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South Carolina, [Bleep]
you, you love slavery.
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Preston Brooks is like,
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this dude is [Bleep] slandering my state.
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[Laughing]
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No we still have work to do here, you know.
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[Bleep] you.
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I'm getting like, uh, drunk now.
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So Robert Smalls is piloting
the ship past Confederate troops.
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I will bring all of us to freedom.
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Um, what are we talking about now?
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[Patriotic music]
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? ?
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And we're just... we're proud
of where we're from, you know.
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When you go anywhere
else and somebody be like,
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where you from? I'm from
Charleston, South Carolina, man.
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You know what I mean?
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So Charleston is a palpable...
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palpable energy here in the city.
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Charleston is a city has been destroyed
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by every creation known to
mankind outside of a volcano.
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And yet, still thrives under the idea
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that if it's that bad, have a drink.
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This bottle's finished, so we
are gonna go to another bottle.
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Cling!
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Do you guys rather this be
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hello, today we're going to
talk about Charles Sumner,
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hello, we're going to talk about
the caning of Charles Sumner
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or hello, today we're going to talk about
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Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks?
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I think Charles Sumner.
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Hello.
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Today, we're going to talk about
the caning of Charles Sumner.
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[Chuckles]
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In the middle of the 1800s,
Kansas is up for whether or not
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it's going to be a slave
state or a free state.
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Charles Sumner is a senator,
an anti-slavery radical.
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And Charles Sumner gives a speech entitled
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"The crime against Kansas."
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He basically says, Kansas is being raped by
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the perpetuators of slavery
who want it to be a slave state.
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Then he starts making personal attacks.
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He says, oh, Andrew
Butler, from South Carolina,
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who normally sits next to me,
but uh-oh, you had a stroke.
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You are not here.
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Guess what? You are a [Bleep] pimp
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for the prostitute of slavery.
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Oh, you know who's in the chamber that day?
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Preston Brooks,
representative, South Carolina.
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Andrew Butler's second cousin.
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He's like, this dude is
[Bleep] slandering my state.
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He's slandering my family.
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And he says, uhhh.
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[Blows raspberry]
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And the southern code of honor.
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I can't let this [Bleep]
just [Bleep] transpire.
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What am I going to do?
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I can't challenge him to a duel
because only gentlemen duel,
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and Charles Sumner's is no gentleman.
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Oh, [Bleep].
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I was just given a brand-new
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11 1/2 ounce gutta-percha cane
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with a gold head. I'll beat him with that.
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May 22, 1856.
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He walks down the aisle of the Senate.
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He's five [Bleep] feet from Charles Sumner
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and he looks up and he realizes
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there's a lady in the chamber.
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He's like, oh, [Bleep].
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I can't beat Charles
Sumner in front of a lady
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and he sits across the aisle. He leaves.
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He's like, no, I'm not doing this thing.
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And then everyone's just
like, you got to do the thing,
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and he walks back in.
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[Bleep] Charles Sumner, he's near-sighted.
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He's like, oh, that's
all blurry and [Bleep].
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[Bleep] Preston Brooks is like,
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I read your speech twice, and guess what?
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It's a [Bleep] libel against South Carolina
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and it's a libel against Andrew Butler.
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And guess what?
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He's a [Bleep] cousin of mine.
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And whack!
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Beats him so hard on the
[Bleep] top of the head
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that he goes blind.
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Laurence Keitt comes in.
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Let them be, he said.
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All told, Brooks beat Sumner over the head
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30 [Bleep] times with his cane.
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Charles Sumner is bloodied,
beaten, but he doesn't die.
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The north is like, what the [Bleep]?
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The south is like, yeah!
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That's how we does!
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Preston Brooks is an immediate celebrity.
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Charleston merchants buy him a
cane inscribed with the words,
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hit him again!
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And he's like, I was defending my state.
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Eat a [Bleep].
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Which dick? This dick.
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[Laughter]
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Y'all [Bleep] worry about this
water spilling on the drum.
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About 1858, Sumner's still
so [Bleep] up he can't walk.
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He meets Dr. Brown-Sequard.
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He lights fire cotton on his back.
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He's like, oh pain moves around your body.
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Bada-boop, bada-beep.
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Guess what? I don't know anything.
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And every time, Charles Sumner is like,
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[screams in pain]
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Every bit of anguish, every
bit of pain that I feel,
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I will return to the
perpetuators of slavery
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10,000 times. [Bleep] slavery.
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And in 1860, he finally
gets to give a speech
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on the floor of the
Senate after he returns,
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called "The barbarism of
slavery" in which he says,
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say they own the sun.
Say they own the moon.
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Say they own the stars.
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But don't say they own a man,
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because when the [Bleep]
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sun and moon and stars have died,
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a man's soul will live on forever.
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The moral of the story is
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you should fight for what you believe in.
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And if what you believe in is that
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human beings are human beings,
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then you should fight to your
death to defend [Belch] that
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because slavery's bull[Bleep].
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First thing he did was he
integrated his court room.
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Everybody sits together.
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Black person there, white person there.
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- I feel like [Bleep].
- Yeah, I know.
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Like I want to throw up.
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They're not going to
recognize me in this outfit.
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You want me to... [Laughter]
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What is an oyster?
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- You're looking at it.
- [Laughs]
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How about this one, Goat?
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No good. No, that ain't no good.
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That ain't nothing. No.
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That's for the birds.
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And the bees. [Laughter]
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- Think I'm stuck.
- [Laughter]
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Oh. How about this one, Goat?
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What? No good.
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Nothing says Charleston more than this.
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- You're right.
- Oystering, moonshine.
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Hi-ho silver. [Laughs]
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I want to cheers to courage.
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Let's have courage.
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Cheers.
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Wow. That was courage.
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Yeah, it hurt a little bit.
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Hello. Today we're going to
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talk about Waties Waring.
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Waties Waring was an 8th
generation Charleston guy.
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He was a judge. This was this guy's life.
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I'm in Charleston.
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I love it. I make money.
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I have my beautiful wife.
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We're rich people.
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Look at all our rich friends.
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But he lived in this
place where segregation
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was the way that it was.
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I mean, we're fine with each other
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but black people go over there, right?
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That makes sense.
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He and his wife started playing bridge
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with this couple, the Hoffman's.
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Elizabeth Hoffman.
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She was from Detroit,
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she was incredibly smart,
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and she was the life of the party.
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He's never known a woman like
this before in his entire life.
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And he's like, what are you about?
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There's this thing that starts happening
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where they're just flirting
between bridge hands.
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Like, Elizabeth, it's your hand.
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You know what I mean?
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Oh, Waties. You're so funny.
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He realized he was in love with Elizabeth
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and he... he confronted his
wife, and he... and he was like,
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hey, remember Elizabeth?
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I'm sleeping with Elizabeth.
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[Belch] Sorry, I'm getting
like, uh, drunk now.
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So he married Elizabeth
and they were ostracized
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from Charleston society.
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You're not Charleston anymore.
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You're a Yankee.
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You're an ass[Bleep].
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No one likes you.
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And all they have left is each other.
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And so Elizabeth starts
going to Waties court cases.
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She starts going oh [Bleep].
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Maybe all these cases
where the white people won,
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some of the black people
got screwed over, you know?
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And Waties was like, yeah,
but that's the way it's al...
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it always has been.
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And then she was like, yeah,
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but... but black people are people though.
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And he was like, yeah,
black people are people,
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but like, in, like, a different way.
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And she said, that's gross.
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We're going to get dinner
with some black people.
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And he said, white people don't
get dinner with black people.
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And she was like, no, but we do.
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We're those kind of white people.
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And he was like, all right, I love
you, but I'm telling you right now,
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it's really not normal for white dinner...
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white people to get
dinner with black people.
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I feel like [Bleep].
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- Yeah, I know.
- Like I want to throw up.
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If you want to go throw up, you can.
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We're very open-minded here.
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Do you want to just get some fresh air?
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Take a little walk?
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Just a little bit and
then we'll walk back up.
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Does that sound good?
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So she made her husband get
dinner with a black couple
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and it was awkward as hell.
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It's like, hey, what'd you do today?
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And they were like, I don't know.
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Several people threatened my life.
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And they were like, oh that's interesting.
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But then Elizabeth made
Waties keep doing it.
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After the second time, the third
time, it became more regular.
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And it was like, oh right.
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We're all people you know?
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He started to understand
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that black people were
incredibly subjugated.
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Maybe we need to do something
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about this segregation thing, you know.
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This is a really good area.
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I moved here because
the last place I lived,
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my friend got stabbed while
he was getting a hand job.
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- No.
- Yeah, that happened.
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Did he [Bleep]?
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I don't know. I didn't ask.
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First thing he did was he
integrated his courtroom.
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And he was like, no, no,
no. Everybody sits together.
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Black person there, white person there.
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Then black person there,
then white person there.
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Be friends.
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Quit being ass[Bleep].
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Just be friends.
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Then he ruled that black
teachers have to be paid
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the same as white teachers,
which is, uh crazy.
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The next really big one,
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he ruled black people are now
allowed to vote in primaries.
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And that just, like,
set Charleston on fire.
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Someone threw a brick through
their window one night.
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The KKK burned a cross on their lawn.
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It got so bad, there was a petition
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that 21,000 people signed
that said hey, Warings,
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here's $10,000. Take
this and move anywhere.
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They're like, no we still
have work to do here, you know.
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[Bleep] you.
256
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And then Briggs v. Elliot happened.
257
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Thurgood Marshall trying
to prove black kids
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are not getting the same
education as white kids.
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And there were three judges.
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One of them was Waties Waring
and the other two were like,
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yeah, segregation is great,
262
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everything about this is amazing,
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so who cares if they're equal?
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So they lost and schools were
not integrated in the south.
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Waties is like well, I'm not
going down without a fight.
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And he writes this 20-page dissent.
267
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Basically what he said
was, everyone in Charleston
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is an ass[Bleep].
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You cannot be okay with the fact
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that black people are
separate from white people.
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This is a nice town.
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I grew up here my entire life.
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Why do we punish half our citizens?
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Stop punishing them.
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Just be nice.
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#benice, you know?
277
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And then that was it. And
they moved to New York.
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Man, can I just tell
you guys how happy I am
279
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to not be as throw-uppy as
I was, like, 45 minutes ago?
280
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That [Bleep] sucked so bad. [Laughs]
281
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It wasn't until 1954...
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he seriously changed all of history.
283
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When the Supreme Court made their decision
284
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in a case called Brown
v. Board of Education.
285
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They were like, dude,
because one lonely judge
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in Charleston, South
Carolina, says that black kids
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are not getting the same
education as white kids.
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And he's proving it.
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The entire country should be integrated.
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They based their entire
decision on the fact
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that Waties said segregation sucks.
292
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That dude ate it for years
293
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because he believed
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that black people were
the same as white people,
295
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and that he was in love with his wife.
296
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And I think that's really incredible.
297
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You seem a million times
better than you did.
298
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Yeah, well I threw up
in the [Bleep] toilet.
299
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So that makes sense.
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[Laughter]
301
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I literally just drooled on the floor.
302
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I mean, the judge lives
sort of a solitary life.
303
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I know. I used to be one.
304
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But because of Waties, what happened?
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- Our country changed.
- Yes. Yeah.
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- Changed for the better.
- Right.
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And he was a starter.
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Waties is... started thinking differently.
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He started thinking differently.
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Yeah.
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What in the world is... what is this, Goat?
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Is this a clam? Is that a clam?
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_
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00:14:08,265 --> 00:14:10,281
_
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_
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[Laughter]
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I'm not doing scotch tonight.
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I've done scotch for every Drunk
History that I've done so far.
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I'm not doing scotch. I switched.
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I'm doing jager bombs.
I'm gonna stay alert.
321
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[Belch] Hi. I'm Mark Gagliardi,
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and today we're going to
talk about Robert Smalls.
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[Laughter]
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When Robert Smalls was 12 years old,
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his father, Henry McKee,
the plantation owner,
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was like, listen, my son,
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that I'm not allowed to
tell anybody is my son
328
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but really, you're my son.
329
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You are specialer than the other slaves.
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But you keep getting in trouble.
331
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We think that the best
thing for you right now
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is if we send you to Charleston.
333
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And Robert Smalls is like, oh, I'm sorry.
334
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You're my [Bleep] slave owner
335
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and you're going to send me to Charleston
336
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where I can learn an actual business trade?
337
00:15:07,479 --> 00:15:10,982
Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.
338
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And he spent seven years being a crewman
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onboard all of these different vessels
340
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that traveled around
these Charleston waterways,
341
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including the Confederate
ship, The Planter.
342
00:15:23,287 --> 00:15:26,756
At this point, the
civil war has broken out.
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The officers turned to Robert Smalls
344
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and they were like, listen man.
345
00:15:30,788 --> 00:15:33,957
Don't tell anyone we're
going to go onshore.
346
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Keep an eye on the ship while we're gone.
347
00:15:37,313 --> 00:15:39,181
And Robert Smalls is like, sure man,
348
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I [Bleep] got this.
349
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You don't have to worry about me.
350
00:15:42,788 --> 00:15:44,873
And Robert Smalls thought to himself,
351
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these guys just went
to go get some hookers.
352
00:15:48,313 --> 00:15:50,364
These two other guys,
353
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who aren't the guys getting hookers,
354
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also went to get hookers.
355
00:15:54,507 --> 00:15:56,341
I basically have this ship to myself.
356
00:15:56,482 --> 00:15:59,184
He says, hey man.
357
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This is the perfect opportunity
for us to steal this ship
358
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and get over to the Union side.
359
00:16:06,813 --> 00:16:08,397
Here's what I want you to do.
360
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Go get my family and go round up the families
361
00:16:12,171 --> 00:16:15,390
of the other two seamen on this vessel.
362
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And I will bring all of us to freedom.
363
00:16:18,784 --> 00:16:21,118
[Laughter]
364
00:16:21,211 --> 00:16:22,094
- Mark.
- What?
365
00:16:22,181 --> 00:16:23,465
Remember at the beginning of this
366
00:16:23,554 --> 00:16:24,971
you said you were not going to...
367
00:16:25,062 --> 00:16:28,398
I promised you I was not going
to lay on my stomach tonight.
368
00:16:28,493 --> 00:16:30,160
And what happened?
369
00:16:30,251 --> 00:16:30,884
Probably this.
370
00:16:31,005 --> 00:16:33,640
I'm fighting. Here I come.
371
00:16:33,734 --> 00:16:34,734
- Cue eye of the tiger.
- All right.
372
00:16:34,855 --> 00:16:38,240
I only do this in honor of Robert Smalls.
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[Groan] God damn it,
what are we talking about?
374
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Once Robert Smalls had
taken control of the ship,
375
00:16:45,872 --> 00:16:47,373
Smalls thought to himself,
376
00:16:47,461 --> 00:16:52,132
I'm still going to have to make
it past five Confederate forts.
377
00:16:52,267 --> 00:16:54,685
Luckily, I look enough like the captain
378
00:16:54,779 --> 00:16:57,280
when I wear the hat and this jacket.
379
00:16:57,373 --> 00:16:59,424
And I have the Confederate code book,
380
00:16:59,516 --> 00:17:04,103
which means I know what signals to throw
381
00:17:04,204 --> 00:17:06,321
that will get us through the harbor.
382
00:17:06,414 --> 00:17:10,300
So Robert Smalls is piloting the ship
383
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past Confederate troops.
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So he got to the first one
and was like, toot-toot-toot.
385
00:17:16,375 --> 00:17:20,378
And they thought there's a
white guy trying to pass through.
386
00:17:20,527 --> 00:17:22,728
Let's just wave at him.
387
00:17:22,820 --> 00:17:24,121
And he made it through.
388
00:17:25,382 --> 00:17:28,301
[Exhales]
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00:17:28,429 --> 00:17:29,313
[Chuckle]
390
00:17:29,433 --> 00:17:31,518
[Exclaims]
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So he made it through
five Confederate signals
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all the way through to
the gates of Fort Sumter.
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Not only did the guys at Fort Sumter say,
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all right, let's let The Planter through,
395
00:17:42,241 --> 00:17:44,659
the guard at fort Sumter said,
396
00:17:44,754 --> 00:17:48,173
hey, you go kill yourselves
a couple of Yankees.
397
00:17:51,868 --> 00:17:56,038
And it was only at dawn that
the Confederates realize,
398
00:17:56,187 --> 00:17:59,807
hey, maybe this isn't quite on the level.
399
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And they start lobbing cannon fire
400
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and as he is barreling toward Union forces,
401
00:18:08,108 --> 00:18:09,525
he thinks, oh my God.
402
00:18:09,614 --> 00:18:11,332
I've got to do something to make sure
403
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that these Union forces don't think
404
00:18:13,046 --> 00:18:15,798
I am coming to confront them.
405
00:18:18,995 --> 00:18:20,628
Are we gonna do this thing
from the floor man, really?
406
00:18:20,736 --> 00:18:22,236
I want you to be comfortable,
so we'll do it wherever.
407
00:18:22,377 --> 00:18:25,712
I'll do it from the floor.
408
00:18:25,809 --> 00:18:28,894
As he is barreling
toward these Union forces,
409
00:18:28,989 --> 00:18:30,440
Smalls turns to his wife and says,
410
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I told you to bring a bed sheet.
411
00:18:32,790 --> 00:18:34,040
Did you bring a bed sheet?
412
00:18:34,129 --> 00:18:37,098
She's like, honey, I
brought us a bread sheet.
413
00:18:37,193 --> 00:18:38,977
Hey Mark, let's just have some water.
414
00:18:39,118 --> 00:18:40,902
Just take a quick break
and just drink some water.
415
00:18:40,993 --> 00:18:42,627
Are we getting in a fight?
416
00:18:42,718 --> 00:18:45,336
- Not at all.
- Why... what?
417
00:18:45,481 --> 00:18:46,597
You're okay.
418
00:18:46,686 --> 00:18:49,237
What do you want to know, baby?
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The next part.
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He hoisted the sheet as
a white flag of surrender.
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He pulls up to the U.S.S. Onward and says,
422
00:18:59,878 --> 00:19:03,297
hey man, I hung... I hear Uncle Abe
423
00:19:03,427 --> 00:19:04,477
could use a transport ship.
424
00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:07,185
This was a big deal.
425
00:19:07,278 --> 00:19:08,912
And Lincoln's like, all right man.
426
00:19:09,003 --> 00:19:12,005
That's great. Here's $1,500.
427
00:19:12,133 --> 00:19:14,051
Hey, here's a quick question.
428
00:19:14,142 --> 00:19:17,812
Do you think that you could
get some [Bleep] Union guys
429
00:19:17,959 --> 00:19:21,795
like some... some... some
celebri... some celebrities?
430
00:19:21,894 --> 00:19:22,510
Wha... what's the word I'm looking for?
431
00:19:22,597 --> 00:19:26,182
Some celebrateds.
432
00:19:26,331 --> 00:19:27,615
What's the word I'm looking for? Some, um...
433
00:19:27,704 --> 00:19:29,622
Mark.
434
00:19:29,713 --> 00:19:31,931
Ah-ba-ba-ba-ba. Hold on.
435
00:19:32,057 --> 00:19:35,776
[Snorts] Not celebrities.
436
00:19:35,907 --> 00:19:36,907
Some soldiers.
437
00:19:36,995 --> 00:19:43,417
He was the first to enlist 5,000 blacks
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00:19:43,575 --> 00:19:44,692
in the Union army.
439
00:19:44,780 --> 00:19:47,832
So the end of the American civil war.
440
00:19:47,961 --> 00:19:49,712
Civil war... [slurred, indistinct speech]
441
00:19:50,807 --> 00:19:52,974
And he had just enough money.
442
00:19:52,983 --> 00:19:54,017
What?
443
00:19:54,206 --> 00:19:57,541
Not only did Robert Smalls steal a boat
444
00:19:57,671 --> 00:19:59,505
and [Bleep] get his freedom.
445
00:19:59,647 --> 00:20:04,067
Not only did he serve five
terms as a U.S. congressman.
446
00:20:04,201 --> 00:20:08,037
After the war, Robert Smalls
went into South Carolina
447
00:20:08,135 --> 00:20:12,188
and said, hey, see that house over there?
448
00:20:12,288 --> 00:20:14,405
That's the house I want to buy.
449
00:20:14,547 --> 00:20:15,547
Which house?
450
00:20:15,635 --> 00:20:16,919
That one.
451
00:20:17,008 --> 00:20:19,093
I'm going to buy the McKee house.
452
00:20:23,002 --> 00:20:25,837
The last time that he was in that house,
453
00:20:25,965 --> 00:20:29,184
he was owned by another person.
454
00:20:29,314 --> 00:20:32,649
This time, mother[Bleep] owned the house.
455
00:20:35,558 --> 00:20:36,675
Mark.
456
00:20:36,814 --> 00:20:38,898
Mm-hmm.
457
00:20:39,023 --> 00:20:40,523
Robert Smalls.
458
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Yeah, man.
459
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- Do you like him?
- I love him.
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