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- I am the
first and the last.
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I am the honored one
and the scorned one.
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I am the whore and the holy one.
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I am the wife and the virgin.
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I am the barren one
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And many are my daughters.
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I am the silence that
you cannot understand.
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I am the utterance of my name.
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- I can't believe it.
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I had no idea.
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Cousin Mary.
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Praise the lord, Mr. Snead,
my dear cousin, Mary Peazant.
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This has turned out to
be a very special day
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for the Peazant family, indeed.
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- Viola.
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- Pleasure to meet
you, Mary Peazant.
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- Yellow, they call
me Yellow Mary.
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- Our
fathers were brothers.
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Of course, compared
to some people,
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Yellow Mary's not all
that lightskinned, but...
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Yellow Mary, I'd
like you to meet
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my photographer, Mr. Snead.
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I've commissioned Mr.
Snead to photograph
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our family crossing
over to the mainland.
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What's past is prologue.
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I see this day as their
first steps toward progress,
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an engraved invitation
to the culture
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and education and
wealth of the mainland.
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Yellow Mary, wouldn't you agree?
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- My
story begins on the eve
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of my family's migration north.
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My story begins
before I was born.
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My great-great-grandmother,
Nana Peazant,
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saw her family coming apart,
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her flowers to bloom
in a distant frontier.
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And then, there was my
ma and daddy's problem.
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Nana prayed and the old souls
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guided me into the New World.
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I came in time for
the big celebration,
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to be among my cousins,
my aunties, and uncles.
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I can still see their faces,
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smell the oil in
the wicker lamps.
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I can hear the voice
of Auntie Haagar
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calling out for her
daughters, Iona and Myown.
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And teasing the newlyweds.
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- Kalos, beautiful, eidos, form.
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Skopein, to view.
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If an object is placed
between two mirrors,
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inclined at right angles, an
image is formed in each mirror.
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Then, these mirror
images are in turn
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reflected in the other mirror,
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forming the appearance of four,
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symmetrically-shaped objects.
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Oh, I think it's just
a wonderful discovery.
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It's beauty,
simplicity, and science
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all rolled into one small tube.
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I think the children
will enjoy it.
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- Yellow Mary, look!
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Uncle Spikenard
used to live there.
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Do you remember him?
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Oh, I guess not.
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I was just a young
Miss, too, then.
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He was from Africa,
and just after the war,
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he moved from the plantation to
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that little house
on the waterfront.
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Remember how when
Uncle Spikenard
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got excited or angry
he'd talk funny
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so the children
couldn't understand him?
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He'd speak in
African words and sounds.
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You know, just before the
war, Uncle Spikenard told me,
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they'd keep boatloads
of fresh Africans
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off on some secret
islands around here.
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- Viola, our government banned
the transporting of Africans
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for slavery 50 years
before the Civil War.
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- Not back off on
these islands, no.
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Just before the
war, they were still
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running and hiding
saltwater Africans,
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pure-bred, from the Yankees.
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- "Mistress Iona Peazant,
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"Dahtaw Island, August 18, 1902.
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"Iona, with the greatest respect
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"for yourself and
the Peazant family,
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"I beg that you stay by my side
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"here on this island.
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"Please do not leave me in
this flood of migration north.
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"I feel if I lose you,
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"I will lose myself.
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"Consider the memories we share
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"of growing up together.
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"We are the young,
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"the eager up from slavery,
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"eager to learn a trade,
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"eager to make a better
life for ourselves
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"and our children
who will follow.
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"Our love is a very precious,
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"very fragile
flowering of our most
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"innocent childhood association.
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"If fear clouds your decision,
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"together we must call
out to higher forces
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"that they might guide us.
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"Iona,
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"as I walk toward the future,
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"with your heart embracing mine,
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"everything seem new.
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"Everything seem good.
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"Everything seem possible.
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"Signed, St. Julian Last Child,
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"son of the Cherokee Nation,
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"son of these islands
we call Dahtaw,
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"Coosa, Edisto,
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"Sapelo, Dafuskie,
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"Ossabaw, Kiwa,
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"Wassaw, Paris,
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and Santa Helena."
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- Iona, you have to
go North with us.
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Auntie Haagar
won't let you stay.
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We all have to leave.
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We all have to leave together.
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- Who's that?
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What's your children up to now?
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Get on with you, son, and help
me clear away these weeds.
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- Just 'cause we crossing
over to the mainland,
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it doesn't mean
we don't love you.
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It doesn't mean we're not
going to miss you none.
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And it doesn't mean
we're not going
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to come home to visit
with you soon.
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- Eli Peazant, if you don't
stop grinning at me...
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It ain't right to
tease old folks,
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especially your
great-grandmother.
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You're lucky I've got breath
in me yet, you old Goober Head.
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Goober Head.
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Your name used to be called
Goober Head, remember that?
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Goober means peanut.
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- What is this?
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Something seems to
be stuck in here.
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- You know, your
grandaddy Shad ain't like
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to see no woman chewing tobacco.
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Ain't that so?
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You know that's so.
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- No, ma'am.
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- I visit with old
Peazant every day
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since the day him died.
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It's up to the living to keep
in touch with the dead, Eli.
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Man's power don't
end with death.
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We just move on
to another place,
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a place where we go and
watch over our living family.
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Respect your elders.
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Respect your family.
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Respect your ancestors.
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You're worried that
baby Eula's carrying
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ain't yours because
she get forced.
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You won't have no baby
that wasn't sent to you.
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The ancestors and the womb,
they're one, they're the same.
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Those in this grave, like those
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who're across the
sea, they're with us.
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They're all the same, the
ancestors and the womb.
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Call on your ancestors, Eli.
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Let them guide.
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You need their strength.
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Eli, I need for you
to make the family
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strong again, like
we used to been.
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- How can you understand
me and the way I feel?
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This happened to
my wife, my wife!
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I don't feel like
she mine no more.
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When I look at her, I feel I
don't even want her no more.
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- You can't get back
what you never owned.
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Eula never belonged to
you, she married you.
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- Why didn't you
protect us, Nana?
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Someone put the fix on me.
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Was it the conjure or bad luck?
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Or were the old souls too
deep in their graves to give
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a damn about my wife while
some stranger was riding her?
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When we was children,
we really believed
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you could work the
good out of evil.
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We believed in the
newsprint on the walls,
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your tree of glass
jars and bottles,
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the rice you carry
in your pockets.
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We believed in the
frizzled-haired chicken.
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The coins, the roots,
and the flowers,
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we believed they
would protect us
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and every little thing
we owned or loved.
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I wasn't scared of
nothing and no one
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because I knew, I knew
my great-grandmother
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had it all in her pocket
or could work it up.
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- Never forget who we is
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and how far we done come.
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- I have to leave here.
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I don't have no other choice.
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- Eli, Eli!
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There's a thought,
a recollection,
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something somebody remembers.
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We carry these
memories inside of we.
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Do you believe that
those hundreds and
hundreds of Africans
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brought here on this other side
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would forget everything
they once knew?
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We don't know where the
recollections come from.
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Sometimes we dream them.
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But we carry these
memories inside of we.
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- What are we supposed
to remember, Nana?
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How at one time we were able
to protect those we loved?
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How in Africa
world we were kings
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and queens and built
great, big cities?
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- Eli, I'm trying to learn you
how to touch your own spirit.
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I'm fighting for my life,
and I'm fighting for yours.
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Look in my face!
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I'm trying to give you something
to take north with you,
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along with all your
great, big dreams!
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Call on those old Africans, Eli.
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They'll come to you when
you least expect them.
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They'll hug you
up quick and soft
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as the warm, sweet wind.
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Let them old souls come
into your heart, Eli.
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Let them touch you
with the hands of time.
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Let them feed your
head with wisdom
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that ain't from
this day and time.
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'Cause when you leave
this island, Eli Peazant,
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you ain't going to no
land of milk and honey.
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Eli, I'm putting
my trust in you,
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to keep the family
together up north.
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That's the challenge facing
all you free Negroes.
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Celebrate our ways.
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Nana prayed for help.
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I got there just in time.
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- Come, child, come!
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- Fresh and sweet like a
baby's breath.
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- Eula.
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Who done this to us?
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- Nothing good can
come from knowing!
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- Everything good done gone.
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Our dreams are all gone.
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- God as my witness...
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when I leave this
place, I'm never
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again going to
live in your land!
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- Oh girl, you're so silly.
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What are you looking at?
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- Oh, I love you, oh!
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Now, this means--
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- Gumbo!
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- Pot called?
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- Sojo.
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- Water, water.
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- Deloe.
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- Fire.
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- Diffy!
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- Yeah!
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Now, that's all what
grandma remember.
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- They the last of the
old and the first of the new.
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The older I get, the
closer I get to the ground.
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This was the worst place to
have been born in slavery time.
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Their hands scarred with blue
from the poisonous indigo dye
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what built up all them
plantations from swampland.
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We spirit numb from the sting
of fever from the rice fields.
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We back bend down
while we did planting
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and the hoeing and
the Sea Island cotton.
255
00:32:01,128 --> 00:32:04,882
I was an elder, and
many, many years back,
256
00:32:05,132 --> 00:32:08,100
when I lay in my mother's arms,
257
00:32:08,260 --> 00:32:10,346
I saw Africa in her face.
258
00:32:24,193 --> 00:32:25,277
- It was an age
259
00:32:25,527 --> 00:32:28,155
of beginnings, a
time of promises.
260
00:32:30,324 --> 00:32:34,360
The newspaper said it
was a time for everyone,
261
00:32:35,371 --> 00:32:39,166
the rich and the poor, the
powerful and the powerless.
262
00:32:53,681 --> 00:32:57,851
- Eula say, we the
bridge that they cross over on.
263
00:32:58,102 --> 00:33:00,896
We're the tie
between then and now,
264
00:33:01,146 --> 00:33:04,900
between the past and the
story that will come.
265
00:34:22,102 --> 00:34:25,939
- Old Man Peazant
granddaughter done come home.
266
00:34:27,149 --> 00:34:29,276
- Oh, she got ruined.
267
00:34:29,526 --> 00:34:32,488
Yellow Mary gone
off and got ruined.
268
00:34:33,781 --> 00:34:36,241
- What's that she got with her?
269
00:34:36,492 --> 00:34:37,493
- Iona!
270
00:34:39,703 --> 00:34:40,454
Iona!
271
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,298
You go warn Nana Peazant.
272
00:34:51,548 --> 00:34:54,843
It'll most likely kill her to
see this heifer done returned.
273
00:34:55,940 --> 00:34:57,262
- But Ma, I don't think...
274
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,484
- All that yellow wasted.
275
00:35:25,541 --> 00:35:27,918
- Ah, is this the
same little girl
276
00:35:28,168 --> 00:35:32,339
I used to rock in
Gussie's yard?
277
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:40,764
- The shameless hussy.
278
00:35:45,686 --> 00:35:48,605
- Look, Trula, this is Eula.
279
00:35:48,856 --> 00:35:50,899
- Eula, nice to meet you.
280
00:36:05,581 --> 00:36:06,874
- What is this?
281
00:36:16,633 --> 00:36:19,469
- Store-bought
biscuits, Haagar.
282
00:36:19,720 --> 00:36:21,597
- Bread from a store?
283
00:36:30,220 --> 00:36:31,940
You know, Yellow
Mary, they say a woman
284
00:36:32,191 --> 00:36:35,360
who knows how to cook
is mighty pretty.
285
00:36:36,361 --> 00:36:38,113
- Ma, can I taste one?
286
00:36:44,770 --> 00:36:47,247
- You know, I don't like
messing around in no kitchen.
287
00:36:47,497 --> 00:36:50,667
- I wouldn't eat them no
how if she touched them.
288
00:36:50,918 --> 00:36:53,503
- You never know where
her hands have been.
289
00:36:53,754 --> 00:36:55,631
I mean, I can just
smell the heifer.
290
00:36:55,881 --> 00:36:59,920
- Buzzards don't circle
in the air just for fun.
291
00:36:59,343 --> 00:37:02,120
That gal's come back
here for something.
292
00:37:29,289 --> 00:37:31,166
- Girl, what are you
doing with those things?
293
00:37:31,416 --> 00:37:32,876
- Just make sure
ain't no dead crabs.
294
00:37:33,126 --> 00:37:34,544
Ain't nobody wanna
eat no dead crab.
295
00:37:34,795 --> 00:37:37,172
- Why're you making them crawl?
296
00:37:37,422 --> 00:37:41,176
- Girl, you need to be
plucking this chicken.
297
00:37:41,426 --> 00:37:44,596
- Throw one of them
things on Haagar.
298
00:37:44,846 --> 00:37:45,597
- No, no.
299
00:38:07,536 --> 00:38:11,290
- The Earth, O Lord, is
swelling with fruitage
300
00:38:14,710 --> 00:38:16,670
and reminds us that this
301
00:38:17,796 --> 00:38:19,840
is the seed time of life.
302
00:38:22,509 --> 00:38:25,971
That not today, not
tomorrow will come
303
00:38:26,221 --> 00:38:28,765
the true reaping
of the deeds we do
304
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:30,767
but in some far-veiled
305
00:38:33,145 --> 00:38:34,730
and mighty harvest,
306
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:41,280
not deceiving ourselves with
the apparent ease of evil,
307
00:38:41,278 --> 00:38:43,113
looking to that harvest
308
00:38:45,282 --> 00:38:48,118
when the earth
belongs to the Lord,
309
00:38:49,786 --> 00:38:52,331
not us and the fullness thereof.
310
00:38:59,838 --> 00:39:01,600
Put that down.
311
00:39:06,940 --> 00:39:09,348
Now, you know, when
I left this island,
312
00:39:11,433 --> 00:39:15,187
I was a sinner and I
didn't even know it.
313
00:39:15,437 --> 00:39:17,481
But I left these islands,
314
00:39:19,191 --> 00:39:20,942
touched that mainland,
315
00:39:22,235 --> 00:39:25,113
and fell into the
arms of the Lord.
316
00:39:26,823 --> 00:39:31,244
- What they got
out there, Auntie Viola?
317
00:39:31,495 --> 00:39:34,956
- Life, child, the
beginning of a new life.
318
00:39:38,210 --> 00:39:39,795
- Who's out there?
319
00:39:42,672 --> 00:39:45,759
- Jesus Christ,
baby, the Son of God.
320
00:39:50,138 --> 00:39:52,349
- Heard you was coming.
321
00:39:52,599 --> 00:39:56,144
I've been waiting to
see you since daybreak.
322
00:39:58,980 --> 00:40:00,230
- I heard the drums
but I didn't know
323
00:40:00,273 --> 00:40:03,777
they were talking
about me, you know.
324
00:40:04,270 --> 00:40:05,946
- I wanted to
surprise you, Nana.
325
00:40:06,196 --> 00:40:09,491
It's a hard thing to
do in Ibo Landing.
326
00:40:10,951 --> 00:40:13,578
- No surprises
here, Yellow Mary.
327
00:40:29,553 --> 00:40:32,722
What's that you wear
around your neck?
328
00:40:34,724 --> 00:40:38,895
- St. Christopher's charm,
for travelers on a journey.
329
00:40:40,939 --> 00:40:43,733
- What kind of belief is that?
330
00:40:43,984 --> 00:40:45,485
He protect you?
331
00:41:21,438 --> 00:41:24,900
- I see your family
sticks to the old ways.
332
00:41:26,693 --> 00:41:29,654
- Yeah, yeah, we stick to them,
333
00:41:29,905 --> 00:41:34,242
but times is a-changing,
and you know, Mr. Snead,
334
00:41:34,493 --> 00:41:37,245
you have to change
with the times.
335
00:41:38,455 --> 00:41:41,833
- Mr. Hail, you know
any of those old
336
00:41:42,830 --> 00:41:45,420
Africans from your
plantation days?
337
00:42:10,111 --> 00:42:12,781
- As much as I like to fish,
338
00:42:13,310 --> 00:42:16,326
I'll never put a
pole in that water.
339
00:42:16,576 --> 00:42:19,788
That's the spot where the
girl got drowned by her owner.
340
00:42:20,380 --> 00:42:22,123
- Isn't this Ibo Landing?
341
00:42:23,500 --> 00:42:26,795
- That don't mean
you can't drown here.
342
00:42:33,930 --> 00:42:36,388
Say again how they
say water in Spanish.
343
00:42:39,599 --> 00:42:40,350
- Agua.
344
00:42:44,229 --> 00:42:45,272
- Agua, agua.
345
00:42:55,198 --> 00:42:58,368
My Ma came to me
last night, you know?
346
00:42:59,869 --> 00:43:01,830
She took me by the hand.
347
00:43:04,541 --> 00:43:07,961
- Your titty's been
dead a long time, Eula.
348
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:12,480
- I needed to see my Ma.
349
00:43:15,218 --> 00:43:16,970
I want to talk to her.
350
00:43:18,638 --> 00:43:21,766
So I wrote her a letter,
put it beneath the bed
351
00:43:22,170 --> 00:43:24,978
with a glass of
water, and I waited.
352
00:43:28,106 --> 00:43:29,941
I waited, and my Ma came to me.
353
00:43:30,191 --> 00:43:31,985
She came right away.
354
00:43:38,330 --> 00:43:38,783
- Eula!
355
00:43:40,744 --> 00:43:44,914
You're a real back-water
Geeche girl!
356
00:43:50,337 --> 00:43:54,507
This must be the most
desolate place on the earth.
357
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,520
You know, I think
what I would do--
358
00:43:57,302 --> 00:44:00,550
- No, Mary,
it's beautiful.
359
00:44:04,809 --> 00:44:07,354
- Here it is folks, Ibo Landing,
360
00:44:08,605 --> 00:44:11,691
reflecting the muddy
waters of history.
361
00:44:14,569 --> 00:44:16,988
Me, myself, personally,
I don't look for
362
00:44:17,238 --> 00:44:20,283
my reflection in no
muddy water, you know?
363
00:44:20,533 --> 00:44:25,380
The only way for things to
change is to keep moving.
364
00:44:25,288 --> 00:44:26,831
People sitting still,
men sitting still,
365
00:44:27,820 --> 00:44:29,751
don't get it with me, you know?
366
00:44:34,470 --> 00:44:37,175
Wish I could find
me a good man, Eula.
367
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,120
Somebody I could depend on.
368
00:44:42,514 --> 00:44:45,392
Not that I'd want
to depend on him.
369
00:44:46,726 --> 00:44:49,896
Just to know that I
could if I had to.
370
00:45:18,490 --> 00:45:19,920
- Eula!
371
00:45:41,948 --> 00:45:45,994
- Mind now, Yellow
Mary, you'll be itching soon.
372
00:45:46,244 --> 00:45:48,705
- A little face powder never
hurt Yellow none, y'know.
373
00:45:48,955 --> 00:45:50,390
It's these blood sucking gnats
374
00:45:50,290 --> 00:45:52,709
is going to drive me back
over to the mainland.
375
00:45:52,959 --> 00:45:56,337
You live like savages
back over in here.
376
00:46:18,234 --> 00:46:19,277
Oh, you know,
377
00:46:22,405 --> 00:46:25,575
I sure hope they're
fixing some gumbo.
378
00:46:25,825 --> 00:46:29,287
It's been a long time since
I've had some good gumbo.
379
00:46:29,537 --> 00:46:31,581
I had some in
Savannah, you know,
380
00:46:31,831 --> 00:46:34,834
but they didn't put
everything in it.
381
00:46:39,422 --> 00:46:43,259
I've haven't had some
good food in a long time.
382
00:46:46,540 --> 00:46:47,222
- I found her.
383
00:46:48,264 --> 00:46:52,143
I found her fetching her
parasol by Ibo Landing.
384
00:46:55,355 --> 00:46:57,649
What kind of woman she is?
385
00:46:57,899 --> 00:46:59,984
Yellow Mary's no family woman.
386
00:47:00,235 --> 00:47:02,280
She's a scary woman.
387
00:47:03,112 --> 00:47:05,240
- She's a new kind of woman.
388
00:47:06,866 --> 00:47:08,868
- At the same time, the
raping of colored women
389
00:47:09,118 --> 00:47:11,663
is as common as fish in the sea.
390
00:47:15,625 --> 00:47:19,300
You didn't tell Eli
who did it, did you?
391
00:47:25,927 --> 00:47:30,980
You've got a good man, Eula,
somebody you can depend on.
392
00:47:30,348 --> 00:47:32,350
He doesn't need to know what
could get himself killed.
393
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,310
There's enough uncertainty
in life without
394
00:47:34,561 --> 00:47:38,640
wondering what tree your
husband's hanging from.
395
00:47:38,314 --> 00:47:39,232
Don't tell him nothing.
396
00:47:46,948 --> 00:47:49,750
- I
remember how important
397
00:47:49,325 --> 00:47:52,495
the children were to
the Peazant family,
398
00:47:52,745 --> 00:47:56,916
and how I had to convince my
daddy that I was his child.
399
00:48:45,590 --> 00:48:46,341
- Hold it.
400
00:48:47,884 --> 00:48:50,428
- If you want to know
about them African people,
401
00:48:50,678 --> 00:48:52,847
you need to talk to Bilal.
402
00:48:56,392 --> 00:48:59,200
- Salt
water negroes.
403
00:49:19,832 --> 00:49:22,460
- They stole Bilal from Africa
404
00:49:22,710 --> 00:49:24,796
when he was just a little boy.
405
00:49:25,460 --> 00:49:28,299
He came over on the
very last slave ship.
406
00:49:28,549 --> 00:49:31,940
Bilal came over on The Wanderer.
407
00:49:34,597 --> 00:49:36,516
- My baby was born dead...
408
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:44,816
and my titty was full of milk.
409
00:49:47,402 --> 00:49:51,572
We needed money, so I hired
out to a wealthy family,
410
00:49:53,491 --> 00:49:55,326
some big, supposed
to be, muckety-mucks,
411
00:49:55,576 --> 00:49:58,955
off Edisto Island,
high-falutin' buckra.
412
00:50:02,830 --> 00:50:03,835
They go to Cuba, I go.
413
00:50:08,673 --> 00:50:12,844
I nursed their baby and took
care of their other children.
414
00:50:16,597 --> 00:50:18,558
That's how I got ruined.
415
00:50:22,145 --> 00:50:24,605
I wanted to go home
and they keep me.
416
00:50:24,856 --> 00:50:25,940
They keep me.
417
00:50:27,900 --> 00:50:31,700
So I fix the titty,
they send me home.
418
00:53:47,683 --> 00:53:48,726
- Iona, Iona!
419
00:53:52,772 --> 00:53:53,606
Iona, Iona!
420
00:53:59,278 --> 00:54:00,613
Where's that girl?
421
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:05,493
I don't know why
Nana Peazant won't
422
00:54:05,743 --> 00:54:06,869
come sit herself down over here
423
00:54:07,119 --> 00:54:09,747
near where we can
watch over her.
424
00:54:11,916 --> 00:54:14,877
Snakes off in that high grass.
425
00:54:15,127 --> 00:54:17,964
- Old people think they have
all the answers, you know?
426
00:54:18,214 --> 00:54:21,842
Carrying around that
tin can.
427
00:54:22,930 --> 00:54:24,762
I don't think I ever
see her without it.
428
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:27,598
- We ought to
save this one for Eula.
429
00:54:27,848 --> 00:54:30,601
She's about as strange
as Nana Peazant.
430
00:54:30,851 --> 00:54:34,630
Sometimes, I think that old
woman isn't in her right mind.
431
00:54:34,313 --> 00:54:37,733
- Haagar Peazant, you're
laughing at an old woman,
432
00:54:37,984 --> 00:54:42,280
and just like Eula, you
married into this family,
433
00:54:42,530 --> 00:54:44,699
but she's our grandmother.
434
00:54:45,866 --> 00:54:47,451
There's nothing wrong or harmful
435
00:54:47,702 --> 00:54:51,539
in that tin can she
carries, just some old--
436
00:54:51,789 --> 00:54:56,544
- Scraps of
memories!
437
00:54:56,794 --> 00:54:59,460
- Now, I'll be
the first to admit
438
00:54:59,297 --> 00:55:02,133
that Nana is carrying
a lot of luggage,
439
00:55:02,383 --> 00:55:05,636
and she needs to put her soul
in the hands of the Lord,
440
00:55:05,886 --> 00:55:09,473
but she built her life
around this family.
441
00:55:12,351 --> 00:55:14,812
She's old and she's frightened.
442
00:55:16,814 --> 00:55:21,110
What does Nana know
about the world outside?
443
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:22,111
Nothing.
444
00:55:23,195 --> 00:55:25,614
Nana was never educated.
445
00:55:25,865 --> 00:55:28,659
All she knows are simple things,
446
00:55:30,619 --> 00:55:33,873
things people told
her a long time ago.
447
00:55:35,333 --> 00:55:38,377
- That's why I say Nana
Peazant needs to pack
448
00:55:38,627 --> 00:55:41,464
her things like the rest
of we and come along.
449
00:55:41,714 --> 00:55:42,882
She doesn't need
to stay here like
450
00:55:43,132 --> 00:55:45,926
she's somebody with no people.
451
00:55:46,177 --> 00:55:47,678
- I might not have
been born into
452
00:55:47,928 --> 00:55:49,805
this family, but I'm here now,
453
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:51,932
and I say let Nana
Peazant stay behind.
454
00:55:52,183 --> 00:55:54,518
That's what she wants.
455
00:55:54,769 --> 00:55:55,728
We're moving into a new day.
456
00:55:55,978 --> 00:55:58,856
She's too much a
part of the past.
457
00:55:59,106 --> 00:56:03,277
- Don't let Daddy Mac
hear your mouth!
458
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,720
- I'm a fully grown woman,
459
00:56:06,322 --> 00:56:09,325
and I don't have
to mind what I say.
460
00:56:09,575 --> 00:56:11,702
I done born five
children into the world
461
00:56:11,952 --> 00:56:14,455
and put two in the ground
alongside their daddy.
462
00:56:14,705 --> 00:56:17,666
I worked all my life and
got nothing to show for it.
463
00:56:17,917 --> 00:56:20,669
And if I can't say
what's on my mind,
464
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:23,297
then damn everybody to hell!
465
00:56:24,548 --> 00:56:27,900
- Mind now, the
Lord is listening!
466
00:56:28,677 --> 00:56:30,721
- I'm an educated person,
467
00:56:30,971 --> 00:56:32,765
and I'm tired of
those old stories,
468
00:56:33,150 --> 00:56:34,892
watching her make
those root potions.
469
00:56:35,142 --> 00:56:37,228
Hoodoo, she be talking!
470
00:56:37,478 --> 00:56:39,563
Washing up in the river
with her clothes on,
471
00:56:39,814 --> 00:56:42,733
just like those old Salt
Water folks used to do.
472
00:56:42,983 --> 00:56:43,901
My children ain't gonna be like
473
00:56:44,151 --> 00:56:47,238
those old Africans,
fresh off the boat.
474
00:56:47,488 --> 00:56:50,157
My God, I still remember.
475
00:56:50,408 --> 00:56:53,285
- And look at that
old crazy Bilal.
476
00:56:53,536 --> 00:56:55,663
- Bilal Muhammed is a heathen.
477
00:56:55,913 --> 00:56:56,580
- But he does
478
00:56:56,831 --> 00:56:58,582
strange things, just like Nana.
479
00:56:58,833 --> 00:57:02,200
- Hush, she's
our grandmother!
480
00:57:03,300 --> 00:57:05,381
- Those old people,
they pray to the sun,
481
00:57:05,631 --> 00:57:08,801
they pray to the moon,
sometimes just to a big star!
482
00:57:09,510 --> 00:57:11,345
They ain't got no
religion in them.
483
00:57:11,595 --> 00:57:15,474
No, this is a new world
we're moving into,
484
00:57:15,724 --> 00:57:19,770
and I want my daughters to grow
up to be decent somebodies.
485
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:20,896
I don't even want
my girls to have
486
00:57:21,147 --> 00:57:23,816
to hear about all that mess.
487
00:57:24,660 --> 00:57:26,735
I'll lock horns with anybody and
488
00:57:26,986 --> 00:57:30,720
anything that tries
to hold me back.
489
00:57:30,322 --> 00:57:34,340
Now I say, if Nana Peazant
wants to live and die
490
00:57:34,285 --> 00:57:38,539
on Ibo Landing, then
God bless her old soul.
491
00:57:40,332 --> 00:57:42,293
- I think it's going to rain.
492
00:57:46,964 --> 00:57:50,843
- My
time was running out.
493
00:57:54,221 --> 00:57:57,183
The women were
arguing and fighting.
494
00:57:58,601 --> 00:58:00,227
I can still see the fear and the
495
00:58:00,478 --> 00:58:03,220
hope in the eyes of our fathers.
496
00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:06,484
They were the sons of drums,
497
00:58:06,734 --> 00:58:10,321
who could only speak
of their future.
498
00:58:10,571 --> 00:58:14,116
Everyone was just as
scared as Nana Peazant.
499
01:01:04,453 --> 01:01:08,207
- Solomon's in town, got
a colored lady with him.
500
01:01:08,457 --> 01:01:09,375
Says she's a newspaper woman.
501
01:01:33,107 --> 01:01:34,660
- Cousin!
502
01:01:47,496 --> 01:01:50,791
- We're working on the
anti-lynching law again.
503
01:01:51,410 --> 01:01:53,419
Maybe you want to be with us.
504
01:01:53,669 --> 01:01:55,450
- Maybe...
505
01:01:57,470 --> 01:02:00,801
I still be leaving with
the rest come morning.
506
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:23,741
- Maybe when we go north,
you'll take with you
507
01:02:23,991 --> 01:02:26,410
more than Eula and your dreams.
508
01:02:28,162 --> 01:02:32,332
- I ain't got no more
dreams, cousin.
509
01:02:40,299 --> 01:02:44,219
- You've been practicing.
510
01:03:28,555 --> 01:03:30,849
- In
this quiet place,
511
01:03:31,990 --> 01:03:33,560
years ago, my family knelt down
512
01:03:34,853 --> 01:03:37,815
and caught a glimpse
of the eternal.
513
01:03:41,235 --> 01:03:44,404
We left our markers in the soil
514
01:03:44,655 --> 01:03:48,408
in memory of the families
who once lived here.
515
01:03:58,710 --> 01:04:02,881
We were the children of
those who chose to survive.
516
01:04:05,467 --> 01:04:08,303
Years later, my Ma
told me she knew
517
01:04:09,972 --> 01:04:13,433
I had been sent forward
by the old souls.
518
01:05:25,631 --> 01:05:27,799
- That's mine,
that's me, no wait,
519
01:05:28,500 --> 01:05:30,302
this one, this one,
wait, that one's you.
520
01:05:42,439 --> 01:05:46,401
I was travelling on a spiritual mission,
521
01:05:46,652 --> 01:05:49,821
but sometimes, I
would get distracted.
522
01:05:54,117 --> 01:05:56,244
- I wish I had this doll,
I wish I had this doll,
523
01:05:56,495 --> 01:05:58,163
I wish I had this bed
to go inside my house.
524
01:05:58,413 --> 01:06:00,165
- You ain't got no house!
525
01:06:01,500 --> 01:06:02,292
- I wish I did.
526
01:06:02,542 --> 01:06:06,213
If I did, I'd put this
bed inside my house.
527
01:06:06,463 --> 01:06:07,714
Then I wish I had a rabbit.
528
01:06:07,965 --> 01:06:09,383
- What'd
you wish for, Ninnyjugs?
529
01:06:09,633 --> 01:06:10,592
- Everything!
530
01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:14,262
- Ninnyjugs, you
can't have everything!
531
01:06:14,513 --> 01:06:16,139
You've got to go like this.
532
01:06:16,390 --> 01:06:20,227
Eenie, meenie, miney, moe,
catch a piggie by his toe,
533
01:06:20,477 --> 01:06:22,479
my mother said to pick
534
01:06:23,438 --> 01:06:25,524
this one right over here.
535
01:06:26,984 --> 01:06:29,236
Wish for the one right
where my finger stopped.
536
01:06:29,486 --> 01:06:31,863
Now, put that wish book away.
537
01:06:32,114 --> 01:06:33,365
It's time to eat.
538
01:06:34,825 --> 01:06:38,203
- I hear they
done opened up the old
539
01:06:38,453 --> 01:06:42,207
Seminole Creeklands for
the white homesteader.
540
01:06:43,500 --> 01:06:47,337
The only thing left is scrap
iron stills and tenant farming.
541
01:06:47,587 --> 01:06:48,922
Listen to what I tell you, man.
542
01:06:49,172 --> 01:06:51,383
If Roosevelt does
anything at all,
543
01:06:51,633 --> 01:06:55,595
it will be for Northern
industry and not for we.
544
01:07:01,143 --> 01:07:03,200
- Supper's
ready, Mr. Snead.
545
01:07:03,270 --> 01:07:05,147
We'll be taking our
places right up there.
546
01:07:05,397 --> 01:07:07,941
- Wish books, saltwater negroes,
547
01:07:09,818 --> 01:07:13,989
gold earrings, to sharpen
your vision?
548
01:07:18,410 --> 01:07:20,203
- Oh, they spoil their children
549
01:07:20,454 --> 01:07:22,456
with dreams, wishes, magic.
550
01:07:27,919 --> 01:07:31,506
But then, they're the most
important members of the family,
551
01:07:31,757 --> 01:07:34,342
the children and the old souls.
552
01:07:40,223 --> 01:07:40,974
Come.
553
01:07:49,733 --> 01:07:52,277
Gather up those
kids on Ibo Landing!
554
01:07:52,527 --> 01:07:54,446
Bring them over here!
555
01:07:55,989 --> 01:07:57,282
- Let's go and get them.
556
01:07:57,532 --> 01:07:58,617
Come now, no!
557
01:08:15,926 --> 01:08:19,971
- Hey, Yellow Mary, they
say you're a rich woman.
558
01:08:48,917 --> 01:08:52,379
- My Ma said
she could feel me by her side.
559
01:08:55,757 --> 01:09:00,345
I remember the call of my
great-great-grandmother.
560
01:09:00,595 --> 01:09:03,306
I remember the journey home.
561
01:09:03,557 --> 01:09:07,686
I remember the long
walk to the graveyard,
562
01:09:07,936 --> 01:09:12,107
to the house that I would be
born in, to the picnic site.
563
01:09:13,692 --> 01:09:15,735
I remember, and I recall.
564
01:09:22,701 --> 01:09:26,413
- It's 50 years since
slavery, Mr. Snead, but here,
565
01:09:26,663 --> 01:09:30,458
we still give our
children names like
566
01:09:30,709 --> 01:09:32,460
Myown and Iona, Unita,
567
01:09:35,130 --> 01:09:37,716
Iadora, Euadora.
568
01:09:37,966 --> 01:09:42,137
We even have a Pete
and Re-Pete.
569
01:09:44,556 --> 01:09:47,726
Sometimes, these Islanders
name their babies
570
01:09:47,976 --> 01:09:52,147
the day of the week or the
season in which they were born.
571
01:09:52,397 --> 01:09:56,818
Not to mention,
everyone has several nicknames,
572
01:09:57,680 --> 01:09:58,820
Goober, Boy Rat, Hail,
573
01:10:00,697 --> 01:10:03,575
Harvest, Winter,
Pidgeon, Hardtime,
574
01:10:05,827 --> 01:10:07,996
Fantee, Cudah, Ocra, Yono,
575
01:10:10,874 --> 01:10:13,126
Cish, Alexmine, Jackiemine,
576
01:10:15,545 --> 01:10:17,422
Jaspermine, Cornhouse,
577
01:10:21,343 --> 01:10:22,594
Binah, Shango,
578
01:10:26,848 --> 01:10:28,308
Obatala, Oya-yansa,
579
01:10:32,979 --> 01:10:33,688
Yemonja,
580
01:10:36,358 --> 01:10:37,317
Eshu Elegba.
581
01:11:32,914 --> 01:11:34,749
- We're here today to show
582
01:11:36,710 --> 01:11:39,504
our respect to our family elders
583
01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:45,176
and to celebrate our family's
crossing to the mainland.
584
01:11:47,304 --> 01:11:51,391
But we're also here today
to honor the old souls,
585
01:11:52,892 --> 01:11:55,895
many, who from the
very, very beginning
586
01:11:57,522 --> 01:12:00,275
of our creation
guided our journey
587
01:12:01,943 --> 01:12:03,862
from one world to another.
588
01:12:06,573 --> 01:12:10,744
We're here today because our
parent took we by the hand
589
01:12:11,995 --> 01:12:15,790
and teach we to swim the current
surrounding these islands.
590
01:12:17,420 --> 01:12:18,460
And they teach we to--
591
01:12:18,710 --> 01:12:21,254
- I recollect
how we lived in the time
592
01:12:21,504 --> 01:12:24,549
before freedom come,
in the old days.
593
01:12:28,303 --> 01:12:31,681
They didn't keep good
records of our births,
594
01:12:31,931 --> 01:12:35,769
our deaths, or the selling
of the slaves back then.
595
01:12:40,398 --> 01:12:44,778
A male child might get took
from a mother and sold at birth.
596
01:12:45,280 --> 01:12:48,365
Then years later,
the same person
597
01:12:48,615 --> 01:12:52,285
might have to mate with
his own mother or sister
598
01:12:52,535 --> 01:12:56,390
if they was brought
back together again,
599
01:12:56,289 --> 01:12:58,166
so it was important
for the slave,
600
01:12:58,416 --> 01:13:00,960
theyself, to keep
the family ties.
601
01:13:01,211 --> 01:13:03,588
Just like the African Griot,
602
01:13:03,838 --> 01:13:06,925
who would hold these
records in his head,
603
01:13:07,175 --> 01:13:09,552
the old souls in each family
604
01:13:10,929 --> 01:13:13,223
could recollect all the births,
605
01:13:13,473 --> 01:13:15,725
deaths, marriage, and sale.
606
01:13:18,478 --> 01:13:20,855
Those 18th century Africans,
607
01:13:22,649 --> 01:13:24,818
the watchers, the keepers,
608
01:13:26,694 --> 01:13:27,862
the ancestors.
609
01:13:41,251 --> 01:13:44,870
- We Peazants, we
come from a long,
610
01:13:45,964 --> 01:13:48,299
long line of creation and hope
611
01:13:51,302 --> 01:13:54,597
begun by those
first-captured Africans.
612
01:13:56,224 --> 01:13:59,811
And Nana, Nana, she
carried them with her,
613
01:14:00,895 --> 01:14:03,356
four generations of Peazants.
614
01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:07,902
And we, we must
carry them with us,
615
01:14:10,613 --> 01:14:11,865
wherever we go.
616
01:14:52,238 --> 01:14:55,330
- It was here they brought them.
617
01:14:56,493 --> 01:15:00,663
They took them out of the boats
right here where we stand.
618
01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:09,714
Nobody remembers how
many of them it was,
619
01:15:09,964 --> 01:15:14,135
but there was a good
few, according to my
great-grandmother.
620
01:15:15,303 --> 01:15:18,848
She was a little,
little girl at the time.
621
01:15:25,396 --> 01:15:29,108
The ship had just come
from the deep water.
622
01:15:30,318 --> 01:15:33,613
It was a great big
old ship with sails.
623
01:15:35,310 --> 01:15:38,535
The minute those Ibo
were brought ashore,
624
01:15:39,786 --> 01:15:42,872
they just stopped and
took a look around.
625
01:15:45,542 --> 01:15:49,712
Not saying a word, just
studying the place real good.
626
01:15:55,930 --> 01:15:57,929
And they saw things
that day that you
627
01:15:59,180 --> 01:16:01,766
and I don't have
the power to see.
628
01:16:06,813 --> 01:16:09,774
Well, they saw just
about everything
629
01:16:11,609 --> 01:16:14,195
that was to happen
around here that day.
630
01:16:14,445 --> 01:16:19,158
The slavery time, the war my
grandmother always talks about,
631
01:16:19,409 --> 01:16:23,454
those Ibo
didn't miss a thing.
632
01:16:23,705 --> 01:16:27,667
They even saw you and me,
standing here talking.
633
01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:38,886
When they got through sizing
up the place real good
634
01:16:39,137 --> 01:16:41,514
and seeing what was to come,
635
01:16:42,682 --> 01:16:45,226
my grandmother said they turned,
636
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:51,107
all of them, and walked
back in the water,
637
01:16:53,151 --> 01:16:55,820
every last man,
woman, and child.
638
01:16:58,281 --> 01:17:00,366
Now you wouldn't think
they'd get very far
639
01:17:00,617 --> 01:17:04,412
seeing as it was water
they were walking on.
640
01:17:04,662 --> 01:17:07,400
Had all that iron upon them,
641
01:17:08,583 --> 01:17:12,300
upon their ankles
and their wrists,
642
01:17:12,253 --> 01:17:16,215
and fastened around their
neck like dog collars.
643
01:17:17,800 --> 01:17:21,346
But chains didn't
stop those Ibo none.
644
01:17:21,596 --> 01:17:25,767
They just kept walking, like
the water was solid ground.
645
01:17:30,480 --> 01:17:34,525
When they got to where
the ship was,
646
01:17:34,776 --> 01:17:38,237
they didn't so much
as give it a look.
647
01:17:38,488 --> 01:17:40,531
Just walked right past it
648
01:17:43,201 --> 01:17:45,578
because they was going home.
649
01:18:21,989 --> 01:18:24,117
- I'm especially proud today
650
01:18:25,493 --> 01:18:27,870
to bless the coming child of
651
01:18:28,121 --> 01:18:30,206
our Eli and Eula Peazant.
652
01:18:31,749 --> 01:18:34,919
Our first child that's
going to be born up north,
653
01:18:35,169 --> 01:18:37,296
we child of the future.
654
01:18:39,716 --> 01:18:41,968
- Just counting stumps,
don't clear the field.
655
01:18:42,218 --> 01:18:44,721
Let's eat.
656
01:19:42,403 --> 01:19:45,198
- Once, I saw a pink satin case,
657
01:19:48,201 --> 01:19:52,330
for jewelry, for rich
women in a shop window.
658
01:19:52,580 --> 01:19:53,623
And it had a thing on the side
659
01:19:53,873 --> 01:19:56,918
and you turned it
and music came out.
660
01:20:00,505 --> 01:20:04,175
I couldn't afford
that case for myself,
661
01:20:04,425 --> 01:20:08,596
and I didn't ask nobody to
buy it for me, you know?
662
01:20:10,348 --> 01:20:14,600
But in my mind, I put
all those bad memories
663
01:20:14,310 --> 01:20:17,230
in that case, and I
locked them there,
664
01:20:18,397 --> 01:20:21,670
so that I could take them out
665
01:20:21,317 --> 01:20:22,652
and look at them when
I'd feel like it,
666
01:20:22,902 --> 01:20:25,112
and so I could study
them when I want to,
667
01:20:25,363 --> 01:20:27,730
and figure it out, you know?
668
01:20:27,323 --> 01:20:29,992
But I didn't want
them inside of me.
669
01:20:30,243 --> 01:20:32,787
I didn't want them inside of me.
670
01:20:34,372 --> 01:20:37,166
I don't let nothing in that case
671
01:20:38,459 --> 01:20:41,754
or nobody outside that
case tell me who I am
672
01:20:42,400 --> 01:20:44,340
or how I should feel about me.
673
01:20:57,520 --> 01:20:58,771
- Bilal, Bilal!
674
01:21:01,440 --> 01:21:04,277
Bilal Muhammed, come join we.
675
01:21:04,527 --> 01:21:08,239
Come wash away your sins
in the blood of the lamb.
676
01:21:08,489 --> 01:21:10,408
- Let him go, Deacon.
677
01:21:11,242 --> 01:21:12,702
He's a saltwater negro.
678
01:21:12,952 --> 01:21:14,328
He has no shame!
679
01:21:15,288 --> 01:21:18,666
He's the master of
the sun and the moon.
680
01:21:22,503 --> 01:21:23,588
- When I
leave here, you know,
681
01:21:23,838 --> 01:21:27,300
I'll be heading up for
Canada, Nova Scotia.
682
01:21:29,844 --> 01:21:33,598
I like the sound of it,
you know, Nova Scotia.
683
01:21:34,765 --> 01:21:36,142
- No-va Scotcha.
684
01:21:39,610 --> 01:21:40,229
- Nova Scotia.
685
01:21:44,901 --> 01:21:47,737
- I never had too much
trouble making a dollar.
686
01:21:47,987 --> 01:21:50,781
Never needed nobody
to help me do that.
687
01:21:51,320 --> 01:21:52,575
I can't stand still.
688
01:21:54,327 --> 01:21:55,745
Got to keep moving.
689
01:21:56,871 --> 01:21:58,831
New faces, new places...
690
01:22:04,337 --> 01:22:07,600
Nova Scotia will be good to me.
691
01:24:25,478 --> 01:24:28,856
- Come closer together,
closer, come on.
692
01:24:29,899 --> 01:24:31,484
- Mind now, Mr. Snead, there's
693
01:24:31,734 --> 01:24:33,444
gators back off in these waters.
694
01:24:42,953 --> 01:24:47,410
- I don't think about
those old days much lately,
695
01:24:49,543 --> 01:24:51,962
but when I start to study them,
696
01:24:54,840 --> 01:24:57,510
lots of things come back to me.
697
01:25:17,530 --> 01:25:20,908
- You're a natural
fool, Haagar Peazant.
698
01:25:23,350 --> 01:25:25,579
Nobody ever said
that the old souls
699
01:25:25,830 --> 01:25:28,791
were living inside
those glass jars.
700
01:25:30,584 --> 01:25:32,711
The bottle tree
reminds we of who
701
01:25:32,962 --> 01:25:35,131
was here and who's gone on.
702
01:25:36,590 --> 01:25:40,302
You study upon the
colors and the shapes.
703
01:25:40,553 --> 01:25:43,931
You appreciate the bottle
tree each and every day,
704
01:25:44,181 --> 01:25:46,934
as you appreciate
your loved ones.
705
01:25:50,437 --> 01:25:51,397
- Mr. Snead!
706
01:25:55,484 --> 01:25:57,695
- Can you take me to
the old man, Bilal?
707
01:25:57,945 --> 01:25:58,612
- That old heathen?
708
01:25:58,863 --> 01:26:00,364
He's not important.
709
01:26:00,614 --> 01:26:02,740
- Is he family?
710
01:26:02,324 --> 01:26:03,534
- Oh, I guess so.
711
01:26:06,453 --> 01:26:09,748
Everybody back off on
these islands is family.
712
01:26:09,999 --> 01:26:14,503
Unfortunately, so many like
Bilal are so backwards.
713
01:26:14,753 --> 01:26:17,840
They believe everything
that happens is caused by
714
01:26:18,900 --> 01:26:20,384
conjure, magic, or
their ancestors.
715
01:26:20,634 --> 01:26:23,637
They don't leave nothing to God.
716
01:26:23,888 --> 01:26:27,433
- Where we're headed Nana,
there'll be no need for trees
717
01:26:27,683 --> 01:26:31,437
covered with glass
jars in our yard.
718
01:26:31,687 --> 01:26:33,772
We'll have gardens
of fresh flowers,
719
01:26:34,230 --> 01:26:36,483
vegetables for the dinner table.
720
01:26:36,734 --> 01:26:38,986
Where we're headed
Nana, there'll be
721
01:26:39,236 --> 01:26:42,114
no need for an
old woman's magic.
722
01:27:14,688 --> 01:27:16,650
- Look, look up!
723
01:27:18,442 --> 01:27:20,486
And remember Ibo Landing!
724
01:27:22,613 --> 01:27:23,364
Hold!
725
01:27:43,920 --> 01:27:46,220
- Can't complain none about
them horseflies worrying you.
726
01:27:46,470 --> 01:27:48,639
Stop putting that
lard on your head.
727
01:27:52,393 --> 01:27:55,271
- The Lord will
carry us through, Nana.
728
01:27:55,521 --> 01:27:56,814
Trust in Jesus.
729
01:27:58,440 --> 01:28:02,611
Nana, we don't need no charms
of dried roots and flowers.
730
01:28:07,992 --> 01:28:11,287
- When I was a child,
my mother cut this
731
01:28:11,537 --> 01:28:15,416
from her hair before she
was sold away from we.
732
01:28:19,545 --> 01:28:21,672
Now, I'm adding my own hair.
733
01:28:26,885 --> 01:28:30,139
There must be a
bond, a connection,
734
01:28:30,389 --> 01:28:34,310
between those who go North
and those who remain,
735
01:28:35,853 --> 01:28:40,607
between us who are here and
those who are across the sea.
736
01:28:40,858 --> 01:28:41,900
A connection!
737
01:28:46,363 --> 01:28:48,991
We are as two
people in one body,
738
01:28:52,619 --> 01:28:54,380
the last of the old
739
01:28:55,956 --> 01:28:57,791
and the first of the new.
740
01:29:00,878 --> 01:29:03,172
We will always live
this double life,
741
01:29:03,422 --> 01:29:06,508
you know, because
we're from the sea.
742
01:29:07,468 --> 01:29:09,303
We came here in chains,
743
01:29:11,221 --> 01:29:12,765
and we must survive.
744
01:29:14,308 --> 01:29:16,101
We must survive!
745
01:29:16,352 --> 01:29:18,937
There's saltwater in we blood.
746
01:29:52,429 --> 01:29:55,641
- Mister,
for many years,
747
01:29:55,891 --> 01:29:59,190
I've not spoken those
words with no one.
748
01:29:59,978 --> 01:30:01,814
What I remember,
I'll tell you in
749
01:30:02,640 --> 01:30:05,734
this language that I
learned to speak here.
750
01:30:09,822 --> 01:30:12,783
I come here on a ship
called The Wanderer.
751
01:30:13,330 --> 01:30:14,576
I come with the Ibo.
752
01:30:17,871 --> 01:30:21,625
Some say the Ibo flew
back home to Africa.
753
01:30:21,875 --> 01:30:24,628
Some say they all joined hands
754
01:30:24,878 --> 01:30:27,589
and walked on top of the water.
755
01:30:29,299 --> 01:30:31,385
But, Mister, I was there.
756
01:30:33,110 --> 01:30:36,765
Those Ibo, men, women, and
children, a hundred or more,
757
01:30:37,150 --> 01:30:39,893
shackled in iron,
when they go down
758
01:30:40,978 --> 01:30:44,273
in that water, they
never came back up.
759
01:30:45,941 --> 01:30:48,652
Ain't nobody can walk on water.
760
01:30:55,784 --> 01:30:57,161
- We'll be fine, Nana.
761
01:30:57,411 --> 01:31:00,380
Now, Nana, don't
you go worrying.
762
01:31:00,998 --> 01:31:02,958
We're going to be just fine.
763
01:31:03,208 --> 01:31:05,461
Mind now, Nana Peazant.
764
01:31:05,711 --> 01:31:07,504
Don't go work yourself up.
765
01:31:07,754 --> 01:31:10,507
It's too hot out
here for no mess.
766
01:31:12,634 --> 01:31:14,970
Get a hold of yourself, Viola!
767
01:31:16,555 --> 01:31:20,601
- I remember what my father
teach me before he passed on.
768
01:31:22,144 --> 01:31:24,146
It was the same as
his father teach
769
01:31:24,396 --> 01:31:26,857
him on the day he become a man.
770
01:31:28,859 --> 01:31:32,196
He said, "Women are
the sweetness of life.
771
01:31:35,324 --> 01:31:39,661
"They're sweet to the eye
because they're beautiful.
772
01:31:39,912 --> 01:31:42,664
"They're sweet to
the ears because of
773
01:31:42,915 --> 01:31:46,251
"their lovely voice
and the way they sing.
774
01:31:53,425 --> 01:31:56,940
"Woman is the
sweetness of life,"
775
01:31:57,540 --> 01:31:59,306
and that's what I remember.
776
01:32:50,732 --> 01:32:54,695
- I've been on my own
since I was a little girl.
777
01:32:58,448 --> 01:33:01,743
I've been on my own
for such a long time,
778
01:33:01,994 --> 01:33:05,664
I thought I wanted
it to be that way.
779
01:33:05,914 --> 01:33:09,334
- Lord knows, you've
done worked hard, gal.
780
01:33:11,440 --> 01:33:14,840
- You know, I'm not like
the other women here,
781
01:33:15,900 --> 01:33:16,800
but I need to know
that I can come
782
01:33:17,500 --> 01:33:19,761
and hold onto what I come from.
783
01:33:21,130 --> 01:33:23,974
I need to know that
people here know my name.
784
01:33:24,224 --> 01:33:26,893
I'm Yellow Mary Peazant!
785
01:33:27,144 --> 01:33:30,272
And I'm a proud woman,
not a hard woman.
786
01:33:36,111 --> 01:33:37,404
I want to stay.
787
01:33:39,114 --> 01:33:41,325
I want to stay with you here.
788
01:33:44,953 --> 01:33:46,788
- Oh, now how's
she going to come
789
01:33:47,390 --> 01:33:50,208
and put her shame
upon Mother Peazant?
790
01:33:51,543 --> 01:33:53,420
- I can't understand...
791
01:33:56,882 --> 01:33:58,842
how me and Peazant
put you children
792
01:33:59,920 --> 01:34:02,346
here on Earth to fight
among yourselves.
793
01:34:02,596 --> 01:34:05,849
How you can leave
this soil, this soil.
794
01:34:08,600 --> 01:34:12,640
The sweat of our love,
it's here in this soil.
795
01:34:15,233 --> 01:34:19,404
I love you
'cause you're mine.
796
01:34:21,281 --> 01:34:25,770
You're the fruit of an
ancient tree.
797
01:34:25,327 --> 01:34:26,995
- Hush, hush, hush!
798
01:34:31,792 --> 01:34:33,251
Hush, all of you.
799
01:34:35,253 --> 01:34:37,631
Some of us aren't forgetting
how Yellow Mary sent the money
800
01:34:37,881 --> 01:34:40,967
to get Cousin Jake out
of jail last spring.
801
01:34:41,218 --> 01:34:45,222
- Now, Nana, we aren't talking
about no Cousin Jake here.
802
01:34:45,472 --> 01:34:49,226
A dog don't get mad
'cause you say he's a dog.
803
01:34:53,230 --> 01:34:53,980
- Say it!
804
01:34:56,983 --> 01:34:58,443
- If you're so
ashamed of Yellow Mary
805
01:34:58,694 --> 01:35:02,656
'cause she got ruined,
what do you say about me?
806
01:35:03,657 --> 01:35:04,950
I'm ruined too?
807
01:35:06,785 --> 01:35:10,664
- Whatever's to be said,
just say it now, Eula!
808
01:35:13,333 --> 01:35:16,294
- As far as this
place is concerned,
809
01:35:18,296 --> 01:35:20,465
we never was a pure woman.
810
01:35:24,520 --> 01:35:27,931
Deep inside, we believed
that they ruined our mothers
811
01:35:28,181 --> 01:35:32,102
and their mothers who
had come before them,
812
01:35:32,352 --> 01:35:35,564
and we live our lives
always expecting the worst
813
01:35:35,814 --> 01:35:39,151
'cause we feel we don't
deserve no better.
814
01:35:44,531 --> 01:35:47,576
Deep inside, we
believe that even God
815
01:35:49,161 --> 01:35:51,955
can't heal the
wounds of our past
816
01:35:52,205 --> 01:35:55,410
or protect us from the world
817
01:35:55,292 --> 01:35:57,627
that put shackles on our feet.
818
01:36:00,380 --> 01:36:04,301
- My God loves me and protects
me and watches over me.
819
01:36:05,510 --> 01:36:08,472
- Even though you're
going up north,
820
01:36:09,931 --> 01:36:13,101
you all think about
being ruined, too.
821
01:36:14,478 --> 01:36:18,106
You think you can cross
over to the mainland
822
01:36:18,356 --> 01:36:20,233
and run away from it?
823
01:36:21,610 --> 01:36:24,154
You're going to be sorry,
sorry if you don't change
824
01:36:24,404 --> 01:36:28,241
your way of thinking before
you leave this place.
825
01:36:47,969 --> 01:36:49,805
If you love yourselves,
826
01:36:52,570 --> 01:36:53,809
then love Yellow Mary,
827
01:36:57,395 --> 01:36:59,773
because she's a part of you,
828
01:37:01,240 --> 01:37:04,194
just like we're a
part of our mothers.
829
01:37:08,448 --> 01:37:12,202
A lot of us are
going through things
830
01:37:12,452 --> 01:37:15,413
you feel you can't
handle all alone.
831
01:37:20,460 --> 01:37:24,381
There's going to be all kinds
of roads to take in life.
832
01:37:27,384 --> 01:37:30,110
Let's not be afraid
to take them.
833
01:37:31,263 --> 01:37:34,474
We deserve them because
we're all good women.
834
01:37:43,692 --> 01:37:46,690
Do you understand who we are
835
01:37:48,280 --> 01:37:50,240
and what we have become?
836
01:37:52,325 --> 01:37:55,704
We're the daughters
of those old dusty
837
01:37:55,954 --> 01:37:58,790
things Nana carries
in her tin can.
838
01:38:02,961 --> 01:38:06,131
We carry too many
scars from the past.
839
01:38:10,719 --> 01:38:12,178
Our past owns us.
840
01:38:17,517 --> 01:38:21,620
We wear our scars like
armor for protection.
841
01:38:24,524 --> 01:38:26,651
Thick, hard, ugly scars that
842
01:38:28,445 --> 01:38:32,449
no one can pass through
to ever hurt us again.
843
01:38:36,369 --> 01:38:39,831
Let's live our
lives without living
844
01:38:40,810 --> 01:38:42,250
in the fold of old wounds.
845
01:39:45,313 --> 01:39:49,109
- Shad, how can
we plant in this dust?
846
01:39:49,359 --> 01:39:53,530
- We plant 'em each and every
year, or we're finished.
847
01:40:06,918 --> 01:40:09,400
- My life is almost over,
848
01:40:10,296 --> 01:40:12,549
and yours is just starting.
849
01:40:13,591 --> 01:40:15,802
And I'm not going
to live long enough
850
01:40:16,520 --> 01:40:19,597
to see what becomes of
all you free Negroes.
851
01:40:21,224 --> 01:40:24,853
- We're gonna
be watching from heaven, Nana.
852
01:40:25,103 --> 01:40:29,190
- No, I'm not going to be
watching from no heaven
853
01:40:29,441 --> 01:40:33,611
while there's still soil
here for me for planting.
854
01:40:40,535 --> 01:40:42,495
We've done took old Gods
855
01:40:46,583 --> 01:40:48,626
and given them new names.
856
01:41:02,980 --> 01:41:04,976
This hand, it's
from me, from them,
857
01:41:07,979 --> 01:41:08,730
from us.
858
01:41:10,650 --> 01:41:12,233
Same soul as you all have.
859
01:41:15,862 --> 01:41:19,365
Come children, kiss
this hand full of me.
860
01:41:20,700 --> 01:41:23,369
- Lord, have mercy, have mercy.
861
01:41:32,754 --> 01:41:34,672
- Take my hand.
862
01:41:36,490 --> 01:41:39,344
I'm the one that can
give you strength.
863
01:41:51,940 --> 01:41:53,900
Take me wherever you go.
864
01:41:54,776 --> 01:41:56,361
I'm your strength.
865
01:42:06,496 --> 01:42:07,580
Take my hand.
866
01:42:08,456 --> 01:42:10,416
Take me wherever you go.
867
01:42:13,753 --> 01:42:15,338
I'm your strength.
868
01:42:18,716 --> 01:42:20,930
Wherever you go.
869
01:42:21,636 --> 01:42:24,472
- Old folks are supposed to die!
870
01:42:24,722 --> 01:42:25,723
It ain't right!
871
01:42:27,433 --> 01:42:30,937
They're supposed to
die and go to heaven!
872
01:42:31,187 --> 01:42:34,482
It ain't right!
873
01:42:40,655 --> 01:42:43,783
It ain't right!
874
01:42:50,810 --> 01:42:51,249
- Hoodoo!
875
01:42:51,499 --> 01:42:52,250
Hoodoo!
876
01:42:53,710 --> 01:42:55,211
Hoodoo!
877
01:42:55,461 --> 01:42:56,421
Hoodoo mess!
878
01:42:59,424 --> 01:43:03,511
Ain't no roots and herbs
going to change nothing.
879
01:43:03,761 --> 01:43:06,389
Don't go and spoil everything.
880
01:43:06,639 --> 01:43:10,727
Old Used-To-Do-It-This-Way
don't help none today!
881
01:43:33,708 --> 01:43:37,795
- Come, come child, I
love you 'cause you're mine!
882
01:43:43,676 --> 01:43:45,762
- Mama, please!
883
01:44:11,663 --> 01:44:14,499
- Look at that, see?
884
01:45:24,902 --> 01:45:28,364
In this quiet place,
simple folk kneel down
885
01:45:30,116 --> 01:45:32,994
and catch a glimpse
of the eternal.
886
01:45:38,833 --> 01:45:41,419
Morning would begin a new life
887
01:45:42,962 --> 01:45:44,797
for my children and me.
888
01:45:47,175 --> 01:45:49,427
They would carry my spirit.
889
01:45:50,720 --> 01:45:53,890
I would remain here
with the old souls.
890
01:46:33,846 --> 01:46:34,847
- Iona, Iona!
891
01:46:39,560 --> 01:46:41,771
Iona!
892
01:47:30,987 --> 01:47:33,698
- And
so, on the 19th day
893
01:47:33,948 --> 01:47:35,283
of August, 1902,
894
01:47:38,119 --> 01:47:40,790
they left these islands.
895
01:47:41,873 --> 01:47:45,835
And set out for the North,
having said farewell,
896
01:47:47,628 --> 01:47:50,631
perhaps, never to see us again.
897
01:48:16,949 --> 01:48:21,120
My Momma and Daddy stayed
behind with Yellow Mary.
898
01:48:22,663 --> 01:48:25,708
Some say Eli got
himself all involved
899
01:48:27,430 --> 01:48:29,295
with the anti-lynching issue.
900
01:48:32,480 --> 01:48:36,177
Some say Eula saw too much
of herself in Nana Peazant
901
01:48:36,427 --> 01:48:39,972
and wanted her children
born on this island.
902
01:48:42,475 --> 01:48:45,686
They say Mama was
always peculiar,
903
01:48:45,937 --> 01:48:49,190
and Nana's roots and
herbs set her off.
904
01:48:53,486 --> 01:48:57,657
All I know is, I was born
here before Nana passed on.
905
01:49:03,162 --> 01:49:05,915
We remained behind,
growing older,
906
01:49:08,960 --> 01:49:10,860
wiser, stronger.
63299
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