1 00:01:10,103 --> 00:01:12,522 "All right now. Y'all fresh niggers." 2 00:01:12,689 --> 00:01:14,232 "Y'all gonna be in a cutting gang." 3 00:01:14,649 --> 00:01:17,443 Very simple. I want you to take your knife. 4 00:01:17,610 --> 00:01:19,362 Get in them cane. 5 00:01:20,029 --> 00:01:21,406 Make it sing. 6 00:01:21,573 --> 00:01:23,449 Take the cane out. 7 00:01:23,616 --> 00:01:24,909 Cut my tops. 8 00:01:25,076 --> 00:01:27,203 Clean the shucks off. 9 00:01:27,579 --> 00:01:30,999 Throw it on a pile for the planting gang. 10 00:01:31,291 --> 00:01:33,751 Now, them cane ain't gonna jump up and bite you. 11 00:01:33,918 --> 00:01:34,919 Don't shy back. 12 00:01:35,086 --> 00:01:36,921 Rush here, boys! Rush here! 13 00:01:40,633 --> 00:01:41,926 ~~My Lord.~ 14 00:01:42,093 --> 00:01:43,428 ~Sunshine.~ 15 00:01:43,595 --> 00:01:44,679 ~~My Lord.~ 16 00:01:44,846 --> 00:01:46,347 ~Lord, Lord.~ 17 00:01:46,514 --> 00:01:47,890 ~~My ma.~ 18 00:01:48,057 --> 00:01:49,350 ~She dead.~ 19 00:01:49,517 --> 00:01:50,727 ~~My pa.~ 20 00:01:50,893 --> 00:01:52,186 ~He dead.~ 21 00:01:52,353 --> 00:01:53,563 ~~My Lord.~ 22 00:01:53,730 --> 00:01:54,939 ~Sunshine.~ 23 00:01:55,106 --> 00:01:56,357 ~~My Lord.~ 24 00:01:56,524 --> 00:01:57,734 ~Sunshine.~ 25 00:01:57,900 --> 00:01:59,193 ~~Is late.~ 26 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:00,737 ~In high.~ 27 00:02:00,903 --> 00:02:02,071 ~~In high.~ 28 00:02:02,238 --> 00:02:03,740 ~In high.~ 29 00:02:03,906 --> 00:02:05,199 ~~My Lord.~ 30 00:02:05,366 --> 00:02:06,701 ~Sunshine.~ 31 00:02:06,868 --> 00:02:08,036 ~~My Lord.~ 32 00:02:08,202 --> 00:02:09,621 ~Lord, Lord.~ 33 00:02:09,787 --> 00:02:11,039 ~~My ma.~ 34 00:02:11,205 --> 00:02:12,457 ~She dead.~ 35 00:02:12,624 --> 00:02:13,875 ~~My pa.~ 36 00:02:14,042 --> 00:02:15,376 ~He dead.~ 37 00:02:15,543 --> 00:02:16,794 ~~My Lord.~ 38 00:02:16,961 --> 00:02:18,296 ~Sunshine.~ 39 00:02:18,463 --> 00:02:19,797 ~~My Lord.~ 40 00:02:19,964 --> 00:02:21,215 ~Yes, sir.~ 41 00:05:47,990 --> 00:05:57,990 FarangSiam thanks you. Enjoy! 42 00:07:08,085 --> 00:07:10,171 All right, all right, all right, all right. 43 00:07:11,839 --> 00:07:12,882 Into bed. 44 00:07:13,424 --> 00:07:15,009 Into bed. Thank you for the music. 45 00:07:15,176 --> 00:07:16,427 - Come on. - Ouch. 46 00:07:16,594 --> 00:07:18,220 Get in there. Come on. 47 00:07:19,889 --> 00:07:21,015 Give me a kiss. 48 00:07:24,727 --> 00:07:25,728 I love you, Margaret. 49 00:07:26,604 --> 00:07:27,605 I love you, too. 50 00:07:28,397 --> 00:07:29,857 Sleep well. 51 00:07:31,776 --> 00:07:33,194 I'll take this. 52 00:07:35,947 --> 00:07:38,407 I don't want to hear any more noise. 53 00:07:49,627 --> 00:07:52,046 Three weeks and two days. 54 00:07:52,213 --> 00:07:54,382 It is the custom. 55 00:07:54,548 --> 00:07:56,801 I wonder what you will do without me. 56 00:07:57,635 --> 00:07:59,595 I won't stay idle. 57 00:08:01,055 --> 00:08:03,224 Darling, it's good money. 58 00:08:05,309 --> 00:08:08,562 If only I didn't have to share your cooking with other people. 59 00:08:10,064 --> 00:08:11,983 You don't. 60 00:08:17,321 --> 00:08:19,907 Be good for your mother. Okay, Alonzo? 61 00:08:21,659 --> 00:08:23,911 Can I get a kiss, please? Thank you. 62 00:08:24,578 --> 00:08:25,579 Travel safely. 63 00:08:25,746 --> 00:08:27,164 Stay safely. 64 00:08:30,584 --> 00:08:31,752 Ready? 65 00:08:47,309 --> 00:08:48,936 Devil call his name, there he is now. 66 00:08:49,103 --> 00:08:50,438 Mr. Northup! 67 00:08:50,604 --> 00:08:53,315 I have two gentlemen whose acquaintance you should make. 68 00:08:53,482 --> 00:08:55,484 Misters Brown and Hamilton. 69 00:08:55,651 --> 00:08:56,777 Sir. 70 00:08:56,944 --> 00:08:58,779 Mr. Northup, these two gentlemen... 71 00:08:58,946 --> 00:09:01,365 were inquiring about distinguished individuals... 72 00:09:01,532 --> 00:09:03,200 and I was just this very moment... 73 00:09:03,367 --> 00:09:06,537 saying Solomon Northup is an expert player on the violin. 74 00:09:06,704 --> 00:09:07,872 He was indeed. 75 00:09:07,897 --> 00:09:09,257 Mr. Moon is being overly gracious. 76 00:09:09,290 --> 00:09:10,666 Well, taking into consideration 77 00:09:10,791 --> 00:09:12,209 his graciousness and your modesty... 78 00:09:12,376 --> 00:09:15,379 may we trouble you for a moment of your time to converse, sir? 79 00:09:15,546 --> 00:09:16,797 Of course. 80 00:09:17,214 --> 00:09:18,340 Good day. 81 00:09:18,674 --> 00:09:19,967 A circus? 82 00:09:20,134 --> 00:09:21,174 That is our usual employee. 83 00:09:21,190 --> 00:09:23,067 The company currently in the city of Washington. 84 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:24,790 Circus is too constricting a word... 85 00:09:24,889 --> 00:09:27,391 to describe the talented and merry band with which we travel. 86 00:09:27,558 --> 00:09:30,478 It is a spectacle unlike most have ever witnessed. 87 00:09:30,644 --> 00:09:32,313 Creatures from the darkest Africa 88 00:09:32,438 --> 00:09:34,065 as yet unseen by civilized man. 89 00:09:34,356 --> 00:09:35,649 Acrobats from the Orient... 90 00:09:35,816 --> 00:09:38,778 who contort themselves in the most confounding manners. 91 00:09:38,861 --> 00:09:40,863 And I myself in aide of Mr. Brown... 92 00:09:41,030 --> 00:09:42,698 an internationally renowned practitioner 93 00:09:42,823 --> 00:09:44,533 in the art of prestidigitation. 94 00:09:44,700 --> 00:09:46,077 We are on our way thither to rejoin 95 00:09:46,090 --> 00:09:47,800 the company having left for a short time... 96 00:09:47,810 --> 00:09:49,937 to make a small profit from our own exhibitions. 97 00:09:50,039 --> 00:09:51,719 The reason for our inquiry with Mr. Moon... 98 00:09:51,874 --> 00:09:53,626 Yes. We had just a devil of a time 99 00:09:53,751 --> 00:09:55,503 in procuring music for our entertainments. 100 00:09:55,669 --> 00:09:57,671 Men of true talents are seemingly in short supply. 101 00:09:57,838 --> 00:09:58,839 Thank you, sir. 102 00:09:59,006 --> 00:10:01,926 If we could persuade you to accompany us as far as Washington... 103 00:10:02,093 --> 00:10:04,512 We could give you one dollar for each day's services... 104 00:10:04,678 --> 00:10:07,078 and three dollars for every night played at our performances. 105 00:10:07,181 --> 00:10:09,022 In addition, we would provide sufficient pay... 106 00:10:09,100 --> 00:10:12,186 for your return here to Saratoga, two weeks from today. 107 00:10:17,358 --> 00:10:19,610 Welcome to Washington, Solomon. 108 00:10:27,201 --> 00:10:29,411 Hamilton, you know too much. 109 00:10:29,578 --> 00:10:31,080 Some say not enough. 110 00:10:31,539 --> 00:10:34,959 Solomon, 43 dollars. All to you. 111 00:10:36,085 --> 00:10:38,045 That is far more than my wages amount to. 112 00:10:38,212 --> 00:10:39,755 It's been a most profitable week, sir. 113 00:10:39,964 --> 00:10:41,215 - Cheers. - Cheers. 114 00:10:41,382 --> 00:10:42,591 Cheers. 115 00:10:47,221 --> 00:10:48,722 Another. 116 00:10:50,266 --> 00:10:55,271 Gentlemen, your generosity is extraordinary. 117 00:10:55,437 --> 00:10:57,481 And your talents are undeniable. 118 00:10:57,648 --> 00:10:58,691 Mmm. To Solomon. 119 00:10:58,858 --> 00:10:59,984 Cheers. 120 00:11:00,151 --> 00:11:01,360 Cheers. 121 00:11:41,859 --> 00:11:43,611 Ugh! 122 00:11:45,029 --> 00:11:46,655 It's all right, Solomon. 123 00:11:46,822 --> 00:11:47,948 There's no shame in it. 124 00:11:48,115 --> 00:11:49,533 No shame at all. 125 00:12:11,388 --> 00:12:13,508 Hamilton, we must hurry. 126 00:12:14,266 --> 00:12:15,392 One too many libation. 127 00:12:15,476 --> 00:12:16,769 We're halfway there. 128 00:12:33,744 --> 00:12:35,037 So sorry... 129 00:12:36,288 --> 00:12:38,123 We won't hear it. We won't. 130 00:12:38,290 --> 00:12:40,251 Let him sleep, Hamilton. 131 00:12:40,334 --> 00:12:42,878 Mmm. A good night's rest. 132 00:12:43,420 --> 00:12:45,130 And tomorrow... 133 00:12:46,215 --> 00:12:48,509 tomorrow you will feel as well and refreshed 134 00:12:48,634 --> 00:12:50,886 as if the earth were new again. 135 00:12:51,053 --> 00:12:53,806 Hamilton, there's nothing more we can do for him. 136 00:12:55,599 --> 00:12:56,934 Such is the pity. 137 00:13:06,443 --> 00:13:09,321 Well, boy, how do you feel now? 138 00:13:11,657 --> 00:13:15,577 My name... My name is Solomon Northup. 139 00:13:15,744 --> 00:13:18,998 I'm a free man. A resident of Saratoga, New York. 140 00:13:19,164 --> 00:13:21,792 The residence of my wife and children who are equally free. 141 00:13:21,959 --> 00:13:23,836 And you have no right whatsoever to detain me. 142 00:13:24,003 --> 00:13:25,379 You're not any free man. 143 00:13:25,546 --> 00:13:26,839 And I promise you... 144 00:13:27,006 --> 00:13:29,174 I promise you upon my liberation 145 00:13:29,300 --> 00:13:31,468 I will have satisfaction for this wrong. 146 00:13:33,137 --> 00:13:34,596 Resolve this. 147 00:13:35,014 --> 00:13:36,557 Produce your papers. 148 00:13:44,481 --> 00:13:46,233 You're no free man. 149 00:13:46,900 --> 00:13:48,819 And you ain't from Saratoga. 150 00:13:49,361 --> 00:13:51,238 You're from Georgia. 151 00:13:54,742 --> 00:13:56,493 You ain't a free man. 152 00:13:58,329 --> 00:14:02,374 You're nothing but a Georgia runaway. 153 00:14:04,460 --> 00:14:09,089 You're just a runaway nigger... 154 00:14:09,631 --> 00:14:11,508 from Georgia. 155 00:14:42,790 --> 00:14:44,458 You're a slave! 156 00:14:44,958 --> 00:14:47,544 You're a Georgia slave! 157 00:15:04,353 --> 00:15:06,021 Are you a slave? 158 00:15:07,314 --> 00:15:08,482 No. 159 00:16:06,540 --> 00:16:08,041 Help. 160 00:16:09,293 --> 00:16:11,003 Help me. 161 00:16:12,379 --> 00:16:14,173 "Help me!" 162 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,217 "Somebody help me!" 163 00:16:17,926 --> 00:16:20,053 "Help!" 164 00:16:21,847 --> 00:16:23,348 "Help!" 165 00:16:35,068 --> 00:16:37,863 That old thing of yours is just rags and tatters. 166 00:16:38,030 --> 00:16:40,491 You need something proper to wear. 167 00:16:43,577 --> 00:16:45,871 Go on, put it on. 168 00:17:05,224 --> 00:17:06,558 There. 169 00:17:09,895 --> 00:17:11,313 That's fine. 170 00:17:11,772 --> 00:17:13,690 That's fine. 171 00:17:15,943 --> 00:17:17,469 - Got no gratitude? - Thank you. 172 00:17:22,491 --> 00:17:23,492 No. That's from my wife. 173 00:17:23,659 --> 00:17:25,202 Rags and tatters. 174 00:17:25,452 --> 00:17:27,871 Rags and tatters. 175 00:17:37,881 --> 00:17:39,633 Go on, wash up. 176 00:17:42,511 --> 00:17:44,346 The boy, too. Get him clean. 177 00:17:47,015 --> 00:17:48,392 Scrub now. 178 00:17:48,559 --> 00:17:50,727 Do you know when my mama will come? 179 00:17:51,228 --> 00:17:52,229 "Hush him up!" 180 00:17:52,312 --> 00:17:53,313 Mama! Mama! 181 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:54,481 Quiet. 182 00:17:54,773 --> 00:17:56,108 - Quiet, please. - Mama! 183 00:17:56,275 --> 00:17:57,401 "Hush him up!" 184 00:17:57,568 --> 00:18:00,946 Your mother will come, I swear she will. But you must be silent. 185 00:18:01,530 --> 00:18:02,990 Be silent. 186 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:11,540 We need a sympathetic ear. 187 00:18:12,708 --> 00:18:14,459 An opportunity to explain our situation. 188 00:18:14,626 --> 00:18:16,628 Who, in your estimation, is that sympathetic ear? 189 00:18:16,795 --> 00:18:18,505 The two men I journeyed with. 190 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:20,731 I'm certain they're making enquiries at this very moment. 191 00:18:20,740 --> 00:18:22,266 I'd be just as certain they're counting 192 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:24,149 the money paid for delivering you to this place. 193 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:26,805 They were not kidnappers, they were artists. Fellow performers. 194 00:18:26,888 --> 00:18:28,348 You know that? 195 00:18:28,515 --> 00:18:30,517 You know for certain who they were? 196 00:18:32,185 --> 00:18:36,356 The reality to come is us being transported southward. 197 00:18:36,523 --> 00:18:38,609 New Orleans, if I was to venture. 198 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:41,737 After we arrive, we'll be put to market. 199 00:18:41,903 --> 00:18:43,530 And beyond that... 200 00:18:44,406 --> 00:18:46,926 Well, I suppose once in a slave state, there's only one outcome. 201 00:18:47,034 --> 00:18:47,834 No. 202 00:18:47,868 --> 00:18:49,868 I don't say that to give you empty agitation, John. 203 00:18:49,870 --> 00:18:51,622 For y'all, there ain't nothing but that. 204 00:18:51,788 --> 00:18:53,248 But John wasn't kidnapped. 205 00:18:53,415 --> 00:18:55,834 John's just being held as debt, that's all. 206 00:18:56,001 --> 00:18:57,919 Master pay his debt and John be redeemed. 207 00:18:58,086 --> 00:18:59,566 Boy, our masters will not come for us. 208 00:18:59,713 --> 00:19:01,715 John is sorry for y'all, but that's how it be. 209 00:19:01,882 --> 00:19:03,717 Where you're going, you're going without John. 210 00:19:05,761 --> 00:19:07,095 - Mama! - Randall! 211 00:19:08,597 --> 00:19:09,848 Mama! 212 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:13,393 Are you all right? 213 00:19:14,019 --> 00:19:15,437 Are you all right? 214 00:19:17,272 --> 00:19:18,690 Thank you, God. 215 00:19:20,525 --> 00:19:22,402 Come on. Get up. 216 00:19:22,736 --> 00:19:24,279 - I said, get up! - No, don't... 217 00:19:24,446 --> 00:19:26,365 I don't want to hear you talk! Get in the yard. 218 00:19:26,531 --> 00:19:27,574 Not my children! 219 00:19:27,741 --> 00:19:31,078 Ain't no need for all that. Just taking a little trip, that's all. 220 00:19:31,745 --> 00:19:33,330 Don't want to frighten the children 221 00:19:33,455 --> 00:19:35,082 over a little boat ride, do you? 222 00:19:35,248 --> 00:19:36,917 John's master gonna pay his debt. 223 00:19:37,084 --> 00:19:38,085 Line up! 224 00:19:38,210 --> 00:19:39,370 His master gonna pay his debt! 225 00:19:45,258 --> 00:19:47,928 I don't want to hear a word out of none of you! 226 00:19:48,929 --> 00:19:50,263 Not a one. 227 00:20:03,402 --> 00:20:04,861 "All right, come on." 228 00:20:06,405 --> 00:20:08,281 "Move. Come on." 229 00:20:09,866 --> 00:20:11,368 "Come on, child. Come on." 230 00:20:11,535 --> 00:20:13,036 "Follow your mama." 231 00:20:13,203 --> 00:20:14,204 "Come on, boy." 232 00:20:14,287 --> 00:20:15,288 "Up these stairs." 233 00:20:15,372 --> 00:20:17,624 "Get down out of that wagon. Come on." 234 00:20:18,250 --> 00:20:19,626 "Come on. Move it!" 235 00:20:20,127 --> 00:20:21,461 "Let's go!" 236 00:20:21,628 --> 00:20:22,963 "Up, Up, up the stairs." 237 00:20:24,214 --> 00:20:25,757 "Come on, let's go." 238 00:20:30,262 --> 00:20:31,763 "Come on, move it!" 239 00:20:32,055 --> 00:20:33,682 "All right, come on." 240 00:20:35,559 --> 00:20:37,728 "Hey, you. Get up." 241 00:20:38,061 --> 00:20:39,813 "Sit down, right there." 242 00:20:42,315 --> 00:20:43,150 "Come on." 243 00:20:44,901 --> 00:20:46,570 "Right there. Just sit down." 244 00:21:22,856 --> 00:21:25,066 Cheer up and don't be so cast down. 245 00:21:35,118 --> 00:21:39,414 If you want to survive, do and say as little as possible. 246 00:21:40,749 --> 00:21:45,128 Tell no one who you really are and tell no one you can read and write. 247 00:21:47,214 --> 00:21:50,175 Unless you want to be a dead nigger. 248 00:22:05,732 --> 00:22:07,317 "Now keep your mouth shut." 249 00:22:15,075 --> 00:22:16,910 I say we fight. 250 00:22:17,911 --> 00:22:19,412 The crew is fairly small. 251 00:22:20,247 --> 00:22:22,567 Were it well planned, I believe they could be strong-armed. 252 00:22:22,624 --> 00:22:24,501 Three can't go against the whole crew. 253 00:22:25,627 --> 00:22:27,629 The rest here are niggers. 254 00:22:27,963 --> 00:22:29,339 Born and bred slaves. 255 00:22:29,506 --> 00:22:31,758 Niggers ain't got no stomach for a fight. 256 00:22:31,925 --> 00:22:33,260 Not a damn one. 257 00:22:33,426 --> 00:22:37,222 All's I know, if we get where we're traveling... 258 00:22:37,639 --> 00:22:39,057 we'll wish we'd died trying. 259 00:22:39,224 --> 00:22:41,685 Survival's not about certain death, 260 00:22:41,810 --> 00:22:44,312 it's about keeping your head down. 261 00:22:47,274 --> 00:22:50,110 Days ago, I was with my family... 262 00:22:51,653 --> 00:22:53,446 in my home. 263 00:22:54,990 --> 00:22:57,325 Now you tell me all is lost. 264 00:22:59,452 --> 00:23:02,664 «Tell no one who I am.» That's the way to survive? 265 00:23:05,917 --> 00:23:07,961 Well, I don't want to survive. 266 00:23:09,504 --> 00:23:12,632 I want to live. 267 00:24:41,388 --> 00:24:43,056 Better off. 268 00:24:44,015 --> 00:24:45,558 Better than us. 269 00:25:02,575 --> 00:25:03,827 I don't see him. 270 00:25:03,994 --> 00:25:04,803 Clemens! 271 00:25:05,161 --> 00:25:06,705 - Clemens Ray! - Master. 272 00:25:06,871 --> 00:25:08,081 - Clemens! - Master Ray, sir! 273 00:25:08,248 --> 00:25:09,499 Master Ray! 274 00:25:09,666 --> 00:25:10,787 Who's in charge here? 275 00:25:10,917 --> 00:25:11,918 I'm the captain! 276 00:25:12,085 --> 00:25:13,253 I'm Mr. Jonus Ray. 277 00:25:13,420 --> 00:25:15,005 My solicitor has documentation... 278 00:25:15,171 --> 00:25:17,924 verifying the negro known as Clemens Ray is my property. 279 00:25:18,091 --> 00:25:20,427 I know nothing of this arrangement. 280 00:25:20,593 --> 00:25:22,394 You are ordered to return that property 281 00:25:22,470 --> 00:25:24,222 immediately or be charged with thievery. 282 00:25:25,432 --> 00:25:26,683 Free him! 283 00:25:29,602 --> 00:25:30,729 Master. 284 00:25:30,895 --> 00:25:32,689 Master Ray, sir. 285 00:25:34,107 --> 00:25:35,066 Clemens! 286 00:25:35,233 --> 00:25:36,433 - Clemens! - Get him back! 287 00:25:36,568 --> 00:25:37,944 "Clemens!" 288 00:25:38,611 --> 00:25:39,612 "Clemens!" 289 00:25:40,530 --> 00:25:41,364 Clemens! 290 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:49,015 Mr. Parker. 291 00:26:49,099 --> 00:26:52,393 Ah, Mr. Northup. Mrs. Northup. 292 00:26:52,644 --> 00:26:54,687 Solomon, could I interest you in a new cravat? 293 00:26:54,854 --> 00:26:56,094 Pure silk, by way of the French. 294 00:26:56,189 --> 00:26:58,858 We're in need of a fresh carryall for my Mrs.'s travels. 295 00:26:59,025 --> 00:26:59,859 Nothing more. 296 00:27:00,026 --> 00:27:01,694 The year has passed already. 297 00:27:01,861 --> 00:27:03,101 Off to work at Sandy Hill again? 298 00:27:03,196 --> 00:27:04,030 I am. 299 00:27:04,197 --> 00:27:05,532 I have just the thing. 300 00:27:05,698 --> 00:27:07,367 Something to suit your style... 301 00:27:07,534 --> 00:27:09,994 and yet sturdy enough for the 40-mile round trip. 302 00:27:10,161 --> 00:27:11,162 It's beautiful. 303 00:27:11,329 --> 00:27:12,247 At what price? 304 00:27:12,372 --> 00:27:13,331 We will take it. 305 00:27:13,498 --> 00:27:16,626 Children, come see what your father has just purchased for me. 306 00:27:16,793 --> 00:27:18,332 One moment, sir, and you'll be assisted. 307 00:27:18,461 --> 00:27:20,171 - Mr. Parker. - Sir? 308 00:27:20,338 --> 00:27:21,548 If we could discuss the price. 309 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,521 Oh, forgive me, Solomon. Forgive me, Mrs. Northup. 310 00:27:23,530 --> 00:27:25,574 A customer waits. Welcome, sir. 311 00:27:25,718 --> 00:27:27,554 Shop well, sir, but mind your wallet. 312 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,472 Pay no attention to this gentleman's nonsense. 313 00:27:29,639 --> 00:27:30,723 Jasper! 314 00:27:32,225 --> 00:27:34,018 My regrets for the intrusion, sir. 315 00:27:34,394 --> 00:27:36,062 No intrusion. 316 00:27:39,899 --> 00:27:41,359 Good day, sir. 317 00:27:41,860 --> 00:27:43,027 Good day. 318 00:27:43,194 --> 00:27:44,904 Jasper, out. 319 00:27:53,079 --> 00:27:55,331 Very good. Very good. 320 00:27:55,707 --> 00:27:58,251 Let's see, here. Eliza! 321 00:27:59,586 --> 00:28:01,880 Stand up when you hear your name. Eliza. 322 00:28:02,755 --> 00:28:03,590 Lethe! 323 00:28:07,010 --> 00:28:07,810 John. 324 00:28:09,429 --> 00:28:10,680 Oren. 325 00:28:11,931 --> 00:28:13,099 Platt. 326 00:28:16,019 --> 00:28:17,103 Platt. 327 00:28:20,231 --> 00:28:21,733 Stand up. 328 00:28:23,693 --> 00:28:25,111 You fit the description given. 329 00:28:25,278 --> 00:28:26,613 Why didn't you answer when called? 330 00:28:26,779 --> 00:28:28,031 My name is not Platt. 331 00:28:28,198 --> 00:28:29,032 My name... 332 00:28:31,367 --> 00:28:33,077 Your name is Platt. 333 00:28:35,288 --> 00:28:37,457 Captain, get these niggers to my cart. 334 00:28:50,136 --> 00:28:51,304 Mmm. 335 00:28:59,604 --> 00:29:00,813 Move. 336 00:29:04,484 --> 00:29:06,069 I believe I have something very much 337 00:29:06,194 --> 00:29:07,779 to your liking in the back room. 338 00:29:07,946 --> 00:29:09,656 Follow me, please. 339 00:29:09,822 --> 00:29:12,659 Yes. Now, inspect them at your leisure... 340 00:29:12,825 --> 00:29:17,664 but I ask you to pay particular regard to young Ezra here. 341 00:29:17,830 --> 00:29:19,082 Incredibly sound limbs. 342 00:29:19,249 --> 00:29:21,334 I have never seen anything quite like him. 343 00:29:21,501 --> 00:29:24,337 And this marvelous creature. Can you believe it? Mmm? 344 00:29:24,504 --> 00:29:26,172 She'll make a fine lady's maid. 345 00:29:26,339 --> 00:29:27,507 Madam? 346 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:29,509 So, inspect at your leisure. 347 00:29:29,676 --> 00:29:31,970 Take your time. Help yourself to refreshments. 348 00:29:32,136 --> 00:29:35,139 Gentlemen, what catches your fancy here? Hmm? 349 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:36,641 This boy? Yes? 350 00:29:36,808 --> 00:29:38,977 Open your mouth. Open wider. 351 00:29:39,143 --> 00:29:41,521 Look in there. Never been sick a day in his life. 352 00:29:41,688 --> 00:29:43,328 And I call particular attention to Martha. 353 00:29:43,356 --> 00:29:45,817 She is an excellent pastry cook. 354 00:29:45,984 --> 00:29:47,694 Ah, Mr. Ford. 355 00:29:48,152 --> 00:29:50,446 Splendid seeing you, sir. What catches your fancy? 356 00:29:50,613 --> 00:29:52,657 This lad? He's very brawny. 357 00:29:52,824 --> 00:29:55,576 How much for the ones Platt and Eliza? 358 00:29:55,660 --> 00:29:57,203 Ah, yes. 359 00:29:57,620 --> 00:29:59,789 A thousand for Platt. Uh... Oh. 360 00:29:59,872 --> 00:30:02,667 This is a nigger of considerable talent, I assure you. 361 00:30:02,834 --> 00:30:04,544 700 for Eliza. 362 00:30:04,711 --> 00:30:06,379 My fairest price. 363 00:30:06,713 --> 00:30:07,880 Mmm. 364 00:30:08,715 --> 00:30:09,882 You will accept a note? 365 00:30:10,049 --> 00:30:12,635 Please, sir. Do not divide my family. 366 00:30:12,650 --> 00:30:14,335 Do not take me unless you take my children. 367 00:30:14,350 --> 00:30:15,351 Eliza! Quiet! 368 00:30:15,388 --> 00:30:17,108 You will have the most faithful slave in me. 369 00:30:17,150 --> 00:30:18,818 The most faithful slave that has ever lived. 370 00:30:18,820 --> 00:30:20,339 But I beg that you do not separate us. 371 00:30:20,345 --> 00:30:21,387 Your price for the boy? 372 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:22,635 Eliza! Stop it! 373 00:30:22,660 --> 00:30:24,161 I will give you something to cry about. 374 00:30:24,170 --> 00:30:26,339 Randall, come forward. Come, come, come. 375 00:30:26,399 --> 00:30:28,609 Now, do you see how fit this boy is? 376 00:30:28,776 --> 00:30:30,028 Like ripe fruit. 377 00:30:30,194 --> 00:30:33,072 May I take your stick a moment? Observe this. 378 00:30:33,239 --> 00:30:35,241 Randall, jump, jump, jump. Run, run, run. 379 00:30:35,408 --> 00:30:37,577 Very good! Higher. 380 00:30:37,744 --> 00:30:38,870 Now, you see this. 381 00:30:39,037 --> 00:30:42,623 It's very likely he will grow into a fine beast. 382 00:30:43,875 --> 00:30:45,585 600 for the boy. 383 00:30:45,752 --> 00:30:47,253 Fair and final. 384 00:30:47,879 --> 00:30:49,088 Done. 385 00:30:49,255 --> 00:30:51,591 Superb. A moment, please. 386 00:30:51,758 --> 00:30:53,051 Mr. Ford. 387 00:30:53,259 --> 00:30:54,427 Please. Eliza! 388 00:30:54,594 --> 00:30:56,346 How much for the little girl? 389 00:30:56,429 --> 00:30:57,513 Ah... 390 00:30:57,930 --> 00:30:59,098 You have no use for her. 391 00:30:59,265 --> 00:31:00,933 One so young will bring you no profit. 392 00:31:01,100 --> 00:31:02,935 No, no, no. I cannot sell the girl. 393 00:31:03,102 --> 00:31:06,731 No, there's heaps and piles of money to be made from her. 394 00:31:06,898 --> 00:31:09,192 She's a beauty. One of the regular bloods. 395 00:31:09,359 --> 00:31:12,159 None of your thick-lipped, bullet-heated, cotton-picking niggers, here. 396 00:31:12,278 --> 00:31:14,947 Her child, man. 397 00:31:15,365 --> 00:31:16,165 Please. 398 00:31:16,282 --> 00:31:18,362 For God's sake, are you not sentimental in the least? 399 00:31:18,368 --> 00:31:21,120 My sentimentality extends the length of a coin. 400 00:31:21,287 --> 00:31:22,789 God, please. 401 00:31:23,331 --> 00:31:26,709 Now do you take this lot, Mr. Ford, or do you pass on them? 402 00:31:26,876 --> 00:31:30,463 Please, please. Please. 403 00:31:30,630 --> 00:31:32,173 I will take the ones Platt and Eliza. 404 00:31:32,340 --> 00:31:33,341 Sold, Eliza and Platt. 405 00:31:33,408 --> 00:31:34,726 I will not go without my children! 406 00:31:34,759 --> 00:31:35,843 Goddamn sniveling Wench! 407 00:31:36,010 --> 00:31:37,210 You will not take them from me! 408 00:31:37,303 --> 00:31:40,014 God damn you! Get her out of here, Cape! 409 00:31:40,181 --> 00:31:41,891 Please! No! No! 410 00:31:42,058 --> 00:31:43,684 Get her out of here, god damn it! 411 00:31:43,851 --> 00:31:46,813 Platt, get your fiddle. Play, play, play something. 412 00:31:46,979 --> 00:31:50,066 I will give you something to cry about, you goddamned witch! 413 00:31:50,233 --> 00:31:52,402 Get her out of here, Cape! Out, now! 414 00:31:52,652 --> 00:31:56,030 Mama! Mama! Mama! 415 00:31:56,906 --> 00:31:58,950 Yes. 416 00:31:59,117 --> 00:32:01,828 Mr. Ford, a pleasure. 417 00:32:18,386 --> 00:32:20,680 Did you bring all those niggers? 418 00:32:20,847 --> 00:32:23,099 Two of them? You got two? 419 00:32:23,516 --> 00:32:24,809 Mr. Chapin. 420 00:32:25,435 --> 00:32:27,895 This one's crying. Why is this one crying? 421 00:32:28,062 --> 00:32:29,689 Separated from her children. 422 00:32:29,856 --> 00:32:31,274 - Oh, dear. - It couldn't be helped. 423 00:32:31,441 --> 00:32:32,692 Poor, poor woman. 424 00:32:32,859 --> 00:32:34,110 - Mr. Chapin. - Yes, sir. 425 00:32:34,277 --> 00:32:35,736 Tomorrow, you have to take these two 426 00:32:35,862 --> 00:32:37,363 up to the mill and start them working. 427 00:32:37,530 --> 00:32:38,739 For now, make them adequate. 428 00:32:38,906 --> 00:32:40,707 Fix them a meal and have them rest themselves. 429 00:32:40,867 --> 00:32:42,034 Yes, sir. 430 00:32:42,952 --> 00:32:44,162 Come on, now. 431 00:32:44,704 --> 00:32:46,873 Come on! Don't dawdle! 432 00:32:47,165 --> 00:32:49,792 Something to eat, and some rest. 433 00:32:49,959 --> 00:32:51,399 Your children will soon be forgotten. 434 00:33:18,863 --> 00:33:20,990 For all of you raw niggers that don't know... 435 00:33:21,157 --> 00:33:25,536 my name is John Tibeats, William Ford's chief carpenter. 436 00:33:25,703 --> 00:33:29,081 You will refer to me as «Master». 437 00:33:29,248 --> 00:33:32,960 Mr. Chapin is the overseer on this plantation. 438 00:33:33,127 --> 00:33:37,673 You, too, will refer to him as «Master». 439 00:33:38,799 --> 00:33:40,718 So, clap your hands. 440 00:33:44,263 --> 00:33:46,974 Like this. Come on. 441 00:33:47,808 --> 00:33:50,102 Come on, now. Clap your hands. 442 00:33:54,190 --> 00:33:56,526 ~~Nigger run, nigger flew.~ 443 00:33:56,692 --> 00:33:59,070 ~~Nigger tore his shirt in two.~ 444 00:33:59,237 --> 00:34:01,572 ~~Run, run, the pattyroller will get you.~ 445 00:34:01,739 --> 00:34:03,783 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~well, you better get away.~ 446 00:34:08,329 --> 00:34:10,206 "That's right. Like you mean it." 447 00:34:11,249 --> 00:34:13,417 ~~Nigger run, run so fast.~ 448 00:34:13,584 --> 00:34:15,920 ~~Stove his head in a hornet's nest.~ 449 00:34:16,087 --> 00:34:18,047 ~~Run, run, the pattyroller will get you.~ 450 00:34:18,214 --> 00:34:21,217 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~well, you better get away.~ 451 00:34:21,968 --> 00:34:24,303 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~the pattyroller will get you.~ 452 00:34:24,470 --> 00:34:26,639 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~well, you better get away.~ 453 00:34:28,641 --> 00:34:30,643 ~~Some folk say a nigger don't steal.~ 454 00:34:30,810 --> 00:34:32,979 ~~I caught three in my corn field.~ 455 00:34:33,145 --> 00:34:35,314 ~~One has a bushel and one has a peck.~ 456 00:34:35,481 --> 00:34:37,650 ~~One has a rope, ~ ~~it was hung around his neck.~ 457 00:34:37,817 --> 00:34:40,236 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~the pattyroller will get you.~ 458 00:34:40,403 --> 00:34:42,655 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~well, you better get away.~ 459 00:34:42,822 --> 00:34:44,991 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~the pattyroller will get you.~ 460 00:34:45,157 --> 00:34:47,827 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~well, you better get away.~ 461 00:34:47,994 --> 00:34:50,329 ~~Hey, Mr. Pattyroller, don't catch me.~ 462 00:34:50,496 --> 00:34:52,832 ~~Catch that nigger behind that tree.~ 463 00:34:52,999 --> 00:34:55,334 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~the pattyroller will get you.~ 464 00:34:55,501 --> 00:34:57,712 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~well, you better get away.~ 465 00:34:57,878 --> 00:35:00,006 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~the pattyroller will get you.~ 466 00:35:00,172 --> 00:35:02,341 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~well, you better get away.~ 467 00:35:02,508 --> 00:35:04,677 ~~Run, nigger, run, ~ ~~the pattyroller will get you.~ 468 00:35:04,844 --> 00:35:06,846 ~~Run, nigger, run well, ~ ~~you better get away.~ 469 00:35:07,346 --> 00:35:10,141 «I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac... » 470 00:35:10,308 --> 00:35:12,602 «and the God of Jacob.» 471 00:35:14,020 --> 00:35:15,521 «And when the multitude heard this,» 472 00:35:15,688 --> 00:35:18,357 «they were astonished at his doctrine.» 473 00:35:19,191 --> 00:35:22,153 «And then one of them, which was a lawyer... » 474 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,531 «asked him a question, tempting him.» 475 00:36:21,462 --> 00:36:23,756 "The creek is plenty deep enough to sail." 476 00:36:24,382 --> 00:36:26,467 Even with a boat full of load. 477 00:36:26,634 --> 00:36:27,834 The distance from the work area 478 00:36:27,844 --> 00:36:29,263 to the point on the latter bayou... 479 00:36:29,270 --> 00:36:30,980 is several miles by water fewer than land. 480 00:36:30,989 --> 00:36:32,925 It occurs to me that the expense of transportation 481 00:36:32,940 --> 00:36:34,325 would be materially diminished... 482 00:36:34,392 --> 00:36:35,434 «Materially diminished?» 483 00:36:35,601 --> 00:36:37,561 If we use the waterway. 484 00:36:37,728 --> 00:36:40,481 Are you an engineer, or a nigger? 485 00:36:42,775 --> 00:36:45,277 Are you an engineer, or a nigger? 486 00:36:46,570 --> 00:36:47,613 Let the man says his piece. 487 00:36:47,780 --> 00:36:51,450 It's a scheme. Plenty of engineers have schemed similarly. 488 00:36:51,617 --> 00:36:54,161 The passes are too tight. 489 00:36:54,620 --> 00:36:57,623 I reckon them at more than 12 feet at their most narrow. 490 00:36:57,790 --> 00:36:59,291 Wide enough for a tub to traverse 491 00:36:59,417 --> 00:37:00,835 if a team of niggers cleared it out. 492 00:37:01,001 --> 00:37:03,754 And you know what of transport and terraforming? 493 00:37:03,921 --> 00:37:05,631 I labored repairing the Champlain canal... 494 00:37:05,798 --> 00:37:09,135 on the section over which William van Nortwick was superintendent. 495 00:37:09,301 --> 00:37:12,179 With my earnings, I hired several efficient hands to assist me... 496 00:37:12,346 --> 00:37:13,639 and entered into contracts for 497 00:37:13,650 --> 00:37:15,477 the transportation of large rafts of timber... 498 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,941 from Lake Champlain to Troy. 499 00:37:20,229 --> 00:37:23,482 Well, I'll admit to being impressed even if you won't. 500 00:37:24,525 --> 00:37:26,569 Collect a team. See what good you can do. 501 00:37:35,661 --> 00:37:36,912 "- You good? - Clear it out!" 502 00:37:37,079 --> 00:37:38,289 Two, three... 503 00:37:41,500 --> 00:37:44,336 ~- Too late ~ ~- for me. ~ 504 00:37:44,503 --> 00:37:47,548 ~~- I live ~ ~- or die. ~ 505 00:37:47,715 --> 00:37:50,843 ~~- Lay down ~ ~- and cry. ~ 506 00:37:51,010 --> 00:37:54,096 ~~- Hey, boy, ~ ~- I'm tired. ~ 507 00:37:54,263 --> 00:37:57,349 ~~- My lord. ~ ~- Sometimes. ~ 508 00:37:57,516 --> 00:38:00,770 ~~- I'm strong ~ ~- Yes, sir. ~ 509 00:38:00,936 --> 00:38:04,315 ~~- I'm tall ~ ~- Yes, sir ~ 510 00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,480 ~~- My lord. ~ ~- Sometimes. ~ 511 00:38:10,070 --> 00:38:12,281 Platt, you are a marvel. 512 00:38:19,955 --> 00:38:21,665 What took you so long? 513 00:38:22,249 --> 00:38:24,293 Thank you, Master Ford. 514 00:38:41,852 --> 00:38:43,187 Platt. 515 00:39:02,248 --> 00:39:04,625 My great thanks, Master Ford. 516 00:39:04,792 --> 00:39:06,877 No, my thanks to you. 517 00:39:07,044 --> 00:39:09,338 And it is the least of it. 518 00:39:09,505 --> 00:39:12,758 I hope it brings us both much joy over the years. 519 00:39:43,455 --> 00:39:44,623 God! 520 00:39:49,211 --> 00:39:50,629 Eliza. 521 00:39:55,718 --> 00:39:56,969 Eliza. 522 00:39:57,720 --> 00:39:58,721 Stop! 523 00:39:59,263 --> 00:40:01,140 Stop your wailing! 524 00:40:03,601 --> 00:40:05,019 If you let yourself be overcome 525 00:40:05,144 --> 00:40:06,604 by sorrow, you will drown in it. 526 00:40:06,770 --> 00:40:08,480 Have you stopped crying for your children? 527 00:40:10,316 --> 00:40:13,819 You make no sounds, but will you ever let them go in your heart? 528 00:40:18,240 --> 00:40:19,992 They are as my flesh. 529 00:40:20,159 --> 00:40:22,161 Then who is distressed? 530 00:40:22,912 --> 00:40:25,164 Do I upset the master and the mistress? 531 00:40:25,331 --> 00:40:27,666 Do you care less about my loss than their well-being? 532 00:40:27,833 --> 00:40:29,168 Master Ford is a decent man. 533 00:40:29,335 --> 00:40:30,461 He is a slaver! 534 00:40:30,628 --> 00:40:31,588 Under the circumstances. 535 00:40:31,670 --> 00:40:33,464 Under the circumstances, he is a slaver. 536 00:40:33,797 --> 00:40:35,674 But you truckle at his boot. 537 00:40:35,841 --> 00:40:37,468 You luxuriate in his favor. 538 00:40:37,635 --> 00:40:39,345 I survive! 539 00:40:39,511 --> 00:40:41,555 I will not fall into despair! 540 00:40:41,722 --> 00:40:43,682 I will offer up my talents to Master Ford! 541 00:40:43,849 --> 00:40:46,644 I will keep myself hearty until freedom is opportune! 542 00:40:46,810 --> 00:40:48,854 Ford is your opportunity? 543 00:40:49,521 --> 00:40:52,399 You think he does not know that you are more than you suggest? 544 00:40:52,566 --> 00:40:54,234 But he does nothing for you. 545 00:40:54,401 --> 00:40:55,569 Nothing. 546 00:40:56,195 --> 00:40:59,490 You are no better than prized livestock. 547 00:41:00,032 --> 00:41:01,408 Call for him. Call! 548 00:41:01,575 --> 00:41:03,702 Tell him of your previous circumstances, 549 00:41:03,869 --> 00:41:06,038 and see what it earns you, Solomon. 550 00:41:07,539 --> 00:41:10,376 So, you've settled into your role as Platt, then? 551 00:41:12,378 --> 00:41:15,547 My back is thick with scars... 552 00:41:15,631 --> 00:41:18,050 for protesting my freedom. 553 00:41:18,217 --> 00:41:19,635 Do not accuse me. 554 00:41:20,469 --> 00:41:24,056 I accuse you of nothing. I cannot accuse. 555 00:41:24,223 --> 00:41:27,142 I have done dishonorable things to survive... 556 00:41:27,309 --> 00:41:30,312 and for all of them, I have ended up here. 557 00:41:30,813 --> 00:41:33,857 No better than if I stood up for myself. 558 00:41:34,483 --> 00:41:36,735 God, forgive me. 559 00:41:36,902 --> 00:41:39,697 Solomon, let me weep for my children! 560 00:41:50,082 --> 00:41:52,167 «Whosoever, therefore, shall humble» 561 00:41:52,292 --> 00:41:54,420 «himself as this little child... » 562 00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:58,757 «the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.» 563 00:41:58,924 --> 00:42:03,846 «And who so shall receive one such little child in my name... » 564 00:42:04,013 --> 00:42:05,848 I cannot have that kind of depression about. 565 00:42:06,015 --> 00:42:08,183 «But who so shall offend one of these little ones... » 566 00:42:08,350 --> 00:42:11,186 «it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck... » 567 00:42:12,521 --> 00:42:16,108 «and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.» 568 00:42:17,192 --> 00:42:18,193 Amen. 569 00:42:18,736 --> 00:42:19,903 "Amen." 570 00:42:32,708 --> 00:42:34,793 Make them boards flush. 571 00:42:35,210 --> 00:42:36,128 They are, sir. 572 00:42:36,295 --> 00:42:38,297 No, they is no such thing. 573 00:42:39,798 --> 00:42:43,052 They are as smooth to the touch as a yearling's coat. 574 00:42:45,637 --> 00:42:47,556 Are you calling me a liar, boy? 575 00:42:50,476 --> 00:42:52,811 It's all a matter of perspective, sir. 576 00:42:53,379 --> 00:42:55,114 From where you stand, you may see differently, 577 00:42:55,147 --> 00:42:56,774 but the hands are not mistaken. 578 00:42:57,316 --> 00:43:01,570 I simply ask that you use all your senses before rendering judgment. 579 00:43:03,113 --> 00:43:06,325 Oh, my, you are a brute. 580 00:43:07,826 --> 00:43:09,411 You are a dog. 581 00:43:10,079 --> 00:43:12,748 And no better for following instruction! 582 00:43:14,124 --> 00:43:15,125 I do as ordered. 583 00:43:15,209 --> 00:43:16,376 Then you'll be up at daybreak. 584 00:43:16,668 --> 00:43:19,338 You will procure a keg of nails from Chapin... 585 00:43:19,505 --> 00:43:21,507 and commence to putting on clapboards. 586 00:43:21,673 --> 00:43:22,841 Yes, sir. 587 00:43:28,305 --> 00:43:29,973 Make them boards flush. 588 00:43:38,857 --> 00:43:41,360 "No, please! Please, Sam!" 589 00:43:41,527 --> 00:43:43,862 "Where am I going? Where am I going, Sam?" 590 00:43:44,363 --> 00:43:46,865 "Solomon! Solomon!" 591 00:43:47,282 --> 00:43:48,700 "Solomon!" 592 00:43:49,660 --> 00:43:51,328 "Solomon!" 593 00:43:54,998 --> 00:43:57,042 "Solomon!" 594 00:44:02,464 --> 00:44:05,801 "When I say I had my Master's favor, you understand." 595 00:44:08,387 --> 00:44:09,513 And for nine years... 596 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:13,559 he blessed me with every comfort and luxury in life. 597 00:44:13,725 --> 00:44:16,186 Silks and jewels... 598 00:44:16,353 --> 00:44:18,814 and even servants to wait upon us. 599 00:44:20,899 --> 00:44:23,318 Such was our life. 600 00:44:23,485 --> 00:44:26,363 And the life of this beautiful girl I bore for him. 601 00:44:29,533 --> 00:44:31,702 But Master Berry's daughter... 602 00:44:32,661 --> 00:44:35,539 she always looked at me with an unkind nature. 603 00:44:36,206 --> 00:44:40,043 And she hated Emily, no matter she and Emily were flesh of flesh. 604 00:44:43,213 --> 00:44:44,840 As Master Berry's health failed, 605 00:44:44,965 --> 00:44:46,592 she gained power of the household... 606 00:44:47,059 --> 00:44:49,728 and eventually, I was brought to the city under the false pretense... 607 00:44:49,761 --> 00:44:52,556 of our free papers being executed. 608 00:44:56,602 --> 00:44:58,896 My poor children. 609 00:45:37,726 --> 00:45:40,604 I thought I told you to commence to putting on clapboards. 610 00:45:41,647 --> 00:45:44,483 Yes, Master, I'm about it. These have all been replaced. 611 00:45:45,651 --> 00:45:47,903 And didn't I tell you to get a keg of nails? 612 00:45:48,070 --> 00:45:49,738 And so, I did. 613 00:45:50,572 --> 00:45:51,907 So, you did. 614 00:45:52,991 --> 00:45:55,661 God damn you. I thought you knowed something! 615 00:45:55,827 --> 00:45:57,329 I did as instructed. 616 00:45:57,496 --> 00:46:00,707 If there's something wrong, it's wrong with the instruction. 617 00:46:01,166 --> 00:46:03,168 You black bastard. 618 00:46:03,710 --> 00:46:08,590 You goddamn black bastard. 619 00:46:08,757 --> 00:46:10,801 Strip your clothes. 620 00:46:13,136 --> 00:46:14,304 Strip. 621 00:46:15,305 --> 00:46:16,848 I will not. 622 00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:32,531 You will not live to see another day, nigger! 623 00:46:33,573 --> 00:46:34,658 Help! 624 00:46:40,455 --> 00:46:41,707 Murder! 625 00:46:44,001 --> 00:46:45,002 I'm sorry! 626 00:46:45,627 --> 00:46:47,879 I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! 627 00:46:50,924 --> 00:46:52,509 What is the matter? 628 00:46:52,884 --> 00:46:54,177 What is the matter? 629 00:46:55,053 --> 00:46:56,430 Master Tibeats wants to whip me 630 00:46:56,555 --> 00:46:57,973 for using the nails you gave me. 631 00:46:59,850 --> 00:47:01,977 This ain't done by half. 632 00:47:02,436 --> 00:47:04,646 I will have flesh. 633 00:47:04,813 --> 00:47:07,065 And I will have all of it! 634 00:47:10,736 --> 00:47:11,820 Do not stir. 635 00:47:12,321 --> 00:47:15,699 Do not leave the plantation. If you run, I cannot protect you. 636 00:47:16,450 --> 00:47:17,743 Stay here. 637 00:48:21,139 --> 00:48:25,060 Gentlemen, whoever moves that nigger is a dead man. 638 00:48:26,937 --> 00:48:29,856 I am the overseer on this plantation. 639 00:48:30,023 --> 00:48:32,734 William Ford holds the mortgage on Platt. 640 00:48:33,110 --> 00:48:35,654 If you hang him, he will lose his debt. 641 00:48:36,071 --> 00:48:38,490 You have no claim to his life. 642 00:48:38,949 --> 00:48:40,492 As for you two... 643 00:48:40,659 --> 00:48:43,662 if you have any regard for your own safety... 644 00:48:43,829 --> 00:48:44,788 I say, be gone! 645 00:48:48,375 --> 00:48:50,210 You got no cause! 646 00:48:50,377 --> 00:48:53,839 Platt is mine, and mine to do with as I please! 647 00:48:54,005 --> 00:48:55,924 If you touch... 648 00:49:22,284 --> 00:49:23,084 "Sam!" 649 00:49:23,785 --> 00:49:26,079 "Fetch the mule. Get Master Ford." 650 00:52:21,004 --> 00:52:23,256 Platt. Poor Platt. 651 00:52:52,869 --> 00:52:55,330 I believe Tibeats is skulking about the premises somewhere. 652 00:52:55,497 --> 00:52:58,708 He wants you dead, and he will have it so. 653 00:52:58,875 --> 00:53:01,086 It's no longer safe for you here. 654 00:53:01,252 --> 00:53:05,048 And I don't believe you will remain passive if Tibeats attacks. 655 00:53:05,215 --> 00:53:08,259 I have transferred my debt to Edwin Epps. 656 00:53:08,426 --> 00:53:10,345 He will take charge... 657 00:53:31,032 --> 00:53:32,701 Master Ford. 658 00:53:35,078 --> 00:53:37,831 You must know that I'm not a slave. 659 00:53:38,289 --> 00:53:39,332 I cannot hear that. 660 00:53:39,499 --> 00:53:41,459 Before I came to you, I was a freeman. 661 00:53:41,626 --> 00:53:44,295 I'm trying to save your life! 662 00:53:45,463 --> 00:53:48,007 And I have a debt to be mindful of. 663 00:53:50,385 --> 00:53:52,429 And that is to Edwin Epps now. 664 00:53:52,595 --> 00:53:55,390 And he is a hard man. Prides himself on being a nigger breaker. 665 00:53:55,557 --> 00:53:58,601 But truthfully, I could find no others who would take you. 666 00:53:59,185 --> 00:54:01,688 You've made a reputation of yourself. 667 00:54:02,355 --> 00:54:07,152 Whatever the circumstances, you are an exceptional nigger, Platt. 668 00:54:09,070 --> 00:54:11,865 But I fear no good will come of it. 669 00:54:34,596 --> 00:54:36,389 «And that servant... » 670 00:54:37,557 --> 00:54:40,101 «which knew his lord's will... » 671 00:54:41,519 --> 00:54:44,939 Which knew his lord's will. 672 00:54:49,027 --> 00:54:51,696 «... and prepared not himself... » 673 00:54:53,364 --> 00:54:55,867 Prepared not himself. 674 00:54:59,913 --> 00:55:02,582 «... neither did according to his will... » 675 00:55:04,542 --> 00:55:07,712 «shall be beaten with many stripes.» 676 00:55:09,047 --> 00:55:10,507 Do you hear that? 677 00:55:11,174 --> 00:55:12,509 Stripes. 678 00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:15,887 That nigger that don't obey his lord... 679 00:55:16,054 --> 00:55:18,097 That's his master, do you see? 680 00:55:18,932 --> 00:55:23,603 That there nigger shall be beaten with many stripes. 681 00:55:25,230 --> 00:55:29,025 Now, «many» signifies a great many. 682 00:55:29,567 --> 00:55:33,404 40, 100, 150 lashes. 683 00:55:38,076 --> 00:55:39,661 That's scripture. 684 00:55:56,052 --> 00:55:57,595 "Pick that cotton." 685 00:55:57,762 --> 00:55:59,681 "Move along, now." 686 00:56:01,933 --> 00:56:04,769 "Come on, Edward! Drive them niggers!" 687 00:56:04,936 --> 00:56:07,939 "Pick that cotton! Move along, now." 688 00:56:08,648 --> 00:56:10,608 "What are you doing, boy? Come on!" 689 00:56:13,444 --> 00:56:15,655 240 for Bob. 690 00:56:16,114 --> 00:56:18,074 What you got for James? 691 00:56:18,491 --> 00:56:20,618 295 pounds. 692 00:56:20,785 --> 00:56:23,830 That's real good, boy. That's real good. 693 00:56:24,455 --> 00:56:26,583 182 for Platt. 694 00:56:28,209 --> 00:56:31,087 How much can even an average nigger pick a day? 695 00:56:31,254 --> 00:56:32,505 200 pounds. 696 00:56:32,672 --> 00:56:34,549 This nigger ain't even average. 697 00:56:36,342 --> 00:56:38,636 512 pounds for Patsey. 698 00:56:38,803 --> 00:56:41,472 512! 699 00:56:42,390 --> 00:56:46,394 You menfolk got no shame letting Patsey out-pick you. 700 00:56:47,979 --> 00:56:51,524 The day ain't yet come she swung lower than 500 pounds. 701 00:56:54,861 --> 00:56:57,322 Queen of the fields, she is. 702 00:56:57,488 --> 00:56:58,531 "138 pounds..." 703 00:56:58,698 --> 00:57:00,450 I ain't done, Treach. 704 00:57:01,159 --> 00:57:04,746 Ain't I owed a minute to luxuriate on the work Patsey done? 705 00:57:05,288 --> 00:57:06,456 "Yes, sir." 706 00:57:10,585 --> 00:57:12,170 Damn queen. 707 00:57:13,671 --> 00:57:16,674 Born and bred to the field. 708 00:57:18,217 --> 00:57:20,595 A nigger among niggers. 709 00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:24,682 And God gave her to me. 710 00:57:28,853 --> 00:57:31,773 A lesson in the rewards of righteous living. 711 00:57:33,733 --> 00:57:35,944 All be observant to that. 712 00:57:37,070 --> 00:57:39,030 All! 713 00:57:39,864 --> 00:57:42,367 Now, Treach. Now speak. 714 00:57:43,076 --> 00:57:46,079 138 pounds for Phebe. 715 00:57:46,788 --> 00:57:49,874 Hit 145 yesterday. Pull her out. 716 00:57:50,708 --> 00:57:52,710 206 pounds for George. 717 00:57:53,127 --> 00:57:55,046 How much he pick yesterday? 718 00:57:56,089 --> 00:57:57,548 "229." 719 00:57:57,715 --> 00:57:58,883 Get him out. 720 00:57:59,050 --> 00:58:00,468 Come on, get. 721 00:58:02,387 --> 00:58:03,805 "Come on." 722 00:58:03,972 --> 00:58:05,765 "Come on, boy, move!" 723 00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:54,999 Get up! 724 00:59:55,166 --> 00:59:56,626 We dance tonight! Get up! 725 00:59:56,793 --> 00:59:58,294 Get your fiddle, Platt. Get up! 726 00:59:58,461 --> 01:00:00,505 Come on! Get, get, get! 727 01:00:00,671 --> 01:00:02,507 Come on, Platt. Come on! 728 01:00:14,310 --> 01:00:17,313 Come on, where's your merriment? Move your feet! 729 01:00:31,285 --> 01:00:32,411 "Sell her." 730 01:00:32,578 --> 01:00:33,579 "What's all this?" 731 01:00:33,746 --> 01:00:36,249 You will sell the negress. 732 01:00:36,415 --> 01:00:38,209 Sell little Pats? 733 01:00:38,376 --> 01:00:41,087 She picks with more vigor than any other nigger. 734 01:00:41,546 --> 01:00:42,386 Choose another to go. 735 01:00:42,421 --> 01:00:44,048 No other. 736 01:00:44,215 --> 01:00:45,550 Sell her. 737 01:00:45,925 --> 01:00:47,301 I will not. 738 01:00:48,553 --> 01:00:51,514 You will remove that black bitch from this property... 739 01:00:51,681 --> 01:00:54,600 or I'll take myself back to Cheneyville. 740 01:00:58,354 --> 01:01:00,648 Back to that hog's trough where I found you? 741 01:01:03,609 --> 01:01:07,488 Do not set yourself up against Patsey, my dear. 742 01:01:11,450 --> 01:01:13,244 Because I will rid myself of you 743 01:01:13,411 --> 01:01:15,246 well before I do away with her. 744 01:01:23,671 --> 01:01:24,714 What you looking at? 745 01:01:26,007 --> 01:01:27,675 Damn woman. 746 01:01:28,467 --> 01:01:30,553 I won't have my mood spoiled. 747 01:01:30,970 --> 01:01:32,805 I will not. 748 01:01:34,182 --> 01:01:35,022 Dance. 749 01:01:35,266 --> 01:01:36,893 Dance, I said! 750 01:01:41,439 --> 01:01:42,940 Come on! 751 01:01:43,107 --> 01:01:46,444 Pick it up, Platt. Play that fiddle, boy. 752 01:02:22,980 --> 01:02:24,106 "Platt." 753 01:02:25,983 --> 01:02:27,443 Yes, Mistress? 754 01:02:29,487 --> 01:02:32,031 "Can you find your way to Bartholomew's?" 755 01:02:32,657 --> 01:02:33,908 I can, ma'am. 756 01:02:34,325 --> 01:02:36,077 This is a list of goods and sundries. 757 01:02:36,244 --> 01:02:39,163 You will take it to be filled and return immediately. 758 01:02:39,330 --> 01:02:41,540 Take your tag. 759 01:02:41,707 --> 01:02:43,501 Tell Bartholomew to add it to our debt. 760 01:02:43,668 --> 01:02:44,669 Yes, Mistress. 761 01:02:46,837 --> 01:02:48,923 Where you from, Platt? 762 01:02:51,050 --> 01:02:52,301 I told you. 763 01:02:52,468 --> 01:02:54,220 Tell me again. 764 01:02:54,762 --> 01:02:55,763 Washington. 765 01:02:55,930 --> 01:02:56,889 Who were your master? 766 01:02:57,014 --> 01:02:57,974 Master name a Freeman. 767 01:02:58,140 --> 01:02:59,892 Was he a learned man? 768 01:03:00,726 --> 01:03:02,311 I suppose so. 769 01:03:02,478 --> 01:03:03,896 He learn you to read? 770 01:03:05,856 --> 01:03:07,984 A word, here or there. 771 01:03:08,367 --> 01:03:10,078 But I have no understanding of the written... 772 01:03:10,111 --> 01:03:12,321 Don't trouble yourself with it. 773 01:03:12,780 --> 01:03:16,284 Same as the rest. Master brought you here to work, that's all. 774 01:03:17,451 --> 01:03:20,121 Any more will earn you 100 lashes. 775 01:04:26,103 --> 01:04:27,104 Come here, boy. 776 01:04:30,107 --> 01:04:31,442 Come on. 777 01:04:47,625 --> 01:04:49,293 Where you going, boy? 778 01:04:49,460 --> 01:04:51,962 On my way to Bartholomew's. 779 01:04:52,129 --> 01:04:54,382 Sent by Mistress Epps. 780 01:04:58,177 --> 01:05:00,137 You best get there, then. 781 01:05:01,222 --> 01:05:02,807 Get there quick. 782 01:05:51,856 --> 01:05:53,190 Any trouble? 783 01:05:53,357 --> 01:05:55,860 No, ma'am. No trouble. 784 01:06:54,585 --> 01:06:56,295 Platt Epps, good Sunday morning. 785 01:06:56,462 --> 01:06:57,755 Good morning, Master Shaw. 786 01:06:57,922 --> 01:07:00,382 Master sent me to retrieve Patsey. May I approach? 787 01:07:00,549 --> 01:07:01,759 You may. 788 01:07:12,228 --> 01:07:13,854 Excuse me, Mistress Shaw. 789 01:07:14,271 --> 01:07:15,606 Nigger Platt. 790 01:07:15,773 --> 01:07:17,566 Patsey, Master wishes you to return. 791 01:07:17,733 --> 01:07:19,360 The Sabbath day, I is free to roam. 792 01:07:19,777 --> 01:07:22,530 Master sent me running to fetch you, said no time should be wasted. 793 01:07:22,780 --> 01:07:24,406 Drink of tea? 794 01:07:24,573 --> 01:07:26,450 Thank you, Mistress, but I don't dare. 795 01:07:26,617 --> 01:07:28,619 Would you know of Master Epps's consternation... 796 01:07:28,786 --> 01:07:31,956 to be any lessened with your timely return? 797 01:07:32,623 --> 01:07:34,917 Anger's his constant condition. 798 01:07:35,084 --> 01:07:35,884 Sit. 799 01:07:36,585 --> 01:07:38,629 Sit and drink the tea that I offered. 800 01:07:43,759 --> 01:07:45,886 What'n be Epps's concern? 801 01:07:47,763 --> 01:07:49,473 I'd rather not say. 802 01:07:50,057 --> 01:07:54,311 Oh, little gossip on the Sabbath be fine. All things in moderation. 803 01:07:56,063 --> 01:07:58,107 As you are aware... 804 01:07:58,274 --> 01:08:04,154 Master Epps is a man of hard countenance. 805 01:08:04,488 --> 01:08:06,657 You know he has ill feeling towards your husband. 806 01:08:06,824 --> 01:08:08,075 He do. 807 01:08:08,993 --> 01:08:11,078 Master Epps has somehow come to believe... 808 01:08:11,245 --> 01:08:15,249 that Master Shaw is something of a Lothario. 809 01:08:16,834 --> 01:08:19,295 A misguided belief, no doubt. 810 01:08:19,461 --> 01:08:20,629 No doubt... 811 01:08:20,796 --> 01:08:22,923 if not born out of truth itself. 812 01:08:25,175 --> 01:08:26,760 I meant no disrespect. 813 01:08:27,177 --> 01:08:28,971 He ain't heard you. 814 01:08:29,346 --> 01:08:31,599 I meant no disrespect to you, Mistress. 815 01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:38,147 Got no cause to worry for my sensibilities. 816 01:08:38,897 --> 01:08:43,485 I ain't felt the end of a lash in more years I can recall. 817 01:08:43,652 --> 01:08:45,738 I ain't worked a field, neither. 818 01:08:46,363 --> 01:08:48,157 Where once I served... 819 01:08:48,324 --> 01:08:51,243 now, I have others serving me. 820 01:08:51,869 --> 01:08:54,455 The cost to my current existence... 821 01:08:54,622 --> 01:08:57,750 be Master Shaw broadcasting his affection... 822 01:08:57,916 --> 01:09:00,753 and me enjoying the pantomime of his fidelity. 823 01:09:02,129 --> 01:09:06,550 If that what keep me from cotton picking niggers, that what it be. 824 01:09:06,717 --> 01:09:10,429 A small and reasonable price to be paid, for sure. 825 01:09:14,892 --> 01:09:17,436 I know what it like to be the object 826 01:09:17,561 --> 01:09:20,147 of Master's predilections and peculiarities. 827 01:09:21,315 --> 01:09:23,942 A lusty visit in the night... 828 01:09:24,109 --> 01:09:26,570 or a visitation with the whip. 829 01:09:27,946 --> 01:09:29,490 Take comfort, Patsey. 830 01:09:29,740 --> 01:09:31,867 The good Lord will manage Epps. 831 01:09:32,326 --> 01:09:36,872 In His own time, the good Lord will manage them all. 832 01:09:37,164 --> 01:09:40,417 The curse of the pharaohs were a poor example... 833 01:09:40,584 --> 01:09:43,504 of what wait for the plantation class. 834 01:09:48,926 --> 01:09:50,594 This is nice. 835 01:10:01,939 --> 01:10:04,483 "Pats. Patsey!" 836 01:10:04,650 --> 01:10:06,318 Do not look in his direction. Continue on. 837 01:10:06,944 --> 01:10:08,696 "- Patsey!" - Found her, Master. 838 01:10:09,196 --> 01:10:11,490 And brought her back, just as instructed. 839 01:10:14,076 --> 01:10:16,203 What did you just now tell her? 840 01:10:16,370 --> 01:10:18,038 What did you say to Pats? 841 01:10:19,206 --> 01:10:20,958 No words were spoken, none of consequence. 842 01:10:22,751 --> 01:10:24,336 You're a liar. 843 01:10:24,670 --> 01:10:26,630 You damn liar. 844 01:10:27,381 --> 01:10:29,675 I saw you talking with her. 845 01:10:30,634 --> 01:10:32,177 Tell me. 846 01:10:33,804 --> 01:10:35,514 I cannot speak of what did not occur. 847 01:10:35,806 --> 01:10:37,558 I'll cut your black throat! 848 01:10:37,725 --> 01:10:38,851 Master! 849 01:10:39,393 --> 01:10:40,811 You come here. 850 01:10:41,086 --> 01:10:42,446 - Master Epps. - I said come here! 851 01:10:42,479 --> 01:10:43,879 I brought her back, just like you... 852 01:10:45,232 --> 01:10:46,692 - Come here! - Master! 853 01:10:48,902 --> 01:10:49,903 Master. 854 01:10:52,573 --> 01:10:54,825 I got her, just as instructed. 855 01:10:56,201 --> 01:10:57,202 Master Epps! 856 01:10:57,494 --> 01:10:58,996 You stay away from Pats, boy. 857 01:11:05,210 --> 01:11:06,545 Master Epps. 858 01:11:33,363 --> 01:11:35,240 It's the Lord's day. 859 01:11:36,700 --> 01:11:39,578 Ain't nothing Christian in us carrying on like this. 860 01:11:46,543 --> 01:11:48,003 I concede to you. 861 01:11:50,714 --> 01:11:52,007 In the name of valor... 862 01:11:53,675 --> 01:11:54,885 help your master to his feet. 863 01:11:59,556 --> 01:12:00,682 I'm gonna kill you! 864 01:12:01,183 --> 01:12:02,684 What's the fuss? 865 01:12:02,851 --> 01:12:04,520 Master Epps believed Patsey and me 866 01:12:04,645 --> 01:12:06,313 to be in conversation when we were not. 867 01:12:06,330 --> 01:12:08,115 I tried to explain, but it's led to all this. 868 01:12:08,130 --> 01:12:08,964 What is it? 869 01:12:09,191 --> 01:12:12,027 You can't remain the Sabbath without her under your eye? 870 01:12:12,194 --> 01:12:13,946 You are a no-account bastard. 871 01:12:14,029 --> 01:12:16,031 A filthy, godless heathen. 872 01:12:16,198 --> 01:12:18,826 My bed is too holy for you to share. 873 01:12:18,992 --> 01:12:20,077 What's he been telling you? 874 01:12:20,244 --> 01:12:21,578 Of your misbegotten ways. 875 01:12:21,745 --> 01:12:23,747 And he would know what of anything? 876 01:12:24,873 --> 01:12:26,750 I ain't even spoken with him today. 877 01:12:27,543 --> 01:12:29,419 You lying nigger, Platt. 878 01:12:30,087 --> 01:12:31,171 Have I? 879 01:12:33,549 --> 01:12:34,758 Have I? 880 01:12:37,344 --> 01:12:39,763 There. There's all the truth he got. 881 01:12:40,764 --> 01:12:42,015 Damn nigger. 882 01:14:33,877 --> 01:14:35,128 Patsey. 883 01:16:31,912 --> 01:16:34,331 "A moment from the dancing." 884 01:16:35,499 --> 01:16:37,751 Come sample what I baked for y'all. 885 01:16:37,918 --> 01:16:40,670 Thank you, Mistress. 886 01:16:40,754 --> 01:16:41,835 Thank you, Mistress. 887 01:16:41,880 --> 01:16:44,007 There will be none for you, Patsey. 888 01:16:45,509 --> 01:16:47,010 You see that? 889 01:16:47,385 --> 01:16:50,180 You see that look of insolence she give me? 890 01:16:51,014 --> 01:16:52,516 I seen nothing but her turn away. 891 01:16:52,682 --> 01:16:54,893 Are you blind or ignorant? 892 01:16:55,060 --> 01:16:57,354 It was hot, hateful scorn. 893 01:16:57,521 --> 01:16:59,606 It filled that black face. 894 01:17:00,190 --> 01:17:01,430 You tell me you didn't see it... 895 01:17:01,525 --> 01:17:05,529 it's because you choose not to look, or are you saying I lie? 896 01:17:05,695 --> 01:17:08,031 Whatever it was, it passed. 897 01:17:08,698 --> 01:17:11,451 Is that how you are with the niggers? 898 01:17:12,035 --> 01:17:15,205 Letting every ill thought fester inside them? 899 01:17:15,956 --> 01:17:17,374 Look at them. 900 01:17:17,541 --> 01:17:19,709 They foul with it. 901 01:17:19,876 --> 01:17:21,962 They foul with their hate. 902 01:17:22,712 --> 01:17:26,716 You let it be, it's gonna come back to us in the dark of night. 903 01:17:26,883 --> 01:17:28,426 You want that? 904 01:17:29,136 --> 01:17:31,847 You want them black animals leave us 905 01:17:31,972 --> 01:17:34,641 gut like pigs in our own sleep? 906 01:17:35,058 --> 01:17:36,184 Oh... 907 01:17:36,810 --> 01:17:40,063 You are manless. 908 01:17:40,230 --> 01:17:42,899 A damn eunuch if there ever was. 909 01:17:43,483 --> 01:17:45,318 If you won't stand for me, I pray you'd 910 01:17:45,443 --> 01:17:47,237 at least be a credit to your own kind... 911 01:17:47,404 --> 01:17:49,614 and beat every foul thought from them. 912 01:18:00,083 --> 01:18:01,084 Beat it from them! 913 01:18:18,268 --> 01:18:19,102 Eat. 914 01:18:20,353 --> 01:18:21,980 Fill yourselves. 915 01:18:22,772 --> 01:18:24,024 And then we dance. 916 01:18:29,321 --> 01:18:31,698 I said, eat. 917 01:18:46,963 --> 01:18:47,964 "Platt." 918 01:18:49,633 --> 01:18:51,051 Platt, you awake? 919 01:18:54,846 --> 01:18:55,889 I am. 920 01:18:57,057 --> 01:18:59,226 I have a request. 921 01:18:59,726 --> 01:19:01,895 An act of kindness. 922 01:19:05,148 --> 01:19:07,859 I secreted it from the mistress. 923 01:19:09,569 --> 01:19:10,369 Return it. 924 01:19:10,487 --> 01:19:12,155 It yours, Platt. 925 01:19:13,490 --> 01:19:15,158 For what cause? 926 01:19:15,325 --> 01:19:19,496 All I ask, end my life. 927 01:19:20,705 --> 01:19:23,917 Take my body to the margin of the swamp. 928 01:19:24,084 --> 01:19:27,087 Take me by the throat, hold me low in the water... 929 01:19:27,254 --> 01:19:29,923 until I is still and without life. 930 01:19:30,507 --> 01:19:32,259 Bury me in a lonely place of dying. 931 01:19:32,425 --> 01:19:34,219 I will do no such thing. 932 01:19:35,428 --> 01:19:37,180 The gory detail with which you speak... 933 01:19:37,347 --> 01:19:39,849 I thought on it long and hard. 934 01:19:41,226 --> 01:19:43,186 It is melancholia. 935 01:19:43,770 --> 01:19:45,272 Nothing more. 936 01:19:46,439 --> 01:19:49,234 How can you fall into such despair? 937 01:19:49,401 --> 01:19:52,445 How can you not know? 938 01:19:54,572 --> 01:19:58,535 I ain't got no comfort in this life. 939 01:20:00,870 --> 01:20:04,874 If I can't buy mercy from you... 940 01:20:05,041 --> 01:20:07,127 I'll beg it. 941 01:20:07,294 --> 01:20:08,878 There are others. 942 01:20:09,921 --> 01:20:11,381 - Beg them. - I'm begging you. 943 01:20:11,548 --> 01:20:12,716 Why? 944 01:20:13,383 --> 01:20:17,220 Why would you consign me to damnation with such an ungodly request? 945 01:20:17,387 --> 01:20:19,389 There is God here! 946 01:20:20,223 --> 01:20:23,643 God is merciful... 947 01:20:23,810 --> 01:20:26,438 and he forgive merciful acts. 948 01:20:26,813 --> 01:20:29,316 Won't be no hell for you. 949 01:20:31,401 --> 01:20:32,652 Do it. 950 01:20:37,741 --> 01:20:40,785 Do what I ain't got the strength to do myself. 951 01:21:20,200 --> 01:21:21,951 "It's a plague." 952 01:21:22,952 --> 01:21:23,995 "It's cotton worm." 953 01:21:24,162 --> 01:21:26,956 "It's a plague. It's damn biblical." 954 01:21:28,166 --> 01:21:31,002 "Two seasons God done sent a plague to smite me." 955 01:21:33,463 --> 01:21:36,966 "What I done that God hates me so?" 956 01:21:43,139 --> 01:21:45,308 It's that godless lot. 957 01:21:47,185 --> 01:21:49,020 They brought this on me. 958 01:21:49,187 --> 01:21:51,481 I bring them God's word and heathens 959 01:21:51,606 --> 01:21:53,858 they are, they bring me God's scorn. 960 01:21:57,529 --> 01:21:58,530 "Damn!" 961 01:21:59,406 --> 01:22:00,407 "Damn you!" 962 01:22:01,825 --> 01:22:03,201 "Damn all y'all!" 963 01:22:30,979 --> 01:22:31,980 Judge. 964 01:22:32,272 --> 01:22:33,815 Mister Epps. 965 01:22:35,608 --> 01:22:39,404 I am deeply saddened to hear about your misfortune. 966 01:22:39,988 --> 01:22:42,073 Your price don't reflect your concern. 967 01:22:44,159 --> 01:22:45,160 Listen up. 968 01:22:45,827 --> 01:22:47,704 You're Judge Turner's for the season. 969 01:22:47,829 --> 01:22:49,664 More, if need be, until my crops return. 970 01:22:50,373 --> 01:22:52,750 Y'all bring no disrespect to me. 971 01:22:52,917 --> 01:22:55,837 Don't bring no biblical plagues to him, you hear? 972 01:22:56,004 --> 01:22:58,089 Or I'll take it out on your skin. 973 01:22:59,090 --> 01:23:00,508 Get out. 974 01:23:52,235 --> 01:23:54,404 Get off the porch. You ain't supposed to be on the porch. 975 01:23:54,437 --> 01:23:55,730 Get off the porch. 976 01:24:02,445 --> 01:24:03,780 Platt, is it? 977 01:24:04,280 --> 01:24:05,281 Yes, sir. 978 01:24:05,448 --> 01:24:08,451 You cultivate cane previously? 979 01:24:08,952 --> 01:24:10,119 No, sir, I have not. 980 01:24:10,286 --> 01:24:12,455 It comes to you quite naturally. 981 01:24:12,622 --> 01:24:13,623 Are you educated? 982 01:24:14,290 --> 01:24:17,669 No, sir. Niggers are hired to work, not read or write. 983 01:24:19,504 --> 01:24:21,130 You play the fiddle. 984 01:24:21,631 --> 01:24:23,424 Yes, sir. Yes, I do. 985 01:24:24,801 --> 01:24:26,970 Willard Yarner, a planter up the bayou... 986 01:24:27,136 --> 01:24:30,431 celebrates his anniversary in three weeks' time. 987 01:24:30,598 --> 01:24:32,850 I'll hold out your name to him. 988 01:24:33,017 --> 01:24:35,603 What you earn is yours to keep. 989 01:24:36,271 --> 01:24:37,355 Yes, sir. 990 01:24:37,981 --> 01:24:39,274 Mind yourself, Platt. 991 01:26:55,118 --> 01:26:57,245 Whoa! 992 01:27:03,835 --> 01:27:05,169 Joyous day. 993 01:27:05,962 --> 01:27:07,964 Joyous day. 994 01:27:08,631 --> 01:27:10,883 Dark times is behind us. 995 01:27:11,050 --> 01:27:14,470 Clean living and prayer done lifted the plague! 996 01:27:16,347 --> 01:27:19,726 As thick and white as New England snow. 997 01:27:21,561 --> 01:27:24,063 Now, my niggers is returned to me. 998 01:27:28,151 --> 01:27:31,070 Heard Judge Turner gave you favor. 999 01:27:35,074 --> 01:27:39,495 Did you beguile him, Platt, with your slick nigger ways? 1000 01:27:42,832 --> 01:27:44,917 You won't stand idle, boy. 1001 01:27:45,376 --> 01:27:47,336 Not on my land. 1002 01:27:50,173 --> 01:27:51,883 Much work to do! 1003 01:27:54,010 --> 01:27:57,013 Days of old long since, huh? 1004 01:28:03,936 --> 01:28:05,438 Joyous. 1005 01:28:05,605 --> 01:28:08,900 Joyous, indeed! Whoo! 1006 01:28:10,651 --> 01:28:12,904 Let's go find something sweet for you. Hmm? 1007 01:28:12,987 --> 01:28:14,155 Mmm-hmm. 1008 01:28:15,823 --> 01:28:16,623 Candy. 1009 01:28:16,783 --> 01:28:17,992 Candy? 1010 01:28:19,035 --> 01:28:21,412 ~~Oh, pick this cotton.~ 1011 01:28:21,579 --> 01:28:22,579 ~Pick this cotton.~ 1012 01:28:22,622 --> 01:28:24,916 ~~Oh, pick this cotton.~ 1013 01:28:25,082 --> 01:28:27,210 ~Oh, pick that cotton.~ 1014 01:28:27,376 --> 01:28:29,128 ~~Man ain't mean, boys.~ 1015 01:28:29,295 --> 01:28:30,838 ~Man ain't mean, boys.~ 1016 01:28:31,005 --> 01:28:33,007 ~~Man ain't mean, boys.~ 1017 01:28:33,174 --> 01:28:34,258 ~Man ain't mean.~ 1018 01:28:34,425 --> 01:28:36,886 ~~Oh, work this cotton.~ 1019 01:28:37,053 --> 01:28:38,054 ~Work this cotton.~ 1020 01:28:38,221 --> 01:28:40,973 ~~Oh, work this cotton.~ 1021 01:28:41,140 --> 01:28:42,266 ~Work this cotton.~ 1022 01:28:42,433 --> 01:28:45,019 ~~Oh, work ain't hard, boys.~ 1023 01:28:45,520 --> 01:28:46,521 "George." 1024 01:28:46,687 --> 01:28:48,439 "180 pounds." 1025 01:28:48,856 --> 01:28:50,191 Patsey. 1026 01:28:50,358 --> 01:28:52,777 520 pounds for Patsey. 1027 01:28:52,944 --> 01:28:55,738 That's my girl. Don't ever let me down. 1028 01:28:56,072 --> 01:28:57,281 Platt? 1029 01:28:57,448 --> 01:28:59,700 160 pounds. 1030 01:29:01,452 --> 01:29:03,037 Armsby? 1031 01:29:03,579 --> 01:29:05,498 64 pounds. 1032 01:29:10,336 --> 01:29:12,296 A good day's labor would average 200 pounds. 1033 01:29:12,588 --> 01:29:13,840 Yes, sir. 1034 01:29:18,511 --> 01:29:21,222 I'm sure in time, you'll develop as a picker. 1035 01:29:21,639 --> 01:29:23,641 But it takes effort, boy. 1036 01:29:25,184 --> 01:29:27,311 Put some damn effort into it. 1037 01:29:27,478 --> 01:29:28,278 Yes, sir. 1038 01:29:28,312 --> 01:29:30,398 Take them out, get to whipping. 1039 01:29:36,904 --> 01:29:38,948 "It's a tragedy." 1040 01:29:40,074 --> 01:29:41,826 How does such come to pass? 1041 01:29:42,827 --> 01:29:46,038 Working a field and picking cotton like a lowly hand. 1042 01:29:46,581 --> 01:29:48,958 I'm of a damn sight better station. 1043 01:29:50,001 --> 01:29:52,086 I worked as an overseer, you know. 1044 01:29:52,253 --> 01:29:53,671 I did not know, sir. 1045 01:29:53,838 --> 01:29:55,339 Not «sir». 1046 01:29:56,007 --> 01:29:57,842 Just «Armsby». 1047 01:29:58,718 --> 01:30:00,887 I'm not owed more than any other in the field. 1048 01:30:01,053 --> 01:30:04,015 How did you arrive at such a place, if I may ask? 1049 01:30:04,432 --> 01:30:07,018 Ask, it's just conversation. 1050 01:30:09,145 --> 01:30:12,106 I became a little too dependent on the whiskey... 1051 01:30:12,273 --> 01:30:14,734 a little too undependable on the job. 1052 01:30:15,985 --> 01:30:18,779 Now, before you say I'm just a sorry drunkard... 1053 01:30:18,946 --> 01:30:21,073 let me state my case. 1054 01:30:21,991 --> 01:30:24,118 As reliable employment as overseeing is, 1055 01:30:24,243 --> 01:30:26,329 it is no easy chore on the spirit. 1056 01:30:27,163 --> 01:30:29,999 I say, no man of conscious... 1057 01:30:30,166 --> 01:30:32,627 can take the lash to another human day in and day out... 1058 01:30:32,793 --> 01:30:35,171 without shredding at his own self. 1059 01:30:36,172 --> 01:30:38,341 Takes him to a place... 1060 01:30:38,507 --> 01:30:43,012 where he either makes excuses within his mind to be unaffected... 1061 01:30:43,512 --> 01:30:46,849 or he finds some way to trample his guilty sensations. 1062 01:30:47,767 --> 01:30:49,352 So, I trampled. 1063 01:30:49,518 --> 01:30:51,437 With frequency. 1064 01:30:52,980 --> 01:30:56,108 I gave in to tales of wealth and prosperity. 1065 01:30:59,362 --> 01:31:03,866 But such profitable outcomes are reserved for plantation masters. 1066 01:31:04,492 --> 01:31:07,662 It's the lot of the rest of us to serve. 1067 01:31:09,288 --> 01:31:14,669 Now, all I want is to earn a decent wage and get myself home. 1068 01:31:46,867 --> 01:31:48,953 The proceeds of my fiddling performances. 1069 01:31:49,787 --> 01:31:53,916 Just a few picayunes, but all I have in the world. 1070 01:31:54,542 --> 01:31:57,920 I promise them to you if you will do me the favor I require. 1071 01:31:58,087 --> 01:32:02,133 But I beg you not to expose me if you cannot grant the request. 1072 01:32:02,675 --> 01:32:03,759 Uh... 1073 01:32:04,468 --> 01:32:06,095 What is it you ask? 1074 01:32:06,262 --> 01:32:08,431 First, your word, sir. 1075 01:32:09,140 --> 01:32:10,141 On my honor. 1076 01:32:12,268 --> 01:32:14,270 It's a simple enough request. 1077 01:32:15,646 --> 01:32:17,440 I only ask that you deposit a letter 1078 01:32:17,565 --> 01:32:19,316 at the post office in Marksville... 1079 01:32:19,483 --> 01:32:22,945 and that you keep the action an inviolable secret forever. 1080 01:32:26,157 --> 01:32:28,617 A patron is what I require, sir. 1081 01:32:35,166 --> 01:32:36,000 I'll do it. 1082 01:32:37,126 --> 01:32:39,545 And I'll accept whatever payment's offered. 1083 01:32:42,298 --> 01:32:44,842 To assist you, I put my own self at risk. 1084 01:32:45,634 --> 01:32:47,470 I will do so... 1085 01:32:47,636 --> 01:32:50,806 but fair compensation is all I ask. 1086 01:33:00,316 --> 01:33:02,234 Draw up your letter. 1087 01:33:02,401 --> 01:33:04,862 We'll meet again in two days? 1088 01:33:06,572 --> 01:33:08,365 In two days. 1089 01:33:11,160 --> 01:33:12,661 Thank you. 1090 01:34:30,281 --> 01:34:32,074 Well, boy... 1091 01:34:32,241 --> 01:34:37,079 I understand I got a learned nigger that writes letters. 1092 01:34:38,164 --> 01:34:41,250 Tries to get white fellas to mail them. 1093 01:34:47,590 --> 01:34:50,259 Armsby told me today... 1094 01:34:50,426 --> 01:34:52,928 the devil was among my niggers. 1095 01:34:54,597 --> 01:34:57,558 That I had one that needed watching... 1096 01:34:57,725 --> 01:35:00,060 or he would run away. 1097 01:35:02,021 --> 01:35:03,898 When I asked him why... 1098 01:35:04,773 --> 01:35:08,277 he said you come over to him... 1099 01:35:08,444 --> 01:35:11,280 waked him up in the middle of the night... 1100 01:35:11,447 --> 01:35:14,116 and wanted him to carry a letter... 1101 01:35:15,367 --> 01:35:17,119 to Marksville. 1102 01:35:22,208 --> 01:35:24,627 What do you got to say to that? 1103 01:35:27,421 --> 01:35:29,215 There's no truth to it. 1104 01:35:30,132 --> 01:35:31,634 You say. 1105 01:35:33,302 --> 01:35:36,096 How could I write a letter without ink or paper? 1106 01:35:37,264 --> 01:35:40,768 Who am I gonna write to? I got no friends living as I know of. 1107 01:35:41,894 --> 01:35:43,562 That Armsby... 1108 01:35:44,980 --> 01:35:48,484 That Armsby is a lying, drunken fellow. 1109 01:35:50,319 --> 01:35:53,239 Didn't he want you to hire him as an overseer? 1110 01:35:55,115 --> 01:35:56,742 Well, that's it. 1111 01:35:58,118 --> 01:36:00,319 He wants to make you believe we're all gonna run away... 1112 01:36:00,329 --> 01:36:02,831 so you'll hire him as an overseer. 1113 01:36:04,250 --> 01:36:06,710 He believes you're a soft soap. 1114 01:36:07,586 --> 01:36:10,047 And he's given to such talk. 1115 01:36:10,881 --> 01:36:14,677 Made this story out of whole cloth... 1116 01:36:15,219 --> 01:36:17,554 because he wants a situation. 1117 01:36:22,851 --> 01:36:25,396 It's all a lie, Master. 1118 01:36:30,859 --> 01:36:32,861 It's all a lie. 1119 01:36:41,036 --> 01:36:43,038 I'll be damned. 1120 01:36:49,086 --> 01:36:51,839 Were he not free and white, Platt. 1121 01:36:53,882 --> 01:36:56,260 Were he not free and white. 1122 01:38:14,171 --> 01:38:16,256 ~~Sun gonna set here. ~ 1123 01:38:16,423 --> 01:38:18,175 ~Under the mountain.~ 1124 01:38:18,342 --> 01:38:20,386 ~~Sun gonna set here.~ 1125 01:38:20,552 --> 01:38:22,262 ~Under the mountain.~ 1126 01:38:22,429 --> 01:38:24,306 ~~Sun gonna set here.~ 1127 01:38:24,473 --> 01:38:26,433 ~Under the mountain~ 1128 01:38:27,601 --> 01:38:29,061 "Edward!" 1129 01:38:29,228 --> 01:38:30,854 "Get him water." 1130 01:38:38,195 --> 01:38:39,655 Get up! 1131 01:38:40,572 --> 01:38:41,824 Get up! 1132 01:38:48,497 --> 01:38:49,873 Nigger, get up! 1133 01:38:56,004 --> 01:38:58,257 "What you looking at, boy?" 1134 01:38:59,550 --> 01:39:01,677 "Keep picking, boy!" 1135 01:39:14,606 --> 01:39:18,193 I just wanna say something about Uncle Abram. 1136 01:39:22,448 --> 01:39:24,533 He was a good man... 1137 01:39:24,867 --> 01:39:28,120 "and he always looked out for us ever since we were little." 1138 01:39:28,912 --> 01:39:30,539 "God love him." 1139 01:39:31,206 --> 01:39:33,792 "God bless him. God keep him." 1140 01:39:34,877 --> 01:39:36,253 Amen. 1141 01:39:51,560 --> 01:39:54,938 ~~Went down to the River Jordan.~ 1142 01:39:55,105 --> 01:39:58,275 ~~Where John baptized three.~ 1143 01:39:58,442 --> 01:40:01,445 ~~When I woke the devil in hell.~ 1144 01:40:01,612 --> 01:40:04,406 ~~Said Johnny baptized me.~ 1145 01:40:04,573 --> 01:40:08,076 ~~I said roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1146 01:40:08,577 --> 01:40:11,079 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1147 01:40:11,246 --> 01:40:14,249 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 1148 01:40:14,416 --> 01:40:16,960 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 1149 01:40:17,127 --> 01:40:20,506 ~~Well, some say John was a Baptist.~ 1150 01:40:20,672 --> 01:40:23,258 ~~Some say John was a Jew.~ 1151 01:40:23,425 --> 01:40:25,802 ~~But I say John was a preacher~ 1152 01:40:25,969 --> 01:40:28,931 ~~'Cause my Bible says so too.~ 1153 01:40:29,097 --> 01:40:32,601 ~~I said roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1154 01:40:32,768 --> 01:40:35,270 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1155 01:40:35,437 --> 01:40:38,440 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 1156 01:40:38,607 --> 01:40:40,359 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 1157 01:40:40,526 --> 01:40:41,944 ~~Hallelujah.~ 1158 01:40:42,110 --> 01:40:44,821 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1159 01:40:44,988 --> 01:40:47,616 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1160 01:40:47,783 --> 01:40:50,827 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 1161 01:40:50,994 --> 01:40:52,829 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 1162 01:40:52,996 --> 01:40:54,206 ~~Hallelujah.~ 1163 01:40:54,373 --> 01:40:57,292 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1164 01:40:57,459 --> 01:41:00,128 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1165 01:41:00,295 --> 01:41:03,340 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 1166 01:41:03,507 --> 01:41:05,509 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 1167 01:41:05,676 --> 01:41:07,010 ~~Everybody say.~ 1168 01:41:07,177 --> 01:41:10,055 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1169 01:41:10,222 --> 01:41:12,641 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1170 01:41:12,808 --> 01:41:15,811 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 1171 01:41:15,978 --> 01:41:17,854 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 1172 01:41:18,021 --> 01:41:19,147 ~~Oh, children.~ 1173 01:41:19,314 --> 01:41:22,150 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1174 01:41:22,317 --> 01:41:24,736 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1175 01:41:24,903 --> 01:41:27,823 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 1176 01:41:27,990 --> 01:41:29,741 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 1177 01:41:29,908 --> 01:41:31,243 ~~Hallelujah.~ 1178 01:41:31,410 --> 01:41:34,162 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1179 01:41:34,329 --> 01:41:36,832 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1180 01:41:36,999 --> 01:41:39,876 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 1181 01:41:40,043 --> 01:41:42,504 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 1182 01:42:02,357 --> 01:42:04,109 "Right to the end." 1183 01:42:12,618 --> 01:42:14,161 Hey, Bass. 1184 01:42:15,078 --> 01:42:16,538 Oh, no, no, no. 1185 01:42:16,705 --> 01:42:19,166 No shame in taking respite from the heat. 1186 01:42:19,333 --> 01:42:21,043 Drink, shade. 1187 01:42:21,209 --> 01:42:23,795 It's ungodly for travelers, hearty or otherwise. 1188 01:42:28,884 --> 01:42:29,968 What's funny? 1189 01:42:30,135 --> 01:42:33,847 Epps, I merely mean to finish the work at hand, as requested. 1190 01:42:34,014 --> 01:42:35,807 And as paid for. 1191 01:42:35,974 --> 01:42:37,768 If something rubs you wrongly... 1192 01:42:37,934 --> 01:42:40,854 I offer you the opportunity to speak on it. 1193 01:42:44,107 --> 01:42:46,735 You ask plainly, so I will tell you plainly. 1194 01:42:47,527 --> 01:42:51,740 What amused me just then was your concern for my well-being in this heat... 1195 01:42:51,990 --> 01:42:54,951 when, quite frankly, the condition of your laborers... 1196 01:42:55,118 --> 01:42:56,318 «The condition of my laborers?» 1197 01:42:56,411 --> 01:42:58,413 "It is horrid. It's all wrong." 1198 01:42:58,580 --> 01:42:59,831 "All wrong, Mr. Epps." 1199 01:42:59,998 --> 01:43:02,250 They ain't hired help. 1200 01:43:02,417 --> 01:43:03,460 They're my property. 1201 01:43:04,294 --> 01:43:05,295 You say that with pride. 1202 01:43:05,462 --> 01:43:07,130 I say it as fact. 1203 01:43:09,216 --> 01:43:11,885 If this conversation concerns what is factual 1204 01:43:12,010 --> 01:43:14,680 and what is not, then it must be said... 1205 01:43:14,846 --> 01:43:17,974 that there is no justice nor righteousness in their slavery. 1206 01:43:18,809 --> 01:43:20,936 But you do open up an interesting question. 1207 01:43:22,104 --> 01:43:23,522 What right have you to your niggers, 1208 01:43:23,647 --> 01:43:25,023 when you come down to the point? 1209 01:43:25,440 --> 01:43:26,733 - What right? - Mmm. 1210 01:43:27,359 --> 01:43:30,195 I bought them. I paid for them. 1211 01:43:30,570 --> 01:43:32,322 Of course you did, and the law says 1212 01:43:32,447 --> 01:43:34,241 you have the right to hold a nigger. 1213 01:43:34,408 --> 01:43:36,368 But begging the law's pardon, it lies. 1214 01:43:36,993 --> 01:43:39,037 Suppose they pass a law taking away 1215 01:43:39,162 --> 01:43:41,206 your liberty, making you a slave. 1216 01:43:41,373 --> 01:43:42,499 Suppose. 1217 01:43:42,666 --> 01:43:44,292 That ain't a supposable case. 1218 01:43:44,459 --> 01:43:45,877 Laws change, Epps. 1219 01:43:46,044 --> 01:43:48,130 Universal truths are constant. 1220 01:43:48,296 --> 01:43:51,133 It is a fact, a plain and simple fact... 1221 01:43:51,299 --> 01:43:54,511 that what is true and right is true and right for all. 1222 01:43:54,678 --> 01:43:56,680 White and black alike. 1223 01:43:58,306 --> 01:44:00,142 You comparing me to a nigger, Bass? 1224 01:44:00,308 --> 01:44:03,145 I'm only asking, in the eyes of God, what is the difference? 1225 01:44:05,147 --> 01:44:06,867 You might as well ask what the difference is 1226 01:44:06,940 --> 01:44:09,317 between a white man and a baboon. 1227 01:44:10,527 --> 01:44:13,321 I seen one of them critters in Orleans. 1228 01:44:13,488 --> 01:44:15,866 Know just as much as any nigger I got. 1229 01:44:16,158 --> 01:44:17,826 "Listen, Epps." 1230 01:44:17,993 --> 01:44:19,661 "These niggers are human beings." 1231 01:44:19,828 --> 01:44:22,188 "If they are allowed to climb no higher than brute animals..." 1232 01:44:22,330 --> 01:44:25,000 "you and men like you will have to answer for it." 1233 01:44:26,001 --> 01:44:28,170 There is an ill, Mr. Epps... 1234 01:44:28,336 --> 01:44:30,714 a fearful ill resting upon this nation. 1235 01:44:31,339 --> 01:44:34,342 And there will be a day of reckoning yet. 1236 01:44:36,928 --> 01:44:39,598 You like to hear yourself talk, Bass... 1237 01:44:39,765 --> 01:44:41,850 better than any man I know of. 1238 01:44:42,934 --> 01:44:46,605 You'd argue that black was white, or white, black... 1239 01:44:46,772 --> 01:44:49,024 if anybody would contradict you. 1240 01:44:51,026 --> 01:44:54,404 A fine supposition if you lived among Yankees in New-England. 1241 01:44:54,571 --> 01:44:56,239 But you don't. 1242 01:44:59,701 --> 01:45:01,870 You most assuredly do not. 1243 01:45:27,395 --> 01:45:29,773 "I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!" 1244 01:45:32,150 --> 01:45:33,568 "Patsey!" 1245 01:45:35,570 --> 01:45:36,947 "Pats!" 1246 01:45:37,656 --> 01:45:39,074 "Where is she?" 1247 01:45:39,825 --> 01:45:41,243 "Where's Pats?" 1248 01:45:41,409 --> 01:45:43,745 "Where is she, damn it? Where is she?" 1249 01:45:45,705 --> 01:45:48,583 Phebs, where is she? Where is Patsey? Where is she? 1250 01:45:48,750 --> 01:45:50,043 What you standing there for? 1251 01:45:50,210 --> 01:45:51,410 We know nothing of her, Master. 1252 01:45:51,420 --> 01:45:53,072 Know nothing of what? We know nothing of... 1253 01:45:53,090 --> 01:45:55,467 Of what? Where has she gone? 1254 01:45:55,590 --> 01:45:56,591 She run off, ain't she? 1255 01:45:56,758 --> 01:45:57,759 I don't know, Master. 1256 01:45:57,926 --> 01:45:59,469 - Where is she? - I don't know, Master. 1257 01:45:59,636 --> 01:46:02,597 You know, you know, you know! 1258 01:46:02,764 --> 01:46:03,598 You know! 1259 01:46:03,765 --> 01:46:05,433 No, I don't! 1260 01:46:07,602 --> 01:46:09,646 You miserable black dogs. 1261 01:46:09,813 --> 01:46:12,274 You stand like the deaf and dumb. 1262 01:46:14,067 --> 01:46:15,443 Speak! 1263 01:46:30,625 --> 01:46:32,294 She gone. 1264 01:46:34,671 --> 01:46:36,631 My Pats is gone. 1265 01:46:53,523 --> 01:46:55,483 Run off? Run off, did you? 1266 01:46:55,650 --> 01:46:57,650 Master Epps... You miserable wench. Where you been? 1267 01:46:57,777 --> 01:46:59,154 I been nowhere! 1268 01:46:59,321 --> 01:47:00,405 Lies to your misdeeds! 1269 01:47:00,572 --> 01:47:01,893 The Sabbath day, Master. I took me 1270 01:47:01,948 --> 01:47:03,188 a walk to commune with the Lord. 1271 01:47:03,325 --> 01:47:04,725 Bring the Lord into your deceptions? 1272 01:47:04,784 --> 01:47:06,224 You're coming from Shaw's plantation. 1273 01:47:06,286 --> 01:47:07,579 - No! - Master Epps. 1274 01:47:08,121 --> 01:47:09,122 Now, you speak? 1275 01:47:09,189 --> 01:47:11,466 Now that you want to add to her lies, you find your tongue! 1276 01:47:11,499 --> 01:47:13,752 I went to Master Shaw's plantation. 1277 01:47:13,835 --> 01:47:15,337 Ah! You admit it. 1278 01:47:15,670 --> 01:47:16,963 Yes, freely. 1279 01:47:17,130 --> 01:47:18,965 And you know why? 1280 01:47:19,132 --> 01:47:21,676 I got this from Mistress Shaw. 1281 01:47:22,177 --> 01:47:26,181 Mistress Epps won't even grant me no soap to clean with. 1282 01:47:26,765 --> 01:47:30,352 I stink so much, I make myself gag! 1283 01:47:33,605 --> 01:47:36,858 500 pounds of cotton. 1284 01:47:37,025 --> 01:47:39,027 Day in, day out! 1285 01:47:39,194 --> 01:47:41,029 More than any man here. 1286 01:47:41,196 --> 01:47:43,281 And for that, I will be clean. 1287 01:47:43,448 --> 01:47:45,158 That's all I ask. 1288 01:47:45,325 --> 01:47:48,370 This, here, what I went to Shaw's for. 1289 01:47:49,829 --> 01:47:50,872 Liar. 1290 01:47:51,039 --> 01:47:54,626 The Lord knows that's all! 1291 01:47:54,793 --> 01:47:55,710 You're a liar. 1292 01:47:55,877 --> 01:47:59,297 And you, blind with your own covetousness! 1293 01:48:00,173 --> 01:48:02,300 I don't lie, Master. 1294 01:48:02,801 --> 01:48:06,054 If you kill me, I'll stick to that. 1295 01:48:06,805 --> 01:48:08,390 I'll fetch you down. 1296 01:48:09,224 --> 01:48:11,267 I'll learn you to go to Shaw's. 1297 01:48:11,726 --> 01:48:12,811 Treach. 1298 01:48:14,854 --> 01:48:16,356 Run and fetch some line. 1299 01:48:16,523 --> 01:48:17,691 Edward! 1300 01:48:19,317 --> 01:48:22,320 Strip her. Strike her bare and lash her to the post. 1301 01:48:40,755 --> 01:48:42,841 You done this to yourself, Pats. 1302 01:48:54,602 --> 01:48:55,770 "Do it." 1303 01:49:00,859 --> 01:49:03,069 "Strike the life from her." 1304 01:49:09,284 --> 01:49:10,702 Beat her. 1305 01:49:12,328 --> 01:49:14,581 Give her the whip! Give it all to her! 1306 01:49:15,874 --> 01:49:18,835 Platt, you come here and you beat her now. 1307 01:49:21,296 --> 01:49:22,380 Platt! 1308 01:49:25,175 --> 01:49:26,426 Come here! 1309 01:49:28,178 --> 01:49:30,346 "I'd rather it you, Platt!" 1310 01:49:31,306 --> 01:49:33,058 You strike her. 1311 01:49:33,933 --> 01:49:35,351 Strike her. 1312 01:49:57,665 --> 01:49:59,250 He pantomimes. 1313 01:49:59,876 --> 01:50:02,295 There's barely a welt on her. 1314 01:50:02,754 --> 01:50:05,131 That's what your niggers make of you... 1315 01:50:05,298 --> 01:50:07,467 a fool for the taking. 1316 01:50:11,971 --> 01:50:14,390 "Strike her, Platt. Strike her!" 1317 01:50:31,116 --> 01:50:32,534 You will strike her. 1318 01:50:32,700 --> 01:50:34,410 You will strike her until her flesh 1319 01:50:34,536 --> 01:50:36,246 is rent and meat and blood flow equal... 1320 01:50:36,412 --> 01:50:39,207 or I will kill every nigger in my sight. 1321 01:50:39,374 --> 01:50:40,875 You understand me? 1322 01:50:41,042 --> 01:50:43,878 Strike her! Strike her! 1323 01:51:27,130 --> 01:51:29,924 "Until I say no more. I ain't said nothing!" 1324 01:51:39,851 --> 01:51:41,144 Give me the whip! 1325 01:51:42,145 --> 01:51:43,354 Get up! 1326 01:52:02,790 --> 01:52:04,459 Thou devil! 1327 01:52:07,003 --> 01:52:08,546 Sooner or later... 1328 01:52:09,214 --> 01:52:11,799 somewhere in the course of eternal 1329 01:52:11,966 --> 01:52:14,552 justice, thou shalt answer for this sin! 1330 01:52:19,974 --> 01:52:23,019 Sin? There is no sin. 1331 01:52:24,479 --> 01:52:27,398 Man does how he pleases with his property. 1332 01:52:33,029 --> 01:52:36,741 At the moment, Platt, I'm of great pleasure. 1333 01:52:36,908 --> 01:52:38,743 You be goddamn careful I don't want to 1334 01:52:38,868 --> 01:52:40,662 come and lighten my mood no further. 1335 01:54:58,966 --> 01:55:00,468 Master Bass. 1336 01:55:00,760 --> 01:55:03,930 I want to ask you what part of the country you come from. 1337 01:55:05,139 --> 01:55:07,016 No part of this land. 1338 01:55:08,101 --> 01:55:10,144 I originate from Canada. 1339 01:55:11,145 --> 01:55:12,688 Now, guess where that is. 1340 01:55:12,855 --> 01:55:14,774 I know where Canada is. 1341 01:55:15,608 --> 01:55:17,360 I've been there myself. 1342 01:55:22,281 --> 01:55:24,117 Montreal... 1343 01:55:24,283 --> 01:55:27,328 and Kingston and Queenston and a great many places. 1344 01:55:27,495 --> 01:55:29,330 Well-traveled for a slave. 1345 01:55:29,497 --> 01:55:30,540 How came you here? 1346 01:55:32,625 --> 01:55:34,293 Master Bass... 1347 01:55:36,629 --> 01:55:40,007 if justice had been done, I never would have been here. 1348 01:55:44,804 --> 01:55:46,139 How's this? 1349 01:55:47,181 --> 01:55:48,224 Tell me all. 1350 01:55:53,688 --> 01:55:55,857 I'm afraid to tell you. 1351 01:55:57,525 --> 01:56:00,653 Every word you speak is a profound secret. 1352 01:56:08,202 --> 01:56:09,871 Your story... 1353 01:56:10,538 --> 01:56:11,998 it is amazing. 1354 01:56:12,165 --> 01:56:14,167 And in no good way. 1355 01:56:18,921 --> 01:56:22,550 Do you believe, sir, in justice, as you said? 1356 01:56:23,718 --> 01:56:25,261 I do. 1357 01:56:25,428 --> 01:56:29,223 That slavery is an evil that should befall none? 1358 01:56:32,059 --> 01:56:33,853 I believe so. 1359 01:56:34,020 --> 01:56:35,938 If you truly do... 1360 01:56:37,732 --> 01:56:40,776 then I ask, I beg... 1361 01:56:43,446 --> 01:56:46,240 that you write my friends in the north... 1362 01:56:46,616 --> 01:56:49,410 acquainting them of my situation... 1363 01:56:50,786 --> 01:56:55,082 and beseeching them to forward free papers. 1364 01:57:00,087 --> 01:57:01,756 It would be... 1365 01:57:04,759 --> 01:57:07,595 an unspeakable happiness... 1366 01:57:09,222 --> 01:57:11,265 to see my wife... 1367 01:57:13,768 --> 01:57:16,062 and my family again. 1368 01:57:21,943 --> 01:57:25,321 I traveled this country for the best part of 20 years... 1369 01:57:25,988 --> 01:57:28,908 and my freedom is everything. 1370 01:57:29,075 --> 01:57:33,412 The fact that I can walk out of here tomorrow brings me great pleasure. 1371 01:57:36,040 --> 01:57:38,292 My life doesn't mean much to anyone. 1372 01:57:39,627 --> 01:57:43,297 It seems yours might mean a lot to a whole lot of people. 1373 01:57:45,049 --> 01:57:49,512 But what you ask of me, sir, scares me. 1374 01:57:51,681 --> 01:57:54,517 And I must say, lam afraid. 1375 01:57:55,643 --> 01:57:57,979 Not just for you, but for me. 1376 01:58:07,154 --> 01:58:09,323 I will write your letter, sir. 1377 01:58:09,765 --> 01:58:11,084 And if it brings you your freedom, 1378 01:58:11,117 --> 01:58:12,357 it will be more than a pleasure. 1379 01:58:12,368 --> 01:58:14,328 It will have been my duty. 1380 01:58:14,495 --> 01:58:17,498 Now, would you kindly hand me those shingles? 1381 02:00:52,069 --> 02:00:53,237 "Platt!" 1382 02:00:53,654 --> 02:00:55,698 "Where's the boy called Platt?" 1383 02:00:58,993 --> 02:01:00,369 Come here, boy. 1384 02:01:22,516 --> 02:01:24,268 "Your name is Platt, is it?" 1385 02:01:26,061 --> 02:01:27,354 Yes, sir. 1386 02:01:28,022 --> 02:01:29,565 "You know that man?" 1387 02:01:47,374 --> 02:01:48,959 Mr. Parker. 1388 02:01:49,627 --> 02:01:51,128 "Say again?" 1389 02:01:53,172 --> 02:01:55,007 Mr. Parker. 1390 02:01:55,466 --> 02:01:58,135 "That man received a letter compiling many accusations." 1391 02:01:58,302 --> 02:02:00,137 You look me in the eye... 1392 02:02:00,805 --> 02:02:02,485 and on your life, you answer me truthfully. 1393 02:02:02,556 --> 02:02:04,225 "Have you any other name than Platt?" 1394 02:02:04,391 --> 02:02:06,393 Solomon Northup is my name. 1395 02:02:06,560 --> 02:02:07,760 "Sheriff, what's all this?" 1396 02:02:07,895 --> 02:02:09,271 It's official business. 1397 02:02:09,438 --> 02:02:10,731 "My nigger, my business." 1398 02:02:10,898 --> 02:02:12,525 Your business waits. 1399 02:02:12,691 --> 02:02:13,776 Tell me of your family. 1400 02:02:14,109 --> 02:02:15,528 I have a wife, two children. 1401 02:02:15,694 --> 02:02:16,570 What the hell? 1402 02:02:16,580 --> 02:02:18,783 "- What are your children's names?" - Margaret and Alonzo. 1403 02:02:18,790 --> 02:02:20,633 "What was your wife's name before her marriage?" 1404 02:02:20,640 --> 02:02:21,841 Anne Hampton. I am who I say. 1405 02:02:21,850 --> 02:02:22,851 Where you going, Platt? 1406 02:02:23,452 --> 02:02:25,372 Who authorized you to interfere with my property? 1407 02:02:25,496 --> 02:02:26,580 My authority. 1408 02:02:26,747 --> 02:02:28,082 Platt, you come back here. Platt! 1409 02:02:28,791 --> 02:02:29,917 You come back here, boy. 1410 02:02:30,918 --> 02:02:32,086 Boy. 1411 02:02:34,547 --> 02:02:36,966 - You unhand him. - Platt is my nigger! 1412 02:02:37,132 --> 02:02:38,551 He is Mr. Solomon Northup. 1413 02:02:38,717 --> 02:02:39,593 You say. 1414 02:02:39,760 --> 02:02:42,221 You come here, unfamiliar to me, and make claims. 1415 02:02:42,388 --> 02:02:44,108 I get no doubts. The man is Solomon Northup. 1416 02:02:44,139 --> 02:02:46,475 The hell he is! He's my nigger, and I'll fight you for him! 1417 02:02:46,642 --> 02:02:47,935 As is your right. 1418 02:02:48,102 --> 02:02:50,303 As it will be my pleasure to bankrupt you in the courts. 1419 02:02:50,437 --> 02:02:52,773 Your decision. Unhand him. 1420 02:02:53,507 --> 02:02:55,117 I know you had some hand in this, Platt. 1421 02:02:55,150 --> 02:02:56,610 I'm gonna get to the bottom of it. 1422 02:02:56,777 --> 02:02:57,903 Pay him no mind. 1423 02:02:58,070 --> 02:02:59,446 I paid good money for this nigger. 1424 02:02:59,572 --> 02:03:00,948 Courthouse got papers to prove it! 1425 02:03:01,115 --> 02:03:02,908 And we got papers proving he's free! 1426 02:03:03,075 --> 02:03:04,883 I own you. You belong to me. You hear me, Platt? 1427 02:03:04,952 --> 02:03:06,078 Unhand him! 1428 02:03:06,245 --> 02:03:08,455 You'll have 200 stripes across your back by sundown! 1429 02:03:08,622 --> 02:03:09,748 Platt! 1430 02:03:09,957 --> 02:03:11,792 "Get my horse, Treach." 1431 02:03:20,926 --> 02:03:22,136 Get away from him, Pats. 1432 02:03:23,470 --> 02:03:25,306 I'm gonna be seeing you real soon. 1433 02:03:25,472 --> 02:03:27,433 Solomon, we need to make haste. 1434 02:03:29,143 --> 02:03:30,144 No. 1435 02:03:30,728 --> 02:03:32,062 Solomon. 1436 02:05:08,993 --> 02:05:11,161 I'll apologize... 1437 02:05:13,247 --> 02:05:15,249 for my appearance. 1438 02:05:17,835 --> 02:05:19,753 But I have had... 1439 02:05:20,713 --> 02:05:22,673 a difficult time... 1440 02:05:23,674 --> 02:05:26,385 these past several years. 1441 02:05:31,265 --> 02:05:32,599 Margaret. 1442 02:05:38,188 --> 02:05:39,898 Alonzo. 1443 02:06:11,055 --> 02:06:12,765 Who is this? 1444 02:06:13,807 --> 02:06:15,809 He's my husband. 1445 02:06:17,311 --> 02:06:18,479 Husband. 1446 02:06:19,313 --> 02:06:22,649 It is very good to meet you, sir. 1447 02:06:24,443 --> 02:06:26,653 We have much acquainting to do. 1448 02:06:26,820 --> 02:06:28,155 Yes, sir. 1449 02:06:29,406 --> 02:06:33,452 And this is your grandson. 1450 02:06:34,286 --> 02:06:37,456 Solomon Northup Staunton. 1451 02:06:47,674 --> 02:06:49,259 Solomon. 1452 02:06:55,516 --> 02:06:56,809 Anne... 1453 02:06:59,186 --> 02:07:00,979 forgive me. 1454 02:07:04,525 --> 02:07:08,028 There is nothing to forgive. 1455 02:11:39,341 --> 02:11:42,761 ~~Went down to the River Jordan.~ 1456 02:11:42,928 --> 02:11:46,098 ~~Where John baptized three.~ 1457 02:11:46,264 --> 02:11:49,267 ~~When I woke the devil in hell.~ 1458 02:11:49,434 --> 02:11:52,229 ~~Said Johnny baptized me.~ 1459 02:11:52,396 --> 02:11:55,857 ~~I said roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1460 02:11:56,358 --> 02:11:58,902 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1461 02:11:59,069 --> 02:12:02,030 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 1462 02:12:02,197 --> 02:12:04,783 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 1463 02:12:04,950 --> 02:12:08,328 ~~Well, some say John was a Baptist.~ 1464 02:12:08,495 --> 02:12:11,081 ~~Some say John was a Jew.~ 1465 02:12:11,248 --> 02:12:13,625 ~~But I say John was a preacher~ 1466 02:12:13,792 --> 02:12:16,753 ~~'Cause my Bible says so too.~ 1467 02:12:16,920 --> 02:12:20,424 ~~I said roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1468 02:12:20,590 --> 02:12:23,093 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1469 02:12:23,260 --> 02:12:26,263 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 1470 02:12:26,430 --> 02:12:28,181 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 1471 02:12:28,348 --> 02:12:29,724 ~~Hallelujah.~ 1472 02:12:29,891 --> 02:12:32,644 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1473 02:12:32,811 --> 02:12:35,397 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1474 02:12:35,564 --> 02:12:38,650 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 1475 02:12:38,817 --> 02:12:40,652 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 1476 02:12:40,819 --> 02:12:42,028 ~~Oh, roll now.~ 1477 02:12:42,195 --> 02:12:45,115 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1478 02:12:45,282 --> 02:12:47,701 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1479 02:12:47,784 --> 02:12:50,871 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 1480 02:12:51,037 --> 02:12:52,789 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 1481 02:12:52,873 --> 02:12:54,207 ~~Halleluiah.~ 1482 02:12:54,291 --> 02:12:57,169 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1483 02:12:57,335 --> 02:12:59,754 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1484 02:12:59,921 --> 02:13:02,883 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 1485 02:13:03,049 --> 02:13:04,968 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 1486 02:13:05,135 --> 02:13:06,261 ~~Everybody say.~ 1487 02:13:06,428 --> 02:13:09,222 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1488 02:13:09,639 --> 02:13:12,225 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1489 02:13:12,684 --> 02:13:15,604 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 1490 02:13:15,770 --> 02:13:17,522 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 1491 02:13:17,689 --> 02:13:19,024 ~~Oh, children.~ 1492 02:13:19,191 --> 02:13:21,943 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1493 02:13:22,110 --> 02:13:24,613 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1494 02:13:24,779 --> 02:13:27,657 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 1495 02:13:27,824 --> 02:13:29,784 ~For the year when Jordan roll.~ 1496 02:13:29,868 --> 02:13:31,244 ~~Halleluiah.~ 1497 02:13:31,328 --> 02:13:33,580 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1498 02:13:34,247 --> 02:13:36,750 ~Roll, Jordan, roll.~ 1499 02:13:36,917 --> 02:13:39,920 ~My soul will rise in heaven, Lord.~ 1500 02:13:40,003 --> 02:13:42,130 ~For the year when Jordan roll~