sobbing quietly) 879 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,760 TAM: I said where the hell are they? 880 00:46:02,240 --> 00:46:03,920 (woman screams) 881 00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:12,320 (whispers): It's all right. It's all right. 882 00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:15,320 Shh. 883 00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:18,680 (Tam shouting) 884 00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,760 Go, go, go, go, go, go. 885 00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,880 -(gasps) -(grunts) 886 00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:32,280 -(shouts) -(horse neighs) 887 00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:37,120 I am a free man. 888 00:46:38,240 --> 00:46:40,000 (July crying) 889 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,400 (sniffles) 890 00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:45,600 He no kill massa! He no kill massa! 891 00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:48,640 (fading): No! He no kill massa... 892 00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:50,120 He no kill... 893 00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,520 ♪♪ ♪♪ 894 00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:56,440 TAM: Don't you dare look at me. 895 00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:04,160 (gun clicks) 896 00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,520 (gunshot echoes) 897 00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:17,000 (crying) 898 00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:33,760 (gun clicks) 899 00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,720 (gasps) 900 00:47:53,720 --> 00:47:55,840 Mama? 901 00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:06,840 Hey... 902 00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:09,800 (men shouting nearby) 903 00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:13,400 MAN: All right! Spread out! 904 00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:18,520 -Run, July. Run. -(horses approaching) 905 00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:21,160 But, Mama... 906 00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:23,120 (horse neighs) 907 00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:24,840 Run. 908 00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,000 Run, my girl. 909 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:31,640 Run. 910 00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:43,720 ♪♪ Eyes don't see ♪♪ 911 00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:48,920 ♪♪ Heart don't fear ♪♪ 912 00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:51,000 ♪♪ Ears don't hear ♪♪ 913 00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,600 ♪♪ In my heart is no fear ♪♪ 914 00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:57,200 ♪♪ You can say what you will ♪♪ 915 00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:59,840 ♪♪ Do what you will ♪♪ 916 00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:05,760 ♪♪ You're the one worthy thing revealed... ♪♪ 917 00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:08,840 OLD JULY: After that uprising, 918 00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:10,160 so many slaves hang 919 00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:14,040 that the pile did interfere with the drop. 920 00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:15,680 ♪♪ My darling... ♪♪ 921 00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:16,680 For how else to make plain 922 00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:22,880 to them murdering Negroes that they was not yet free? 923 00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,640 ♪♪ And if you talk... ♪♪ 924 00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:29,360 (chains rattling) 925 00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:31,920 ♪♪ Too much ♪♪ 926 00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:33,520 ♪♪ My darling ♪♪ 927 00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:38,880 ♪♪ You're going to talk again ♪♪ 928 00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:48,040 ♪♪ Eyes don't see ♪♪ 929 00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:54,360 ♪♪ Heart don't fear. ♪♪ 930 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,120 (exhales) 931 00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:24,400 (July wailing) 932 00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,480 -(baby crying) -ROSE: Miss July? 933 00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:41,080 You have a fine son. 934 00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:43,480 Strong and healthy. 935 00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:45,880 -Take him. -(groans): No. 936 00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:51,000 -You gonna call him Nimrod after him papa? -No. 937 00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:54,360 Hush now. 938 00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:57,840 Me say hush. Mm-hmm. 939 00:50:57,840 --> 00:50:59,640 Yes. Oh. 940 00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:03,200 Me know you grieve bad for your mama, 941 00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:08,560 but see, all this suffering, all this death, 942 00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:11,560 a new pickney is come. 943 00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:14,560 A new slave. 944 00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:19,480 Soon taken. 945 00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:26,400 ROSE: Oh. 946 00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:29,880 Oh, sure, oh, sure. 947 00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:31,560 OLD JULY: But how, 948 00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:35,720 how could she set this child free? 949 00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:39,600 She found no strength to smother him, 950 00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:44,160 nor will to hold him under the river's swell. 951 00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:47,880 In God she had no trust. 952 00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:54,160 So she decide she must leave this child to fate. 953 00:51:56,640 --> 00:51:59,120 (baby crying) 954 00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:01,160 Oh. 955 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,120 (woman shushing softly) 956 00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:14,360 Time did stand still for our July. 957 00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:15,080 (man shouting) 958 00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:18,880 She was not strung up like her mama. 959 00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:22,200 Her missus did spare her that. 960 00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:23,960 Instead, 961 00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:29,880 she was sent back to toil in them fields. 962 00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:35,320 (panting, grunting) 963 00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:41,640 Hey. Hey, hey, hey. 964 00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:45,040 Look. 965 00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:47,800 (horse approaching) 966 00:53:12,240 --> 00:53:14,760 OLD JULY: And yet, the time came 967 00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:18,000 when her missus did need her. 968 00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:25,920 For she was now left all alone at Amity. 969 00:53:27,720 --> 00:53:31,000 Who else could she trust to press her petticoats? 970 00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:33,960 Who else could make her morning tea 971 00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:37,840 just as sweet as she like it? 972 00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:43,160 And who else could keep her idle, disobedient house slaves 973 00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:46,200 toiling at their tasks? 974 00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:51,160 (grunts) 975 00:53:57,760 --> 00:53:59,920 DRIVER: Move on. 976 00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:09,080 (insects buzzing) 977 00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:20,160 ♪♪ ♪♪ 978 00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:32,240 (man shouting in distance) 979 00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:51,800 In the drawing room, yes? 980 00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:52,480 Yes, Miss July. 981 00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:56,920 OLD JULY: And all the while, time was marching on. 982 00:54:56,920 --> 00:55:01,240 Them troublesome Jamaican slaves would not be quelled, 983 00:55:01,240 --> 00:55:05,560 but kept on rising up till that king in England 984 00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:10,560 finally decree that all must prepare 985 00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:14,920 for the coming of the end. 986 00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:17,360 -(knocking on door) -JULY: Missus? 987 00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:21,920 Him come. New overseer. 988 00:55:28,240 --> 00:55:30,960 Oh, yes. 989 00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:37,000 He's quite young. 990 00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:46,800 Thank you. 991 00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:48,680 Mrs. Mortimer? 992 00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:52,280 -Robert Goodwin at your service. -Uh-- Well... 993 00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:55,080 Well, how do you do? 994 00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:57,360 I give thanks, Mrs. Mortimer. 995 00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:00,040 I give thanks for the coming of this historic moment, 996 00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:02,280 because, in just a few days, slavery, 997 00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:06,280 that dreadful evil, will be finally abolished. 998 00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:09,240 OLD JULY: Really? 999 00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:11,120 How do you do, madam? 1000 00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:16,040 OLD JULY: This blue-eye bakra be come to set all free? 1001 00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:19,200 -And how do you do? -(scoffs) 1002 00:56:22,720 --> 00:56:26,040 If only my tale... 1003 00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:27,520 were so simple. 1004 00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:31,880 ♪♪ Hill and gully rider, hill and gully... ♪♪ 1005 00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:32,880 For me is now free. 1006 00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:34,360 ♪♪ And you bend down, low... ♪♪ 1007 00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:36,800 ROBERT: The well-being of the workers is the key 1008 00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:38,040 to the success of a plantation. 1009 00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:40,080 We will need you all to work seven full days 1010 00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:41,520 -a week from now on. -What? 1011 00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:43,480 And why does your mistress call you Marguerite? 1012 00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:45,880 Her think it pretty name to call a slave. 1013 00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:47,360 I must confess I thought I should 1014 00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:49,000 never again be blessed with love. 1015 00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:50,640 -(grunts) -Oh... 1016 00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:51,480 ♪♪ Hill and gully rider... ♪♪ 1017 00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,480 We shall have the finest sugar crop in all of Jamaica. 1018 00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:56,880 -Move it! -Hey! 1019 00:56:56,880 --> 00:56:58,640 We be slaves no more! 1020 00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:01,080 -Where you be going in it? -Fishing. 1021 00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:02,080 ♪♪ Hill and gully... ♪♪ 1022 00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:04,280 JULY: Me can leave, you know. Any time me want. 1023 00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:07,520 ♪♪ Hill and gully rider, hill and gully ♪♪ 1024 00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:09,080 (screams) 1025 00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:10,080 ♪♪ Hill and gully ♪♪ 1026 00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:11,840 ♪♪ And a low dung bessy dung ♪♪ 1027 00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:13,000 ♪♪ Hill and gully ♪♪ 1028 00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:14,440 ♪♪ Hill and gully rider ♪♪ 1029 00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:15,440 ♪♪ Hill and gully ♪♪ 1030 00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:17,760 ♪♪ Hill and gully rider, hill and gully ♪♪ 1031 00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:19,840 ♪♪ And you better mind, you tumble down ♪♪ 1032 00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:20,840 ♪♪ Hill and gully ♪♪ 1033 00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:23,200 ♪♪ And you tumble down, you broke your neck ♪♪ 1034 00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:24,560 ♪♪ Hill and gully ♪♪ 1035 00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:26,080 ♪♪ Hill and gully rider ♪♪ 1036 00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:27,480 ♪♪ Hill and gully ♪♪ 1037 00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:28,760 ♪♪ Hill and gully rider ♪♪ 1038 00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:29,760 ♪♪ Hill and gully ♪♪ 1039 00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:31,480 ♪♪ And you low down, bend down ♪♪ 1040 00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:32,720 ♪♪ Hill and gully ♪♪ 1041 00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:34,560 ♪♪ And a low dung bessy dung ♪♪ 1042 00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:37,280 ♪♪ Hill and gully. ♪♪